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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ, Disability Advocacy, Communication | UMN: TC Alumni | Grad Student | Communication Scholar | He/They | AuDHD | Minnesota ❄️ | https://linktr.ee/prismaticgrey
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
So there's this thing called Title VII
jennycohn.bsky.social Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 14h
Chris Rufo—a prominent anti-DEI crusader—-says the “idea that private companies should be able to prioritize hiring married men w/ families is completely within the bounds of rzbl debate, &…it's absurd that individuals cannot hire whomever they want [ie, discriminate] in their own companies…” 1/
December 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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dropsitenews.com
🇮🇪🇪🇸🇸🇮🇳🇱 BREAKING | Four major broadcasters – Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands – have pulled out of the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest after the EBU confirmed Israel will be allowed to compete despite the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Despite a wave of pressure and boycott threats urging the...
🇮🇪🇪🇸🇸🇮🇳🇱 BREAKING | Four major broadcasters – Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands – have pulled out of the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest after the EBU confirmed Israel will be allowed to compete despite the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Despite a wave of pressure and boycott threats urging the EBU to bar Israel, the union declined not to hold a vote on Israel’s eligibility. Instead it introduced voting-system reforms, limiting televotes per device and restoring juries in the semi-finals, all meant to curb alleged vote manipulation after evidence that Israel benefited from state-backed promotion and coordinated voting in 2025. The 2026 contest in Vienna now faces its largest boycott in years, raising fresh doubts about Eurovision’s claim to be a unifying cultural event. Channel 4 News @Channel4News The EBU and participating national broadcasters met in Geneva today to debate whether Israel should be allowed to continue participating in Eurovision, with Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain all threatening to boycott.
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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tendar.bsky.social
According to Irish media, 4 unknown drones of military grade violated the airspace over the Dublin airport and came dangerously close to President Zelenskyy‘s plane.
December 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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prospect.org
About 300,000 Black women have left the workforce in the first half of 2025 as the Black unemployment rate topped 7%, limiting their access to healthcare, groceries, and maternal care. From Naomi Bethune:
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To Be Black, Female, and Unemployed - The American Prospect
How unemployment in the Trump era shapes Black women’s lives when maternal care and food choices are in the mix
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December 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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klonick.bsky.social
Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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startribune.com
Several Minneapolis City Council members want to stop Waymo from bringing its fleet of autonomous electric vehicles to the city.
Some Minneapolis City Council members want to stop Waymo driverless cars
Some council members say allowing autonomous vehicles would put thousands of mostly immigrant Uber and Lyft drivers out of work.
bit.ly
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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mprnews.org
The petition claims that physicians who served as expert witnesses during Chauvin’s trial gave faulty testimony about the cause of Floyd’s death. The filing specifically raises concerns about the use of video evidence during the trial.
Derek Chauvin seeking to overturn conviction for murder of George Floyd
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is again seeking to overturn his conviction in the murder of George Floyd, and get a new trial.
www.mprnews.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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us.theguardian.com
Exclusive: The Department of Veterans Affairs is creating an urgent and massive new internal database of non-US citizens who are “employed or affiliated” with the government department, a sensitive memo leaked to the Guardian has revealed.
Leaked memo reveals US veterans affairs officials vetting non-citizen workers
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
Context:

Kennedy has suggested letting bird flu spread for herd immunity (Great Barrington Declaration style).

Right-wing groups and operatives have been laying the groundwork, downplaying concerns about the virus and pre-politicizing government efforts to control it (like they did with COVID).
December 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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japantimes.co.jp
Commercial airline pilots often conceal mental health conditions for fear that disclosing therapy or medication, or even just seeking help, could mean having their license pulled.
Airline pilots hide mental health struggles to keep flying
Pilots who report anxiety or depression may be grounded, and severe conditions require an extensive FAA review that can take up to a year or more.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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thebulwark.com
Xenophobia is bad enough, but turning it on *American citizens* born in other countries is another step away from a rule-bound immigration regime towards...something else. lnk.thebulwark.com/48vef8l
Now Trump Is Threatening Naturalized Americans
He’s not just bashing refugees and illegal immigrants. He’s going after U.S. citizens born in other countries.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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junlper.beer
we actually life in hell
December 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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ldobsonhughes.bsky.social
Learn to lose to women without having a gender identity life crisis about it!

Learn to be rejected by a girl without crumbling into a heap of failed masculinity!

Learn to be in an equal partnership with another human being because you like them, not because of the gender role they reaffirm in you!
December 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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ldobsonhughes.bsky.social
What if men don't want to protect anyone? (And presumably, they're protecting women from other men). What if men want to create art?

What if men don't want to provide? What if they want to be in an equal partnership? Or be supported when they're unwell?

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’
When his book Notes on Being a Man was released last month, it raced to the top of the bestseller lists. The US author, tech entrepreneur and podcaster explains his theories on dating, crying – and th...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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ldobsonhughes.bsky.social
Sure, Galloway is better than Peterson

But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’
When his book Notes on Being a Man was released last month, it raced to the top of the bestseller lists. The US author, tech entrepreneur and podcaster explains his theories on dating, crying – and th...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Can't imagine why someone who recoils at other people wanting to make the world a better place is struggling to find a girlfriend.
tranoflamancha.bsky.social tran of la mancha @tranoflamancha.bsky.social · 1d
"Men need to spend money to get laid!"

