Verminter
@verminter.bsky.social
He/They. Minty-fresh Vermonter.
Trans Ace who prefers QUILTBAG to LGBTQ+ because QUILTBAG is warm and easily pronounceable. Dog in pic shares my opinions, except he thinks he should get people food.
Trans Ace who prefers QUILTBAG to LGBTQ+ because QUILTBAG is warm and easily pronounceable. Dog in pic shares my opinions, except he thinks he should get people food.
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Call your Congress folks and senators and tell them you expect the SSA offices that are funded by your taxpayer dollars to be adequately and appropriately staffed in order to provide the level of service you expect. Reassigning more folks to phones will lead to more delays in appointments and
December 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Call your Congress folks and senators and tell them you expect the SSA offices that are funded by your taxpayer dollars to be adequately and appropriately staffed in order to provide the level of service you expect. Reassigning more folks to phones will lead to more delays in appointments and
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Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
December 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
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Oh look, invocations being used to enforce an ideological litmus test instead of serving any useful purpose.
This is just one of the many reasons why these performative rituals don’t belong in government meetings.
This is just one of the many reasons why these performative rituals don’t belong in government meetings.
Texas city officials lied about a scheduling error to prevent a pro-LGBTQ pastor from delivering an invocation.
The mayor later admitted it was because the pastor's values "offended a large majority of our residents."
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-city...
The mayor later admitted it was because the pastor's values "offended a large majority of our residents."
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-city...
Texas city blocks Christian pastor's invocation after his open support for a Pride event
Keller officials booted Reverend Alan Bentrup from giving an invocation because he “offended” conservatives. They may have broken the law doing it.
www.friendlyatheist.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Oh look, invocations being used to enforce an ideological litmus test instead of serving any useful purpose.
This is just one of the many reasons why these performative rituals don’t belong in government meetings.
This is just one of the many reasons why these performative rituals don’t belong in government meetings.
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
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You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
December 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
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In North Carolina, a town dissolved their library board rather than accept that libraries shouldn't engage in censorship.
The sticking point was a book about a trans child. Read more on Assigned from @alyssaur.bsky.social.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
The sticking point was a book about a trans child. Read more on Assigned from @alyssaur.bsky.social.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Library Board Dissolved Over One Trans Book — Assigned
Two months after a library board of trustees voted to keep one book featuring a transgender boy, out of 20,000 books in the library’s catalogue, the board was dissolved without any replacement.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
In North Carolina, a town dissolved their library board rather than accept that libraries shouldn't engage in censorship.
The sticking point was a book about a trans child. Read more on Assigned from @alyssaur.bsky.social.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
The sticking point was a book about a trans child. Read more on Assigned from @alyssaur.bsky.social.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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[email protected] : Were you satisfied with the answers you’ve gotten so far in this classified briefing on Venezuela?
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
December 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
[email protected] : Were you satisfied with the answers you’ve gotten so far in this classified briefing on Venezuela?
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
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Behold, if you will, the...astonishing...contract from Shadow Light Press. A rolling 10-year term...payment on profit (but only after costs are recouped)...appropriation of the author's universe if they can't continue the series...and more www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Behold, if you will, the...astonishing...contract from Shadow Light Press. A rolling 10-year term...payment on profit (but only after costs are recouped)...appropriation of the author's universe if they can't continue the series...and more www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...
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This is the sort of contract that if you were entertaining signing it, your friends should smash through a window, do roll on the floor, leap up in a feral pounce and slap it out of your hands
Behold, if you will, the...astonishing...contract from Shadow Light Press. A rolling 10-year term...payment on profit (but only after costs are recouped)...appropriation of the author's universe if they can't continue the series...and more www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...
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December 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This is the sort of contract that if you were entertaining signing it, your friends should smash through a window, do roll on the floor, leap up in a feral pounce and slap it out of your hands
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Ronald Reagan, a cold man who ignored the AIDS crisis because he was a homophobe and craved the votes of other homophobes, is *not* a reminder of anything good or decent.
December 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Ronald Reagan, a cold man who ignored the AIDS crisis because he was a homophobe and craved the votes of other homophobes, is *not* a reminder of anything good or decent.
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Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.
(Published July 2024)
(Published July 2024)
School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.
