Abigail Gardner
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Donate to Urgent Help Needed: Trans Youth Emergency Fund, organized by Zane Chancellor
The Trump Administration’s cruel anti-trans agenda has inflicted a prof… Zane Chancellor needs your support for Urgent Help Needed: Trans Youth Emergency Fund
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UPMC has decided to stop serving 400 Pittsburgh-area families with trans kids. Families turning to expensive alternatives, including private care and traveling further for care. Can you join me and donate to help alleviate some of the financial burden for these families?
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
This is incredibly depressing and frustrating. Screwing over creators and home cooks to push AI garbage, for what benefit? We'll have to go back to cookbooks while the internet chokes itself to death
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This is incredibly depressing and frustrating. Screwing over creators and home cooks to push AI garbage, for what benefit? We'll have to go back to cookbooks while the internet chokes itself to death
This is a crazy thing to say out loud but my friend's house burned down last night in Oakmont. They lost everything. If you can spare some money they'd appreciate it.
gofund.me/58337f745
gofund.me/58337f745
Donate to Support for the Schwieger family following devastating fire, organized by Lauren Lorenz
Starting this page in support of the Schwieger family— our de… Lauren Lorenz needs your support for Support for the Schwieger family following devastating fire
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November 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This is a crazy thing to say out loud but my friend's house burned down last night in Oakmont. They lost everything. If you can spare some money they'd appreciate it.
gofund.me/58337f745
gofund.me/58337f745
November 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Awake too early on a Saturday, found a pirated version, wondering how fast Vanity Fair will cut ties
diabolical to drop part two while most of nyc people are asleep
west coast supremacy reigns
west coast supremacy reigns
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Awake too early on a Saturday, found a pirated version, wondering how fast Vanity Fair will cut ties
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Find someone who looks at you the way Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani.
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Find someone who looks at you the way Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani.
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the funniest thing about all of this is that jd vance grovels like a worm to get even a quarter of this kind of public support from trump and he barely manages that
Q: Stefanik has called Mamdani a 'jihadist.' Do you think you're standing next to a jihadist right now?
TRUMP: No, I don't. I met with a man who's a very rational person
TRUMP: No, I don't. I met with a man who's a very rational person
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
the funniest thing about all of this is that jd vance grovels like a worm to get even a quarter of this kind of public support from trump and he barely manages that
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A fascinating aspect of this is how much the anti-trans panic is about displacing fears that are far more real: of male coaches who abuse female athletes.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
A fascinating aspect of this is how much the anti-trans panic is about displacing fears that are far more real: of male coaches who abuse female athletes.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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if I'm dating a 21-year-old woman when I'm 55 I think I have surrounded myself with enough good people that at least one of them will hit me with a shovel
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
if I'm dating a 21-year-old woman when I'm 55 I think I have surrounded myself with enough good people that at least one of them will hit me with a shovel
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In this post I ask a simple question: was Keith Olbermann dating Olivia Nuzzi when she was 18?
houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/was-keith-...
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Was Keith Olbermann Dating Olivia Nuzzi When She Was 18?
I have some questions
houseofmirrors.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
In this post I ask a simple question: was Keith Olbermann dating Olivia Nuzzi when she was 18?
houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/was-keith-...
houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/was-keith-...
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women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
People magazine is trusted too. They know how to fact check!
This is the kind of coverage you want voters to see when they’re in line at the grocery checkout. 🤡
@peoplemag.bsky.social
@democrats-judiciary.house.gov @jamespmanley.bsky.social
people.com/ghislaine-ma...
@peoplemag.bsky.social
@democrats-judiciary.house.gov @jamespmanley.bsky.social
people.com/ghislaine-ma...
November 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
People magazine is trusted too. They know how to fact check!
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Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
A 64 D/36 R Virginia house of delegates, Virginia D Governor winning by 15 is insane. Can they fix the UVA board of directors pronto?
For the Virginia House of Delegates:
Democrats: 64 seats (+13)
Republicans: 36 seats (-13)
Democratic women: 37 (+10)
Democratic men: 27 (+3)
Republican women: 5 (-2: 3 incumbents lost, 1 newly elected)
Republican men: 31 (-11: 10 seats lost, 1 replaced by R woman)
Democrats: 64 seats (+13)
Republicans: 36 seats (-13)
Democratic women: 37 (+10)
Democratic men: 27 (+3)
Republican women: 5 (-2: 3 incumbents lost, 1 newly elected)
Republican men: 31 (-11: 10 seats lost, 1 replaced by R woman)
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A 64 D/36 R Virginia house of delegates, Virginia D Governor winning by 15 is insane. Can they fix the UVA board of directors pronto?
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
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NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
Kristi Noem-Tied Firm Secretly Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Campaign
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
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idk why these grown men even want to hang out with teenagers. have you spoken to a teenager? they're annoying.
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
idk why these grown men even want to hang out with teenagers. have you spoken to a teenager? they're annoying.
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happy for everyone seeing the northern lights tonight
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
happy for everyone seeing the northern lights tonight
It's happening 🥹
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
It's happening 🥹
I hadn't watched MSNBC in a long time. First time I put it on, immediately see @repsummerlee.bsky.social live with Chris Hayes bc she's crushing it on the Epstein files
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I hadn't watched MSNBC in a long time. First time I put it on, immediately see @repsummerlee.bsky.social live with Chris Hayes bc she's crushing it on the Epstein files