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Dylan NDR Edwards
@dylanndr.bsky.social
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Maker of queer & trans comics (Transposes, Valley of the Silk Sky) and monsters (Feeping Creatures). he/him
http://www.studiondr.com/
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timmarchman.bsky.social
NEW: Reports of DOGE’s death aren’t highly exaggerated, they’re wrong. Follow @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social on a voyage into the federal agencies where all your favorite young engineers are burrowed in ”like ticks.”
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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jamellebouie.net
trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties
jonlemire.bsky.social Jonathan Lemire @jonlemire.bsky.social · 1d
Trump’s echo chamber:

Very little U.S travel

No rallies or contact with supporters

Right-wing media

Dinners with rich donors and billionaires

Truth Social

Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Bubble-Wrapped President
Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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caseyexplosion.bsky.social
Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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apnews.com
Organizers say that interest in local, grassroots initiatives to meet community needs has been growing.
When formal systems stop working, neighbors turn to each other in what many call 'mutual aid'
Organizers say that interest in local, grassroots initiatives to meet community needs has been growing.
bit.ly
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
dylanndr.bsky.social
The whole entire right-wing ecosystem is just grifters all the way down. Anti-trans hate is the right's favored grift-du-jour, and literally all conservatives having a meltdown about gender stuff should be assumed to be grubbing for a payday
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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katelynburns.com
For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:

It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!

www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
That Viral Essay Scandal is (SURPRISE!) Actually About Trans People
A shoddy Oklahoma University essay went viral. Cis people think this is about conservatives whining for better grades. Trans people see a planned attack on a trans academic. (Note for free subscriber...
www.burnsnotice.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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boltsmag.org
The Trump administration is sending a group of prisoners to a federal supermax prison known as “The Alcatraz of the Rockies.” They were previously taken off of death row by then-President Biden.

Our new story with @thenation.com:
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for “Living Hell” Under Trump
Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation.
boltsmag.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
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jeannetheoharis.bsky.social Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 1d
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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ageofoddish.bsky.social
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane. A plate of the same cookies.
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
dylanndr.bsky.social
In college I made a set of computer alert sounds from the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead movie (which I have probably seen more than any other film); imagine a Mac Classic saying "Heads!" or "I've frequently not been on boats" periodically

RIP
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88. One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:
josephpolitano.bsky.social Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 3d
Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
A graph of US monthly solar generation
November 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
obviously plenty of other things should have already been disqualifying but people willing to defy Trump publicly and appeal to decency as their reason for doing so both seem pretty good
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d
h/t @adamwren.bsky.social

Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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unlikelywords.bsky.social
The fact doomers have gone from "America is over" to "Dems won't hold anyone responsible when this is over" can actually be read as an optimistic signal imo.
November 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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thoufeuxiv.bsky.social
thinking up a new character
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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kathryntewson.bsky.social
And it is SO much more resource-intensive to evaluate AI content than human-generated content, too.
kattenbarge.bsky.social Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3d
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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ralanwrites.bsky.social
What A Tangled Web...
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Our award-winning comic is out every Friday! Support @coloradosun.com if you can.

www.ralanwrites.com
"What'd I Miss?": A tangled web in Charlotte
Myra and Ossie discuss how the title of a book about kindness and compassion could be co-opted for a masked, race-driven immigration action.
coloradosun.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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indivisible.org
Friends don’t let friends buy from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
(next to a crossed out Home Depot logo) “Home Depot has allowed its parking lots to become ground zero for ICE raids on immigrant day laborers, and its billionaire co-founder Bernie Marcus has funneled millions into Trump's campaigns.” (next to a crossed out Target logo) “Target, which once branded itself as the friendly, inclusive big-box store, has now scrapped its DEl goals and scaled back LGBTQ+ offerings to avoid angering the regime.” (next to a crossed out Amazon logo) “Amazon didn't just shower Trump's inauguration with cash -- Jeff Bezos' company pitched facial-recognition tools to ICE and powers the Palantir systems ICE uses to track and deport immigrants, making Amazon a core contractor for the regime's deportation machine.”
November 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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roodypatooti.bsky.social
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when i was in middle school our teachers told us that you can't "make up" hours of sleep after not getting enough, and i thought that meant that if i didnt get enough sleep one night i would be tired for the rest of my life. and then i was
October 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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josie.zone
This is really good (unsurprisingly, since it's written by Rebecca)
rtraister.bsky.social Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 4d
“There are no clean demarcations between feminism and its backlash and the backlash to the backlash, between progress and regress. It was always fanciful to conceive of progressive victories as permanent, just as it was a shortsighted fantasy that edgelord heterodoxy would remain cool.”
Me Too Forever
Why the backlash was so short-lived.
www.thecut.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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davmicrot.bsky.social
Corporate Media is going to pretend that Trump is heartbroken about the two West Virginian National Guardsmen being shot in DC, but the entire point of moving a standing army into a peaceful city was to induce violence by The People to justify more violence by Trump on The People in retaliation.
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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chadloder.bsky.social
This was two days ago.
brandonfriedman.bsky.social Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 7d
The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.

In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
USCIS Refugee Memo – Summary of Key Provisions Effective immediately, USCIS is ordering: ● A total freeze on all pending Form I-485 applications filed by refugees admitted from Jan 20, 2021 – Feb 20, 2025 ● A mandatory re-interview of all principal refugees admitted during that period ● A review and potential re-interview of derivative refugees, including spouses, children, and follow-to-join beneficiaries ● A reassessment of whether each refugee met the definition at the time of admission Authority being invoked: ● INA § 101(a)(42) (refugee definition) ● INA § 207 and § 209 (termination and adjustment authority) ● USCIS asserts power to undo past refugee admissions Consequences: ● USCIS may terminate refugee status for principals and all derivatives ● USCIS may deny green cards, even for those who already have them ● There is no appeal of a denied refugee-based I-485; the only option is to contest removal in immigration court ● Refugees placed in removal proceedings may renew their I-485 claim before an immigration judge Additional conditions: ● USCIS has 90 days to create the priority list for who will be re-interviewed ● The freeze on I-485s remains until lifted in a future memo ● Only the USCIS Director or Deputy Director may authorize exceptions ● USCIS is explicitly framing this as correcting “expediency,” “quantity over quality,” and “vulnerabilities” in Biden-era adjudications ● The memo states USCIS will revisit all inadmissibility grounds, including those previously waived ● The memo highlights a review of the persecutor bar ● It asserts a need to ensure refugees “pose no threat to national security or public safety”
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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jmarshallsmith.bsky.social
I've made about $17k all year, INCLUDING my adjunct teaching job.

There is this idea that anyone working in the arts has wealthy family help, and sure some do, but a lot of us are simply poor. If you enjoy someone's work please pay them for it. It is not greedy to want to be paid for your labor.
caradelaney.bsky.social Cara N. Delaney 💖💜💙 @caradelaney.bsky.social · 6d
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.

It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
this is what ten years of obsession with "wokeness" in the media was trying to get to btw bsky.app/profile/mari...
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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alyssaharad.bsky.social
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 8d
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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cassieceleste.bsky.social
"They keep banning erotica!"
"The entire US economy is three AI bubbles in a trench coat!"

I have a fix here. Take all the money from AI, and give it to erotica content creators.
November 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM