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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 9h

"The group has represented clients in the United States who are opposed to abortion, gay and transgender rights and contraception coverage in health care."

Every anti-abortion group is also anti-trans. Period. Support their latter work and you support their former. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 44m

It's tucked into this Atlantic article about Searchlight, but I actually want to read more about how the contrarian debate seems to be driven largely by one donor advisor and/or his billionaire clients.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 48m

Do the NYT next

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 17h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1h

It's especially rich for Clarence Thomas to suggest that the Constitution requires public schools to obtain parental consent before acknowledging trans students' identity.

Such a right would be rooted in substantive due process—a concept Thomas dismissed as completely illegitimate in Dobbs.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1h

Alito, joined by Thomas and Gorsuch, suggest that public schools violate the Constitution when they help a student transition (by acknowledging them as trans) without their parents' knowledge or consent.

Would force schools to out trans kids to their parents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
JONATHAN LEE, ET AL. v. POUDRE
SCHOOL DISTRICT R–1
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED
STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT
No. 25–89. Decided October 14, 2025
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
Statement of JUSTICE ALITO, with whom JUSTICE
THOMAS and JUSTICE GORSUCH join, respecting the denial
of certiorari.
I concur in the denial of certiorari because petitioners do
not challenge the ground for the ruling below. But I remain
concerned that some federal courts are “tempt[ed]” to avoid
confronting a “particularly contentious constitutional questio[n]”: whether a school district violates parents’ fundamental rights “when, without parental knowledge or consent, it encourages a student to transition to a new gender
or assists in that process.” Parents Protecting Our Children, UA v. Eau Claire Area School Dist., 604 U. S. ___,
___–___ (2024) (ALITO, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari) (slip op., at 1–2) (citing Troxel v. Granville, 530 U. S.
57, 70 (2000) (plurality opinion)). Petitioners tell us that
nearly 6,000 public schools have policies—as respondent allegedly does—that purposefully interfere with parents’ access to critical information about their children’s genderidentity choices and school personnel’s involvement in and
influence on those choices. Pet. for Cert. 24. The troubling—and tragic—allegations in this case underscore the
“great and growing national importance” of the question
that these parent petitioners present. Parents Protecting
Our Children, 604 U. S., at ___ (slip op., at 1).

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3h

This from the great @sulliview.bsky.social on the media's anemic (or non-) coverage of the massive No Kings movement is such a great point

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 3h

I don't care if nobody even shares this or clicks through, it's the best thing I've ever done with my website, period.

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 3h

We did it, folks! We ran a Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day Art Contest: And here are the results.

(I'll thread some of our favorite entries, but to know who won the grand prize and the two jewelry prizes from @nora.zone you're gonna have to click through.)

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Trans News Site Remembers Charlie Kirk With a Vengeance — Assigned

Our community remembers Charlie Kirk as the vicious, hateful, divisive, violence monger he was.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 5h

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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Lisa Severn @lisasevern.uk · 4h

"Trans rights are human rights" was never just a chant

metro.co.uk/2025/10/14/t...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15h

Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth.

I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.

Alt text:
Statement from Fenway Health explaining that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, they can no longer provide medical gender-affirming care such as hormones and puberty blockers to patients under 19, but all other services for patients of all ages will continue unchanged.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 4h

Yes. We know. That's the point of what's happened over the last decade and you helped us get here.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4h

Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says

European Council commissioner voices concerns following April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman Transgender people risk being excluded from many public spaces as a result of the recent UK supreme court judgment and must be protected from discrimination, a human rights expert has said. Michael O’Flaherty, the European Council commissioner for human rights, said he had concerns about the climate for transgender people in the UK following April’s supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 15h

Rest in Power Miss Major. We all owe you so much. Thank you for everything.

Trans leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy dies

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13.

www.ebar.com

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 15h

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 16h

Please share this as widely as possible. ICE kidnapped a 7th grader in Everett, Massachusetts and sent him to Virginia. Help bring him home now!

Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 16h

here is the family's gofundme: www.gofundme.com/f/mim-ajuda-...

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Pumpkinloaf @toneloaf.bsky.social · 22h

The Federal government has attacked Chicago but Chicagoans are doing a great job documenting what is happening. However, I do not feel that there is a solid timeline of key events forming, and so I put one together

Here is a 🧵with details on each, including sourcing and videos. AMA

A timeline I have put together to document key monents in the attack on Chicago:

6/16/2025 : Limited but heavily militarized and anonymized ICE activity
9/19/2025 : Broadview Escalation: 9/22/2025: Broadview: More chemical irritant use:
9/23/2025: Silverio Villegas González Murdered
9/26/2025: Broadview Scrum 1: Vehicular Violence and indiscriminate chemical irritants
9/30/2025: South Shore Raid
10/3/2025: Logan Square Tear Gassed
10/3/2025: Broadview Scrum 2: ISP+ crowd control; Deliberate attack on protesters by ICE while filming for content, Dan Bovino
10/3/2025: Arrested Alderman
10/4/2025: Brighton Park Stand Off
10/10/2025: WGN Producer Aggressively Arrested under suspicious reasons, no charge
10/12/2025: Albany Park Standoff

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20h

When Mike Johnson or another national leader repeatedly claims they haven’t seen relevant things in the news, an appropriate reporter reaction would be “Holy cow, how do you not know?!? How can you do your job without knowing what’s happening? What are you doing to fix your ‘not knowing’ problem?”

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21h

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18h

If you live in Everett, Mass. and have any information about the 13-year-old boy abducted by ICE, please message me on Signal at marisakabas.04

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 19h

If ur a trans person who dares to speak against attacks on your rights and ur safety, the nyt automatically labels you an “activist.”

It’s a Jim Crow tactic, unsurprisingly coming from a fast-degrading institution that’s descended so low that it laundered slavery just last week

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 1d

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 22h

NEW — The House and Senate passed a resolution marking Oct. 14 as a “National Day of Remembrance” for Charlie Kirk.

A coalition of Chicago churches and community leaders instead will spend Oct. 14 honoring George Floyd and others whose lives are at risk of erasure.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/char...

Charlie Kirk gets a ‘Day of Remembrance;’ Chicago organizers will spend it remembering the forgotten • The TRiiBE

A coalition of Chicago churches and community leaders will spend Oct. 14 honoring George Floyd, Wadee Alfayoumi, and others.

thetriibe.com

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 20h

Huge changes to Medicaid mean huge changes to underlying architecture used to ADMINISTER Medicaid, and the for-profit corps that profiteer off their work on this just got put on blast. Remember what happened when unemployment systems got overloaded during the pandemic? This, again.

Senators Press Deloitte, Other Contractors on Errors in Medicaid Eligibility Systems - KFF Health News

As contractors position themselves to cash in on a gush of new business managing Medicaid work requirements, a cadre of senators has launched an inquiry into the companies paid billions to build eligi...

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 20h

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22h

1. As some Democrats have run from transgender rights, Zohran Mamdani is showing what so many others have lacked: courage to lead with his values over pandering to focus groups.

The ad is one of the best things I've seen from a politician on transgender people.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

As Some Dems Run From Trans People, Zohran Mamdani's Latest Ad Shows Real Support

The 2 minute ad features Sylvia Rivera's story, Mamdani's commitment to transgender people, and even music from the legendary late trans artist SOPHIE.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 1d

made a drs appointment for gender confirming care can i get a T in the chat

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 20h

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h

Turns out most people don't really like being invaded

lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 1d

soooo my Chicagoans, has anyone else's neighborhood facebook group gone from desperately apolitical (regarding federal politics) to at least 40% about ICE/DHS activity and organizing against it? like it's hard to overstate this shift

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