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trans people are experiencing genocide in the US and UK @oh-that-amy.bsky.social · 16d

Once you get past the deep mendacity of this article and its suspiciously innumerate take on the study results, you are left with an implicit claim about the relative value of trans & cis lives. Is the safety of one cis kid (presuming their figures) truly more important than that of four trans kids?

The Economist @economist.com · 17d

A recent study found that children who transitioned young retained stable gender identities over time. But the fact that nearly a fifth of those in the group did not ought to give advocates of irreversible medical interventions pause

How stable are the gender identities of younger children?

A study finds that one in five who switch gender change their mind

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Jojo she/her @jojofe24.bsky.social · 15d

Um.

Just um. Yeah.

This is a problem.

Is bluesky safe?

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 1h

“accusing the two Democrats of failing to protect federal immigration officers without offering any evidence.”

1. Yeah, that tracks.

2. Guess he also heard that a DA in Chicago is trying to file charges against ICE officers because Cletus & nem keep assaulting protesters & pepper spraying cops.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1h

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Trump calls for Chicago mayor, Illinois governor to be jailed

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker to be jailed, accusing the two Democrats of failing to protect federal immigration officers without offering any evidence.

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videotroph @videotroph.bsky.social · 3d

Cory Doctorow helping to promote & think through MotL's Blue Bonds strategy was definitely not on today's bingo card.

But I love it! 💙

Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 3d

Tremendous thanks to Cory Doctorow for helping us get the word out about Blue Bonds, MotL's fiscal strategy for mobilizing sub-federal debt financing to defeat authoritarian sabotage & extortion.

pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/f...

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Anne Caprara @annecaprara.bsky.social · 1h

Greg has correctly articulated our theory of the case - and accurately laid out the one battleground on which Governors and other electeds can successfully fight the feds, other than the courts (and there is delicate strategy there as well that I’m not sure everyone fully appreciates.)

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:

-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech

If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 13h

Here’s video of the incident

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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trans people are experiencing genocide in the US and UK @oh-that-amy.bsky.social · 11h

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 11h

LOL

so #nintendo is stealthily shoving the trans political agenda and nobody has noticed it?

video without context with trans flag colors everywhere from nintendo america

you people better sart noticing patterns
just like netflix

carbon monoxide leak

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trans people are experiencing genocide in the US and UK @oh-that-amy.bsky.social · 11h

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 12h

He is the speaker of the House. Johnson can gavel the House in anytime he pleases. That's kind of the point of being speaker.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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trans people are experiencing genocide in the US and UK @oh-that-amy.bsky.social · 12h

a notice of meme acquisition that is now mine

ALT: a notice of meme acquisition that is now mine

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13h

is this what "resisting" looks like

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 13h

Thread, which illustrates nicely why I'm having that "hey uhhhh did the dissolution of the Union just kind of happen just now" feeling the last few days

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13h

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13h

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 13h

“Four months ago, in Skrmetti, the Court used purported medical uncertainty to give Tennessee more flexibility to discriminate. Today, Alito used purported medical uncertainty to give Colorado less flexibility to protect.”

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 16h

I've written my analysis of today's grim Supreme Court oral argument in the conversion therapy case:

As far as the Court's concerned, imaginary medical uncertainty gives states the authority to hurt queer kids, and takes away states' authority to protect them

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chile...

The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Janelle @janelleerickson.bsky.social · 13h

America’s senior military officers, including the Chair of the Jt Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine, must approach Trump now and make clear to him that they will not obey illegal orders to act against American citizens or disrupt the American political process

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

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 · 18h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

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

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 15h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 14h

“Trump said it would be 'cool' to invade Venezuela because the country is 'really part of the United States,' according to John Bolton's new book” 6/17/20 … 1/ www.businessinsider.com/john-bolton-...

Trump said it would be 'cool' to invade Venezuela because the country is 'really part of the United States,' according to John Bolton's new book

Bolton also writes in his book that Trump kept confusing the current and former presidents of Afghanistan.

www.businessinsider.com

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

Overheard in Bluesky slack channel after Post 11:

“He got me,” Jay said of Rudy's comms dunk over her. "That f***ing Rudy boomed me." Jay added, “He’s so good,” repeating it four times.

Jay then said she wanted to add Blacksky to the list of ATProto servers she federates with this summer.

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 15h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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trans people are experiencing genocide in the US and UK @oh-that-amy.bsky.social · 14h

this is a masterclass in communicating with your current and prospective users.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 19h

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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