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waywardwaverer.bsky.social
The Mundane Transfeminine
@waywardwaverer.bsky.social
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Sad, tired, disabled, mentally-ill millennial transfem NEET from the British Isles. Autistic and perhaps ADHD. Bi(?).

Interested in the physical sciences, computers, maths, languages, retro and indie games, sci-fi, and yuri manga/anime; knows little.
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jessdkant.bsky.social
In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.
January 16, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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mcduff.bsky.social
One thing is very clear about the standard Western liberal politician from this era: they really value the fascist perspective and believe that it's important to have as part of the political system, while they resent anything to their left and want to eradicate it.
otsumamiboy.bsky.social Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 9h
Gavin Newsom has never had a homeless, a working unhoused, or an affordable housing advocate on his podcast despite governing California.

So yeah I think it’s weird that he’s entertained & platformed multiple fascists while grinning, nodding & relenting to their easily defeatable talking points.
January 16, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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shelleybwoke.bsky.social
Another episode of trans people's favorite media: "two ignorant cis people talk about trans lives"😒
ket.bsky.social Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 9h
BEN: one of the major failings of the dem party last election is the unwillingness to say whether it's true or untrue a boy can become a girl
GAV: yeah
...
BEN: can you say a boy is not a girl?
GAV: i uh- and- you know- [laughs] we can go down- a year ago i was w/ charlie having this conversation
January 16, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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anna-orridge.bsky.social
Adham is in a dilapidated building with his mother, but it's still better than a tent in the winter. Please help them make rent while the weather is harsh. ❤️🙏
official-adham.bsky.social Adham Madi 🍉🇵🇸 @official-adham.bsky.social · 5d
Urgent appeal‼️📢
We are threatened with returning to tents if we cannot pay the rent this month.

We are exhausted from suffering,
and we can't bear to return to the cold, the floods, and the pain.

Your donation,even just €1, makes a huge difference in our lives.🤍
Help us:
www.gofundme.com/AdhamMadi
Donate to Urgent️, help Adham's family in Gaza, organized by Adham madi
Dear donor and supporter, this is a brief overview of me and my family, I want to be a… Adham madi needs your support for Urgent️, help Adham's family in Gaza
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January 16, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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gregk.co.uk
If someone is willing to toss away her Nobel Peace Prize to get closer to her real goal of doing a mafia bust-out against her own country on behalf of international finance capital, I think that's revealing of how much they actually value 'peace' and the values these prizes actually exist to reward.
hkesvani.bsky.social HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 2h
Not to lib out too hard but remember when the war on woke also included getting rid of participation trophies
January 16, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Jesus.

www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 15, 2026 at 5:08 PM Reid Forgrave ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then arrest workers Federal agents detained three workers from a family-owned Mexican restaurant in Willmar yesterday, hours after four agents ate lunch there. It was not immediately clear what the immigration status of those detained was, or whether the people detained included the restaurant’s owners or only workers. An eyewitness who declined to give a name for fear of retribution, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that four ICE agents sat in a booth for a meal at El Tapatio a little before 3 p.m. Staff at the restaurant were frightened, said the eyewitness, who shared pictures from the restaurant as well as video of the arrest. The arrest happened around 8:30 p.m. near a Lutheran church and Willmar Middle School as agents followed the workers after they closed up for the night. A handful of bystanders blew whistles and shouted at agents as they detained the people. “Would your mama be proud of you right now?” one of the bystanders asked.
January 16, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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alexpagliuca.bsky.social
One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.
gaykwon.bsky.social Street Sharks Explained 🇨🇺🇵🇸 @gaykwon.bsky.social · 1d
This dude is intense and correct
January 15, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
We need to make this more explicit: The violence and civil collapse we're now seeing in Minnesota is by design. It's exactly what Trump and Stephen Miller want. MAGA is *all about* deliberately unleashing ethnic hatreds and violent antagonisms among Americans.

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January 15, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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eladn.bsky.social
This is the universe these folks have built, one where all that matters is how to convince “moderate” white Americans and nothing else. Nothing about morality, fighting for others, etc.

They frame it as smart, but ironically it’s a lesson in how to constantly lose a messaging battle.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18h
i don't really give a shit if consultants think being anti-ICE is "good messaging" or whatever when people are actively being shot, beat, gassed and jailed.
January 15, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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threnody.bsky.social
NYT ran 11 stories on trans athletes in 2 days including one about brett kavanaugh’s special POV as a girls’ basketball coach. they sent 6 people to scotus to write up their victory lap & meanwhile this is how far you needed to scroll yesterday to find coverage of ICE in MN.

stop giving them money.
January 15, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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taliabhatt.itch.io
Gently: I think the sweet little leftist fiction that right-wing politics are the result of epistemic gaps---that you can just newsletter and educate and evangelize your way to leftism---is dead.

