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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now
@knownforms.bsky.social
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She/her, they/them. Writer, Researcher. Work in Strange Horizons, Tin House, Electric Lit, and more. I used to do research for Roxane Gay.
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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · Aug 31
Idk I just want everyone to have free healthcare (including dental), safe housing, universal basic income so they don’t go hungry and free childcare/education. But this is considered impossible and naive while we spend trillions on war/genocide/police.
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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 4h
For my newsletter, I interviewed Chastity Bowick, the new executive director of the Marsha P. Johnson Interview about what white trans folks (and cis people) can learn from the Black trans community who have always been under this type of overwhelming oppression. www.burnsnotice.com/black-trans-...
Black Trans Folks Have Been Here Before
A timely interview with Chastity Bowick, the new Executive Director of the Marsha P. Johnson Institute. This interview has been edited for clarity and may differ slightly from the audio version. I've...
www.burnsnotice.com
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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 39m
Day two of @bookshop.org's anti-prime sale, so go and get your holiday shopping sorted while you support independent booksellers.

bookshop.org

Reply in thread with what you've bought & I'll share my picks!
Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1h
And we've already seen the transformative impacts of eliminating the fare when we won and implemented a historic fare free bus pilot on one line in each borough.

Ridership went up. Assaults on operators went down. And people saved money.
A Year Without Fares: Lessons From New York’s Free Bus Pilot
Albany must embrace transformational change to bring NYC transit back on track and be ready for the challenges of tomorrow.
www.thenation.com
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 2h
If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble
Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD
A power strip with the plug end plugged in to one of the sockets
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h
🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @thedailyshow.com
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Diana T. ★ Laiska @laiska.bsky.social · 21h
It's hard to find things to be positive about lately, but this is why I'm proud of my local folks coming together to speak up and put a wrench in the works for developers hoping to exploit our community- And more importantly our local officials for actually listening:

wtop.com/maryland/202...
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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1h
Big Pritz you gotta go put your body on the line here man. You’re getting shown up by furry ravers and Presbyterians.
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 45m
The median weekly wages of Latinas are consistently lower than those of White men, no matter their educational attainment. From 2022: https://bit.ly/3VRJWC
It’s Latina Equal Pay Day — finally
The pay gap for Latinas persists across education levels and industries. Here’s why.
bit.ly
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1h
FBI agents assigned to Musk concluded he was systematically avoiding conduct standards imposed on those holding high-level clearances. FBI management concluded it could do nothing about this because of Musk's ties to Trump and the GOP.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1h
JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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spoOoOopymama! @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 45m
masterful, really
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Reuters @reuters.com · 50m
Brazil's soybean exports to hit record as US out of market, Chinese demand strong reut.rs/4q6rzYW
Brazil's soybean exports to hit record as US out of market, Chinese demand strong
Brazil's soybean exports are expected to reach 102.2 million tons through end-October, surpassing annual volumes for the whole of 2024 and 2023, reflecting the absence of U.S. competitors serving Chinese importers, grain exporter group Anec data showed on Wednesday.
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Tim Steller @timsteller.bsky.social · 22h
The University of Arizona's faculty senate has voted to ask the UA president to reject the Trump administration's proposed compact. It's among an accumulation of voices who say not to be tempted by the good things in the compact due to its more fundamental threats.
tucson.com/news/local/e...
U of A Faculty Senate opposes Trump compact; provost says no decision yet
The University of Arizona Faculty Senate approved a resolution calling on the UA to reject the White House’s compact requiring ideological, political and financial commitments in return for federal fu...
tucson.com
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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 1h
At least 6 unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents since September: 2 have been released, while the status of the remaining 4 is unknown. But the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness is investigating reports of an additional 19 people disappeared.

chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...
Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community
Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.
chicagoreader.com
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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22h
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...
Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?
Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.
wordinblack.com
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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 48m
THANKS MAGA!!
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 48m
The Education Department under Linda McMahon is working to dismantle public schools in favor of a range of other options — private, Christian and virtual schools or homeschooling.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/top-tru...
Top Trump Education Officials Are Dismantling Public Schools: ‘We’re Going to Have a Lot of Empty School Buildings’
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big...
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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 50m
#Arlington, VA
#VisibilityBrigade
Letters on an overpass spelling out: DJT No Troops in Our Cities
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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 1h
From Parth Kothekar's M.C. Escher-inspired series of papercuts

www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/10/part...
a hand holding a trippy white paper cut to distort perspective
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 54m
Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.
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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 2h
The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down
How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7h
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 53m
Corrupt SCOTUS.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 53m
The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote

Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine that would limit absentee voting and impose voter ID requirements, writes @andrewperez.bsky.social.

Read now: zeteo.com/p/leonard-le...
The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote
Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine that would limit absentee voting and impose voter ID requirements.
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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 53m
So glad FROG has some support/friends!
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h
#WarRavagedPortland
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 56m
It's MacArthur day! It's MacArthur day!

I have a little ritual where, every announcement day, I watch the video, read the Fellows' bios, and ask myself how I'm being creative in my own work. Just a nice push to think outside the box.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ3K...
Meet the 2025 MacArthur Fellows
YouTube video by macfound
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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 59m
Forget reading sci-fi and thinking it's good, these guys read about how IBM counting machines helped facilitate the Holocaust and thought "and look, 80 years later it's still a major profitable corporation!"
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1h
You cannot be fucking serious
SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class
Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.
migrantinsider.com
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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 59m
Yes, I know any and all tech companies are Bad, but it still annoys me that iCult seems to be escaping any meaningful critique from both the media and consumers
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1h
You cannot be fucking serious
SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class
Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.
migrantinsider.com
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Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 1h
It's a shame there was no warning about the dangers of Christian Nationalism....
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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 3h
I think there are still shared norms we can appeal to when we talk to the marginal MAGA voter. But there really are no shared norms left with the core of the movement.
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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1h
Today's newsletter: www.readtpa.com/p/how-the-su...
How the Supreme Court Uses "Free Speech" to Dismantle LGBTQ Protections
In Chiles v. Salazar, the Court's conservative majority is poised to strike down conversion therapy bans by redefining harmful medical practices as protected speech.
www.readtpa.com
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