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Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his)
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Just another curmudgeon. Consistently contrarian concern troll. Intellectual miscreant. Ecosocialist. Abolitionist. 26+6=1. Pride is a Riot. From the River to the Sea.Za naszą i waszą wolność. Nothing about us without us. Tout moun se moun. Tiocfaidh ár lá
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Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his) @obroadhurst.bsky.social · 7d
Few things point more to the genuine absurdity to referencing socially prescribed sex assignments as 'biological', than declaring an *assigned name* to be 'biological'
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
Bondi: "The judge also would not refer to the defendant by his biological name -- referred to him by the pronouns."
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John Breen’s Body @acab.dad · 9d
This is the image and the alt text that got Link permabanned from Bluesky servers
A reply with an image; alt text reads: 'Charlie Kirk sitting in a white T-shirt that says "Freedom." A negative consequence follows!
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Stephan Daniel 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺 @stephandaniel.bsky.social · 2d
Well worth the read! Details very precisely that Bluesky's CEO Jay is following Elon Musk's path. Thanks to @nicomaramckay.com 👍🏻

plutopsyche.medium.com/blueskys-ceo...

@gavinkarlmeier.bsky.social könnt Ihr Jay Graber's Verhalten nicht mal ausführlich in ner @hakendran.org Folge thematisieren? 🙏🏻
Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users
tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly…
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 5h
MAGA doesn't realize they sound and look like weird freaks to the majority.

That's what happens when you're in a cult with power. You get trapped in an incestuous cocoon of insider "jokes," memes, and talking points, not realizing everyone else looks at you with horror, mockery and pity.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 5h
Between 2020 and 2024, the Seattle region saw no effective increase in the number of year-round shelter beds for homeless people. Since 2021, sweeps of homeless encampments in Seattle have increased sharply.
In Seattle Mayoral Race, Tensions Between Crackdown and Compassion on Homelessness
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has ramped up sweeps of homeless encampments in his first term. In his reelection bid, he faces a progressive challenger who wants to curb them.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 5h
Too many leaders from the same party claim to be champions of Jewish safety all while ignoring vile antisemitism under their roof.

When we say that fighting the weaponization of antisemitism is critical to stopping antisemitism, this is exactly what we mean.
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 5h
A new study shows what we know: Journalism is failing on trans rights coverage.

70% of stories about Trump’s executive orders affecting trans people didn’t quote trans people.

They’re talking ABOUT trans people not with them.

Story / study here: www.transjournalists.org/tja-bmsg-exe...
Graph that shows that trans people and their representatives were quoted infrequently: 70% of articles did not feature even a single trans person.
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Bumblejack @bumblejack.bsky.social · 5h
South Bend, IN

The Well's window was shattered this week.

The past 3 years their drag shows have been targeted by far right extremists (including Michiana Proud Boys) w/harassment, physical intimidation, and violence.

Community members held a craft night following the attack to show support.
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Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 5h
You don't need to. He is.
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Senator Ruben Gallego @gallego.senate.gov · 5h
Mike Johnson is covering up for pedophiles. I won't stop saying it.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 5h
Remember that when Vance isn't defending the honor of his sieg-heiling, gas-chamber-demanding, rape-saluting friends and colleagues in the White House, he's weeping on national TV over Nazis getting called "Nazis."
Vance tweet: This is far worse than anything said in a college group chat, and the guy who said it could become the AG of Virginia. I refuse to join the pearl clutching when powerful people call for political violence. with screenshot of his texts with a person named Jay https://x.com/JDVance/status/1978235740833153196 Acyn tweet with video Sept 24, 2025: @Acyn Vance: If you want to stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everyone who disagrees with you is a Nazi… look in the mirror https://x.com/Acyn/status/1970916874851582040
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 5h
Vance reacts to the Young Republicans chat leak
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h
First take out of court: The court appeared ready to make it more difficult for Voting Rights Act vote-dilution challenges to lead to additional majority-minority districts, but a majority also seemed likely to reject Louisiana’s argument that all “race-based redistricting” is unconstitutional.
Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substack
The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
www.lawdork.com
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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 5h
NEW — Chicago organizers are pushing Mayor Brandon Johnson and the City Council to pass a progressive FY 2026 budget.

It calls for diverting away from regressive forms of balancing the budget and choosing progressive forms like taxing major corporations.

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As Trump cuts vital services, Chicago organizers push City Council to pass a progressive city budget for FY 2026 • The TRiiBE
Referred to as the people's budget, organizers say any opposing Chicago councilmembers are "with Trump."
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h
Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 5h
Tortured, starved, abused in apartheid Israel's dungeons, then released to find out their families have been murdered. Israel's barbaric crimes against Palestinians cannot go unpunished. #FreeThemAll
Freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail
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‘Cruellest forms of torture’: freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail
Men who were held in Nafha prison say they were brutally beaten, bound at the hands and feet, verbally abused, allowed to contract fungal and skin diseases, and assaulted with loud music for up to two...
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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 7h
"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...
Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector
It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...
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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · May 19
Amanda "I plagiarized from Brown women and used a super racist image for my book cover" Marcotte still thinks she should be listened to, huh?
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The Psychic Tides @psychictides.bsky.social · 5h
The fact that Amanda Marcotte published a racist book in 2008 should tell us that we don’t have to treat her as an authority on racism.
Racist artwork from Marcotte’s Seal Press book “It’s a Jungle Out There”
Some artwork from Amanda Marcotte’s book “It’s A Jungle Out There”, published by Seal Press, is now online at Dear White Feminists. I wrote about Seal Press a short while ag…
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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · May 19
Amanda Marcotte is racist trash. Never forget that. www.theroot.com/the-jungle-b...
The Jungle Book
When the book came out in early March, few seemed to notice anything wrong. The first dozen reader reviews on its Amazon page were uniformly glowing, with many mentioning how they'd long admired the a...
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angrytaco @angrytaco2.bsky.social · 7h
Normal person: “That’s fucking racist and they should be held accountable.”
Amanda Marcotte: “Stop saying people aren’t allowed to grow and change. Don’t you see 88GasChamberSS is getting hurt by your words?
88GasChamberSS: *vomits more racism, antisemitism, and death threats*
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 11h
I know people are eager to claim they were born perfect and never had to learn and change, unlike losers like me.

So congrats! You were born knowing conservatives are inherently racist. Eat your cookie rewards.

But remember: Telling people they aren't allowed to grow and change hurts us.
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Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his) @obroadhurst.bsky.social · 5h
One understated facet of such trends amongst the Soccer Mom set, is unquestionably that of how white identity construction warps souls and minds
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10h
We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 6h
ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.
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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 5h
Very funny stuff. The Arizona Young Republican website was still accessible as of last night and is now totally taken down.

Archive here, which shows that the local advisory board was made up of Turning Point Action leads and fake electors, including Tyler Bowyer, Austin Smith and Jake Hoffman:
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Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his) @obroadhurst.bsky.social · 5h
Transphobic fascist Ari Drennen is the LGBTQ Program Director at Media Matters, which says a lot about how - certainly when it comes to whatever David Brooks touches- the phrase 'scratch a liberal, and a fascist bleeds' is no less a scientific certainty than 'the Sun is hot'
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The turtles are fallen and the rain stands still @fritzdrybeam.bsky.social · 5h
What a f-cking right wing POS, this one is.
Tweets by Ari Drennen discussing trans issues and politics, mentioning "no designer vagina under communism."
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Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his) @obroadhurst.bsky.social · 6h
I had a feeling, after Mayor Garcia from #Holyoke prematurely passed judgment on the situation, that Santana-Rodriguez was being railroaded and wrongly maligned.

The Massachusetts top court appears to be signaling that it concurs. #mapoli
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 6h
The #Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules that a person can claim self-defense when charged with murder for killing an innocent bystander but it will not necessarily shield them from being convicted of involuntary manslaughter based on wanton or reckless conduct.
Massachusetts’ top court rules murder suspect can claim self-defense to justify killing innocent bystander
Massachusetts’ top court rules murder suspect can claim self-defense to justify killing innocent bystander
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Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his) @obroadhurst.bsky.social · 6h
Mike Johnson is not personally himself actually this truly deluded. Rather, he hopes to sell this hallucinatory psychosis to the people who were deluded enough to support his efforts to hold office
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Mike Johnson: "This hate America rally that they have coming up for October 18? The antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd, and the Marxists, they're all gonna gather on the Mall. It is an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes ... all this has gotta come to an end."