Consider: many people want to hurt others. Want to feel superior. Want to inflict pain on the lesser.
January 15, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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junlper.beer
this completely horrifying. ICE is a domestic occupying threat against us all
factpostnews.bsky.social FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 18h
21-year-old activist injured by ICE:

I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
January 15, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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thatbonnie.bsky.social
Dreaming of a day where trans people actually learn about themselves and our history from other trans people instead of obsessing over labels given to them by cishet people and lgbtq™️ Tumblr
January 15, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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clbergpowers.bsky.social
Too often schools for "us" and schools for "them" is exactly what we have. We've been trending backwards on integration for most of my life. This betrays the racist belief that too many policy makers hold- that our disparities are rooted in individual failing.

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Leaked Signal chat shows NH House education chair advocating whites-only schools
The group chat allegedly shows NH House Education Committee Chair Kristin Noble suggesting test scores would rise if students were split into white and
granitepostnews.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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diplomatofnight.com
Meanwhile in the UK, a Palestinian *citizen* of Israel has won his asylum battle and has been deemed a refugee due to the "substantial evidence of systematic discriminatory practices against Palestinians in Israel: apartheid, forced removal, restrictions of rights and exclusion from society”.
Palestinian citizen of Israel wins UK asylum over ‘well-founded fear of persecution’
Exclusive: Refugee status granted despite attempt by former home secretary James Cleverly to block 26-year-old’s claim
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.

He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
By Douglas MacMillan When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the Jan. 3 death of detainee Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp, the agency said “staff observed him in distress,” and it gave no cause of death. An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner told Lunas Campos’s daughter this week that, subject to results of a toxicology report, the office is likely to classify the death as a homicide, according to a recording of the conversation. In the recording, which the daughter shared with The Washington Post, the employee said a doctor there “is listing the preliminary cause of death as asphyxia due to neck and chest compression,” which means Lunas Campos did not get enough oxygen because of pressure on his neck and chest. Pending the results of a toxicology report, the staffer said on the recording, “our doctor is believing that we’re going to be listing the manner of death as homicide.” In an interview with The Post, Santos Jesus Flores, a man who says he was detained in the segregation unit the day Lunas Campos died, said he saw at least five guards struggling with Lunas Campos after he refused to enter the segregation unit, complaining that he didn’t have his medications. Flores said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, “No puedo respirar” — Spanish for “I can’t breathe.” Medical staff tried to resuscitate him for an hour, after which they took his body away, Flores said. “He said, ‘I cannot breathe, I cannot breathe.’ After that, we don’t hear his voice anymore and that’s it,” said Flores, who had contacted a family member of Lunas Campos, who in turn put him in touch with a Post reporter. The Post confirmed Flores was in Camp East Montana through ICE’s detainee locator.
January 15, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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pepsffk.bsky.social
Urgent appeal from Gaza to save the lives of my family of 6 members. We are devastated and homeless. Our tent was destroyed by the storm. We desperately need your donation and support to buy a tent to live in

