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Android app dev, gamer, dad My bluesky bsky migration notes: https://bsky.app/profile/mathiastck.bsky.social/post/3kjcgjs6ykj2o https://mastodon.social/@mathiastck

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MathiasTCK.bsky.social @mathiastck.bsky.social · Jan 19

This is my pinned Tweet:

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It long documented Twitter migration notes. I'm gonna try to scrape my socials now in a similar fashion for bsky folks to follow.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

BERNIE: “I worry we are increasingly becoming an oligarchic form of society, where a very small # of people control our economy + have huge influence over both political parties. if there was ever a time to stand up for working families and prevent authoritarianism, this is it.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

🔥 @aoc.bsky.social says Republicans have been successful with a clear message of division, which helps Trump, Musk and the Billionaires keep us divided as they “get away with highway robbery” — and to counter that Dems need to be equally clear in their message of solidarity.

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MathiasTCK.bsky.social @mathiastck.bsky.social · 9h

I want the web tools to be better for appointment management, and more interoperable. I like having a working "message your doctor" button, and it is quite irksome when it doesn't work or non existent.

MathiasTCK.bsky.social @mathiastck.bsky.social · 9h

Some tools automatically add alt text. But manually uploaded photos need the user to set an alt text description. They are meant to help visually impaired people follow the conversation.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14h

5. The error didn’t stop there. Researchers quickly discovered that Kaufmann’s graph—based on data from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a right-leaning organization that studies campus speech—contained a fundamental methodological mistake.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14h

4. On Tuesday, Kaufmann posted a Twitter thread declaring that “trans identification is in free fall among the young.” The graph he used to prove it, however, was fundamentally flawed—it showed students who identified as “neither male nor female,” a category that excludes most trans men and women.

Eric Kaufmann
@epkaufm
1/ NEW: trans identification is in free fall among the young

(h/t
@FIRE
data in particular)

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14h

3. It turns out Kaufmann’s conclusion is based on a massive statistical error. When corrected, the numbers show the opposite of what he claimed: transgender and nonbinary identification in America has risen over the last two years as more people come out than ever before.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14h

2. On Tuesday, far-right academic Eric Kaufmann published a new “analysis” through his so-called Centre for Heterodox Social Science and UnHerd, claiming that transidentification in America is dramatically declining—a finding tailor-made for those who insist that being trans is a passing “fad.

Why are fewer young people identifying as trans?

A surprising shift is taking place in the gender and sexual identities of young Americans. Data from my new Centre for Heterodox Social Science report, “The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Y...

unherd.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14h

1. Many of you have seen a graph purporting to show trans identification has decreased in recent years.

Matt Walsh and Elon Musk celebrated it as a victory over "transgenderism."

Turns out, the entire graph is based on an egregious math and statistics error.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Fact Check: No, There Is Not A New Survey Showing Trans Identity Is Decreasing

The claim, which originates from far-right professor Eric Kaufmann, appears to have made a glaring error: the survey actually shows more people have come out, not fewer.

www.erininthemorning.com

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thestinkfoot.bsky.social @thestinkfoot.bsky.social · 17h

What Vought is doing is against the law and against the Constitution. Small potatoes next to sending the army into cities and brown people to gulags, maybe, but this administration is lawless from top to bottom.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 17h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

reut.rs

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MathiasTCK.bsky.social @mathiastck.bsky.social · 13h

Sounds doable. Have to win elections, then #ExpandTheCourt to #UnpackTheCourt. It could take awhile.

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Slippy The Toad @slippytoad14.bsky.social · 19h

Reconfigure the Court so that there is a huge pool of justices that are routinely rotated out and chosen at random for any given case. Make this kind of judge-shopping impossible.

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MathiasTCK.bsky.social @mathiastck.bsky.social · 13h

And he's not out of either

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Peace, Truth, Science @mrchompchomp.bsky.social · 19h

There are seven people I know for certain believe racism ended when Obama got elected. One is my racist uncle. The other six on are on the Supreme Court.

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Melly Cumberbatch 🫘 @mellycumberbatch.bsky.social · 20h

How about using the time limit”when people stop being bigots”?

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 17h

"Living document for me, textualism for thee"

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Mari🐝🪷♎💛💙 @mt1072.bsky.social · 20h

It's like he forgot that slavery existed.

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jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 20h

The entire 13th amendment constitutional doctrine of "badges of slavery" uses race. So Kavanaugh is now arguing the 13th amendment is unconstitutional. Also the Civil Rights Act of 1866 expressly uses race when it says "full and equal benefit of all laws ... as is enjoyed by white citizens".

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 20h

Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

this ballroom is the best evidence that trump doesn’t intend to leave

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 14h

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

on.wsj.com

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 17h

Everything they believe is, at its core, just tied to some grievance

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Indra's Net @netofindra.bsky.social · 13h

He's already trying to pin this on a staffer (oh, yeah, then vandalism): www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Republican congressman calls flag with swastika displayed in his office 'vile' and says it's under investigation

Rep. Dave Taylor, R-Ohio, said in a statement that upon " learning of this matter, I immediately directed a thorough investigation alongside Capitol Police, which remains ongoing."

www.nbcnews.com

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 14h

Suspect Guilty GIF

ALT: Suspect Guilty GIF

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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 15h

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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