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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 11h

Anyone who's willing to share this, I'm grateful for your help!

Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 18h

I'm once again asking anyone else who's trans/gnc affiliated with Brown University who wants to speak on record to please reach out ...

More info here:

www.sandyernestallen.com/announcements

reposts/sharing this with anyone you know is greatly appreciated, thanks!

#brownuniversity

STORY SOURCE CALL: I’m looking for Brown University-affiliated trans/gnc people (especially trans/gnc alumni, students, staff) and any others who feel affected by the university’s transphobic actions and are interested in speaking with me for a potential upcoming reported piece. (If you’ve not read them already, check out my Boston Globe op-ed blasting the university’s administration, as well as my Assigned Media essay about my time as a closeted trans student back when.) For those who want to share their stories and are concerned for whatever reason, you can request anonymity if you like in your initial email. Please write me via my contact form.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 16h

"In a recent column, Kevin Roose '09 complained" is a 10/10 perfect lede. chefs kiss.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 16h

anyway I am not ... going to look up the actual piece in question. but yeah. this fuckin guy.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 16h

imagine believing NPR and Shakira are some binary ...

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 16h

truly I've been reading Roose's bad takes for *so long* people

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 17h

genuinely LOLed

Op-ed contributor
October 29, 2006 | 7:00 pm EST

"In a recent column, Kevin Roose '09 complained of feeling peer pressure to pretend he likes National Public Radio when he'd rather listen to Shakira ("The sound of snobbery," Oct. 13). Roose correctly identified a tendency ... "

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 17h

Those who want to speak to me, please reach out via my contact form on my site. www.sandyernestallen.com/contact

Contact — Sandy Ernest Allen

Contact author and journalist Sandy Ernest Allen for consulting, speaking, etc.

www.sandyernestallen.com

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 17h

Lemme add this one ... on why anyone who just gives into fascists' demands are fools and cowards ...

whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/p/regarding-...

Regarding Politicians Like Pete ...

Or: Why we can't 'both sides' trans rights

whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 17h

And this essay for @assignedmedia.org ...

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

As A Brown University Alumnus, Let Me Say: Fuck This — Assigned

A Brown alumnus recalls his time at the ‘gayest’ university and calls for the Brown community to stand united against the Trump deal.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 18h

Just re-sharing a few of the things I wrote immediately after all this began, this summer:

This op-ed for the Boston Globe ...

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/04/m...

Brown University’s ‘deal’ with the Trump administration betrays trans students for federal research funding - The Boston Globe

While nearly 40 percent of Brown students do not identify as straight, and in an era when transgender people already face disproportionate discrimination, the university has chosen to prioritize money...

www.bostonglobe.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19h

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 18h

I'm once again asking anyone else who's trans/gnc affiliated with Brown University who wants to speak on record to please reach out ...

More info here:

www.sandyernestallen.com/announcements

reposts/sharing this with anyone you know is greatly appreciated, thanks!

#brownuniversity

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

INBOX: The Chicago News Guild joined others in suing ICE for attacking journalists at the Broadview facility.

“Our members have a right, protected by the First Amendment, to do their jobs and report the news. They should not be targeted, injured or arrested for doing their jobs.”

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 19h

reposting with alt-text because yes, this needs to be shared as fully as possible

Masked and armored ICE agents shooting chemical weapons point-blank at Presbyterian minister David Black, an unarmed white man with brown hair wearing black clothing and a clerical collar. He is flung backwards with the force of the assault. Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 20h

The way that major healthcare institutions have just decided the rules don't apply when it comes to trans people. Research ethics? Consent? Basic human dignity? Those would just be too inconvenient and it's only a bunch of trannies.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 23h

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 1d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 19h

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 22h

trying to be a contestant on jimmy fallons new show "The Smell of Success" where real everyday Americans get to get their faces shit on by real BlackRock executives

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 23h

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 2d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 1d

Californians, let’s call (916) 445-2841 to tell Newsom’s office to sign the following pro LGBTQ+ rights bills before the deadline:

AB 82/SB 497
AB 1084/SB 59
SB 418
AB 554
AB 728
AB 678
SB 590
SB 450

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21h

Only generally aware of Nigel Farage, it’s been shocking to me in the week I’ve been reading UK papers daily how *precisely* Tory & Reform rhetoric echo Trumpism, particularly the full conquest of GOP by MAGA circa 2017-18. Reminder yet again that this fascism is global.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 20h

Agree

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20h

- Grim that media barons are buying up mainstream media and making them fascism-enabling propaganda engines

- ULTAGRIM that so many of the big-name journalists escaping that fire are voluntarily leaping directly into a completely separate newsletter website trap set by the same fascists

Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology

Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as “thought leaders,” researcher warns.

arstechnica.com

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1d

extremely same

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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