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Meg Linehan @meglinehan.com · 32m

I also think officially engaging bad faith actors over eligibility in a statement like this means the “protect women’s sports” crowd have successfully controlled the conversation. Everyone’s dancing around the underlying problem, except for Sarah Gorden.

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Cloud 9 | Gotham FC Supporters @cloud9goth.bsky.social · 5h

Banda’s accolades, while impressive, are not relevant in the face of racist and transphobic attacks. If the league cannot be specific in naming what those "hateful attacks" are, this statement just noise.

NWSL @nwslsoccer.com · 7h

A statement from the National Women's Soccer League.

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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 7h

"Bury him face down." This barn burner of an obit might feel hyperbolic to people who entered the world in the wake of 9/11; it's not. Cheney was one of the architects of today's American Christian conservatism. He was directly responsible for millions of deaths. Salt the earth where he's buried.

Defector @defector.com · 8h

Dick Cheney departs the world he made: defector.com/dick-cheney-...

Dick Cheney Departs The World He Made | Defector

At its heart, American conservatism is a fantasy. It’s a vision of a world too evil to be saved or cared about, and fearsome enough to justify any and every impulse toward cruelty and violence that a…

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Lou @laenij.bsky.social · 27m

I always forget that they are a thing

State of the Scene @sotspodcast.bsky.social · 37m

Meredith Hurley (Millionaires) and husband Andy Hurley (Fall Out Boy) share Halloween photo from this past weekend.

Lou @laenij.bsky.social · 1h

but.... what parcel is coming today.......

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 4h

meanwhile the words: "Every time one of these murderers dies w/o having faced consequences for the massacres they ordered, the lives they destroyed, the societies they razed to the ground I realize how far we are from a world with justice. Rest in hell Dick Cheney. Your legacy is death."

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Chicago News @chicago.thesocial.news · 5h

UChicago professor posts vile social media comment on Dick Cheney hours after his death

A University of Chicago professor who was recently arrested for aggravated assault at an anti-ICE rally unloaded on former Vice President Dick Cheney upon the news of his death.

www.fox32chicago.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12h

Dick Cheney Was Doing War Crimes in Exactly the Right Way, by Ezra Klein.

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Southern Sylvs 🍉 she/her @southernsylvs.bsky.social · 20h

And, Eddy was quietly a bigot for a long time. If you think your team doesn't have at least one player that will say, at a minimum "she's making some valid points" you are a fool. That goes for my team and that player they signed late. We're just relocating the priests if you need a comparison.

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Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 11h

Kids need decent sex ed surrounding consent and safety and a society that is able to talk about sex openly and approachably. Not whatever this is.

A screenshot of a Guardian article headline and tagline. It reads:

Pornography depicting strangulation to become criminal offencein the UK

Legal requirement to be placed on tech
platforms to prevent users from seeing such 'choking' material

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Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 11h

I'd love to see an example of a time a government has criminalised a kind of sex practice/sex work/porn content and it's benefitted literally anyone.

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Lou @laenij.bsky.social · 3h

15!! 16 at the end of the year (literally, his birthday is 31/12) so better than the girl in the dub but.... barely.......

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 8h

this sort of learned helplessness is going to be extremely dangerous as it permeates adulthood - why bother to learn to drive if the car does it for you, why bother to learn medication interactions, why bother why bother why bother

Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 14h

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social):

As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead."

But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that"

Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying

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Crystal @simply-crystal.bsky.social · 7h

Yea so the thing is, her accolades shouldn’t matter. She could be terrible and still be deserving of protection and respect. MAYBE address the fact that another player in this league started this mess. And MAYBE address the hate that a Black captain is getting for speaking up when no one else did.

NWSL @nwslsoccer.com · 7h

A statement from the National Women's Soccer League.

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☀️KG @kgarson3.bsky.social · 6h

Barbra doesn’t need to be talented to deserve protection from hatred, transphobia, racism, bigotry, etc. End of.

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Lou @laenij.bsky.social · 4h

I've got a PC and a switch!!

