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I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

Chad Livengood @chadlivengood.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept his job, got 'no discipline' on his record, UAW says.

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UAW: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept job, 'no discipline' on record

The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker.

www.detroitnews.com

February 9, 2026 at 7:18 PM

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Hbomberguy

@hbomberguy.bsky.social

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Accidentally wrote 1300 words about Iron Lung and I can't decide if I should post about it to justify the time spent, or avoid admitting this embarrassing fact

A ★★★½ review of Iron Lung (2026)

There's a trilogy of movies adapting the first Mobile Suit Gundam. It's about seven hours total. It gets boring in stretches, and it keeps going, and going. And as more horrors of war are inflicted on...

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February 1, 2026 at 9:41 PM

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Beth 💜

@picklebee.bsky.social

JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner.

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www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

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February 1, 2026 at 4:52 PM

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

@mayor.nyc.gov

The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.

January 30, 2026 at 2:09 PM

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Transgender World

@transgenderreport.com

Why the FBI targeting a trans woman of color affects all of us and how we should respond.

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Trans liberation is your liberation

Why the FBI targeting a trans woman of color affects all of us and how we should respond.

lunaaavee.substack.com

January 8, 2026 at 11:02 PM

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pete rogers, professional diaper changer

@petemrogers.bsky.social

January 8, 2026 at 1:45 AM

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Dave Williams

@syrstorm.bsky.social

January 7, 2026 at 5:16 AM

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Walker Bragman

@walkerbragman.bsky.social

NEW from Important Context:

Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.

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Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans

Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.

www.importantcontext.news

January 5, 2026 at 9:12 PM

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David Forbes

@davidforbes.bsky.social

Credit where due to the Lemkin Institute, which has consisently sounded the alarm about the threat of trans genocide and taken trans communities' warnings seriously. Far more could learn from that example.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · Jan 5

trans people have also been speaking out about this! I'm glad we are finally seeing experts say what we all have understood to be true for quite a while now.

January 5, 2026 at 10:41 PM

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Trans News Network

@transnews.network

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry

In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...

transnews.network

January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM

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Trans News Network

@transnews.network

Trans communities warned for years about the NYT's transphobia, but the specifics of how this was ordered were often shrouded behind corporate hierarchy.

No more. Sweeney lays out specifically how the highest ranks of the NYT rigged coverage in favor of anti-trans bigots.

You've talked about the paper's treatment of the pretty infamous Cass report, especially from your spot at the international desk. What happened in that case?

It wasn't on my radar as much as it ought to have been. I was starting to wind down my time. I left the Times at the end of May of that year. There was an awareness that [Hilary] Cass was coming out with a report. The day before it officially came out, there was a lot of coverage in the BBC and UK media. Cass was already talking about it before its official release.

The day editor's counterparts are in Seoul and London. My counterpart in London — who was actually filling in that day, but did so on a regular basis — assigned a UK reporter to do a story.

That was standard practice, to be clear.

[Chuckling] There’s so many examples of how standard it was. She assigned it to a UK correspondent, who wrote it in the context of UK politics, talked about it being very contentious, talked about the criticisms of its findings. Cass was talking about them herself, this isn't jumping to any conclusions at that point. It really put it in the context of being this very contentious, very political sort of document.

When I saw it, because we're a few hours behind, there were 600, 700 words written. I had a pretty good sense of how the story was going to turn out. But within a few hours the story was to the top New York editors, and I don't know who exactly it was who did that. I assume it was Carolyn or her intermediary. They said ‘oh no, we want the science desk to do that,’ specifically that was Azeen [Ghorayshi], who had been a key reporter in a lot of the other anti-trans coverage.

Some of what you just described, that's just outright bigotry from these reporters.

Yes, but the stories are also edited too. Somebody had to approve that lede. I don't know if it was Carolyn, who was known to be directly, hands-on involved in the line editing of stories. I don't know if she was or made known her preferences. Those stories had editors.

Certainly there are plenty of reporters that were fully on board with this, and others who do it out of ambition because this is what the bosses want and they want to get ahead so they insert what the bosses want.

January 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM

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Taylor Moore

@taylordotbiz.bsky.social

December 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM

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Jake Williams

@malwarejake.bsky.social

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

In 2026, countries that want to win the trade war have a unique historical possibility: They could repeal their “anticircumvention” laws, which make it illegal—a felony, in many cases—to modify devices and services without permission from their manufacturers. Over the past two decades, the office of the US Trade Representative–which is responsible for developing and coordinating US international trade, commodity, and direct investment policy—has pressured most of the world into adopting these laws, hamstringing foreign startups that might compete with Apple (by providing a jailbreaking kit that installs a third-party app store), or Google (by blocking tracking on Android devices), or Amazon (by converting Kindle and Audible files to formats that work on rival apps), or John Deere (by disabling the systems that block third-party repairs), or the Big Three automakers (by decoding the encrypted error messages mechanics need to service our cars). The rents that these digital locks help American companies extract run to hundreds of billions of dollars every single year. The world’s governments agreed to protect this racket in exchange for tariff-free access to American markets. Now that the US has reneged on its side of the bargain, these laws serve no useful purpose.

December 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡

@moxiest.art

call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else.

unplug the machine.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Dec 22

Society is failing these children.

Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. She was the one expelled

A 13-year-old girl at a Louisiana middle school got into a fight with classmates who were sharing AI-generated nude images of her

abcnews.go.com

December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM

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Haradoshin! 🐛

@haradoshin.bsky.social

Bring this energy with you int 2026 (yes this is a threat)

Tumblr post that says “the world isn’t kind” OK???much more importantly are you?

“the world isn’t kind” skill issue. I am

“the world isn’t kind” not yet it isn’t.

This is a threat.

December 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM

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Chaireth, Gayest of Catgirls 💖

@catsharkchaireth.bsky.social

#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI

December 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM

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🌛Caio Santos Art🌜

@blacksalander.bsky.social

I hope Larian understand that the backlash they about to have was cultivated by their own words

December 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM

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ACLU

@aclu.org

Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.

Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.

Protect Trans Care Now

As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.

action.aclu.org

December 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM

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Fascist Dem Tracker

@fascistdemtracker.bsky.social

Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), Dick Durbin (IL), John Fetterman (PA), Ruben Gallego (AZ), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Maggie Hassan (NH), Martin Heinrich (NM), John Hickenlooper (CO), Mazie Hirono (HI), Tim Kaine (VA), Mark Kelly (AZ), Angus King (I-ME), Amy Klobuchar (MN), Ben Ray Lujan (NM), ->

U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session

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December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM

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Fascist Dem Tracker

@fascistdemtracker.bsky.social

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · Dec 11

By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).

December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM

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Bill Corbett

@billcorbett.bsky.social

We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · Dec 11

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · Dec 11

By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).

December 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM