MegaFishTaco
@megafishtaco.bsky.social
☆Artsy-crafty, currently watercoloring
☆Sounds gay, I'm in
☆Leftist but pragmatic
☆Raised in the South/trying to leave
☆Ambiverted
☆Permanently exhausted
Compulsion to create, leftist/ish politics, and gay shit within¯\_(ツ)_/¯
☆Sounds gay, I'm in
☆Leftist but pragmatic
☆Raised in the South/trying to leave
☆Ambiverted
☆Permanently exhausted
Compulsion to create, leftist/ish politics, and gay shit within¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Before Bari Weiss pulled the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, @propublica.org @texastribune.org & a team of Venezuelan journalists compiled a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case accounting of 238 Venezuelan men who were held in El Salvador.
Read their stories here:
projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...
Read their stories here:
projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...
December 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Before Bari Weiss pulled the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, @propublica.org @texastribune.org & a team of Venezuelan journalists compiled a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case accounting of 238 Venezuelan men who were held in El Salvador.
Read their stories here:
projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...
Read their stories here:
projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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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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I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
December 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
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The Trump Administration just sent horrifying warning letters to 12 companies for offering binders. These compression tops aren't usually considered medical devices, but the FDA is demanding the companies register their products. It's a not-so-subtle threat to businesses supporting trans people.
December 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Trump Administration just sent horrifying warning letters to 12 companies for offering binders. These compression tops aren't usually considered medical devices, but the FDA is demanding the companies register their products. It's a not-so-subtle threat to businesses supporting trans people.
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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People are not upset because they think every single member of the American elite is a mass rapist. They're upset because elites downplay and excuse mass rape while obscuring their ties to the rapists — *precisely the thing Brooks did in his column.*
December 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
People are not upset because they think every single member of the American elite is a mass rapist. They're upset because elites downplay and excuse mass rape while obscuring their ties to the rapists — *precisely the thing Brooks did in his column.*
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Everyone calm down, it was just a dinner. It's not like Brooks wrote an entire column saying Epstein's crimes weren't a big deal and his critics are hysterical while failing to divulge his attendance!
The NYT imperiously declined to provide details, just declaring their op-ed columnists must of course attend dinners with "noted and important business leaders". But it's not hard to find. The Silicon Valley pantheon was there: Musk, Bezos, Brin, Mayer, Wojcicki, Mundie & Myhrvold of Microsoft... 3/
December 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Everyone calm down, it was just a dinner. It's not like Brooks wrote an entire column saying Epstein's crimes weren't a big deal and his critics are hysterical while failing to divulge his attendance!
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Nearly all weather, climate, & natural hazard research involves NCAR in some way-either directly (as is the case with countless affiliated scientists at universities or elsewhere) or indirectly (through use of NCAR's irreplaceable community datasets, predictive models, or its computing facilities).
December 17, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Nearly all weather, climate, & natural hazard research involves NCAR in some way-either directly (as is the case with countless affiliated scientists at universities or elsewhere) or indirectly (through use of NCAR's irreplaceable community datasets, predictive models, or its computing facilities).
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I'm not sure most folks are aware of the immense magnitude of loss this would entail for the global weather and climate community, and beyond. NCAR has played a greater cumulative role in advancing weather prediction and atmospheric modeling than perhaps any other single entity in the world.
December 17, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I'm not sure most folks are aware of the immense magnitude of loss this would entail for the global weather and climate community, and beyond. NCAR has played a greater cumulative role in advancing weather prediction and atmospheric modeling than perhaps any other single entity in the world.
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Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’
An absolute fucking shameful vote, and also extremely fucking stupid. I hope those 3 dems step on legos every day for the rest of their lives
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 18, 2025 at 3:20 AM
An absolute fucking shameful vote, and also extremely fucking stupid. I hope those 3 dems step on legos every day for the rest of their lives
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❤️ strippers ❤️
Strippers are now the No. 1 donor of toys to children's hospital in Portland.
This year, they broke their own record raising over $183,000 for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital having a successful Tata for Toys once again.
This year, they broke their own record raising over $183,000 for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital having a successful Tata for Toys once again.
December 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM
❤️ strippers ❤️
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The woman the media is desperate to cast as a kinder, gentler Nazi, is spending her last month in Congress trying to imprison those who support trans kids.
Marjorie Taylor Greene horse traded her vote on the NDAA for a floor vote for a felony ban on gender affirming care for trans youth that would criminalize parents and doctors for providing evidence based lifesaving care for their children.
December 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The woman the media is desperate to cast as a kinder, gentler Nazi, is spending her last month in Congress trying to imprison those who support trans kids.
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Now it’s time to rewatch this classic
Yacht Rock Episode 1
YouTube video by JD Ryznar
m.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Now it’s time to rewatch this classic
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NEW: A gay Houston immigrant was arrested by ICE when he showed up to his asylum interview on Nov. 4th despite having no criminal history. He's been in ICE detention since then. His husband, a U.S. citizen, says ICE laid "a trap," and is now working for his release.
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
'A trap': Houston man speaks out after ICE detains husband
Hernandez fled Honduras in 2016 after he recieved death threats for being gay.
www.chron.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
NEW: A gay Houston immigrant was arrested by ICE when he showed up to his asylum interview on Nov. 4th despite having no criminal history. He's been in ICE detention since then. His husband, a U.S. citizen, says ICE laid "a trap," and is now working for his release.
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
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Scenes from dnd this week
December 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Scenes from dnd this week
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It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
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I understand that there are a lot of people out there who think they have good intentions and love to take their ideological opponents in good faith because it makes them seem fair and reasonable and I truly cannot overstate how dangerous this is to trans people and how much they should stop
December 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I understand that there are a lot of people out there who think they have good intentions and love to take their ideological opponents in good faith because it makes them seem fair and reasonable and I truly cannot overstate how dangerous this is to trans people and how much they should stop
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Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
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The fact that the OU Psychology department gave the grad student a teaching award a day or so before the suspension is another tell. I’m surprised the social posts about it were up long enough to get cached by Google
December 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The fact that the OU Psychology department gave the grad student a teaching award a day or so before the suspension is another tell. I’m surprised the social posts about it were up long enough to get cached by Google
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i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
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yeah, I just wrote an essay about this, heh.
www.patreon.com/posts/144821...
(It's unlocked, this is just the best place for long-form text for me.)
www.patreon.com/posts/144821...
(It's unlocked, this is just the best place for long-form text for me.)
OU, College Essays, & the Right-Wing Anti-Trans Grievance Grift Gravy Train | Spider Perry
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December 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
yeah, I just wrote an essay about this, heh.
www.patreon.com/posts/144821...
(It's unlocked, this is just the best place for long-form text for me.)
www.patreon.com/posts/144821...
(It's unlocked, this is just the best place for long-form text for me.)
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two good pieces from my friend Ayden Runnels @texastribune.org about Texas' bathroom bill, which goes into force on Thursday:
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/01/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/01/t...
Questions remain on how Texas will enforce new “bathroom bill”
Some trans Texans worry that the lack of specificity on how the law will be enforced will harm their safety and lives.
www.texastribune.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
two good pieces from my friend Ayden Runnels @texastribune.org about Texas' bathroom bill, which goes into force on Thursday:
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/01/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/01/t...