AlaskaJay
@alaskajay.bsky.social
Let’s see… I’m an anti-racist, anti-fascist, anti-capitalist democratic socialist herbivore with a spicy brain and a pension for power exchange. I believe the best culture is consent culture and that no one should get seconds before everyone has firsts.
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“Government Launching Database of Everyday People With Autism” is just a harbinger of a eugenics program. Nothing to see here.
futurism.com/neoscope/gov...
futurism.com/neoscope/gov...
Government Launching Database of Everyday People With Autism
The government is launching a registry tracking Americans with autism as part of RFK Jr.'s probe into the disorder's roots.
futurism.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
“Government Launching Database of Everyday People With Autism” is just a harbinger of a eugenics program. Nothing to see here.
futurism.com/neoscope/gov...
futurism.com/neoscope/gov...
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"The judge overseeing the case against the Defense Department's firing of transgender service members revealed that the military spends eight times more on erectile dysfunction medication than on gender affirming care." www.newsweek.com/us-military-...
US military spends eight times more on Viagra than gender-affirming care
In a hearing over the Defense Department's removal of transgender service members, a judge uncovered that the military spends $42 million a year on Viagra.
www.newsweek.com
May 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
"The judge overseeing the case against the Defense Department's firing of transgender service members revealed that the military spends eight times more on erectile dysfunction medication than on gender affirming care." www.newsweek.com/us-military-...
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“It’s time to change the myth and the religion.”
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
May 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
“It’s time to change the myth and the religion.”
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
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His new executive order directs the government to roll back the use of “disparate impact” liability a standard that’s helped expose policies that disproportionately harm minority groups, even without explicit intent.
May 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
His new executive order directs the government to roll back the use of “disparate impact” liability a standard that’s helped expose policies that disproportionately harm minority groups, even without explicit intent.
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@lincolnproject.us released this ad a few days ago. It gets more relevant each and every day.
youtu.be/xVUcb9lQBh8?...
youtu.be/xVUcb9lQBh8?...
May 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
@lincolnproject.us released this ad a few days ago. It gets more relevant each and every day.
youtu.be/xVUcb9lQBh8?...
youtu.be/xVUcb9lQBh8?...
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Trump’s war on due process, habeas corpus, and how close we are to martial law. Plus: Stephen Miller’s dangerous influence, major court losses for Trump, SCOTUS updates & more. We break it all down on Legal AF. Watch live at 8p ET/5p PT!
LIVE: Popok and Meiselas on BREAKING LEGAL NEWS - 5/10/2025 | Legal AF
Ben Meiselas & Michael Popok head the top rated Legal AF podcast and tonight address Trump's declaration of war against the 5th Amendment Due Process Rights and Writs of Habeas Corpus rights of all, a...
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May 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Trump’s war on due process, habeas corpus, and how close we are to martial law. Plus: Stephen Miller’s dangerous influence, major court losses for Trump, SCOTUS updates & more. We break it all down on Legal AF. Watch live at 8p ET/5p PT!
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If you’re an ICE agent or other local authority committing these unwarranted abductions, fuck you, you’re not just doing your job, you’re failing a moral test. May you never sleep peacefully again
One notable arrest over the weekend left two children unattended after a man was taken from a gas station by what appeared to be a group of ICE agents.
via @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
via @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
ICE raids have 'overwhelmed' coastal California communities
Communities in three California counties "overwhelmed" as ICE raids ramp up in the region.
www.sfgate.com
May 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re an ICE agent or other local authority committing these unwarranted abductions, fuck you, you’re not just doing your job, you’re failing a moral test. May you never sleep peacefully again
Just watched Don’t Look Up and I really feel like it underestimates the kind of circus our government was capable of becoming.
May 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Just watched Don’t Look Up and I really feel like it underestimates the kind of circus our government was capable of becoming.
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Students for a Democratic Society emergency rally today for protesters who were arrested during a trans rights rally on May 5th at PSU. May 7th at 1:30pm in front of the Multnomah a county Circuit courthouse. Support our students!
