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Polity, Journal of Political Science @polityalsberuf.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Patricia D. Posey’s “A Race and Capitalism Framework to Study Financial Access” reveals how race and capitalism shape financial access. Three mechanisms—exclusion, extraction, and valuation—perpetuate racial inequality and profit. Read it: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #Race #Capitalism

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A Race and Capitalism Framework to Study Financial Access | Polity: Vol 58, No 1

Racialized economic inequality remains a central concern across the social sciences, yet the role of financial access in reproducing inequality has been comparatively underexplored. Existing scholarsh...

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Zein Murib @zeinmurib.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I’m excited that an article I co-authored w/ Erica Townsend Bell on BACKLASH is finally out in the new issue of @polityalsberuf.bsky.social! We read every article mentioning “backlash” to show how it’s currently used & propose how to think of it moving forward www.scilit.com/publications...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/03/2026

Absolutely incredible.

A screenshot of a digital news article from The Sunday Times.
Headline: "Trust me, taking testosterone as a woman is about more than sex".
Subheader: "Most doctors only prescribe the hormone for low libido yet menopause campaigners say it has many other benefits too. So why is no one researching these claims?".
Lead Image: A portrait of a woman, Rebecca Seal, wearing a blue sweater and smiling at the camera.
Byline and Date: Written by Rebecca Seal; published Saturday, February 28, 2026.

Article on 'Black-Market' Hormones
A screenshot of a digital news article from The Times.
Headline: "Doctors fear young at risk from ‘black-market trans hormones’".
Subheader: "Medics call for an urgent investigation into trans community groups offering support on accessing supplies for self-medication".
Lead Image: A photo of a trans rights demonstration outside Holyrood in 2022, featuring individuals and large Transgender and Non-binary pride flags.
Byline and Date: Written by Mary Wright; published Sunday, March 01, 2026.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/02/2026

Columbia will never be free of this stain.

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Zein Murib @zeinmurib.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Our political science colleague and friend Tiffany Willoughby-Herard is being targeted by anti-speech and anti-academic freedom forces after defending her student’s right to protest. Consider donating to her legal fund if you have the means to do so.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026

Footage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.

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Zein Murib @zeinmurib.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

My college macro economics class was right before lunch (and over 20 years ago) so I might be wrong but I don’t think gold prices creeping on $5k is a good sign.

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Transphobia destroys your capacity to evaluate the world and politicians. This is what it leads to: voting for a man who hates you, because he swears to destroy those queers you despise.

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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 09/01/2026

Welcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down. This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you." That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.

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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.

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Zein Murib @zeinmurib.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Vague resemblance to the plot of the 2011 film, Contagion. Except in this case the deadly virus is the federal government (in the form of Proud Boys with badges).

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Zein Murib @zeinmurib.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Valuable analysis and it will be necessary to create an archive of these actions. After 2 years of watching a genocide life streamed on our phones (and ~5 after watching Floyd murdered by police just blocks away) I’m sadly not too optimistic about any future systemic changes.

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Thomas Cheney @thomascheney.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Charlottesville, remember Heather Heyer

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/01/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.

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Zein Murib @zeinmurib.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

If only there were recently a movement calling for the exposure of lies that governments tell to justify extrajudicial assassinations 🥲

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Matthew Dean Hindman @matthewhindman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I remember when an avowed white supremacist killed Heather Heyer like it was yesterday because it’s also today.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

There are people who still don't understand that you can do everything right--you can do everything they tell you--and you will still be shot in the face.

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Can’t help but think that if our fellow MAGA citizens can dehumanize a white mom in a Honda CRV, we are well beyond “first they came for the communists”

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

one net effect of this will just be to make life a little harder for Americans in ways, they can’t quite put their finger on, because some of these organizations do the invisible work of multilateralism that enables contemporary life; another will be to hold up progress on most shared global goal…

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Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

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Zein Murib @zeinmurib.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I lived in Minneapolis just short of a decade and I can tell you that if a Minnesotan drops an f-bomb on national TV then they are PISSED.

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Zein Murib @zeinmurib.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

People don’t talk enough about how Trump’s anti-trans witch hunt is deeply offensive to trans AND non-trans women. Just look at his impression of women weight lifters to see what he and the GOP really think about you and your mothers, sisters, wives, and gfs.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

NEW from Important Context: Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S. www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...

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Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans

Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The context here btw is he's mocking a transgender woman

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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "In Solidarity”, India S. Lenear & Yalidy Matos investigate the attitudes of African American women and Black immigrant women towards immigrants. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 buff.ly/nIe2vgX gendersky polisky

Research article titled "In Solidarity: Predicting African American and Black Immigrant Women's Solidarity with Immigrants" by India S. Lenear and Yalidy Matos.

