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Lisa

@queerkitty.bsky.social

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They/She. Queer. Disabled. Enjoys books and cats. Would like to pet your dog.🦇 🇵🇪🇨🇱

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Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · Jul 3

Since NY is going into a mayoral election and Andrew Cuomo & his friends are still hanging around, I’m pinning this explainer of how Cuomo fucked the House for 2025

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · Jul 3

A big reason Dems don't control the House right now—and this murderous spending bill is possible—is Andrew Cuomo, who fucked New York's congressional redistricting as governor and helped lose us seats in Congress.

www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06...

It all goes back to some tangled ancient history: When Cuomo was running for governor in 2010, he pledged to end “hyper-partisan” redistricting. Two years later he used the census-mandated redrawing of district lines as a chit in state budget negotiations. Cuomo got a new pension tier that lowered payments for some unionized state employees; in exchange, incumbent state legislators got the ability to create districts that would favor their reelection. The drawing of new congressional districts was punted 10 years down the road and placed in the hands of an unwieldy, supposedly “independent” commission. This year, when New York Republicans stalled the commission’s work, they essentially pushed redistricting into the state’s courts.

Cuomo made strenuous efforts to steer the state down the ideological middle, which he claimed was a necessity early on—when Republicans controlled a majority of the state senate—but which also enhanced his own power. One byproduct was Cuomo’s nominating of the four relatively conservative judges, including one Republican, who in April voted to tear up the proposed congressional redistricting maps. “What Democrats did to our majority on the highest court would never happen in a Republican-controlled state,” Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney says, which is as close as he will get to blaming Cuomo. “That court made a mess of this, and it put the project in the hands of a Republican in Steuben County. And we got a crappy result.”

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 18m

A very good thread on masking, especially in these hellish times when the systems meant to protect us are being spitefully destroyed by evil little power hungry gremlins. Mask up! Protect yourselves and your community! 😷😷😷

babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 1h

if you are rightfully concerned if not frightened about the continued dissolution of U.S. healthcare infrastructure, would you take an action every day to resist it?

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 16m

Bc as a reminder you can mask and still have a good time!

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · Jul 7

let's post some mask photos bc look at how much stuff i can still do aka in which masking did not stop me from having fun

A picture of me. I'm leaning down and holding a glass bowl full of haldi, and putting on the face of someone off screen. I'm wearing a dark green banarasi sari with a wide gold trim and gold patterning all over it. I have a black kf94 mask on.

My friend and I posing in the window of the catbus at Ghibli Park in Japan, I'm giving the peace sign and have an n95 on, but you can for sure still see how excited I am.

Posing outside of a bookstore with Ashley Poston, we're pointing at the sign written on the window that reads: "Ashley Poston with Preeti Chhibber" - I have an N95 mask on.

At a cooking class, standing next to the chef as I use metal chopsticks to fry katsu. I'm wearing a pink KF94 and an apron that reads, "Washoku, Cooking classes & Cafe. Asakusa, Japan. Chagohan Tokyo"

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 1h

A reminder that Walz kept hitting the "weird" thing to the very end, neither Harris nor the vaguely defined "consultants" told him to stop, and the difference was the press stopped covering it

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2h

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2h

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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Sith_art aka A’ine! 🏳️‍⚧️ @sith-art.bsky.social · 20h

Its almost like anti-porn laws are never actually about porn. 🤔

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

www.wilx.com

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Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 1h

It’s just so so bad!!

Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 1h

VERY evidently!

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 3h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 1h

The clear implication that “I’m going to put you in prison but when you eventually get out we should definitely have some group sex” is soooo fucked up

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 1h

Personally if I were a prosecutor I would simply not put “I mean I’m still going to prosecute her, I can hold two ideas in my head at once. And she’s into girls and likes you. This whole get together after she gets out of prison is starting to really sound interesting.” in print!

Shosh @shoshabosh.bsky.social · 1h

these texts are disgusting and creepy

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Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 1h

wtf is up with the defendant’s utterly useless lawyer??

Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 1h

but I also DONT want to know

Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 1h

…I want to know what the defendant’s account is because these texts and the comments from the judges really indicate that it was much worse than the prosecutor implies

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2h

Okay, NOW let's talk about the behavior of the prosecutor, currently up for a magistrate judge position, here...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 18h

I wish more coverage of traffic violence reckoned with the psychological harm of crashes on the wider community. It's not just cyclists; if a friend of mine is hit, my wife will be more nervous for me. These deaths and injuries take a heavy toll.

It had a chilling effect on the local cycling community, with members expressing their fear about riding on roads. Prince George has a lack of dedicated cycling infrastructure, including even painted-on bike lanes in many areas.

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Maria Montaño @themariamontano.bsky.social · 2h

Once again @katelynburns.com nailed it.

“Political issues aren't siloes, they're all connected, and Mamdani recognizes that. Other Democrats need to see it too, and I hope they are paying attention.”

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 5h

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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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 5h

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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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 2h

I came back today on my way home from bad comet photography to get some adorable leucistic California Towhee foraging footage 🥰🥰 🪶

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Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 2h

(pigmented or not)

Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 2h

Oh what a sweet bird! I’ve never seen one before

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

a russ vought special

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 3h

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 3h

NEW EPISODE OF THE HELL GATE PODCAST

Eric Adams Is in Albania, the Albania of New York City

Eric Adams went on a taxpayer-funded vacation to Albania. What? Why? Regardless, we're in favor of it.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Eric Adams Is in Albania, the Albania of New York City

Podcast Episode · The Hell Gate Podcast · 10/10/2025 · 33m

podcasts.apple.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 4h

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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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 5h

This is good, actually. This is the kind of thing we need to build a pro-court expansion majority.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 9h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 5h

Taps the “this administration is full of eugenicists so yes, they do want people to die” sign so hard it snaps and shards go scattering everywhere.

And yes, we saw it coming.

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