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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3h

Enjoy

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3h

I also know it's not a new observation but who was writing like this at 18 jfc

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3h

I know Susan Stryker wrote like the trans essay on Frankenstein thirty years ago but it's ringing so real in 2025

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 7h

Top notch safeguards I see

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 1d

The South Carolina senator behind SB 323 says his bill wouldn't outlaw birth control.

But we found a pamphlet he wrote that says “all forms of the birth control pill” kill a “human being.”

jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-a...

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Listening and learning

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Someone call Adam Friedland

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

What do you need? A camera crew, some airtight release forms?

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Watching Insomniac with Dave Attell and reviving this is just money on the table imo

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d

He skipped the part where he wants the hospital to force that citizen to wait for the brink of death in the hospital parking lot if the health care she needs is an abortion

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

Do you think Gen Z knows about Linkin Park

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

And also with you, queen

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 3d

Peace, good Doll

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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.

southsideweekly.com

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 3d

“Four months ago, in Skrmetti, the Court used purported medical uncertainty to give Tennessee more flexibility to discriminate. Today, Alito used purported medical uncertainty to give Colorado less flexibility to protect.”

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

I've written my analysis of today's grim Supreme Court oral argument in the conversion therapy case:

As far as the Court's concerned, imaginary medical uncertainty gives states the authority to hurt queer kids, and takes away states' authority to protect them

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chile...

The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

Need to know what Simone de Beauvoir thought about Blade Runner

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

They were arguably doing it before then cup.columbia.edu/book/not-in-...

Not in My Gayborhood | Columbia University Press

Gay neighborhoods are disappearing—or so the conventional story goes. In this narrative, political gains and mainstream social acceptance, combined with th... | CUP

cup.columbia.edu

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

Point being "gay male gentrifier" is like a whole thing, far from mutually exclusive

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

I do think a lot about the chapter in Melinda Cooper's book Family Values where she points out the invention of credit scores opened up a new audience of debtors previously denied credit by virtue of not being married, namely single women and gay couples

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 3d

fellas is it gay to live in a city

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 3d

If you have a trans kid, as a parent the one thing you want more than anything else in the world is to ease their pain. I was glad when my son transitioned because he became a much happier person. Any parent who tries to inflict pain on their child must be stopped. It’s that simple.

Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 3d

These Supreme Court oral arguments on conversion therapy are going to be painful. No matter what is said, know that trying to force someone to be what they're not is psychological torture with measurable negative consequences, and anyone trying to defend such efforts is a bigoted monster.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

Oh I'm sure

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

Inside the tactics that won Christian vendors the right to reject gay weddings

Opponents accuse Alliance Defending Freedom, the conservative law firm behind a landmark Supreme Court case, of manufacturing lawsuits to advance its agenda during a decade-long battle against laws ba...

www.washingtonpost.com

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

ADF has a track record of representing clients with just-so standing claims, like wedding businesses that are incorporated just long enough to challenge nondiscrimination laws protecting queer couples and are never heard from again

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 4d

I'm sorry but how does this person have standing to challenge Colorado's ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy when she has explicitly disclaimed any desire to change a patient's sexual orientation or gender identity? How is this a real case? slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that seeks to undo a major triumph of the LGBTQ+ movement.

slate.com

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