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Lee Mandelo

@leemandelo.bsky.social

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phd in gender studies - writer of books (gay southern gothic Summer Sons + t4t appalachian historical The Woods All Black + anthology Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity)- he/him

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · Mar 22

I hear it’s Trans Rights Readathon week, yeah? Here’s a few options from me, including Summer Sons and The Woods All Black—plus the forthcoming Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity!

Also, for those so inclined: new leather boots 😘🥴

Three books (Amplitudes, Summer Sons, The Woods All Black) in a row on tile with a brick background, framed between two black matte leather motorcycle boots with some Levi’s showing too

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

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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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 1d

I'd really appreciate if writers these days took a look at their characters doing therapyspeak and whether that's appropriate for their work and their world.

By "therapyspeak" I mean speaking like this: "This is the emotion I'm feeling, and feeling that emotion makes me want to act in a way"

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 9h

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

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 12h

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...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 14h

Campaigns of symbolic erasure precede campaigns of actual erasure.

The Barbed Wire @thebarbedwire.com · 1d

Chaya Raichik, better known as Libs of TikTok, was dutifully bemoaning the fact that the city of Houston repainted a Montrose neighborhood crosswalk decked on in LGBTQ+ rainbow colors. Raichik wrote that the crosswalk “must be removed immediately.”

And our governor dutifully complied.

Cool! It Really Looks Like Greg Abbott is Taking Orders From Libs of TikTok

Acting on the orders of notorious cesspool Libs Of TikTok, the governor bravely stands up to the menace of decorative asphalt.

thebarbedwire.com

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 14h

Overseas friends! Waterstones is offering 25% off online pre-orders of the paperback edition of The Butcher’s Daughter for a limited time starting on Tuesday. check out the tasty promo image for more information, including the handy discount code.

The image with the cover of the Titan books edition of The Butcher’s Daughter indicates that Waterstones is offering 25% off on upcoming books: pre-order now with code OCTOBER25 - October 14-17, online only, selected lines only, T&Cs available on waterstones.com

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 17h

Troubled by how many imagine Machado is a great hero because she's not Trump. She's a hard right former coup sympathizer who calls for military intervention & destruction of socialism. Her opponent, Maduro, is an awful dictator. That doesn't make her a dream, anymore than not being named "Trump."

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🎂 Sydney Screams 🎉 BIRTHDAY MONTH @sydneyscreams4u.bsky.social · 2d

porn is not evil.
sex is not evil.
pleasure is not evil.
kink is not evil.

none of them are things to feel shame or embarrassment about.

none of them deserve the heavy-handed censorship that they're facing.

resist oppression (even if you don't partake in what is being oppressed)

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Caio Almendra @caioalmendra.bsky.social · 19h

Fun fact: Maria Colina Machado SUPPORTS Donald Trump sinking fishing boats off their coast.

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 19h

I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 18h

Even sex resulting in pregnancy after one partner lied about their fertility, or resulting in STD transmission after one lied about having an STD*, is not considered to legally invalidate consent, despite far more demonstrable harm than lying about body parts for sex acts not involving those parts!

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 18h

If she'd been married and lied about being single or if she'd been a convicted abuser and lied about that she would not be going to jail.

People lie all the time before sex, during sex and after sex.

If you're trans, that's a crime.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 19h

She's been jailed - to be raped every night.

She's in a male jail. Despite living as female since she was 13.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

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Marlo Garnsworthy @icebird.bsky.social · 22h

As a birder this breaks my heart. As a citizen of this extraordinary planet, this breaks my soul.

Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 23h

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 18h

On my way to SC for the Southern Gothic Festival this weekend! Hope to see some of y’all at the “Haunted Landscapes” panel tomorrow—featuring me, Nathan Ballingrud, and Julia Elliott 👻👻

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18h

If you have some time this weekend, have a look and a read: www.life.com/history/life...

Civil Rights: Photos From Sit-ins and Protest Training Sessions, 1960

LIFE.com presents a gallery of photos from a series of protests and sit-ins in Petersburg, Virginia, in May 1960.

www.life.com

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 1d

“The truth is that antifa and anti-fascist groups have been responsible for some of the most prescient and impactful organizing countering the far-right during the last decade.”

What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.

theintercept.com

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 19h

thank you!! 😂

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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🌿viktor aleksander🌿 @ commissions open! @nooskadraws.bsky.social · 19h

someone followed me with dramione on their profile and posts so here's another psa: I AM A TRANS ARTIST if you have anything to do with hp on your profile or posts, my art is NEVER going to be for you 🏳️‍⚧️

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Slippy @damnslippy.slippy.me · 20h

I hope for this train attendant’s sake that I finish reading this essay before she comes to ask me about breakfast because she is a nice lady and does not need me wild-eyed from sleep deprivation at 7 am muttering POWER TO THE DEVIANT, DEVIANCE IS ALSO JOY

Rather than challenge deviance as a framework, the glossary seems to destabilise the region's own understanding of what its most normative and most dominant sexual and gendered practices are. Yes, the glossary seems to say, we are deviants, but aren't we all? If bottoming is deviance, if gender play is deviance, if effeminacy is deviance, if promiscuity is deviance...? And it all of these things are also joy, are also pleasure, are also exhilaration, which is at the root of their being framed as immoral, as sinful, as evil...? If their being labelled deviance is an injunction to control oneself, to deprive oneself...? Then more power to the deviant - and may we all learn from them how to live more fully and in service of the body and the politics of its pleasurable potentialities.

From “The Queer Arab Glossary.”

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 3d

A new small press? iN tHiS eCoN0mY / p01i+icAL m0M3nt?!?

YES. We need new homes for new stories. Even now. Especially now.

I love and trust the people behind Homeward Books, and I hope you will join me in backing them.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...

Homeward Books: The home for books without a home

Splendor over mediocrity. Stories for the hot bath & the cold plunge. Defying the constraints of genre & delving deep into your heart.

www.kickstarter.com

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 21h

With my insurance, free!

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll kill you in front of your students.”

This is just one of the death threats that has driven @mark-bray.bsky.social to try and flee the US.

But at the airport last night, after checking in and clearing security, his booking mysteriously disappeared

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 1d

It feels like the necessary first step to a nation finally saying “what the fuck are you talking about?” whenever presented with this hyperbolic danger language

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 1d

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Letitia James is a former public defender and public advocate. She's spent most of her career on the side of the marginalized and underprivileged. And let's be honest: Trump is attacking her because he doesn't want Black women in positions of authority in this country.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

For weeks, anti-immigration agents have tossed smoke bombs at people in cars, shot so-called “less lethal” weapons like rubber bullets and pepper balls, and deployed a staggering amount of tear gas, sometimes unleashing it almost casually into streets crowded with passersby. trib.al/EtwBDCJ

Trump Is Waging War on an American City

The real threat to people in Chicago (and Los Angeles and Portland) is our maniacal president.

trib.al

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