Monster has debuted into this very fraught political moment where, despite no evidence showing a link between violence and transness, right-wingers have gone to great pains to paint almost every mass shooter who makes front page news as trans in hopes of stripping trans people of their rights.
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Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
7 Oct. 2025
But stripping also taught me how to stand firm in the face of that.
However, Arsenal’s 3-2 Women’s Super League (WSL) defeat by Manchester City over the weekend extended Arsenal’s winless run to three matches, dropping them to fifth in the WSL table and further exposing flaws in defensive solidity and execution in the final third.
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Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
Their job was to guide (and smuggle) me through the tribal areas of the country, exposing me to places where visitors, especially Americans, were officially forbidden.
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