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Starting in January, I will be amping up activity at @beyondxandy.bsky.social, including writing articles, recording video explainers, and working on a book about how studying genetics helped me accept that I was trans
Please give it a follow to stay up to date 🏳️⚧️🧬
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It's the scientific community's duty to fight misinformation, bioessentialism, and eugenics
That's why we're launching Beyond X&Y, an educational campaign combating the rise of unscientific political propaganda used to attack trans and intersex people
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That's why we're launching Beyond X&Y, an educational campaign combating the rise of unscientific political propaganda used to attack trans and intersex people
Subscribe to our newsletter at beyondxandy.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Starting in January, I will be amping up activity at @beyondxandy.bsky.social, including writing articles, recording video explainers, and working on a book about how studying genetics helped me accept that I was trans
Please give it a follow to stay up to date 🏳️⚧️🧬
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I spoke with @sbworkersunited.org @juliesulabor.bsky.social about their ongoing strike for a first contract at Starbucks and the four long years they've been fighting
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘We’re not going anywhere’: how unionization ‘whirlwind’ set stage for historic Starbucks strike
Four years after workers at a Starbucks store in upstate New York became the first to unionize, hundreds of outlets followed – defying intense resistance from the coffee chain. What happened next?
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I spoke with @sbworkersunited.org @juliesulabor.bsky.social about their ongoing strike for a first contract at Starbucks and the four long years they've been fighting
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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BREAKING: According to a recent investigation by NYC's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, Starbucks illegally violated workers' protection laws in NYC 500,000 times since 2021. Over $35.5 million will be paid in restitution to Starbucks workers!
gothamist.com/news/starbuc...
gothamist.com/news/starbuc...
Starbucks to pay $35M to NYC workers after city alleges years of abuses
The city says about 15,000 employees will get paid $50 for each week worked over a three-year period. For some workers, that's thousands of dollars.
gothamist.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
BREAKING: According to a recent investigation by NYC's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, Starbucks illegally violated workers' protection laws in NYC 500,000 times since 2021. Over $35.5 million will be paid in restitution to Starbucks workers!
gothamist.com/news/starbuc...
gothamist.com/news/starbuc...
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The good folks at Antidote Zine have meticulously transcribed a wonderful event we did earlier this year after @akpress.org published "The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America." Featuring editor @kenyonz.bsky.social with guests Anna Elena Torres and @shaneburley.bsky.social!
Rediscovering a History of Jewish Anarchism | Antidote Zine
Handcrafted transcript, including presentation slides and images, of an information-rich March 2025 online event hosted by Firestorm Books exploring Joseph ...
antidotezine.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The good folks at Antidote Zine have meticulously transcribed a wonderful event we did earlier this year after @akpress.org published "The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America." Featuring editor @kenyonz.bsky.social with guests Anna Elena Torres and @shaneburley.bsky.social!
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this @katelynburns.com piece about the death of lia smith deserves your full attention
www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
www.teenvogue.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
this @katelynburns.com piece about the death of lia smith deserves your full attention
www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
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you ever want to just get a bunch of friends together, get a little crazy, and abolish the senate
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
you ever want to just get a bunch of friends together, get a little crazy, and abolish the senate
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We mourn and remember Sion Assidoun, a Moroccan Jewish anti-Zionist activist and co-founder of the BDS movement in Morocco.
November 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
We mourn and remember Sion Assidoun, a Moroccan Jewish anti-Zionist activist and co-founder of the BDS movement in Morocco.
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People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
July 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
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New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff 🎭
Margaret talks to Jamie Loftus about some radical hippies who built gigantic puppets and an entire culture.
@margaret.bsky.social @jamieloftus.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
Margaret talks to Jamie Loftus about some radical hippies who built gigantic puppets and an entire culture.
@margaret.bsky.social @jamieloftus.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
June 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff 🎭
Margaret talks to Jamie Loftus about some radical hippies who built gigantic puppets and an entire culture.
@margaret.bsky.social @jamieloftus.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
Margaret talks to Jamie Loftus about some radical hippies who built gigantic puppets and an entire culture.
@margaret.bsky.social @jamieloftus.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
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No, "Free Palestine," "From the River to the Sea" and "Intifada" are not antisemitic.
The Blade extensively debunked these genocidal smears in our reporting last year, when local officials and gentry deployed them to excuse open racism and Islamophobia: ashevilleblade.com?p=4994 #avlnews #avlgov
The Blade extensively debunked these genocidal smears in our reporting last year, when local officials and gentry deployed them to excuse open racism and Islamophobia: ashevilleblade.com?p=4994 #avlnews #avlgov
Hate and cowardice in city hall |
ashevilleblade.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
No, "Free Palestine," "From the River to the Sea" and "Intifada" are not antisemitic.
The Blade extensively debunked these genocidal smears in our reporting last year, when local officials and gentry deployed them to excuse open racism and Islamophobia: ashevilleblade.com?p=4994 #avlnews #avlgov
The Blade extensively debunked these genocidal smears in our reporting last year, when local officials and gentry deployed them to excuse open racism and Islamophobia: ashevilleblade.com?p=4994 #avlnews #avlgov
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A Harvard study of IDF data finds that there are 377,000 people unaccounted for in Gaza.
That estimate is six times the number of people normally cited as killed.
Genocide.
medium.com/@m4xim1l1an/...
That estimate is six times the number of people normally cited as killed.
Genocide.
medium.com/@m4xim1l1an/...
June 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
A Harvard study of IDF data finds that there are 377,000 people unaccounted for in Gaza.
