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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 12h

‘we successfully chased ppl back in to the closet. huzzah!’ — @mattyglesias.bsky.social

if you’re looking for the ppl responsible for contemporary fascism you should start with ‘liberal’ political advisors like matt. without them it wouldn’t have happened.

onion person @junlper.beer · 13h

people are acting like this is a study talking about all trans people but it’s just about nonbinary people which makes sense that this is lower, 9 out of 10 nonbinary people i’ve ever met have now transitioned lol

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 7h

“This bullshit has to stop” is a quote for the ages.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 5h

The presidency is the internet and vice versa. Democrats don’t know the game they’re playing and will move their policies to the right thinking that’s what ppl want. Ppl want the end of the status quo since the status quo isn’t benefitting them. Democrats constantly run on the status quo and lose

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 13h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 8h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 13h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 4d

well, there you have it

A graph that asks "DOES FAST FASHION CAUSE AUTISM?*" with an orange and a blue graph rising over time. The blue graph is generally a few deviations above the orange line. The blue line represents SHEIN SALES and the orange one is AUTISM RATES except *No, this is a fake graph. from @audhd-psychnp.com

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 5h

Mark Carney shows contempt for all Canadians by excluding the press from foreign trips. He needs to apologize and make amends for this, and be shown he’s a democratic head of government not the chief executive of Canada Inc.

Mickey Djuric @mickeydjuric.bsky.social · 7h

Statement from the president of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Egypt:

“It is unprecedented that Canadian media be entirely excluded from a Canadian prime minister’s foreign trip.”

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 5h

Little late buddy. US century of humiliation has begun

BRICS News 📄 @bricsinfo.bsky.social · 13h

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump says BRICS is an attack on the US dollar.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5h

Senator Cory Booker was asked whether he thinks Prime Minister Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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Roberto Faria @betofaria.bsky.social · 5h

Calling it bullshit to his face. ♥️

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 7h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief
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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 6h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 5h

America needs to let go of the idea that most of these men are middle-class citizens getting out in the field doing honest work. They are INDUSTRIAL FARM-OWNERS! They are rich af!

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BonBon🤌 @roadreclaimed.bsky.social · May 9

@johnfugelsang wrote on
10/3/24-

"JD Vance is a fusion of every kid that vanished on the
Wonka Factory tour."

@stevehofstetter replied on 5/9/25-

"Oompa Loompa Doopety Dope.
Who fucked a couch and murdered the Pope?"

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 12h

Cant believe this is what they are focusing on, when they aren’t even able to keep the government open.

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NPR @npr.org · 12h

Larry Ellison has a lower profile than other tech billionaires, but his influence over media is about to be immense. His family's empire could soon own CBS, Paramount, CNN and TikTok. n.pr/478XSOb

Who is Larry Ellison, the billionaire Trump friend who's part of the TikTok takeover?

Larry Ellison has a lower profile than other tech billionaires, but his influence over media is about to be immense. His family's empire could soon own CBS, Paramount, CNN and TikTok.

n.pr

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13h

Reading that cretin Alex Jones was put on blast by the conservative Supreme Court and "Dr. Phil" has had to declare bankruptcy on the same day? What an embarrassment of riches! Only one other breaking news story about another odious man would make things better.
www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trum...

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

www.rawstory.com

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 15h

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16h

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · 12h

Amanda Todd a 15 year old girl went through years of bullying, sextortion, revenge p_rn, on & offline harassment until she took her own life because an adult man aydin coban in the Netherlands thought it was fun.

Amanda Todd: I have nobody
I need someone

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 18h

I wrote about trans visibility in a time of rising transphobia for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

How trans visibility became a trap

People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.

www.theverge.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 1d

He just hates trans people

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

Newsom vetoes both the PreP access and the HRT stockpile bill because he is worried it would increase healthcare costs...

He claims to support the aims of these bills. But the vetoes deny access to medical care for queer people.

(Context: He vetoed these 2 while signing 8 other queer rights bills)

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 1d

He also signed SB 590, which bolsters paid family leave.

Read his veto messages here:

www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

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