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The identity of Sarah Kendzior, researcher on authoritarian states, and Sarah Kendzior's content discussing authoritarian states are...not really easy to separate. So I'm struggling to see this as a response.

WTH @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team ? Please reinstate author and historian Sarah Kendzior. #booksky #authors

Free Sarah Kendzior.

Reinstate Sarah Kendzior

Update bsky.app/profile/mst3...

What the fuck, bluesky substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEW: Firings of LGBTQ staff at NBC and Condé Nast have worsened an already dire picture for legacy news media when it comes to covering the trans community. From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

This review is worth your time, and the book it's reviewing is really, really worth your time.

Another: www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/l...

TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.

Someone is currently camping out in the crosswalk or at the crosswalks to prevent the city in their efforts....folx are heading to the city council meeting tonight

Salisbury Mayor Randy Taylor labeled a ‘bigot’ by community members after announcing plans to remove the city’s rainbow crosswalk, drawing widespread backlash and raising questions about media ethics and corruption. Full story: willfries.substack.com/p/mayor-rand...

"Obergefell is settled law" is to the 2028 election what "Roe is settled law" was to the 2016 election. Roe and Obergefell are supported by a majority of voters. Republicans will try hard to convince independents that Obergefell is safe, nothing to see here...just as they did with Roe in 2016 & 20.

The Supreme Court not taking Kim Davis’ crackpot appeal doesn’t “indicate” a lack of appetite to overturn Obergefell—just that this was a ridiculous legal argument. Pathetic framing here by the Washington Post. There is absolutely a ticking clock on marriage equality. DO NOT CONGRATULATE

"If / I were there I too would be nothing / But inside my body is a bearing were / One to arise." A poem by 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 @seanthomasd.bsky.social in the Fall 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

Salisbury MD had the states first 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 crosswalk and the mayor is repaving them, Will Fries covers the fallout since the city's announcement on Facebook. Following the hate crime last year the city keeps regressing. open.substack.com/pub/willfrie...

'If the government can enforce rules based on the 'historical fact' of our sex assigned at birth without offending equal protection principles, then what does that mean for the conditions of our lives in the present?" @chasestrangio.bsky.social

Two new micro poems in @havehashad.com today! The first one is a true story of when the Dr. left open our medical file on the screen...

This is a lie. All 31 Moms for Liberty candidates in contested races lost their 2025 elections. The only "wins" were in uncontested races. Apparently, being hypocritical, book-banning scolds isn't so popular.

Definitely ‘Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity’ from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social! Editing this project was such a powerful joy, especially right now, and I’m honored by all the amazing writers & translators who contributed and entrusted me with their stories. bookshop.org/p/books/ampl...

Fabulous!

I somehow missed these when they came out! So grateful to be included! And with so many poets I admire! My apologies Many thanks to Screen Door Review www.screendoorreview.com/the-wolf-ret... www.screendoorreview.com/two-getting-... www.screendoorreview.com/the-story-of...

I'm in @thenation.com this morning on the repeated failure of transphobia as political strategy, efforts to scapegoat trans people for Democrats' own failures, and Zohran Mamdani's model of solidarity

"without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." This is flatly false! Trans people with a passport that does not match with their plain appearance when presented to a border agent is subject to additional hassle compared to a cis person presenting a passport.

Sad face... www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...

I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate. Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections. buff.ly/nTvLlFI

Democrats, Republicans, Independents — all of us — because that embodies the message we sent tonight, and that is Virginia. Let’s put Virginia on a path forward. Let's show the world what we're made of. Let's get to work.

“I have not found one single instance of a straight person risking, helping, protecting a queer and trans person during this history. Not a single one. And that’s a hard pill to swallow" 19thnews.org/2025/10/lgbt...

Every single time, it's a collection of people so bigoted that everyone in their life no longer wanted to be associated with them. Their partners left them, their friends stopped talking to them, their bigoted harassment gets them booted from social media. These are not good people.

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🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on. You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com

There should be an entire American Horror Story season based solely on Winsome Earle-Sears.

Standards based education drove this out of high schools a decade ago... obvsly centered on survey canon lit or the YA book. Student choice assignments etc. Now everything is an excerpt out of context. Everything is digital. Our state requires a vetted curriculum aligned program. Mid corporate 🗑️,imo

Grateful and excited to be included in the new issue of Muzzle, along with some fine poets I admire! www.muzzlemagazine.com/cassandra-wh...

door man with the cool shirt

"That’s where the trans people are. Strolling to the pneumatic tube station. Holding hands, feet dangling, from the top of the two story tall public supercomputer." (Tomorrow // @lilliekoi.bsky.social) Keep reading: dishsoap-quarterly.com/5-13-25/tomo...

Indigenous Artists Infiltrate the Met With a Guerrilla A.R. Project

My next book has a cover! I Will Not Abandon You is a new history of queer women under Nazism that calls for us to rethink how we understand fascist persecution as well as the very foundations of progressive politics today. You can preorder it anywhere you buy books bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...

Now Playing: D'Angelo's debut album 'Brown Sugar' (1995) | Rest in Power to one of the truest talents the music world has ever seen and heard. album.ink/dangeloBS