#portland #oregon #protest #psu #freespeech #students #multnomah
#portland #oregon #protest #psu #freespeech #students #multnomah
May 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Students for a Democratic Society emergency rally today for protesters who were arrested during a trans rights rally on May 5th at PSU. May 7th at 1:30pm in front of the Multnomah a county Circuit courthouse. Support our students!
#portland #oregon #protest #psu #freespeech #students #multnomah
#portland #oregon #protest #psu #freespeech #students #multnomah
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In a landmark and deeply divisive decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 today to allow President Donald Trump's renewed ban on transgender individuals serving in the military to take effect while it is being contested in the courts.
Supreme Court Allows Trump Transgender Military Ban to Take Effect Amid Legal Challenges
This is a major decision that has proven to be a victory for Trump
meidasnews.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
In a landmark and deeply divisive decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 today to allow President Donald Trump's renewed ban on transgender individuals serving in the military to take effect while it is being contested in the courts.
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Trump’s crypto scam: 764,000 ripped off, 58 wallets made millions. His awkward meeting with the Canadian PM, new wars, his family's latest global grift. There's a whole lot to catch up on in today's bulletin:
Today in Politics, Bulletin 125. 5/6/25
… 764,000 people lost money on Trump’s crypto scam according to data provided by analytics firm Chainalysis to CNBC: “Most of the wallets that lost money held smaller amounts of the token, according t...
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May 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Trump’s crypto scam: 764,000 ripped off, 58 wallets made millions. His awkward meeting with the Canadian PM, new wars, his family's latest global grift. There's a whole lot to catch up on in today's bulletin:
Passports are being issued to trans people that do not match their gender.
February 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Passports are being issued to trans people that do not match their gender.
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I wrote about Musk and this bureaucratic coup as plainly as I could. There's reporting in here & the particulars are overwhelming but what's happening is so clear: He's not trying to run the federal govt like a software company He's trying to turn it into a political weapon. (gift link)
Elon Musk’s Bureaucratic Coup
Welcome to the “rapid unscheduled disassembly” of the United States government.
www.theatlantic.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I wrote about Musk and this bureaucratic coup as plainly as I could. There's reporting in here & the particulars are overwhelming but what's happening is so clear: He's not trying to run the federal govt like a software company He's trying to turn it into a political weapon. (gift link)
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What I should have done in the beginning - here's a starter pack of 20-odd experts who journalists or others might want to read/talk to to understand the gutting of the administrative state (as opposed to broad decline of democracy etc). I've focused on academics go.bsky.app/MaC7vnv
February 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
What I should have done in the beginning - here's a starter pack of 20-odd experts who journalists or others might want to read/talk to to understand the gutting of the administrative state (as opposed to broad decline of democracy etc). I've focused on academics go.bsky.app/MaC7vnv
I’m in Oregon and I needed help so…. I called an Alaskan.
I admit… MY Alaskan peeps are pretty damn cool.
I admit… MY Alaskan peeps are pretty damn cool.
February 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I’m in Oregon and I needed help so…. I called an Alaskan.
I admit… MY Alaskan peeps are pretty damn cool.
I admit… MY Alaskan peeps are pretty damn cool.
If humans held empathy as the highest value utopia would automatically follow.
January 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
If humans held empathy as the highest value utopia would automatically follow.
I haven’t really missed fb at all, until now. My ps4 controller died and I’m flat broke with no $ in the foreseeable future. If I had fb I could hop into a group and probably get one donated.
Of the things I thought I’d miss…. that was not one of them.
Of the things I thought I’d miss…. that was not one of them.
January 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I haven’t really missed fb at all, until now. My ps4 controller died and I’m flat broke with no $ in the foreseeable future. If I had fb I could hop into a group and probably get one donated.
Of the things I thought I’d miss…. that was not one of them.
Of the things I thought I’d miss…. that was not one of them.
The spider plant babies were a little out of hand. So far I have 24 starts and another dozen to go.
January 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The spider plant babies were a little out of hand. So far I have 24 starts and another dozen to go.
Our lives for cheaper eggs. 😞
January 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Our lives for cheaper eggs. 😞
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