willowerrant.bsky.social
@willowerrant.bsky.social
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oh my fucking god he is 100% confusing cadillac insurance plans with people buying cadillacs

"and it's gonna be locked so they can't go out and buy, uh, a cadillac, they can go out and buy health insurance"
Trump on healthcare: "I've had personal talks with some Democrats about paying large amounts of dollars back to the people. This was my idea ... why don't we just pay this money directly to the people of our country and let them buy their own health insurance?"
November 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Phones did not murder Brianna Ghey in cold blood.
November 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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The courts are moving ahead with a scheme to make trans people as a category of second-class citizen, unprotected by law.

More by @valorievandieman.bsky.social and @billiejsweeney.bsky.social here:
An Immediate Need to Impose Bigotry: Rogue Court Endorses Trump’s Ideology — Assigned
An Immediate Need to Impose Bigotry: Rogue Court Endorses Trump’s Ideology
www.assignedmedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Amen. I'm out doing penance for being a former Republican.

www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
ICE is coming! Baltimore's 'Paul Revere' rides to warn immigrants
Grambo’s neighborhood rides come as some communities across the nation scramble to confront stepped-up immigration enforcement.
www.thebanner.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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It's a good thing to believe in ideals and fight for them.
November 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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2 Nov 2025 -- Trump DOE releases rule denying student loan forgiveness to those working at LGBTQ+ groups, stating intent is to penalized organizations which support "...performing prohibited medical procedures that attempt to transition children...” @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Trump administration changes rules to exclude LGBTQ+ org workers from loan forgiveness program - LGBTQ Nation
Advocates say the new policy is intended to "make life more difficult for those who Donald Trump dislikes."
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Wow, this is... insane. Even if this weren't AI generated, it's still probably the most unhinged political attack ad I've ever seen.
And right on time: bsky.app/profile/prem...
Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”

Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.
November 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
October 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"
US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade
www.independent.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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1. AOC scathingly rebuked anti-trans activist Riley Gaines Monday in the form of a single sentence.

"Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn’t have come in fifth."

Its part of a new wave of Dems being fearless on trans rights.

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AOC To Anti-Trans Swimmer Riley Gaines: "Maybe If You Channeled All This Anger Into Swimming Faster You Wouldn’t Have Come In Fifth."
Riley Gaines has turned a 5th place finish into a national conservative platform against transgender rights.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Two Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors."
2 Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors"
Staff Sgt. Demi Palecek and Capt. Dylan Blaha say they'll defy federal orders regarding Trump's immigration enforcement operation in Chicago.
cbsn.ws
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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#4: "some identity and cultural issues"

Which ones do you think they might be talking about? It's a read head-scratcher, that one.
October 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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The people who support conversion therapy believe that the ruined lives and suicides of the people who receive it are positive effects.
October 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
First White Lotus and now this. I'm sure everyone's going to obsess over this show and ignore the transphobic conservative conspiracy theory at the heart of it too.
October 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Over the past few days, I've been participating in a strike for mutual aid. Basically, every post I've made has been about mutual aid for marginalized people. This post explains it more succinctly than I can: bsky.app/profile/alex...
I OFFICIALLY CALL BLUESKY USERS TO DO A MUTUAL AID / DIRECT SUPPORT POSTER'S STRIKE.

No content except things that directly support marginalized people.

Flood the site with the people Jay would love to forget she is personally killing.

And nothing else.

#StrikeForMutualAid
You could try a poster’s strike. I hear that works
October 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Suspending Link after he pointed out the how following Jonathan Chait after being accused of transphobia does not allow you to beat the transphobia allegations. In fact, it does the opposite.

To be clear: suspending Link was certainly a choice. And we know what KIND of choice it is.
so now link is suspended with no email
October 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Keep taking videos of what ICE is doing. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is right, document what’s happening. This is why they hate journalists so much.
October 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.
October 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
September 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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so this is what counts as an intellectual for the modern right, huh
September 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Des Moines has you all beat
September 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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I legitimately thought that was the point. You bought a workslop machine so you could fire half your staff and create workslop. Now you’re mad you’re getting workslop? I dunno man.
September 23, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce "workslop", or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others (Harvard Business Review)

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September 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor with a mandate to make the company's chat bot less 'woke.' www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...
Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Robby Starbuck has been appointed as an AI bias advisor at Meta with the goal of making the company's chat bot less "woke."
www.advocate.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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watching even a few seconds of the kirk funeral makes it clear a large quantity of this country is ready for full on nazi authoritarianism and we have to really grapple with how much we need to put a stop to this as quickly as possible
September 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM