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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈
@mychelvandover.bsky.social
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Queer, sex favorable greysexual, transfeminine non-binary, grey biromantic, biaesthetic person. Pronouns are she/they. Host of the Queer PoliFaith and Queerly Popular podcasts.
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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 57m
Fencer Becomes First Trans Athlete to Sue USOPC For Capitulation To The Seditious Traitor’s Sports Ban

“The tournament organizers were [aware] that implementing the transgender policy may violate state law where an event is taking place.”

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Fencer Becomes First Trans Athlete to Sue USOPC For Capitulation To Trump’s Sports Ban
“The tournament organizers were [aware] that implementing the transgender policy may violate state law where an event is taking place.”
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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 4h
The Seditious Traitor's Dangerous 'Antifa' Strategy

What's really behind the seditious traitor's move to declare antifa a 'terrorist organization'

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Donald Trump's Dangerous 'Antifa' Strategy
What's really behind Trump's move to declare antifa a 'terrorist organization'
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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 6h
Indicting Political Enemies

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Indicting Political Enemies
I started writing my book, Giving Up Is Unforgivable, around the time of Donald Trump’s second inauguration.
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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 6h
The Resistance Finds Its Footing

Five reasons to smile and cheer in these difficult and troubling times

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The Resistance Finds Its Footing
Five reasons to smile and cheer in these difficult and troubling times
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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 6h
Stabbing the Image: Hegel, Lacan, and the Virtue of Fidelity

A Short Essay

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Stabbing the Image: Hegel, Lacan, and the Virtue of Fidelity
A Short Essay
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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 8h
Did You Know Newborn Screening Lost Its Federal Oversight?

The small test that’s saved thousands of newborn lives faces an uncertain future

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Did You Know Newborn Screening Lost Its Federal Oversight?
The small test that’s saved thousands of newborn lives faces an uncertain future
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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 8h
Morning Digest: Centrist congressman [a transphobe! -MV] launches primary challenge against prominent liberal senator

Seth Moulton says Ed Markey is "too old" to run again, but will primary voters prioritize generational change over ideology?

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Morning Digest: Centrist congressman launches primary challenge against prominent liberal senator
Seth Moulton says Ed Markey is "too old" to run again, but will primary voters prioritize generational change over ideology?
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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 9h
Bonus 183: Martin v. Mott

The seditious traitor and his lackeys claim Justice Story's 1827 ruling establishes the President's unreviewable power to decide when domestic use of the military is needed. It doesn't come close to saying that.

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Bonus 183: Martin v. Mott
The Trump administration claims Justice Story's 1827 ruling establishes the President's unreviewable power to decide when domestic use of the military is needed. It doesn't come close to saying that.
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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 9h
The unhinged attacks on No Kings

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The unhinged attacks on No Kings
The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” On Sunday, October 18, millions of Ameri...
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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 9h
Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection

"It would be funny if it wasn’t so f**king serious," Tim Dickinson says.

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Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection
"It would be funny if it wasn’t so f**king serious," Tim Dickinson says.
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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 9h
The Spiritual Crisis of a Shutdown

A Meditation by Rev. Cameron Trimble

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The Spiritual Crisis of a Shutdown
A Meditation by Rev. Cameron Trimble
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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 9h
A Court Tells The Seditious Traitor No (Again), While SecDef Clamps Down on the First Amendment

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A Court Tells Trump No (Again), While SecDef Clamps Down on the First Amendment
Today, a federal judge granted a motion for a temporary restraining order, enjoining the government from firing employees during the shutdown.
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Queerly Popular Podcast @queerlypopular.bsky.social · 10h
#BeautifulThing.

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Queerly Popular: Paris Daillencourt Is About To Crumble
Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, we are talking about the book Paris Daillencourt Is About To Crumble, which is a book about a man (Paris) with generalized anxiety disorder (diagn...
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Queerly Popular Podcast @queerlypopular.bsky.social · 10h
Tariq did (and did not) handle Paris' anxiety well over the course of the book. This book is part of a series, but each book seems to be a standalone book and I haven't read any others, so I can't tell you anything about them.

We will be back on October 30th when we will talk about the movie
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Queerly Popular Podcast @queerlypopular.bsky.social · 10h
Tariq Hassan. It's a fun book, but not one of my favorites. I enjoy the characters and definitely feel for Paris, but it's not a book I'm returning to over and over again.

We start by talking about the structure of the book before getting into the story. I also spend some time talking about how
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Queerly Popular Podcast @queerlypopular.bsky.social · 10h
Welcome to today's episode of @queerlypopular.bsky.social! Today, we are talking about the book #ParisDaillencourtIsAboutToCrumble by Alexis Hall, which is a book about a man (Paris with generalized anxiety disorder (diagnosed late in the book) who is taking part in a baking competition and meets
A sea green square with a layered cake with the layers in the colors of the rainbow with the words "Paris Daillencourt Is About To Crumble" (one per layer) with a man standing each side
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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 10h
GOP Bill Would End ACA Abortion Coverage—Even in Pro-Choice States

10.15.25

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GOP Bill Would End ACA Abortion Coverage—Even in Pro-Choice States
10.15.25
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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 10h
Supreme Court likely to further diminish — but not end — Voting Rights Act cases

A majority of the justices didn't appear willing to hold that all "race-based redistricting" is unconstitutional, as Louisiana wanted. But how they'll get there was unclear.

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Supreme Court likely to further diminish — but not end — Voting Rights Act cases
A majority of the justices didn't appear willing to hold that all "race-based redistricting" is unconstitutional, as Louisiana wanted. But how they'll get there was unclear.
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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 1d
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Podcast #184 - All You Fascists Bound to Lose - No Nobel Peace Prize for You!
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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 1d
All You Fascists Bound to Lose - No Nobel Peace Prize for You!

A condensed overview of 20 hours of Fox News for the week ending 10/12/25

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All You Fascists Bound to Lose - No Nobel Peace Prize for You!
A condensed overview of 20 hours of Fox News for the week ending 10/12/25
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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 1d
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.

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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.
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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 1d
Keystone Klansmen

Another day, another bombshell of a leaked private GOP group chat

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Keystone Klansmen
Another day, another bombshell of a leaked private GOP group chat
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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 1d
The US Virgin Islands Finally Legalises Gender Marker Changes After Decades

Even as red states become more restrictive, the US Virgin Islands shows us progress remains possible.

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The US Virgin Islands Finally Legalises Gender Marker Changes After Decades
Even as red states become more restrictive, the US Virgin Islands shows us progress remains possible.
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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 1d
Morning Digest: Arizona threatens to sue after House GOP refuses to seat Democrat

Adelita Grijalva won a special election weeks ago but still hasn't been sworn in

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Morning Digest: Arizona threatens to sue after House GOP refuses to seat Democrat
Adelita Grijalva won a special election weeks ago but still hasn't been sworn in
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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 1d
The Shutdown Shitshow

As the seditious traitor uses the shutdown to settle scores, the public bears the cost

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The Shutdown Shitshow
As Trump uses the shutdown to settle scores, the public bears the cost
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