Jaclyn Friedman
@jaclynf.bsky.social
Writer. Speaker. Feminist Troublemaker. She/her. (IG: @jaclynfable) Come change U.S. sex education with me at @educateusaction.bsky.social
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We saw 5x more people sign up to run for office thru Jan 31, 2026 than we did in 2017-2018.
Overall, we have tallied 4x more protests through Jan 31, 2026 than we had through Jan 31, 2018
February 12, 2026 at 7:29 PM
We saw 5x more people sign up to run for office thru Jan 31, 2026 than we did in 2017-2018.
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Just to underscore:
Trans people, we aren't "issues".
Me, I'm not an "ideology".
I'm a human, like anyone else.
The only "ideology" here is those bigots who use such rhetoric in their effort to dehumanize trans people — because they want us gone.
Trans people, we aren't "issues".
Me, I'm not an "ideology".
I'm a human, like anyone else.
The only "ideology" here is those bigots who use such rhetoric in their effort to dehumanize trans people — because they want us gone.
Polling on trans issues is difficult to interpret. It becomes even more difficult when pollsters use politically charged terms like 'transgender ideology.'
Great new analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, only on Assigned Media.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Great new analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, only on Assigned Media.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
When Trans Issues Become ‘Ideology’ — Assigned
Two surveys of Americans, published just days apart, reveal the limitations and revelations of polling.
www.assignedmedia.org
February 12, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Just to underscore:
Trans people, we aren't "issues".
Me, I'm not an "ideology".
I'm a human, like anyone else.
The only "ideology" here is those bigots who use such rhetoric in their effort to dehumanize trans people — because they want us gone.
Trans people, we aren't "issues".
Me, I'm not an "ideology".
I'm a human, like anyone else.
The only "ideology" here is those bigots who use such rhetoric in their effort to dehumanize trans people — because they want us gone.
They are going to keep doing more and more depraved shit until we stop them.
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
February 12, 2026 at 1:36 PM
They are going to keep doing more and more depraved shit until we stop them.
This is a helluva thread. And these are concentration camps.
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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February 12, 2026 at 1:29 PM
This is a helluva thread. And these are concentration camps.
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So DOD risked civilian airspace to obliterate some fucking balloons; when FAA found out and asked them to stop they refused; FAA did what it had to keep people safe; when the public rightly freaked out, DOD relented, lied, and blamed the FAA.
Sounds like Hegseth!
www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...
Sounds like Hegseth!
www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...
February 11, 2026 at 10:58 PM
So DOD risked civilian airspace to obliterate some fucking balloons; when FAA found out and asked them to stop they refused; FAA did what it had to keep people safe; when the public rightly freaked out, DOD relented, lied, and blamed the FAA.
Sounds like Hegseth!
www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...
Sounds like Hegseth!
www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...
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Messenger: [throwing message into the bushes] your excellency we would very much like to not be shot
Gallup says it will stop doing presidential approval polls (after 88 years of doing it) because of "an evolution in how Gallup focuses it's public research". This is eliminating a time series that goes back to FDR.
thehill.com/homenews/med...
thehill.com/homenews/med...
thehill.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Messenger: [throwing message into the bushes] your excellency we would very much like to not be shot
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It is a little wild that you aren’t seeing More elected officials putting their bodies on the line, risking arrest, you’d think this would be the perfect time for it even if all you were worried about was fundraising and keeping your job
But seriously so many people in this state are looking around and seeing people in powerful roles doing nothing, or capitulating, so much, fuck it, I’ll do it myself energy out there.
February 11, 2026 at 6:07 PM
It is a little wild that you aren’t seeing More elected officials putting their bodies on the line, risking arrest, you’d think this would be the perfect time for it even if all you were worried about was fundraising and keeping your job
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Court battle over surveillance footage at the Broadview ICE detention center reaches new levels of kafkaesque absurdity: The DOJ claimed it *couldn't afford* hard drives to put video footage on. Plaintiffs bought THE US GOVERNMENT hard drives. ICE "lost" them.
www.404media.co/government-l...
www.404media.co/government-l...
Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On
A Kafkaesque saga in which the government has failed to produce critical video footage has reached new levels of absurdity.
www.404media.co
February 11, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Court battle over surveillance footage at the Broadview ICE detention center reaches new levels of kafkaesque absurdity: The DOJ claimed it *couldn't afford* hard drives to put video footage on. Plaintiffs bought THE US GOVERNMENT hard drives. ICE "lost" them.
www.404media.co/government-l...
www.404media.co/government-l...
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a lot of "AI hype" discourse makes more sense when you realize that a lot of initial LLM/GenAI hype envisioned replacing artists and PhDs, and its actual impacts have been much greater on coders and other tech workers
creatives/experts see "AI" as underperforming hype, techies see it overperforming
creatives/experts see "AI" as underperforming hype, techies see it overperforming
February 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM
a lot of "AI hype" discourse makes more sense when you realize that a lot of initial LLM/GenAI hype envisioned replacing artists and PhDs, and its actual impacts have been much greater on coders and other tech workers
creatives/experts see "AI" as underperforming hype, techies see it overperforming
creatives/experts see "AI" as underperforming hype, techies see it overperforming
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This is insane
So the DOD started laser testing because they believed party balloons were drones, shut down all of El Paso airspace, and blamed it on Mexican cartels?
