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she/her. selective luddite. fiddleabout in some places on the internet, nirav in others, comically bad at socializing in all of them.
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transgenderreport.com
A new data tool for tracking trans news coverage

healthjournalism.org...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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A new data tool for tracking trans news coverage 
The Trans News Initiative aims to give reporters a clear view of the gaps and trends shaping public understanding of trans communities.
healthjournalism.org
December 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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catbus.phd
Cunk spittin Christmas cheer
Philomena Cunk standing beside a Santa statue saying the good children will get lots of presents and so, it turns out, will the bad ones. In fact, the only ones who won't get very much are the poor children that's because Santa judges a child's goodness based largely on parental income.
December 20, 2024 at 12:48 PM
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thembo.bsky.social
Santa doesn't need to go down chimneys but he does because it soots him
December 24, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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jamellebouie.net
this image is maybe the single greatest joke in TRADING PLACES. and also a pretty apt description of the trump/vance/national conservative vision of america
alansiegella.bsky.social Alan Siegel @alansiegella.bsky.social · 1d
This image will always stick with me. (And the name…)
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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jamellebouie.net
the fact that there is free parking at all in manhattan is wild to me
December 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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acab.dad
Weird how you never hear about the U.S. Military facing a “tight squeeze” or “losing money”
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 23h
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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rincewind.run
they put the postal service in the fucking constitution

it is a public service and not supposed to make a fucking profit

aaaaaaaaaaa
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 23h
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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sky.skymarchini.net
“Like prime, but with human beings”
A box car used in the holocaust to transport human beings to the camps.
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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joelhs.bsky.social
As an actual Religious Studies scholar, it is an insult to our field to describe anything this student wrote about gender as "Bible-based."
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 1d
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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rismith.bsky.social
Making the former head of UPS and now a former/current? board member of FedEx the head of the Postal Service has had the most predictable consequences.
December 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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drhonor.bsky.social
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 1d
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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schwarz.bsky.social
Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed
December 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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charlesgaba.com
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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gregpak.net
Sounds like what a Nazi would say.
adamrothman.bsky.social Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 23h
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said at a border security conference in April, according to the Arizona Mirror. The administration’s goal, he said, was to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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tylerfromtheinternet.com
I lost, but only because I didn't win. And I could have easily won. So in a way, I did win. I won that fight.
December 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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courtneymilan.com
Stephen Miller has more blood on his hands than anyone he has caused to be deported.
willbunch.bsky.social Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d
I'd be delighted to have a hairstylist or a youth soccer coach visit for a night
December 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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timothycsimons.bsky.social
I hope that all of you have a joyous holiday season surrounded by your family and loved ones*.

*Except for ICE. I hope no one talks to you or gives you a present and that you accidentally shit your pants while everyone tells you to go fuck yourself at the grocery store.
December 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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lataco.bsky.social
“Something like the plate tracker helps to encourage and promote legal transparency and legal accountability, especially when they're going around, switching plates, trying to hide, trying to be undetectable,” said Sherman Austin.

Full story: lataco.com/ice-license-...

By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
Shot desktop screen showing the backend of website programming. The headline placed at the lower half of image reads “The first national website dedicated to documenting ICE license plates is here”
December 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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propublica.org
North Carolina lawmakers have attempted to transfer control or partial control of at least 29 boards, entities or important executive powers in the past decade that had previously been under control of the governor.

By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors
For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections. This year, it fina...
www.propublica.org
December 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.

I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.

They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
12:32 am on Christmas… trans rights
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11h
BREAKING: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena.

The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.

New, at Law Dork:
Breaking: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena
The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
www.lawdork.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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mahoukarp.com
For further context twitter added a button that allows users to generate ai images using existing art posts from artists. It removes glaze and it basically reskins the artwork by using the existing work as a base. Twitter is no longer a safe space for art
example of the new garbage twitter is doing by harishimasan
December 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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smallandsundry.bsky.social
Page 3 of the #hawkeye #bishova comic for @plastic-pipes.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
This week in US health policy: a dozen underwear companies have to register as medical device manufacturers now, but a different group deliberately increasing measles cases is protected advocacy

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
In a measles outbreak in Texas earlier this year, CHD encouraged people not to get vaccinated and traveled there to produce videos saying measles wasn't so dangerous. "Measles is not a grave threat to America's children," Mary Holland, chief executive officer, said in one article. It also published videos, articles and social media posts suggesting that the people who died of measles died of something else. Kennedy later echoed CHD's assertions, suggesting that one child's death may have been caused by some other reason.
December 21, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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ukhadds.bsky.social
One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda.

For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published
December 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM