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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 8m

It is fucking bullshit that a guy who can and wants to work isn't allowed to because then he wouldn't be poor enough to qualify for lifesaving critical care.

But it'll be a cold day in hell before we merely accept the state of things like this as reasonable.

And that's why we win in the end.

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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 8m

Looking good! About time they put a male lead in a skant/skirt. Come on, SNW, put Spock in a skant in the last season.

Hopefully, we’ll see a return to queer storylines as well. A queer Klingon is something we haven’t seen from the francishe yet!

#StarTrekStarfleetAcademy

Malcolm Wood @woodmally1979.bsky.social · 45m

So the haters are already starting upset that a Klingon warrior is wearing a skirt. Well wait till they find out how Viking men dressed when they went into battle. Wonder if they think of them as "woke" fandompulse.substack.com/p/new-york-c...

New York Comic-Con Unveils Male Klingon Wearing A Skirt For Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

Star Trek may not have had its wokest moment yet under Alex Kurtzman.

fandompulse.substack.com

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 8m

I have seen the Starfleet Academy trailer and as far as the copious make outs go all I see are straight people being straight

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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 10h

Trump’s first-term foreign policy was riddled with one failure after another. Almost everything he attempted either fizzled out or blew up in his face. Don’t let this garbage revisionism stand.

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Erin Ryan Hey ♿️ @erinryanhey.bsky.social · 19m

The administration believes students with disabilities are not welcome in US public schools. They’re willing to go around and act passed by Congress and signed by HW Bush to deny students their equal right to an education. Time for the disability community AND our allies to get loud. /end

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 17m

pictured: Pritzker "resisting" Donald Trump

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 34m

A small number of demonstrators attempted to protest/march in the street.

Massive number of ISP troopers in riot gear responded by blocking 25th, threatening arrest, shouting into megaphone about an unlawful assembly.

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♡ Kate's haunted emporium 👻 🎃 🇬🇹~ FREE 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @katespeace.bsky.social · 23m

Anthony Blinken is a terrorist, nazi zionist freak who should be held accountable fully for crimes against humanity.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 31m

Incredible that this man thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he couldn’t have stopped the genocide, that he wasn’t a collaborator par excellence.

Blinken:

(2/12) First, what changed to make this breakthrough possible? Hamas is finally and fully isolated. Arab states and Turkey have said “enough.” The misery Hamas provoked and would allow to persist has delegitimized it among most Gazans. And Hamas realized that the cavalry (Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis) are not coming to the rescue.

(3/12) Israel has long since achieved its war aims -- destroying Hamas as an organized military force so October 7 can never be repeated and eliminating those responsible for its horrors – but at terrible cost to Palestinian civilians caught in a crossfire they did not start and were powerless to stop. Only the hostages remained. Israelis want them home and the war to end, putting pressure on the Israeli government to take the deal, not move the goalposts.

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Jen Deerinwater @jendeerinwater.bsky.social · 31m

The poverty rate for American Indians is between 25-29%. The national average is 12-15%. Help me get disability accessible, stable housing so I can access the healthcare I need. Please donate if you can, & repost & share w/ 5 people in your network #LandBack #IndigenousPeoplesDay #DisabilityJustice

Donate to Help Disabled Two-Spirit Leader Create Accessible Home, organized by Susan McClannahan

As friends and community members, we’re pulling together fun… Susan McClannahan needs your support for Help Disabled Two-Spirit Leader Create Accessible Home

www.gofundme.com

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 34m

illinois state police lt. col. jason bradley has declared an unlawful assembly and is telling protesters that they will be arrested if they don’t disperse.

the crowd isn’t moving.

didn’t catch what tipped this off but it looks like some protesters may have tried to take 25th street.

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 37m

No way to run a government. Fired. Not fired. Fired again. Not fired. Pants on fire.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 42m

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kris Nuttycombe @nutty.land · 14d

This is an excellent resource, by @violetrollergirl.com, on how sex workers can use privacy-preserving cryptocurrencies to protect themselves from being debanked: violetrollergirl.com/resources/fo...

