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Zane McNeill @zanemcneill.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, it didn't take very long for Dems to decide we were disposable bargaining chips. And y'all expect us to vote for you. LOL right.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

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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Zane McNeill @zanemcneill.bsky.social · 1d

Interestingly, Letitia James, who has vowed that, “if access to mifepristone is challenged, we will take action to protect it" was recently indicted by a grand jury "after Trump publicly called for his Justice Department appointees to bring charges against her." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Grand jury indicts N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, a Trump opponent, on bank fraud charges

James, a Democrat, has clashed with President Donald Trump after she brought civil charges against him in New York.

www.nbcnews.com

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Zane McNeill @zanemcneill.bsky.social · 1d

"As courts allow anti-abortion states to revive legal challenges to mifepristone and the Trump administration signals interest in using agency rulemaking to restrict abortion access, the future of mifepristone looks bleak."

Mifepristone Under Attack — Lawyers for Good Government

The Trump administration is considering restricting access to mifepristone, a medication used in nearly two-thirds of abortions in the United States and widely prescribed for miscarriage management.

www.lawyersforgoodgovernment.org

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2d

New Radical Reads podcast out now! We speak about our latest book, Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion, with editors Zane McNeill, Blu Buchanan and Riley Clare Valentine. Available early without ads on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/e112-r...

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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 1d

We're teaming up with @zanemcneill.bsky.social, Eric King, and Josh Davidson for a conversation putting the federal attack on trans people in historical perspective—connecting it to repression during the Red Scare, Lavender Scare, Black Liberation and Gay Rights Movements, Green Scare, and more.

A promotional graphic for "Gender Terrorism?: Surviving MAGA's War on Trans People," a virtual event hosted by Firestorm Books on October 13th at 7pm ET. The image features black and yellow text over a photo of the US Capitol Building, illuminated by an eerie pink and red glow.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 3d

If Congress could say anything about this at all, that'd be great!

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 3d

The FBI's Terrorist Screening Center is widening its focus to include unspecified “national security threats."

The new mission has resulted in a new name: the Threat Screening Center.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/secretive-...

Secretive Watchlisting Center Executing NSPM-7

“We’re expanding the watchlist,” FBI director says amid 300% increase in domestic terror cases.

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Zane McNeill @zanemcneill.bsky.social · 3d

I helped transcribe and edit these amazing texts! pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

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Berdawn @berdawn.bsky.social · 5d

#Booksky

Book "Be Gay Do Crime". Recent release from PM Press. Edited by Zane McNeill, Riley Clare Valentine, and Blu Buchanan

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Zane McNeill @zanemcneill.bsky.social · 6d

This talk situates these developments within the FBI’s long history of surveilling leftist movements, LGBTQ organizations, and liberation activists, and explores how current policy priorities continue that legacy. firestorm.coop/events/3478-...

Gender Terrorism?: Surviving MAGA's War on Trans People

Activists Eric King, Josh Davidson, and Zane McNeill put the current federal attack on trans rights in historical perspective.

firestorm.coop

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Zane McNeill @zanemcneill.bsky.social · 6d

Lololol drammmmaaa

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 6d

Available now with global shipping: Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion, the second book in our Everyday Acts series. Packed with hundreds of snapshots of radical queer history for every day of the year. Get it today at shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/be-...

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rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 6d

Weird how the free speech people keep labeling work that criticizes the State as terrorism and needing to be suppressed

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Zane McNeill @zanemcneill.bsky.social · 6d

🤣 I don’t think I’m any competition to you lmaooo

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PM Press @pmpress.bsky.social · 7d

Your ongoing support helps radical independent publishing alive, which is critically important in these turbulent times. Join via the link below, and get this tee for FREE!

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Zane McNeill @zanemcneill.bsky.social · 8d

Discount Code: PALAUT
link.springer.com/book/9783032... @rileyval.bsky.social

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Amy Hall @amyh4ll97.bsky.social · 8d

Today’s delivery from @workingclasshistory.com ✅ #begaydocrime #queerhistory

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Truthout @truthout.org · 9d

A new report finds that hundreds of people have been charged with so-called “pregnancy-related crimes” in the two years following the Supreme Court’s overturn of abortion protections in the U.S.

More Than 400 People Have Faced “Pregnancy-Related Crimes” Since Dobbs — Report

The report from Pregnancy Justice warns that their numbers are likely an undercount.

truthout.org

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 9d

if you try to sell your soul to fascists they just take it

Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 9d

FBI Director Kash Patel called the ADL “an extreme group functioning like a terrorist organization,” saying in announcement that the FBI has cut all formal ties with the anti-hate group.

FBI’s Kash Patel attacks ADL as ‘extreme group functioning like a terrorist organization’

The FBI director said the bureau is cutting all formal ties with the Jewish civil rights group

jewishinsider.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9d

Azeen Ghorayshi at the NYT has moved on from going after trans people and is now pushing the leasing question that autism diagnoses are too common because of its expansion of it to a spectrum.

archive.ph/Whji1

Alt text: A screenshot of a New York Times article titled “Should the Autism Spectrum Be Split Apart?” The image shows a woman with dark hair tied back with an orange patterned ribbon, smiling and leaning forward near a window with sunlight coming in. She is wearing a light orange top with thin straps.

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Zane McNeill @zanemcneill.bsky.social · 10d

Join us to chat about the history of State surveillance and infiltration of social movements and what we can do to keep trans people (and all of us) as safe as possible firestorm.coop/events/3478-...

Gender Terrorism?: Surviving MAGA's War on Trans People

Activists Eric King, Josh Davidson, and Zane McNeill put the current federal attack on trans rights in historical perspective.

firestorm.coop

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Lakewood Anarchist Hub🇵🇸 @lakewoodanarchyhub.bsky.social · 11d

I see your Half Price Books haul and raise you an online PM Press order:

(pink book cover)

BE GAY
DO CRIME

Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion

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rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 11d

Atomic Books was a dream 🤩

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 11d

“…arrest every person suspected of threatening or assaulting a federal law enforcement officer…”
New memo drop from AG Bondi

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 11d

NYPD raided the home of a professional photojournalist, arrested them & seized their equipment because they reported on the aftermath of a paint protest against @nytimes.com.

NYPD arrested with aggravated harassment and criminal mischief.

@pressfreedom.bsky.social

#JournalismIsNotaCrime

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rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 13d

Book tour in the works for @zanemcneill.bsky.social and I's newest book

Support a book that according to The Heritage Foundation is a call to violence because it...argues in support for gender-affirming care?

link.springer.com/book/9783032...

The Coercive Power of the Law

This book offers a critical exploration of the interplay between law, care ethics, and the body, emphasizing how legal systems both reflect societal values

link.springer.com

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