Sharkhand
@sharkhand.bsky.social
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cynical & political elasmobranch; lawyer; weird left low war den mother; with all its sham, drudgery & broken dreams it’s still a beautiful world
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esqueer.net
Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth.

I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.
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Statement from Fenway Health explaining that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, they can no longer provide medical gender-affirming care such as hormones and puberty blockers to patients under 19, but all other services for patients of all ages will continue unchanged.
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mommunism.bsky.social
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ruba. Ruba is 23 and has been studying to be a pharmacist. She has been living in tents with her family since this all began and her home was destroyed, this includes her niece Tulin, 8 her nephew, Mohammed, 4 and her father who is ill.
sharkhand.bsky.social
People live in Corpus too.

Say it back so we know you understand people are more important than companies.
sharkhand.bsky.social
Sorry you had to deal with that on your own. Hope you’re in a better place now.
sharkhand.bsky.social
There needs to be a new, pithy & updated term for the sorts of soft-bellied quisling traitors like bari weis & her ilk throwing in with fascists.

Collaborators doesn’t capture the totality of their indiscretions.

Anti-anti-racists & anti-anti-fascists are too much of a mouthful.
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.
royalpratt.bsky.social
NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.
www.chicagotribune.com
sharkhand.bsky.social
by goh there are levels to this
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newseye.bsky.social
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
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diplomatofnight.com
Some express skepticism that this is the case but here is former Democratic Congressman Ted Deutch saying this more or less, that Israel will be able to regain its image and that the Democratic Party can maintain its stalwart pro-Israel stance so long as the GCC bails Israel out.
Eventually, an end to the war should mean an end to the worldwide focus on Israel’s conduct of it, said Ted Deutch, president of the American Jewish Committee. He said he eagerly awaited a point at which “the humanitarian situation gets better and the hostages are released, and Arab countries are investing in the future of Gaza.” Then, he said, “the conversation can be about what’s next, about what the region can look like, what Gaza can look like.”
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jackmirkinson.bsky.social
Wrote about the temptation to put Gaza on the back burner now that the ceasefire is solidifying—and why we can't let that happen. Gaza still needs you, and me, and everyone to fight until real Palestinian liberation is won. www.discourseblog.com/p/gaza-still...
Gaza Still Needs You
This fight is not over.
www.discourseblog.com
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walterolson.bsky.social
Critics including Elon Musk have assailed my @cato.org colleague Alex Nowrasteh's study finding that most politically motivated terrorist killings in the U.S. since 1975 have been done by persons on the right. Alex responds to the critics here and explains his methods and classifications.
Alex Responds to the Critics: Politically Motivated Terrorist Killings in the United States
The critics are mistaken
www.alexnowrasteh.com
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Congress could, at any time, stop this shitshow by telling Vought to end the RIFs and impoundments. It has very clear institutional reasons to do so. But obeying to Trump rules all, and instead the Speaker of the House will pretend he does not know what is happening while opining on Bad Bunny.
atrupar.com
REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know
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jessefelder.bsky.social
From Tricolor to Saks, Bonds Are Now Crashing at Breakneck Speed www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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stellagarp.bsky.social
Mine is more of a comment than a question—
Far Side cartoon. Three adult learners sit in a classroom. The front wall is dominated by an illustration of a cow, helpfully labeled “cow.” Pointing to a student with his hand raised, the instructor says "Yes... I believe there's a question there in the back."
sharkhand.bsky.social
the pediatrician has asked me to stop calling them skin babies
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bookhouse.bsky.social
Not joking, either

1968 - Vietnam (Chennault Affair)
1980 - Iran (hostage crisis resolved 20 minutes after Reagan inaugurated)
2016 - Russia (hacking)
2024 - Israel
bookhouse.bsky.social
Resetting the "years since Republican party coordinates with foreign country to manufacture crisis for incumbent Democrat" sign to zero, for the fourth (?!) time
sharkhand.bsky.social
In the future, Trump is going to push this absolution for Netanyahu for ICC War Crimes, etc.

It serves both their interests and in this they will overplay their hands. The collective and unresolved sins of the Gazan Genocide is simply too great to brush aside.

bsky.app/profile/bloo...
sharkhand.bsky.social
Just breathlessly throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks.

Zero message discipline, ++ flop sweat and transparent lies.
atrupar.com
Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."
sharkhand.bsky.social
Most of us don’t care for Trump, but rape is not a punchline.

I would appreciate it that you understand this.
sharkhand.bsky.social
Most people have no fucking idea how bad the criminal justice system is aligned against criminal defendants.

Having to carefully explain that to them is an exhausting, Sisyphean task.