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Kayla Nimis
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Chicago-based gamer and cat enthusiast.
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thedailyshow.com
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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404media.co
Nancy Pelosi’s trades over the years have been so good that a startup was created to allow investors to directly mirror her portfolio.
One of the Greatest Wall Street Investors of All Time Announces Retirement
Nancy Pelosi’s trades over the years have been so good that a startup was created to allow investors to directly mirror her portfolio.
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Anyone talking about the 90s like it was a feminist haven free of a manosphere has clearly forgotten about what the 90s was actually like or never bothered to study it
August 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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teenvogue.com
As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon.

But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️
People Have Had Non-Binary Genders for Thousands of Years
It's nothing new.
www.teenvogue.com
January 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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seancasten.bsky.social
The House GOP this week is going to bring to the floor, and likely pass on a partisan basis a law that will protect child predators at the expense of every female athlete in our country Let's dive in.
January 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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propublica.org
Nearly 70% of rural Illinois residents live in a child care desert.

One parent drove 100 miles a day to drop her son at child care, head to her classes in the opposite direction, then do it again in reverse. She spent $600 a month on gas alone.

w/ Capitol News Illinois
“All Our Future Money Is Gone”: The Impossible Task of Providing Child Care in Rural Illinois
Though the governor promised to make Illinois “the best state” to raise young children, child care continues to disappear. And, as one couple learned, there’s almost no help for those building a…
propub.li
January 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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erininthemorning.com
Happening now, the first anti-trans hearing of 2025 in the United States.

HB121 in Montana is a full adult bathroom ban in publicly owned buildings. It targets all trans adults and the trans reps Zooey Zephyr/SJ Howell.

I am covering it live. Watch with me:

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January 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
kaylanimis.bsky.social
Had a game day today and was able to get Agency to the table. The walls and shared hands were a fun twist. Looking forward to breaking it out again.
Four card holders on a table with cards from the game Agency by Daniel Newman
December 29, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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lindseyboylan.bsky.social
Maybe we should hold off on awarding men awards for being nice to women for a while.
thefilmupdates.bsky.social Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · Dec 24
Global women’s non-profit organization Vital Voices has rescinded Justin Baldoni’s Voices of Solidarity Award that was presented to him for his “work” as an “ally for women and girls” after Blake Lively’s lawsuit detailing her experience with him.
December 25, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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jaywillis.net
Presidents usually issue most of their grants of clemency in their final days in office, but this year of all years I do not know what Joe Biden is waiting for. The incoming admin is planning to carry out the executions you promised to stop. Do your job, man! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump Preps 'Bloodbath' on Federal Death Row As Advocates Beg Biden for Mercy
Richard Branson is one of hundreds of criminal justice advocates asking Biden to ‘prevent another execution spree’ before Trump takes back power.
www.rollingstone.com
December 11, 2024 at 1:51 AM
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erininthemorning.com
Trump has nominated Harmeet Dhillon, an aggressively anti-trans pick, for assistant AG for civil rights.

She has already gone after transgender refugee laws in safe states.
December 10, 2024 at 12:15 AM
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thefrankiedlc.news
The NYT quotes SJSU’s assistant coach saying that the trans woman on the team jumps higher & hits harder than the cis women she plays against—but doesn’t check to see if that’s true (it’s not—the screenshot on the right is ESPN’s reporting from earlier this week disproving those claims.
When Melissa Batie-Smoose, the Spartans’ assistant coach, arrived on campus nearly two years ago, she said that she hadn’t been told about the transgender player. But she recalled seeing the athlete play beach volleyball and telling Mr. Kress, “Oh, man, she hits and blocks like a dude,” because the player jumped so high and hung so long in the air. She also said the player avoided lifting weights, for fear of getting too muscular. Copy and paste is not working
November 29, 2024 at 1:35 AM
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jasmineeharris.bsky.social

#DisabilityTax

“The reality is that it is expensive to be disabled. Research shows that disabled people need at least 28% more income, at least $17,690, to achieve a standard of living similar to that of non-disabled people.”

www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
A cutting board costs me $75 – it might cost you $10. What to know about the ‘disability tax’
Research shows disabled people need at least 28% more income than non-disabled people for a similar living standard
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2024 at 5:07 AM
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petridishes.bsky.social
I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM
The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers. But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world. Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out. The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it. Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know. I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!
October 26, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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esqueer.net
Odessa Texas has passed the nation's first complete bathroom ban for trans people. It includes a bounty lawsuit provision allowing people to sue if a trans person is in the bathroom.
October 23, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Hi new Bluesky users. Semi-annual reminder to follow my favorite part of this website: the Gift Links feed.

It shows any free link to an otherwise paywalled article that’s shared by anyone on Bluesky. It has legit changed how I read the news.

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October 20, 2024 at 2:39 PM
kaylanimis.bsky.social
Gift link: Polio Threatens Gaza Today. Tomorrow, It Could Be Cholera. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/o...
Opinion | Polio Threatens Gaza Today. Tomorrow, It Could Be Cholera.
The success of the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza shouldn’t obfuscate the threat of other diseases.
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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quinnae.com
As ever, @polgreen.bsky.social gets the moral balance precisely right; while this is an op-ed, it contains real reporting that punctures some of the reactionary mythologising about these protests.

Her final words are haunting.
Opinion | The Student-Led Protests Aren’t Perfect. That Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Right.
There might be problems in the student protest movement for Gaza, but they are not misguided in their goals.
www.nytimes.com
April 26, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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swordsjew.bsky.social
i wrote about the way the christian right envisions masculinity https://theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/the-christian-rights-masculinity
The Christian Right's Masculinity Problem
Forging an army of many warriors
theswordandthesandwich.substack.com
August 29, 2023 at 5:34 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
Wow: SELF magazine has published a series called “Let Them Play,” featuring stories about trans youth and sports, written and edited entirely by queer and trans people.

This is how you change media.

www.self.com/package/let-...
SELF headline: How to Make Your Local Youth Sports Leagues More Welcoming to Trans Kids SELF headline: All Your Questions About Trans Kids in Sports, Asked and Answered SELF headline: How Playing Sports Changed This Trans Kid’s Life SELF headline: Youth Sports Can Be Life-Changing—Here’s Why Everyone Should Get to Play
August 25, 2023 at 2:32 PM