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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 7h

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.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Tawni Marshall @tawnimarshall.bsky.social · 4h

One of my favorites in a long list of favorites from Prine! I got to see him play this at Bonnaroo 20 years ago, though it feels like 100.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 8h

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 1d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 1d

Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024.

Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Tawni Marshall @tawnimarshall.bsky.social · 1d

Don't mind me, just replying with a screenshot of a quote post of a skeet of a screenshot of a post of a photo of a paraphrased anecdote.

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Tawni Marshall @tawnimarshall.bsky.social · 1d

The toothpaste is out of the bottle now. Trans existence is more normalized than it's ever been. A world without trans people, like all nostalgia from the fascist imagination, is a past that never existed, and to which they can never return.

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Tawni Marshall @tawnimarshall.bsky.social · 1d

I think that's the thing, too. The right thinks they can will us out of existence, but that's not feasible if we refuse the closet. The more desperately they censor us, or weaponize our medicalization to push for forced institutionalization, the more present we become.

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Tawni Marshall @tawnimarshall.bsky.social · 1d

Selling out other trans people because you think society will accept you as a "proper transexual," groveling at the feet of fascists while pathologizing your entire being, conceding points to the trans eradication machine...these things make us all less safe.

It's despicable behavior.

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Tawni Marshall @tawnimarshall.bsky.social · 1d

I understand blending in when it's needed. Getting to a point where I passed well enough to keep from being singled out was life changing. None of that makes me safe from systemic erasure or losing my healthcare. It's not people being trans "the wrong way" that are enacting violence against us.

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Tawni Marshall @tawnimarshall.bsky.social · 1d

There's no degree of assimilation that will ever keep us safe from the people who oppose all trans existence. They don't care who passes or who transitioned "the right way." They want all of us rooted out of society, then detransitioned or dead.

Nothing else will placate them.

FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 1d

Assimilation is the slow death of lies

Henri / Alex @hirundinehenri.bsky.social · 1d

Sucks to be you I guess. Assimilation just feels right and keeps us safe.

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 2d

To understand the Trump administration’s vision for American education, @megomatz.bsky.social and I studied dozens of hours of political appointees’ speeches and podcasts and essays. What emerged is a desire to dismantle the nation’s system of public schools.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 2d

It is remarkable that of all the celebrities from the '80s who've gone full fash Axl Rose of all people zoomed in the other direction.

Meia tigela @brunodoamaral.bsky.social · 2d

No show do Guns N' Roses de ontem em Bogotá, o Axl recebeu essa bandeira da plateia durante a música Civil War.

Cantor Axl Rose, homem branco de meia idade com cabelo louro, segura uma bandeira da palestina com o logotipo do Guns N' Roses e escrito "I don't need your civil war".

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Lilliana Young for IN 61 @lillianayoung.bsky.social · 2d

I'm a transgebder Democratic Socialist running against a moderate Dem incumbent in the Indiana House of Representatives. I've got a lot of work ahead of me and I need help to be able to campaign full time. If you can chip in $5, $10 or even $20 it goes a long way

secure.actblue.com/donate/young61

Donate to Lilliana Young

Show your support with a contribution.

secure.actblue.com

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Tawni Marshall @tawnimarshall.bsky.social · 2d

Reminding myself to take small breaks from gazing at the horrors to write, record, and mix music about the horrors.

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Tawni Marshall @tawnimarshall.bsky.social · 2d

That qoute's from a summit they threw in Indianapolis, which was about as unhinged as you'd expect.

Between musical interludes featuring Jason Aldean’s “Fly over States” and “Try That In a Small Town,” MAGA leaders spoke of “demons” at work behind the shooting of Kirk and the stabbing of Iryna Zarutska and “the righteous versus the wicked.” An attendee who posed a question to Banks wondered whether Kirk’s killing “lifted the veil between good and evil.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/14/charlie-kirk-indiana-redistricting-00563252

“This isn’t a political battle anymore,” said Bruesewitz, who spoke to the crowd with visible emotion about his friendship with Kirk dating back to their teens, and recalled their last dinner together in South Korea just days ago. “It’s a spiritual battle.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/14/charlie-kirk-indiana-redistricting-00563252

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 2d

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Tawni Marshall @tawnimarshall.bsky.social · 2d

I love the idea that Carrot Top, Tammy Pescatelli, Danny Bonaduce, and Victoria Jackson can only get booked on this show because their brand of hard hitting truth-telling comedy is too dangerous for woke kids nowadays.

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Tawni Marshall @tawnimarshall.bsky.social · 2d

Is she his chief of staff or something?

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Tawni Marshall @tawnimarshall.bsky.social · 2d

Lee Greenwood's best selling album American Patriot peaked at 172 on the US charts in 1992.

Bad Bunny's last 4 albums peaked at #1. YHLQMDLG is 24x Platinum. He's had 113 songs enter the Billboard Hot 100.

Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 2d

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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