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recovering poster. head of marketing channels at @aclu.org
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jamellebouie.net
as someone who is a hater, i accept and welcome the fact that i have haters. what is good for the goose, etc. in fact, i think people in this business should be more open about their hating. if we think our words matter, then we should feel some kind of way about people who do bad work.
karenho.bsky.social Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · Sep 19
I have accepted that I have haters, including people annoyed by the water drinking reminders, and I don't have the time or energy to care about them anymore.
beijingpalmer.bsky.social BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Sep 19
this is something you just have to live with if you are even barely well-known online; people make up elaborate stories about you in their heads. it will always happen and you cannot give a shit about it, only stomp on it if they try to spread these weird tales to anybody you actually know.
September 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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amandamull.bsky.social
Got a story out today about something I’ve been fascinated by for years: From Atlanta hip hop to Bama RushTok, here’s how and why the South has taken such a firm grip on modern American culture. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The United States Is Southern Now
From booming metros to culture-defining exports, the South has quietly become a demographic powerhouse and a battleground for the country’s identity.
www.bloomberg.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Absolutely revolting that this is becoming normalized as a policy
www.politico.eu/article/germ...
Germany’s new willingness to lead Europe’s anti-immigration front removes one key obstacle preventing European countries from enacting policy proposals that were until recently deemed beyond the pale. Those include plans to deport migrants to third countries and to process asylum claims outside the EU, copying the U.K.’s failed Rwanda scheme, which Merz previously praised as “something we could emulate.”
August 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
Most people can’t quite grasp how it feels to read this, but imagine if the federal government commanded every agency to form task forces charged with finding new ways to humiliate you. Then imagine every institution in your life not only folds but starts participating.

www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
• Wagner will issue a public statement to the college community stating that it will comply with Title IX, specifying that Title IX forbids Wagner from allowing male students to compete in female athletic programs and from occupying female intimate facilities;
August 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
I think this is the most horrifying post I have ever read.
85% of Gaza’s population have entered the "fifth stage" of malnutrition — the most critical and dangerous phase, which is often irreversible even if food becomes available in the future.
July 19, 2025 at 4:17 AM
emilypatterson.bsky.social
the funniest thing you could ever do is let your presidency hinge on “i have never doodled” when THIS exists
July 18, 2025 at 3:02 AM
emilypatterson.bsky.social
i have got to hand it to him, donald trump specifically being a well-established lover of doodles is the funniest way he has ever publicly bullshitted us
July 18, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
Some personal news. I'm writing a history of the goddamn patriarchy.
Publishers Marketplace deal report in the classic blue red and white. Co-author of THE BRIGHT AGES David M. Perry's untitled history of masculinity from the Stone Age to today, showing how prevailing ideals of manliness have in fact always been bad for men too, to Eric Schmidt at Basic, by William Callahan at Inkwell Management (world).
March 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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climbtotheclouds.bsky.social
This is what my wife, my 9 year old son, and I see as we go through the door to the garage to start our day. It's our reminder to never back down, never stop fighting.
Picture of the American civil liberties Union flyer and black saying we are the American civil liberties Union and we're not moving to Canada
February 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
emilypatterson.bsky.social
Day one.
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · Jan 21
BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration to block the president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship.

An executive order does not have the power to override the Constitution.
January 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
to quote the great Nancy Pelosi, “this is not an attempt to ban TikTok, it’s an attempt to make TikTok better. Tic-tac-toe: a winner. A winner.”
January 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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edzitron.com
I'm glad they banned TikTok so I can share my data exclusively with American tech perverts
January 19, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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kimkelly.bsky.social
I am almost 37 years old, it is obscene that I have to spend this much time worrying about the computer
January 19, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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alexblechman.bsky.social
Messed up that I spent years gaining 50 million followers on TikTok and now I have no proof that account ever existed
January 19, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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aclu.org
New year, new platform, same ACLU.

We’ve got a busy year ahead of us — and we’re ready.
January 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social
I've done full headshot sessions with less usable pictures than Luigi Mangione being perp walked
December 19, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
states rights unless its parents rights unless the parents are wrong in which case its states rights unless the state is wrong in which case its federal rights unless the feds are democrats in which case its parents rights unless the parents are wrong in which case
December 4, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
only using x for my banking moving forward
November 13, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
thinking about becoming the first guy to explain alt text to newcomers
November 13, 2024 at 12:26 AM
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clofsnitville.bsky.social
Throwing trans people under the bus is really fucking ugly look no matter who you are.
November 12, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
A real one
ladygaga It's appalling to me that a post about National Women's Day by Dylan Mulvaney and me would be met with such vitriol and hatred. When I see a newspaper reporting on hatred but calling it "backlash" I feel it is important to clarify that hatred is hatred, and this kind of hatred is violence. "Backlash" would imply that people who love or respect Dylan and me didn't like something we did. This is not backlash. This is hatred. But it is not surprising given the immense work that it's obvious we still have to do as a society to make room for transgender lives to be cherished and upheld by all of us. I feel very protective in this moment, not only of Dylan, but of the trans community who continues to lead the way with their endless grace and inspiration in the face of constant degradation, intolerance, and physical, verbal, and mental violence. I certainly do not speak for this community, but I have something to say. I hope all women will come together to honor us ALL for Internatio
March 11, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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cait.bsky.social
working in an old cemetery means you see a lot of really great names. nobody names their kids "Fermentina" anymore
August 1, 2023 at 2:07 PM
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sophiefrommars.bsky.social
Did a baby write this
July 3, 2023 at 10:59 AM
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parkermolloy.com
When Twitter comes back up, it's just going to be a video of Elon Musk reaching for a ukulele.
July 1, 2023 at 4:48 PM