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AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 1d

This is starting to feel like a really shitty airport apocalypse novel with somehow worse writing, yet it's real.

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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 1d

The Civil War is heating up

The Intercept @theintercept.com · 1d

An Intercept analysis finds nearly every Republican governor has deployed National Guard members to aid Trump’s domestic military agenda.

Republican Governors Eagerly Join Trump’s Military Campaign Against Blue Cities

An Intercept analysis finds nearly every Republican governor has deployed National Guard members to aid Trump’s domestic military agenda.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 4d

Brains really do suck sometimes.

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AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes a panic attack smashes into you out of the blue, and sometimes it builds and builds in the background, a daily presence slowly increasing, gaining strength for weeks on end until one day you wake up and your chest and limbs are just -heavy- and you’ve been clenching a fist in your sleep.

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AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 5d

Weekend movie watching update: new Naked Gun is as fun as the first film, One Battle After Another is a tense and electrifying ride, Death Becomes Her holds up beautifully, and I finally get the obsession with Kpop Demon Hunters.

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AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 6d

So glad to report that PTA’s One Battle After Another is indeed terrific—which is a relief after the total misfire (IMHO) that was Licorice Pizza.

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THE GO! TEAM @thegoteam.bsky.social · 8d

★ANNOUNCING TODAY★

★ Thunder Lightning Strike - LIVE AT THE ROUNDHOUSE LP ★

Recorded in Feb 2024 This is the first time TG!T live show has been documented on record and will be hitting on
@recordstoreday.bsky.social
Black Friday- only available instore on that day.

28.5.25

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Alexis Vandom @vandomva.bsky.social · 9d

Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, and Pam Bondi are on the ground in Memphis, telling law enforcement that they have complete authority and impunity.

I can't begin to describe how dangerous this moment is.

Look after your Black trans neighbors, folks. These cops WILL brutalize them without hesitation.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9d

Stephen Miller tells law enforcement in MEMPHIS: “You are unleashed”

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AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 9d

This is amazing.

Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 9d

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off

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AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 9d

I cannot wait to get my hands on this!

Jen Sookfong Lee @jensookfonglee.bsky.social · 9d

THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN is now available everywhere you buy your books in the US! American friends, please love my Asian lady demons.

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Julie the sometimes oblivious @turtle-egg81.bsky.social · 9d

Me when I figured out I was trans lol.

Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 9d

the way this egg instantly exploded

Trudging Spineripper @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 9d

"Should we use egg slices, or..."

"No fuck it, whole egg, let them figure it out."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 9d

#Canada issues warning for citizens with gender-neutral passports travelling to U.S.

Global Affairs says 'X' marker may not be recognized at the border

DO NOT GO TO THE USA!

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Canada issues warning for citizens with gender-neutral passports travelling to U.S. | CBC News

The Canadian government is warning citizens who list "X" as their gender on their passports could have problems entering the U.S.

www.cbc.ca

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 11d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 9d

*sigh* Yup, we're back.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 10d

Jane Fonda relaunches the Committee for the First Amendment, a free speech initiative originally spearheaded by her father, Hollywood icon Henry Fonda, in response to the rise of “McCarthyism” during the 1940s.

Jane Fonda relaunches her father's McCarthy-era free speech initiative

The Committee for the First Amendment was originally formed by Henry Fonda in 1947.

nbcnews.to

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 10d

once again sharing my list of favorite horror movies in case anyone's looking for good shit to watch this October

favorite horror

A list of 137 films compiled on Letterboxd, including The Innocents (1961), The Exorcist (1973), Alien (1979), 28 Years Later (2025) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991).

letterboxd.com

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AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 10d

Fractured, April 2023–October 2025, 296 handwritten pages.

First sequel, first time returning to a world I love.

Last time I ever attempt a fucking time-travel narrative.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 10d

me on September 30 me on October 1

Amy Madigan on the red carpet next to her as Aunt Gladys in Weapons

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Jake Vanguard @jakevanguard.bsky.social · 11d

@thatwriterjess.bsky.social and I are curating our first joint anthology - FUTURISTIC QUEER HORROR!

Check our website for more info. We're looking forward to your submission!

A graphic for an anthology call for a futuristic queer horror anthology.
Short stories of
2,500-8,500 words

Queer characters and/or themes
Futuristic settings combined with horror elements

Preferred subgenres: techno-horror, cosmic horror, biomechanical horror

Submissions open until:
20 January 2026

Curated by
Ezra Wren & Jake Vanguard

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12d

this is why you can’t give an inch to transphobes. they are driven by hate and no amount of kindness will make them even momentarily soften. it is a militant ideology.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12d

‘She is ignorant of how ignorant she is’: JK Rowling responds to Emma Watson rift

The author has rebuffed conciliatory remarks made by the Harry Potter actor, saying Watson has ‘enthusiastically participated’ in the ‘trashing of women’s rights’ Harry Potter author JK Rowling has responded to Emma Watson’s recent remarks about their rift over transgender rights, saying the actor is “ignorant of how ignorant she is”. Rowling’s post comes after a podcast interview with Watson, in which the latter said: “I really don’t believe that … holding the love and support and views that I have, mean[s] that I can’t and don’t treasure Jo and the person that I had personal experiences with.” Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 12d

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 12d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

www.thepinknews.com

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AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 14d

Timeline cleanse—chosen family really is the best family. 💜

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AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 14d

I'd ask if the men folk were okay, but having spent nearly forty years undercover among them (i.e., my pre-transition days) I know the answer is... no, not remotely, not even a little bit.

*sigh*

My heart hurts for more people than I thought possible these days.

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AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 14d

It is distressing to me just how many relationships in my friendship circle have imploded recently due to the actions of shitty men unwilling to grow up or accept accountability for their actions. Like, a staggering amount all within the past month or two.

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