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We know everyone is asking for your money this month, but here's a twist: We're NOT asking you to donate in December, we're asking you to spread the word.
Help the trans people and allies who don't know Assigned Media's reputation for excellence and originality in trans news find us!
Help the trans people and allies who don't know Assigned Media's reputation for excellence and originality in trans news find us!
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
We know everyone is asking for your money this month, but here's a twist: We're NOT asking you to donate in December, we're asking you to spread the word.
Help the trans people and allies who don't know Assigned Media's reputation for excellence and originality in trans news find us!
Help the trans people and allies who don't know Assigned Media's reputation for excellence and originality in trans news find us!
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🚨 EVERYONE PLEASE RESKEET THIS FOR VISIBILITY!!! 🚨
A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws.
Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws.
Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
December 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
🚨 EVERYONE PLEASE RESKEET THIS FOR VISIBILITY!!! 🚨
A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws.
Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws.
Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
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This is how I imagine today's NY Times would have covered Kristillnacht
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is how I imagine today's NY Times would have covered Kristillnacht
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ICYMI, this is great stuff. both better designed and more comprehensive than Biden's child tax credit boost www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...
Rep. Tlaib’s Economic Dignity for All Agenda Would Bring Economic Security for Millions
The agenda would lower poverty by 42% and child poverty by two-thirds.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
ICYMI, this is great stuff. both better designed and more comprehensive than Biden's child tax credit boost www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...
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if you're looking for some weekend reading...
NEW ESSAY for Trans Awareness Week! hopefully it will make ppl aware about how bad actors manipulate transgender statistics & that "social contagion/ROGD" are disproven:
on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
Lies, Damned Lies, and Transgender Statistics
plus over a dozen studies contradicting the “social contagion/rapid onset gender dysphoria” hypothesis
juliaserano.medium.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
if you're looking for some weekend reading...
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I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?
🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?
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A friend from high school has posted that her brother is currently on hospice and to raise money for his family she put this beautiful song he wrote on band camp that you can buy for $1.50 (or more if you’re feeling generous!) RTs also appreciated.
jimpeters2112.bandcamp.com/track/joyous...
jimpeters2112.bandcamp.com/track/joyous...
Joyous Day, by Jim Peters
track by Jim Peters
jimpeters2112.bandcamp.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:51 AM
A friend from high school has posted that her brother is currently on hospice and to raise money for his family she put this beautiful song he wrote on band camp that you can buy for $1.50 (or more if you’re feeling generous!) RTs also appreciated.
jimpeters2112.bandcamp.com/track/joyous...
jimpeters2112.bandcamp.com/track/joyous...
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White Americans already know it's ok to be racist JD Vance, and apparently it's ok to marry a woman in brown skin, and be a racist, more it's ok, to have brown skin children and still be racist, have sex with POC, and be racist, and marry people of POC, and be racist, bc racism is a mental illness
October 30, 2025 at 5:14 AM
White Americans already know it's ok to be racist JD Vance, and apparently it's ok to marry a woman in brown skin, and be a racist, more it's ok, to have brown skin children and still be racist, have sex with POC, and be racist, and marry people of POC, and be racist, bc racism is a mental illness
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EIGHTY! only eighty! that's nothing let's DO THIS SHIT LIVE
If The Flytrap hits 80 new/renewing subs per day for the next five days, we'll smash our funding goal. We'll be able to pay our worker-owners, and we'll be set to commission more freelance work.
We're offering 15% off to new paid subs -- share this link with a fellow fan of feminist journalism!
We're offering 15% off to new paid subs -- share this link with a fellow fan of feminist journalism!
Good morning! We need to get 80 subscriptions a day until Monday to reach our goal. Will you consider being our first today, with 15% off our regular pricing? the-flytrap.ghost.io/feminist
October 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
EIGHTY! only eighty! that's nothing let's DO THIS SHIT LIVE
I've been surprised at how much the destruction of the East wing has pissed me off. I get furious when I see the pictures. Fuck anyone (looking at you especially, Douthat) who makes excuses for this madness.
FDR remembered this. His latest successor doesn't understand what it means. Any of it.