(Published July 2024)
(Published July 2024)
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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16 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- TX Dept of Safety continues its efforts to police/track driver's license sex, creating a list of 100+ of its trans citizens who have or tried to update theirs to the correct gender. TDS will not say what the list is for or how it will be used. .
The state is making a list of transgender Texans. It’s using driver's licenses to help.
A year after the state blocked transgender Texans from updating their state IDs, it has collected information on more than 100 people who have tried. Officials won’t say what they’re using the list fo...
www.kut.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
16 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- TX Dept of Safety continues its efforts to police/track driver's license sex, creating a list of 100+ of its trans citizens who have or tried to update theirs to the correct gender. TDS will not say what the list is for or how it will be used. .
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Men who can't mend a hole in their pants or cook a meal from scratch will insist to me that I need to be drilled on gun safety despite not handling any because "you never know when you might need those skills, it's about being prepared to navigate life's surprises!"
December 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Men who can't mend a hole in their pants or cook a meal from scratch will insist to me that I need to be drilled on gun safety despite not handling any because "you never know when you might need those skills, it's about being prepared to navigate life's surprises!"
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Ahh so he’s just openly admitting his absolutely abysmal and transphobic views on trans people in sports are just fully made without listening to any actual facts on the issues, just shit he’s made up based on fear mongering. Cool cool. But did you know he’s the best on trans? He said so!
December 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Ahh so he’s just openly admitting his absolutely abysmal and transphobic views on trans people in sports are just fully made without listening to any actual facts on the issues, just shit he’s made up based on fear mongering. Cool cool. But did you know he’s the best on trans? He said so!
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Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
December 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Water your tree.
December 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Water your tree.
“In February of this year, Middlebury hosted two virulent transphobes, Leo Sapir and Brianna Wu, for a “discussion” about transgender healthcare.”
Fuck Middlebury and fuck anyone who went to that discussion for any reason other than to shout down those assholes’ hate and lies.
Fuck Middlebury and fuck anyone who went to that discussion for any reason other than to shout down those assholes’ hate and lies.
The death of Lia Smith shook many in the trans community to their cores, while online it seemed like the top priority of non-trans people was to insist there's no proof that the 21-year-old's ban from her beloved swim team caused her suicide.
Re-sharing as it was one of our top stories this year.
Re-sharing as it was one of our top stories this year.
Transgender Student-Athlete Lia Smith Remembered as a Friend and Fierce Advocate — Assigned
Lia Smith, a 21-year-old trans student-athlete in Vermont, took her own life last week. Her friends, family and community mourn, and remember her as a bright young woman who spoke on behalf of her com...
www.assignedmedia.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
“In February of this year, Middlebury hosted two virulent transphobes, Leo Sapir and Brianna Wu, for a “discussion” about transgender healthcare.”
Fuck Middlebury and fuck anyone who went to that discussion for any reason other than to shout down those assholes’ hate and lies.
Fuck Middlebury and fuck anyone who went to that discussion for any reason other than to shout down those assholes’ hate and lies.
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How gender critical was Nazi Germany? Let’s find out & compare some top gender critical “beliefs” with evidence from historical Nazi Germany. Each post has a GC position + a picture from a historical source or modern research paper. English translation & the source are in each picture’s alt-text.
December 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
How gender critical was Nazi Germany? Let’s find out & compare some top gender critical “beliefs” with evidence from historical Nazi Germany. Each post has a GC position + a picture from a historical source or modern research paper. English translation & the source are in each picture’s alt-text.
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Trans girls will no longer be able to join Girlguiding, organisation says
www.independent.co.u...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.independent.co.u...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Trans girls will no longer be able to join Girlguiding, organisation says
The organisation has made its policy change eight months after the Supreme Court ruling on biological sex
www.independent.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Trans girls will no longer be able to join Girlguiding, organisation says
www.independent.co.u...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.independent.co.u...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Sometimes the internet is amazing!
Did you explore any or all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt?
All pieces are available in an interactive application. Creators hope “people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
Did you explore any or all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt?
All pieces are available in an interactive application. Creators hope “people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
Interactive AIDS Quilt
The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...
www.aidsmemorial.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Sometimes the internet is amazing!
Did you explore any or all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt?
All pieces are available in an interactive application. Creators hope “people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
Did you explore any or all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt?
All pieces are available in an interactive application. Creators hope “people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."