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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 1h

literally 😭

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Trans Journalists Association @transjournalists.org · 3h

What journalists can learn from how we covered the attack on trans rights in Trump's first 100 days.

Big takeway: based on analysis of a representative sample of articles, 70% of news stories about anti-trans executive orders didn’t quote a single trans person.

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How journalists covered Trump's first 100 days

Trans perspectives were rarely present in articles about the consequences federal actions would have on their lives, according to an analysis conducted by Berkeley Media Studies Group in partnership w...

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 3h

bruv, he shouldn't be making the list at all 😭

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Kaine: "We should not be allowing the president to create a secret enemies list and make the unilateral decision about whether to kill people without sharing that information at least with the Armed Service and Intel committees. So this is very troubling."

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No Mods, No Masters @julieofthespirits.bsky.social · 4h

yeah it was really this wasn't it

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 3h

😂😂😂 exactly.

"does music make you cool? or pomade, a mustache & being a ~gentleman~?" 💀💀💀

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 4h

student says: "genocide bad! free palestine!"
right says: "they're a terrorist! they are advocating for death."

right says: "those deserve gas chambers!!"
right also says: "they're just kidding! they don't mean it!!"

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 4h

the most reaching, compassionate part of me sees a clear link between shame & "doubling down," between the right's ability to shepherd in even the most awful people & the escalation of this stuff. but. y'know.

people are responsible for their horrible choices & views! so it's still bad.

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 4h

i'm not just being mean when i call them uncool. it's worth noting that part of being uncool is about not being adaptable, not "getting" the joke, not moving on, taking things too far & making it weird / awkward / truly offensive / sincerely racist / dangerous / vile. 😵‍💫

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 4h

that offensive irony x core social goop (seen, for example, in "cards against humanity") went super out of hand when co-opted by a bunch of mean, horny, misogynistic, territorial nerds.

the same things happened with early memes, like pepe.

.... and now we have the modern alt-reich.

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 4h

it always felt to me like the original 4chan v tumblr wars were, in essence :: uncool people just jumping onto irony x core & cooler people who realized irony x core had gone too far.

instead of the uncool people reflecting & course correcting to do better, they doubled down and became ✨ worse ✨

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 4h

you can't understand the young racist republicans without understanding the early hipster irony x core era, where people thought it was ~cool~ to be as offensive as possible.

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 8h

I'm going to try to write the newsletter this week on my deep sense of commentary fatigue. A little ironic I suppose, but I feel we're spending too much effort trying to interpret and explain our time to one another and not enough effort accepting it and meeting the moment on it's own terms.

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 5h

i wld gladly pay in if it meant things like.... healthcare for all, childcare for all, reliable public education & higher ed, WIC & SNAP weren't defunded, roads were actually good.... but what the *fuck* am i getting out of this?

the knowledge my $$ is used to terrorize my neighbors? aw, hell no.

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 5h

my job made me salary this week (i have been a freelancer for years) & damn i did not realize that approximately 40% of my earnings went to funding, uh, police, ICE, trump's stupid plane & virtually no social services at all 🤮

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 17h

graffiti today.

graffiti saying "beware of controlled opposition" shot through a chain link fence

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 20h

nearly every single thing the united states accuses others of doing... it does.

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 20h

the united states government is actually five atrocities in a trench coat, repeating "brutality for me, not for thee."

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 20h

the deepest irony here is that the U.S. government offered bounties for killing indigenous people beginning in the 1600s at least through the civil war.

and... bounty hunting for alleged criminals was declared legitimate through a supreme court ruling (Taylor v. Taintor) in 1872.

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 21h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22h

The State of Illinois is documenting the criminal misconduct of Trump secret police agents in order to bring charges against those who engaged in acts ranging from assault to reckless endangerment and negligent operation of motor vehicles in the near future, Newsweek reveals.

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 22h

Free speech is when you are punished for criticizing the President’s favorite podcaster.

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 22h

The Donald Trump administration has revoked the visas of citizens from Argentina, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, and Paraguay for comments about Charlie Kirk.

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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 1d

“Instead of stalking our ex-boyfriends online, we started a newspaper.”

Founded in 1966, during the Vietnam War, the original 'Rag' emerged out of a sense that free speech was under fire. It's back again. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ut-underground-newspaper-the-rag-revived/

These UT Students Are Fed Up With Social Media. So They Revived a Newspaper From the Sixties.

“Instead of stalking our ex-boyfriends online, we started a newspaper.”

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 1d

i know the terrorgram cults are targeting the young ones these days, and things like cyberbullying / harassment has become so immersive, as technology has scaled.

but damn — all this is to say, i agree. so many generations of girls have been failed 💔

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