Using Cryptocurrency (for Sex Workers) • Violet Rollergirl • Bubbly trans GFE companion

A series of articles written for providers about why and how to use privacy-preserving cryptocurrencies like Zcash and Monero.

violetrollergirl.com

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1h

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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Duchess Van Hoof @duchess-van-hoof.bsky.social · 10h

This is the same Netflix that Musk wants to cancel over it being too woke, with too many trans positive depictions.

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 17h

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience

plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

juliaserano.medium.com

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 38m

Many people have reported this guy who just openly threatened to kill people and he and his posts are still here, if you were wondering whether Bluesky actually cares about violence.

Brian O'Shea says: Not really. If I'm blocked by anyone in black masks with red & black flags I'll run them down or shoot them. If they get mounted on my vehicle's grill in my commission of such self-defense I'll leave them there until I dump them on their parents' lawns.& I'll sue mom & dad for the damages to my vehicle

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 41m

idk about THAT. Nancy Pelosi (per Biden) had the girls leaking secrets like a faucet from the WH. It was reports that

- Kamala was stomping her feet demanding to be considered after the disastrous debate he did
- Hunter & Jill told him do NOT step down
- Hakeem & the party were fielding ALL TAKERS

writing & reading all 2025 @drladydemerald.bsky.social · 44m

& Remember she never really wanted to do it in the first place but did it b/c she felt it was her duty. Never wanted her to run b/c I knew it was gonna be some mess!

Do I agree with all of her stances? No. Was she still a Black woman they were gonna make play savior or blame for everything? Yes. 👎🏽

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 1h

If that’s true (and it probably is) then that ALSO MEANS she nor the party had enough political will nor backbone to contest and acknowledge his OPEN GUARANTEES that he would steal the election

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1h

Many historians of Rome identify Roman generals becoming the personal sources of payment for their armies as a key step in the downfall of the Republic, since it personalized military authority and freed armies to fight for their immediate leader, who paid them, instead of for the Republic

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Cain @cainturner.com · 49m

Live photos of the insurrection outside the ICE building in burning, war-torn Portland (sent to me by a friend who is currently there). 😂

Donald Trump is a fascist dictator and is looking for every opportunity to use lethal force against American citizens.

This reality doesn't fit his narrative.

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 52m

It continues to be wild that Dems require you to do their messaging for them

They're fighting a political negotiation on the battleground of optics at the moment and I've not seen them do any signalling

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1h

🧵 regarding the shutdown:

The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.

If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 46m

Hey, what was happening in Germany in the 1930s? I forget.

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
For those who actually respect history, the origin story of Antifa is well documented. Antifa is an organization that emerged with the “German Communist Antifaschistische Aktion” movement in the 1930’s.
German Communists smeared anyone to their right as "fascists,” a common ploy used by the ignorant hysterical activists of the Democrat Party today. Like today’s leftist loonies, the German Antifa of the Weimar years even labeled the leftwing SDP as "social fascists." Today’s Antifa are a paramilitary mob used by the usual suspects to foment fake “mass protests” and burn down cities. The same puppet masters of the Democrat activist judges ruining America today also fund these “useful idiots” of Antifa to impede the mandate given to the current President in his landslide last election victory.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Antonio RB @antonioreyesb.bsky.social · 1d

A MUST KNOW

News Literacy Project @newslit.org · 2d

No longer is critically examining a video enough to tell if it's real or AI. Sora has changed the game.

🎞 Our very real explainer: www.tiktok.com/@newslitproj...

#MediaLiteracy

Sora 2 has changed the landscape for evaluating if a video is legit or AI. No longer can we simply say, "Examine the fingers" or "Take a closer look." The quality of these fakes is too good. Relying o...

TikTok video by News Literacy Project

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 59m

Trump wants his name on their paychecks so when he wants them to come after us he can say "The Dems shut down the government but I made sure you were paid. Even Congress couldn't get it done! It's me and you vs them, soldiers"

Anyway, probably fine

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Arturo R. Garcia @aboynamedart.bsky.social · 56m

Even him getting swayed over after the fight works

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1h

It is so inexcusable on so many levels how unprepared Congress has been for this administration.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

Higby has continued agitating. Crowd (including a large, obnoxious press scrum) has him backed up against one of the barricades now, chanting, "racist, go home!"

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