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Lucy Bloom

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sometimes write stuff for defector.com signal: yuck.20 tacoma, wa 🏴

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Gonna get a lotta footage of employees saying "what you see is what we have in stock"

09.03.2026 21:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Attacks leave dead vs killed

09.03.2026 03:21 πŸ‘ 10074 πŸ” 2634 πŸ’¬ 141 πŸ“Œ 122

Democrats are going to fund and support this war. Like every enabling and collaborative stunt they pull, this is yet another opportunity to recognize they aren’t an opposition party but a captured group that serves the interests of the same wealth and oligarchical classes as the Republicans.

08.03.2026 17:53 πŸ‘ 858 πŸ” 282 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 12

Absolutely BEGGING news organizations to not accept the framing of "we accept them, they just have to be their assigned sex at birth for all purposes" as a win for trans people.

08.03.2026 12:40 πŸ‘ 1225 πŸ” 142 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1
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Featuring @jaythegryphon.bsky.social and his new 1999 Fiat Multipla

08.03.2026 00:21 πŸ‘ 100 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

One day I will trick an editor somewheres into letting me write a 3k word personal essay specifically about how fucked this town is

08.03.2026 00:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey Lauren: if this poutine gave u cause to pass wind, would u call that a Women's Hogzilliary Air Force?

07.03.2026 20:06 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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me when AndrΓ©s MuΓ±oz enters in to close the game

06.03.2026 21:13 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Welp, there goes my next 41 minutes for about the third time this year

06.03.2026 21:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
06.03.2026 18:03 πŸ‘ 1754 πŸ” 300 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 6

Woah the Imbler endorsement!

06.03.2026 17:53 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Wrote about that Kansas mess

06.03.2026 17:04 πŸ‘ 365 πŸ” 93 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1
Floor of the US House

Chyron: on motion to suspend the rules and agree

H Res 1099

Republican: Yea, 215, Nay 0, Pres 0,  NV 3
Democratic: Yea, 157. Nay 53, Pres 2, NV 2
Totals: Yea, 372, Nay 53, Pres 2, NV 5

Floor of the US House Chyron: on motion to suspend the rules and agree H Res 1099 Republican: Yea, 215, Nay 0, Pres 0, NV 3 Democratic: Yea, 157. Nay 53, Pres 2, NV 2 Totals: Yea, 372, Nay 53, Pres 2, NV 5

157 Democratic members of the House just voted yea for a resolution that confirms they agree with the Trump administration's reasoning for starting with a war with Iran.

It passes 372-53-2

05.03.2026 21:33 πŸ‘ 783 πŸ” 319 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 497
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05.03.2026 20:30 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How I Became A Target For Right-Wing Freaks At The Australian Open | Defector Before I went to Melbourne in January to cover the Australian Open for Defector and a couple other publications, I spent some time in New Zealand with my family. We lived there for five years when I w...

really great story by @owensports.bsky.social
defector.com/how-i-became...

05.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 88 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

"We can't actually oppose this properly, but just kinda ~imagine~ if we were a party that could"

03.03.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You often see pundits say "IMAGINE IF A DEMOCRAT DID [stupid or corrupt thing that a republican just got away with]" and all I can hear is them admitting just how effective the Republicans have been as an opposition party

03.03.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Instar interviews Hi there! My name is Sabrina Imbler, and I'm a transmasculine writer. I'm working on a book of essays called INSTAR about the idea of metamorphosis, which I explore through the lens of gender transiti...

my beloved trans community: do you feel like you transitioned late? (whatever that means to you!) if so, I'd love to hear from you for an essay I'm working on πŸ™ πŸ›
forms.gle/AMd8zWnWvEro...

02.03.2026 19:42 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

While a democrat president would absolutely be down to smoke the leader of Iran and the neighboring orphanage for the fuck of it, i must concede they would deftly avoid collaterally smoking the top three choices for leading the country to a mutually beneficial partnership with western oil concerns

02.03.2026 07:38 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Boom times for instantly writing 380 ireedemably insane words in a google doc with the working headline The Whole Place Is Dark and then deleting it. I do not think this is quite as much my fault as usual.

02.03.2026 04:37 πŸ‘ 582 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 3

They bombed a girls’ school.

01.03.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 109 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

01.03.2026 15:04 πŸ‘ 10478 πŸ” 2193 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 63

Look do I like that my job makes me harvest children? No, of course not.

Do I like that the company I work for is the #1 child harvester on earth? Doubly no.

But I had no control over any of that when I took a multi-month application to work at Child Harvester Inc.

01.03.2026 17:29 πŸ‘ 403 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Ive said it before but i think Everett has a real case as the bleakest place people actually live in this country

01.03.2026 18:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

they call it β€œhorseshoe theory” because you are likely to believe it if you have been kicked in the noggin by a Horse

01.03.2026 15:06 πŸ‘ 912 πŸ” 94 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

Damn I hope somebody airstrike us into a regime change

28.02.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Picture of an aircraft carrier, The Onion Magazine Cover
October 2006: 
WHY AMERICAN HUBRIS WILL NEVER CATCH UP TO US
Richard Perkins On Our Permanent And Unassailable Dominance Of Everything
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Picture of an aircraft carrier, The Onion Magazine Cover October 2006: WHY AMERICAN HUBRIS WILL NEVER CATCH UP TO US Richard Perkins On Our Permanent And Unassailable Dominance Of Everything Page 14

My all-time fav

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Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.

28.02.2026 14:14 πŸ‘ 1316 πŸ” 908 πŸ’¬ 114 πŸ“Œ 261

i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.

26.02.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 3784 πŸ” 1533 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 101