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persephone @pphone.bsky.social · Dec 15
BET: you have very good sarcasm skills, eema.
#parentingawards
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popsci.com
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.

And trans lives are grounded in reality.

We see y'all. No matter what.

www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
which has also killed over 460,000 children worldwide www.impactcounter.com/dashboard
December 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
important announcement from the child rape administration
O'Neill looking creepy and saying children are innocent and they need our protection in front of HHS flags
December 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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aclu.org
BREAKING: The Florida Supreme Court upheld Florida’s law, making it the only state to allow juries split 8-4 to sentence people to death.

Permitting non-unanimous, divided juries to sentence people to death is unconstitutional and increases the risk of executing an innocent person.
December 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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rincewind.run
this has exactly as much scientific basis as their antivax garbage and is somehow even more directly aimed at killing people

fuck this absolute monster
cwnewser.bsky.social Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 3h
I’m at HHS headquarters where RFK Jr. is announcing new restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors by spouting pseudoscience and political misinformation that goes against every major medical association.
December 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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brian-goldstone.bsky.social
Nothing more American than "medical setbacks" forcing a school counselor and her children into: eviction, ruined credit, homelessness, and paying nearly $3,000/month for a cramped extended-stay hotel room.

www.usatoday.com/picture-gall...
Screenshot of a USA Today article headlined "After medical setbacks, a family works to escape homelessness," with a photo of a mother sitting on a bed holding a baby in a hotel room.
December 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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parkermolloy.com
Notice how Trump and Republicans were having the worst couple weeks in the administration's history and they decided to pivot to hardcore attacking trans people?
December 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Ladies and gentleman: The President of the United States
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
One woman, then a model and college student in her early 20s living in Manhattan, said she attended four parties at the mansion. She cannot recall the names of most of the men she met at the gatherings, not even those Mr. Epstein directed her to “take care of” at two of them. Recruited by Ms. Maxwell and then abused by Mr. Epstein, she buried her shame and kept their secrets for years. But Mr. Trump’s presence stood out, she told The Times. He was a household name, someone Mr. Epstein often bragged about to the women around him, yet also seemed to compete with. “It was like a pissing contest — who had the most women,” she recalled. She requested anonymity to describe her experiences in detail, saying she feared for her family’s safety after Mr. Trump said some of his critics could be executed for sedition.
December 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them
"Suck it up, raise your game, success isn't a birthright" is a good response to modest unfairnesses. It's a message that stops selling when the system doesn't seem interested in rewarding people of your race and sex at all.
December 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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rincewind.run
I take it all back we should absolutely let AI run the vending machines
Then came the chaos. Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free—including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for “marketing purposes.” It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear. Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared.
December 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
pphone.bsky.social
tish james. ❤️
newyorkstateag.bsky.social New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 3h
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:

I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care. 

Your health care is still legal and protected. 

I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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parkermolloy.com
Brooks should be driven out of public life. The fact that he knew there were photographs of himself with Epstein and he didn't disclose that while also telling people that they should move on is just straight up unethical.
December 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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parkermolloy.com
Back in July, he was on PBS trying to suggest that the whole Epstein thing was overblown and people should move on. Gee, I wonder why! www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
David Brooks: Yes, I can't believe anybody — people are voting on this. Like, there are some QAnon people who are upset. And there are people in the Trump administration who did exactly what Jonathan said. But I just can't believe any vote — people vote and they make decisions about politics based on their real lives, not some crazy conspiracy theory. And every August, we — Washington goes crazy with some stupid story. And then in September, we think, what was that all about? And so this year, we're a little early. We're doing it in July. But the idea that there's something there incriminating Donald Trump, his friendship with Epstein ended in 2004. The Democrats, Joe Biden administration, they had these files for four years. You think, if there had been something, you think they would have done something. The Justice Department, the courts, they have all said there's nothing actionable here. And so the problem is that — what Jonathan described, and then that Donald Trump went ballistic about it and ordered his own administration to somehow solve the problem. And then the underlying problem is that America seems to go through child abuse panics with some regularity. When I was a baby reporter, there was something called the McMartin preschool case in Manhattan Beach, California, where an entire preschool was accused of this gigantic sex ring with children and the trial that went on for years before everybody was acquitted because there was nothing there. But there's something about child abuse which is so horrific, it seems to captures people's minds and especially conspiracy mongers. (Crosstalk) David Brooks: Yes. Jonathan Capehart: And so that's also what we shouldn't lose sight of in this whole conversation. While, politically-, in Washington, we're all talking about how this has damaged the president, how Democrats are trying to take — use it to their advantage. At the root of this were girls as young as 12 who were trafficked and abused by Jeffrey Epstein and by Ghislaine Maxwell. And that should — we should never lose sight of that. David Brooks: Yes, that's a good point. And that's one of the reasons they don't want to release the grand jury, because it's incriminating sometimes to the witnesses, to their families, pictures of them with their faces blacked out, with their clothing on. So that's a very good point. Geoff Bennett: And I hear you say this does not represent a shift in the loyalty calculus among Donald Trump's core supporters. David Brooks: I would be shocked. I would be shocked. But there's obviously an active group around MAGA itself that they care. But I — people vote based on their lives, not on anything else.
December 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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parkermolloy.com
David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.

He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
David Brooks: The Epstein Story? Count Me Out. David Brooks in the epstein photos
December 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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bebopott.bsky.social
Everyone else go home — this is the year we secure ABOLISH ICE on a Chicago Snowplow

chicagoshovels.org
my entry for chicagoshovels.org — “ABOLISH ICE”
December 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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dickius.bsky.social
I’m old enough to remember when the trump administration thought it was disrespectful to Jews to address the nation on Hanukkah (and suggested that Friday night would be a better choice).
Dan Scavino tweet from 7 Dec 2015, criticizing Barack Obama “Disrespectful. Should have addressed the nation on Friday or Saturday evening. Not the first night of #Hanukkah.”
December 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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eisforenkidu.bsky.social
I like how people will legit be like, "American Jews aren't in trouble, the Nazi administration will protect them."
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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gamzehyaavor.bsky.social
Back when I was on medicaid that was the best insurance I've ever been on. No premiums, no copays and no deductibles to worry about, just go to the doctor and get care.

Yes, I do want everyone in America to be on Medicaid.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
Scalise: "Does everybody in America want to be on Medicaid? That's what Democrats are doing."
December 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
pphone.bsky.social
i lit one candle too many last night!!! it’s a good thing chanuka is not like sefirat haomer
audbowler.bsky.social audrey bowler @audbowler.bsky.social · 6h
i would say my favorite thing about hanukkah is that every year i grow less and less confident in my ability to count from 1 to 8, distinguish right from left, remember what day of the week it is, etc
December 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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hatulimyafim.bsky.social
Australians found my post about this being a shitty Hanukkah and are now informing that if I personally ask Netanyahu (who will listen to me) to stop committing genocide against Palestinians, then random Jews around the world won't be shot anymore.
December 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social
If you feed the hungry because you think it will get you laid, you are doing more good than someone who does not feed the hungry. Bring back virtue signaling. Signal more virtue. Do the work in hope of a reward, if the alternative is not doing the work.
December 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
If I were running for president I'd mention in every speech and debate that I intend to seize every asset owned by the Trump family and use it on restarting USAID and immigrant/asylum-seeker protection and naturalization programs, just to see if I can make that fucker so mad his head pops.
December 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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maketheroadny.bsky.social
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Our member Anyi is one of the tens of thousands of NYers that we’ve connected with services.

With your support, we can build a city for everyone: bit.ly/GiveMRNY25 
December 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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evanbernick.bsky.social
*evanston woman has entered the resistance*
dancow.bsky.social Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 7h
Get his ass
December 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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erininthemorning.com
While we were busy with the US Congress, major international news on trans healthcare.

A New Zealand court announced an injunction on the far-right trans health care ban there.

The court says that the biggest danger is posed by banning care.

Big story for us from @transvestigations.bsky.social
Victory in New Zealand, For Now—Injunction Brings Puberty Blocker Ban to a Screeching Halt
The High Court asserted that, contrary to wild speculation by anti-trans establishments, puberty blockers are largely safe and reversible.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:37 AM