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Benjy Sarlin @benjysarlin.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Excited to announce I’m now a senior editor for policy, politics, and ideas at @vox.com! I’ll be commissioning outside pieces, so email me if you have pitches or writers to recommend. Everything from quick hits off the news to opinion essays to reported features are welcome.

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 05/01/2026

We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times. Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.

Editors' Note, 1/4/26:

A spokesperson from The New York Times emailed Trans News Network the Sunday after publication, disputing various parts of the interview. We reject their disputes as unsubstantiated, nitpicking or willful misreads. We have added minor clarifications at two points in the interview alongside the transcript, which remains as published. We stand by our reporting of the interview with Sweeney, former editor and 11-year veteran of the Times.

The Times also provided TNN a statement responding to the interview, which we have declined to publish due to its inclusion of overt transphobia (such as framing the existence of trans people as “fiercely contested medical and legal debates”). Even in their PR, it seems that the Times can't stop denigrating our lives and communities.

We do not have an obligation to publish damage control on the behalf of a news outlet undergoing a legitimacy crisis because of their own actions.

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

No trans journalists is ever involved at any level in nyt news coverage about trans ppl; we are purposely excluded. The nyt has not hired or assigned a trans journalist to cover trans news for at least five years. Your publisher and top editors are well aware of that.

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Zein Murib @zeinmurib.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Boosting this. @anjalikdayal.bsky.social is my go-to for all things related to the UN and international law.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/01/2026

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

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Zein Murib @zeinmurib.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

It’s really rich that the New York War Crimes had the audacity to publish this story about a trans athlete, Lia Smith, who took her life in the face of anti-trans bullying and harassment fomented and normalized by that same paper’s deeply stigmatizing “reporting” on trans people.

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Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · 11/12/2025

Riley Gaines has become a main figure in the anti-trans movement. @zeinmurib.bsky.social (Fordham) & Ronnee Schreiber (SDSU) comment on how her message fits the broader right-wing project. Learn more from @msjpauly.bsky.social, @motherjones.com & @pablo.show:

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How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire

The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.

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Zein Murib @zeinmurib.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Riley Gaines claims trans athletes are the biggest threat to women’s athletics. Is that true? Or is it coaches who use power to sexually abuse young women while universities look the other way? @msjpauly.bsky.social in @motherjones.com with an excellent take: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire

The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

this was posted four months ago. the lesson? Ignore the appeasers. they are bad people. and they don’t know how to win.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 03/11/2025

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts. Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/07/2025

There's literally never been a trans woman who has ever competed on any US Olympic team despite trans people having been eligible since 2004.

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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Looking to understand how anti-trans 🏳️‍⚧️ actors mobilise against trans-inclusive healthcare? 🤔 @zeinmurib.bsky.social has you covered with evidence from the US 🇺🇸 It's ✨FREE ACCESS✨ 📖 doi.org/10.1332/2515...

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Never left. Positive & negative eugenics have been consistent features of U.S. economic, social, and health policy. - Work requirements - How "families"/"households" are defined for the purpose of eligibility for benefit (e.g. tax credits) - The coupling of employment status & healthcare insurance

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/07/2025

1. Yesterday, the FTC held a panel with anti-trans activists meant to justify charging providers of gender affirming care with fraud. It is yet another avenue the Trump administration is trying to use to target trans care nationwide. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Trump’s FTC Lays the Groundwork to Charge GAC Providers with “Fraud”

Instead of working to protect Americans' privacy, the FTC is hosting what amounts to an anti-trans rally.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Trump writes one of the most unhinged letters ever produced by an American president, demanding the right to interfere with Brazil’s case against Bolsinaro and threatening huge tariffs if they don’t let him walk free, and this your lede?

The United States and Brazil appeared to have launched a sudden trade war on Wednesday.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 03/07/2025

Wouldn’t you know it, representing both states is Alliance Defending Freedom, the far right Christian law firm instrumental in overturning Roe v. Wade adflegal.org/press-releas...

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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

🚨NEW ARTICLE ALERT🚨 @zeinmurib.bsky.social has analysed US state-level legislative debates over trans healthcare in 2023 to show that pseudoscience fuels anti-trans mobilization 🏳️‍⚧️✊ It's ✨FREE ACCESS✨ 📖 doi.org/10.1332/2515...

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Zein Murib @zeinmurib.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

“Laws without morals are useless” indeed @upenn.edu

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