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Fallon | find me on disabled.social instead of this nazi bar @fallonturing.bsky.social · 18h

For all you "nonbinary people are exempt from transphobia" asshats, now we can't escape the US if we have an X gender marker. www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/u-s-customs-...

CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIS

CBP enforces binary sex codes and stricter US passport validation in APIS effective October 2025. Key compliance updates for business travelers and airlines.

www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22h

The Education Department has hired at least 9 people from the America First Policy Institute, co-founded by Secretary Linda McMahon.

The think tank’s listed goals include ending the separation of church and state and “plant[ing] Jesus in every space.”

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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KRohlyPoly @krohlypoly.bsky.social · 17h

I just want shorts like that

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Misha🧡🤍💖 🔜 NYCC C44 @mishacak3s.bsky.social · 5d

THE HAT IS ALMOST AT 20%!! Can we make it before the end of the day???

Misha🧡🤍💖 🔜 NYCC C44 @mishacak3s.bsky.social · 7d

NEW MAKESHIP CAMPAIGNS!! THAT’S RIGHT! 3 NEW ELDRITCH DARLING PRODUCTS ARE HERE!!!!! I’m so excited for these, especially the hat! If you wanna support my comic and get cute af merch, head on over!
(if you purchase all 3 you get 10% off!)
www.makeship.com/products/doo...

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 5d

It is unfathomable to me that we’re all just supposed to be okay with higher energy costs and more air and light pollution, in exchange for a machine that steals personal data and copyrighted material and produces slop and wage theft, and big tech can do this to our society unilaterally.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d

In the spring, the Trump administration abruptly cut $500 million from an emergency food assistance program that delivered meat, dairy, eggs and produce to food banks across the country.

Thousands of planned deliveries were canceled without warning.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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KRohlyPoly @krohlypoly.bsky.social · 5d

If you see this, quote with your top 4 Final Fantasy games.

A screenshot of Aerith from Final Fantasy VII

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KRohlyPoly @krohlypoly.bsky.social · 10d

I would really like to be able to exist without my socials being shared in transphobic hate groups on Facebook and mocked.

Is that too much to ask?

#trans

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TheHRTLocker @thehrtlocker.bsky.social · 10d

My boss told me I looked like I watched Star Trek and then ad I wad leaving she said "may the force be with you... wait no it's live and get fucked or whatever" and held up the hand salute, so I guess it was a good day at work
[Spock, doing the salute]
Caption: Live fast and get fucked or whatever.

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 11d

Good news, everybody 🖤

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11d

Morning Bluesky.

Spain has blocked US planes and ships carrying weapons to Israel from stopping at bases in Cádiz and Seville.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11d

NEW: Some 4 million people in the U.S. could lose federal housing assistance under new plans from the Trump administration, say experts who reviewed drafts of two unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica.

By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

Millions Could Lose Housing Aid Under Trump Plan

Drafts of unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica detail plans that would open the door to full-time work requirements, two-year limits on living in federally supported housing and stripping aid from...

www.propublica.org

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KRohlyPoly @krohlypoly.bsky.social · 25d

Insomnia sucks.

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KRohlyPoly @krohlypoly.bsky.social · 26d

A lot of stuff is going on in the world, but I have so much love in my life. It's wonderful.

I love my found family.

a black and white photo of a woman with the words `` happy sigh '' written on it .

Alt: a black and white photo of a woman with the words `` happy sigh '' written on it .

media.tenor.com

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KRohlyPoly @krohlypoly.bsky.social · Sep 7

Genndy Tartakovsky's Mean Girls

Andy Claaaaaarrrghhhhk, Nerdling Herder @andycruns.bsky.social · Sep 7

Wes Anderson’s Alien

Gorgon The Dragon @gorgonthedragon.bsky.social · Sep 7

Tim Burton's Train To Busan

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm not someone who's ever felt comfortable owning a gun, but anyone who's known me long enough knows I've advocated for any trans person that feels comfortable doing so to arm up, if for no other reason than to keep armed fascists who want us dead never certain we'll be easy targets.

