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The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
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There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man.
Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.
We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.
My latest piece.
Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.
We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.
My latest piece.
We Must Not Posthumously Sanitize Charlie Kirk's Hateful Life
Influential anti-LGBTQ+ activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday. While condemning violence is something most can get behind, sanitization of his hate has gone too far.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man.
Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.
We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.
My latest piece.
Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.
We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.
My latest piece.
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i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social
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I think the last day has show just how much damage has been done by the relentless rage machine of the modern media age. It’s been dialled up to max and there’s steam coming off it.
September 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
I think the last day has show just how much damage has been done by the relentless rage machine of the modern media age. It’s been dialled up to max and there’s steam coming off it.
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Article 8 is anti-fascist. It is not vague. It gives legal force to the deeply human instinct for private and family life. Only a fascist would want to take that away.
September 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Article 8 is anti-fascist. It is not vague. It gives legal force to the deeply human instinct for private and family life. Only a fascist would want to take that away.
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Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
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** The Official crowdfunder link for my case commenced in the European Court of Human Rights **
A legal first: trans and non-binary lawyers leading the case: Oscar Davies, Olivia Campbell-Cavendish and me as client. Trans Legal Clinic in partnership with W-Legal.
www.translegalclinic.com/mccloud
A legal first: trans and non-binary lawyers leading the case: Oscar Davies, Olivia Campbell-Cavendish and me as client. Trans Legal Clinic in partnership with W-Legal.
www.translegalclinic.com/mccloud
McCloud v UK | Trans Legal Clinic
www.translegalclinic.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
** The Official crowdfunder link for my case commenced in the European Court of Human Rights **
A legal first: trans and non-binary lawyers leading the case: Oscar Davies, Olivia Campbell-Cavendish and me as client. Trans Legal Clinic in partnership with W-Legal.
www.translegalclinic.com/mccloud
A legal first: trans and non-binary lawyers leading the case: Oscar Davies, Olivia Campbell-Cavendish and me as client. Trans Legal Clinic in partnership with W-Legal.
www.translegalclinic.com/mccloud
as someone left very confused by that debate, i was glad to read this piece
In the Nation, @runforsomething.net alum @burhanazeem.bsky.social & Zo Qadri join Anna Brawley & Tessa Mosqueda in explaining how progressive economic populism & abundance actually work in concert when put into practice. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
August 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
as someone left very confused by that debate, i was glad to read this piece
1:00 am
laying in bed
failing to make sense of politics
*how is she so pathetic*
laying in bed
failing to make sense of politics
*how is she so pathetic*
August 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
1:00 am
laying in bed
failing to make sense of politics
*how is she so pathetic*
laying in bed
failing to make sense of politics
*how is she so pathetic*
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I will live in spite of this Administration. I will live in spite of this court.
The work goes on, and I will not stop fighting for us.
The work goes on, and I will not stop fighting for us.
Nothing sums up the state of affairs for transgender Americans quite like the US Supreme Court denying trans people life-saving healthcare at the same time that the Trump administration shuts down suicide prevention programs for LGBTQ people.
These bastards want us all dead.
These bastards want us all dead.
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
June 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I will live in spite of this Administration. I will live in spite of this court.
The work goes on, and I will not stop fighting for us.
The work goes on, and I will not stop fighting for us.
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As someone who uses historical training to inject context into contemporary debates, I often have to make my point by assembling documents that are indicative but inexact as evidence of my point.
Other times I get a big freakin' nail to hit right on the head.
Trans rights are gay rights, c. 2003
Other times I get a big freakin' nail to hit right on the head.
Trans rights are gay rights, c. 2003
It reminds me so much of what the GOP did with gay marriage 20+ years ago—and how the media-consultant complex responded at the time.
May 30, 2025 at 4:32 AM
As someone who uses historical training to inject context into contemporary debates, I often have to make my point by assembling documents that are indicative but inexact as evidence of my point.
Other times I get a big freakin' nail to hit right on the head.
Trans rights are gay rights, c. 2003
Other times I get a big freakin' nail to hit right on the head.
Trans rights are gay rights, c. 2003
if anyone thought they were safe from the trump regime, just because they live in ca ...
This makes California the first blue state with a sports ban.
May 28, 2025 at 6:08 AM
if anyone thought they were safe from the trump regime, just because they live in ca ...
finished reading a book, that means i am allowed to buy 5 new ones, right?
May 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
finished reading a book, that means i am allowed to buy 5 new ones, right?
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I hope everyone knows that it's very easy for any social content platform, including Bluesky, to be a misery machine and that if you aren't intentional about it, they will absolutely decrease the positive impact you have on the world while making you less happy.
May 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I hope everyone knows that it's very easy for any social content platform, including Bluesky, to be a misery machine and that if you aren't intentional about it, they will absolutely decrease the positive impact you have on the world while making you less happy.