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A selfie in front of rubble Collapsed metal framework and scattered debris under a cloudy sky.
January 15, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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nateo.bsky.social
Even though the author of this column is a woman, I categorise this column alongside the utterance of the man that murdered Good: they both hate a particular type of women (left-wing, queer, etc.) and want to see them subjugated, dead, institutionalised and pathologised, barefoot, in the kitchen
nateo.bsky.social Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 1d
The real chance of violent retribution by the state prohibits me from saying one thing, but I’m thinking it
It’s little wonder. Take an absence of the emotional anchors of marriage and family, mix it with college indoctrination, and add the extreme polarisation and overstimulation of social media, and you’re going to have a tough job keeping perspective, even if you do not also suffer from one of the mental health issues that increasingly affect young women. We can feel sorry for such people, especially when they embarrass themselves on social media. But toxic empathy is becoming a problem for the rest of us, with these progressive activists’ actions increasingly antithetical to the basic maintenance of a law-abiding society. And they are not content to fall for every sob story going, while letting the rest of us get on with our lives unimpeded. They have developed a habit of militantly drowning out and punishing anyone who disagrees. I speak from experience, as a conservative who has tried to maintain relationships with liberal women, but who has found that friendly debate eventually goes out the window and I’m defriended.
January 15, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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greene.haus
One gets a sense that the leaders of MAGA hate academia because deep down, they know the truest antifa supersoldiers look like this.
Dr. Christie acquired his fierce antipathy to apartheid at a young age, growing up in an impoverished family in Johannesburg. Many of his family members fought with the Allied forces against the Germans in World War II, and "I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them," he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. "I am not a pacifist." At 17, he was drafted into the South African Army. A stint of guard duty at the Lenz ammunition dump south of Johannesburg confirmed his suspicions that the government was building nuclear weapons. "From the age of 17, I was hunting the South African bomb," he said at the conference. Dr. Christie acquired his fierce antipathy to apartheid at a young age, growing up in an impoverished family in Johannesburg. Many of his family members fought with the Allied forces against the Germans in World War II, and "I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them," he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. "I am not a pacifist." At 17, he was drafted into the South African Army. A stint of guard duty at the Lenz ammunition dump south of Johannesburg confirmed his suspicions that the government was building nuclear weapons. "From the age of 17, I was hunting the South African bomb," he said at the conference. The A.N.C., in a statement, called Dr. Christie's role "in disrupting and exposing the apartheid state's clandestine nuclear weapons program" an "act of profound revolutionary significance." From the doctoral dissertation he had written at the University of Oxford on the history of electricity in South Africa, Dr. Christie provided the research needed to blow up the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station; the Arnot coal-fired power station; the Sasol oil-from-coal facilities that produced the heavy water critical to producing nuclear weapons; and other critical sites.
January 15, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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pepsffk.bsky.social
We are so cold 💔😭
We are so cold 💔😭
We are so cold 💔😭
I need 150$ to buy a tent for my family 💔
Any donation, no matter how small, could save a life my family 🙏💔
chuffed.org/project/1634...
A fog surrounds, obscuring the horizon, tents sit upon drenched soil and sand and in the foreground is Ahmed, young and barefoot. Too lightly dressed for the weather.
January 15, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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erininthemorning.com
1. In the aftermath of oral arguments at SCOTUS, the Trump Administration has sent out its largest federal investigation campaign yet against schools across the US with trans supportive policies.

Some, like Champlain Valley in Vermont, are fighting back.

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"No Investigation Will Stop Us From Taking Care Of Our Kids": School Districts Respond To Latest Anti-Trans Threats From Trump Admin
School districts in CA, CT, HI, ME, MA, NV, NY, PA, VT, and WA received word that they would be placed under investigation for trans-supportive policies.
www.erininthemorning.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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lukeoneil47.bsky.social
Aware that he only had a few months left to live the great Mike Davis gave one of his final interviews to the Guardian in 202.

"You’ve been organizing for social change your whole life. How do you deal with a future that feels so bleak?" Lois Beckett asked.
"For someone my age who was in the civil rights movement, and in other struggles of the 1960s, I’ve seen miracles happen," the revolutionary and historian responded. "I’ve seen ordinary people do the most heroic things. When you’ve had the privilege of knowing so many great fighters and resisters, you can’t lay down the sword, even if things seem objectively hopeless." "I’ve always been influenced by the poems Brecht wrote in the late 30s, during the second world war, after everything had been incinerated, all the dreams and values of an entire generation destroyed, and Brecht said, well, it’s a new dark ages … how do people resist in the dark ages?" "What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight."
January 15, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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ohrobin.bsky.social
"I know gassing babies isn't ideal, but it's important that you remain civil."

Part of what makes this administration so sure of its choices and so easy with its abuses is that it knows Democrats will lie down for it, and softly rebuke their own voters for not taking abuse with greater equanimity.
January 15, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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jordantyranny.bsky.social
“Hypernormalization describes a state where a false, simplified, or surreal version of reality becomes so accepted as normal that people lose the ability or will to challenge it, even when aware of its untruth, often due to systemic inertia or lack of alternatives.”
Hypernormalization describes a state where a false, simplified, or surreal version of reality becomes so accepted as normal that people lose the ability or will to challenge it, even when aware of its untruth, often due to systemic inertia or lack of alternatives. Coined by Alexei Yurchak for late Soviet society, it was popularized by Adam Curtis's documentary, applying it to modern Western cultures where complex problems are met with fabricated, anesthetic narratives by those in power, leading to collective cognitive dissonance where everyone pretends a dysfunctional system is working.
January 15, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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utopia-defer.red
I have become obsessed with civil war history for a lot of reasons but, as I have mentioned before, a big lesson was how the liberal faction of the republican party negotiated themselves out of power, in large part, because of their own personal interest in “getting back to business as usual”
maxp94.bsky.social Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 21h
The durability of this particular void is honestly fascinating from a purely sociological perspective.
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 PM