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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 18d

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."

Consider that, despite dozens of states banning trans care for minors in the last several years, as well as bans on literature or teachers talking about trans people in schools, the number of trans youth keeps increasing every year, across the United States.

The increasing escalation from the far-right in their attacks on us reflects the primal desperation the fascists feel knowing they are continuously losing their fight to commit genocide. As Karis Nemik writes in his manifesto in Andor, oppression is the mask of fear.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 7h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 8h

watching my leftist tr*nny ass get cited by three different queer outlets about the California trans rights bills, because no one actually spends a week researching and writing a news article about trans people these days except extremely autistic tgirls with OCD

a cartoon of grinch with a very angry look on his face

Alt: a cartoon of grinch with a very angry look on his face

media.tenor.com

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 10h

I'm like morbidly curious what kind of things will happen if I do this now lmao

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 11h

what did I just read 😭

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 22h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 18h

it's funny cuz all the same people acting mad about this love Kristi Noem, who literally wrote a book about how she killed her dog

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 21h

Again, focusing on individuals staying or going misses the point.

What does become a real problem is when the issue gets framed (usually by more gentry expats or those who follow them) as "everyone who stays is doomed."

That is false and it is genuinely, unacceptably damaging.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 22h

Vast, vast majority of trans people aren't going to leave the country. Many can't leave the areas they're currently in.

If trans survival/liberation are something one cares about, at all, that's the reality.

So...🧵

(And no, this is not — in the main — about indviduals leaving the country).

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 22h

this is how abuse culture perpetuates, you mock and ostracize people who call out orgs for being abusive, protecting said orgs from accountability and ensuring they always have a fresh stream of victims. be careful out there, and join hyperlocal groups to avoid the problems of hierarchal ones.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 22h

never join a leftist discord, I opened hasan's for some reason to post a meme and replied to someone about a leftist org warning about their history of abuse, then dozens of stans of said org started harassing me and got me banned for having a server tag with t-slur I had for months with no issue

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 1d

wtf so there's still time to contact him?

On the downside: that was some very doom-y reporting?

On the upside: cool!

I called and left a message: (916) 445-2841

All I did was say who I am, where I live, and listed off the names of the bills I support. Very easy:

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

i love this website actually

Mr. Cait @chas.bsky.social • 13h
Gavin Newsom would take a puppy from an orphan, rip the puppy apart with his bare hands and eat it while the orphan screamed if he thought it would win him one vote in Wisconsin.

ILLEGIT PREc
@illegitprez.bsky.so... • 13h
there is something wrong with you.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social • 10h
"anti far left" in bio, hard pass

ILLEGIT PREc & E @illegitprez.bsky.so... • 10h no one invited you

cait (and adonis)
@cait.bsky.social
that's my husband you dumb bitch

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 2d

CUNO - “Fuck does Cuno care?” The boy turns to you. (He doesn't care.)

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

Many women are saying this

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

a t4t polycule television drama would top every television ratings chart for centuries but no one wants to talk about this ‼️

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 1d

Californians, let’s call (916) 445-2841 to tell Newsom’s office to sign the following pro LGBTQ+ rights bills before the deadline:

AB 82/SB 497
AB 1084/SB 59
SB 418
AB 554
AB 728
AB 678
SB 590
SB 450

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 1d

imagine going from “don’t say anything bad about Newsom 3 years before the primary or else trump will win” to “don’t engage in civics by asking the governor that represents you to sign laws that have been passed by two state houses and will improve your life or else you’re helping fascism”

Luigi (the Mario kind not the Saint) saying “fucking liberals”

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

don't forget sunflower lecithin 🙂‍↕️✊🏽

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

I mean...I wouldn't mind being crushed by a limb...

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

I don't make any money off this work, I'm powered entirely by girlkisses tbh

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 1d

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 1d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

Oslo universitetssykehus felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner

Forskere ved Oslo universitetssykehus har forsket på transpersoner uten godkjenning. Nå er de felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

www.forskning.no

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

The fact that "we need to throw trans people under the bus to win over some mysterious voters" is a far more common sentiment than "oh I would vote Democrat if not for those stinkin transgenders" shows how fake of a problem it is.

no one is not voting Dems cuz of trans people. it's cuz y'all suck

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