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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

This expands a similar purge recently at the Naval Academy library, in Maryland. Last month, civilian Navy officials, following orders originating from Mr. Hegseth, pulled from shelves books including one that critiqued “The Bell Curve,” a 1994 text that argues that Black men and women are genetically less intelligent than white people. But the academy kept “The Bell Curve” itself on its shelves.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/05/2025

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

On March 4, Clay Jackson, an attorney in the Dallas area, was at a gas station near his home when the attendant asked if he would help a local immigrant family.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Biden, 52%: “low end approval” Trump, 39%: proceeding “as expected”

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Wow. Naval Academy prof to their 3-star Admiral in his letter of resignation: "your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Mein Kampf"

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

America: where having an autism awareness tattoo means you're an MS-13 gang member, but having a swastika tattoo just means you're a German history buff

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I can’t believe this has to be said, but: You cannot tell the story of Jackie Robinson—as a ballplayer, serviceman, or human—without discussing our country’s history of racism. From Around the Horn:

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

New, from me: Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America. Here is a partial inventory. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...

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Whitewashing American history

The Trump Presidency as a project of erasure

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Can’t believe Twitter keeps crashing despite Elon hiring the best 19-year-old interns that racism has to offer

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Now that the influential bigot who did a Hitler salute publicly claimed that organic protests against his malfeasance are secretly controlled by a list of foreign Jews, some of whom aren’t even alive today, are we allowed to call him a Nazi, or is there something even Nazier we have to wait for?

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

getting into the leo frank conspiracy theory is hardcore nazi shit. hardcore. the most hardcore. this woman has no place in public life

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I don't think The Nazi Salute Guy was making a "big mistake" when he implied everybody with the last name "Eisen" is part of an evil shadowy criminal cabal!

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 21/02/2025

Steve Bannon, after calling for Trump to be President for life, did a Nazi salute on stage at CPAC. Nazism has officially taken over the GOP. The few remaining conservatives have a choice: either leave the party and obstruct it—or choose to be complicit.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Let’s see what motivates this guy to join DOG…oh

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

NEW — In an alarming email last night reviewed by me, Coast Guard members learned that 1,135 members' direct deposit account routing information was compromised due to a data breach from unauthorized access. It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

In Germany over 200,000 protestors in Munich gathered against the Musk backed far-right / neo-Nazi AfD ahead of the German election. Thousands chanted "Save Democracy" and "Oppose Nazis" #3E

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

(me watching burglars break all the windows and climb into my house) “Just give it time. They might cut their hand on the glass.”

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Peter Twinklage @petertwinklage.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

not to be a broken record, but if Joe Biden had axed hundreds of FAA officials, fired the TSA chief, froze air traffic controller hiring & then we had *multiple* planes falling out of the sky in a **single week** — the articles of impeachment would already be drawn up

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

If stop 1 on your “prove you’re not a Nazi” PR tour is a far right rally in Germany where you say people shouldn’t feel too bad about the Holocaust, you might be a Nazi

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/01/2025

I really, really don't want to do this, but let's do a bit (just a LITTLE BIT) of fact checking about what Zuck said on the Joe Rogan podcast, because this is something I not only followed closely, but also spent time *talking to the actual people at Meta who dealt with this* which WAS NOT ZUCK.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/01/2025

Zuck seems to have been fed *the false narrative* that has circled around the Jim Jordan / Matt Taibbi / Elon Musk circus, *rather than* what *actually happened* at Meta by TALKING TO THE PEOPLE AT META who dealt with these issues.

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

“I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.” Why Ann Telnaes quit her editorial cartoonist job at the Washington Post and why she’s my newest hero anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

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Scott Aukerman @scottaukerman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

“No, The Joker will not poison the city’s water supply. Gotham City ordinance 34.87 does not allow it.”

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