mady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️
@madycast.com
· Sep 20
Despite all the laws and rhetoric and violence, the number of people who identify as trans still continues to increase across the country, every year.
Their attacks are escalating precisely because they are afraid and desperate they have failed so far.
"Oppression is the mask of fear."
Their attacks are escalating precisely because they are afraid and desperate they have failed so far.
"Oppression is the mask of fear."
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of course an ICE agent shooting a woman didn't "take the bait", that's a tragedy we have to Wait For The System to handle. did you hear someone broke a window? Scandalous.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says 29 people were arrested in downtown last night during a noise demonstration at a hotel reportedly housing ICE agents: "For those that are taking the bait and causing property damage or otherwise, there are consequences. We're holding the line here all the way."
January 11, 2026 at 12:23 AM
of course an ICE agent shooting a woman didn't "take the bait", that's a tragedy we have to Wait For The System to handle. did you hear someone broke a window? Scandalous.
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I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building.
Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.
The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.
Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.
The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.
JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.
@zeteo.com
@zeteo.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:17 PM
I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building.
Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.
The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.
Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.
The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.
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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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Those of you who still insist on drawing a distinction between ICE and police should be aware that the police are not drawing that distinction.
Thank you for telling us you neither serve nor protect. Thank you for saying the quiet part out loud. That was state murder in broad daylight, captured from multiple angles by multiple witnesses, and the people of Minneapolis have eyes.
You support murder.
You support murder.
January 10, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Those of you who still insist on drawing a distinction between ICE and police should be aware that the police are not drawing that distinction.
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Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans.
This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:
“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:
“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
January 10, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans.
This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:
“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:
“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
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From your lips to God’s ears, Greg the Groyper
January 9, 2026 at 4:56 AM
From your lips to God’s ears, Greg the Groyper
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Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
Advocates want legal action after man shot and killed by off-duty ICE agent in Northridge
Advocates argue that the off-duty ICE agent wasn't trained for the situation and should have called police and waited for them to arrive.
abc7.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:04 AM
Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
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BREAKING: The Hennepin County District Attorney's office says they have jurisdiction to charge the ICE agent involved in the fatal Minneapolis shooting.
January 8, 2026 at 8:58 PM
BREAKING: The Hennepin County District Attorney's office says they have jurisdiction to charge the ICE agent involved in the fatal Minneapolis shooting.
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Yesterday, I attended the vigil for Renee Good, the woman murdered by an ICE agent for daring to try and protect her neighbors.
This vigil, which had thousands upon thousands of people, gave me hope I never had before for the future of activism. I wanna talk about it.
🧵
This vigil, which had thousands upon thousands of people, gave me hope I never had before for the future of activism. I wanna talk about it.
🧵
January 8, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Yesterday, I attended the vigil for Renee Good, the woman murdered by an ICE agent for daring to try and protect her neighbors.
This vigil, which had thousands upon thousands of people, gave me hope I never had before for the future of activism. I wanna talk about it.
🧵
This vigil, which had thousands upon thousands of people, gave me hope I never had before for the future of activism. I wanna talk about it.
🧵
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weaponizing "male socialization" against trans women isn't just hurtful because it's transphobia. it's hurtful because it weaponizes the tool of the patriarchy against its greatest victim--the women who have defied patriarchy's definitions of gender the most out of anyone.
January 8, 2026 at 9:52 AM
weaponizing "male socialization" against trans women isn't just hurtful because it's transphobia. it's hurtful because it weaponizes the tool of the patriarchy against its greatest victim--the women who have defied patriarchy's definitions of gender the most out of anyone.
people aren't socialized into their gender roles, people are socialized into the patriarchy, which rigidly defines gender.
white cis women have been crucial to elect Trump, a pedophile rapist, twice now.
white cis women have been crucial to elect Trump, a pedophile rapist, twice now.
cis women are equally as """male socialised""" as trans women because we're all socialised as "women are quiet and obedient and men are loud and get what they want". the patriarchy does not, indeed,want young girls to grow up feminist anymore than young boys
January 8, 2026 at 9:50 AM
people aren't socialized into their gender roles, people are socialized into the patriarchy, which rigidly defines gender.
white cis women have been crucial to elect Trump, a pedophile rapist, twice now.
white cis women have been crucial to elect Trump, a pedophile rapist, twice now.
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cis women are equally as """male socialised""" as trans women because we're all socialised as "women are quiet and obedient and men are loud and get what they want". the patriarchy does not, indeed,want young girls to grow up feminist anymore than young boys
January 8, 2026 at 8:48 AM
cis women are equally as """male socialised""" as trans women because we're all socialised as "women are quiet and obedient and men are loud and get what they want". the patriarchy does not, indeed,want young girls to grow up feminist anymore than young boys
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Transgender D.C. nonprofit founder Ruby Corado fears Trump-era prison ahead of sentencing hearing
www.advocate.com/new...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.advocate.com/new...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Transgender D.C. nonprofit founder Ruby Corado fears Trump-era prison ahead of sentencing hearing
Ruby Corado’s attorneys told a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that incarcerating her would be “uniquely destructive.”
www.advocate.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:35 AM
Transgender D.C. nonprofit founder Ruby Corado fears Trump-era prison ahead of sentencing hearing
www.advocate.com/new...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.advocate.com/new...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
feels like things have really ramped up the last few days... but also like it's only going to get crazier from here (hopefully in a good way)
January 8, 2026 at 3:11 AM
feels like things have really ramped up the last few days... but also like it's only going to get crazier from here (hopefully in a good way)
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Very rarely in human history can you definitively say you are fighting on the side of Good but by god this is one of those times, we are going to defeat ICE and the Border Patrol change this wretched world into one where borders no longer kill
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
January 8, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Very rarely in human history can you definitively say you are fighting on the side of Good but by god this is one of those times, we are going to defeat ICE and the Border Patrol change this wretched world into one where borders no longer kill
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Not quite as optimistic as the headline makes it seem:
"House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), asked if the appropriations process should be used to constrain ICE, told Axios: "We're focused right now on … advancing the Affordable Care Act tax credits.""
