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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s why you were barraged with spam today.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve gotten no less than FOUR fundraising texts about Janet Mills just today.

Going to donate to @grahamformaine.bsky.social purely out of annoyance.

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Mulch Mouth 🔜 BLFC @mulchmouth.bsky.social · 11h

Former CEO (stepped down two weeks ago) and co-founder of Spotify also invested over a billion dollars into AI military drone tech.
They just became profitable for the first time last year. Canceling your subscription here does matter

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Angel "Mrs. Movies" Perez @michelleperez.bsky.social · 16h

My surgery is in December, please help me maintain my place in the transgender bourgeois

Angel "Mrs. Movies" Perez @michelleperez.bsky.social · Nov 15

I'm gonna do more in depth stuff and outtreach to make sure this is knocked out of the park but here goes: the crowdfund for my transition care stuff. I've finally got my consults! i am gonna need some help to make this work! Please circulate and give if at all possible, thank you!

Donate to Help Angel Perez Access Essential Trans Care, organized by Michelle Jane Perez

Hello! I'm Angel Perez, you may know me previously as Michelle Perez!… Michelle Jane Perez needs your support for Help Angel Perez Access Essential Trans Care

gofund.me

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16h

we are not cannon fodder for "revolutionary fantasies" any more than sylvia rivera was cannon fodder for queer liberation. we are its beating heart. every trans person is proof that humanity can know itself better, can express its joy, can live authentically and with intent. we ARE a revolution.

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.//Swav Silverhand✘ 🖥️ @suavevillain.bsky.social · 16h

I think all war criminals shouldn't be allowed peace and be protested more often. People talking about she is a private citizen to baby her. No you're a public figure once you are President or VP.

If this the case then no point in protesting JD Vance right? He is a powerless VP with no agency.

Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 16h

To all the people in the crowd booing this brave girl for speaking truth to power - I hope you get exactly what you deserve =)

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 16h

All Kamala Harris had to do to beat Trump was stop being complicit in genocide.

She chose genocide instead.

Stop blaming leftists for refusing to accept that this is in any way okay, and start blaming the actual fucks in power.

Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 16h

To all the people in the crowd booing this brave girl for speaking truth to power - I hope you get exactly what you deserve =)

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Callies Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things @calliedot.bsky.social · 15h

Conservatives: You need to go to your safe space now that you’re triggered, snowflake?!

Also conservatives: The entire country needs to be a safe space for me and my ideas and if I see a single homosexual in public I will set the world on fire.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 15h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Zoe🏳️‍⚧️the Smutress @zoethesmuttress.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you, Dave!

Zoe🏳️‍⚧️the Smutress @zoethesmuttress.bsky.social · 15h

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16h

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 15h

1. Last night, John Oliver destroyed Bari Weiss and specifically called out her inaccurate and targeted coverage of transgender people.

It's the latest of several shows Oliver has done in defense of trans people.

Weiss at CBS is a disaster for trans people.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

John Oliver Destroys Bari Weiss In Defense Of Transgender People

The right-wing commentator is now the head of CBS.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Zoe🏳️‍⚧️the Smutress @zoethesmuttress.bsky.social · 15h

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Zoe🏳️‍⚧️the Smutress @zoethesmuttress.bsky.social · 15h

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Zoe🏳️‍⚧️the Smutress @zoethesmuttress.bsky.social · 15h

Done!

And Schumer, right?

. . . And SCHUMER, right?

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17h

I recruited Janet Mills to run for Senate because, at 72, Susan Collins is too young for the job.

by Chuck Schumer

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16h

Janet Mills has jumped into the Maine Senate race against Susan Collins.

Recent polling we did with @ZenithPolls shows that Graham Platner is best positioned to beat Susan Collins, out-performing Mills by 6 points.

substack.perfectunion.us/p/poll-platn...

Poll: Platner Best Positioned Maine Dem to Defeat Susan Collins

After respondents were shown short biographies for both candidates, Graham Platner leads Sen. Susan Collins by 14 points, while Gov. Janet Mills leads Collins by 8 points.

substack.perfectunion.us

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 16h

Don't ask who is going up against Janet Mills, ask who Janet Mills is going up against.

Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · Aug 29

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.

Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social

newrepublic.com/article/1996...

The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins

Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.

newrepublic.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

As another Jewish woman in the industry, I can clear this up: It's due to her being an asshole.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18h

Fox News host Emily Compagno claims that the backlash to Bari Weiss being named CBS News editor-in-chief is due to her being Jewish:

"This kind of thing would make me laugh if there was not an antisemitic thread in there."

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16h

It is at least *interesting* that the people making this supposedly world-changing technology think its most profitable use cases are: social media videos and sexting.

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MelodyMP @melodymp.bsky.social · 16h

Hey... Politico...

Are you seriously telling us there was no anti-trans hate in all of those messages...

Or just that you didn't think that was worth mentioning?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16h

"why do you keep calling us Nazis?"

Because you're Nazis.

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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Lilith Treah 🏳️‍⚧️ @riveroceansea.bsky.social · 20h

If my life
Matters to you
Please reskeet

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17h

Anger at Kaepernick is one of the more egregious examples of “how dare a Black man say racism is bad instead of being grateful for white America letting him succeed.”

He walked into Lambeau and beat the Packers in a playoff game. He lead the Niners to a Superbowl. He wasn’t in the NFL as a favor.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16h

do not listen to pundits, even trans pundits, who have given up in their hearts on the dream of liberation, who have preemptively sold out in hopes of becoming part of a world which is already dead and rotting

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