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Brian Zabcik

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
why are men
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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S Peter Davis @speterdavis.com · 14/03/2026
They blew up USAid and doomed millions to an agonizing death but a video of them being an idiot on camera is causing reputational damage
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The Barbed Wire @thebarbedwire.com · 05/02/2026
EXCLUSIVE: When Senate Bill 17 went into effect in 2024, Texas universities were forced to enact anti-DEI policies. Since then, 12 queer resource centers or programs have closed — along with layoffs or transfers of at least 100 people. thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/05/c...
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‘Communities Ripped Apart’: On Texas College Campuses, LGBTQ+ Services Have Been Completely Decimated
Across the state, public universities that were once making strides toward inclusivity and support have faced devastating cutbacks.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Good for him. Good for him. Good for. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good for. For. For. For him. Him. Him. Good him. Good him. Good for him.
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Zach Grear @zachgrear.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
David Armstrong “French Chris, New York City, Early 1980s”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/12/2025
incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/12/2025
actual numbers suggest that this narrative of systematic discrimination against white millennial men is bullshit.
peoplespolicyproject.org
What Does the Census Data Say About “The Lost Generation”
Savage appears wrong, but the reality is potentially bleaker.
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents. Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This is insane. Any material a prof thinks is necessary but isn’t for formal licensing has to get the signoff of the chair, then dean, then provost? This is an absolutely mockery of academic freedom. I feel like Texas Tech HAS to lose its accreditation for this, no? It’s preposterous.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
“America is segregated and so is pollution.” Another strong @insideclimatenews.org story from @dylanbaddour.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/3011202...
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Petrochemical Expansion in Texas Will Fall Heavily on Communities of Color, Study Finds  - Inside Climate News
Researchers in Houston analyzed the locations of 114 proposed industrial projects related to oil and gas in Texas, most of them involved in plastics production.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees. I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
businessinsider.com
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Good old Woz. Good for him.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The extent of the damage done to public health, biomedical science, and healthcare in the US in less than a year will take a generation or more to repair. This is the scale of the destruction. Let that sink in. A new president, Congress won't be enough to reverse things fully. It's that bad.
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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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Robert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I think we underestimate how much of Republicans' signaling and decision-making is based not only on political expedience, but literal fear that angering Trump and his followers will endanger their — and their families'— safety. A quick 🧵
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
One can only hope the devil is warming up a new, special circle of hell for the religious hypocrites in the GOP. "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me." Mark 7:6
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/11/2025
the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 03/11/2025
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
hollywoodreporter.com
As Condé Nast Folds Teen Vogue Into Vogue’s Website, NewsGuild Condemns the Plan
The union, which reps staffers, says the move was "clearly designed" to blunt the journalism of the brand, which has leaned in to progressive politics.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
[I’m sure I read or heard some version of this metaphor previously, but …] Democrats should eagerly welcome former Republicans into their home, but those former Republicans don’t get to then say, “Your home should look more like a Republican home,” when that home burned down on their watch.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I wrote the first version of this draft almost exactly a year ago, but I wasn’t ready. I am now. thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/27/t...
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Texas Is a Lot More Queer Than You Think. I Am Too.
There are 1.8 million of us, and we’re not going anywhere.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/10/2025
the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
“Deplorables” was a scandal for years and she wasn’t even in the government yet. This is the White House Press Secretary, whose salary is paid by the American public.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
"Affirmative Action for Incompetence" The Trump Administration is purging the government of qualified, competent individuals, indicting his enemies, and replacing them with the world's most mediocre conservatives on Earth. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
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Affirmative Action for Incompetence
The Trump Administration is purging the government of qualified, competent individuals, indicting his enemies, and replacing them with the world's most mediocre conservatives on Earth.
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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
we told you, vivek.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I, however, Have such meagre power, Clutching at a Moment, While you control An hour. But your hour is A stone. My moment is A flower. -Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot" #everynightapoem As ever.
I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little 
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a 
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower. 
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025
I define hope as the belief that our actions can make a difference. For me, it's not an emotion but rather a daily practice. Every week I share good news of climate solutions, not-so-good news on how climate change is affecting our lives, and something concrete we can do about it. Subscribe here:
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Talking Climate | Katharine Hayhoe | Substack
Subscribe to Katharine's newsletter for a clear-eyed and hopeful look at climate science and solutions. Receive weekly climate updates, good climate news, event information, ideas on things to do and ...
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Hope - not as something you have, but something you practice into being. It is what the philosopher Jonathan Lear has called “radical hope” - “directed towards a future goodness that transcends the current ability to understand what it is.” Vale Professor Jonathan Lear (1948-2025)
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”
nytimes.com
Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
The thing, too, about saying Dems should run pro-abortion candidates in red states, or abandon "woke" and trans rights, is that it's easy to suggest *someone else* in the coalition sacrifice core protections. But which core protections are white male Dems willing to sacrifice?
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 19/09/2025
'We are exhausted': Palestinians flee Gaza City in face of deadly Israeli offensive. Long lines of Palestinians head south along the Al-Rashid coastal road near Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip. On September 16, Israel launched an offensive on Gaza City, pledging to destroy Hamas in the area
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”
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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Never misses
Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses."
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The United States by virtue of a bipartisan commitment to biomedical research created one of the most vibrant, productive research ecosytems in the world. People came from all over to study here, do research here. It was a monumental accomplishment by both parties. 1/
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Let’s be really clear, THIS IS NOT ABOUT SPORTS. This is about *violence* against Trans women. This is about enforcing hate as public policy. This is pure evil.

How many transgender athletes are there in the U.S.?
Out of 510,000 athletes competing at the collegiate level, there are fewer than 10 who publicly identify as transgender, Charlie Baker, the N.C.A.A. president, said in January.
source: New York Times
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
And everyone who said it’s not about race. The fact that the very *first moves* of Trump/Musk were to dismantle racial integration efforts (yes this is what I will call DEI), and destroy USAID, an agency that helped victims of South African apartheid. This is White Supremacy 4.0 in action.
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 04/02/2025
The White House’s effort to redefine who is entitled to U.S. citizenship also sent a strong signal about the administration’s narrow view of family — one that excludes LGBTQ+ couples.
19thnews.org
Trump executive order on birthright citizenship casts a narrow view of family
The order only acknowledges children born to man and woman “biological progenitors.” How it would affect LGBTQ+ families is one of many questions causing worry and confusion.
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Y'all pick a lane. Then make a little progress in your lane each day. Every serious, experienced organizer I know is Doing Their Thing. Instead of freaking out about each bit of bad news, we're in our lanes rapidly building dual power infrastructure and networks that don't rely on the goverment.
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