October 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I've been surprised at how much the destruction of the East wing has pissed me off. I get furious when I see the pictures. Fuck anyone (looking at you especially, Douthat) who makes excuses for this madness.
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"The attempted murderer was an ex-student of the university. During the police interview following his attempted murder, he told the officer he ‘just wanted to protect the freedom of academia’; during the trial, he said universities were ‘forcing ideology’ on people—the ideology of ‘gender’."
Wars on Science, Real and Otherwise
The War on Science, ed. Lawrence Krauss, documents an imaginary "war on science" from the left in order to justify an entirely real war on science from the right.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
"The attempted murderer was an ex-student of the university. During the police interview following his attempted murder, he told the officer he ‘just wanted to protect the freedom of academia’; during the trial, he said universities were ‘forcing ideology’ on people—the ideology of ‘gender’."
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I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings.
These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.
Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.
These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.
Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.
October 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings.
These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.
Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.
These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.
Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.
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Why do the local men never try to eliminate crime by investing in struggling communities and helping end prison industrial complex 🧐
September 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Why do the local men never try to eliminate crime by investing in struggling communities and helping end prison industrial complex 🧐
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“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
September 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
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This is very good and reminds me of a point I always make when people say you can’t shame people out of being bigots. You can’t, but you can make them behave better by not creating a culture of permissiveness when they do
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This is very good and reminds me of a point I always make when people say you can’t shame people out of being bigots. You can’t, but you can make them behave better by not creating a culture of permissiveness when they do
No lies detected.
being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.
September 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
No lies detected.
I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.
You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself
This time, the conspiracy theorists were right.
www.theatlantic.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Hi did you move your newsletter away from substack? drop it in the replies so people can find you and subscribe! I am big on rewarding good choices
September 2, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Hi did you move your newsletter away from substack? drop it in the replies so people can find you and subscribe! I am big on rewarding good choices
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For people that think this couldnt be- in mi and Detroit, business leaders literally decided they wanted particular places for their own (see: mackinaw island as one they claimed and belle isle as one they tried but failed to claim) and actively used resources of the state to do claim them.
Removing people from public life is naturally going to lead to less consumption. Business leaders are willing to support this because they find those customers undesirable and believe the social benefits to removing them outweigh the cost to the bottom line.
Trump's troop deployment in DC has made people scared to go out to eat. Dining is down almost 30% www.opentable.com/c/state-of-i... That's pretty MAGA!
August 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
For people that think this couldnt be- in mi and Detroit, business leaders literally decided they wanted particular places for their own (see: mackinaw island as one they claimed and belle isle as one they tried but failed to claim) and actively used resources of the state to do claim them.
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Aged extremely well. She may have just won the tournament
Echegini has had a hell of a tournament in the midfield, great presence on the ball and field vision to find the dangerous passes quickly
July 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Aged extremely well. She may have just won the tournament
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that the...
chuffed.org
June 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle chuffed.org/project/hope...
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No, Trump is NOT defending mifepristone
May 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
No, Trump is NOT defending mifepristone
Hey Michiganders! Make sure you thank Senator Gary Peters for voting yes to confirm Sean Duffy for DOT head. Oh and he also deserves more thank you's for voting to confirm noted animal lover, Kristi Noem for Homeland Secretary. Great job, Gary 🖕
January 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Hey Michiganders! Make sure you thank Senator Gary Peters for voting yes to confirm Sean Duffy for DOT head. Oh and he also deserves more thank you's for voting to confirm noted animal lover, Kristi Noem for Homeland Secretary. Great job, Gary 🖕
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Hi new Bluesky users. Semi-annual reminder to follow my favorite part of this website: the Gift Links feed.
It shows any free link to an otherwise paywalled article that’s shared by anyone on Bluesky. It has legit changed how I read the news.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
It shows any free link to an otherwise paywalled article that’s shared by anyone on Bluesky. It has legit changed how I read the news.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 20, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Hi new Bluesky users. Semi-annual reminder to follow my favorite part of this website: the Gift Links feed.
It shows any free link to an otherwise paywalled article that’s shared by anyone on Bluesky. It has legit changed how I read the news.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
It shows any free link to an otherwise paywalled article that’s shared by anyone on Bluesky. It has legit changed how I read the news.
bsky.app/profile/did:...