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Amanda E
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@sammagotchi from the Other Place. Boston girl living in Toronto. She/her. Picrew by aworus. 🇨🇦🇪🇺 ✊♥️🏳️‍⚧️
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christopherjhale.bsky.social
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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bylinetimes.bsky.social
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.

The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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mimmymum.bsky.social
Emily Maitlis brags about her, Deb Cohen, and Hannah Barnes getting the Tavistock GIDS service shut down.

What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...

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nojusticemtg.bsky.social NJ @nojusticemtg.bsky.social · 11d
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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originalsp.in
At a private equity firm on “5th and Wall”?

Actual New Yorkers know Fifth Avenue (never 5th!) in NYC doesn’t intersect with Wall Street. It ends at Washington Square Park.

Can you find the other clues that this account is lying and probably a foreign-run bot?

Good luck on leaving the “5 bureaus”
9:55 C 100• < Back Thread 91.1K views kblackwanderer 3d Follow Just talked to my friend in NYC who is a financial business leader in a private equity firm on 5th/Wall. He said everyone is leaving the 5 bureaus except the Bronx and Harlem but he said they are going to leave eventually when they cant use SNAP benefits on their cigarettes and alcohol. At government funded grocery stores. BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani's closing message to New Yorkers and all city run stores and businesses " City-run grocery stores will not sell cigarettes or lottery tickets - and Absolutely no Alcohol" You have no idea what you ALL have just done Add your reply... GIF +
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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senthorun.bsky.social
“The anti-trans movement likes to cloak its transphobia & transmisogyny in a patently genocidal language of social contagion… The language of modern day transphobia is very similar to National Socialist views on homosexuality.”

Transphobia is rooted in recycled homophobia. It belongs in the trash.
Statement on the Transphobic UN Report on Violence Against Women and Girls
October 17, 2025 The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security is appalled by the advanced edited report from the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls (VAWG) en...
www.lemkininstitute.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID

Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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wyden.senate.gov
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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esqueer.net
Notable that FIRE (@thefireorg.bsky.social) filed an amicus in support of bullying trans youth. This is why trans people don't trust your transphobic organization, @aricohn.com.

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A scanned first page of a legal brief titled “United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit,” Case No. 23-3630. The case is “Parents Defending Education, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Olentangy Local School District Board of Education, et al., Defendants-Appellees.” The page states that it is an appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Eastern Division. The document title reads: “Brief of Amici Curiae Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and Manhattan Institute in Support of Plaintiff and Reversal.” At the bottom, the attorneys for the amici organizations are listed with names, law firm/organization affiliations, mailing addresses, and contact information.
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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sophiemolly.co.uk
"But according to Professor ­Playdon’s source, Ewan’s case was forbidden from being used in ­legal argument in Corbett. It has not ­appeared as a precedent in any court case in Scotland or England since."

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November 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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alandriscoll.com
Sick and tired of the media ignoring this. Please spread far and wide.
Terfipedia infographic: "It's Not About Her Beliefs". [Image shows a blood-stained actor modelling Reduxx-brand brass knuckles.] J.K. Rowling promotes and endorses Reduxx, a far right hate site that not only incites violence against the trans community by relentlessly portraying them as predatory pedophiles, but also sells the illegal “brass knuckles” for enacting that violence. Yet somehow the media sticks to the narrative that she’s just “standing up for women”. It’s unacceptable, and the richer you make her, the more you enable her. And the more you endorse this too. #BoycottHarryPotter
August 15, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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louisathelast.bsky.social
The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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parkermolloy.com
So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!

This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...
CULTURE TRENDS SNAP beneficiaries threaten to ransack stores over government shutdown One mother claims taxpayers must feed her children as SNAP benefits face cuts By Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi • Fox News Published October 31, 2025 2:16pm EDT
October 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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gribbsey.bsky.social
I used to tell my students to always ask three questions:
Who says so?
How do they know?
and
What are they trying to get from saying it?
October 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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lopatto.bsky.social
a teen's parents filed a wrongful death suit against openai after their kid had "lengthy conversations" with chatgpt about his intention to kill himself. how did the company respond? with harassing subpoenas www.ft.com/content/47b0...
Lawyers for the Raines told the Financial Times that OpenAI had requested a full list of attendees from Adam’s memorial, which they described as “unusual” and “intentional harassment”, suggesting the tech company may subpoena “everyone in Adam’s life”. OpenAI requested “all documents relating to memorial services or events in the honour of the decedent including but not limited to any videos or photographs taken, or eulogies given . . . as well as invitation or attendance lists or guestbooks”, according to the document obtained by the FT. “This goes from a case about recklessness to wilfulness,” Jay Edelson, a lawyer for the Raines, told the FT. “Adam died as a result of deliberate intentional conduct by OpenAI, which makes it into a fundamentally different case.” OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment about documents it sought from the family.
October 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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carolotta.me
i feel like everyone else in the lobster pot is telling me i'm having hot flashes
October 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
sammagotchi.bsky.social
Fun fact: for a time in the 1940s some US states, including Illinois and Montana, issued vehicle plates made from soy to conserve metal for WWII. This worked fairly well - until animals started eating them.

Maybe the US will have to do this again so all their unsold soybeans don't go to waste.
October 21, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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sammagotchi.bsky.social
I wonder what our newly morally principled payment processors will have to say about this? Will they blacklist ChatGPT?

*Jeopardy theme plays*
mattburgess1.bsky.social Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · Oct 14
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases. In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing). In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
October 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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volts.wtf
It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.
October 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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jacksapoch.bsky.social
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
October 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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babadooknukem.bsky.social
I am increasingly convinced by the argument that Trump's inner circle is showing him AI videos of whatever they want him to believe
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 8
Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."
October 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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ogkittylyst.bsky.social
A "libertarian" is just an authoritarian who hasn't gotten hold of the keys yet.
October 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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unicornsrockuk.bsky.social
Well Australia is seeing the Cass Review for what it is - a political sham!
www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...
Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people
Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, doe...
www.mja.com.au
October 6, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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kirstimiller30.bsky.social
Decades-old 'conversion therapy' resurfaces in today's trans youth healthcare debate.

Jayne McFadyen ) and researcher Anja Ravine have co-authored a paper that sets the record straight on trans "conversion" treatment.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
'Conversion therapy' survivor speaking out against trans health study
A decades-old psychiatric study is influencing current debates over transgender youth health care. But a new analysis led by a survivor says the findings were deeply harmful and dangerously misleading...
www.abc.net.au
October 6, 2025 at 4:50 AM