Lucy Lauser
@lucylauser.bsky.social
PNW composer/pianist publishing under the name Sun Tillikum
Author, artist, and activist. Free Cascadia!
Author, artist, and activist. Free Cascadia!
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I recall in the past seeing people make pithy comments about how they were "safe" because of their color & Real ID & such.
This sends a crystal clear message that nobody anywhere is safe from being executed on a whim, because our government is run by fascists.
This sends a crystal clear message that nobody anywhere is safe from being executed on a whim, because our government is run by fascists.
January 8, 2026 at 1:46 AM
I recall in the past seeing people make pithy comments about how they were "safe" because of their color & Real ID & such.
This sends a crystal clear message that nobody anywhere is safe from being executed on a whim, because our government is run by fascists.
This sends a crystal clear message that nobody anywhere is safe from being executed on a whim, because our government is run by fascists.
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Way too many of yall are surprised that "law enforcement" can and will kill people entirely unprovoked as if this hasn't been an issue before
January 8, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Way too many of yall are surprised that "law enforcement" can and will kill people entirely unprovoked as if this hasn't been an issue before
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You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
January 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
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The weirdest thing about Americans is how many of them think their laws apply to every person in the world.
But they're certain other countries' laws don't apply to them.
But they're certain other countries' laws don't apply to them.
January 5, 2026 at 4:02 AM
The weirdest thing about Americans is how many of them think their laws apply to every person in the world.
But they're certain other countries' laws don't apply to them.
But they're certain other countries' laws don't apply to them.
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you may ask "if organizings so good, why hasn't anything changed?"
the answer is simple: so many scenes are held up by one or two people taking on a mountain of work, and they're often marginalized as fuck.
we need more people to organize. we need *you*
the answer is simple: so many scenes are held up by one or two people taking on a mountain of work, and they're often marginalized as fuck.
we need more people to organize. we need *you*
January 3, 2026 at 9:03 PM
you may ask "if organizings so good, why hasn't anything changed?"
the answer is simple: so many scenes are held up by one or two people taking on a mountain of work, and they're often marginalized as fuck.
we need more people to organize. we need *you*
the answer is simple: so many scenes are held up by one or two people taking on a mountain of work, and they're often marginalized as fuck.
we need more people to organize. we need *you*
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While working on this piece, I couldn't forget the wave of harassment trans journalists got here mid-2024 when we spoke up about the NYT's transphobia and the complicity of major figures there.
We need a lot less reverence for institutions, and a lot more listening to folks on the front lines.
We need a lot less reverence for institutions, and a lot more listening to folks on the front lines.
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 3, 2026 at 1:33 PM
While working on this piece, I couldn't forget the wave of harassment trans journalists got here mid-2024 when we spoke up about the NYT's transphobia and the complicity of major figures there.
We need a lot less reverence for institutions, and a lot more listening to folks on the front lines.
We need a lot less reverence for institutions, and a lot more listening to folks on the front lines.
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Conservatives see all children as property and the Wrong People's children as contraband
December 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Conservatives see all children as property and the Wrong People's children as contraband
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The fascists are not having fun. Are they gleeful about cruelty? Yes. But they aren't fun or having any fun. It's clear.
December 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The fascists are not having fun. Are they gleeful about cruelty? Yes. But they aren't fun or having any fun. It's clear.
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How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Tying mutual aid to the state and politicians is in fact how we got into this mess in the first place! The point of mutual aid is replacing the logics of state and market not just tying them back to the state!!! We cannot be doing this again!!!!
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
December 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Tying mutual aid to the state and politicians is in fact how we got into this mess in the first place! The point of mutual aid is replacing the logics of state and market not just tying them back to the state!!! We cannot be doing this again!!!!
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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You know I'd love to have an adequate level of respect for the boundaries of female officers and whatnot, but I'm starting to be very done with this entire charade regarding which gender of officer should strip-search which gender of citizen, given that PIGS ARE THE ONES WITH POWER IN THE SITUATION
I hate that I cannot enjoy the bewildered and angry fashion in which these tragic cis organisations tie themselves in knots attempting to rewrite reality because they’re tying *us* in knots, too.
We are currently in discussion with the NPCC about their policy of strip searches of transitioned women (in which we are treated as men because of the SC ruling).
I'm going to just share with you exactly how incoherent the NPCC are, underlining just ONE tiny aspect of their response.
I'm going to just share with you exactly how incoherent the NPCC are, underlining just ONE tiny aspect of their response.
December 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
You know I'd love to have an adequate level of respect for the boundaries of female officers and whatnot, but I'm starting to be very done with this entire charade regarding which gender of officer should strip-search which gender of citizen, given that PIGS ARE THE ONES WITH POWER IN THE SITUATION
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RFK Jr is directly responsible for the deaths of 83 children in American Samoa from measles because he told them to stop vaccinating. Now, he's trying to kill trans kids. He's a fucking psychopath.
