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Tara Tarantella @tarantella.bsky.social · 18h

Wow. An ad that’s a full-throated understanding and specific support of the LGBTQIA+ community. I’m impressed to the level of “Can this ad truly be coming from a Democrat?” level of impressed

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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mzrad.bsky.social @mzrad.bsky.social · 18h

Joe fucking Biden

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mzrad.bsky.social @mzrad.bsky.social · 18h

This is how you demonstrate compassion and intelligence @kamalaharris.com.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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mzrad.bsky.social @mzrad.bsky.social · 18h

Perhaps you think Gavin Newsom is brave to have his social media intern write screaming ALL CAPS posts about President Orange but please be aware that he’s on the side of wasteful AI and a transphobe. What a disgrace.

Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 18h

I hadn't been following this bill, but just saw that Gov. Newsom vetoed AB 93, which imposed certain water use reporting requirements on data centers, as part of the business licensing process (including for annual renewals).

calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202...

AB 93: Water resources: data centers. | Digital Democracy

Digital Democracy overview of bill AB 93: Water resources: data centers.

calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org

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M.O.T.A.Z @motaz-aarchitect.bsky.social · 1d

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18h

I saw someone say that 79 years old is young and no it is not. Living until you are almost 80 means that you have been blessed to live a long life.

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 21h

No matter how many hit clips you see from @govpritzker.illinois.gov, the fact remains that the Illinois State Police are actively protecting and aiding ICE in their terrorizing of our communities.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 22h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 21h

When the output of the highest court in the land wouldn't pass muster coming from first-year law students, it discredits the institutional legitimacy of the entire legal system. Nobody can pretend they are at the apex of the profession, intellectually credible even when you disagree with them.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Seen in Maywood, Illinois

Handwritten sign on parked car dash that reads ZIP TYING CHILDREN IS FUCKING WRONG

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mzrad.bsky.social @mzrad.bsky.social · 2d

It’s been so funny to see what an absolutely garbage campaign Mélissa DeRosa is running for her trash candidate, Andrew Cuomo. Haha it super sucks.

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mzrad.bsky.social @mzrad.bsky.social · 2d

White dudes are so pathetic when they embrace white supremacy bullshit because, seriously, you have the most advantageous skin color and gender combo on the planet and you STILL can’t make ends meet. Deeply pathetic white men.

mzrad.bsky.social @mzrad.bsky.social · 2d

With a h/t to @prisonculture, I’m making a podcast for our public library and the Library Foundation (I’m a member of the BOD): it’s a blast! Calling it “We LOVE the Library!”

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 2d

I appreciate David Simon standing ten toes down in: nah AI cannot do what writers do, periodt

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 3d

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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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 3d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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mzrad.bsky.social @mzrad.bsky.social · 3d

Your Masterclass is so great.

mzrad.bsky.social @mzrad.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody works harder to do absolutely nothing than “leader” Dick Durbin

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 3d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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

If you obey the administration’s demands to use its NewSpeak vocabulary, why would I ever trust you to describe its actions objectively?

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4d

This is a key talking points that should be echoed everyday by Democrats and ties directly to the Epstein Files, which is Trump's Achillese Cankle.

Why aren't Republicans swearing Rep Grijalva???

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 4d

Jeffries says Dems "have made clear privately and publicly" to Mike Johnson that Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) must be sworn in.

"Why the delay?" he asks. "Does it have anything to do with Republicans continuing effort to hide the Epstein files from the American people?"

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mzrad.bsky.social @mzrad.bsky.social · 4d

He’s my governor and I find her all-caps posts to be super cringe, and not in a good way. It makes Newsom come across as a clown.

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 4d

Can’t wait for Alito to explain why you have a right to pray at midfield on public school property but should be shot in the head with “less” lethal ammo when you do it in front of an immigration detention facility

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s video of the incident

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