First reported by @decaturish.bsky.social, GA State Sen. Elena Parent will not seek reelection.
In 2025, Parent, who represents one of the most progressive districts in the South, east of Atlanta, dared a trans parent to find someone to challenge her for reelection in a recorded anti-trans screed:
I had to come back and find this because I just said "way to go, TERF Shoes" out loud at an Unrivaled Instagram post :D
"Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws." We did not listen.
Also, it would be lovely to have #Unrivaled move to a state that hasn’t been passing the most virulent homophobic and transphobic laws of the past few years. Pretty sure those travel advisories against vacationing in Florida have been in place for at least four years old now.
NEW: a news roundup, largely addressing what the United States' attack on Iran means (or should mean) in a sporting context.
lol yes this looks perfect
Looking for recommendations for Spanish language shows or movies for a teenager. He likes Heartstopper, Stranger Things, Percy Jackson, etc. Fantasy,spooky, queer-themes. Ideally a accessible to someone with US streaming services or on YT
A lot you’re going to want to know in here. #wnba
Playing the Unrivaled final in the 2,000-seat arena in Miami feels quiet and anticlimactic after watching the semis in a sold-out Barclays. This deserves a bigger venue.
Back in 2018, I got to visit the Massachusetts curling club that helped make Steve Emt a Paralympian. Some of the most fun I’ve ever had reporting a story! I got to curl! bostonhassle.com/curl-to-acti...
"surely the Paralympics will have fewer low-stakes scandals than the Olympics" he said out loud to nobody, hoping to be proven wrong
This is one of the curlers on the USA Paralympic curling team and I told him today that he should post about his Paralympic experience on BlueSky because people on BlueSky get very excited whenever anybody doing anything cool in the world posts through it on BlueSky instead of other websites
WE DID IT! Y’all did it! Holy shit. HOLY SHIT. thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you
Registration is now open for March’s Out of Your League Book Club, with author Chloe Angyal:
It's time to talk about hockey media in Canada. Actually, it has been time for awhile. My thoughts on comments from Insiders, hockey media approaches, using language correctly, and accountability - or the lack of it.
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![According to Elmer Osgood Capper’s 1968 book The History of Curling at the Country Club, records from the early 20th century include notes like, “Skip [team captain] fell through the ice today but was rescued,” or “Thermometer at zero and a gale was blowing. Skip lost an ear.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4nizcnzmeesbc3ch476b7f7h/bafkreibaewjd6lm25upjozl7ob2ua2hz5h7nzskay4bfnj2ghhg4hijjkm)
According to Elmer Osgood Capper’s 1968 book The History of Curling at the Country Club, records from the early 20th century include notes like, “Skip [team captain] fell through the ice today but was rescued,” or “Thermometer at zero and a gale was blowing. Skip lost an ear.”
The OG curlers were incredibly hardcore btw bostonhassle.com/curl-to-acti...
Back in 2018, I got to visit the Massachusetts curling club that helped make Steve Emt a Paralympian. Some of the most fun I’ve ever had reporting a story! I got to curl! bostonhassle.com/curl-to-acti...
1-0 for Team USA at the Paralympics.
Steve Emt rolls off the ice trying and failing to hit the high notes in Sia's Titanium.
"you're mic'd up"
"i know!" (high-pitched howling noises)
In Defense of Effeminate Boys If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel
If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kids—or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kids—they aren’t saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britain’s foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facility’s work, “there would be no gay people left.” A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a child’s gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.
Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans.
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“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
JUST IN: North Carolina's Dem lawmaker Carla Cunningham gave the GOP the decisive vote to pass a law forcing police to comply with ICE. She said "all cultures are not equal."
She just lost reelection BIG in the Dem primary to a progressive pastor & activist, Rodney Sadler. 70% to 22%!
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not entirely the point but also a reminder that Substack just partnered with Polymarket so if you needed another reason to get off the Nazi platform, this is it
four men holding up a banner that says "NO VISAS NO VICTORIES SECURE BOTH FOR CUBAN OLYMPIC ATHLETES LET CUBA PLAY . com"
a source has informed me that Let Cuba Play was outside Surprise Stadium prior to the Cuba/Royals exhibition game. members of the Team Cuba delegation were denied visas to enter the U.S., including the team's pitching coach, Pedro Luis Lazo. (photo from Let Cuba Play)
I asked the PA directly who was handling their comms and did not receive a response.
FYI, I posted this a couple weeks back:
Emerald green oversized square frames
Tortoise shell oversized square frames
got two pairs of new frames and I love them both
With the release of tonight’s news, I am once again asking where the dedicated external AND internal comms team was!!!! This all could have been avoided, y’all
that's it i'm mandating entry level classes in solidarity for all american white women
Marc it’s even worse than we thought omg
Man if there are problems in the union about this stuff they have to be addressed, yeah, the existence of the letter itself is fine, but whoever leaked this during active bargaining has some explaining to do.
