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Dee, Trans Esq. @gkarwasright.bsky.social · 8h

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 22h

Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 22h

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 1d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

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Dee, Trans Esq. @gkarwasright.bsky.social · 7d

Legitimately my favorite event in the city

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Melinda Magpie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 Free Link, free Palestine @melindamagpie.bsky.social · 8d

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

An older Black femme, laying in a hospital bed. She's smiling and holding a pink, lavender and yellow dragon stuffie.

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Dee, Trans Esq. @gkarwasright.bsky.social · 9d

That you deserve better is almost besides the point. They absolutely fucked with the wrong one!

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Dee, Trans Esq. @gkarwasright.bsky.social · 13d

Part of the reason we are here is that with each new atrocity we choose to normalize a past that wasn't normal. The DOJ has been targeting people and been political since day 1.

Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 13d

The legit DOJ started with a crime and asked "whodunnit."
The Trump/Bondi/Blanche DOJ starts with an enemy and asks "what-he-dun." (by @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org & @annabower.bsky.social)
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

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Dee, Trans Esq. @gkarwasright.bsky.social · 14d

War crime prosecutors hate this one weird trick

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Rep. Carlos Gimenez: "ICE agents are just doing their job. They're following orders."

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Dee, Trans Esq. @gkarwasright.bsky.social · 14d

Answering the spam calls gets you marked as an active number which will increase the number of calls you get. But apparently it's just bad moral character.

CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 15d

my most unpopular opinion is that it's a sign of defective moral character if you point blank refuse to answer phone calls from unknown numbers. it's not that hard to hang up on spam/scammers, and you are probably missing important calls!

Dee, Trans Esq. @gkarwasright.bsky.social · 15d

I agree that the movement is better together but there is a logical fallacy in saying you did gay marriages as evidence you'll fight for trans inclusion. There's also a particular history of cis gay folks openly abandoning trans people to secure their own rights.

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Dee, Trans Esq. @gkarwasright.bsky.social · 15d

I shut my mouth and voted her because, well, gestures at everything. But the article does a lot of "look at her supporting gay rights which we will use to imply without proof that she isnt bad for trans people.

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Dee, Trans Esq. @gkarwasright.bsky.social · 15d

Concentrating on the gay/trans panic defense is a giant way to set off my radar alarms for people who absolutely do not understand the issues facing trans folks in the criminal legal system. I love Shannon too but I didn't agree when this article came out and I dont now.

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Dee, Trans Esq. @gkarwasright.bsky.social · 15d

She literally fought lawsuits that would have given incarcerated trans people access to gender affirming care. I don't give a fuck what she said to the ACLU. She sucks and there is no reason left to defend her.

make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 15d

gosh, I can't imagine why so many leftists chose not to ✨ vote blue no matter who ✨ at the last election 🤔

photo of kamala harris accompanying the following news story:

Kamala Harris says she agrees with "concerns" over trans athletes playing on women's sports teams, but hopes "goodwill and common sense" can lead to a solution.

"I agree with the concerns expressed by parents and players that we have to take into account biological factors such as muscle mass and unfair student athletic advantage when we determine who plays on which teams, especially in contact sports," she writes in her new book, 107 Days, according to an excerpt shared with Politico.

"With goodwill and common sense, I believe we can come up with ways to do this, without vilifying and demonizing children."

The extract makes Harris the latest Democrat to question trans people's participation in sport, though she does defend telling the American Civil Liberties Union in 2019 that she supported providing gender transition treatment to people in prison and immigration detention.

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Dee, Trans Esq. @gkarwasright.bsky.social · 16d

Ken sucks and we need to talk about it

Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 16d

The "terrorist reclassification" was an extreme over interpretation by Ken Klippenstein that circulated purely as a headline and is active disinfo, there are a whole gaggle of left/lib journalists right now who have found their niche getting massive engagement by scaring the shit out of trans people

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Dee, Trans Esq. @gkarwasright.bsky.social · 17d

Some of us are both trans and Jewish 🤓

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 18d

TWIST: this is what police have been doing for time immemorial.

It is called: contempt of cop.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18d

It's now standard operating procedure for Trump's secret police to always accuse a person they assault of having assaulted them. This presumably eliminates the risk of facing charges.

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Kiefo Nilsson @kiefonilsson.com · 18d

i'm stuck on the analysis that conservative media functions as a hyperreal simulacrum so that whenever anything real real (one of the fonts of hyperreal getting made dead) punches through it all just goes especially crazy

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 18d

LMAO WUT

Oklahoma Republicans propose all state colleges must have Charlie Kirk statue

Schools would be required to build memorial plaza and describe slain activist as civil rights leader or face fines

www.theguardian.com

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The 51st @51st.news · 20d

D.C. doesn’t have its own prison, so its residents are sent to federal facilities all over the country. This is a bad system that serves no one, Askia Afrika-Ber writes.

This writer is a D.C. resident currently incarcerated at USP Hazelton in West Virginia, published here via More Than Our Crimes:

Opinion: The federal Bureau of Prisons fails D.C. residents

D.C. doesn’t have its own prison, so its residents are sent to federal facilities all over the country. This is a bad system that serves no one.

51st.news

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Dee, Trans Esq. @gkarwasright.bsky.social · 21d

While this is true we should also remain highly skeptical of facts in indictments, particularly under this DOJ.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21d

The idea that the alleged killer in the Kirk case was a right winger is really not borne out by the evidence submitted in the indictment yesterday and people should stop saying that.

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 23d

I've seen trans ppl promoting this piece several times today, but I haven't seen a single cis person linking or praising it.

It's the same old thing, an article is written FOR cis ppl but ABOUT trans ppl and yet for some reason the cis folks to whom it's addressed seem to not notice the piece.

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 23d

“Anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage. Trans people are afraid to leave the country, let alone leave their houses. The right-wing ecosystem has gladly spent years creating these conditions, while Democrats have by turns avoided saying anything about them at all” 😞

👉🏻 archive.ph/ewBhT

THE CUT

They Want the Shooter to Be Trans
By Lex McMenamin, a writer and editor at Teen Vogue.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24d

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 24d

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

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Dee, Trans Esq. @gkarwasright.bsky.social · 25d

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 26d

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26d

From the Charlie Kirk press conference:

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Dee, Trans Esq. @gkarwasright.bsky.social · 26d

To be fair, I think he was sekiwake longer than ozeki

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Dee, Trans Esq. @gkarwasright.bsky.social · 26d

Prosecutors stay prosecutors, news at 11

NPR @npr.org · 26d

Four prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases have found a way to continue public service after leaving the Justice Department. They're all colleagues again.

These fired DOJ lawyers are finding new ways to make a difference

Four prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases have found a way to continue public service after leaving the Justice Department. They're all colleagues again.

n.pr

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Dee, Trans Esq. @gkarwasright.bsky.social · 26d

How are you going to misgender St. Judith like that???

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 27d

UC-Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names “related” to anti-semitism, mostly for voicing support for Palestinians. Judith Butler is among them, she calls this “McCarthyism” UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe

UC Berkeley gave the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty and staff and info about their “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism” — sparking due-process...

www.sfchronicle.com

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