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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: BASH BACK TARGET FiLiA ANTI-TRANS CONFERENCE

The conference, whose alumni include J.K. Rowling, this year hosts hate groups LGBAlliance and Transgender Trend, along with the director of Scottish Lesbians, one of the groups responsible for April's segregationist Supreme Court ruling.

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Tomás Ojeda G. @tiojeda.bsky.social · 5h

“As the borders between science and advocacy blur, fringe ideas with no evidentiary basis or mainstream medical support increasingly carry the potential to drive policy” - Excellent piece by @evanurquhart.bsky.social on Genspect’s recent campaign to repathologise “transgender identification”.

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 1d

A fringe group wants the field of psychiatry to regress back to the days when stereotypes and prejudices resulted in mental illness diagnoses for marginalized populations.

In a new reported piece, @evanurquhart.bsky.social examines Genspect's call for the re-psychopathologization of trans identity.

Hate Group Calls for Re-Labeling Transness as Mental Illness — Assigned

A fringe group with no expertise pushes the field of psychiatry to regress to a pre-scientific, prejudice-soaked view of trans people. It coincides with the far-right political agenda.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 15h

I would respect this whole conversation a lot more if "We have to use AI" finished truthfully with "because powerful people are forcing us" instead of leaving it like it could be pixies

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 18h

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you so much!

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

"The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote." www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Britain’s Bathroom Ban

The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 20h

We've had a ton of amazing entries for our Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day art contest, but there's still a little over 24 hours left for those who want to win cash or cool prizes and help us show up the farce that is honoring a far right extremist.

Get your entry in now, hurry before the deadline!

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 17d

ART CONTEST!!!

It's the Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day ART CONTEST brought to you by Assigned Media!!

That's right, you heard us.

It's a Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day Art Contest from Assigned Media!

Rules:
1. No AI
2. Drawings calling for further violence or lionizing the shooter will be disqualified.
3. All entry art can be used by Assigned Media, other rights remain with the artist.
4. 1st Prize = $500
5. 2 special mention prizes courtesy of Nora Reed Designs
6. All entries must be submitted by October 10 to AssignedMedia@proton.me
7. Winners to be announced October 14

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‘stina is a scary spectral one 👻 @stinapag.bsky.social · 19h

BTW, the Chronicle is polling folk on Metro's decision, if anyone wants to give them input:

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 19h

Over at @damemagazine.bsky.social I wrote about CBS' hiring of Bari Weiss in the context of one of The Free Press's sloppiest reported stories. h/t @evanurquhart.bsky.social www.damemagazine.com/2025/10/09/c...

CBS News Just Made a Terrible Mistake - Dame Magazine

On Monday, Paramount announced it had acquired The Free Press for $150 million and would be installing its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News. Weiss will report directly to Paramount ...

www.damemagazine.com

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 22h

Among the reasons I absolutely loathe genAI is the fact it devalues and undermines skills like learning how to research, fact check, and communicate. It’s like answering a question with a print out of search engine results, taking it as truth because the computer said so.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 19h

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

www.mibfc.org

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404 Media @404media.co · 22h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 23h

If you’re a queer person who loves sports, there’s a new way to connect: a project from Out of Your League & Rough Notes called Shoot Your Shot. Whether you’re looking for love, friendship, solidarity or partnership — we’re hoping this collab can help you find it. Call us your queer sports yentas.

Shoot Your Shot: Queers + Sports + Connections

Old-school classifieds for queers who love sports, from Out of Your League + Rough Notes <3

www.thefrankiedlc.news

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23h

Credit where credit is due. The Democrats' message that the GOP shut down the government because they want to throw millions of people off healthcare has broken through. Two of my cousins who are NOT AT ALL tuned into national politics told me that this is why the government is shut down.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 21h

Justice Department lawyers reposted President Trump’s statements and may have inadvertently endangered their prosecution of Luigi Mangione, violating the judge’s explicit orders that DOJ employees refrain from public comment about the case. trib.al/b9U7CY1

DOJ in Trouble After Lawyers Reposted Trump Rants on Luigi Mangione

The Justice Department’s case against Luigi Mangione just hit a major obstacle.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22h

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we've got @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on to discuss Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk, and @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com's essay on war mindset: www.leftanchor.com/e/better-tha...

Better Than Ezra - 368 | Left Anchor

Now that the dust has started to settled around the whole Charlie Kirk thing, we've brought on Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown, to discuss his Boston Review piece ab...

www.leftanchor.com

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 21h

New comic on Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/2025-s... Subscribe to see the full comic! Also subscribe to see me shotgun a can of carbonated bleach!

Alex drinks a beer and says "I love watching sports commentary in the year 2025."

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22h

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 22h

If there was proof that the cause of their delay was targeted and ideological (which there isn't), then I would consider that a sign that those who can leave should do so as quickly as reasonably possible, even if they were ultimately able to reschedule the flight and leave safely.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 23h

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 22h

Now, I want to caveat that however strange it is for this professor's tickets to have been cancelled, coincidences happen all the time and we're in a government shutdown that is disrupting our airports.

I wouldn't overinterpret this single data point - but it's very concerning.

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 22h

So, my newsletter just went out, and I wrote about how to know it's time to leave (for an audience of mainly trans people and family members).

I had four red flags that hadn't happened yet, and the government pulling shenanigans on people attempting to travel was the second most urgent.

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 23h

Doing politics the right way is when the far-right regime in power memorializes a fallen influencer by terrorizing an academic that the influencer's McCarthyist organization once baselessly singled out for abuse.

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 23h

Doing politics the right way is when the far-right regime in power memorializes a fallen influencer by terrorizing an academic that the influencer's McCarthyist organization once baselessly singled out for abuse.

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 23h

This is reminding me of a moment in 2016 or 2017, soon after Trump won, when I asked myself, as the moderator of Slate comments, whether our guidelines around removing racist speech should change if the norms around racism relaxed in our society.

I decided they shouldn't.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

The Atlantic, the NYT, the Post, the Free Press, Persuasion ... god, so many others ... they did it. They participated in the destruction of norms against bigotry & now bigotry is running rampant, out in the open, at the highest levels.

Great work everyone.

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