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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12h

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

Chloe Cole: The existence of even one detransitioner dismantles the central lie of transgenderism, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

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Battery Staple @batterystaple51.bsky.social · 11h

honestly the sandbox changes and no power rollback have been the first breaths of fresh air in a long time. it doesn’t change the fact that the power grind and portal are still mind numbingly boring

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Sickening.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d

Justice Kavanaugh must be proud.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

This is how ICE detains individuals without any warrants, even in the presence of a lawyer making requests.

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Battery Staple @batterystaple51.bsky.social · 1d

should that extend to women in leadership positions or lessons where black people are equal to white people? because that too can easily be framed as a religious accommodation.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

And, if you appreciated that unexpected 2.5-hour coverage block today, make sure you are subscribed to Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

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Battery Staple @batterystaple51.bsky.social · 2d

yup, considering that dems are still ahead on the generic ballot polling

Battery Staple @batterystaple51.bsky.social · 2d

as someone who is Asian, co-sign 100%. people think their proximity to whiteness will somehow protect them. they are wrong.

Battery Staple @batterystaple51.bsky.social · 3d

yeah an integral part of facism is making us feel like the battle is over, they won, and there is no hope. we have to reject that.

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Battery Staple @batterystaple51.bsky.social · 3d

i’m fully supportive of my trans friends leaving the country if they are able to. but some of us with the means gotta stay and fight.

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 3d

Take it from a man who was placed in an internment camp. It was not so long ago.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

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Battery Staple @batterystaple51.bsky.social · 3d

thank you! surprised at how many big names i wasn’t following

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Mike Vorkunov @mikevorkunov.bsky.social · 3d

It feels like people are continuing to trickle onto Bluesky and we're getting more users here. If you're looking for NBA and WNBA accounts to follow, I've got a starter pack for you. Just click the button and follow everyone
go.bsky.app/FGmgtea

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 7d

“Kavanaugh stops” is a tremendous term term for cops racially profiling people and someone should start a crowdfunding effort to pay a bunch of SEC sorority influencers to popularize it on TikTok. We must fight fire with devastating trending topics slate.com/news-and-pol...

There’s a New Lawsuit Against “Kavanaugh Stops.” It’s Absolutely Devastating.

These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience the justice described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous.

slate.com

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Battery Staple @batterystaple51.bsky.social · 9d

i’ll of course come back for renegades but the portal and power grind is just sooooo boring. i think destiny will actually die at this point and only d3 will actually save the franchise.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20d

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)

www.nytimes.com

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Battery Staple @batterystaple51.bsky.social · 21d

i’m now glad it was only two seasons because they would have tried to neuter it or cancel it outright now

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 21d

the UK so profoundly contradicts the narrative that 'the way to win back voters is abandoning trans rights'

ok, starmer tried that & . . .

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Battery Staple @batterystaple51.bsky.social · 23d

is there a link to the article? i’d love to read the whole thing

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25d

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

www.nytimes.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28d

These are calls for mass political violence, against all Democrats. They openly call for the bombing of "Democrat" cities and for the jailing or killing of Democratic politicians. They are from some of the most influential voices in right-wing politics. Will anyone say anything?

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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · 28d

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 28d

I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves.

I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct.

I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

But on the morning of Aug. 31, as the bus made its way to the airport, A.R.M.D. worried that he would be returned to Guatemala without the opportunity to make his case in court.
Sharing his anxiety were other Guatemalan children who, like A.R.M.D., had been roused from bed in the middle of the night at their respective foster homes or care facilities. At a children's shelter in McAllen, Texas, one young.girl "was so scared that she vomited and asked to speak with a clinician." Another teenager, who said that her sister was murdered in Guatemala last year, worried that she, too, would be killed if she returned. Other potential deportees cited personal histories involving family violence, sexual abuse, or human trafficking as reasons why they were afraid to return to their home country.
In theory, the law is supposed to protect unaccompanied children from being summarily whisked out of the country by the government.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Sep 8

Justice Sotomayor is crystal clear in dissent as to what's happening: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

NOEM v. VASQUEZ PERDOMO
SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting
this Court decides to take the once-extraordinary step of
staying the District Court’s order. That decision is yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not
have to live in a country where the Government can seize
anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to
work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our
constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.

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