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Delphine Luneau

@dluneau.bsky.social

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🏳️‍⚧️ I'm the trans rights activist that they warned you about Deputy Director of Communications at the Human Rights Campaign. Previously spent 20+ years impersonating a journalist. I have thoughts about the news

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Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · Jun 15

when you tell a trans person that we are brave, you are reminding us that it requires bravery to exist as a trans person, that we are under threat, that many (including you?) would not choose to live as we live, or to be as we are (as if it was a choice for us)

do you think we need these reminders?

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Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · 2h

generally I'm inclined to agree with Eric that he doesn't know anything about anything, but somehow this particular denial is less than convincing

Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · 2h

the list of people he's prosecuted is pretty much unrivalled. Holding Jon Burge accountable alone is sufficient to secure legend status

Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · 4h

it tastes like disappointment and malice

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Em, spookily 👻 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 16h

If you’re particularly despairing tonight, remember that you can always choose to show up tomorrow and help people. Narrow your capacity for concern to a specific person or place through volunteering. It feels good. Call your local school or aldercritter’s office to ask about opportunities.

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Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · 15h

dude rocked that costume, too, he had serious chicken costume energy

Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · 16h

I would rather wear the chicken costume than dress like her

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Miriam Grace @miriamgrace.bsky.social · 16h

MAGAs obsession with performative theatre never ceases to astound me. Yes, this is leadership to them.

The DHS secretary standing on a roof in wedges five seasons out of style, doing fuck all. Looking at a guy dressed like a damn chicken.

Fuck.

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Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · 16h

I mean, you said it. Fuck. Just, what the fuck.

Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · 16h

Wait did Noem’s people release this footage??? Do they think this makes them look … good?

The way the camera does a double take on the chicken man had me actually laughing out loud

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 16h

There’s been a culture and vibe shift away from brat summer over the last 15 months and I genuinely think the thing we need to correct the bleakness is a Trent Reznor produced Madonna album.

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Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · 16h

I mean, the TR produced Halsey album suggests that you’re right on the money here

Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · 18h

feels more like secretary of state material to me, tbh

Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · 19h

yeah but when he says "i don't have a bigoted bone in my entire body" he can prove it on the spot

Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · 19h

A 5yo: "I just cannot handle this 3yo nonsense right now"

Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · 19h

very small children being exasperated with even smaller kiddos will never not be hilarious

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Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · 19h

Some of his proposals could stand to be fleshed out a little better

Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · 21h

I mean that is just a fully qualified vehicle

Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · 21h

I might vote for a car depending on the make and model

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Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · 21h

"what if oliver cromwell comes back from the dead and he's the dem nominee, what if skeletor was real and he was the nominee?"

or what if we just avoid having any of those things happen by choosing someone good?

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 21h

“We were told by pastors and Focus on the Family that we had to fix him. Instead, we taught him to hate himself. And when a child is dead, you don’t ever get to repair that,” Linda Robertson, whose son died by suicide after conversion therapy, told me at the court.

www.advocate.com/news/scotus-...

Conservative Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Colorado’s ban on harmful ‘conversion therapy’

The dangerous practice has been discredited by all major medical associations.

www.advocate.com

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Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · 1d

oh indeed, what my parents put me through was highly toxic, hateful and designed to eradicate who I really am

and yet I survived that and I was able to shed that programming, so like, I win!

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Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · 1d

Standing outside the Supreme Court today, I heard stories from people who were tortured in the name of "conversion therapy," from a mother who lost a son who'd endured it

This is not a theoretical legal issue, there are real people who have suffered who need to be protected from medical malpractice

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Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re at the Supreme Court this morning, swing by and say hi! There’s a bunch of us here from HRC

Me at the Supreme Court wearing sunglasses because the sun is way too bright

Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · 1d

Actual resident of DC here, not happy, not happy at all

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Riley Moore: "I think the actual residents of Washington DC are very happy with the outcome. And I think the actual residents of Chicago and our other great cities here in America would actually like to have safe streets and not people murdered every night."

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Delphine Luneau @dluneau.bsky.social · 1d

he's auditioning for a cameo role in Dumb and Dumber 11, to be released on VHS only in Tajikistan