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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 16h

They fired every Black woman at Teen Vogue and every trans staffer.

It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 18h

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 17h

Workplaces across the country have been purging all minorities from their staff for the last 9 months but no one wants to talk about it because it's one of the scariest truths out there right now.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 18h

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.

Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 15h

NDP MLA David Shepherd held very little back as the UCP effectively fired the Auditor General in committee today…

Including highlighting that for a government under suspicion of covering up massive scandals, this only makes things look worse.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 20h

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · Aug 7

We are honored to receive the @rooseveltinstitute.org's 2025 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression, and to be among a stellar class of laureates including @wck.org, @cvt.org, and more. Details: tnvge.co/ZMIUg7v

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 19h

“I have not found one single instance of a straight person risking, helping, protecting a queer and trans person during this history,” said Holocaust historian Jake Newsome. “Not a single one. And that’s a hard pill to swallow.”

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 20h

Someday I'll have more to say, but for now it suffices that no queer person alive will be surprised by this.
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Holocaust Researcher Says Up to 1/3 of Imprisoned LGBTQ+ People Reported by Friends and Family

A new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center aims to shed light on the diversity of LGBTQ+ Holocaust stories.

www.them.us

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 20h

Today Elections Alberta requested $13.5 million to be able to administer recalls and referendum.

The UCP committee in charge revised their request to just over $1 million.

And then voted it through.

The UCP just defunded recall/referendum.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22h

I wonder why they shut down their politics vertifcal. It's a big mystery. /s

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Vivian Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Going Viral, and Protecting Trans Youth

Elon Musk’s estranged daughter is coming into her own.

www.teenvogue.com

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 22h

It’s *wild* to fire all your politics staffers after (re)making your name on politics. That’s literally why people care.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 22h

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22h

One of the biggest problems in the US right now, and an aggravator of every other problem, is that most news outlets are owned by right wing billionaires who approve of Trump's fascism.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 22h

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

A SSRS/CNN poll showing 61% people think Trump has gone too far using the power of the presidency and 57% think he's gone too far deporting immigrants.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 1d

Trump ranted about trans people five different times in his 60 minutes interview, equal to the amount of times he railed against immigrants. Guess what they pushed back on, what they cut and what no one is covering?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22h

Shapiro and Weiss loved the attention and money it got them when they were making transphobic content and racist apologia. Now that those same dynamics are being harnessed by white supremacists and neo-nazis against conservative Jews, they are freaking out.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

Every single time, it's a collection of people so bigoted that everyone in their life no longer wanted to be associated with them. Their partners left them, their friends stopped talking to them, their bigoted harassment gets them booted from social media. These are not good people.

Alt text: Series of screenshots from a Wall Street Journal article discussing internal tensions within the LGBTQ+ community over gender identity and activism. The first section describes a man named Arango rejecting gender identity after reading queer theory, losing his boyfriend and friends as a result, and feeling alienated from the LGBTQ+ community. The next section quotes Ann Menasche, a 72-year-old civil rights lawyer, criticizing gender ideology for erasing the concept of sexual orientation; it notes she was fired from her job in 2022 after objecting to removing the word “women” from a statement and later filed a lawsuit. The following section, titled “Out of the closet,” introduces Nevlene Nnaji, a 35-year-old artist who blogs under the name N3VLYNNN, describing her rejection of gender ideology, loss of friendships, and frustration with comparisons between transgender and racial oppression. The final section says that in 2023, Nnaji lost her Instagram account after expressing support for black lesbian detransitioners; Meta declined to comment but noted its hate-speech policy has since changed and restrictions were lifted on some topics in January.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 2d

Exhausted and disheartened by these continuous "uh oh the Republicans might possibly become Nazis in the future ☝️🤓" takes as if we didn't all live through Trump's blood-and-soil presidential campaign and the last 9 months of overt and escalating fascist governance.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

This shit is so infuriating. It's so blatant of a double standard. Precocious puberty is mostly only an issue of mental health and development. Going through somewhat early poverty isn't really a physical issue unless it's extremely early at like age 4.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

So they'll prescribe puberty to protect the mental health of cis youth but not trans youth. It's extremely clear they don't view trans youth as worthy of treatment, only conversion therapy.

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️☕️🍰 @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 2d

Because it’s cis kids.
The NHS will quite casually give cis kids whatever treatment they need, even PBs👇
No trials. No concerns about side effects. No moral panic.

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EXCLUSIVE: Young girls are going through puberty earlier now than in decades past - and experts say it could be setting them up for lifelong mental health problems and even cancer later in their lives
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If a young girl begins to show early signs of puberty, she recommends taking the child to a pediatrician, and even a pediatric endocrinologist like herself and asking about puberty blockers.
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While the drugs may have earned a bad reputation from serving as a center-point in the trans-debate, their original use was to limit precocious puberty, and the potential negative effects that come with it.
Their effects are not permanent, and once a child lets their blocking treatment lapse, puberty will just continue as normal.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 2d

it's heard not to see that we have an obvious police problem in this country

L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 2d

LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @shoton35mm.bsky.social

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

The LAPD rioted last night.

L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 2d

LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @shoton35mm.bsky.social

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

This makes me absolutely incandescent

Now more of those details are coming into the light. An upcoming book by Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis confirms some of the worst suspicions: the DOJ didn’t convene a grand jury until January 2022, and it took another ten weeks before the FBI would formally begin its investigation into Trump himself. Garland also apparently put the investigations on an unnecessary hiatus before the 2022 midterms:

In fall 2022, ahead of the midterm elections, Garland opted to freeze both the classified documents and election investigations because of what some officials believed was his overly cautious reading of a DOJ policy not to take any public action close to an election. Trump was not even on the ballot and had not yet declared his presidential candidacy for 2024. But Garland nonetheless imposed the freeze.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

In which a straight woman highlights a bunch of known anti trans activists and claims there's a divide in the queer community.

It's pure propaganda and gaslighting.

Alt text: Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal article headline titled “The Growing Divide in the Rainbow Coalition.” The subheadline reads, “More gay people are speaking out against the gender ideology of trans and queer activists.” The article is categorized under “U.S.” and written by Pamela Paul, published on October 31, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. ET.

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May Lee 🏳️‍⚧️ @mayyeg.bsky.social · 2d

If the alternative you offer to conservative politics is, "We're the same but slightly nicer. Your life won't get better though," then there's a large chunk of people who won't bother to listen further.

May Lee 🏳️‍⚧️ @mayyeg.bsky.social · 2d

Living wage in Alberta is over $20/hr in all major centers, over $30 in some places!

What's the point in offering poverty, then saying "Vote for us because we're still better than the other guys!"

Didn't we see how well that worked for the Democrats?

The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 3d

The NDP found their numbers!

Bill 201 would

- increase minimum wage to $18 over 3 years and then index it to inflation.
- Eliminate the lower "youth" minimum wage (youth don't pay lower prices, after all)
- Ensure tips stay with service staff.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is

I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. It was renovated in the 1940s in an art deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era. I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble. This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 4d

I've heard government officials refer to homeless people who refuse to stay at a shelter as "service resistant."
Whenever they say that, I imagine how they would respond if the positions were switched and they were homeless and "service resistant"?

Police beating a person. Caption: "We're here to help - stop resisting our services!"

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