ellery (he/they)
@transcuntinental.bsky.social
trans and f*cking angry
writer, nerd, troublemaker
out and loud
pfp @toradh.bsky.social
writer, nerd, troublemaker
out and loud
pfp @toradh.bsky.social
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My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country.
We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one.
I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.
We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one.
I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.
February 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country.
We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one.
I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.
We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one.
I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.
Given that our tax dollars are funding a state-run concentration camp in all but name, how we feeling about 4/15 this year fam? Seriously interested in perspectives from folks who've thought about this; I need more information for sure.
February 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Given that our tax dollars are funding a state-run concentration camp in all but name, how we feeling about 4/15 this year fam? Seriously interested in perspectives from folks who've thought about this; I need more information for sure.
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We know who the villains are in this coup. But so many heroes are showing up to oppose them, and many of them are federal employees, including judges. I give you supreme boss-hero champion Judge Ana Reyes, telling Team Trump they don't know shit and schooling them in the facts about gender and sex.
More from Judge Reyes
February 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
We know who the villains are in this coup. But so many heroes are showing up to oppose them, and many of them are federal employees, including judges. I give you supreme boss-hero champion Judge Ana Reyes, telling Team Trump they don't know shit and schooling them in the facts about gender and sex.
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I've been writing BLOOD IN THE MACHINE for months, but I was on the fence about going all-in. Recent events have made the call easier.
Elon Musk, the Silicon Valley oligarchs and their AI are taking over. I want to do all I can to push back. I hope you'll join me, and I'm asking for your support.
Elon Musk, the Silicon Valley oligarchs and their AI are taking over. I want to do all I can to push back. I hope you'll join me, and I'm asking for your support.
The tech oligarchs and their AI are taking over. Let's fight back.
Alright, I’m really doing this thing. Support Blood in the Machine and fearless independent tech journalism.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I've been writing BLOOD IN THE MACHINE for months, but I was on the fence about going all-in. Recent events have made the call easier.
Elon Musk, the Silicon Valley oligarchs and their AI are taking over. I want to do all I can to push back. I hope you'll join me, and I'm asking for your support.
Elon Musk, the Silicon Valley oligarchs and their AI are taking over. I want to do all I can to push back. I hope you'll join me, and I'm asking for your support.
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Auckland went all in on YIMBY, and the results are clear: 43,500 new homes in 10 years, and rents down 28% relative to peers.
www.population.fyi/p/beyond-ske...
www.population.fyi/p/beyond-ske...
Beyond Skepticism: Data Confirms Auckland's Zoning Reforms Delivered on Housing Promises
Three rigorous studies, 43,500 new homes, and a 28% drop in rents: The data is in on Auckland's great housing experiment
www.population.fyi
February 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Auckland went all in on YIMBY, and the results are clear: 43,500 new homes in 10 years, and rents down 28% relative to peers.
www.population.fyi/p/beyond-ske...
www.population.fyi/p/beyond-ske...
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this fucking faux-serious, take him literally but not seriously, what’s the harm in discussing it, just asking questions shit over the last three decades isn’t the only reason musk is about to destroy social security and trump wants to seize gaza, but it is very definitely a large part of the story
jesus christ, fuck you, man
Canada as the 51st state? Trump thinks it would be a boon to his legacy. But it would also be a boon to Democrats, who would gain a lot more voters. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...
February 18, 2025 at 1:53 AM
this fucking faux-serious, take him literally but not seriously, what’s the harm in discussing it, just asking questions shit over the last three decades isn’t the only reason musk is about to destroy social security and trump wants to seize gaza, but it is very definitely a large part of the story
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jesus christ, fuck you, man
Canada as the 51st state? Trump thinks it would be a boon to his legacy. But it would also be a boon to Democrats, who would gain a lot more voters. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...
Canada as the 51st State? In Electoral Terms, Trump’s Idea Favors Democrats.
Bringing Canada into the United States, however farcical the prospect may seem, would alter the political map in a way likely to cost Republicans.
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
jesus christ, fuck you, man
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so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky
February 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky
if Mitch McConnell gave a single paltry fuck about what's happening to this country, he could've spent one iota of his past 46781 years in Congress preventing the trajectory that brought us here. He's a bitter old man at the end of his life. He doesn't care about anyone but himself; he never has.
