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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

I wrote about trans visibility in a time of rising transphobia for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

How trans visibility became a trap

People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.

www.theverge.com

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 1d

kinda tired of the one billionth thinkpiece coddling people still obsessed with harry potter. read another book.

(comparing it to queer people's relationship to religion is also WILD???)

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 1d

the future holds so many unknowns. like when i chose to get into journalism and politics in high school i never anticipated a government that would get into twitter beefs with popstars

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 4d

my (cis) partner's mother found her linkedin & she had to frantically unwoke it but forgot about her (cis) pronouns & now she's getting insane "concerned" texts from her family (white women) that include accusations of her being a "liberal white woman" conservatism like actively eats ppl's brains

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 5d

just invented the evil alter ego to hot lunches: cold and soggy sandwich (spilled my drink on it and can’t make another)

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 14d

A potential ban on gun ownership for transgender people appears to expose the ceiling of MAGA's unity behind the anti-transgender movement.

www.mediamatters.org/national-rif...

Right-wing media fracture over potential gun ban for trans Americans

Fractures have emerged in right-wing media over reports that the Trump administration is considering a ban on gun ownership for transgender people following a school shooting in Minnesota in August. W...

www.mediamatters.org

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 7d

I get that everyone thinks it's a funny little joke when Trump says nonsense about "trangender for everybody" (because really, wtf does that even mean?), but I gotta say that as a trans person, I find it absolutely fucking insane that he's constantly obsessing over trans people existing. It sucks.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 7d

I’m so sorry 💔

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birdsinapuddle🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🆘 @birdsinapuddle.bsky.social · 7d

Many families like mine felt forced to leave Missouri to protect our trans kids’ health. Weiss played a big part in why

Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 7d

Bari Weiss is now CBS's editor in chief. Just two years ago, her outlet The Free Press was the springboard for an anti-trans "whistleblower" & a ban on care for trans youth in Missouri. The stories have been heavily scrutinized for falsehoods and inconsistencies

www.mediamatters.org/bari-weiss/t...

Timeline: The unfolding saga between The Free Press and a Missouri gender clinic

Update (last updated 9/12/23): This article has been repeatedly updated with additional examples. The Free Press, the Bari Weiss outlet that claims to focus on stories “ignored or misconstrued in the ...

www.mediamatters.org

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 7d

Bari Weiss is now CBS's editor in chief. Just two years ago, her outlet The Free Press was the springboard for an anti-trans "whistleblower" & a ban on care for trans youth in Missouri. The stories have been heavily scrutinized for falsehoods and inconsistencies

www.mediamatters.org/bari-weiss/t...

Timeline: The unfolding saga between The Free Press and a Missouri gender clinic

Update (last updated 9/12/23): This article has been repeatedly updated with additional examples. The Free Press, the Bari Weiss outlet that claims to focus on stories “ignored or misconstrued in the ...

www.mediamatters.org

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 11d

so like….how are those rapture folk doing ??

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 13d

I think the most revealing thing about the Emma Watson/JKR thing is how TERFS/conservatives more generally tend to wail about liberals not wanting to be friends with them and its like. Look what happened. Watson tried to extend an olive branch to Rowling and the hag went "you stupid bitch lmao"

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 14d

oh so the government can just shut down when it doesn't make deadline but when *i* do it...

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 14d

A potential ban on gun ownership for transgender people appears to expose the ceiling of MAGA's unity behind the anti-transgender movement.

www.mediamatters.org/national-rif...

Right-wing media fracture over potential gun ban for trans Americans

Fractures have emerged in right-wing media over reports that the Trump administration is considering a ban on gun ownership for transgender people following a school shooting in Minnesota in August. W...

www.mediamatters.org

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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 19d

Half of Americans oppose lawmakers banning or restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth, our new 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll finds.

People don't like politicians targeting this health care, although only 37% support trans minors ability to access the care.

More Americans see a future where gender-affirming care will be harder to access

A new 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll shows that the share of people who think gender-affirming care will get less accessible jumped to 38% from 20% in 2024.

19thnews.org

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 25d

so trans people are too weak or mentally ill or too medically compromised to be in the military or own firearms but also a collective time bomb of terroristic violence?

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 27d

These are terrifying times. Corporate media is caving utterly. Support non-profit media, public media, local media, and the last few old MSM companies with good owners.

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 27d

So anyway, what are y'all's favorite Ben & Jerry's flavors?

I'm pretty partial to gimme s'more but I love all things tiramisu so I was pretty thrilled to find that. I do miss impretzively fudged though, chocolate pretzels are some of my favorite treats.

Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 27d

Gen Z's "avocado toast"

Right-wing outlet The Federalist believes that "little treats" are a big contributor to the nation's collective debt

Headline from The Federalist: "'Self-Care' Spending Might Explain Why America Is So Deeply In Debt"

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 27d

In July, Trump cut LGBTQ+ youth services for 988, the suicide crisis hotline that launched in 2022. Today, Sens. Tammy Baldwin and Lisa Murkowski introduced a bipartisan bill to re-establish specialized LGBTQ+ services at the national hotline.

Bipartisan bill seeks to reinstate national suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth

In July, Trump cut LGBTQ+ youth services for 988, the suicide crisis hotline. It has been a devastating blow, advocates say.

19thnews.org

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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 27d

The closure of St. Mary’s labor and delivery unit in Lavonia comes as one of the first Georgia-based casualties of the federal budget reconciliation package, colloquially known as the “big beautiful bill.”

via @georgiarecorder.com

Rural Georgia hospital plans to close its labor and delivery unit, in part due to Medicaid cuts

St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital in rural northeast Georgia will discontinue its maternal health services next month as its parent company moves to consolidate OB/GYN services to one location, the…

www.newsfromthestates.com

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 27d

My student newspaper running Kirk apologia oh that’s not —

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 27d

Senator Ted Cruz misquotes one of the bullet engravings in the Kirk shooting and then misattributes it as a meme from the trans community.

(TW for Ted Cruz saying "do you see my bulge")