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Josh L they/them @ledwell.bsky.social · 17h

Yes, I thought it started confusingly and got more compelling. Overall I found the season darker, fatalistic, mirroring the struggles of its characters confronting or participating in fascism.

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Josh L they/them @ledwell.bsky.social · 1d

I promote Indigenous contemporary musicians through my online radio show, Decolonize Your Playlist. I'm streaming at a special time tonight for US Indigenous People's Day, 8pm ET / 5pm PT, at uncertain.fm.

UncertainFM

uncertain.fm

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Josh L they/them @ledwell.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much!

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grahams' completely normal radio programme @programme.bsky.social · 2d

In place of the COMPLETELY NORMAL RADIO PROGRAMME on Monday, I've lent my time slot to @ledwell.bsky.social who will bring their special Indigenous People's Day episode of DECOLONIZE YOUR PLAYLIST to your ears at 8pm over at @uncertain.fm

An ad for the radio show mentioned in the main post, featuring two photos of indigenous groups performing live.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Josh L they/them @ledwell.bsky.social · 5d

Yah dood, I used the electric heatah.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 5d

Actually being broadcast. First the Chicago cyclist and now the Portland inflatables. Who knew "Yakety Sax" would become our freedom anthem

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 6d

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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Josh L they/them @ledwell.bsky.social · 5d

Good news is hard to come by for trans folks these days, so I’m sharing this in case you missed it. www.erininthemorning.com/p/netflix-st...

Netflix Stock Up As Elon Musk's Anti-Trans Boycott Fails To Materialize

Last week, conservatives tried to cancel Netflix to force the carrier to remove transgender characters.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 7d

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Josh L they/them @ledwell.bsky.social · 7d

Streaming now for the next 2 hours at uncertain.fm

Josh L they/them @ledwell.bsky.social · 7d

Stream Indigenous contemporary music today 2pm ET / 11am PT on uncertain.fm! New folk, hiphop, and rock from Amanda Rheaume, Elisapie, Diyet, Figgy Baby, Baker Boy, Sara Curruchich, William Prince, Francis Baptiste, Kee'ahn, Ali Fontaine, Khu.éex', Mato Wayuhi, TwoLips, Silla, and much more.

Block print wall art of cassette tapes, promoting the Decolonize Your Playlist streaming radio show of Indigenous contemporary music.

Josh L they/them @ledwell.bsky.social · 7d

Stream Indigenous contemporary music today 2pm ET / 11am PT on uncertain.fm! New folk, hiphop, and rock from Amanda Rheaume, Elisapie, Diyet, Figgy Baby, Baker Boy, Sara Curruchich, William Prince, Francis Baptiste, Kee'ahn, Ali Fontaine, Khu.éex', Mato Wayuhi, TwoLips, Silla, and much more.

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Josh L they/them @ledwell.bsky.social · 14d

Read this thread to understand the stakes for trans Americans in the current budget showdown.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 15d

1. There's a lot of confusion about this out there. Let me make it easier:

There are two ways to keep the government open: The full FY26 appropriations bill for the entire year, and a continuing resolution to keep it open for a few months at current levels.

Both are part of negotiations right now.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15d

Good night everyone. May tomorrow bring us more justice and some peace.

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Josh L they/them @ledwell.bsky.social · 21d

Live now for the next two hours on uncertain.fm !

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Josh L they/them @ledwell.bsky.social · 21d

TODAY 2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific, folk, hip-hop, and rock contemporary Indigenous music for awareness and remembrance of Indigenous children forced into residential schools in Canada and the US. Decolonize Your Playlist on uncertain.fm

Indigenous man in regalia holding up an orange shirt that says Every Child Matters.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 23d

many things feel incredibly ridiculous right now but sometimes I have to remind myself that staying up late doomscrolling or playing video games will make everything harder tomorrow than it already is

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 27d

What are the best books/essays you’ve read about the nature of power? The wielding of it, the pull of it, the abdication of it in the hopes of retaining it in the future—I need to understand better than I do right now.

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Josh L they/them @ledwell.bsky.social · 27d

@katz.theracket.news on CK:

“This, again, is the point of the secular martyrization of Charlie Kirk — to convince a large enough proportion of Americans that their lives and culture are under threat that they have no choice but to hand over the last of our rights.”

theracket.news/p/has-trump-...

Has Trump found his Reichstag fire?

Trump is trying to exploit Charlie Kirk's assassination to crack down on civil liberties and consolidate power. But history shows authoritarians can be stopped if we act now.

theracket.news

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 29d

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

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Josh L they/them @ledwell.bsky.social · Sep 12

Disgusting, unsigned editorial CK hagiography in the @bostonglobe.com today. Hate speech inciting violence is not a brave principled exercise of the first amendment. Platforming Nazis is the source of political division, not its cure. What a crazy pill moment this is.

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Josh L they/them @ledwell.bsky.social · Sep 12

You had me at “honorable twink”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is class solidarity.

In case you’re at all confused.

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Josh L they/them @ledwell.bsky.social · Sep 9

Streaming for the next 09 minutes on uncertain.fm

Josh L they/them @ledwell.bsky.social · Sep 9

New Decolonize Your Playlist radio streaming today 2pm ET / 11am PT! Listen for contemporary Indigenous folk, hiphop, and rock music, including 20+ new drops. So much new music 🔥! Plus, tributes to Indigenous actor Graham Greene. Stream at uncertain.fm #indigisky

Promotional graphic for my radio show, Decolonize Your Playlist, on a 1960's style messy color block background.

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Josh L they/them @ledwell.bsky.social · Sep 9

New Decolonize Your Playlist radio streaming today 2pm ET / 11am PT! Listen for contemporary Indigenous folk, hiphop, and rock music, including 20+ new drops. So much new music 🔥! Plus, tributes to Indigenous actor Graham Greene. Stream at uncertain.fm #indigisky

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · Sep 4

Texas is the biggest state in the country to have a bathroom ban on the books, and aside from local news and a few national nonprofits, the coverage of it is pretty small. There are over 160,000 trans adults in the state of Texas

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · Sep 4

Actually wild that the Texas legislature banned trans people from bathrooms in government buildings yesterday and it hasn’t gotten a whiff of news coverage in the Associated Press, NYT, WaPo, etc

I guess the national news biz is just shrugging at this stuff now?

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