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Quiet Brandon @quietbrandon.bsky.social · 2d

Great show tonight!

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · Jul 24

so when you…

• force this tech on most everyone

• block it from acknowledging trans people even exist

• remove lgbtq people from human rights reporting & allow ICE to conceal info on trans people in custody

…it seems like a good time for cis folks to stop considering political “compromises.”

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Jul 24

Trump's new executive order about AI states that companies' models must not incorporate the idea that trans people exist as a concept. Seems bad.

The WHITE HOUSE
One of the most pervasive and destructive of these ideologies is so-called "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI). In the Al context, DEl includes the suppression or distortion of factual information about race or sex; manipulation of racial or sexual representation in model outputs; incorporation of concepts like critical race theory, transgenderism, unconscious bias, intersectionality, and systemic racism; and discrimination on the basis of race or sex.
DEl displaces the commitment to truth in favor of preferred outcomes and, as recent history illustrates, poses an existential threat to reliable Al.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Jul 19

BREAKING: At least 116 Palestinians, including 38 people near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to medical sources in the enclave.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/f6uvdq

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Scream Factory @screamfactory.bsky.social · Jul 18

It has been found.

4K restoration coming soon.

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Quiet Brandon @quietbrandon.bsky.social · Jul 18

Incredible show last night in Denver featuring one @mike-eagle.bsky.social

OME rocks the mic and there's a disco ball

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Quiet Brandon @quietbrandon.bsky.social · Jul 18

I think that was actually the joke he was making!

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Quiet Brandon @quietbrandon.bsky.social · Jul 18

a man is standing in front of a podium that says last week tonight on it

Alt: Jon Oliver with his "we got him" banner

media.tenor.com

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · Jul 17

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Jul 15

I will never, ever vote for Gavin Newsom. Ever, under any circumstances. I don't care if he becomes the Dem nominee, he's still not getting my vote.

Julie Rei Goldstein @julierei.bsky.social · Jul 15

On a recent podcast Gavin Newsom tells Shawn Ryan how the Trans sports issue opened the door for him to change his mind on GAC for Trans Youth.

As someone who adored him since 2004 and voted for him 5 times, I can't wait for him to leave office.

There is no way I will be voting for him a 6th time.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · Jul 10

Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures

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aust.in.sight @abw56.bsky.social · Jul 1

"They cut medicaid to build concentration camps" is the best summation I've heard

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Jul 1

I know that Medicare/ Medicaid is Democrats’ native language & what they’re happiest speaking but I’d love for SOME prominent person to try the line “they increased the debt limit by $5 trillion in order to triple size of ICE & make its detention center bigger than the whole federal prison system.”

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Quiet Brandon @quietbrandon.bsky.social · Jun 27

If we get paid for it it's also a way to UBI while we're at it.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Jun 25

“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.

Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.

www.npr.org

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · Jun 24

This is *extremely* dangerous. ICE detained people, including a family with 3 children, in an office building basement in California without enough food or water. Rampant human rights abuses daily.

Guardian article: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Screenshot of highlighted text reading, "The children, the youngest of whom is three years old, were provided a bag of chips, a box of animal crackers and a mini carton of milk as their sole rations for a day. Agents told the family they did not have any water to provide during the family’s first day in detention; on the second day, all five were given a single bottle to share. The one fan in the room was pointed directly towards a guard, rather than towards the families in confinement, they told lawyers."

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Quiet Brandon @quietbrandon.bsky.social · Jun 13

As someone who went to New York once I was stressing about what one I was forgetting

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WIRED @wired.com · Jun 12

yep! unpaywalled:

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · Jun 11

I’m sorry, but, they’re censoring news coverage of LA and that’s a BFD and I am having trouble with this itself happening without any backlash

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · Jun 11

a story of censorship on instagram, told in three parts (via my band @ ekkoastral)

tl;dr they’re censoring news coverage of los angeles posted by the LA TIMES

sensitive content blurred restriction image

clicked the “ask why” and it says the post was automatically censored but apparently didn’t violate community guidelines

the post was news coverage of Los Angeles

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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · Jun 10

PSA that Eli Roth does not deserve your support, horror fans.

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · Jun 8

That kid is incredibly badass … but I have to say, they’re literally firing on a civilian youth who was walking away.

Jeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs.bsky.social · Jun 7

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Jun 5

it’s funny that they’re both on their own personal websites posting their little posts

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jun 5

today

The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point guy

The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point again

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Aubrey Jones @aubreyjones.bsky.social · Jun 2

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today.

I'm so angry.

Statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales
Husband of Jonathan Joss

My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done.

Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic.

When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw.

While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired.

Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life.

Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future.

He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other.

I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved.

To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family.

My focus now is on protecting Jonathan’s legacy and honoring the life we built together.

If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband.

Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will protect what he built.

Tristan Kern de Gonzales

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · May 23

ok so an important thing i really think people on bluesky need to hear about the anti-trans megabill

the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now

but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely

please read on

🧵

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Quiet Brandon @quietbrandon.bsky.social · May 17

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · May 14

Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress:

"They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"

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