In Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan launches a massive crackdown against the LGBTQ movement, claiming that it is a "virulent plague" that is funded and driven by the West. There have been more than 100 raids were carried out on Sunday and Monday by police targeting 162 individuals, 9 associations

Die türkische Justiz geht gegen LGBTQ-Aktivisten vor

Die türkische Justiz geht massiv gegen die LGBTQ-Bewegung vor. Deutschland steht als Geldgeber am Pranger. Erdoğan bedient so seine konservative Klientel.

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Turkish authorities raided LGBTQ+ organizations, activists, venues, and homes across 15 provinces, "close to 50 LGBTQ+ rights defenders, association executives and members, former officials, and acitivists detained or were undergoing detention" turkeyunfolding.com/turkey-launc...

Turkey launches sweeping LGBTQ+ crackdown under 'My Family Is Safe' operations - Turkey Unfolding

Turkish authorities raided LGBTQ+ organizations, activists, venues, and homes across 15 provinces under "My Family Is Safe" operations

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"The real name of this operation is not 'My Family is Safe'; it is state-led discrimination, politics of fear and the dismantling of civil society," says targeted NGO Kaos in Turkey www.bbc.com/news/article...

Turkish police detain dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activists

Human rights groups in Turkey have accused the government of using a family- values campaign to target the LGBTQ+ community.

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The Russians are launching so many jet Shaheds that I don’t flinch at the explosions outside my window anymore. And I still have to work – nobody’s gonna pay me for doing nothing. So I just sit there working while shit keeps exploding nearby. Insane that this is what they’ve reduced my life to.

Dallas Morning News reported that Texas has suspended 6% of registered voters without telling them Texans can use this link to check their voting status: goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/... People who have been purged can still register before October 5. Tell everyone you know.

Am a university professor at CUNY Brooklyn College. Things I do fantasize about: -enrollments that are stable so classes don't get cancelled last minute -infrastructure that is not crumbling -livable wage for all on campus -new TT lines after the loss of 8 colleagues over 9 years, none replaced

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 3w ago

I fantasise about being a "university professor". I am a university professor. Things I especially fantasise about: Stable income-streams; Generous library funding; Clear, reliable and supportive IT systems; Students with time & space to study intensively; Less bullshit...

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Travandboo@travandboo.bsky.social · 4w ago

Her website is crashing from donations. If that isn’t the most beautiful thing, I don’t know.

The monthly book from Dolly was a highlight in our Tennessee home. Thank you, Dolly, for all you did for reading, literacy, science, the arts, and humanity. RIP #Dolly.

Dolly Parton - Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, Sept. 30, 1978.

‘We Were Always Here’: Ireland’s first permanent LGBTQ museum exhibition opens in Cork

‘We Were Always Here’: Ireland’s first permanent LGBTQ museum exhibition opens in Cork

‘Too often the history of the LGBT community has been invisible, ignored or erased,’ said curator Orla Egan

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If the White House were serious about science, they would not have proposed a $4B cut to NSF in FY 2027: www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

Trump administration proposes massive budget cuts to science

The White House budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing

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All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning

"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a...

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Andrea Grimes@andreagrimes.com · last mo.

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The Russian LGBT Network is ceasing operations following a St. Petersburg court ruling labeling the advocacy group as "extremist." The decision comes amid an ongoing crackdown on LGBTQ+ human rights organizations across Russia.

Russian LGBTQ+ rights group to shut down - Watermark Out News

Russian LGBT Network on Aug. 17 announced it will shut down after a court declared it an “extremist” organization.

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#Russia: The Russia LGBT Network has announced it is being forced to close after being designated an "extremist" organisation. We condemn the continued attack on LGBTQ+ communities in Russia. The LGBT Network spent 20 years protecting people: meduza.io/en/news/2026...

The Russian LGBT Network spent 20 years protecting queer people. Now, branded ‘extremist,’ it’s dissolving itself to protect them. — Meduza

The Russian LGBT Network, a public movement, announced that it is shutting down, according to a statement its representatives posted on Telegram. The organization said its “extremist” designation made...

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The Russian LGBT Network has been there for thousands of LGBT people, even continuing the work in exile. This is tragic news.

Meduza in English@meduza.io · last mo.

The Russian LGBT Network says it is shutting down after a court declared it "extremist" in a closed hearing in April and banned its activities in Russia. The group has worked since 2006 to protect the rights of queer people. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

it was a very two americas moment to cover the opening of a shelter for homeless queer youth in need of immediate housing right after reading an op ed about how it's not good to cut off your family for being unsupportive

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · last mo.

My story on Asia's Place, a new shelter named for a 22 Black trans woman murdered in Houston in 2020. It will serve LGBTQ youth age 15-17 in need of emergency housing. Before now, the closest shelter of its kind was in Austin, nearly 3 hours away: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

New Anti-LGBT crminalization laws enforced in Senegal. www.africanews.com/2026/08/10/7...

71 men arrested in Senegal for 'unnatural acts' as crackdown intensifies | Africanews

Months after passing a law upping the penalties for homosexual relations, Senegal is intensifying its crackdown on same-sex relations. On Friday, the public prosecutor’s office said 71 men have been a...

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An existential crisis for every research university in the country. The entire funding & staffing model depends on foreign students. Someone should get out in front of a microphone & start explaining this to the general public. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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This follows a precipitous decline in 2025.

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Delighted to be part of this forthcoming anthology, A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT, featuring "essays on form & water," from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. I have a piece on contrapuntal poems & consciousness. The publishers are currently fundraising to help cover costs: see below comment for more details.

The nasty extremist, right-wing Republican regime in the US has now decided on a policy, that goes against all scientific evidence, of deliberately harming children. Exactly like the extremist, right-wing Labour regime in the UK is doing.

Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban

This paper presents an analysis of data from trans children and young people and their parents following the imposition of a UK-wide ban on puberty blockers for this group. The consequences of this...

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Psyched to have my essay from the Living Together anthology featured in @muthamagazine.bsky.social! ❤️

Beacon Press@beaconpress.bsky.social · last mo.

Multi-generational living has brought great love to @writesloud.bsky.social’s children. She believes it has also kept her parents alive. @muthamagazine.bsky.social

Well! I wrote a book. I've been pretty quiet about it. I'm generally open to a fault: depression, breakups, body issues. But this book charts a part of my life very VERY few people know about. I almost had a kid. And then I didn't have a kid. electricliterature.com/exclusive-co...

Steve Rattner: Over 5 million low-income Americans — including at least 1.5 million children — have lost access to food assistance due to Trump's SNAP cuts last year. Most of the hardest hit states are traditionally Republican, resulting in growing hunger crises in states like Arizona.

Here’s a little Blue Heron fluffing himself up to appear larger than he actually is and it’s part of a territorial dispute. 📷 Daniel Riddle Saint Augustine, Florida

Healthcare workers belong in hospitals, not detention centers. Over 100 nurses rallied outside Maine Medical Center in Portland on Aug 5, forcing ICE to release Debora Kapisha on Aug 6. Organize, speak out, and demand permanent protection for essential workers. 🎥NowThisImpact

Listen. I recall the dentist who told me he didn’t like to do extractions on Black people because — and I remember this well — Black people’s bones are too strong because we are closer to apes.

COYG@jamespmahaffey.bsky.social · last mo.

I will forever be haunted by the findings of this study pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

My story "What Is Missing" appears in the Cincinnati Review today. www.cincinnatireview.com/micros/what-...

What Is Missing - The Cincinnati Review

Web and Media Editor Bess Winter Kosinec: In the grand tradition of Modernist fiction, British upstairs-downstairs dramas or the single-shot wonder

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