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K Allison @kallison.bsky.social · Jul 4

Thank you for this- sugarcoating is ubiquitous

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · Jun 20

this is going to sound crass but my main opinion on the recent vile, bigoted, deliberately anti-medical supreme court decision on trans care is that in the immediate term blue states have to rapidly build more housing and help people get here

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Jun 18

Bodily autonomy is a human right.

Transness isn't a disease that needs to be cured. We're a normal part of the spectrum that is the human condition. And we deserve to have the final say over our own bodies - not just because of the harm if we don't, but because they belong to us and not the state.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jun 11

1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning.

- <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT.
- The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia.

The latest from S. Baum.

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Largest Trans Survey Ever: Top Reason Trans People Stop Transitioning Is Transphobia

“In almost every single case, the reason was anti-trans discrimination in the form of pressure to ‘detransition’ from one’s family, friends, or community.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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K Allison @kallison.bsky.social · Jun 12

I agree with the terms

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · Jan 18

This is a pinnable post for the Book Bans & Libraries feed. See this Info Page to see if you can post to feed. If not (check first, thx), reply w/ "I agree with the terms" & I'll add you to the list.

Feed looks for hashtags like #BannedBooks & #Freadom

bsky.app/profile/debb... #BookSky

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K Allison @kallison.bsky.social · Jun 12

Yesss

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · Jun 12

the mainstream media has been steadily buying into the idea that science and academia are somehow "captured" by left and liberal ideologues, rather than the more obvious explanation that measured analysis leads people away from reactionary thought

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · Jun 5

Photo of a blond woman in car with the following caption: Crazy how it's considered normal to drop your kids off at daycare 5 days a week, 8 hours a day, just to drive to a job that pays for daycare, the car, and a home you're barely in. We're literally working to afford a life we hardly get to live.

Posted by Josh Winiecke

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Apr 11

Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine, has been captive to the hard-line immigration policies of the Trump administration for nearly eight weeks. She fears arrest if she is deported.

She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her

President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.

www.nytimes.com

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K Allison @kallison.bsky.social · Apr 11

👇Spot on

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K Allison @kallison.bsky.social · Apr 4

There is no limit to their cruelty.

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · Apr 4

This is so, so, so dangerous. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is reportedly violating detained Tufts student’s right to medical care

Democrats say that Rümeysa Öztürk's inhaler has been withheld and she has had repeated asthma attacks.

www.motherjones.com

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social · Apr 3

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is hiring a University Archives and Special Collections librarian. This is a great chance to work at a student-centered academic library and with a collection that has some incredible hidden gems.
🗃️
www.siue.edu/employment/l...

www.siue.edu

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Mary Beth Campbell @mbcampbell360.bsky.social · Mar 23

"If people like Mahmoud and me cannot express dissent on campus about matters of life and death without fear of reprisal, then university campuses are less than useless; they are the front lines of fascism."

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · Mar 20

My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...

Please use the link in the post for a link to the full text shown in this image

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K Allison @kallison.bsky.social · Mar 16

For a poetic view on this, I read Eric Vuillard’s L’Ordre de Jour, Order of the Day. I highly recommend this short work. Living in the US right now, it was an overwhelmingly emotional read.

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Christopher Street Project @christopherstreet.bsky.social · Mar 13

After relentless attacks from the Trump administration on the transgender community, trans Americans and allies from across the country will convene in Washington DC to show we’re not going anywhere.

Join us at transdayofvisibility.com.

Trans Day of Visibility Rally
Washington DC
National Mall between 3rd St and 4th St
March 31 - 4 PM
transdayofvisibility.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · Mar 12

Moving a detainee around to evade judicial review is classic authoritarian behavior.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Mar 12

The government claims Mahmoud Khalil was already in NJ on his way to Louisiana by the time his habeas petition was filed—an argument that the NY federal court lacks jurisdiction.

But Khalil's lawyer checked the ICE locator when she filed and even 4 hrs after, and he was listed as still being in NY.

I worked all night to draft a habeas petition for Mahmoud. The petition was filed at
4:40 AM on March 9, 2025, in the Southern District of New York. At the time of filing the petition,
we had every reason to believe that Mahmoud was detained in New York because of what the
DHS agent told his wife and the ICE Online Detainee Locator System?
10. I originally checked the ICE locator around 10 PM on Saturday, March 8th and
Mahmoud was not in the system. I checked again at 1:35 AM on Sunday, March 9th and it said he
was in custody in New York and to call the field office. I checked again at 4:29 AM on Sunday, March gth and it said the same thing. I checked again at 8:30 AM on Sunday, March gth and Mahmoud was still listed as being detained in New York.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Mar 10

Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper...

But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Mar 9

1. Major news in transgender care.

Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.

They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.

Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.

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New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review

The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Mar 8

Whenever anti-trans panic gets whipped up, more of these stories happen.

Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · Mar 7

Walmart called the police on a cis-woman using the women's bathroom.

Even after proving she's a woman, "one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she 'looked like a man.'"

😡 😡 😡

Cis woman confronted by police officers in Arizona Walmart restroom for looking too masculine speaks out (exclusive)

“The only men in the women’s restroom were the cops,” Kalaya Morton said.

www.advocate.com

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · Feb 28

"When Kimberlé Crenshaw’s intersectionality framework is banned, when Nikole Hannah-Jones’s 1619 Project is deemed dangerous, when Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and other literary masterpieces are labeled “inappropriate,” the message is clear: our full humanity threatens the established order."

First Person: 'They ban books by Black authors. Then they tell us to celebrate Black History Month.' - Open Campus

As state legislatures and boards of regents debate whose histories deserve telling, those of us behind bars have long faced explicit bans on texts that challenge dominant narratives or examine racial ...

www.opencampus.org

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · Mar 6

Elon Musk runs DOGE but also doesn't run DOGE. Schrödinger's bureaucrat

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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · Mar 5

Amazing starred review for Abortion Stories from @libraryjournal.bsky.social! They write: "It’s hard to imagine a public library that shouldn’t have a copy." I couldn't imagine a better endorsement! Read their blurb here: www.libraryjournal.com/review/abort...

Abortion Stories: American Literature Before Roe v. Wade

www.libraryjournal.com

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Mar 5

It's not subtle. It's not dog whistles. It's pure blood and soil ethnonationalism will multiple calls for wars of expansion and extermination of undesirables.

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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · Mar 5

Donald Trump wants all trans people dead.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Mar 5

Trump just called for criminalizing transness and called transness "a big lie."

This is really bad.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Mar 5

Trump: "A few years ago, January Littlejohn discovered their school had secretly transitioned their little girl"

January Littlejohn is responsible for most "Don't Say Gay" laws around the country and book bans.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Mar 5

Trump just called for criminalizing transness and called transness "a big lie."

This is really bad.

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