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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 56m

ICE Is Hounding Chicago Area Locals With Excessive Chemical Munitions bit.ly/4nTnsxS

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 5h

Premium tax credits that matter for 20 million people in this country, & they will be cut on Jan 1 without action. That will result in the average person seeing a more than doubling of their out-of-pocket premium, & that is significant.

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Brace for the largest-ever spike in health insurance premiums

The GOP's backdoor plan to gut Obamacare: Kill the tax credits.

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 9h

317 #ComingOut Stories from LGBTQ+ Folx in Western Pennsylvania www.pghlesbian.com/2025/10/317-...

317 Coming Out Stories from LGBTQ+ Folx in Western Pennsylvania

Logo designed by Keith Haring for the Human Rights Campaign’s advocacy of the day From 2015-2018, the #AMPLIFY project documented first-person accounts of the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals with…

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 9h

The Eyes Have It: Revealing the Truth About Growing Up With Eye Disorders bit.ly/47bzRHk

The Eyes Have It: Revealing the Truth About Growing Up With Eye Disorders

Content Note: disability, bullying, child neglect, resilience, superheroes, body neutrality This is my school photo from late September 1975. I was four years old, in kindergarten. If you squint, y…

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 11h

You Have to See This Mamdani Ad

I wasn't planning to post anything today. I dislike working and writing on weekends in general, but this was too important to ignore. You have to see this Zohran Mamdani campaign ad that came out…

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 14h

317 Coming Out Stories from LGBTQ+ Folx in Western Pennsylvania #NationalComingOutDay www.pghlesbian.com/2025/10/317-...

317 Coming Out Stories from LGBTQ+ Folx in Western Pennsylvania

Logo designed by Keith Haring for the Human Rights Campaign’s advocacy of the day From 2015-2018, the #AMPLIFY project documented first-person accounts of the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals with…

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 15h

Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents bit.ly/3J24i9C

Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents

The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 15h

No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In. bit.ly/470xKF4

No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In.

A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 17h

317 Coming Out Stories from LGBTQ+ Folx in Western Pennsylvania bit.ly/48kQdyq

317 Coming Out Stories from LGBTQ+ Folx in Western Pennsylvania

Logo designed by Keith Haring for the Human Rights Campaign’s advocacy of the day From 2015-2018, the #AMPLIFY project documented first-person accounts of the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals with…

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 18h

Nancy Pelosi was asked, “what did the Democrats do wrong?” “And her answer was basically nothing... I just feel like it’s completely inadequate,” says congressional candidate Saikat Chakrabarti.

Saikat Chakrabarti is coming for the Democratic establishment

AOC’s former campaign manager is ready to take on Nancy Pelosi

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18h

For weeks, anti-immigration agents have tossed smoke bombs at people in cars, shot so-called “less lethal” weapons like rubber bullets and pepper balls, and deployed a staggering amount of tear gas, sometimes unleashing it almost casually into streets crowded with passersby. trib.al/h31tf5z

Trump Is Waging War on an American City

The real threat to people in Chicago (and Los Angeles and Portland) is our maniacal president.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 18h

“This is the first time I’ve seen so many pregnant people in [ICE] detention,” said Tania Wolf, the Southeast advocacy manager at the National Immigration Project. interc.pt/48WWErA

A photo of a sign offering families help locating their relatives hanging outside of an immigrant detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Oct. 2, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention," and the DEK, "The evidence indicates ICE is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating conditions."

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NPR @npr.org · 18h

For a century, the BBC has broadcast the weather report for the seas around the UK. "The Shipping Forecast" has informed and lulled generations who tune in to hear it.