That estimate is six times the number of people normally cited as killed.
Genocide.
medium.com/@m4xim1l1an/...
That estimate is six times the number of people normally cited as killed.
Genocide.
medium.com/@m4xim1l1an/...
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never kill yourself you must outlive the terrorist state of israel
June 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
never kill yourself you must outlive the terrorist state of israel
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EVERYBODY WATCH.
ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL.
Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today.
He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader.
Don’t turn away.
ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL.
Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today.
He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader.
Don’t turn away.
June 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
EVERYBODY WATCH.
ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL.
Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today.
He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader.
Don’t turn away.
ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL.
Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today.
He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader.
Don’t turn away.
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Needs more press:
-227 kids have died from influenza so far this flu season
-90% unvaccinated
-kids flu vax rates have dropped from 64% to 49% in past 5 years
Kids are dying from anti-vax nonsense and very few are reporting it.
mailchi.mp/messages/pan...
Thank you: @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social
-227 kids have died from influenza so far this flu season
-90% unvaccinated
-kids flu vax rates have dropped from 64% to 49% in past 5 years
Kids are dying from anti-vax nonsense and very few are reporting it.
mailchi.mp/messages/pan...
Thank you: @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Needs more press:
-227 kids have died from influenza so far this flu season
-90% unvaccinated
-kids flu vax rates have dropped from 64% to 49% in past 5 years
Kids are dying from anti-vax nonsense and very few are reporting it.
mailchi.mp/messages/pan...
Thank you: @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social
-227 kids have died from influenza so far this flu season
-90% unvaccinated
-kids flu vax rates have dropped from 64% to 49% in past 5 years
Kids are dying from anti-vax nonsense and very few are reporting it.
mailchi.mp/messages/pan...
Thank you: @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social
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For men awaiting execution on Texas’ death row, Dungeons & Dragons became a lifeline — an escape from extreme isolating conditions, leading to the sort of friendships solitary confinement usually prevents.
See their D&D character sheets, maps & more:
See their D&D character sheets, maps & more:
How D&D Became Therapy for Some Men on Texas’ Death Row
For men awaiting execution in Texas, illicit games of Dungeons & Dragons became a lifeline.
www.themarshallproject.org
May 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
For men awaiting execution on Texas’ death row, Dungeons & Dragons became a lifeline — an escape from extreme isolating conditions, leading to the sort of friendships solitary confinement usually prevents.
See their D&D character sheets, maps & more:
See their D&D character sheets, maps & more:
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Following rallies in Seattle & Tacoma, Windmill mushroom workers will gather in front of a Safeway in Spokane today at 3pm to continue the UFW Boycott Windmill Farms mushrooms campaign & announce the official backing of the WA Education Association (WEA). ufw.org/washington-e...
April 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Following rallies in Seattle & Tacoma, Windmill mushroom workers will gather in front of a Safeway in Spokane today at 3pm to continue the UFW Boycott Windmill Farms mushrooms campaign & announce the official backing of the WA Education Association (WEA). ufw.org/washington-e...
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One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
t.co/lg46ijHLDF
t.co/lg46ijHLDF
April 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
t.co/lg46ijHLDF
t.co/lg46ijHLDF
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Never in the history of anyone calling in sick for the next shift have I wanted them to tell me what is wrong. You could be abducted by aliens in a mothership in a distant galaxy and I don't want to hear about it. Just tell me you won't be there.
April 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Never in the history of anyone calling in sick for the next shift have I wanted them to tell me what is wrong. You could be abducted by aliens in a mothership in a distant galaxy and I don't want to hear about it. Just tell me you won't be there.
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the way i would be the smuggest little wench in the world if i got to hit send on this push alert
April 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
the way i would be the smuggest little wench in the world if i got to hit send on this push alert
The best part about renting here is our tenant union ❤️ We're gaining momentum and building strong relationships to weather any retaliation and/or negligence by Prime Wimbledon. We take care of us!
Cash-Strapped Tenants Say Landlords Flout Housing Rules at Low-Rent Apartments
Property management companies are facing scrutiny over living conditions at several affordable housing sites in Portland, as tenant groups have begun to push back. The tenants union at Wimbledon Squar...
www.portlandmercury.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The best part about renting here is our tenant union ❤️ We're gaining momentum and building strong relationships to weather any retaliation and/or negligence by Prime Wimbledon. We take care of us!
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For the first time EVER in the Las Vegas Strip’s 90-year history, every casino resort is unionized.
Congratulations to the @culinary226.bsky.social workers at Fontainebleau Las Vegas on their new contract!
Congratulations to the @culinary226.bsky.social workers at Fontainebleau Las Vegas on their new contract!
Las Vegas Strip Reaches Full Union Coverage as Fontainebleau Signs First Labor Deal
The Culinary and Bartenders Unions have reached a historic agreement with Fontainebleau, making all casino resorts on The Strip 100% unionized
963kklz.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
For the first time EVER in the Las Vegas Strip’s 90-year history, every casino resort is unionized.
Congratulations to the @culinary226.bsky.social workers at Fontainebleau Las Vegas on their new contract!
Congratulations to the @culinary226.bsky.social workers at Fontainebleau Las Vegas on their new contract!
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The band Third Eye Blind was underrated and I don’t care who I offend in saying that, whether it’s the fatcats in Washington or the bigwigs on Wall Street
March 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
The band Third Eye Blind was underrated and I don’t care who I offend in saying that, whether it’s the fatcats in Washington or the bigwigs on Wall Street