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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 14h

Pathetic

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 18h

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union said

Eurovision organisers push back Israel decision

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union sa...

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Israel has banned Palestinians from celebrating the release of Palestinian prisoners [hostages] & banned their families from giving interviews

Contrast that with the celebrations around the release of Israeli hostages & the many interviews being broadcast around the world.

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 1d

She can't even begin to fake interest in Palestinians.

Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 1d

The return of the Israeli hostages is a moment of pure joy for those families.

And a moment of relief for the entire world.

It means that a page can be turned. A new chapter can begin.

Europe fully supports the peace plan brokered by the United States, Qatar, Egypt, and Türkiye.

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 20h

My goal in life is to be this sweet

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spooky dio @satyronmars.bsky.social · 23h

good morning

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a politician even attempt to know this much about my people’s history or art or culture or struggle, and I’ve certainly never seen someone advocate for protecting us so fiercely at this level, ever. God I truly hope he wins.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 2d

White House cabinet meeting

A group of drag queens pose for the camera

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 2d

She’s exactly like you want her to be!

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like even the MAGA men do it a bit too (definitely a lot of Botox and makeup) but much less extreme and there’s not such an identifiable “look”

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 2d

I know it’s been written about already, but I feel there’s much more to be written about the dramatic interventions MAGA women like Kirsti Noem make (feel they have to make?) to their appearance to fit a certain mould

Feathered Stone @stonefeathers.bsky.social · 3d

Then somebody needs to break in and put a montage of her evolution

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 2d

This is… dystopian!

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 2d

Unsolicited dik-dik pic

A cute dik-dik stands on its spindly legs on green grass. The dik-dik is a type of small antelope found in Southern Africa. It looks like a baby antelope even when fully grown. It is fawn coloured with huge black eyes and little horns.

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 2d

And she’s been speaking up loudly for many years - long before many others had the courage

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 2d

I had the real pleasure of having lunch with Miriam Margolyes today, and as we left the restaurant, an old man started playing Hava Nagila loudly on his phone and calling Miriam a “self hating Jew!” - presumably for her stance on Palestine. It was upsetting but she brushed it off, undeterred

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 4d

Lol US vs UK libel law.

Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 4d

Judge Jeannette Vargas said the lyrics in Lamar’s Not Like Us, which refers to Drake as a “certified paedophile”, were a matter of opinion, which could not be “actionable defamation”.

on.ft.com/4ojA6pH Judge throws out rapper Drake’s lawsuit against Kendrick Lamar ‘diss’ track

Judge throws out rapper Drake’s lawsuit against Kendrick Lamar ‘diss’ track

[FREE TO READ] Jeannette Vargas’s judgment says ‘Not Like Us’, which calls the Canadian singer a paedophile, was a statement of opinion

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 3d

The subtitles mangle his accent, but this guy from Belfast talking about seeing someone die in front of him in ICE custody is chilling.

Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 4d

Donald Trump’s America - one horror story after another. 🤬💔

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 4d

Naoise's brother is asking Irish people to please contact the government #Speirgorm

My sister @NaoiseDolan, alongside other members of the Thousand Madleens flotilla, has been abducted by Israeli forces while on a humanitarian mission to break the illegal siege and deliver aid to Gaza.
Please join me in urging the Irish government to demand their safe return.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 4d

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.
lithub.com/irish-noveli...

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, was earlier today abducted and detained by Israeli forces after the aid flotilla on which she was traveling to Gaza was intercep…

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 4d

Jaysis 🙄🤪

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4d

Justice Department lawyers reposted President Trump’s statements and may have inadvertently endangered their prosecution of Luigi Mangione, violating the judge’s explicit orders that DOJ employees refrain from public comment about the case. trib.al/b9U7CY1

DOJ in Trouble After Lawyers Reposted Trump Rants on Luigi Mangione

The Justice Department’s case against Luigi Mangione just hit a major obstacle.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 4d

Spare me Trump being celebrated as a peacemaker. The war on Gaza could have been ended at any time in the last two years with a US president telling Netanyahu to "stop the holocaust," as Reagan ordered Begin in 1982.

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 4d

The group is Genspect, the designated hate group co-founded by Irish media fave Stella O’Malley

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 4d

A fringe group wants the field of psychiatry to regress back to the days when stereotypes and prejudices resulted in mental illness diagnoses for marginalized populations.

In a new reported piece, @evanurquhart.bsky.social examines Genspect's call for the re-psychopathologization of trans identity.

Hate Group Calls for Re-Labeling Transness as Mental Illness — Assigned

A fringe group with no expertise pushes the field of psychiatry to regress to a pre-scientific, prejudice-soaked view of trans people. It coincides with the far-right political agenda.

www.assignedmedia.org

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