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Kayla Nimis
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Chicago-based gamer and cat enthusiast.
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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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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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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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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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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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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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:

sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00309/Harmon...
January 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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.
December 29, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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Maybe we should hold off on awarding men awards for being nice to women for a while.
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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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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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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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.
November 29, 2024 at 1:35 AM
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#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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I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM
October 26, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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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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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.

bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 20, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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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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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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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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-...
August 25, 2023 at 2:32 PM