Also, if you are a cis person and you actually think this is about trans people, I'd be happy to inform you that it's not. Conservatives want to police gender for everyone. It's the skeleton key to their entire political project. It won't just affect trans people. It'll affect you, too.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you're a cis person insisting that the prospect of trans children playing youth sports is not only "a problem" but in fact one of the biggest problems we currently face as a nation, I'd be happy to introduce you to literally a million other things that should be worrying you more.

In light of the “good faith questions” discourse I just wanted to re-up @reveleth.com’s fascinating podcast about the complex (and frequently appalling) history and present of policing sexual biology in women’s sports.

Reo Eveleth@reveleth.com · 2y ago

Hello new people! My latest project was a 10+ year labor of love and it would mean the world to me if you checked it out. www.tested-podcast.com It’s a narrative, deep, complex and suspenseful story of gender, sports, science, and “fairness.”

It’s often necessary and energizing to mobilize through shared opposition. But this form of solidarity will always stagnate if we can’t also recognize what we love in common and imagine what we hope to build together. As usual, I think the preschool classroom offers some wisdom in finding balance.

The Power of Refusal and the Necessity of Imagination

What kids have to teach us about insisting on “no” and striving for “yes”

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Last summer, Trinity Rodman's back injury caused many to question her potential. This summer, as @roey.bsky.social explains, she's playing some of the best soccer of her career: www.theixsports.com/the-ix-socce...

Trinity Rodman’s renaissance: Spirit win caps a July return to form | The IX Soccer

A year ago, Trinity Rodman's back injury kept her from reaching her full potential, which is more than on display this summer.

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Today marks the beginning of rent making week. I have to sell 13 framed pieces just to have rent (I badly need car parts, groceries & pet food, but keeping the roof over our heads comes first). This year has been hard but this month has been the worst. Special gift packages going w/ all orders!

Remarkable story - “the only known example of a multigenerational journal established by an enslaved person in the United States.”

KEW@kidadaewilliams.com · 3w ago

This 19th-Century Diary Written by Adam Francis Plummer, an Enslaved Maryland Man Is a Crucial Record of His Life and Family History—and the Only One of Its Kind Found in the United States www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

@josie.zone In other news, I finished reading your dad’s book, and it taught me so much. I could go on at length, but the essence is that he gave Bill Broonzy his due, for sure, which on a first-order level is high praise (at least in my reckoning). I did promise you that I would report back

Something that the white nationalists and supremacists don’t want us to believe— everyone, especially the most vulnerable, deserves to a have a future. And they want us to happily give up having a say. And if not, they’ll violently take that right from us. But, everyone deserves a future

I got to learn about this project at the SHEAR conference. The way this visualizes and contextualizes who changed what in Jefferson’s original draft is really, really cool.

Christina Carrick@crcarrick3.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For 2026, my project (the Jefferson Papers) put together a new exhibit on the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and its connections to some earlier documents. Check it out! jeffersonpapers.princeton.edu/declaration-...

We can make a society that exists for the care and thriving and enjoyment of the actual people rather than for the enrichment of parasitical greed freaks and the comfort of creepy-minded religious bigots. All that's needed is for more people to stop fearing good things and start fighting for them.

Another angel just got their wings. “The first is that healthcare I spent years fighting to get becomes a punchline. The second is that a political movement with a perfectly coherent plan for people like me gets talked about as if it simply made a logic error. Both are bad.” Please read this.

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 4w ago

Every time someone calls Hegseth's testosterone program or Elon's hair plugs "gender affirming care," I wince. Speaking only for myself, and I know the jokes are well-intentioned: I wish we'd retire this one. New from me on why. www.readtpa.com/p/theres-no-...

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Scoiattolo@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · 4w ago

Vincenzo Bacalhau

honestly if you have a teenager in your life and you're tempted to make jokes about how they're a teenager, maybe instead tell them they're doin okay and you love them and you wanna see whatever thing they're working on. stop making fun. they're near universally not at a place where it feels funny

Yay, the grunion are running!

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · last mo.

www.latimes.com/environment/... Thousands of small, silver fish will wash up on California beaches to perform a strange and wondrous mating ritual. 🧪🦑🌎🐟

Hey, I know that author! My first published bit of true freelance NWSL coverage: fresh reporting from North Carolina on the Courage's efforts to score lots of goals (and a bit on how that proved difficult against the Spirit on Saturday.) Read it and make sure to follow their great coverage!

The IX Sports@theixsports.bsky.social · last mo.

The North Carolina courage were blanked 2-0 by the Washington Spirit over the weekend. @roey.bsky.social explores how the team is adjusting to life without Manaka Matsukubo: www.theixsports.com/the-ix-socce...

when you tell us that the people who murdered comity and civility—who are trying to kill and rob and enslave us—are actually your dear friends, you don’t create civility, but despair; we see you don’t actually believe the danger is real, can’t be trusted to fight the battle that needs to be fought.

What can you do to lessen some suffering where you are?

Timeline cleanse: You're watching Mei & Kira, two sea otters (Enhydra lutris) at the Toba Aquarium in Japan, help clean the pool area after playtime. The reward is an ice treat. Enrichment activities like this promote mental wellness. Let's talk about the SUCCESS of sea otter conservation.

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I wrote about what the court’s ruling on trans kids in sports means, not in the eyes of the law, but in the eyes of children who just want to play. I really hope you’ll read and share this one. And I hope it helps give you the words to stand up for trans kids. They need us to do so much better.

Let Every Child Play

What it means for childhood when the playground bullies carry gavels

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Something that I appreciate about being a marginalized person in this country is that it makes me unsentimental about it. This means that there's always an opportunity to redo things. This day sucked, well there's tomorrow or next month or next year to do something else. Things should change.

A quick 4 for the 4th. karinwulf.com/trove/four-f...

Four for July 4, 2026. - Karin Wulf

What are some basics to know about the American Revolution?  I don’t always write it here, but every year I reflect on what it means to me to be a historian on the fourth of July.  I think about how i...

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Headed to bed but here's what's in my head, thanks to the book I am reading by @josie.zone's dad. I am really enjoying it so far! And the musical education is phenomenal. youtu.be/iB0hLsnWyhg?...

Big Bill Broonzy - I Feel So Good

YouTube video by Jazz Everyday!

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Kavanaugh really, really wants people to think that trans sports bans and his decision upholding them are strictly about sports None of that is true! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/west-...

Conservative Activists Know the Trans Sports Ban Case Isn’t Just About Sports

Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s opinion emphasized that sports are “different.” But conservative activists are already celebrating what the case will allow them to do next.

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I am gonna watch Supergirl again

Not sure there's an argument here

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · last mo.

My friend just texted me "no goal is offsides on stolen land" 😭😭😭

Jenny Taft reporting an equipment manager win getting Tillman a shoe change before his free kick. That's why the EQT folks do the hard running when no one's watching

It's all "ooooh we need a meritocracy" until the wrong people have merit and then it's like "oooh we need to protect us." Trans kids deserve a chance play in sports because EVERYONE deserves a chance to play in sports and nobody should lose that chance because they're disfavored by bigots.

Got frustrated striking out at pitching opeds to media orgs and couldn't have done this piece within their word count constraints anyway. So now you Blueskis get to read it. Friend told me my superpower is explaining complex and dry law and legal history clearly. I try. You can be the judge. Thx.

Anna O. Law@unlawfulentries.bsky.social · last mo.

This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.

Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non binary people are non binary. Everyone has the right to be themselves. Everyone deserves a political and judicial system that respects and protects these rights. We need to make that happen.