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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 1d

my (cis) partner's mother found her linkedin & she had to frantically unwoke it but forgot about her (cis) pronouns & now she's getting insane "concerned" texts from her family (white women) that include accusations of her being a "liberal white woman" conservatism like actively eats ppl's brains

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 2d

just invented the evil alter ego to hot lunches: cold and soggy sandwich (spilled my drink on it and can’t make another)

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 11d

A potential ban on gun ownership for transgender people appears to expose the ceiling of MAGA's unity behind the anti-transgender movement.

www.mediamatters.org/national-rif...

Right-wing media fracture over potential gun ban for trans Americans

Fractures have emerged in right-wing media over reports that the Trump administration is considering a ban on gun ownership for transgender people following a school shooting in Minnesota in August. W...

www.mediamatters.org

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4d

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 · 4d

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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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 4d

I’m so sorry 💔

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birdsinapuddle🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🆘 @birdsinapuddle.bsky.social · 4d

Many families like mine felt forced to leave Missouri to protect our trans kids’ health. Weiss played a big part in why

Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 4d

Bari Weiss is now CBS's editor in chief. Just two years ago, her outlet The Free Press was the springboard for an anti-trans "whistleblower" & a ban on care for trans youth in Missouri. The stories have been heavily scrutinized for falsehoods and inconsistencies

www.mediamatters.org/bari-weiss/t...

Timeline: The unfolding saga between The Free Press and a Missouri gender clinic

Update (last updated 9/12/23): This article has been repeatedly updated with additional examples. The Free Press, the Bari Weiss outlet that claims to focus on stories “ignored or misconstrued in the ...

www.mediamatters.org

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 4d

Bari Weiss is now CBS's editor in chief. Just two years ago, her outlet The Free Press was the springboard for an anti-trans "whistleblower" & a ban on care for trans youth in Missouri. The stories have been heavily scrutinized for falsehoods and inconsistencies

www.mediamatters.org/bari-weiss/t...

Timeline: The unfolding saga between The Free Press and a Missouri gender clinic

Update (last updated 9/12/23): This article has been repeatedly updated with additional examples. The Free Press, the Bari Weiss outlet that claims to focus on stories “ignored or misconstrued in the ...

www.mediamatters.org

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 8d

so like….how are those rapture folk doing ??

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 9d

I think the most revealing thing about the Emma Watson/JKR thing is how TERFS/conservatives more generally tend to wail about liberals not wanting to be friends with them and its like. Look what happened. Watson tried to extend an olive branch to Rowling and the hag went "you stupid bitch lmao"

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 11d

oh so the government can just shut down when it doesn't make deadline but when *i* do it...

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 11d

A potential ban on gun ownership for transgender people appears to expose the ceiling of MAGA's unity behind the anti-transgender movement.

www.mediamatters.org/national-rif...

Right-wing media fracture over potential gun ban for trans Americans

Fractures have emerged in right-wing media over reports that the Trump administration is considering a ban on gun ownership for transgender people following a school shooting in Minnesota in August. W...

www.mediamatters.org

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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 15d

Half of Americans oppose lawmakers banning or restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth, our new 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll finds.

People don't like politicians targeting this health care, although only 37% support trans minors ability to access the care.

More Americans see a future where gender-affirming care will be harder to access

A new 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll shows that the share of people who think gender-affirming care will get less accessible jumped to 38% from 20% in 2024.

19thnews.org

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 22d

so trans people are too weak or mentally ill or too medically compromised to be in the military or own firearms but also a collective time bomb of terroristic violence?

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24d

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 24d

So anyway, what are y'all's favorite Ben & Jerry's flavors?

I'm pretty partial to gimme s'more but I love all things tiramisu so I was pretty thrilled to find that. I do miss impretzively fudged though, chocolate pretzels are some of my favorite treats.

Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 24d

Gen Z's "avocado toast"

Right-wing outlet The Federalist believes that "little treats" are a big contributor to the nation's collective debt

Headline from The Federalist: "'Self-Care' Spending Might Explain Why America Is So Deeply In Debt"

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 24d

In July, Trump cut LGBTQ+ youth services for 988, the suicide crisis hotline that launched in 2022. Today, Sens. Tammy Baldwin and Lisa Murkowski introduced a bipartisan bill to re-establish specialized LGBTQ+ services at the national hotline.

Bipartisan bill seeks to reinstate national suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth

In July, Trump cut LGBTQ+ youth services for 988, the suicide crisis hotline. It has been a devastating blow, advocates say.

19thnews.org

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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 24d

The closure of St. Mary’s labor and delivery unit in Lavonia comes as one of the first Georgia-based casualties of the federal budget reconciliation package, colloquially known as the “big beautiful bill.”

via @georgiarecorder.com

Rural Georgia hospital plans to close its labor and delivery unit, in part due to Medicaid cuts

St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital in rural northeast Georgia will discontinue its maternal health services next month as its parent company moves to consolidate OB/GYN services to one location, the…

www.newsfromthestates.com

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 24d

My student newspaper running Kirk apologia oh that’s not —

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 24d

Senator Ted Cruz misquotes one of the bullet engravings in the Kirk shooting and then misattributes it as a meme from the trans community.

(TW for Ted Cruz saying "do you see my bulge")

Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 25d

While another high profile gun fatality continues to dominate the news and lead people to sweeping accusations, I think it's worth noting a school shooting that occurred the same day was carried out by a teenage boy indoctrinated into white supremacy.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Colorado school shooting suspect had 'deep fascination' with mass shootings, ADL says

A teenager suspected in a shooting attack at a Colorado high school had a "fascination" with mass shootings and shared neo-Nazi views, the ADL said.

www.usatoday.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 26d

from my latest: "The trans-shooter myth largely began circulating in 2023 around the Nashville shooting, 'as the right began rolling back LGBTQ rights in earnest'... Two years later, and just a decade after the so-called trans tipping point, anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage."

The trans-shooter myth, reports the Trace, a newsroom focused on gun violence, largely began circulating in 2023 around the aforementioned Nashville shooting, “as the right began rolling back LGBTQ rights in earnest.” As I’ve explained previously, trans people are over four times more likely than cis people to be victims of violent assault. Conversely, over the past decade, according to the Gun Violence Project, less than a tenth of one percent of shootings were committed by someone who identified as trans or nonbinary. Nonetheless, last week the Justice Department was reportedly considering how to ban trans people from buying guns.

Two years later, and just a decade after the so-called trans tipping point, 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 or, like in the past week, spending more time mourning the death of a guy who gleefully mocked Nancy Pelosi’s husband being attacked with a hammer than urging caution to protect a population that voted for Kamala Harris second only to Black women. It would almost be surprising, considering those numbers, how quickly 2028 hopeful Gavin Newsom praised Kirk, if Kirk hadn’t been Newsom’s first podcast guest.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 29d

On X everyone misread this part of the arrest report and thinks it means Tyler Robinson said Charlie Kirk spread hate.

The relative said that, not the shooter himself.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29d

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/

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