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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 9h

Here's what was actually happening in Los Angeles an hour before the downtown No Kings march, if you want to support Indigenous activists instead of supporting lying bluesky accounts.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 9h

It’s almost like when you don’t have a rabidly trans-hostile media ecosystem, people generally support human rights.

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A poll, commissioned by Equality Australia in the first quarter of 2025, found that:
• 86% agree or strongly agree that government and opposition should not politicise trans issues for political gain
• 89% agree or strongly agree that LGBT people deserve to live with dignity and respect
• 91% agree or strongly agree that trans people should have the freedom and choice to live their lives in the way that makes them happy
• 81% agree of strongly agree that trans people deserve the same rights and protections as other
Australians.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 9h

90 FUCKING PERCENT

i’d love for cis folks to remember what the nyt, atlantic, guardian, daily mail, times of london, ny post, cnn, wall street journal, & economist took from your transgender neighbors & loved ones before the next time you consider giving them money or listening to a word they say.

Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 9h

It’s almost like when you don’t have a rabidly trans-hostile media ecosystem, people generally support human rights.

lens.monash.edu/@politics-so...

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This Whole Thing Reeks of Gender @alexandriasfolly.bsky.social · 8h

Alex is Bad at Resident Evil 5 Co-op!
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This Whole Thing Reeks of Gender @alexandriasfolly.bsky.social · 8h

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

A confrontation between federal immigration agents and a resident:
“We’re protecting US citizens.”
“I don’t want your protection… You’re Nazi skinheads.”
“Why are we Nazis?”

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 3d

Among the many amazing/disgraceful things about America 2025 is how completely Republicans in Congress have neutered themselves.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 3d

The reason mainstream Democrats are constantly trotting out the imaginary archetype of the Decent Conservative is because they are themselves just slightly more polite Conservatives.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Crazy how these guys just keep showing up everywhere

ICE Agent in skull mask Broadview Illinois

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d

Hitlergate wasn't "kids"—it was 20- and 30-something GOP flacks.

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

“.. POLITICO obtained an image taken during a virtual meeting that shows the flag pinned to what appears to be a cubicle wall behind Angelo Elia, one of Taylor’s staffers.”

@politico.com #OH02
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 3d

1. Many of you have seen a graph purporting to show trans identification has decreased in recent years.

Matt Walsh and Elon Musk celebrated it as a victory over "transgenderism."

Turns out, the entire graph is based on an egregious math and statistics error.

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Fact Check: No, There Is Not A New Survey Showing Trans Identity Is Decreasing

The claim, which originates from far-right professor Eric Kaufmann, appears to have made a glaring error: the survey actually shows more people have come out, not fewer.

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 5d

The labrys comes out of her fucking uterus are you kidding me? The drag queen does an evil laugh after snatching it from her hand.

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 4d

I guess in some kind of fantasy vacuum you could write 'a man in DRAG and HEAVY makeup wants to tear the uterus out of a lesbian and usurp her symbol of femininity and lesbianism' and have it carry no implications. I don't think any of us lives in that fantasyland though.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 4d

I've spent time with family, gone on a beautiful canal walk, and eaten delicious ramen already today - time to round it out with one of the most important transfemme shortform anthologies ever published 🩷

This paperback is one of the coolest rare copies I've worked with.

Nameless Woman an anthology of fiction by trans women of color ed. Ellyn Peña Jamie Berrout and Venus Selenite

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Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 4d

Just got off the phone with the moving company, and it's gonna be $2,000 to move our shit from Portland to Montréal. A five-hour drive away, and it's two grand for one of them pods. 😵‍💫

Anyway, great time recall I have a GFM: www.gofundme.com/f/help-autum...

And book bundle: itch.io/s/159177/the...

Donate to Help Autumn Wolff Move and Study in Quebec, organized by Autumn Wolff

Hi! I'm Autumn Wolff, a transfemme author working on going back to school in a… Autumn Wolff needs your support for Help Autumn Wolff Move and Study in Quebec

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WIRED @wired.com · 4d

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January. www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 4d

One of the most messed up parts of the "nazis are sexy and funny now" GQ article about Nick Fuentes is that it doesn't cite a single source or data point. It's all just vibes. I have no idea how something like this made it past an editorial team unless it was clearly a story they wanted to tell

traced this rumor across TikTok and Tumblr. I watched fancam edits, mapped accounts, and interviewed a dozen people in their twenties and early thirties, both people who’d made posts about Fuentes and those whose fandom was more private.

TikTok is where most outsiders misread the signal. Fuentes is extremely shareable — he basically speaks in soundbites. Every other line is a joke, and many of those jokes land. When they don’t, that in itself can be funny. His thick Chicago accent, his cartoonish tone of voice—the man was made for broadcasting, for better or worse.

It’s true that he has inspired a viral “sound” several times, but on TikTok that doesn’t equate to fandom. A sound is just a short audio clip that users layer under their own videos. It might come from a movie, a podcast, or a livestream; it doesn’t matter who said it. What matters is how easily it can be reused to set a mood or deliver a punchline. Popularity here measures remixability, not admiration. Serial killers, pedophiles caught red-handed, and random bystanders could theoretically all go viral this way. Fuentes happens to clip well.

There is a dedicated and TikTok-native Fuentes fandom, but searching through the misspellings and alternate tags that users reference him with (to avoid the filter TikTok uses to suppress content about him), only a few prolific editors dominate the results. The rest is noise—ephemeral accounts spun up around attention spikes.

The interviews I conducted reflect what the feeds suggested. Several sources said their very online friends, regardless of politics, share Fuentes clips because he’s funny. The same people said no one they know actually watches his multi-hour streams. One woman described him as “weirdly unhateable,” and suggested he’s a bit of a meme—another way of saying the trend is more of a joke than a nascent political shift.

There is, however, a small female fandom orbiting Fuentes, many of whom identify as being on the left. On Tumblr, a community cal…

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d

A new California law will effectively ban officers from questioning the families of people killed by police before alerting them to the news of their loved one's death.

This practice was popularized by Lexipol, the nation’s largest developer of law enforcement policy manuals. 🧵

California cops can no longer conceal police killings while interrogating loved ones for dirt

A Reveal investigation helped spark a crackdown on a disturbing, widespread practice.

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 4d

Free speech is when you are punished for criticizing the President’s favorite podcaster.

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 4d

The Donald Trump administration has revoked the visas of citizens from Argentina, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, and Paraguay for comments about Charlie Kirk.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 4d

Just a reminder the word remigrate is open Nazi language and should be seen as a threat of violence.

When the neo Nazis use this term their is another two words they use after it which are :or die

It’s important to understand the context that the word Remigrate is a threat to leave or be murdered.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 4d

Would it surprise you that the owner of Scientific American's parent company, Stefan von Holtzbrinck, invested $37 million in Inkitt, an AI firm?

What a SHOCK

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 5d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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This Whole Thing Reeks of Gender @alexandriasfolly.bsky.social · 3d

UN-FUCKING-ACCEPTABLE

Free Speech Coalition @fsc.bsky.social · 4d

California just became the latest state to require device-level age verification. Under AB 1043, users must verify their age when setting up a phone or downloading apps, forcing Apple & Google to build age-check systems into devices.
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California Governor Adopts Device-Level Age Verification Law AVN

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed into law Assembly Bill (AB) 1043 on Monday, implementing an age verification regime that requires users' ages to be verified at the device operating…

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4d

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

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Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4d

I was on the board of Fenway and I warned the then CEO in 2023 that this would happen. This was cowardly capitulation sacrificing trans youth.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4d

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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