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stardust✨ @sxngie.bsky.social · 5h

Once again, definitely recommend picking up @trungles.com’s latest book: Angelica and the Bear Prince🤍

It was a wonderful conversation between Alyssa Wong and Trung Le Nguyen at the Brooklyn Heights Library—thank you for taking the time to sign the books, it was lovely meeting you!

The dedication page of Trung Le Nguyen’s “Angelica and the Bear Prince”, signed by the author, along with a beautiful drawing with luscious hair.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25m

The conventions of political reporting today are not well equipped to handle this concerted use of pretexts for instrumental purposes and the bottomless bad faith they employ. Grasping the industrial-scale deception at the core of MAGA politics is essential. 6/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 18m

Along with their covid disinformation, this is their legacy along with all who enabled them.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 10h

a tremendous resource now broken on purpose - no fixing it per se

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

Seen in Maywood, Illinois

Handwritten sign on parked car dash that reads ZIP TYING CHILDREN IS FUCKING WRONG

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. Anti-trans outrage is losing its bite.

Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform.

Major conservatives joined in.

Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up.

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Netflix Stock Up As Elon Musk's Anti-Trans Boycott Fails To Materialize

Last week, conservatives tried to cancel Netflix to force the carrier to remove transgender characters.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

The latest from S. Baum.

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New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation”

While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

With SCOTUS set to legalize conversion therapy, I think it's important for states to get around this decision by implementing new legislation applying private rights of action to practitioners of conversion therapy by their victims with large damages and long statutes of limitations.

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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 20h

So Pete Hegseth is getting gender affirming care while kicking highly qualified, highly trained trans service members out of our military? Got it.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 1d

The history books having to explain cartoon frog = fascist, inflatable frog = anti-fascist…

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2d

People ask what they can do in this moment: here's a crucially important election. There are 52,000 elections taking place next month, many of which will be determined by turnout.

Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 3d

Dispatch from Pennsylvania on a highly unusual state Supreme Court election—one of the few most consequential matters on the ballot anywhere in the country next month. New from me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court - Bolts

The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

boltsmag.org

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

Robert Badinter, the lawyer and former Socialist Justice Minister who pulled off the abolition of the death penalty in France in 1981, died last year. Today, his body is being moved to the Pantheon — one of the highest honors France can bestow.

www.reuters.com/world/who-is...

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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has blocked the execution of Robert Roberson. Roberson was scheduled to be executed on October 16 for a crime that never occurred. www.theacabreport.com/p/texas-court-stops-execution-of-innocent

Texas Court Stops Execution of Innocent Man on Death Row

Robert Roberson was convicted and sentenced to death for killing his daughter, a crime that never occurred.

www.theacabreport.com

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

a very under-the-radar thing happening in Mississippi this fall:

Bolts @boltsmag.org · 1d

A federal appeals court ruled that Mississippi had to redraw its legislative maps. As a result, 14 districts affected by the new boundaries are hosting special elections this November. Democrats may flip several.

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts

Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so... Read More

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Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social · 13h

Seems bad

Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 1d

David Wildstein, the Bridgegate guy who is now our state's leading political blogger, says Sacco is endorsing Ciattarelli tonight. Wildstein is well-sourced and usually right about things like this, and Sacco will be able to deliver some votes for Ciattarelli.

Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 5d

closing this loop: the orbit of North Bergen Democratic boss Nick Sacco is moving towards Republican Jack Ciattarelli at a rapid pace and I'd expect an endorsement from the man himself sooner rather than later

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 1d

it's ok to be a nimby about prisons

Bolts @boltsmag.org · 1d

“My NIMBY stance was for my family property in the beginning. Now it’s for my whole state. I say no, we don’t want a prison. We don’t want this mega prison in this state,” says a resident of Franklin County, Arkansas.

The Prison Next Door

How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered people in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 19h

This November, New York City voters are deciding whether they want to change the timing of future municipal elections to even-numbered years.

Similar reforms in Los Angeles and San Francisco have sent turnout soaring.

To Boost Turnout, Ballot Measure Proposes Moving New York City Elections to Even Years

When cities hold their local elections on off years, they tend to see terrible turnout. Many are rescheduling their contests when many more people go to the polls. Will New York be next?

boltsmag.org

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16h

UPDATE: The new Prime Minister that Macron just named is... Sebastien Lecornu.

Lecornu is the Prime Minister who Macron appointed in September, and who resigned on Monday because he couldn't form a government.

I don't know what to tell you—situation has been risible for a year.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 22h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 3d

I'm once again asking anyone else who's trans/gnc affiliated with Brown University who wants to speak on record to please reach out ...

More info here:

www.sandyernestallen.com/announcements

reposts/sharing this with anyone you know is greatly appreciated, thanks!

#brownuniversity

STORY SOURCE CALL: I’m looking for Brown University-affiliated trans/gnc people (especially trans/gnc alumni, students, staff) and any others who feel affected by the university’s transphobic actions and are interested in speaking with me for a potential upcoming reported piece. (If you’ve not read them already, check out my Boston Globe op-ed blasting the university’s administration, as well as my Assigned Media essay about my time as a closeted trans student back when.) For those who want to share their stories and are concerned for whatever reason, you can request anonymity if you like in your initial email. Please write me via my contact form.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17h

Good news for transgender people at MIT.

Unlike some prestigious universities, MIT has defied the Trump administration and refused its attempt to pressure the university into banning transgender people from bathrooms.

The latest from reporter S. Baum.

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MIT Rejects Trump’s Bid to Institute Trans Bathroom, Athletics Ban

“A government that can reward colleges and universities for speech it favors today can punish them for speech it dislikes tomorrow.”

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 16h

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 13h

If your grandfather was saying this you’d be looking into long-term care options.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 14h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 17h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13h

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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