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State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.

And nobody covered it.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

today is my birthday 🙂‍↕️ at either link below you can buy my writing if you feel like it!

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the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is

- more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week)

- more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages)

- more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

I Don’t Want to Be This Kind of Animal Anymore - Unwinnable You’re not crazy. You’re just different. You have a vast soul. This life is all you have, but it’s still something. You have to keep going.

and of course, if you missed the essay itself:

unwinnable.com/2025/09/25/i...

The Free Speech Crisis for Black Americans Is Worse Than You Think Don’t let Jimmy Kimmel’s return fool you: Black academics are more frightened of talking to the press than I’ve ever seen.

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired

thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

National Museum of the American Indian Among Smithsonian Museums Under Trump-Era Review The National Museum of the American Indian—with locations in New York City and Washington, D.C.—is one of eight Smithsonian Institution museums currently undergoing a “comprehensive internal review” t...

p.p.s. It is important to connect Hegseth et al's effort to rewrite history to erase the genocide of Native Americans to the Trump Administration's recent attack on the Smithsonian, including the National Museum of the American Indian

nativenewsonline.net/currents/nat...

Unwinnable: A Cesspool of Commies!

Once again I wanna thank everyone who signed up for Unwinnable during our mellow subscription drive. That's how Unwinnable survives! More subscribers means more writers (and more pay for writers) and more writers writing about what THEY want to write about. Keep it going!

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Wiring Games for Lightbulb Moments - The Power of Realization over Revelation - Unwinnable Invoking this feeling doesn’t need to be built up over many hours to work, it can also be distilled to one delightful moment.

"Capturing these satisfying moments of realization and finding ways to dole them out to a player is a hallmark of some of my most memorable gaming moments over the last decade."

@jfenn.bsky.social examines how games set up lightbulb moments for players:

She Survived 141 Days in ICE Custody Thanks to a ‘Beautiful Sisterhood.’ Now She’s Fighting for Those Still Inside. 22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, talks about her experience in federal detainment.

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind.

thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...

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The Final Fantasy VII title imposed over a screenshot of Midgar, except the meteor is an Unwinnable W

We reached the 100 new subscribers we needed to unlock a Final Fantasy and politics issue for you folks! We'll start production soon with the goal of publishing it in early 2026.

Thank you SO much for all of your help with this drive! We couldn't have done it without you.

Once we hit that number we'll start a countdown to the issue which will be a massive takeover. Any subs we get over that 100 will support extra features and artwork. We want to make this the biggest issue we can and your subscriptions do that!

I know this is Europe because I made it but for some reason seeing it again makes me wonder what the In the Air Tonight drum bridge would be like as a piece on politics in Final Fantasy in a beloved zine. What I am saying is please end our torment and subscribe lol

yesssssssss thank you!!

a Slack conversation between Ben, David, and Levi talking about which Final Fantasy games are the ones where friends were made along the way. Between the three of them they pretty much name every game. There is text added that says 5 more subscriptions before you get a whole issue of this plus politics

@unwinnable.com is 5 subscriptions away from the cool hundo we're asking for to make our Politics in Final Fantasy issue a reality!!!! Tell your friends, it's a great deal!!!

“And there is here a productive kind of disharmony [...] a making of good trouble..."

Read Adam Day’s excellent review of Jennifer Nelson’s ON THE WAY TO THE PAINTINGS OF FOREST ROBBERIES for Action, Spectacle! 💡 action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...

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that's my work!!! as the cover piece for unwinnable magazine!!! 💜

this can safely be called the most personal piece of my career, and i'm so incredibly proud of it!

subscribe to unwinnable - not just to read my work, but also because they're the best magazine out there 💜

So happy we had this conversation (it's been due for a long time).

"No matter how hard you try to gentrify the internet or to control computers, there's this fundamental layer, the core of it, that's not control. It's too late to take that away."

trans rights bitches

A black and white tuxedo cat flops on her side with her head upside down.

We are at 89 out of the 100 new Unwinnable Magazine subscribers we need to unlock a Final Fantasy and politics issue, so the gloves are off.

This is an image of the social media vulture's cat. You will be denied future images unless more people subscribe to Unwinnable. You know what to do.

You’ll Want To Tune In For Wanderstars, An RPG That Feels Like An ‘80s Anime Wanderstar is a heartfelt, word-based RPG that wears its anime inspirations boldly while sharing a wholly unique and engaging story.

Wanderstar is a heartfelt, word-based RPG that wears its anime inspirations boldly while telling a wholly unique and engaging story. Read @exalclaw.bsky.social's review:

Beau Navire and the Returning Bloom - Unwinnable I keep thinking I've aged out of this madness, and in most ways I have, largely unwilling to ask a punk for directions anymore.

"They phased in and out of sync, just the right amount to remain human while playing music that disregards our usual natural affinities."

@rubeck.bsky.social sees Beau Navire play live after over a decade apart:

PSLF changed my life by allowing me to take jobs that I could never have afforded to take without PSLF. Please comment by TONIGHT to oppose this harmful attack on a [checks notes] GW Bush administration law that changed many lives, including mine.

This one's maybe a little on the ling side, but trust me, it's worth it. I've cried reading it multiple times.

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Re. RPS freelance, I now have a budget for irregular (maybe 6-12 pieces a year) 2000-3000 wordish, more granular and specific reporting and investigative criticism that broaches a new topic or addresses a gap in knowledge regarding something familiar.

For @bulletpointsvg.bsky.social, I wrote about Mafia: The Old Country, its contradictions, and Pope Francis' Laudato Si'.

Special thanks to @lewisgordon.bsky.social for the inspiration.

bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/09/17/n...

Undocumented father killed by ICE agent in Franklin Park shooting had no criminal background, lawyer says The undocumented father shot and killed by an ICE agent in Franklin Park, Illinois, only had a history of minor traffic violations, not a criminal record, according to his attorney.

A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.

need to make sure our pie scales align