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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 3h

this feels right to me.

spooky dio @satyronmars.bsky.social · 3h

im being so serious when i say the reason so many young men are becoming conservatives is that they think being a democrat is gay

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 1h

make sure to practice yelling at kids to get off your lawn

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1h

How could any Hispanic American ever feel safe when there’s videos like this circulating? It’s immensely clear that if you appear in public, you might be snatched and zip-tied in a Kavanaugh abduction, no matter what your immigration status is, or even if you’re a citizen.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1h

The fact that Charlie Kirk was apparently complaining about facing pressure from Jewish donors in the days leading up to his murder is really not going to be good for the Jews.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h

A Turning Point spokesman confirmed that Charlie Kirk's texts about Jewish donors are real.

"I'm not even gonna get into what the stereotypes are."

@willsommer.bsky.social and @samsteindc.bsky.social talk Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens, and Israel:

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 1h

honestly one of the most transphobic possible responses that could’ve been posted

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · Aug 20

maybe it’s just bc I’m mixed but I keep coming back to the electoral implications of supporting interracial marriage as a good analog for the electoral implications of trans rights.

up until literally the year I was born (1997), a majority of Americans openly disapproved of interracial marriage!

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 1h

everyone is against antisemitism until someone brings up needing the day off for Yom Kippur

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 4h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 4h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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whoops, excuse me. oh man, my bad. @whoopsexcuseme.bsky.social · 1h

wife was on a jury for a child abuse case where the mom choked her 6 yo daughter out and was clearly remorseless and there were still old boomers in the audience that had to be convinced that yes, choking your kid til blood vessels pop in their eyes is bad not just 'an accident' or 'things happen'

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Pride at the Pier 🏳️‍🌈🤝⚧️ he/she/they/xe @prideatthepier.bsky.social · 2h

HB Mayor Pat Burns is gaining a reputation for his regular mockery of his constituents. We’re asking why this behavior is being allowed - especially as he is regularly violating the Brown Act.

@agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov are you watching these meetings?

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 2h

"queer person has homophobic family"

Give it up Deelishis you look like a man..🧍🏾‍♂️ @blackranga.blacksky.app · 1d

Darin Chappell, who's a Missouri legislator actively pushing anti-trans laws, is her uncle. 🤎

Chappell Roan Declares She's “Voting for Fucking Kamala Harris” Following Backlash

Recent quotes about the 2024 election and “problems on both sides” of government had fans saying H-O-T-T-oh no and led to dual clarification videos from Roan.

www.vanityfair.com

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 2h

when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying

She has no real way of explaining the danger of their situation to her son, who is 17 years old but cognitively closer to a toddler. And as a single mother too weak to forage, she has no real way of ensuring their survival. She also is too old to benefit from a recent policy change the Thai government made in a bid to prevent mass starvation, granting work rights to some of the 107,000 Myanmar refugees who, like her, live in Thailand’s border camps.

Her son never learned to speak, and needs her help with everything from getting dressed to using the toilet. Since the funding cuts, their survival has hinged on the charity of her Christian church, whose members occasionally give her handfuls of their rice.

She suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and begins to sweat and grow dizzy when her hunger is at its fiercest. Some days, she eats nothing.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2h

very, very sad life that was largely caused by her proximity to the kennedy family. mistreated, then horribly outcast.

she was 27 when ted first ran for senate and expected to put on a smile as he destroyed his own life and the lives of everyone around him.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 2h

the extent to which leftists are comfortable becoming outright anti-Jewish and saying things they would never say about any other marginalized group, usually while trivializing the Holocaust, is horrifying

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 2h

it wasn’t directly authorized by Congress

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Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 2h

I'm sorry but what are these people doing to dogs in their free time?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Eric Trump: "You saw what Jake Tapper did to Lara Trump. She said what everybody knew and everybody was saying and he came out and crucified her like a dog. They have tried to kill us at every road."

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: James Comey pleads not guilty to federal criminal charges, judge sets trial date for Jan. 5

More details TK

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 6h

Good morning from the line outside the courthouse in the Eastern District of Virginia, where former FBI director James Comey is set to be arraigned on federal charges.

I’m here for @lawfaremedia.org.

Follow along for updates ⬇️

Federal courthouse in EDVA, with line of people out front and a guy holding a “show trial” sign

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 10h

close enough, welcome back Charles I

Micah @rincewind.run · 21h

I am not a constitutional scholar but I am pretty sure “the president my personally levy taxes and choose what they fund” is not in fact what the founders intended

George Pearkes @peark.es · 22h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 10h

could’ve clocked it from the title alone

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

Biological name

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "The judge also would not refer to the defendant by his biological name -- referred to him by the pronouns."

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 14h

i think my favourite part about being a trans woman is how much of an impact we have on culture. a friend reminded me today about a popular meme format she created. another friend today casually told me about how she was the most notorious roblox hacker when she was a child.

just a day in the life!

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 14h

that’s crazy!

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🎃 Jeni 🎃 @allonsyjeni.bsky.social · 14h

5) Jewish day schools that inexplicably only go from K-8th grade. (Great theater programs.)

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 14h

four types of private schools in america:

1) catholic schools for racists
2) nondenom schools that dont teach you science
3) hippie schools that dont teach you to read, inexplicably 87% matriculation @ top 20 colleges
4) hogwarts, costs 55k/yr, explicably 99% matriculation @ top 20 colleges

Stone Cold Jane Austen @grayathena.bsky.social · 15h

Having gone to a really shitty private school is so funny. People hear “private school” and rightly think my parents were well off but instead of playing lacrosse or whatever I was learning young earth creationism from a Russian antisemite in portables outside a church

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 14h

sorry to all my law school professor followers, I know you’re better than her