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queer, easily distracted Baltimore, MD, earth the anti-trans folks are coming for you next

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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29m ago

Whenever one of these freaks goes off on a tangent about their trans conspiracy of the day, the proper response -- from an interviewer or anyone else -- is "well, it seems like you're having some sort of mental breakdown here, so we'll wrap it up"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 33m ago

Royce White is now ranting about "transgender sex dolls" during a forum that is supposed to be about agricultural issues. This guy is a serious Republican in Minnesota who had the party's nomination for a Senate seat two years ago. Insanity.

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 28m ago

feels like the big AI impacts are: upending coding and the practice of law; making a terrible mess in healthcare; more algorithmic bias in government at every level; and it will also kill the open web, concept art, the take-home essay and possibly critical thinking any other impacts I'm missing?

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 4h ago

SCREEN failed to pass out of committee, despite a 15-13 vote (in favor). Not enough members voting, but looks like a party line vote. Good work everyone! Keep up the pressure for after recess and beyond!

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 22h ago

If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

El-Sayed: "They think they want to use my whole name against me. Mike, listen man, If you can't say the name -- it's Abdulrahman -- keep the name out your damn mouth."

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 7h ago

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈@ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 5h ago

Gift link and important summary thread from us (at the Science and Environmental Health Network) on health harms from the gas-burning plants that are powering mega-data centers. 👇 Glad to see this NYT coverage. Documenting air and water pollution from data centers is one of our core projects.

Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN)@sehnetwork.bsky.social · 6h ago

"Less mentioned has been the pollution from the scores of gas-burning plants that will power these data centers....Nationwide, at least 82 gas-burning power plants are being built or have been proposed to power data centers" as per @envirointegrity.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/c...

Stephen West@stephenwest.bsky.social · last mo.

Abe Lincoln vs. the "heritage American" crowd, 1858: It doesn't matter where your ancestors were in 1776. Americans who read the Declaration and affirm its creed "have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote [it] ...and so they are."

We have besides these men—descended by blood from our ancestors—among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe—German, Irish, French and Scandinavian—men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, (loud and long continued applause) and so they are.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 8h ago

This plane landed in Myanmar about three hours ago. This is the third ICE flight to Myanmar this year. Burmese deportees in 2025 were immediately sent to a torture facility next to the airport, according to Myanmar Now. Weeks later, not all of them had emerged.

An FR24 map showing N59JE landing in Yangon and then continuing to Bangkok
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · yesterday

This likely ICE flight operated by Journey Aviation has taken off and appears to heading for an Asia removal. In May, this aircraft deported people to Myanmar.

An ADSBx map showing N62FF heading northwest out of Mesa, AZ and over the Pacific.
Harms Committed@harmscommitted.com · 15h ago

"[E]mployees at Flock have been accessing sensitive cameras in" an Atlanta suburb. "The cameras accessed have included surveillance tech in a children's gymnastics room, a playground, a school, a Jewish community center, and a pool." #Georgia #USA #Surveillance #Technology

City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Pitch Demo, Renews Contract Anyway

Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are furious about the city's surveillance contract with Flock. Do their elected officials care?

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Kelcie Moseley-Morris@kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 22h ago

In a conference call hosted by the White House Faith Office on July 30 with thousands of religious leaders around the country, Blanche said he was committed to achieving policy solutions so that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision “becomes permanent in every single state.”

Kelcie Moseley-Morris@kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 22h ago

The recording of Blanche's call with faith leaders hosted by the White House Faith Office was still live as of a few hours ago, but has since been taken down.

Monkeytime@tmorman.bsky.social · 21h ago

lol behind a sheet at a dinner party "He described a proper bowel movement to me this way: odorless, wipe-free, over in three to seven seconds and 'nearly orgasmic.' 'I could have a bowel movement behind a sheet at a dinner party in the corner of the room,' he said, 'and nobody would know.'"

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 22h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

To O’Mara, the diet is not just a temporary means of losing weight but a way to eat for good. He has been doing it for 10 years, and credits it with turning his life around. At one point in our conversation he pulled up the Bristol Stool Chart, which ranges from Type 1 (“separate, hard pellets”) to Type 7 (“watery, no solid pieces”). O’Mara is consistently delivering Type 4 (“smooth, soft, like a snake”), with pointed ends, indicative of healthy rectal function, he told me. “When you start eating healthy, you don’t need toilet paper,” he claimed. “Animals in the wild have no residual stool on their anus.” He described a proper bowel movement to me this way: odorless, wipe-free, over in three to seven seconds and “nearly orgasmic.” “I could have a bowel movement behind a sheet at a dinner party in the corner of the room,” he said, “and nobody would know.”
Monkeytime@tmorman.bsky.social · 22h ago

"[The deal] also came with no plan to pay for the infrastructure required to support the 11 new ships or the crews to sail them. Those costs are likely to reach into the billions." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/c...

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 22h ago

I mean yeah, it’s the corruption. But it’s also that he impulsively spends billions and makes policy the way most rich dudes buy luxury sports cars. He heard about it on the golf course and now he has to have it. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/c...

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · yesterday

DOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin

Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · yesterday

In TX: Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare just CLEARED the meeting room, kicking out public speakers who are opposed to the GOP plan to cut half of the battleground county's Election Day voting locations for November: