Wes
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Wes
@dogshoes.bsky.social
28, upstate NY
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Miss Major, one of the mothers of the trans liberation movement, has been in the hospital for 10 days with sepsis and a blood clot. She has looked out for us for generations, now it’s time to look out for her. Donate if you can: fundly.com/missmajor
September 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Because some people haven't heard it yet: PAYPAL IS NOT A BANK, DO NOT LEAVE MORE THAN A COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS SITTING IN YOUR ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME. MOVE IT TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY.

Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.
August 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Figure I may as well spread the word on this as if there wasn't enough shit to worry about: They're trying to pass SOPA again under the guise of the BlockBEARD bill and some other bills.
August 16, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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No lie, this calling campaign is one of the most effective levers we have at the moment.

If we sustain the campaign through the financial quarter we'll be sending a strong message that this administration is bad for business.

Please continue making censorship unprofitable.
We're not in theoretical "they could come after sfw queer content LATER" territory anymore. It is being used to come after sfw queer content NOW.

Spread this around, send the article to any and every news outlet/content creator you can think of. The alarms need to be sounded

And KEEP CALLING
August 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Be aware that another shitty bill has been introduced: The SCREEN Act.

If passed, it would require Full. Age. Verification.

Like KOSA, call all your reps & tell them what a horrible idea this is.

Spread this pls.

Link: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

#screenact #badinternetbills
#stopkosa
www.congress.gov
July 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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I cannot describe how fucking happy it makes me seeing journalists just pointing out that they're lying. Once again, if you're calling, bringing up these articles as why you're calling is a VERY good idea.

Why are they lying? Why are they refusing to process legal transactions?
August 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Protest movements that stop as soon as they start seeing results fail.

Protest movements that keep going until your whole squad is across the finish line win.
Visa employees clearly told to deescalate ASAP
MasterCard employees more than familiar with the issue
Stripe feeling the pressure
ACLU put out a statement
CBC covered all this

What you are doing is WORKING
You are getting RESULTS
KEEP CALLING
KEEP WRITING
WE ARE GOING TO WIN!!
August 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Remember we have new material for your calls today! Poke and prod at those statements
Visa and Mastercard released their public statements on censorship!

Visa and Mastercard are pretending they don't make any judgments on legal purchases, but Collective Shout CLEARLY told us they successfully pressured payment processors.

KEEP CALLING! IT'S WORKING!
August 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Valve breaking silence on this is huge, they really dont do this. Companies, at this scale, dont -do this-.

Visa, mastercard, stripe and paypal are feeling the pressure. They are making mistakes under pressure.

Keep it up
August 2, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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This doesn’t mean to stop calling by the way. The execs in those meetings are shifting the levers back ever so slightly so they can see where it is we’ll stop calling.

Don’t stop calling.
August 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Stripe is digging in its heels, so we need to dig in ours as well. Call them.

1 + 888 926 2289

Say you're in California
BREAKING - I just received comment from the payment processor Stripe regarding Itch's bans on queer & NSFW content.

"Stripe has a policy against commenting on users. Generally speaking, we take action when we conclude that users violate our terms of service. We do not support adult content."
July 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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This local trans woman has been beat 6 separate times and had 30k stolen from her. She's asking for help recovering from the loss to pay rent. #Pride #PrideMonth #transgender

gofund.me/d91f4eca
June 6, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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We need cis people to stand up for trans people right now. It's not enough to politely refute transphobia. Trans people are facing an immediate, existential threat and we need your help
🚨The US House of Representatives are voting tonight to change the proposed Medicaid & ACA Gender Affirming Care BAN from under 18 to ADULTS AND MINORS.

This could be the first NATIONWIDE Gender Affirming Care BAN for ADULTS!!

Call your representatives NOW!!!
May 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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HEY CIS FOLKS:

Now would be a great time for you to help ensure our trans brothers and sisters have access to the care they need.

Call your reps. Fund an HRT Toolkit. Rinse. Repeat.
Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT.

@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.

Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
May 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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they are trying to outlaw being transgender in this country and this is just the first step. they were never going to stop at sports. they weren’t going to stop at bathrooms. they want a trans genocide. it is so important to spread awareness of this
🚨 The US House of Reps have now PASSED their budget bill that includes a BAN on Gender Affirming Care for Medicaid for ALL AGES.

This bill now goes to the Senate where it’s likely to pass.

Call your Senators!
May 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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I know NYU doesn't give two shits about its alum's opinions (at least unless we're giving them $$$$), but we can still let them know exactly what we think about their decision to withhold this student's diploma. The NYU spokesperson's email is here: www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
May 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.

At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.

Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.

👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...

🧵⬇️
April 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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in light of luigi i think more of you need to be intimately familiar with jury nullification. i encourage reading everything on this website whenever you get a jury summons.

you have a possibility to alter the course of someone's entire life with two words. that's a really powerful thing.
December 13, 2024 at 7:52 AM
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December 15, 2024 at 2:12 PM