Lou @laenij.bsky.social · 4h

he should be in school!!!

now.arsenal @nowarsenal.bsky.social · 5h

🚨Max Dowman is officially the youngest ever player to feature in the UEFA Champions League.

History has been made tonight.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

In which a straight woman highlights a bunch of known anti trans activists and claims there's a divide in the queer community.

It's pure propaganda and gaslighting.

Alt text: Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal article headline titled “The Growing Divide in the Rainbow Coalition.” The subheadline reads, “More gay people are speaking out against the gender ideology of trans and queer activists.” The article is categorized under “U.S.” and written by Pamela Paul, published on October 31, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. ET.

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Negro League Soccer Press Corps @thombomb816.bsky.social · 5h

If this doesn’t indicate to you that transphobia is just racism in another garment, then I’m not sure what to tell you.

Lesley Ryder @lesleyryder.bsky.social · 8h

About to pop into an appointment, but a quick update:

No Elizabeth Eddy, but Fox News ran a segment with Jennifer Sey, founder of the transphobic organization xx-xy, who said “the NWSL has several males I. The league… including their best player, Barbra Banda.”

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Meg Linehan @meglinehan.com · 7h

a reminder of where this began ~11 months ago. the bad faith attacks and outside agitators (and inside!) are here for real. what happens next?

www.nytimes.com/athletic/596...

NWSL missed a chance to help Barbra Banda amid bad-faith attacks. More are inevitable

The Athletic's Meg Linehan writes that the NWSL should have done more to protect one of its own players.

www.nytimes.com

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Gal Pal Sports @galpalsports.bsky.social · 9h

The NWSL has 99 problems, but a trans player ain’t one.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Women’s soccer faces plenty of serious threats. So why the panic about trans players? | Lesley Ryder

Angel City’s Elizabeth Eddy was rebuked by her own teammates for an op-ed on trans players. It’s easy to understand their objections

www.theguardian.com

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 1d

This wouldn’t be the same James Young that begged folks to buy Cherry Memberships on Patreon for a monthly fee during lockdown, promising all kinds of benefits that never materialised would it? Because that guy should shut his fucking mouth forever. So this can’t be him.

apple.news/A0_df7QNlSM-...

Bar owner lashes Allan over ‘dead, dangerous’ city, lauds Oasis for ‘vibe’ — Herald Sun

The owner of Melbourne’s Cherry Bar James Young has lauded band Oasis for boosting the city’s nightlife while launching an attack on the Allan government over the “dead and dangerous” CBD.

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 1d

Censorship is now coming for your dnd and your warhammer and your farming sim, they don't care if it's not adult content. They wanted everything

Ana Valens | 🔞 | COMMS: (4/5) @acvalens.net · 1d

MasterCard is marketing its new MasterCard Threat Intelligence platform to issuers & acquirers. A source familiar w/ MasterCard’s internal operations told me MTI is flagging anime, VTubing, adult content, tabletop, video games as potentially “high fraud risk”

fintechmagazine.com/news/how-is-...

How is Mastercard Preventing Payment Fraud at Scale?

Announcing Threat Intelligence at Money 20/20 US, Mastercard showcases its latest technology in preventing fraud, combining insights from Recorded Future

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State of the Scene @sotspodcast.bsky.social · 1d

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 1d

Disabled NT man died naked in cell wearing spit hood and cuffs, inquest told

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Disabled NT man put in spit hood and cuffs then died naked in cell, inquest told

Wayne Hunt was kept in detention after a seizure instead of being taken to hospital, coroner hears

www.theguardian.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Practically every day we encounter someone who still has no idea ICE shot and killed someone in Chicago already. This happened before many people tuned in (and many have already tuned out again).

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

Candles, candy and colorful flowers adorned the ofrenda, or altar, that a couple of dozen people helped build Saturday to honor Silverio Villegas González, the man shot and killed by an ICE agent in northwest suburban Franklin Park nearly two months ago.

Chicago-area man killed by ICE honored at Franklin Park Day of the Dead celebration: ‘Someone who was wanted’

Candles, candy and colorful flowers adorned the ofrenda a couple dozen people helped build Saturday to honor Silverio Villegas González.

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