Madeleine Gunhart
@madeleinegunhart.bsky.social
Writer of Romantasy + Witchy Nonfiction. Tarot reader. The other PNW cryptid. She/they
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1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports
The change comes after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration and lifted a temporary injunction.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
I think the moment in THE GIVER when Jonas notices the apple change in a way he can’t yet describe or understand legitimately changed the wiring of my 11yo brain.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I think the moment in THE GIVER when Jonas notices the apple change in a way he can’t yet describe or understand legitimately changed the wiring of my 11yo brain.
AI is the mind-killer
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
AI is the mind-killer
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Highly recommended tatting up toy catalogues as a fun creative outlet
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Highly recommended tatting up toy catalogues as a fun creative outlet
Architectural critic Herbert Muschamp once wrote, “Seattle’s new Central Library is a blazing chandelier to swing your dreams upon,“ which imo is an apt description of the magic of libraries in general. I’ll never forget the awe I felt exploring this building & its many treasures for the first time.
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Architectural critic Herbert Muschamp once wrote, “Seattle’s new Central Library is a blazing chandelier to swing your dreams upon,“ which imo is an apt description of the magic of libraries in general. I’ll never forget the awe I felt exploring this building & its many treasures for the first time.
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every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
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While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too.
If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole.
apnews.com/article/pets...
If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole.
apnews.com/article/pets...
Families on SNAP worry about not just feeding themselves but also their pets
With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too.
If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole.
apnews.com/article/pets...
If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole.
apnews.com/article/pets...
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What if agents of the state and our government *fed* kids and didn’t fucking indiscriminately spray them with dangerous poison. How cool would that would be.
November 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
What if agents of the state and our government *fed* kids and didn’t fucking indiscriminately spray them with dangerous poison. How cool would that would be.
Today’s show is brought to you by the letter F! Fund PBS. Fight the power. Feed your neighbors. F*** ICE . Free Palestine, Sudan, & Congo. Flatten anti-trans rhetoric. Familiarize yourself w/ disability activism. Fund mutual aid. Forget AI. Find courage. Facilitate change. Forge a better world.
November 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Today’s show is brought to you by the letter F! Fund PBS. Fight the power. Feed your neighbors. F*** ICE . Free Palestine, Sudan, & Congo. Flatten anti-trans rhetoric. Familiarize yourself w/ disability activism. Fund mutual aid. Forget AI. Find courage. Facilitate change. Forge a better world.
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I'm very grateful to @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for letting me speak on the relationship between AI and book bans.
This is a great and thorough article, and I'm glad I got a chance to say a thing I say a lot but that-- without the context Jason provides-- makes me sound a little conspiracy minded.
This is a great and thorough article, and I'm glad I got a chance to say a thing I say a lot but that-- without the context Jason provides-- makes me sound a little conspiracy minded.
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I'm very grateful to @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for letting me speak on the relationship between AI and book bans.
This is a great and thorough article, and I'm glad I got a chance to say a thing I say a lot but that-- without the context Jason provides-- makes me sound a little conspiracy minded.
This is a great and thorough article, and I'm glad I got a chance to say a thing I say a lot but that-- without the context Jason provides-- makes me sound a little conspiracy minded.
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This is an absolutely tragic gutting of one of the best politics desks in the country
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This is an absolutely tragic gutting of one of the best politics desks in the country
Even during the hardest times, humans continue to create wondrous things. I can’t see this stopping, no matter the obstacles. I don’t believe art will ever “peak.”
On the other hand, Muppet Bohemian Rhapsody. 🙏
On the other hand, Muppet Bohemian Rhapsody. 🙏
November 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Even during the hardest times, humans continue to create wondrous things. I can’t see this stopping, no matter the obstacles. I don’t believe art will ever “peak.”
On the other hand, Muppet Bohemian Rhapsody. 🙏
On the other hand, Muppet Bohemian Rhapsody. 🙏
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it gets tiring to keep explaining what it means to be poor to people.
it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper:
cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.
it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper:
cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.
November 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
it gets tiring to keep explaining what it means to be poor to people.
it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper:
cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.
it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper:
cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.
Excerpt from WAR TALK by Arundhati Roy:
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it.” (1/4)
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it.” (1/4)
October 30, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Excerpt from WAR TALK by Arundhati Roy:
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it.” (1/4)
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it.” (1/4)
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Every time I start feeling despair I am reminded that many, many people want to help, actually.
The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)
October 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Every time I start feeling despair I am reminded that many, many people want to help, actually.
The inexplicable kinship I feel with the monkey swinging from the rafters inside of Spirit Halloween
October 30, 2025 at 4:41 AM
The inexplicable kinship I feel with the monkey swinging from the rafters inside of Spirit Halloween
I tried TikTok for awhile, but the only stuff that gained traction was about Paul McCartney. I went semi-viral for a video about his thirst trap pics. It has since been reposted to other apps (not by me!) several times over the span of years. My legacy is shirtless Paul McCartney. (Cautionary tale)
I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration
September 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I tried TikTok for awhile, but the only stuff that gained traction was about Paul McCartney. I went semi-viral for a video about his thirst trap pics. It has since been reposted to other apps (not by me!) several times over the span of years. My legacy is shirtless Paul McCartney. (Cautionary tale)
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this is what makes Sabrina Carpenter a gay Icon. Dancers that are queens, trans women, & gay men with signs empowering the queer community. She's using her giant platform on this giant night to speak up for marginalized communities without it seeming gimicky or using us as props
September 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
this is what makes Sabrina Carpenter a gay Icon. Dancers that are queens, trans women, & gay men with signs empowering the queer community. She's using her giant platform on this giant night to speak up for marginalized communities without it seeming gimicky or using us as props
I actually just saw a really great interview with Issa Rae where she said that a little bit of imposter syndrome is healthy because it’s a sign of humility & a reminder to keep learning.
I really liked that framing of imposter syndrome as a sign of a healthy ego & a reminder to keep an open mind!
I really liked that framing of imposter syndrome as a sign of a healthy ego & a reminder to keep an open mind!
Guys what do you do when you suffer from imposter syndrome real bad? Like brain being really mean telling you nothing you ever did is good enough and people are just laughing at how bad you are?
Please no compliments or anything, really just looking for inspirational memes or such that helped you.
Please no compliments or anything, really just looking for inspirational memes or such that helped you.
September 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I actually just saw a really great interview with Issa Rae where she said that a little bit of imposter syndrome is healthy because it’s a sign of humility & a reminder to keep learning.
I really liked that framing of imposter syndrome as a sign of a healthy ego & a reminder to keep an open mind!
I really liked that framing of imposter syndrome as a sign of a healthy ego & a reminder to keep an open mind!
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Using this piece by @reallygoodwizard.bsky.social in my introductory lectures for my design students.
August 31, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Using this piece by @reallygoodwizard.bsky.social in my introductory lectures for my design students.
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AMAZING news!!! Such an honor to work with Cynthia Alonso! I’m so proud of our book! ❤️🔥🩷💜💙❤️🔥 #kidlit #booksky #bivisibilitymonth www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/713504...
September 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM
AMAZING news!!! Such an honor to work with Cynthia Alonso! I’m so proud of our book! ❤️🔥🩷💜💙❤️🔥 #kidlit #booksky #bivisibilitymonth www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/713504...
First task of spooky season is getting the witch vaccinated ✨
September 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
First task of spooky season is getting the witch vaccinated ✨
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How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector
As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...
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September 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...