February 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
if Mitch McConnell gave a single paltry fuck about what's happening to this country, he could've spent one iota of his past 46781 years in Congress preventing the trajectory that brought us here. He's a bitter old man at the end of his life. He doesn't care about anyone but himself; he never has.
even children know Trump's just a figurehead bootlicking musk like the rest of the party
would be a shame if this drove a wedge between two of the worst people on the planet. would be a shame if
would be a shame if this drove a wedge between two of the worst people on the planet. would be a shame if
Pop quiz: People are saying the kid says “you’re not the president you need to go away” — do y’all hear it too?
February 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
even children know Trump's just a figurehead bootlicking musk like the rest of the party
would be a shame if this drove a wedge between two of the worst people on the planet. would be a shame if
would be a shame if this drove a wedge between two of the worst people on the planet. would be a shame if
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I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
Vet found hanging draped in trans flag
The suicide letter they won't publish
zerodoesntsleep.substack.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
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“Yes, Donald Trump and his horde of monied incels are shredding the constitutional order and working to re-impose a racial & gender caste system on public life. But I had a self-righteous nonbinary undergrad in one of my classes, so who is to say whether the left or the right is worse?”-every pundit
February 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
“Yes, Donald Trump and his horde of monied incels are shredding the constitutional order and working to re-impose a racial & gender caste system on public life. But I had a self-righteous nonbinary undergrad in one of my classes, so who is to say whether the left or the right is worse?”-every pundit
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removal of Musk's goons from GSA and Treasury's payment system and appointment of an independent prosecutor that Trump can't fire to investigate what happened should be the table stakes for any Dem votes on the budget or debt ceiling. Should get more than that, but that's a bare minimum.
House Democrats "need to stand united against Elon Musk” and refuse to help the GOP pass budget bills until “Musk is held accountable for his crimes,” Casar told Jezebel. “Democrats actually have a lot of power to start righting the ship.”
www.jezebel.com/greg-casar-i...
www.jezebel.com/greg-casar-i...
Democrats Have Power and It’s Time to Act Like It, Says Congressman Greg Casar
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
www.jezebel.com
February 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
removal of Musk's goons from GSA and Treasury's payment system and appointment of an independent prosecutor that Trump can't fire to investigate what happened should be the table stakes for any Dem votes on the budget or debt ceiling. Should get more than that, but that's a bare minimum.
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With the Collins confirmation vote, we are now seeing our first A- grades in the Trump nominee confirmation vote tracker. Meet your eight stalwarts who have 90% scores and have been NO since the Rubio vote:
Duckworth, IL
Hirono, HI
Markey, MA
Murphy, CT
Murray, WA
Reed, RI
Van Hollen, MD
Warren, MA
Duckworth, IL
Hirono, HI
Markey, MA
Murphy, CT
Murray, WA
Reed, RI
Van Hollen, MD
Warren, MA
February 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
With the Collins confirmation vote, we are now seeing our first A- grades in the Trump nominee confirmation vote tracker. Meet your eight stalwarts who have 90% scores and have been NO since the Rubio vote:
Duckworth, IL
Hirono, HI
Markey, MA
Murphy, CT
Murray, WA
Reed, RI
Van Hollen, MD
Warren, MA
Duckworth, IL
Hirono, HI
Markey, MA
Murphy, CT
Murray, WA
Reed, RI
Van Hollen, MD
Warren, MA
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not to be that girl but I really wish white trans people wouldn't use Black oppression as a rhetorical device to describe a completely different situation
Slate [Feb 2] -- Purpose of Trump multiple Executive Orders is to "create Jim Crow for trans people" by "fully disenfranchising them from society on a scale not seen since Jim Crow" (e.g., the legal racial caste system mostly in South from Civil War to 1960s).
[by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social]
[by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social]
Donald Trump’s Executive Orders Aim to Create Jim Crow for Trans People
The Trump administration has dismissed public pleas for mercy for transgender youth and instead launched a full-scale attack against trans people.
slate.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
not to be that girl but I really wish white trans people wouldn't use Black oppression as a rhetorical device to describe a completely different situation
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Trans peoples’ basic right to exist in the world is under assault. Bathrooms are at the heart of that fight.
www.thenation.com/ar...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.thenation.com/ar...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
The Right to Pee Is Everything | The Nation
Trans peoples' basic right to exist in the world is under assault. Bathrooms are at the heart of that fight.
www.thenation.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Trans peoples’ basic right to exist in the world is under assault. Bathrooms are at the heart of that fight.
www.thenation.com/ar...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.thenation.com/ar...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Not only does Elon Musk think that identifying his lackeys who have gotten access to extremely sensitive government data systems is a crime, but he wants to send criminals to do slave labor in a foreign county.
February 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Not only does Elon Musk think that identifying his lackeys who have gotten access to extremely sensitive government data systems is a crime, but he wants to send criminals to do slave labor in a foreign county.
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WE WILL NOT GO QUIETLY!
Photojournalist Piper Bly (@piperbomb.bsky.social) captures a spirit of protest and community at one of many, many rallies in defense of trans rights that have begun across the country.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Photojournalist Piper Bly (@piperbomb.bsky.social) captures a spirit of protest and community at one of many, many rallies in defense of trans rights that have begun across the country.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Trans Solidarity in the Frozen North — Assigned
Our photojournalist documents a community coming together at the Trans Unity Rally in Lansing, Michigan.
www.assignedmedia.org
February 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
WE WILL NOT GO QUIETLY!
Photojournalist Piper Bly (@piperbomb.bsky.social) captures a spirit of protest and community at one of many, many rallies in defense of trans rights that have begun across the country.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Photojournalist Piper Bly (@piperbomb.bsky.social) captures a spirit of protest and community at one of many, many rallies in defense of trans rights that have begun across the country.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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"Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi."
Worth reading in full now, as in 2016, as in 1941.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Worth reading in full now, as in 2016, as in 1941.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
February 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi."
Worth reading in full now, as in 2016, as in 1941.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Worth reading in full now, as in 2016, as in 1941.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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Hospitals that are cutting off care to trans people under nineteen are the very definition of "complying in advance"—some, as I report in this story, even claiming, incorrectly, that Trump has "prohibited" gender-affirming care. He has not. They are caving. More here: newrepublic.com/article/1910...
February 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Hospitals that are cutting off care to trans people under nineteen are the very definition of "complying in advance"—some, as I report in this story, even claiming, incorrectly, that Trump has "prohibited" gender-affirming care. He has not. They are caving. More here: newrepublic.com/article/1910...
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"here’s what I believe happened: In the process of accumulating enormous wealth, the tech-oligarchs created the conditions for their loss of social power and, when they realized this, they got a big dose of class consciousness and turned furiously reactionary."
What Happened Here
It's Very Simple Dialectics
www.unpopularfront.news
February 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"here’s what I believe happened: In the process of accumulating enormous wealth, the tech-oligarchs created the conditions for their loss of social power and, when they realized this, they got a big dose of class consciousness and turned furiously reactionary."
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What in the actual fuck are we doing here
This evening, every Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee backed the nomination of MAGA wingnut climate denier Brooke Rollins for Secretary of Agriculture, who admitted to a lack of basic knowledge of the department's workings. Every. Single. One.
Led by @amyklobuchar.com.
#Assistance
Led by @amyklobuchar.com.
#Assistance
February 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM
What in the actual fuck are we doing here
Seeing folks ask what it's like watching this happen from inside the US. Despite the complications of being trans in America, there's a @deathcabforcutie.bsky.social lyric I keep hearing, "love is watching someone die." Doesn't matter how we feel, we're all in the waiting room
February 4, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Seeing folks ask what it's like watching this happen from inside the US. Despite the complications of being trans in America, there's a @deathcabforcutie.bsky.social lyric I keep hearing, "love is watching someone die." Doesn't matter how we feel, we're all in the waiting room
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in addition to musk stealing the data for his own purposes, I imagine that they think they can simply shut off payments to whoever doesn’t comply. I would not be shocked if they tried to turn off Social Security for an entire state of course that’s dissolution of the union territory.
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
February 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
in addition to musk stealing the data for his own purposes, I imagine that they think they can simply shut off payments to whoever doesn’t comply. I would not be shocked if they tried to turn off Social Security for an entire state of course that’s dissolution of the union territory.
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what Musk is doing is as close to the government being taken over by a hostile foreign power in our lifetimes, the coverage should reflect that
January 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
what Musk is doing is as close to the government being taken over by a hostile foreign power in our lifetimes, the coverage should reflect that