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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 3m

You Have to See This Mamdani Ad

I wasn't planning to post anything today. I dislike working and writing on weekends in general, but this was too important to ignore. You have to see this Zohran Mamdani campaign ad that came out…

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 2h

317 Coming Out Stories from LGBTQ+ Folx in Western Pennsylvania #NationalComingOutDay www.pghlesbian.com/2025/10/317-...

317 Coming Out Stories from LGBTQ+ Folx in Western Pennsylvania

Logo designed by Keith Haring for the Human Rights Campaign’s advocacy of the day From 2015-2018, the #AMPLIFY project documented first-person accounts of the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals with…

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 3h

Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents bit.ly/3J24i9C

Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents

The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 3h

No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In. bit.ly/470xKF4

No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In.

A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 5h

317 Coming Out Stories from LGBTQ+ Folx in Western Pennsylvania bit.ly/48kQdyq

317 Coming Out Stories from LGBTQ+ Folx in Western Pennsylvania

Logo designed by Keith Haring for the Human Rights Campaign’s advocacy of the day From 2015-2018, the #AMPLIFY project documented first-person accounts of the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals with…

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 6h

Nancy Pelosi was asked, “what did the Democrats do wrong?” “And her answer was basically nothing... I just feel like it’s completely inadequate,” says congressional candidate Saikat Chakrabarti.

Saikat Chakrabarti is coming for the Democratic establishment

AOC’s former campaign manager is ready to take on Nancy Pelosi

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 6h

For weeks, anti-immigration agents have tossed smoke bombs at people in cars, shot so-called “less lethal” weapons like rubber bullets and pepper balls, and deployed a staggering amount of tear gas, sometimes unleashing it almost casually into streets crowded with passersby. trib.al/h31tf5z

Trump Is Waging War on an American City

The real threat to people in Chicago (and Los Angeles and Portland) is our maniacal president.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 6h

“This is the first time I’ve seen so many pregnant people in [ICE] detention,” said Tania Wolf, the Southeast advocacy manager at the National Immigration Project. interc.pt/48WWErA

A photo of a sign offering families help locating their relatives hanging outside of an immigrant detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Oct. 2, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention," and the DEK, "The evidence indicates ICE is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating conditions."

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NPR @npr.org · 6h

For a century, the BBC has broadcast the weather report for the seas around the UK. "The Shipping Forecast" has informed and lulled generations who tune in to hear it.

Opinion: 'The Shipping Forecast' reminds us of the power of the human voice

For a century, the BBC has broadcast the weather report for the seas around the UK. "The Shipping Forecast" has informed and lulled generations who tune in to hear it.

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 7h

Texas Supreme Court considers Ken Paxton's demand for PFLAG records on transgender youth care bit.ly/4gZX1nv

Texas Supreme Court considers Ken Paxton's demand for PFLAG records on transgender youth care

The attorney general's office is challenging the validity of a district judge's order that limits how much information PFLAG, a national LGBTQ advocacy group, has to hand over about Texas families…

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 9h

This Pittsburgh Pet Food Pantry Now Restocked Thanks to Our Generous Donors bit.ly/3IWVkuj

This Pittsburgh Pet Food Pantry Now Restocked Thanks to Our Generous Donors

Thank you to everyone who donated to our September Pet Food Drive for the Dr. John P. Ruffing VMD Pet Food Pantry. We had to cancel our distribution in September due to low inventory. Marie and I s…

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 9h

And now Sue’s Reviews of the Famiworths Single-Serve Coffee Maker bit.ly/46KjS2O

And now Sue’s Reviews of the Famiworths Single-Serve Coffee Maker

Well, I have to fess up. I now own a Keurig. Well, a different brand single use pod machine, but basically the same thing. A friend gave it to me. I think she got it from a Buy Not a Thing list. Th…

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 9h

Review: ‘Another Kind of Silence’ Challenges the Languages That We Speak bit.ly/3IPBdhH

Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 9h

My Eyes are Pink and Painful bit.ly/3KS0lox

My Eyes are Pink and Painful

Pink eye. Get it? I was 54 years old before I contracted double pink eye – conjunctivitis in both eyes. And it sucks. Woke up this morning with nasal congestion and that weird weepy need to d…

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 10h

North Carolina Black Trans Woman Tiara Love Jackson Killed bit.ly/3VNsT4R

North Carolina Black Trans Woman Tiara Love Jackson Killed

Tiara Love Tori Jackson photo via GunMemorial.org A 37-year-old Black trans woman, Tiara Love ‘Tori’ Jackson, was shot to death on Friday, September 26 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The…

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 13h

This Pittsburgh Pet Food Pantry Now Restocked Thanks to Our Generous Donors bit.ly/3IWVkuj

This Pittsburgh Pet Food Pantry Now Restocked Thanks to Our Generous Donors

Thank you to everyone who donated to our September Pet Food Drive for the Dr. John P. Ruffing VMD Pet Food Pantry. We had to cancel our distribution in September due to low inventory. Marie and I s…

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 19h

Nineteen missing after explosion at Tennessee munitions factory bbc.in/47hnYQ6

19 people missing after blast levels Tennessee explosives facility

"There's nothing to describe, it's gone," says Humphreys County Sheriff Mike Davis, who grew emotional while providing an update about the most devastating incident of his career.

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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 20h

Rare wildflower bloom blankets Chile's Atacama desert

One of the world's driest deserts is transformed into a sea of wildflowers after a rare bloom.

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 20h

My Eyes are Pink and Painful bit.ly/3KS0lox

My Eyes are Pink and Painful

Pink eye. Get it? I was 54 years old before I contracted double pink eye – conjunctivitis in both eyes. And it sucks. Woke up this morning with nasal congestion and that weird weepy need to d…

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 21h

Loyola's Sister Jean, who became a March Madness icon, dies at 106 n.pr/4of3ZY7

Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 22h

Review: ‘Another Kind of Silence’ Challenges the Languages That We Speak bit.ly/4q4htaL

Review: ‘Another Kind of Silence’ Challenges the Languages That We Speak

Oh, did I mention I’m taking a class in theater reviews? The first lesson is to write about what you know. I know lesbians better than anything else in this production – better than ASL…

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 1d

Three Wins Today: Oct 10, 2025

Seattle WA
Wed, 10/1 - A neo-nazi was chased out of a “diversity of human sexuality” class at the U of WA by the professor and students
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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 1d

And now Sue’s Reviews of the Famiworths Single-Serve Coffee Maker bit.ly/46KjS2O

And now Sue’s Reviews of the Famiworths Single-Serve Coffee Maker

Well, I have to fess up. I now own a Keurig. Well, a different brand single use pod machine, but basically the same thing. A friend gave it to me. I think she got it from a Buy Not a Thing list. Th…

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