Meanwhile, just the other day...
A screenshot of a tweet by Rohit Mittal @rohitdotmittal that reads "Friend in NYC who works at a hedge fund was venting about his dating life. He came from nothing, worked his ass off through school, landed a job most people would kill for. makes great money. stable. Ambitious. Has his life together. And he’s struggling on the dating apps. The average profile he sees is optimized for a completely different value system. He showed me that the most common requirements were: No Trumpers. Free Palestine. Make the world a better place (or something similar). And the average girl is woke, working in marketing or social media or a social worker type job. Nothing about building a life. Nothing about stability or ambition or partnership. Just political credentials and virtue signaling. My friend’s not even political. He just worked hard and made something of himself. But in NYC dating, that’s almost a liability now. According to him, 'Finance Bro' is almost a slur. Making money is something you apologize for. But women are also willing to throw away all principles if the guy is hot and they really want him. Seems like women who value stability, who want to build a family, who respect hard work, they’re either not on the apps or they’ve moved to cities where that’s still considered attractive."
December 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
There's this constant discourse about how "the left" (whoever that is) has to stop being condescending and speak directly to men's issues. But these gurus are, without fail, more condescending to men than any feminist or SJW I've ever met.
And if men aren’t economically viable, that’s when the problems start, he contends. “They’re just going to have an absence of mating opportunities. And when men don’t have a romantic relationship, they tend to kind of come off the tracks.” He cites statistics that women fare much better without men than vice versa. “Men have a difficult time maintaining friendships without a romantic partner. They tend to reallocate that energy into conspiracy theory, going extremely online, porn – and they never develop the skills to establish a romantic relationship.” Galloway has been highly vocal about the tech industry and social media’s role in compounding these problems, by giving men easy dopamine hits and fewer reasons to ever leave their bedrooms. As he puts it, “I worry we are literally evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial male.” And if men aren’t economically viable, that’s when the problems start, he contends. “They’re just going to have an absence of mating opportunities. And when men don’t have a romantic relationship, they tend to kind of come off the tracks.” He cites statistics that women fare much better without men than vice versa. “Men have a difficult time maintaining friendships without a romantic partner. They tend to reallocate that energy into conspiracy theory, going extremely online, porn – and they never develop the skills to establish a romantic relationship.” Galloway has been highly vocal about the tech industry and social media’s role in compounding these problems, by giving men easy dopamine hits and fewer reasons to ever leave their bedrooms. As he puts it, “I worry we are literally evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial male.”
December 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Yes where else could men possibly receive this scorching insight
And the “provide” element he couches largely in economic terms. “I tell my sons, when you’re in the company of women, you pay for everything. And if you can’t, you don’t go out … A woman is not going to have sex with a man who splits the bill with her.” Signalling resource is one of the three things women find most attractive, according to another of his maxims, along with kindness and intellect. He admits his sons tell him this is a boomer view of modern dating, but “I try to go where the data takes me,” he says. “Research shows that society, and men themselves, are really hard on men when they’re not economically viable.”
December 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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thinkingautism.com
No kidding: "For people with autism and A.D.H.D., covering up unconventional social behavior can become a nonstop survival strategy. And when masking feels constant and unavoidable, it can create or exacerbate mental health problems."

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/w... #autism #neurodiversity
Everyone Uses This Coping Strategy. When Does It Become a Problem?
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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thinkingautism.com
"ABA therapy does not teach children to be typical. It teaches children to act 'normal,' all the while inhibiting them from finding their own normal." From @cosmichael.bsky.social, at TPGA:

thinkingautismguide.com/2018/05/why-... #autism #autistic #BetterWaysThanABA
Why I Hate ABA Therapy: A Personal Opinion
ABA therapy doesn't in any way help us autistics to adapt; it forces us not to complain about routine sensory punishment beatings.
thinkingautismguide.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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mprnews.org
Wednesday afternoon, Mayor Jacob Frey signed an executive order that prohibits “federal, state, and local agencies from using any City-owned parking lots, ramps, garages, or vacant lots to stage civil immigration enforcement operations.”
Minneapolis mayor acts to deter possible federal crackdown as Somali community braces for ICE
Mayor Jacob Frey signed an executive order that would prohibit the use of city property to stage immigration operations. The action comes as members of the Somali community in the Twin Cities report s...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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startribune.com
The threat of an immigration enforcement push targeting Somalis in the Twin Cities put officials on edge Tuesday as fear rippled through the East African community.
Twin Cities on alert after threat of ICE enforcement against Somali community
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said there were credible reports that as many as 100 federal agents will be deployed to the Twin Cities “with a specific focus on targeting our Somali community.”
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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americanfietser.bsky.social
All the bike and pedestrian infrastructure in the world will not do people any good unless a city has an efficient and accountable maintenance plan.
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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atrupar.com
Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara notes the MPD will not work with federal agents & says "In moments like this, I know how real the fear is in our community. People are going to want to speak out, protest, & exercise their 1st Amendment rights. We will absolutely defend people's right to do just that"
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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axios.com
JUST IN: ICE coming for Minneapolis after Trump targets Somalis
ICE coming for Minneapolis after Trump targets Somalis
"They contribute nothing. I don't want 'em in our country."
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM