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Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ πŸ³β€πŸŒˆ πŸ”»β›€ (he/him/his)

@obroadhurst.bsky.social

Just another curmudgeon. Consistently contrarian concern troll. Intellectual miscreant. Ecosocialist. Abolitionist. 26+6=1. Pride is a Riot. From the River to the Sea.Za naszΔ… i waszΔ… wolnoΕ›Δ‡. Nothing about us without us. Tout moun se moun. Tiocfaidh Γ‘r lΓ‘

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04.03.2026 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Disabled Colorado grandmother fights back after notoriously unreliable drug test finds cocaine in her purse Holly Bennet was charged with drug possession, and she's now speaking out against the drug test used by police.

Disabled Colorado grandmother fights back after notoriously unreliable drug test finds cocaine in her purse
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04.03.2026 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Voter suppression in Texas.

04.03.2026 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1444    πŸ” 468    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 14

Outside of everything else: Trump's repeated claim is that if he wasn't president there would have been several nuclear wars. Despite somehow there being none from 1946-2016 and none more from 2021-2024. We're so lucky I guess that he was president just when all the nuclear wars would have happened!

03.03.2026 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Investigation finds β€˜secretly’ added chemicals of unknown safety in US food supply | CNN Over 100 chemicals of unknown safety were secretly added to foods and supplements without notifying the public or the FDA, a new investigation found.

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04.03.2026 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In the last decade, the Atlantic has not platformed a single trans person to speak about issues affecting them or the broader trans community. Not a single one. Yet, they have monthly screeds by Helen Lewis and endless money to pay random transphobic grifters to pump stuff like this out.

03.03.2026 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2103    πŸ” 475    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 14
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dude is literally a member of hate groups. why is the atlantic platforming this??

03.03.2026 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

what kind of asshole would write something like thβ€”ah, ok, i see

03.03.2026 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1640    πŸ” 263    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 11
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Transgender People, β€œGay Conversion,” and β€œLesbian Extinction”: What the Data Show A couple days ago (on Christmas, actually), The Telegraph ran a piece with the provocative title: β€œLesbians facing β€˜extinction’ as…

since The Atlantic is apparently reviving the "a was a feminine gay child, but if I was a kid today they would have 'transed' me" trope, here's an essay I wrote back in 2020 explaining why this is not true & there is no evidence to support it: juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-...

03.03.2026 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 729    πŸ” 264    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 8
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

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 kidsβ€”or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kidsβ€”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, β€œthere 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.

If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kidsβ€”or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kidsβ€”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, β€œthere 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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03.03.2026 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4018    πŸ” 661    πŸ’¬ 140    πŸ“Œ 164

...for those who haven't seen the Atlantic article in question, this 🧡 provides a good breakdown, along with this excellent one-sentence synopsis: "If your movement had real evidence, you wouldn't be pointing to alternative-universe hypotheticals!"
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03.03.2026 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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if you think the greatest threat to effeminate gay boys is the trans movement and not the cis straight men who overwhelmingly exclude and brutalize them then you should walk into the ocean immediately

03.03.2026 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2953    πŸ” 601    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 127

Every trans woman I know has had "why not be an effeminate man?" shoved in our faces for ages and yet thus piece suggests that even once suggesting an effeminate boy might be trans is some sort of crime against humanity.

This is transphobia.

03.03.2026 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2472    πŸ” 442    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 16
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Exclusive: US turns up heat on Venezuela with threat to indict new leader Delcy Rodriguez The Trump administration is quietly building a legal case against Venezuelan interim president Delcy Rodriguez including readying a draft criminal indictment, one of several tools it is using to strengthen its leverage with Caracas, according to four people familiar with the matter.

The Trump administration is quietly building a legal case against Venezuelan interim president Delcy Rodriguez including readying a draft criminal indictment, one of several tools it is using to strengthen its leverage with Caracas, according to four people familiar with the matter.

03.03.2026 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

Senator Kennedy is a disingenuous racist fuck and yet he is eating Kristi Noem for lunch today. I don’t know why we are being treated to this but I will take it

03.03.2026 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1846    πŸ” 330    πŸ’¬ 82    πŸ“Œ 14

Surely the author of a book called "Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic" has no ulterior motives or grifts to profit off of.

03.03.2026 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fuck you for posting this simultaneously both transphobic and homophobic fact free diatribe of hate speech

03.03.2026 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fuck you for posting this simultaneously both transphobic and homophobic fact free diatribe of hate speech

03.03.2026 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anti-Trans Zealots inventing a moral panic to deflect actual sexual coercion they've engaged in for decades.

When I came out as Trans as a teen, I was consistently told I should just be a gay man and pushed to sleep with men before transition even though I only ever expressed attraction to women.

03.03.2026 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 793    πŸ” 181    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3

Putred Ghouls.

Blood gargling gargoyles.

03.03.2026 09:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not sure what use a military chaplain is when everyone who committed a crime against Iran is already damned

03.03.2026 08:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I once again urge all within the US armed forces to please refuse to sunder their souls, and decline etetnal damnation

Call the Hotline

1-800-379-2679

1-877-447-4487

03.03.2026 08:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fucking Liberal swine are now singing hymns to the Pahlavi clan

03.03.2026 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Fucking Liberal swine are now singing hymns to the Pahlavi clan

03.03.2026 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

How does Mossadegh look to you liberal shitheads now?

03.03.2026 08:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We have been at War with Iran since before we toppled Mossadegh, and we need to be stopped

03.03.2026 08:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

US troops had all opportunities to refuse to provide a neo-Nazi regime their service

Those fallen in committing crimes against the people of Iran, got what was coming to them

03.03.2026 07:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What from a white nationalist and capitalist rape state can we expect if not duplicity?

03.03.2026 07:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I doubt I can emphasize this enough. The racist experiment called the US of A must be demolished

03.03.2026 07:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We need to be destroyed

The whole entire planet may depend upon our demolition

03.03.2026 07:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1