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Xochitl Gonzalez

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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"Fallon acts as the high priest of a terrified optimism, his rictus grin serving as a shield against the encroaching silence of the real." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...
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The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"What we’re seeing right now from Donald Trump is a full-on authoritarian takeover of the U.S. government. This is not hyperbole." theintercept.com/2026/05/19/t...
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Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization” Fund Is a Handout to His Hardcore Supporters
Trump using his “anti-weaponization” fund to put January 6 rioters on the dole is a whole new kind of corruption.
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
"What’s driving me crazy, then, is not the idea that AI exists or that people are using AI. It’s that I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings." www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...
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Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain
AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 08/05/2026
“Anyone who says that racial gerrymandering and voter suppression and racism no longer exist are lying.” - Tennessee State Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social on SCOTUS' latest blow to voting rights. Listen on Apple: interc.pt/3PumT1h Spotify: interc.pt/3Pf1SHL Elsewhere: interc.pt/4nglqs3
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Tennessee Rep. Justin J. Pearson On SCOTUS Gutting the VRA #politics #trump #scotus
YouTube video by The Intercept
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
"Instead of welcoming refugees fleeing Islamic fundamentalism, many within New Atheism were joining the reactionary effort to close Europe’s doors. This moment was what really began to open my eyes to the hollowness and hypocrisy of this movement." flux.community/eiynah-moham...
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I never thought ‘New Atheism’ would become a tool of the Christian Right - Flux
After leaving religion, I learned that some atheists were more interested in opposing Islam than standing for pluralism
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
"[RFK Jr.'s] repeated references to spiritual forces are more than run-of-the-mill wellness vernacular. They are a signal that the Christian nationalist movement that helped propel Trump into office is now reshaping the public health agency from the inside." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘Christofascism’ is here: inside the slow demolition of US public health | Adrienne Matei
From prescribing spiritual warfare to demonizing health experts, RFK Jr’s health empire has become a dangerous vehicle for a Christian nationalist worldview
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
"He believed a trans chatbot character’s obviously false claims to miss him were credible. He reacts in the opposite way to the personal testimony from lived experience of millions of trans people who certainly know their own bodies and minds." flux.community/matthew-shef...
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Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion - Flux
Senescence makes people believe silly things; so does bad science
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
"Metroid Prime 4: Beyond’s yonic symbolism enhances player curiosity, making Viewros an erotic element to the player — something they are compelled to open and explore with care." www.mothership.blog/how-vaginal-...
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How vaginal imagery in Metroid Prime 4 redefines Samus — and why it matters for shooters
Yonic architecture is a constant, from the moment the player is given control of Samus until the very end.
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"The scope of the damage, and the enormous amounts of money, time, and energy that will be required to bring us just back to 2024 levels, boggles the mind." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
thenation.com
We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification
The damage he and his cronies have wrought could take decades to repair, particularly when it comes to science and public health.
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
"Carlson and his ilk are savvy operators, well-practiced in the art of sneaking their rhetorical farts into the day’s prevailing political winds." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Tucker Carlson Is Not Your Friend
Liberals are delighted by the MAGA titan’s opposition to the Iran War. All they’re doing is boosting the credibility of an unrepentant, pathologically dishonest, bad-faith bigot.
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
"It suggests we’re entering an era of climate nationalism, where the right could be poised to reclaim climate change as an issue of its own." www.propublica.org/article/john...
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Far-Right Extremists Embrace Environmentalism to Justify Violent Anti-Immigrant Beliefs
Climate change and anti-immigrant hate are colliding, foretelling a volatile future.
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"Sometimes journalism is relaying new information; other times it’s capturing what you already know so that you don’t forget how it made you feel. I wrote this so you and I don't forget." www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-iran...
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Living through Trump's time bomb
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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/04/2026
Add your name to the petition calling for Tennessee to test the forensic evidence before they put Tony to death.
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No Wrongful Execution for Tony Carruthers
Tony Carruthers was convicted without physical evidence, based solely on testimony from informants. Now, Tony is scheduled for execution on May 21st by Tennessee after being forced to represent himself at trial. Join us in calling for fingerprint and DNA testing before a possibly innocent man is put to death.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/04/2026
The state of Tennessee plans to execute Tony Carruthers on May 21 without testing DNA and fingerprint evidence that could prove his innocence. We’re filing a motion to force the state to uncover the truth before they execute Tony.
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
"Trump and his gang are deconstructing America. This is their purposeful goal and an obvious one, if you look past the daily barrage of absurdity, indecency, corruption, wrongdoing, and abuses of power. It is the story that must be conveyed to the citizenry." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Donald Trump and the deconstruction of America
Don't let the daily outrages obscure the big picture.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“A whole civilization will die tonight” is one of the most evil things a world leader has ever said. Over the top even among tyrants. It is a villain threatening mass death in a ransom letter. A serial killer’s diary. He’s blithely putting a gun to the heads of 92 million, mostly women and children.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This is why I've been worried about Life is Strange: Reunion. It looks like it was made as a reaction to the loudest fans who just want to see Max/Chloe together instead of a story that matures Max and the franchise. www.polygon.com/life-is-stra...
