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Alejandra Caraballo

@esqueer.net

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🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇷 Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her. Read my work at thedissident.news

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · May 7

"The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams at us the loudest."

-Mon Mothma (Andor)

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 8h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 10h

Here’s video of the incident

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10h

The NYT's making sure everyone sees this piece pushing eugenicist views of autistic people.

Alt text: A smartphone notification from The New York Times at 7:20 PM. The headline reads “Diagnosing Autism.” The subtext says, “Families of people with severe autism say the expansion of the diagnosis has pushed them to the sidelines.” There are “Share” and notification options below.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11h

She's 77 and would be 79 upon taking office. She would be 85 at the end of her first term. Have we learned nothing from Biden.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11h

Democrats are allergic to winning and keep pushing septegenarian establishment candidates.

www.axios.com/2025/10/07/m...

Scoop: Gov. Janet Mills poised to jump into Maine Senate race

Gov. Janey Mills' entry into the race would set off another complicated Democratic primary.

www.axios.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12h

They're out here beating clergy too.

Alt text: A group of armed officers in camouflage uniforms and tactical gear confront a man dressed in black with a clerical collar. One officer sprays a chemical agent directly into the man’s face as he recoils, eyes shut tight and head turned from the spray. Other officers stand close by, heavily armed and wearing helmets, goggles, and protective gear. The man appears to be a pastor, as suggested by his attire. The scene is tense and chaotic, taking place on a city street.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12h

ICE is a hostile occupying force that is a danger to everyone.

Alt text: A man in camouflage clothing and a face covering sits inside a gray Jeep, pointing a weapon out of the open driver-side window. The gun is aimed directly at the camera. The man wears gloves and a dark cap, and his eyes are visible above the mask. The vehicle’s door and side mirror are wet with raindrops.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14h

Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois. They're calling them Meal Team 6.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14h

One final observation as well is that these people are suffering from success. They got Trump in and he makes it near impossible to get any sort of sustained news cycle because he sucks up all the oxygen and every day it's something new. It's hard to sustain a boycott campaign in this environment.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14h

The vast majority of their subscribers are international, not domestic in the US. This would barely touch their bottom line.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14h

One thing I noticed about so many of their posts were insanely high like counts but barely any engagements such as comments. These things are heavily pushed by bot networks to generate controversy.

www.wsj.com/articles/bot...

Bot Networks Are Helping Drag Consumer Brands Into the Culture Wars

AI tools have made coordinated attacks targeting corporations much more common, researchers say.

www.wsj.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14h

So many of these controversies rely on the company doing crisis pr that fuels the flames of the controversy further. Turns out if you just grey rock it, they get bored and move on. It's difficult to sustain that level of outrage longer than a few days.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14h

Libs of Tiktok, Elon Musk, and Robbie Starbuck put everything they had into trying to push a boycott of Netflix over LGBTQ characters in their shows.

Netflix ignored them and the stock is back up. Turns out bots don't actually cancel accounts.

Screenshot of Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) stock summary on October 7. The closing price is $1,191.06 USD, up +27.75 (2.39%) for the day. The day’s trading range shows a low of $1,177.46 and a high of $1,201.36. Previous close was $1,163.31. Market cap is $506.11B, P/E ratio is 50.75, with no dividend yield. The 52-week high is $1,341.15 and the 52-week low is $677.88. A line graph shows intraday stock price movement, peaking above $1,190 before settling at the closing price.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15h

What kind of chickenshit governor refuses to sign a bill providing funding to suicide prevention hotlines for LGBTQ youth after Trump revoked funding?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15h

These bills will become law without his signature but it's incredibly fucked up to send the message that he won't support trans people's privacy in medical care nor their access to healthcare all so he can run for president in 2028. He's a craven sociopath.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15h

Fuck Gavin Newsom. I will never vote for him and you shouldn't either.

Excerpt from an article discussing LGBT+ protections in California legislation. It states that Governor Newsom neither signed nor vetoed certain bills. One bill strengthened protections under Sen. Scott Wiener’s “State of Refuge” law. The highlighted portion reads: “At least four bills directly addressed trans protections,” followed by examples such as healthcare and patient confidentiality, streamlining legal name and gender changes, nondiscrimination in health insurance, and inclusive homelessness programs.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16h

In a press release, Texas Attorney General calls "transgenderism" a "corrupted ideology" that is "a cancer on our culture."

This is openly genocidal rhetoric about trans people from a sitting AG.

A press release dated October 7, 2025, with the headline: “Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Undercover Operations to Infiltrate and Uproot Leftist Terror Cells in Texas After Increased Political Violence.” The statement claims rising left-wing violence, referencing the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and outlines Paxton’s directive for undercover investigations. A highlighted quote from Paxton reads: “Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people.” The text further accuses the radical Left of fostering political violence, referencing incidents involving Antifa-like groups and a supposed assassin tied to transgender movements. It also notes that President Trump designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, with Paxton vowing sweeping investigations into radical leftist groups.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16h

AG's office employees trying to infiltrate trans spaces.

An edited version of the "How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?" meme featuring actor Steve Buscemi. He is dressed as a teenager with a red beanie and a skateboard over his shoulder. A transgender pride flag has been digitally added to his grey t-shirt. The caption at the bottom reads, "HOW DO YOU DO FELLOW TRANSGENDERS".

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16h

In a press release, Texas Attorney General calls "transgenderism" a "corrupted ideology" that is "a cancer on our culture."

This is openly genocidal rhetoric about trans people from a sitting AG.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17h

Fixed.

Screenshot of a New York Times webpage. The headline reads: “Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy Torture.” The words “Conversion Therapy” are shown with red strikethroughs. A smaller subheading below explains: “Colorado and over 20 other states have banned the practice aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of young people.” The page header includes links like “Birthright Citizenship,” “L.A. Immigration Stops,” “Unsigned Orders in Trump’s Favor,” and “Florida Immigration.”

Would you like me to also provide a shorter, accessibility-friendly version of the alt text (like what a screen reader would ideally read aloud), or keep this more detailed one?

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 17h

I get that everyone thinks it's a funny little joke when Trump says nonsense about "trangender for everybody" (because really, wtf does that even mean?), but I gotta say that as a trans person, I find it absolutely fucking insane that he's constantly obsessing over trans people existing. It sucks.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19h

Remember how the Trump administration raged about "transgender mice" because of studies involving transgenic mice?

Well, the woman who just won the Nobel Prize in Medicine wrote her thesis using transgenic mice.

Early life and education

Brunkow was born in 1961 in Portland, Oregon.[2][3] She graduated at St. Mary's Academy in Portland in 1979.[3]

Brunkow received a BS in molecular and cellular biology from the University of Washington in 1983.[4] She received a PhD in molecular biology from Princeton University in 1991, where her advisor was Shirley M. Tilghman.[5] Her doctoral dissertation was titled Expression and function of the H19 gene in transgenic mice (1991).[1]

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19h

One thing these bastards are good at is creating legal scenarios where the LGBTQ people in question are not party to the case. The kids who will be tortured are nowhere to be seen on the docket. Same with 303 creative. They love stripping rights of LGBTQ people without having to hear from them.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19h

To be clear, ADF cooked up a case with fake facts, distorted medical research and fabricated harms to be able to gain the constitutional right to torture LGBTQ children.

That's what they want to do, to torture LGBTQ youth.

slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that seeks to undo a major triumph of the LGBTQ+ movement.

slate.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20h

Congrats on building the torment nexus.

www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

Robin Williams’ daughter begs fans to stop sending her AI videos of late father

‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings,’ Zelda Williams says

www.the-independent.com

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 22h

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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