"House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), asked if the appropriations process should be used to constrain ICE, told Axios: "We're focused right now on … advancing the Affordable Care Act tax credits.""
January 8, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Not quite as optimistic as the headline makes it seem:
"House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), asked if the appropriations process should be used to constrain ICE, told Axios: "We're focused right now on … advancing the Affordable Care Act tax credits.""
"House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), asked if the appropriations process should be used to constrain ICE, told Axios: "We're focused right now on … advancing the Affordable Care Act tax credits.""
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WOMEN are doing the vast majority of the front-line organizing against ICE, the vast majority of the front-line reporting, the vast majority of the legal observing, the vast majority of the care work, the vast majority of the corking and safety volunteering. It's so often women who are being killed.
Renee Good, who was murdered in cold blood today by ICE, was a queer woman. June "T-Rex" Knightly, who was murdered in Portland, was a queer woman. The ICE detainees who were sexually assaulted in Louisiana are queer women and trans men.
Queer and trans immigrants allege forced labor and sexual assault in Ice facility: ‘I was treated worse than an animal’
At the South Louisiana Ice Processing Center in Basile, detainees say they were forced into hard labor – and sexually assaulted and stalked by an assistant warden
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:18 AM
WOMEN are doing the vast majority of the front-line organizing against ICE, the vast majority of the front-line reporting, the vast majority of the legal observing, the vast majority of the care work, the vast majority of the corking and safety volunteering. It's so often women who are being killed.
Democrats could block the yearly DHS funding bill from passing literally this year before the midterms, but they wont lol
ICE still has funds from the BBB but there's no reason Dems should vote for a dollar more of funding for the DHS.
ICE still has funds from the BBB but there's no reason Dems should vote for a dollar more of funding for the DHS.
The only way we protect ourselves from ICE is by winning the midterms.
January 8, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Democrats could block the yearly DHS funding bill from passing literally this year before the midterms, but they wont lol
ICE still has funds from the BBB but there's no reason Dems should vote for a dollar more of funding for the DHS.
ICE still has funds from the BBB but there's no reason Dems should vote for a dollar more of funding for the DHS.
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NOW: Crowd continues to grow in Minneapolis at a vigil where a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good this morning.
“SAY HER NAME!”
“RENEE GOOD!”
“SAY HER NAME!”
“RENEE GOOD!”
January 7, 2026 at 11:22 PM
NOW: Crowd continues to grow in Minneapolis at a vigil where a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good this morning.
“SAY HER NAME!”
“RENEE GOOD!”
“SAY HER NAME!”
“RENEE GOOD!”
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Border Patrol murdered a queer woman in front of her wife it is one of the worst things I have ever seen the blood that has stained the soil of this country since the first settler landed in this place can only be wiped away by the tide of the history we must create
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
January 7, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Border Patrol murdered a queer woman in front of her wife it is one of the worst things I have ever seen the blood that has stained the soil of this country since the first settler landed in this place can only be wiped away by the tide of the history we must create
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
this is what an ally does!
January 7, 2026 at 9:15 PM
this is what an ally does!
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Actions have consequences.
January 7, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Actions have consequences.
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Trans News Network is among the 37th GLAAD Media Awards nominees for Outstanding Independent Journalism: glaad.org/mediaawards/...
37th Annual GLAAD Media Awards Nominees | GLAAD
See the full list of nominees for the 37th Annual GLAAD Media Awards.
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January 7, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Trans News Network is among the 37th GLAAD Media Awards nominees for Outstanding Independent Journalism: glaad.org/mediaawards/...
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“I want a progressive movement that is aggressively pro raising wages at the bottom and aggressively pro immigration. These are completely coherent goals.” Great piece by @polphilpod.bsky.social
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
We Need to Get Off The Defensive About Immigration
Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:29 AM
“I want a progressive movement that is aggressively pro raising wages at the bottom and aggressively pro immigration. These are completely coherent goals.” Great piece by @polphilpod.bsky.social
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
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@rikiwilchins.bsky.social l 2026 Jan 6 Reuters: A US Magistrate rules DOJ efforts to subpoena patient records from providers of pediatric GAC should be quashed as improper because the purpose was pressuring hospitals into ending the practice. DOJ has 14 days to appeal.
Judge rejects DOJ's subpoena to Children's Hospital Colorado over transgender care
The U.S. Department of Justice has suffered another setback in its efforts to subpoena providers of gender-affirming care for transgender youth in order to obtain patient information and details about...
www.reuters.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:58 AM
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social l 2026 Jan 6 Reuters: A US Magistrate rules DOJ efforts to subpoena patient records from providers of pediatric GAC should be quashed as improper because the purpose was pressuring hospitals into ending the practice. DOJ has 14 days to appeal.