February 11, 2026 at 6:19 PM
This is insane
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The contempt she has for the People’s Branch—for those representing us—We the People—is entirely in character for her, and for this regime as a whole.
holy shit -- Bondi's new tactic is refusing to answer Democratic questions, then using time during the next Republican questioner to smear the previous Democratic member and accuse them of being complicit in violence crimes
February 11, 2026 at 6:42 PM
The contempt she has for the People’s Branch—for those representing us—We the People—is entirely in character for her, and for this regime as a whole.
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Yes, Trump has turned the United States into a kleptocratic police state. But lib wine moms sound so cringe when they point this out. I have never felt more politically homeless.
February 11, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Yes, Trump has turned the United States into a kleptocratic police state. But lib wine moms sound so cringe when they point this out. I have never felt more politically homeless.
It's me!
February 11, 2026 at 2:54 AM
It's me!
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I cannot express how much I hope that what ultimately brings these motherfuckers down are the women who survived them as children.
February 11, 2026 at 2:40 AM
I cannot express how much I hope that what ultimately brings these motherfuckers down are the women who survived them as children.
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THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
February 10, 2026 at 11:19 PM
THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
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Like I dunno, I keep thinking about how every time women, especially older women, start becoming *visible* in a left-of-center movement, instead of just invisibly making it run, there’s complaints that the movement is somehow now too centrist.
Still a little mad about this. Dismissing craftivists (who are mostly women) as cringey bandwagoneers is bullshit. Not everyone is Extremely Online; communities form in person, too: PTA meetings, book club, grocery store, gas pump, daycare pickup, pharmacy, dog park, ice rink, stadium, etc etc etc
And they aren't all crowing about it on social media, so let's not assume that all the people in hats and buttons passing out whistles are doing nothing else. People - "wine moms," "knitters," who else do you think has ready access to breast milk? - are working behind the scenes for good.
February 9, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Like I dunno, I keep thinking about how every time women, especially older women, start becoming *visible* in a left-of-center movement, instead of just invisibly making it run, there’s complaints that the movement is somehow now too centrist.
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The Mass Alliance Grassroots Campaign Training is a great opportunity for anyone looking to run for office, manage a campaign, or just get more involved with campaigns!
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February 10, 2026 at 12:06 AM
The Mass Alliance Grassroots Campaign Training is a great opportunity for anyone looking to run for office, manage a campaign, or just get more involved with campaigns!
www.massalliance.org/grassroots-c...
www.massalliance.org/grassroots-c...
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Authoritarian regimes make you feel like shit because they will never admit they’re losing.
But Trump is losing — and it’s because of the organizing work you’re doing.
But Trump is losing — and it’s because of the organizing work you’re doing.
February 10, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Authoritarian regimes make you feel like shit because they will never admit they’re losing.
But Trump is losing — and it’s because of the organizing work you’re doing.
But Trump is losing — and it’s because of the organizing work you’re doing.
Truly, what the actual fuck, @massgovernor.bsky.social. Collaborating with the slave catchers, the fucking gestapo. You are a disgrace.
NEW: Of all the states that voted for Harris over Trump in 2024, there's only one where a Dem governor is overseeing an ICE's 287(g) program:
Massachusetts.
Other blue states have quit, or even outright banned it. My colleague on what's happening: boltsmag.org/massachusett...
Massachusetts.
Other blue states have quit, or even outright banned it. My colleague on what's happening: boltsmag.org/massachusett...
Inside ICE’s Only Contract with a Blue State - Bolts
As part of a 287(g) contract between state officials and ICE, Massachusetts continues to release prisoners into deportation—even as state lawmakers look to ban other forms of ICE collaboration.
boltsmag.org
February 10, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Truly, what the actual fuck, @massgovernor.bsky.social. Collaborating with the slave catchers, the fucking gestapo. You are a disgrace.
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Repealing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act would "make the internet a conformist, neutral space where any controversial truth or opinion will be silenced," Aaron Mackey of @eff.org says.
Yet lawmakers from both parties are pushing to do just that.
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/behind-...
Yet lawmakers from both parties are pushing to do just that.
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/behind-...
Behind the Misguided Bipartisan Push to Muzzle Free Speech Online
This excerpt is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and...
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February 9, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Repealing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act would "make the internet a conformist, neutral space where any controversial truth or opinion will be silenced," Aaron Mackey of @eff.org says.
Yet lawmakers from both parties are pushing to do just that.
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/behind-...
Yet lawmakers from both parties are pushing to do just that.
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/behind-...
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The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...
Hating the Game
The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.
www.the-reframe.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:03 PM
The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...
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Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin
February 9, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin
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It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 AM
It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
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heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show
February 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous