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Vixy

@vixyish.bsky.social

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Pansexual, polyamorous, married, cis, white, she/her. 1/4 of the band Vixy & Tony. Hi!

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Vixy @vixyish.bsky.social · Dec 12

Trans folks: the Trans Doc Project is here to help people get their documents updated before Inauguration Day! www.instagram.com/transdocproj...

Trans allies: the Trans Doc Project needs your donations! gofund.me/4bbcd51e
(Venmo & CashApp links also available on their Instagram)

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 11h

30-50 feral frogs

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 12h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 1d

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

RNS @rns.org · 2d

The pastors’ efforts are part of rising faith-based pushback to the Trump administration as the president seeks to implement plans for mass deportation of immigrants.
religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who…

religionnews.com

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Jae H @considermycat.bsky.social · 3d

I’m actually being quite serious here. Fascism is about keeping people emotionally dysregulated, especially through the reinforcement of shame, and offering them relief through mass conformity. That’s why fascism is so opposed to empathy, authenticity and queerness

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Jae H @considermycat.bsky.social · 3d

The reason why KPop Demon Hunters is the most important film of 2025 is that it understands fascism to be fundamentally an *emotional*, rather than an intellectual or political, phenomenon. In this essay I shall

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sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 27d

They were funny, respected, well-loved activists. They were rightfully scared about what COVID could do to them. They were “the vulnerable”—chronically ill Black women who needed $$ for healthcare costs—the government wanted, and wants, us to find acceptable to abandon. They knew what was happening.

Tweet from Shafiqah Hudson on 10/7/23: People looked at me all kinds of sideways when I suggested that the aggressive rollback of mask mandates, free testing, and other COVID-related services were essentially world governments enacting slow mass slaughter. But they’re fully aware that COVID kills on the comeback.

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sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 27d

I remember when Hudson tweeted this. It was one of her last tweets.

Tweet by Shafiqah Hudson on 9/18/2023: “I’m going to say, again, that when long COVID effects kill me—sooner than later—I need y’all to recognize and say LOUDLY what it was.

Long COVID is keeping my blood pressure at 230/128, in spite of taking an elaborate cocktail of meds. Long COVID is shredding my kidneys.”

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sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 27d

It especially makes my blood boil when people treat COVID conscious people like they’re over dramatic or oddities to be amused by when I think about Tinu Abayomi-Paul and Shafiqah Hudson.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · Nov 20

I don’t think it will all fit in there.

Sign on public storage building with lights burnt out in several letters, leaving “Public rage.”

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 22d

Updated map of the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. Health departments who have officially confirmed that they are part of the collaborative include Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and New York City.

Map Regional Public Health Coalitions
Northeast Public Health Collaborative states shaded in blue
West Coast Health Alliance states shaded in yellow
Updated September 18, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 24d

Activists in Seattle just sent us this update from the Tesla showroom in South Lake Union. This is the heart of Seattle's tech core, blocks from Amazon HQ and Google's Seattle campus. We can win. We are winning. Keep pushing. #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall

Photo of car navigation system pointed to Tesla at 435 Westlake Ave N, nav shows location listed as PERMANENTLY CLOSED

Photo outside the empty showroom, where protestors have hung a Spirit Halloween Coming Soon banner

Photo of side windows of former Tesla showroom where activists have hung banners reading "accountability for billionaires" and multiple anti-Tesla and anti-Musk signs.

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Brian Gray 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 25d

Saw this #SesameStreet reel on Instagram and felt so seen, it hurt.

"And it only Tuesday."

I wasn't expecting Sesame Street to still be making hella-relatable-to-me content when I was in my 50s, but dang.

www.instagram.com/p/DOHCqVyjgvQ/

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Sunnie Larsen (she/her) @solcita.sunnie.org · Sep 7

An evening making music with my @vixyandtony.bsky.social bandmates @vixyish.bsky.social , @tfabris.bsky.social , and @stealthcello.bsky.social for no other reason than because we love each others' company and love playing together. My heart is comforted and full tonight. 💜💜💜

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · Aug 30

"That is the central flaw of deservingness politics: the ... moral hierarchies that require the belief that someone is deserving of deportation. That way of thinking keeps the systems that brutalize immigrants in place, with the fight narrowed to carveouts for specific groups of 'good' immigrants."

In These Times @inthesetimes.com · Aug 26

One Purple Heart veteran faces deportation. Another has already self-deported while military spouses & parents sit in ICE detention.

Sofya Aptekar writes, focusing outrage only on military deportations misses the bigger fight: dismantling the system.

Don’t Single Out Military Deportations, Dismantle the Deportation Machine

Military veterans and their families should not be deported. But neither should other immigrants. Let’s reject a politics of “deservingness” and protect everyone.

inthesetimes.com

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@janettes-999.bsky.social @janettes-999.bsky.social · Aug 29

I reiterate that immigrants should NOT go to immigration court. They can comply by setting up a Zoom meeting.

Call 888-462-5211 for help completing and submitting a Motion to Change Hearing Format form.

Please pass on this information!

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Vixy & Tony @vixyandtony.bsky.social · Aug 1

Come join us at Seattle Worldcon 2025! We're on Friday 08/15, preceded by a Sunnie Larsen concert set and followed by the improvisational string trio Ménage à Trio. Bonus round: We'll also be the backup band for Mollylele on Thursday! Details and times at vixyandtony.com and seattlein2025.org

Seattle in 2025

Welcome to Seattle Worldcon 2025! Building Yesterday's Future—For Everyone. August 13–17, 2025.

seattlein2025.org

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · Aug 6

you have been visited by the Skylight Napping Fox and will have good fortune for the rest of the week 🤗

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Vixy @vixyish.bsky.social · Aug 4

you have won today's Internet

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · Jul 23

Venus Williams just won her first match in two years and at the end when they were interviewing her about what a miracle it was, she said she had to come back and play a match; they told her she was on cobra and she’s always at the doctor so **she needs the health insurance**

April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · Jul 23

Venus Williams literally a millionaire working for healthcare coverage

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Vixy @vixyish.bsky.social · Jul 16

Me: "I never know what's gonna come out of my mouth until it happens."
Betsy: "That's why I love you, Vixy."
#gettingthebandbacktogether

Vixy @vixyish.bsky.social · Jul 16

"Who wrapped this cord, David Copperfield???" --Tony #gettingthebandbacktogether

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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · Jul 9

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar

2025: ohhh ok

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RobinProblem @robinproblem.art · Jul 5

Seattle is halfway between Vancouver

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · Jul 4

It’s messed up that there’s a Vancouver directly above Portland and another Vancouver directly above Seattle. Washington needs to sort that shit out.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · Jun 26

and while it's not over, the fact that we were able to get this little political win in a political moment where so many want to throw us out on the curb is going to be a big boost to so many trans people who need a boost right now.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · Jun 26

here it is with alt-text! thank you Nico! bsky.app/profile/nico...

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · Jun 26

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Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman)

MASSIVE NEWS

THE SENATE PARLIAMENTARIAN has struck a whole bunch of critical health provisions from the reconciliation bill.

INCLUDING the provider tax framework

[Two screenshots embedded with the screenshot that are largely unreadable, but presumably demonstrate his point.]

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Prohibiting federal financial participation under Medicaid and CHIP for individuals without verified citizenship, nationality or satisfactory immigration status. This section prohibits federal financial participation in Medicaid for adults and kids whose citizenship, nationality, or immigration status cannot be immediately verified, overriding the existing 90-day reasonable opportunity period that currently exists for states to provide coverage as they verify individuals' immigration status under threat of withholding federal funds. (Section 71109)

Immigrant Medicaid Eligibility. This section denies federal funding to states for Medicaid coverage for certain immigrants who are not citizens. (Section 71110)

Expansion of FMAP for certain states providing payments for health care furnished to certain individuals. This section lowers the Medicaid expansion federal medical assistance percentage from 90 percent to 80 percent for states that choose to provide coverage to people who are undocumented using the state's own funds. (Section 71111)

Spread pricing in Medicaid. This section requires Medicaid managed care contracts with pharmacy benefit managers to adopt state reimbursement methodologies for pharmacy reimbursement. Reimbursement amounts from managed care organizations would be required to be fully passed through to pharmacies. (Section 71116)

Prohibiting Federal Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Funding for Gender Affirming Care. This section prohibits federal Medicaid and CHIP funding for gender-affirming medical care. (Section 71117)

Provider Taxes. This provision prohibits non-expansion states from increasing the rate of current provider taxes or increasing the base of the tax to a class or items of services that the tax did not previously apply. Beginning in 2027, the hold harmless threshold in expansion states for provider classes other than nursing or intermediate care facilities would be reduced by 0.5 percent annuall…

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Prohibiting Federal Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Funding for Gender Affirming Care. This section prohibits federal Medicaid and CHIP funding for gender-affirming medical care. (Section 71117)

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