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Artie Hartsell 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @artiehartsell.bsky.social · 17d

lmaooooooooo

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

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Artie Hartsell 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @artiehartsell.bsky.social · 17d

As a trans, I am sorry for
1 mass shootings (still trying to figure this one out)
2 shutting down the government
3 being a [looking at notes]… terr0rist

Didn’t know I had it in me tbh

them.visitlink.me/6TsiZD

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Artie Hartsell 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @artiehartsell.bsky.social · 17d

I didn’t see Jimmy Kimmel crying for CK. I saw a man who went through something stressful on a global stage, with a lot of employees who rely on him, and who has been getting threats.

Like him or not, I saw a nervous system response.

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 17d

All three people who were hit by the sniper in Dallas were ICE detainees.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d

a Reichstag fire, but one of them every week

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Artie Hartsell 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @artiehartsell.bsky.social · 17d

LMAO okay bot

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Artie Hartsell 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @artiehartsell.bsky.social · 17d

BIG agree

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Artie Hartsell 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @artiehartsell.bsky.social · 17d

On trans inclusion in athletics: www.genderjustice.us/toolkits/tra...

Get the Facts: Trans Inclusion in Sports

True fairness in sports means ensuring every individual has the opportunity to compete on a level playing field, regardless of their identity or background.

www.genderjustice.us

Artie Hartsell 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @artiehartsell.bsky.social · 17d

Every Democrat with 2028 ambitions is showing their hand by throwing trans student athletes under the bus: Gavin Newsome, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris

People want an alternative vision of economic safety outside of fascism. That's not it.

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Artie Hartsell 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @artiehartsell.bsky.social · 23d

I keep trying to click "cancel" for my Hulu Bundle, and it starts to load the page and then goes back to the account main page.

screenshot reads "Cancel Your Subscription" on the left. On the right, in blue, it reads "CANCEL"

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Artie Hartsell 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @artiehartsell.bsky.social · 24d

Evergreen

Artie Hartsell 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @artiehartsell.bsky.social · Sep 12

Can we collectively decide to stop giving inches, pages, links to Ezra Klein? Please? I beg.

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Artie Hartsell 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @artiehartsell.bsky.social · 29d

I know! I was just adding my thoughts to yours.

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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 29d

Hell of a piece to have written Tuesday night. My newest piece in @slate.com follows up on my August piece, looking at the right-wing anti-trans ideology and how that leads us into a rapid descent towards out and out fascism.

The Bullets That Killed Charlie Kirk Were Not Engraved With “Trans Ideology.” But That Won’t Stop the Campaign to Brand Trans People as Violent Monsters.

Now is the time to resist this dangerous strategy, before it’s too late.

slate.com

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Artie Hartsell 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @artiehartsell.bsky.social · 29d

same but I don't want fame or event like wealth, just enough to exist comfortably

sarah margaret (scary) 🍂 @sarahmargs.bsky.social · 29d

I wish I could be rich and famous for just like… chillin out

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Sep 11

The issue is not whether regular people will know why these flags are at half mast but that the state and its leaders know who Kirk is and decided to lower the flags in the first place.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Sep 11

This was LITERALLY last month. I feel like I'm losing my mind seeing rightwing posts over on Twitter tonight.
nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

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👻Sewall Fright🎃 @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · Sep 11

Truly bizarre to see people attacked, shamed, and disciplined for saying things about Charlie Kirk that are 1000x less offensive than what Charlie Kirk said about people

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Sep 12

CBS… CNN…

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Sep 11

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?

Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Sep 12

I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 11

The oligarchs are consolidating all of the legacy media. This would leave David Ellison, son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, in control of CBS News and CNN. On top of that, 2 major studios in Paramount and Warner Bros. This is a hostile takeover of the information space.
www.wsj.com/business/med...

Exclusive | Paramount Skydance Prepares Ellison-Backed Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery

The bid will be for the entire company, including its cable networks and movie studio, according to people familiar with the situation.

www.wsj.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Sep 12

One thing that everyone with any sense will have to do over the next few years is to refuse to accept lies and bullshit.

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Artie Hartsell 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @artiehartsell.bsky.social · Sep 12

The media is complicit @msnbc.com

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