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Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @carolkroeger.bsky.social · 12h

He’s studying anthropology, but wants to go into law/politics.

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @carolkroeger.bsky.social · 15h

If he's not going to stand up for the human rights of vulnerable people, you can't trust him to do the right thing.

Just look at Kier Starmer - the UK are no better off than they were under the Cons, and his shitty policies are boosting the far right Reform Party.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 19h

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @carolkroeger.bsky.social · 15h

Same.
And then I sent it to my trans daughter.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 17h

it would probably be sorta hard for just anyone to do it *this well* because it requires you to actually be normal about trans people, but still it feels important to state for the record that WE ARE NOT HARD TO STAND UP FOR AND ANY OF THEM COULD DO IT.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 14d

Mother, baby, and cat
bsky.app/profile/merr...

Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · Jun 24

Angelina Beloff (1879-1969) was a Russian Mexican artist, teacher, and marionette show creator.
In 1978, Elena Poniatowska wrote a novel based on her life.
She was Diego Rivera’s first wife.
"Maternidad", 1917, xilografía.
#WomensArt

A black-and-white illustration of a woman with her hair styled up breastfeeding a child, seated at a wooden table. It looks like an intimate scene, and a cat is part of the company, sitting next to the chair, and looking with curiosity. Everyone is calm and sleepy. the light is dim.

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beardyBOO! 👻🎃 @beardyblue.bsky.social · 18h

Please read Kate's piece and watch Zohran's video. So important, so good, and so hopeful. I cried watching it too.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 20h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 18h

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Scott agrees: FREE LINK @scottdagostino.ca · 21h

Today is National Coming Out Day 🚪
No matter who you are — what age, race or gender — it’s never an easy thing to be honest and vulnerable in a culture of stigma but I promise you, life outside the closet is worth it. Amazing how this tiny clip from the sitcom BROOKLYN NINE-NINE nailed it ❤️

Captain Holt's pep talk

YouTube video by teiladnam

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Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @carolkroeger.bsky.social · 18h

This guy gives me more hope for the future than anyone else right now- and I’m Canadian!

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @carolkroeger.bsky.social · 1d

Yep.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Pete Hegseth is Gob Bluth.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday I took my students on a field trip to the mothership: the Thomas Fisher rare book library at U of T (the head of Roberts’ brutalist peacock). Cool open to the public display drawing from collection. Atwood’s original Handmaid’s draft et al.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of nothing in particular this morning, I've been told that, in essence, there are two things that physicians can't do at the White House medical unit: MRIs and surgeries. Virtually anything else can be done there if you have to or want to.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 2d

Also he already tried to murder everyone in Congress.

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Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @carolkroeger.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s head will explode.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

María Corina Machado—leader of Venezuelan opposition against Maduro, former member of National Assembly and presidential candidate — has been awarded Nobel Peace Prize

“When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist”, Nobel Committee

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 2d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 3d

Useful comparison

A graphic showing the enormous improvements since the launch of the original Nissan Leaf 14 years ago the new one goes four times further charges three times faster has two times more power and is 36% cheaper than the original

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2d

Missy Elliott and “Get Ur Freak On” coming through from 2001 with a perfect response for people who want to prompt their way through AI to “write” lol

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 3d

Sean Fraser 🇨🇦
This year marks 150 years of the Supreme Court of Canada helping to shape this country, standing in ardent defence of Canadian democracy and in defence of our freedoms.
May its work continue so that 150 years from now, Canada remains the true North, strong, and free. #cdnpoli

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En Buen Ora - "Hell Çid" 😈 @enbuenora.bsky.social · 2d

These days on YouTube alone people can watch live news for free in English TV 24/7 not only from Al Jazeera but France 24, DW (Germany), Euronews, the CBC (Canada), ABC Australia, CNA Singapore, and more! (Plus in other languages!)

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