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Leilani (she/her)

@glittergremlei.bsky.social

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Very loud, very queer, very probably Planning An Event In A Neighborhood Near You. Professional art/mess/trouble maker. 📚🎭💃🏻👊🏻📝👩🏻‍🍳🗣️⚔️🌺

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Leilani (she/her) @glittergremlei.bsky.social · May 20

As news that 2/5 of the “aid” allowed into Gaza is truckloads of body bags & the UN warns 14,000 babies are going to die in the next 48hrs without immediate intervention, I turn once again to social media - where thousands are begging for their lives.

www.papayoux-solidarite.com/fr/collecte/...

Campagne de dons : De la guerre à la paix : aider ma famille à évacuer Gaza

De la guerre à la paix : aider ma famille à évacuer Gaza

www.papayoux-solidarite.com

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Leilani (she/her) @glittergremlei.bsky.social · 7h

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 1d

native plants are important too

a flower field with text that says "Yeah I'm into BDSM, Bio-Diversity Supporting Meadows"

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

i think it is fair to request a statement from @jay.bsky.team on TRANS PEOPLE and where we fit in on @bsky.app.

i think as a transgender journalist, it's acceptable and makes sense for me to ask this

and so, the question, am i not a person as a trans girl and do i not deserve to feel safe here?

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Taliesin82 @taliesin82.bsky.social · 3d

Legitimate question to be asking currently.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

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Leilani (she/her) @glittergremlei.bsky.social · 10h

Achilles. Penis.

Leilani (she/her) @glittergremlei.bsky.social · 10h

There have to be, based on Academic Discourse™️ and yet the most polite, generous thing I can say is 🤯

Leilani (she/her) @glittergremlei.bsky.social · 10h

(Canada has its own First Nation reservations, and we share a lot of things in that particular arena so I shouldn’t have tied unique to USA vs N. America to reservations the way I did with how I structured that sentence)

Leilani (she/her) @glittergremlei.bsky.social · 10h

I don’t understand how anyone can read or listen to more than like, 3 sentences about the entire concept and/or history of the US Indian reservation system and not understand fascism as something that exists outside of Europe, in North America, with its own distinct permeations in the USA.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 11h

I think fascism is best understood as (in part) a transatlantic phenomenon with Europe borrowing ideas from the US and the US borrowing ideas from Europe throughout its history (including now.)

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 21h

When I see this, I wonder if people realize that Jim Crow racism in the American south was a type home-grown fascism. It was not (just) a superficially genteel system of social deference. Refusing to defer was often met with incredible violence designed to terrorize the entire Black community.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 11h

Hitler was inspired by Native genocide, Stephen Miller is inspired by Hitler. It goes back and forth.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 11h

Trump's inspired by/imitating both the Confederacy and the Nazis (as well as Jim Crow and Orban.)

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

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Leilani (she/her) @glittergremlei.bsky.social · 11h

Have never served harder than I am serving tonight purely b/c accessories. Classic LBD with a pain in the ass neckline between boat and off the shoulder, so I leaned in and matched my lacy bra (down to the hardware) to my jhumka, to my mask, to my hair scarf.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13h

wow, it's this kind of iconoclastic, out of the box thinking that really stands out

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 14h

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Megan O'Matz @megomatz.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration is working to dramatically expand school choice, moving kids to a range of private & religious schools or homeschooling. Ultimately, what percentage of children would remain in public schools? A Moms for Liberty co-founder told me: “I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 14h

We’ve had multiple major stories on the loss of jobs of BW directly to WM….

Have you heard a single plan to correct that loss for THIS year let alone the next four ?

They are already prepping for Project Eve and even white women ain’t making the connection

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 14h

And the reason they cannot conceive of the idea that creative people WANT to do the work is because modern tech at this level, IMHO, is heavily populated by people who got into tech to make money and looking smart. Not because they love tech.

Elon Musk is the gold standard of this.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 14h

There's a social media trend of people attempting to run marathons with zero training and a take that really resonated with me is doing this means that you never really fail. I think the AI people have a similar mentality. They want to be able to say they have done a thing without doing it

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 15h

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h

INBOX — New York AG Tish James' statement on Trump's retaliatory indictment of her:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 9, 2025

Attorney General’s Press Office/212-416-8060 nyag.pressoffice@ag.ny.gov

Attorney General Letitia James Issues Statement on Donald Trump’s Weaponization of the Department of Justice

NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today issued the following statement after she was indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s office of the Eastern District of Virginia.

“This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. He is forcing federal law enforcement agencies to do his bidding, all because I did my job as the New York State Attorney General.

“These charges are baseless, and the president’s own public statements make clear that his only goal is political retribution at any cost. The president’s actions are a grave violation of our Constitutional order and have drawn sharp criticism from members of both parties.

“His decision to fire a United States Attorney who refused to bring charges against me – and replace them with someone who is blindly loyal not to the law, but to the president – is antithetical to the bedrock principles of our country. This is the time for leaders on both sides of the aisle to speak out against this blatant perversion of our system of justice.

“I stand strongly behind my office’s litigation against the Trump Organization. We conducted a two-year investigation based on the facts and evidence – not politics. Judges have upheld the trial court’s finding that Donald Trump, his company, and his two sons are liable for fraud.

“I am a proud woman of faith, and I know that faith and fear cannot share the same space. And so today I am not fearful, I am fearless, and as my faith teaches me, no weapon formed against me shall prosper. We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights. And I will continue to do my job.”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

Picking on Black women who had to claw their way through NYC machine politics to get to their positions is just not going to work out for old white senile fascists. That's all I will say on that.

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uıʞuɐᴚ ˙ɹW @mrrankin.bsky.social · 15h

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15h

Drake lost that rap battle so badly that I wrote about it in my book about SPACE-TIME

A rap battle loss of literally cosmological proportions

Find out how by preordering a copy!!

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 21h

I'm a "glass is half-full" kinda guy, so let's look at the upside of the Riyadh Comedy Festival: We never, ever have to even pretend to take any of these "anti-woke" "free speech warriors" seriously, ever again.

New from me at @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):

bit.ly/4h51JjF

Will Anti-Woke Comedy Recover From the Riyadh Festival?

Any event that includes comedy’s biggest names is going to attract attention — but the Riyadh Comedy Festival, which kicked off on Sept. 26 and continued through Thursday, is disproving the adage that...

bit.ly

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 17h

This is actually what is going to happen.

That’s already what’s happening in Lebanon. Israel kills regularly, violates the ceasefire agreement on an hourly basis.

It’s just not on the news anymore.

This is why pressure against Israel mustn’t just continue, but increase.

The Onion @theonion.com · 17h

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

theonion.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18h

There has been a lot of ICE activity in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago today. There has also been a lot of ICE watch and rapid response activity. We love our community, and we are showing up for each other.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 18h

I, for one, want to know how she got a baby in her placenta. I'm not sure Tylenol is going to fix that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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