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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 8h

Winning back suburban women

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 12h

"We're saving God."

Roll that phrase around your head. Consider the theological and cosmological implications.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 11h

CBS aired a segment by Olivia Reingold—a reporter for the Weiss-founded Free Press—in which NYPD officers are worried about Mamdani, with some “considering retiring.” The evidence? Four unnamed officers quoted out of ~33,000.

The story is thinly sourced, fearmongering, tabloid drek. trib.al/hfqsrL0

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Tristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 12h

She has a point ;)

a woman with red hair and a ponytail is pointing her finger at the camera .

Alt: a woman with red hair and a ponytail is pointing her finger at the camera .

media.tenor.com

Tristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 12h

Also the Best. Terminator. Ever.

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 14h

Alex Jones, rejected:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Supreme Court turns away Alex Jones' attempt to block huge defamation judgment

The conspiracy theorist had asked the justices to immediately intervene, warning that the ownership of his Infowars website could be transferred to satirical news site The Onion.

www.nbcnews.com

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 14h

Alito, joined by Thomas and Gorsuch, suggest that public schools violate the Constitution when they help a student transition (by acknowledging them as trans) without their parents' knowledge or consent.

Would force schools to out trans kids to their parents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
JONATHAN LEE, ET AL. v. POUDRE
SCHOOL DISTRICT R–1
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED
STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT
No. 25–89. Decided October 14, 2025
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
Statement of JUSTICE ALITO, with whom JUSTICE
THOMAS and JUSTICE GORSUCH join, respecting the denial
of certiorari.
I concur in the denial of certiorari because petitioners do
not challenge the ground for the ruling below. But I remain
concerned that some federal courts are “tempt[ed]” to avoid
confronting a “particularly contentious constitutional questio[n]”: whether a school district violates parents’ fundamental rights “when, without parental knowledge or consent, it encourages a student to transition to a new gender
or assists in that process.” Parents Protecting Our Children, UA v. Eau Claire Area School Dist., 604 U. S. ___,
___–___ (2024) (ALITO, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari) (slip op., at 1–2) (citing Troxel v. Granville, 530 U. S.
57, 70 (2000) (plurality opinion)). Petitioners tell us that
nearly 6,000 public schools have policies—as respondent allegedly does—that purposefully interfere with parents’ access to critical information about their children’s genderidentity choices and school personnel’s involvement in and
influence on those choices. Pet. for Cert. 24. The troubling—and tragic—allegations in this case underscore the
“great and growing national importance” of the question
that these parent petitioners present. Parents Protecting
Our Children, 604 U. S., at ___ (slip op., at 1).

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 18h

This is exactly right: it's real violence, but a performance at the same time

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 17h

I’m seeing pieces and posts today about how useful digital ID could be in navigating bureaucracy etc. Yes. It would. That, however, is *not* how the government tried to sell it to us. Instead, they portrayed it as a tool to stop illegal working and curb illegal immigration. 1/4

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Tristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 16h

I handed a physical copy of my EHRC submission to my MP's office, followed up with an email a month later, complete silence. I guess that confirms their position.

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Tristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 16h

Better than the silence from my MP to two queries about the EHRC guidance. Generally I think there is a fear to back trans people existing now. The UK is in a limited-rights spiral.

Tom Gordon MP @tomgordonld.bsky.social · 17h

The Council of Europe has warned that the UK gov’s treatment of trans people may breach human rights law.

This must be a wake up call.

We’ve seen an increase in hostility towards trans in recent years.

Everyone deserves dignity, safety, & respect - that includes trans people.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 17h

Yes. We know. That's the point of what's happened over the last decade and you helped us get here.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h

Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says

European Council commissioner voices concerns following April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman Transgender people risk being excluded from many public spaces as a result of the recent UK supreme court judgment and must be protected from discrimination, a human rights expert has said. Michael O’Flaherty, the European Council commissioner for human rights, said he had concerns about the climate for transgender people in the UK following April’s supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 18h

🏮 He's very concerned about measures which oblige trans people to out themselves publicly and significantly increase their vulnerability to harassment, abuse and even violence

🏮 And he asks for an evidence-based approach. This ought to be common sense but sadly none of this is evidence based.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 18h

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 18h

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, babes. Have you got a big surprise coming...

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@realchrisrufo
This is great news. We've hired the classicist Spencer Klavan to teach at New College of Florida. Goodbye gender studies; hello, Greek literature.
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Spencer A. Klavan
@SpencerKlavan
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Aug 19, 2024
Truly excited to be teaching an online survey course in Greek literature this fall semester @NewCollegeofFL. Even more excited that it's open to the public. Please join in here! We'll be reading Homer, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and lots more.

https://ncf.edu/youngheretics/
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NPR @npr.org · 18h

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

n.pr

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

Rest in peace, Miss Major.

We will carry the bricks forward.

ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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Tristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 18h

What was British Athletics' focus again? Excluding trans athletes?

Vicente Modahl: Ex-Olympic athletics coach accused of child sex offences

Former British Olympic athletics coach Jose Vicente Leiva-Modahl will appear in court on Tuesday accused of child sex offences.

www.bbc.co.uk

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

me after attending a protest

Jeff Goldblum running out of a store with a bunch of shopping bags in his hand. He's dressed fashionably in a tan jacket, black shirt, gray trousers, and black loafers.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 1d

For Du Bois, the anti-immigrant violence of the Jim Crow state—which would *accelerate* under the Second Klan & its regime of white nationalist immigration policies—represented an existential threat against targeted groups & the prospect of democracy itself.

Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 7d

We really need to be thinking abt the current regime through the lens of the Second Klan, which helped to nationalize systems of Jim Crow state & vigilante violence & exploitation while creating an explicitly white nationalist immigration system. They even paraded down Pennsylvania Ave.

A 1926 klan parade marching down Pennsylvania Ave. The front of the column holds banners that read Connecticut & Rhode Island. Original available via the Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001706338/

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

Some of these are real jobs (though possibly sometimes the respondent has been trying to make them posher?) Others make you suspect the respondent may have been taking the mickey, which is always a risk when polling the British public…

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 2d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 1d

I post this without comment.

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Tristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 2d

It's ok, we're home, don't worry ❤️

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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 2d

To the people who don’t clean out the lint after using a dryer in a public laundromat - WTeverlovingF is wrong with you.

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