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DataportDoll @dataportdoll.bsky.social · 6h

"mistake" is doing some weapons grade lifting in that byline

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Discordia Lain⚢ @discordialain.bsky.social · 22h

She is the victim, she is biologically female.

The judge, the guards, the police, the man she had consensual sex with, they are ALL facilitators and accessories to her being legally sex trafficked, they're the Ghislaines of polite society

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22h

This is horrifying. Now she'll be placed with men in prison where she is at extreme risk of being raped and sexually assaulted. And then she has to register as a sex offender.

This is all because a man was ashamed he was attracted to a trans woman.

Screenshot of a BBC News article. The text describes court proceedings involving a person named Watkin, who will serve a prison sentence in a men’s facility with measures to minimize risk and maximize support. It states that Watkin must register as a sex offender for 10 years and is under a lifelong restraining order from contacting the victim. A police detective is quoted saying Watkin concealed her sex, and the victim would not have consented had they known. The article ends with the detective expressing hope that the case’s conclusion allows the victim to move forward.

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noted bones haver @noted.bones.haver.maia.cash · 16h

and the award for "biggest stretch" goes to...

section from the quoted article with a section highlighted.

the full text begins:
3) Zohran Mamdani
The order: “As someone who grew up in Morningside Heights, I have to go back to Absolute Bagels. Poppy seed bagel, scallion cream cheese. Some pulp Tropicana on the side. And this is going to lose me some votes, but to be honest with you: toasted.”

Judge’s comments: Mamdani gets props for his bold choice of poppy and for specifying the pulp level in his orange juice.

Absolute Bagels, however, shuttered last December and is awaiting reopening under new ownership.

the highlighted section, following on from the above, reads:
When it was in business, Absolute Bagels charged an extra 10 cents for toasting — an interesting add-on for the socialist candidate who has made affordability his signature issue. Could firsthand experience with this upcharge be the impetus behind his proposal for city-run grocery stores?

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DataportDoll @dataportdoll.bsky.social · 14h

In the 50s MLK had to turn down some causes because the optics were unfavorable. Newsmax is like the opposite of that.

If they can turn a priest into a bad apple, then that's just one more pillar of society they can demolish until the only thing left to form community around is skin color.

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 17h

Black is a Presbyterian pastor who has done anti-poverty work in Chicago since 2020. He grew up in an evangelical household and went to seminary for years, he didn't pay a site online 25 dollars.

My understanding from my nun friends is he's spent most of his time working on running a free pantry.

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 17h

A Newsmax host defended ICE agents shooting a minister in the head with a pepper ball by falsely claiming he was “actually an antifa member masquerading as a pastor.”

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DataportDoll @dataportdoll.bsky.social · 14h

If lying about your genitals was a real crime there'd be a hell of a lot less dick pics in my DMs.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23h

"I didn't describe my genitals accurately before I gave him a blow job"
"jail for you"

This is the UK.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23h

If she'd been married and lied about being single or if she'd been a convicted abuser and lied about that she would not be going to jail.

People lie all the time before sex, during sex and after sex.

If you're trans, that's a crime.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 1d

She's been jailed - to be raped every night.

She's in a male jail. Despite living as female since she was 13.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Trans woman jailed after hiding male genitalia during sex with man

Ciara Watkin, 21, concealed she had male genitalia and performed sex acts on a man she had been on a date with - before later texting him 'I'm trans, I'm sorry I didn't tell you'

www.mirror.co.uk

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DataportDoll @dataportdoll.bsky.social · 1d

oh wow just a few months after DOGE fenced all that data about grants? Wild coincidence.

DataportDoll @dataportdoll.bsky.social · 1d

Keep beating the drum that "justice" has absolutely nothing to do with "rules".

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DataportDoll @dataportdoll.bsky.social · 1d

...Which was cribbed off the American playbook.

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𝕴𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖝 𝕾𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖆 @infernatrixsophia.bsky.social · 2d

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 2d

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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𝖓𝖎𝖍𝖎𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖌𝖋 @nihilistgf.bsky.social · 2d

these fascists want to kill their opposition and they're very open about their intentions

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Dozing (Dreaming [Wanting]) 💤❤️‍🔥 @dozingdreamers.bsky.social · 3d

hey so. it's been over 2 weeks. the government still hasn't gotten back to me about covering my meds. i'm sure it'll happen eventually, but it's not gonna be good for me to keep going without my hrt x.x

i'm gonna need about $160 CAD, ugh

www.paypal.com/paypalme/doz...

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Valkyrie Thunderbitch @valkyrieladyk.bsky.social · 2d

It's also relevant context that Cole, like plenty of other prominent detransitioners, has acknowledged on multiple occasions that she still struggles with dysphoria.

Hell, plenty of folks who "detransition" and ally with TERFS literally never even stop taking HRT.

It's a grift.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

Chloe Cole: The existence of even one detransitioner dismantles the central lie of transgenderism, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

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DataportDoll @dataportdoll.bsky.social · 2d

Holy shit, name one thing a right winger is more afraid of than a fur suit. I can't.

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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 3d

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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DataportDoll @dataportdoll.bsky.social · 2d

It's too bad they aren't a public school or we could have just given them four trailers outside the station for extra room.

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 3d

Compassion fatigue is a real thing, but in the context of people who work hospice and healthcare and people who do support services for basically anything deeply depressing where you get to know about the worst aspects of death/disability.

It is not about people seeing homeless people lol.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 5d

Reading about Democrats who agree with Trump's plan to forcibly commit homeless people

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DataportDoll @dataportdoll.bsky.social · 3d

"The last thing we want in our city is a community!"

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DataportDoll @dataportdoll.bsky.social · 3d

"You should empathize with young men."

Did it occur to you I empathize with them quite a bit? That I understand how difficult it is to navigate capitalism all by yourself in a culture that says male loneliness is glamorous?

I don't mock them cuz I don't understand. I mock them cuz they're weak.

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DataportDoll @dataportdoll.bsky.social · 3d

Susan, we saw you guys refuse to go on vacation and keep taking seventeen "3-day recesses" in a row for all of 2016 to block a SCOTUS appointment.

We know what "just pass another 3 month extension" in perpetuity means for everyone who might upset the wrong Republican.

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Cupid's Molotov @cupidsmolotov.bsky.social · 3d

This FBI Special Agent wants you to sacrifice yourself so that your brutal treatment will engender sympathy and melt the hearts of those who brutalise you.

This FBI Special Agent does not want you to understand that this is not what worked in India and instead wants you to watch a Hollywood movie

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 4d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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DataportDoll @dataportdoll.bsky.social · 3d

"That pales in comparison to my strategy of winning elections" and then not win elections.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3d

Oh SHIT. Two birds with one stone and neither were for immigration. It was to hassle black folk and make a sizzle real about it and to help Wells Fargo out.

Fucking crazy shit.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 3d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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