Harper B. Keenan
@harperkeenan.bsky.social
Asst Prof at UBC. USian in 🍁. studying childhood/imagining pedagogies/unscripting curriculum/trans-ing through life. www.harperkeenan.com
Ah, yes… when you look at what’s happening to American research in 2026 and think, “I’ll have what they’re having”
Steph Halmhofer@cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 2w agoWe knew this was coming 😒 Canadian researchers, pay close attention to this report. "The committee says it heard 'overwhelming testimony' criticizing EDI policies. . . that EDI has been 'embraced and politicized by the far-left political agenda'."
Carney is truly the Reagan of Canada. A calming, paternalistic figure in a period of apocalyptic uncertainty who galvanizes the economy with short-sighted right wing fiscal policies. And like Reagan, every disaster that Canada encounters in the future will be traceable to his administration.
Ms. Rachel announces she will match Macklemore and donate $1 million to organizations supporting Palestine: “I will match Macklemore’s donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza.”
So, self-regulation for the tech companies who say their product could likely annihilate humanity, but not for *checks notes* transgender people? Cool cool cool
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoMike Johnson on OpenAI and Anthropic: "They can self-police. They can self-regulate."
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
inquirer.com
NEW: ICE is arresting and detaining a record number of pregnant women and teens. At the same time, it has lost count of how many had miscarriages, according to a Guardian review of internal ICE documents. w/ @amyqin.bsky.social, @wcraft.bsky.social and Flávio Pessoa
Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
theguardian.com
An increasing number of Democratic officials are proving themselves to be bigoted fools who believe trans people’s rights and lives are less worthy than their own.
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 3w agoAn increasing number of Democratic officials in red and blue states are distancing themselves from their party's unflinching support for the transgender community's policy priorities, such as allowing athletes to compete on teams that match their gender identity. https://to.pbs.org/4xO5rWu
Today is the day! A journey that Astra and I started as an essay in The Guardian is now officially out in the world. End Times Fascism – And the Fight for the Living World is in bookstores now. If you are inclined, please buy one from an indie bookseller or borrow it from your local library.
Please join us for a Pop-Up Museum of Queer Play at UBC on September 27! For more details and to register, go to www.queerplayworkshop.org
What does play look like through a queer lens? If you’re interested in that question and live in Vancouver, please come join us for a Queer Play Pop-Up Museum on September 27! More info at the website, and register there for the location and other details. www.queerplayworkshop.com
What does play look like through a queer lens? If you’re interested in that question and live in Vancouver, please come join us for a Queer Play Pop-Up Museum on September 27! More info at the website, and register there for the location and other details. www.queerplayworkshop.com
This reinstatement happened for one reason: a union contract. She was brought back against managements wishes because she won the highest level of the grievance procedure, arbitration. This is how you can take the power back from people like Jeff Bezos: form a union.
Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · last mo.BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
People can "just adapt" to a changing climate, a thousand rightwing voices keep telling us. Either they lack imagination or they don't care. Try "adapting" to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Nepal flash flood: more than 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet border
Entire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims
theguardian.com
Among Democrats nationally, Mamdani is “arguably the most popular modern-day politician who is currently in elected office”
When I think about trans people in sports, I don’t think about lobbies or legislation. I think about my friends. Wrote about pick-up hoops, queer community and love:
Column: When I think about transgender people in sports, I think about my friends
Despite the rabid fixation upon the concept of trans women in sports, those who beat the drum the loudest for exclusive policies rarely seem to care about trans people themselves.
chicagotribune.com
In April, we reported on the MSG surveillance machine–an operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. You can now read it for free.
The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
wired.com
This month, we published another article revealing that MSG kept a database of VIP event attendees, labeling some of them as LGBTQIA and assigning a “risk score” to others. This is also now free to read:
Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”
wired.com
Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
theatlantic.com
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 3mo agowhat a fucking asshole
“His most recent piece for the student paper, which was published last month, criticized what he described as discriminatory hiring practices in academia biased against white men” well knock me over with a feather
Molly Crane-Newman@mollycranenewman.bsky.social · 3mo agoA Yale student is accused of sexually assaulting a young mom on an uptown R train on June 28. Prosecutors say the woman couldn’t move on the crowded subway car and that her four kids saw the whole thing. He was arraigned yesterday and released without bail. www.nydailynews.com/2026/07/09/t...
Why should you support independent trans media? Perhaps because we take on the bias of major news organizations with facts and data. Here's the latest from @evanurquhart.bsky.social, who found NYT wrote 5 stories on the trans sports ban decision without quoting a single trans person. 🤯🤯🤯
NYT Wrote Five Stories on the Trans Athlete Ban Decision. Not One Quoted A Transgender Person. - Assigned Media
The paper of record continues to diverge from other news organizations in its coverage of the transgender community.
assignedmedia.org
It's the master's POSSESSION of the tools that is central to oppression rather than the tools in and of themselves. Once you understand this, you stop focusing on tactics for social change and start interrogating actual oppression.
From the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Education, a concise summary of the devastation: the Institute of Education lost at least 84% of its employees. Research in progress or nearly complete is just *poof* gone, a complete waste of Congress's investment. oig.ed.gov/sites/defaul...
I never spoke on this publicly but we were also subject to an anonymous false report— we thought it was a political attack, but it turned out it was the deranged 44 yo racist who lives downstairs with his mom. Despite clear lies (padded room, wrong gender of child), CPS “had” to investigate 🧵
Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.
New York and Texas banned anonymous reporting because of the damage it inflicts on families - just as Buttigieg describes. More states should follow suit. imprintnews.org/child-welfar...
NY Governor Signs Law to End Anonymous Reporting
New York has joined Texas as the only two states to ban anonymous reporting of child maltreatment concerns
imprintnews.org
