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roseroomco.bsky.social
We stand with the @nwslplayers.bsky.social ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Language for alt text: We stand with the NWSLPA in its opposition to the High Impact Player (HIP) rule and urge the NWSL to negotiate with the Players Union as required by the collective bargaining agreement.  The criteria for HIP status put forth by the league are arbitrary and unjust, largely leaving the earning potential of NWSL players in the hands of media members. Moreover, the HIP rule creates two tiers of players, will impact USWNT player development, and does not account for international player success.  We condemn the NWSL’s persistent attempts to interfere with fair pay, and we call on all fans to show the league that we stand with the players:  • Block the NWSL on all social media platforms • Boycott of merchandise from the NWSL shop • Email your team and the league that you are opposed to the HIP rule and the league’s refusal to bargain with the NWSLPA
December 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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elivalley.bsky.social
Propagandist for the greatest explosion of Nazism in American history doubles down on insisting Nazis be given air time on "60 Minutes" to spread lies about the people they kidnapped, tortured, and sent to concentration camps.
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."

One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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kjshepherd.bsky.social
It's your birthday, Duane.
Duane Kearns Puryear, holding his panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It reads, in block letters: "My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. I was 22 old. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead..." There are several great resources to learn about Duane, his advocacy, his family, his panel, and the politics of memory and re-creation, especially this one by The Dallas Way: http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel Duane Puryear died in 1991.
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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juliaserano.bsky.social
every politician who attempts to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth is anti-science, transphobic, or some combination. prior to their votes, they should be forced onto cross-sex hormones so they can experience the horror they're inflicting on these kids
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation…
NOTE: this essay is a 15 minute read. If it’s listed as longer than that, it’s because it contains a list of over 100 references at the…
juliaserano.medium.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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andreagrimes.com
Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.
Texas Women’s Privacy Act Complaint Form (SB 8) | Office of the Attorney General
The Texas Women’s Privacy Act requires a political subdivision or state agency, including public schools, open enrollment charter schools, and state institutions of higher education, to designate each...
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov
December 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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tiredliz.bsky.social
This is possibly the most significant attack on trans rights in this country yet, and I can count the number of posts on my timeline about this on my hands.

If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!
katelynburns.com Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 10d
Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
December 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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okwonga.bsky.social
It’s not necessary to keep highlighting the qualities of exceptional immigrants as a reason for them to be treated well by their governments. We don’t have to be on our best behaviour to receive a basic level of human decency: that‘s why they’re called “human rights”, and not “human privileges”.
December 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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jbarab.bsky.social
19 miners will die very week from exposure to silica because the Trump administration refuses to enforce - and wants to roll back - the Biden silica rule. More important for coal companies to make a few extra bucks than save the lives of miners @kimkelly.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/the-...
The Trump Administration Ramps Up Its War On Coal Miners
A planned rule to set new silica exposure limits—and address Appalachia’s ongoing black lung crisis—has been under continued assault. Now, it looks like it's off the table.
inthesetimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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risswillett.bsky.social
This right here, and all of this could have been avoided if it wasn’t for her ego. The fact she let it get to a point where congress has now poked their noses in this should be the most embarrassing thing.
lillianbf.bsky.social lilli 🤠 @lillianbf.bsky.social · 16d
And now 39 members of Congress have sent Berman a letter calling into question her leadership and decision making. Doesn’t matter what new rule Berman cooks up, or even if she continues to serve as commissioner, she can’t really come back from this.
December 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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sarahspain.com
Me every time I saw a player from a team or school I like with Morgan Wallen in their Spotify Wrapped
December 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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lesleyryder.bsky.social
Robin Williams knew ball 😭
The Robin Williams takeover As the draw droned on, a backstage area of dressing rooms, nourished by a pop-up McDonald's, buzzed with activity. Alt, the supermodel, chatted with Andretti, the driver. At one point, Williams, the acclaimed star of Mrs Doubtfire, approached U.S. women's national team star Michelle Akers, and "I was expecting him to cut up and be a comedian," Akers says. Instead, "he was a total and complete soccer fan. He knew everything about my career." In fact, Adelman says, Williams had indicated early in the booking process that he wanted to be involved.
December 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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meninblazers.bsky.social
Liverpool paid tribute to Diogo Jota on what would have been his 29th birthday ❤️🫶❤️
December 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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sapphichazard.bsky.social
Read this, if you read nothing else on this topic. The right wing attacks in the OU situation are fully dishonest. Don't stand for dithering on grades regarding a paper that blatantly violated the university's own publicly stated academic policy.
December 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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jael.bsky.social
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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louisathelast.bsky.social
Time for the NWSL final
Billy Eichner jogging down the sidewalk with a bunch of lesbians, saying “let’s go lesbians. Let’s go”
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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alixeharrow.bsky.social
the CCS Board wants to believe this kind of thing is anomalous, but a 2014 study found that "SROs are significantly more likely than other police officers to be arrested for sex-related crimes," mostly involving students. www.clccrul.org/blog/what-th...
stevenljohnson.org Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · Nov 19
Putting cops in schools leads to bad outcomes. Here's a story about an ex-Charlottesville Police Department cop who has been working in Greene County schools

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CRIME Greene County SRO under investigation for misconduct with student Eli Hounsel, a school resource officer at William Monroe High School in Greene County, has been accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Heather Price Ives
November 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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kimkelly.bsky.social
HELL yeah baby let’s GO @workingfamilies.org
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Pennsylvania’s Working Families Party pledges to support a primary challenger against Sen. John Fetterman
“Senator Fetterman has sold us out, and that’s why the Pennsylvania Working Families Party is committed to recruiting and supporting a primary challenge to him in 2028," the group said.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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heyspirits.bsky.social
2-0 CROOOOOOOOOIX
November 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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galpalsports.bsky.social
@ The goalpost right now
two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying `` it 's anti italian discrimination ''
Alt: two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying `` it 's anti italian discrimination ''
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November 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings

“Big tech has made their choice”

www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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socialistdogmom.bsky.social
every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation
sahilkapur.bsky.social Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · Nov 12
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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spiritsquadron.bsky.social
one of one
optajack.optajoe.com OptaJack @optajack.optajoe.com · Nov 8
37.5% - In penalty shootouts in all competitions for #NWSL teams, Aubrey Kingsbury has saved 37.5% of the on-target penalties she has faced (9/24). All other goalkeepers have combined to save just 17.2% (20/116). Different.
November 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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roseroomco.bsky.social
We along with our friends at @spiritsquadron.bsky.social are coming together to start our first annual food drive to fight hunger here in the DMV.

Our community is stronger when we come together to fight for what’s right and just.

If you can, join us:

give.capitalareafoodbank.org/team/782134
Green and yellow sign that says “first annual supporters food drive” with cans of food in the center. In the corners it says rose room co and spirit squadron.
October 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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jeremylittau.com
Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.
October 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM