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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 11d

The "set aside the art from the artist" thing in this case is moot. Harry Potter money now goes right to destroying the human rights of trans persons. A billionaire who got her ass kissed for two decades got a rebuke and now she's got to wreck the lives of others.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 12d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11d

Without comment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 26d

There is a deep journalistic malpractice in writing a piece like this without ever using the words racist, xenophobic, or white supremacist.

The Intercept @theintercept.com · 26d

At a Department of Homeland Security job fair, applicants wanted higher pay, more excitement, and an America with fewer immigrants.

Who Wants to Join ICE? We Went to Utah to Find Out.

At a Department of Homeland Security job fair, applicants wanted higher pay, more excitement, and an America with fewer immigrants.

interc.pt

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26d

Why is @nytimes.com claiming to know that FCC chair Brendan Carr's motives for state censorship of liberals are authentically felt, as opposed to an invented pretext? NYT headline writers can't see into Carr's mind.

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Meier Galblum Haigh @mghaigh.bsky.social · 26d

What are words.

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june 🧛‍♀️ @juneever.green · 26d

alt text your fucking screenshots for fuck’s sake

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AsIAm - Ireland’s Autism Charity @asiamireland.bsky.social · 28d

Statement from AsIAm in response to Autism misinformation by the US Government.

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Disability Culture Lab @disabilitylab.bsky.social · Sep 19

📣 Call for the DisCo: we're making a Bluesky starter pack of disability justice orgs to follow! Have some recommendations? Tag their accounts in the comments and send this post to your friends! #disability #accessibility

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Sep 19

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.

We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.

That's the revolution.

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · Sep 18

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

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Mia Ives-Rublee @seemiaroll.bsky.social · Sep 18

The rise of remote work coming out of the pandemic led to a historic rise in employment rates for those with disabilities. Return to office policies, in general, could reverse that trend."

Thanks @emilypeck.bsky.social for interviewing me. www.axios.com/2025/09/17/c...

CDC stops work-from-home disability policy

The change was made after the attack on CDC's headquarters in August.

www.axios.com

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Jeremy❌👑 @liskar.bsky.social · Sep 18

Very happy to share a new report I co-authored with @jasonkowalski.bsky.social and Tish Tablan on a stellar Connecticut Green Bank program.

The report gives you everything on the program and how to replicate it!

Next up: spreading the model across the country with @publicrenewables.org

Jason Kowalski @jasonkowalski.bsky.social · Sep 18

3/ We’re kicking things off with a new report: Public Option Solar for K-12 Schools. With partners @climaterealityproject.org and @generation180.bsky.social we found that Connecticut publicly developed 27% of the state’s K-12 solar (2015–2023) making CT #1 in the contiguous U.S. for solar schools.

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Jason Kowalski @jasonkowalski.bsky.social · Sep 18

1/ 🚨 Big news! Today we officially launched the Public Renewables Project -- a new climate org calling for publicly financed, publicly developed renewable energy. I’m honored to serve as Executive Director. 🌞⚡️

Public Renewables Project @publicrenewables.org · Sep 18

📣 Launching the Public Renewables Project! 📣
1/ We’re a new climate organization advancing publicly financed, publicly developed clean energy to accelerate the renewables transition, lower costs, and increase worker power.
🔗 www.publicrenewables.org

Public Renewables Project

It’s time for publicly financed, publicly developed renewable energy.

www.PublicRenewables.org

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Meier Galblum Haigh @mghaigh.bsky.social · Sep 18

Loved your insights! Listening in from nyc this week, sad to miss y’all ❤️

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Sep 18

Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Sep 18

Public health is a group effort.

“You do you” rugged individualism doesn’t work.

We vaccinate to protect ourselves and those around us.

We vaccinate to protect babies, immunocompromised people and those who can’t receive the vaccine.

We’ve eradicated entire diseases.

RFK Jr must resign.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · Sep 11

It’s back-to-school shopping season and many families won't be able to afford school supplies for their kids, which are already more expensive this year under Trump’s tariffs.

He's coming after everyone & everything BUT the cost of living, and our families are footing the bill.

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Meier Galblum Haigh @mghaigh.bsky.social · Sep 9

More candidates who put billionaires in group therapy.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 8

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

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Disgraziato @primaryschool.bsky.social · Sep 9

please let one gilded age star helping zohran mean another gilded age star is about to run for nadler's seat

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 8

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's just a sports ban.
It's just a bathroom ban.
It's just a healthcare for kids ban.
It's just a military service ban.
It's just a federal jobs ban.
It's just a university housing ban.
It's just a passport & visa ban.
It's just one Constitutional right.
It's just your status as free citizens.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · Sep 4

RFK Jr has taken a chainsaw to American public health and undermined the mission of HHS. It's no surprise the patriots who still believe in that mission are calling on him to resign.

He is a danger to Americans' health. He should be fired immediately.

More than 1,000 HHS workers demand RFK Jr. resign in new letter

"Kennedy's actions are compromising the health of this nation," the Wednesday letter reads.

www.axios.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 1

"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says

The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚨 BREAKING: Trump admin halts approval for almost all new visas for Palestinian passport holders.

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · Aug 26

If you have ever felt any kind of impostor syndrome about your coding skills, take heart. I promise you can do better than this

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