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@mediocre.bsky.social
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doing a PhD on Spider-Man, race, cities, and prison abolition.💥 sometimes teaching. mostly knitting, walking, or rowing. trans, Mad, and figuring it out. New Englander in Old England.
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mediocre.bsky.social
rly enjoying it being a little busier in these parts! for new comrades: my name is reed, i am a researcher who is working on answering an age old-question: IS SPIDER-MAN A COP
mediocre.bsky.social
this is tomorrow 💀🤡
mediocre.bsky.social
yesterday i sent my phd out for a mock viva
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skeetsofgrass.bsky.social
Faithful and friendly the arms that have helped me.
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brennanleemulligan.bsky.social
Also - I can't believe we let the worst comedians on the planet spend *years* defining Freedom of Speech as a moral obligation to laugh at their bad jokes, and not as a protection against government censorship. You've been crying wolf for a while now gang, and a real wolf just got here! SPEAK UP!
mediocre.bsky.social
yesterday i sent my phd out for a mock viva
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
Yeah so throwing dildos at women athletes on the court is an actual example of gender-based violence against women in sports—one that transphobes and acquiescent Dems will surely make 1000% less noise about
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adamweinstein.bsky.social
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."
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markreckons.bsky.social
*Every* single time a politician uses the phrase "Jumping the queue" with respect to migrants as James Cleverly has just done they should immediately be asked "What queue?" and the journalist should insist on the details of how people can join this queue.
mediocre.bsky.social
“HOW TO WRITE SCENES IN A 2010s PUNK HOUSE” I fear
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fiercemum.bsky.social
There is NO way of doing a meaningful conversion therapy ban in the UK in 2025. Conversion practices are fundamental to the NHS under 18s healthcare service. Criminal ban on medication + Transition denied + Search for alternative cause + Mandatory identity investigation = conversive practice.
alizaadi.bsky.social
@stonewalluk.bsky.social are actively working with transphobic Labour ministers on the latest version of a proposed Conversation Therapy Prohibition bill

When they finally let the public see what they've put together, I'm afraid we can expect to it littered with loopholes and exceptions
fiercemum.bsky.social
Stonewall's new short strategy is out. Not one specific mention of trans people. Not one specific mention of mass segregation and persecution. Not one specific mention of trans children. Not one specific mention of mass oppression and healthcare criminalisation.

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discoelysiumbot.bsky.social
Off we go into the wild pale yonder.
mediocre.bsky.social
the brazenness astonishes me - the cognitive dissonance between the story i was indoctrinated with about the constitution and the bill of rights and what this court has chosen. i have known america to be false for at least 1/3 of my life, but this? this still has hit me like a wet fish to the face
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
The Supreme Court is about to go on an extended summer vacation, after having blown up the docket of every single lower court judge who has been working like a dog to deal with the firehose of illegal orders coming out of this administration.
jamalgreene.bsky.social
If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
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notalawyer.bsky.social
all of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence about executive power - all of it - can be replaced with a simple flow chart. is the president a Republican? if so it’s ok. if not, it’s presumptively not ok.
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stevenmazie.bsky.social
Justice Jackson in dissent: "The Court's decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law."
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mjsdc.bsky.social
I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.
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mjsdc.bsky.social
The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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kaycrosby.bsky.social
It cannot be stressed enough that the UK Parliament has responded to a planned mass lobby of MPs by trans people by instituting a bathroom ban on the day of the event. We are literally locked out of your state and your democracy.
mediocre.bsky.social
ok I LOVE Kate Bush, but I think the relationship most gay ppl seem to have with her I have with PJ Harvey what does this say about me thanks in advance
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astra.bsky.social
Went into gory detail breaking down the potential impact of the reconciliation bill on student debtors and the field of higher education more broadly. Part of the larger war on working people that we (as ever and even more urgently) need to connect to wars abroad.

newrepublic.com/article/1970...
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stillnaima.bsky.social
What I really hate about literally everything with this administration and it's bullshit right now is that nothing, NONE OF IT, is for any real reason. Just dismantling shit and blowing up shit just cause. And that makes me furious at the people who thought letting this fool back in office was ok.