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Lisa

@queerkitty.bsky.social

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They/She. Queer. Disabled. Enjoys books and cats. Would like to pet your dog.🦇 🇵🇪🇨🇱

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Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · Jul 3

Since NY is going into a mayoral election and Andrew Cuomo & his friends are still hanging around, I’m pinning this explainer of how Cuomo fucked the House for 2025

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · Jul 3

A big reason Dems don't control the House right now—and this murderous spending bill is possible—is Andrew Cuomo, who fucked New York's congressional redistricting as governor and helped lose us seats in Congress.

www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06...

It all goes back to some tangled ancient history: When Cuomo was running for governor in 2010, he pledged to end “hyper-partisan” redistricting. Two years later he used the census-mandated redrawing of district lines as a chit in state budget negotiations. Cuomo got a new pension tier that lowered payments for some unionized state employees; in exchange, incumbent state legislators got the ability to create districts that would favor their reelection. The drawing of new congressional districts was punted 10 years down the road and placed in the hands of an unwieldy, supposedly “independent” commission. This year, when New York Republicans stalled the commission’s work, they essentially pushed redistricting into the state’s courts.

Cuomo made strenuous efforts to steer the state down the ideological middle, which he claimed was a necessity early on—when Republicans controlled a majority of the state senate—but which also enhanced his own power. One byproduct was Cuomo’s nominating of the four relatively conservative judges, including one Republican, who in April voted to tear up the proposed congressional redistricting maps. “What Democrats did to our majority on the highest court would never happen in a Republican-controlled state,” Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney says, which is as close as he will get to blaming Cuomo. “That court made a mess of this, and it put the project in the hands of a Republican in Steuben County. And we got a crappy result.”

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Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 5h

The bigoted, anti-science death cult’s arguments are completely in denial of reality and should be rejected in their entirety. They do not exist in the same universe as well-informed, good faith discussion of medical procedures.

Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 5h

The point is that they’re amplifying a dangerous, ableist lie (re: Tylenol) & invoking a common, safely practiced medical procedure (w/roots in Judaism) that’s obsessed over by their base of rabid antisemitic conspiracy theorists & equating Jewish ppl w/a group they want to eradicate (autistic ppl).

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Dan Collen @dancollen.bsky.social · 16h

For the normal people in the room, you should probably know this shit is a hit with neo-Nazis. The 14-year old Groyper you know has more space in his head for circumcision conspiracies (all of which blame the Jews) than you have space in your head for your cousins' first names.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 5h

They’re all predators, each and every one of them

Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 5h

Holy shit that’s terrifying

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 9h

I encountered this in one of my NYU newsletters; includes lots of zoom events!

NYU Detention and Deportation event series; use QR code to access full info

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becca | they/them @beccaisoutside.bsky.social · 10h

this is the most pollen ive ever seen on a single bug, shes having the time of her life

photo of a bee covered all-over with bright orange pollen.

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New York Working Families Party @nywfp.bsky.social · 9h

Tish James has always had New York’s back, and New Yorkers will always have hers.

Join us tomorrow at 5:30PM at Foley Square to stand with her.

Sign up here: www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/event...

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Karen Gadbois @karen70118.bsky.social · 8h

Flashback to Reagan campaigning in New Hampshire and people wore Gorilla Suits and signs that said Bedtime for Bonzo

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 8h

Just because I want to be super clear, this is military-only, as the NDAA only covers the military. This will impact the spouses and dependents of military members.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 9h

This is a precursor to the FY26 appropriations fight, where dozens more proposals are up for negotiation. Right now, the government is currently shut down, with attempts to pass a clean continuing resolution failing.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 9h

The Senate has just passed the military NDAA containing 2 anti-trans provisions: a surgery ban using federal funds (dependents too), and a sports ban on military academy spaces.

This will be the STARTING point for negotiations with the House, which has even worse provisions.

Only 20 Dems opposed.

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Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 11h

lol I thought it was the same thing at first and then read it—and it sounds exhausting but for different reasons

Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 11h

Agreed, it’s very irritating. And it’s annoying to have a new book described as a mash of a few big titles when I want something original.

Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 11h

This ‘make YA have spicy adult’ thing has got to be related to why I keep seeing adult books mis-categorized as YA books online, even when the official description clearly states the title as adult (and vis versa occasionally). It’s made goodreads & other sites more difficult to use.

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Margaret Owen @what-eats-owls.bsky.social · 15h

I’ve talked in a couple places about the lesson of DC/Marvel tailoring their comics to straight white men in their 20s-30s and alienating the rest of the market. To see publishing speedrunning that with romantasy… it’d be funny if it wasn’t my livelihood.

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Margaret Owen @what-eats-owls.bsky.social · 16h

Texting with another YA author friend this morning about the rough state of the market, and our consensus was, publishing keeps looking for the next Hunger Games, but they wouldn’t acquire the original if it were in their inboxes today

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Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 11h

Wait this looks like it’s a mildly-interactive theatre performance based around a meal, not people dining in an actual kitchen

Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 11h

For those unsure by the headline—This is a *theatre performance*, not a restaurant where you’re seated in the kitchen

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 16h

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

www.mibfc.org

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21h

one of the things he was announcing was a plan to weaken rules that require your broadband ISP clearly list all of the shitty, misleading fees they use to rip you off:

ISPs created so many fees that FCC will kill requirement to list them all

ISPs complained about Biden-era rule, said listing every fee was too hard.

arstechnica.com

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 22h

New piece from me asking "What are extreme overvalued beliefs and why does Genspect think all trans people have them?"

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 22h

A fringe group wants the field of psychiatry to regress back to the days when stereotypes and prejudices resulted in mental illness diagnoses for marginalized populations.

In a new reported piece, @evanurquhart.bsky.social examines Genspect's call for the re-psychopathologization of trans identity.

Hate Group Calls for Re-Labeling Transness as Mental Illness — Assigned

A fringe group with no expertise pushes the field of psychiatry to regress to a pre-scientific, prejudice-soaked view of trans people. It coincides with the far-right political agenda.

www.assignedmedia.org

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 1d

Burglar says asking occupants for use permission would 'kill' the housebreaking industry.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 23h

“Reporters, take note: there are zero mainstream articles pointing out that the White House now considers birth control a form of abortion.”

@jessicavalenti.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

Eight More Abortion Arrests in Texas

10.8.25

open.substack.com

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