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saltycasey.bsky.social
I know everyone's strapped for cash but if anyone has extra to help me cover my hrt this month, the only way I can get it is by paying twice what I'd expected
March 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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sanders.senate.gov
Trump is taking away the right to call the 1-800# to apply for Social Security benefits, closing Social Security field offices & laying off up to half its staff.

30,000 people die waiting for Social Security disability benefits. How many more will die due to this cruel policy?
March 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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kdnerak33.bsky.social
There are more cases of measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA.

Guess which the Republicans are more worried about.
March 2, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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buildsoil.bsky.social
Ok we did it. Second recording of the podcast (first i'm still editing) This is a good one.

To keep this up we need funds for our podcast and tree work and community research and consulting.

patreon.com/buildsoil members will get access to the raw recording version - the podcast will be free
February 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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kateviolette.com
Boston friends! This looks rad as hell:
timdevin.bsky.social tim d (he/him) @timdevin.bsky.social · Feb 19
this Sunday at 2pm, come to the Lucy Parsons Center to find inspiration from Boston's radical history. free!

myself and jay c will be your tour guides on this voyage...

#BostonMA #RadicalHistory
flyer for the event flyer for the series
February 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
saltycasey.bsky.social
I want to know how much using a cane ages me up bc it's always funny when people talk to me about "when we were in our 20s" when I'm still there
February 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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violetblue.bsky.social
Interesting inadvertent CDC admissions:

-Flu was "high severity" for all ages in 1st Trump term
-Covid deaths (remained) higher than flu until 2 weeks ago

*In Jan. 2023 CDC revised Covid death classification, lowering counts 10-20%. Studies found further undercounting: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
February 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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laurakeeney.bsky.social
With alt text.

Here’s more on the SAVE Act: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
The vast majority of married women cannot present a valid birth certificate While the vast majority of Americans have a birth certificate, tens of millions of married women could not present their birth certificate as proof of citizenship under the SAVE Act, as it does not display their current legal name. A survey from the Pew Research Center found that 79 percent of American women married to men have taken their spouse's name. When women who have hyphenated their surname are also accounted for, 84 percent of American women have changed their surname. Nationwide, approximately 69 million women could not use their birth certificate to prove their identity or citizenship status under the SAVE Act. Additionally, 5 percent of married men have also changed their surname, accounting for approximately 4 million men nationwide who could also not present an acceptable birth certificate under the SAVE Act. The legislation does not mention the potential option for these Americans to present change-of-name documentation or a marriage certificate in combination with a birth certificate to prove their citizenship. This shows yet another area in which the legislation makes no attempts to ensure that citizens' voting rights are protected. Seemingly, the SAVE Act would rather err on the side of disenfranchisement.
February 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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tuck.bsky.social
now more than ever, it must be said: let's go birds transsexual
the famous "LBGT: lets go birds transsexual" t-shirt by toxicfemme
February 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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taylorcunning9.bsky.social
This was a very grounding read
mskellymhayes.bsky.social Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Feb 4
Reminder: "Sometimes, 'bearing witness' feels like the only thing we can do, but the relentless consumption of suffering and injustice does not change anyone’s material conditions. It may feel like we’re doing something, but during such moments, we are experiencing an impact rather than having one."
A Brutal Beginning: Orienting Ourselves Amid the Shock and Awe
We must be prepared to live and act defiantly, deriving no legitimacy from the illegitimate brutes who would govern us.
organizingmythoughts.org
February 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors
Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid. They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs. My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete. You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us. Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered. I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA, Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness. FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY. I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same. Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world
January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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torekeland.bsky.social
My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread
November 19, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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thomaszimmer.bsky.social
This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance.

Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 21
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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zerochilltea.bsky.social
“Many have described Trump’s repeated policy blows as a “shock and awe” strategy. While the description is apt, it’s important to remember the objective of shock and awe attacks: to overwhelm a target, distort their perception of the battlefield, and destroy their will to fight.”

great read
mskellymhayes.bsky.social Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Jan 21
I wrote about Trump's executive orders, including his attacks on trans and undocumented people, and how we should be orienting ourselves to defy fascist violence in this moment. This piece includes commentary from @chasestrangio.bsky.social and @silkys13.bsky.social.
A Brutal Beginning: Orienting Ourselves Amid the Shock and Awe
We must be prepared to live and act defiantly, deriving no legitimacy from the illegitimate brutes who would govern us.
organizingmythoughts.org
January 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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abigaillarson.com
Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945.
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)
photo of a bodysuit filled with garbage and a taped portrait of Elon Musk hangs upside down on the gate near piazzale Loreto in Milan, Italy. Photo from Ansa Italia 2025
January 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
saltycasey.bsky.social
slowly trying to become active in the discords I've joined but not really used and hoping I don't get immediately overwhelmed
January 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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margaret.bsky.social
alright you wanna know how to support trans people?

hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.

Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.
January 21, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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esqueer.net
These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.
January 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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adamfare1996.bsky.social
No disabled person should be forced to keep working (when they're not well enough to) simply because they can't afford not to.

Financial security should never be the deal-breaker, it should be a guarantee.

If someone isn't able to work, they're not able to work.
January 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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ksummerfield.bsky.social
The idea that we can try to do better by one another is reinforced each time you wear a mask.

There's a bond shared between those who take precautions and this speaks to why: there is joy in solidarity, compassion and kindness. Showing that you care enough to try is a radical act of love and trust.
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Dec 19
Never forget that masking is more than just protecting yourself from covid.

It’s an act of compassion, resistance, solidarity and community care.

It shows that you don’t believe people are expendable. That you refuse to be responsible for someone else’s suffering.

The kindness is in the trying.
December 19, 2024 at 6:53 AM
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luckytran.com
@who.int Director-General's remarks at a media briefing on 10 December 2024:

"We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense. It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills.

The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to."
December 11, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
Your daily dose of good twigs to improve your mental health a little. All these👇are flowering rn & worth seeking out.
Looking at things we find beautiful causes dopamine release & looking at plants relaxes our brain.
PS My Feb 25 botanical illustration & mental health w'shop will go live tmrw eve✒️🌿🧠
Several garden plant species flowering right now in early-mid-December, including hellebores, heathers, Viburnum sinus, winter flowering cherry along with delicate pink snowberries. My drawings of them are next to each specimen...
December 8, 2024 at 8:19 PM