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Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 17h

Haha, no standing up trying to escape please. Also I’m all talk, I missed out on cargo bikes with my now-teen, but I never would have played it like that either

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 20h

please disabuse yourself from the propaganda that leftists glorify violence/seek to incite protests

- is rhetoric to fracture movement (good vs bad protestors)
- ignores state violence instigating (ppl getting attacked ≠ attacking!) & justifies harm
- overwrites practical analysis w/fearmongery

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Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 20h

So, why…

Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 20h

Oh I’m sorry sweetie. Get in.

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kitt kogut @himdianajones.bsky.social · 4d

Let them know what you think.

Gov. Healey: 617-725-4005
AG Campbell: 617-727-2200
Fenway: 617-267-0900

cis Bostonians specifically, we need you to step up. I'm already seeing my local trans circles raise hell about this, but we need you, too. I wrote a phone script. Use it and spread it:

Hello, my name is [name] and I'm a [transgender] constituent living in [City], Massachusetts. I'm calling to bring to Gov. Healey's attention the deeply alarming development coming from Fenway Health, in which they've recently announced they will no longer provide gender affirming healthcare to patients under the age of 19 in order to retain their federally recognized status. This is in utter direct violation of our state constitution, specifically Chapter 127, in which quote, "Access to reproductive health care services and gender-affirming health care services is a right secured by the constitution and laws of the commonwealth. Interference with this right, whether or not under the color of law, is against the public policy of the commonwealth." This is also in contradiction of Boston declaring itself a sanctuary city for transgender people, the resolution which states Boston has, quote, "a specific commitment to protecting transgender and gender-diverse individuals. Taxpayer-funded agencies shall not comply with federal efforts to strip resources that safeguard their rights. Boston will not cooperate with federal or state policies that harm transgender and gender-diverse people and remains committed to ensuring their access to healthcare...without fear or discrimination."

As Massachusetts' first openly gay Governor, I'm aware that this past August Gov. Healey signed updated Shield laws protecting gender affirming healthcare in Massachusetts. Jordina Shanks, the CEO of Fenway Health herself, said these protections are quote, "a landmark victory for health care, human dignity... and that Massachusetts stands as a national beacon of equity and compassion." I am in complete and utter disgust, yet unsurprised, that a leading institution in gender affirming healthcare is capitulating to federal threats that are not law, and acting in direct opposition to the city of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This is a deep betrayal of their transgender patients. I urge Gov. Healey to bring all powers of the state to investigate and reverse this gross over-compliance on the part of Fenway Health.

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Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 4d

Just one of those things that happens I guess

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Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 5d

Stop interviewing Nazis

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

STEPHANOPOULOS: ProPublica reported that several members of the Trump administation have similar questions about their mortgages

VANCE: ProPublica is basically a left-wing blog

S: Do you dispute the facts they reported?

VANCE: I haven't read it. I have no idea. I certainly question the source

Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 9d

Blocking r
The entire bus lane too, kEepiNg uS sAfE, thanks a lot. MPD being Vichy-ass collaborators as usual

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Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 9d

Tons of MPD, ICE, Transit police, etc assembled on 14th St in Columbia Heights this morning, avoid the area

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Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 11d

Just shut up about e-bikes, please

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Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 11d

Some two wheel vehicles can go slow AND fast, it's legal to ride on the sidewalk safely where I go. More to the point, you are the only person other than like SUV drivers who are mad I called them on their BS to call me misogynistic/homophobic stuff when cornered and wrong. You are not good at this

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Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 12d

Motorcyclists in DC where I am are cool btw, where are you, clearly not here where people bike

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Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 12d

I can go on “walkways” safely on an e-bike, you’re just jealous. Everyone should wear armor cause I’m a vroom vroom, waa

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Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 12d

Your “2 wheels good” is REVOKED

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Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 12d

I go on the sidewalk for a couple blocks. It’s a bike

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Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 12d

Look its Schrödingers e-bike, both going too fast, going with traffic, and going so slow it's getting tailgated. I'm starting to think you don't actually know what an e-bike is.

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Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 12d

Right, you want to dictate to other people what they should be doing, which in this case is counterproductive, and you would know that if you knew shit about it, and then you get mad when people who know something check you. But I'm the one with the stick up my ass, sure.

Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 12d

That is wrong

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Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 12d

You clearly don’t know the difference between what it’s like riding an e-bike and riding a motorcycle, evidenced by your spouting feels that aren’t true

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Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 12d

I ride a class 3 e-bike every day through a city, you don’t know shit about it

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Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 15d

Jessie Fuentes is clearly a complete badass (and I didn’t even have the sound on). I hope some local pols with guts in DC, Chicago, LA get elevated from this shitshow

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 15d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 15d

And a Bowser (DC here)

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Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 15d

That seems unrealistic to expect from an an hourly wage security guard

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Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 15d

In DC, one of the most intractable problems we’re going to face from the fallout of all this shit, however it ends, is our local police force being absorbed into the federal vigilante fash. They are still escorting them around etc. I hope Chicago can keep CPD out of it better than we could

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Mister Otterloop @dcbikebasket.bsky.social · 16d

Sounds like a typical NPR reaction these days, sit on your hands when you can