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Reconstructionism or National divorce. @georgiademocrat.bsky.social State Committee Member for Columbus-Muscogee County. California native. https://blackgaynerd.com #gapol

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Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 18d

I hate that it has come to this, but my biomom has been partly paralyzed due to gallbladder issues sustained throughout much of this year. She’s recovered several vital functions (speaking, eating solid food, breathing on her own), but her limbs remain incapacitated. Please help if you can.

Donate to Help Our Mom, Wanda, Recover After a Tramatic Medical Crisis, organized by Cedrica Dean

Hi, my name is Cedrica Dean, and I’m creating this GoFundMe w… Cedrica Dean needs your support for Help Our Mom, Wanda, Recover After a Tramatic Medical Crisis

www.gofundme.com

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Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 2h

Single-winner districts, even minority-majority, were never a good idea for legislative bodies. The Democratic Party collective must leave them behind. Time to aggressively fight for proportional representation.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 5d

FUCK THE YANKEES!

Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · Jul 22

True meaning of Transness

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 4h

if global rightwing authoritarianism is doing a hybrid war against you, at the very least you also have to respond with hybrid war.

Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 4h

liberals are engaged in a global struggle for the survival of liberalism, one that transcends national borders, and if we retake control of the strongest military on earth it is our moral responsibility to use it for the good of liberalism

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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 4h

Remember Prop 36? Which promised to "help everyone come indoors" through longer prison sentences and drug treatments?

Guess how many people completed the drug treatment in the first 6 months!

Did you guess... 25?

calmatters.org/justice/2025...

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 3h

It’s even worse. It’s reversing 400 years of Anglo-American constitutional development going back to Charles I’s personal rule when he refused to consult Parliament over spending and governance. Trump and his GOP lackeys are undoing stuff the Founders saw as fundamental to our system.

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 5h

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 5h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 3h

The killings conducted under the aegis of the so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" are an American Christian horror story brought to life.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 5h

🙏 Hayden for your endorsement! It means a lot.

Hayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com · 9h

I really enjoyed Life After Cars, written by Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon, the podcast hosts of The War on Cars. It’s a must-read!

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 5h

We cannot allow an American Gestapo to become normalized.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 9h

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, an activist who took part in Stonewall and remained an advocate for the decades that followed, including caring for AIDS patients & pioneering needle exchange & defending the rights of incarcerated trans people on both coasts, passed away. www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 8h

average Queens address

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 9h

Look, I'll meet you at the corner of 29-5/8ths Avenue and 7-15/16ths Street. I don't see what's so hard about this.

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Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 7h

DIY mifepristone/PrEP/Hormone labs when???

Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 8h

Mixed bag on health access:

Signed:
AB1487 - Two-Spirit health grants
SB278, SB504 - Authorizes limited data sharing to improve access to HIV care

Vetoed:
AB554 - Expands access to PrEP
SB418 - Authorizes 12 month supply of hormones

Both vetoes' reason was the rising cost of health insurance 3/

Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 8h

Me rn
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Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 8h

@alfredtwu.com with a thread on signatures and vetoes of LGBTQ Caucus priority bills tonight:

Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 8h

Last batch of legislation updates - of the 15 priority bills from the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus that made it to the Governor's desk, (lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/legislative-...) 12 signed, 3 vetoed www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/13/g...

Details in thread. 1/

Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 9h

Signed: SB 63, to fund Bay Area transit:

Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: The Governor signed our legislation to authorize a Bay Area regional funding ballot measure for transit.

SB 63 is critical to avoid massive service cuts at Muni, BART, Caltrain & other systems. We need to stabilize & modernize these systems for the Bay Area’s future.

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Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 9h

Signed: SB 40, capping insulin copays at $35/month:

Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: @gavinnewsom.bsky.social just signed my bill to cap insulin copays at $35/month. No one should have to choose between insulin & putting food on the table. Thank you Governor!

Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 9h

SB 720, red light camera administration update:

Streets For All @streetsforall.org · 9h

SB 720 - SIGNED INTO LAW
This bill by @senatorashby.bsky.social will institute a fairer and easier to administer red light camera program in the state that cities could choose to use.

(Streets For All) SB 720 Senator Angelique Ashby (SD 8) Signed into law | Improved the California Red Light Camera Program | [image of a sign] Red Light Photo Enforced

Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 9h

And now, the final (massive) dump of miscellaneous bill signatures and vetoes for 2025 has been released, highlights below: www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/13/g...

Governor Newsom issues legislative update 10.13.25 | Governor of California

www.gov.ca.gov

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 9h

Amazing win here. This bill was reportedly under a veto threat, but Streets for all and Streets Are For Everyone (SAFE, not on Bluesky yet) organized a big pressure campaign.

Congratulations to everyone involved!

Streets For All @streetsforall.org · 9h

SB 720 - SIGNED INTO LAW
This bill by @senatorashby.bsky.social will institute a fairer and easier to administer red light camera program in the state that cities could choose to use.

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Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 10h

Yikesss

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 10h

the California constitutions is a never ending cabinet of horrors, Exhibit H

Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 15h

Reminder that California golf courses have a special massive property tax benefit over and above Prop 13. www.evolve-ca.org/news/hole-in...

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Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 10h

Also, need an institutional supermajority which died in 1994 (and was barely zombified in 2006-2010).

We will need more irregular law-like processes. State laws, lawsuits and legislators will need to suffice where applicable (blue states). Elsewhere, even more irregular, innovative, imaginative.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 13h

I might suggest the term "irregular" rather than illiberal for some of this stuff. Like, Trump will never be removed or held accountable for his crimes according to the regular constitutional means because impeachment is broken & Trump v US. But some irregular law-like process might be improvised.

Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 10h

This case, in which the Texas Republican Party wants to abolish the open primary for their own primary voters, should be interesting to watch, not least for challenging how states can regulate political parties' nomination processes:

Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State, Hires an Outside Attorney to Defend Texas Open Primary Law |

ballot-access.org

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JoeMyGod @joemygod.bsky.social · 12h

New York AG To Headline Manhattan Mamdani Rally - Joe.My.God.

The New York Times reports: Attorney General Letitia James of New York is expected to rebuke President Trump and urge voters to support Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor, at a rally on ...

www.joemygod.com

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Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 12h

Even in the United States, the base of our nominal geographic breadth is a few states on either coast and several urban cores in between. It’s the political movement ties between these geopolitical concentrations which matters most.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17h

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 21h

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 14h

the two types of racist are food racist and sex racist. all racists fall into these two categories. hitler? sex racist. mussolini? food racist.

stephen miller? sex racist. jd vance? food racist.

despite being racist about food sometimes, donald trump is a sex racist

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 19h

Food racism drives you crazy faster than most forms of racism

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