HHS is trying to force Seattle Children's into doing a Sophie's choice of abandoning trans youth or see kids with cancer or other serious illness have their coverage and care disrupted. That's what this is about.
Hopefully, the courts put a quick stop to this like the subpoenas.
Hopefully, the courts put a quick stop to this like the subpoenas.
December 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM
RFK Jr is directly responsible for the deaths of 83 children in American Samoa from measles because he told them to stop vaccinating. Now, he's trying to kill trans kids. He's a fucking psychopath.
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So if activists were completely focused on respectability, why are we constantly hearing about the excesses of trans activists and how they go too far?
Because it doesn't matter if we're respectability focused or not! They'll find some rando to hold up as an example and say we're too extreme.
Because it doesn't matter if we're respectability focused or not! They'll find some rando to hold up as an example and say we're too extreme.
August 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
So if activists were completely focused on respectability, why are we constantly hearing about the excesses of trans activists and how they go too far?
Because it doesn't matter if we're respectability focused or not! They'll find some rando to hold up as an example and say we're too extreme.
Because it doesn't matter if we're respectability focused or not! They'll find some rando to hold up as an example and say we're too extreme.
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Don’t let them gaslight you. If they want to fill gaps in the budget in a progressive way that doesn’t impact working people and makes the wealthy pay their fair share until the constitutional amendment that allows for PROGRESSIVE income taxes that don’t impact working people, they can. #waleg
Here are the progressive‑revenue tools Washington can use right now—all of them stay inside the current constitutional framework (they do not tax income, capital gains, or net‑worth).
December 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Don’t let them gaslight you. If they want to fill gaps in the budget in a progressive way that doesn’t impact working people and makes the wealthy pay their fair share until the constitutional amendment that allows for PROGRESSIVE income taxes that don’t impact working people, they can. #waleg
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An authoritarian movement, led by the president and reaching into Republican-led state governments and the judiciary is chipping away at American democracy.
Trans people are among the first, most often targeted - but it won't end there. Read the full analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social
Trans people are among the first, most often targeted - but it won't end there. Read the full analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social
Authoritarian Surge Animates Attacks on Trans Americans — Assigned
The right-wing campaign to create an autocratic state is also endangering long-held freedoms for all Americans, pushing U.S. democracy to the precipice. Trans people, its earliest targets, are among t...
www.assignedmedia.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
An authoritarian movement, led by the president and reaching into Republican-led state governments and the judiciary is chipping away at American democracy.
Trans people are among the first, most often targeted - but it won't end there. Read the full analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social
Trans people are among the first, most often targeted - but it won't end there. Read the full analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
Wow, who would've guessed that people willing to violently overthrow a democratic government would be bad people?
I did, it was me. "The problem with overthrowing a government with violence is that the people willing to do it are not the people you want in charge of anything."
I did, it was me. "The problem with overthrowing a government with violence is that the people willing to do it are not the people you want in charge of anything."
December 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Wow, who would've guessed that people willing to violently overthrow a democratic government would be bad people?
I did, it was me. "The problem with overthrowing a government with violence is that the people willing to do it are not the people you want in charge of anything."
I did, it was me. "The problem with overthrowing a government with violence is that the people willing to do it are not the people you want in charge of anything."
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The oppression of one is the oppression of all, and we cannot violate the liberty of one being without violating the freedom of all of us.
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Mikhail Bakunin
December 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The oppression of one is the oppression of all, and we cannot violate the liberty of one being without violating the freedom of all of us.
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Mikhail Bakunin
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Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?
December 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?
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Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns
Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
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At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
December 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
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It's incredible to me how the mainstream press will be incredulous and skeptical when RFK Jr and other HHS officials push they're quackery around vaccines but suddenly become credulous when they go attack trans healthcare. Anti vax and anti trans beliefs are all the same quack pseudoscience.
December 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It's incredible to me how the mainstream press will be incredulous and skeptical when RFK Jr and other HHS officials push they're quackery around vaccines but suddenly become credulous when they go attack trans healthcare. Anti vax and anti trans beliefs are all the same quack pseudoscience.
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I've gone from Cassandra to Magneto.
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I've gone from Cassandra to Magneto.
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You *can* change your sex. That is the entire reason that transition care is being demonised, vilified, erased, and outlawed. Because this fact makes cis people uncomfortable.
Deal with your own discomfort without denying biological reality.
Deal with your own discomfort without denying biological reality.
spare us from the cis allies who are always like "nobody saying that you can change your sex" and "we're talking about gender not sex, they're very different." stop it.
July 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
You *can* change your sex. That is the entire reason that transition care is being demonised, vilified, erased, and outlawed. Because this fact makes cis people uncomfortable.
Deal with your own discomfort without denying biological reality.
Deal with your own discomfort without denying biological reality.