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Life Is Strange: Reunion is the franchise’s most cowardly entry yet
It's so bad it makes Double Exposure look good
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Any candidate is clueless if they don't know the connection between dictating gender and the other "primary" issues like corruption. It's all connected under fascism.
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
It's absurd that it's even up for debate whether a candidate for president should support basic rights of a whole group of citizens they supposedly want to represent.
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"This is how queerness and gender nonconformity wind up being controlled in elite literary circles. If you can’t use someone’s pronoun, they can’t be written about." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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My Years-Long Fight to Say “They”
Over and over again, I would use the pronoun in my writing. Over and over again, editors would try to remove it.
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
"The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history" www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The Rapid and “Unprecedented” Collapse of American Democracy
The V-Dem Institute, the world’s chronicler of democracy and autocracy, has determined that the United States is no longer “a liberal democracy.”
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I thought the trailer seemed like propaganda for the AI industry once the CEOs were interviewed and started talking about "solving climate change" and "curing most diseases".
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The country shouldn't be divided just because a minority of evil right wingers and billionaires are throwing a fit. www.wired.com/story/dont-l...
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Don’t Listen to Anyone Who Thinks Secession Will Solve Anything
Americans increasingly fantasize about a divorce between red and blue states—but they dread the thought of civil war. You can’t have one without the other.
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
www.wired.com/story/the-me...
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The Men Obsessed With ‘High T’
Fueled by the manosphere, men are boosting their testosterone levels through natural and synthetic means, with some competitively swapping test results on a regular basis.
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
"it always struck me as a bit strange that a softboi with a preference for matcha and Clairo could be described as a “performative male” but not someone performing the more traditional markers of masculinity." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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In Defense of Being Performative
The critics of “performative politics” misunderstand something fundamental: Democracy survives only when citizens perform it.
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
"Uber drivers have to be physically present in a city to work, and they can organize and push for regulation there. If the same were to happen with data workers, companies could just recruit from somewhere else where people will work for less." www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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The laid-off lawyers and PhDs training AI to steal their careers
Experienced white-collar workers are now part of a miserable gig economy.
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
"When a project like this fails to fully interrogate a rapidly evolving subject, the consequences are not limited to critical disappointment but expand to a missed opportunity at a crucial time." Exactly how I felt watching this. www.indiewire.com/features/com...
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Netflix’s ‘Manosphere’ Dares to Ask: Should Men Make Documentaries About Sexism? — Opinion
Louis Theroux's controversial new film for Netflix, "Inside the Manospher," tackles modern misogyny — but it misses critical context. Opinion.
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
"The RSP and its incoming prime minister are hardly leftist radicals. They’re centrist, anti-corruption technocrats calling for effective, business-friendly governance." www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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A Sweeping Victory for Gen Z in Nepal—but Not Yet a “Revolution”
Nepal’s “Gen Z revolution” achieved historic and unexpected electoral success—but transformational change remains elusive.
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Xochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
“We have this monster called the NDA. The NDA is a slave tool used to enslave people to not speak about what they’re going through." www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
YES! MORE OF THIS! Thank you Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold from Oregon’s National Guard 🙏 Source: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202... #Oregon #Portland #50501Movement
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The Oregon national guard general says if the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters not ICE.

And a photo of the Oregon National Guard General
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Councilor Angelita Morillo @councilormorillo.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Kristi Noem & a right wing influencer that peaked in high school r visiting PDX today My spooky season advice is that u treat these ppl like demons trying to goad u into stepping out of ur protective salt circle so they can enact violence They need flashy footage to make $$$ on their livestreams!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 04/10/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Gaming culture warriors must always have a target in their crosshairs, and right now it's Ghost of Yotei. Sucker Punch should back Erika, developers, content creators, & journalists with as much gusto as it fired an employee for joking about Charlie Kirk. (OG screenshot removed, no clout for them)
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/09/2025
The Heritage Foundation is going after me this morning calling me a terrorist because I am accurately stating what they are intending to do. Michael Knowles at CPAC explicitly called for the "eradication of transgenderism." I'll continue to speak the truth of what is being done to my community.
A tweet from Oversight Project (@ItsYourGov) shows a screenshot of an Advocate article. The tweet text says: “This is an example of an element of TIVE rhetoric coming from @Harvard Professor Alejandra Caraballo @Esqueer_in the @TheAdvocateMag. The notion that opposing Transgender Ideology is a form of violence (‘eradication’ here) leads people to justify violence.” The screenshot highlights a quote from Alejandra Caraballo criticizing a Heritage Foundation policy proposal: “They want us all eradicated.”
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