This is bad.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Sep 4

Can we please understand what is happening? He is disarming us as a prelude to our extermination. And making us mentally unfit to own firearms as a matter of law will exclude us from all manner of legal rights.

www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...

Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say | CNN Politics

Senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.

www.cnn.com

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KRohlyPoly @krohlypoly.bsky.social · Sep 4

Motor City

Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · Sep 4

aye, naw

two maps--of the US and the world--with the legend "tell me where you are from using only 2 words"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 4

If the Trump White House wants to ban all transgender people from owning guns because a handful were responsible for mass shootings, wait until they hear how many shootings straight cis white guys have done.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · Sep 4

One of the worst things in American journalism is how thoroughly it is dominated by the hive mind that launched politico and ran its earliest days: Maggie Haberman, Glenn Thrush, Ben Smith, Dylan Byers and a few more. They are the plastics from Mean Girls.

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · Sep 4

Nothing Dylan Byers loves more than defending the status quo. Back in 2016 he said it was true that HRC was hiding from the media because a press conference at the association of black journalists didn’t count

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 4

two thoughts. 1) this prose is *rough*. 2) describing weiss as possessing a “shit-kicking anti-establishment disposition” is evidence you’ve suffered a brain injury

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · Sep 4

Nothing Dylan Byers loves more than defending the status quo. Back in 2016 he said it was true that HRC was hiding from the media because a press conference at the association of black journalists didn’t count

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 4

two thoughts. 1) this prose is *rough*. 2) describing weiss as possessing a “shit-kicking anti-establishment disposition” is evidence you’ve suffered a brain injury

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · Sep 4

You can start getting ready for CBS News guided by Bari Weiss of the Free Press. This is from Dylan Byers. [Paywall likely]

"I am told David plans to give Bari a role at CBS News that would, among other things, task his fellow Millennial with guiding the editorial direction of the division."

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KRohlyPoly @krohlypoly.bsky.social · Sep 4

The problem of loneliness is the system that separates everyone from their communities so they are more desperate and lonely. This causes them to A) spend money on shit they don't need for dopamine and B) accept basement wages that they can't live comfortably on. It's not a bug; it's a feature.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Sep 4

Reading about the Project 2025 "Manhattan Project for babies" and we are so back

Heritage’s paper rejects what it calls “extraordinary technical solutions,” including subsidies for egg freezing, in vitro fertilization, surrogacy and genetic screening, deriding them as a form of pronatalism that “envisions a world of artificial wombs and custom lab-created babies on demand.”

Instead, it suggests that “the answer to the problem of loneliness and demographic decline must begin with marriage,” and blames “free love, pornography, careerism, the Pill, abortion, same-sex relations, and no-fault divorce” as culprits behind the decline of American marriages.

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KRohlyPoly @krohlypoly.bsky.social · Sep 2

That stinks, but then Sweetwater's Donut Mill donuts are a much better substitute, honestly. The only bad part is they are only in southwest Michigan.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · Sep 2

In @theatlantic.com the former First Lady advocating healthy lunches is just like the hhs head being an anti vaccine quack killing people. Stop the planet I want to get off.

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KRohlyPoly @krohlypoly.bsky.social · Aug 31

Oh, those are just states that could. The only two threatening are Illinois and California

KRohlyPoly @krohlypoly.bsky.social · Aug 31

Maine, VT, New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, maybe West Virginia, Maryland, etc.

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KRohlyPoly @krohlypoly.bsky.social · Aug 31

The only way this works is if Dems do nothing, considering that most traditionally dem-leaning states out-populate most gop-leaning states.

So...it might work.

Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · Aug 31

Shit like this tells me they know Trump won't be around for too long and are scrambling to consolidate their positions before they lose his base.

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