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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 1d

Hey fam, the translator for this excellent project was one of the folks kidnapped off the flotilla trying to aid Gaza earlier this month. She's finally safe and on her way home, let's give her some good news to return to and get the project funded
ko-fi.com/africantrans...

Support African Translation Project

African Translation Project, Goal 4: Fully Fund Two Translations, by 31 October, still needed: $3370, 66%, If this goal is met: Translations will be fully funded for Bengithi Lizokuna and Zvinobvinza,...

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AK Faulkner @ NYCC @poopraven.bsky.social · 5d

It's a lovely morning on the internet and you are a horrible queer!

Drop your links to queer books! Yours, someone else's, tradpub, indie, share ALL THE QUEER BOOKS to make a fash shit themselves.

Go!!!

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Fell Hound @fellhound.bsky.social · 2d

Its been a hot minute (like, a week) since I talked about my GL motorcycle fight club drama S.I.R.!!

So just a reminder that thats a thing!! For fans of sports anime, shojo, and angsty but heartfelt girls love 🏍️⚔️

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803164...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: The First Circuit rejects Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In the New Jersey-led multistate case, the appeals court, in a 100-page ruling, keeps the nationwide scope of the injunction blocking the EO in place. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Government now asks us to reverse the preliminary
injunctions in these cases. We see no reason to do so. The
Government is right that the Framers of the Citizenship Clause
sought to remove the stain of Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 119
How.) 393 (1857), which shamefully denied United States
citizenship to "descendants of Africans who were imported into
this country, and sold as slaves," even when the descendants were born here. Id. at 403. But the Framers chose to accomplish that
just purpose in broad terms, as both the supreme Court in United
States . Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), and Congress in
passing § 1401(a) have recognized. The Government is therefore
wrong to argue that the plaintiffs are not likely to succeed in
showing that the children that the EO covers are citizens of this
country at birth, just as the Government is wrong to argue that
various limits on our remedial power independently require us to
reverse the preliminary injunctions.?

The analysis that follows is necessarily lengthy, as we
must address the parties' numerous arguments in each of the cases
involved. But the length of our analysis should not be mistaken
for a sign that the fundamental question that these cases raise
about the scope of birthright citizenship is a difficult one.
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is not, which may explain why it has been more than a century since a branch of our government has made as concerted an effort as the
Executive Branch now makes to deny Americans their birthright.

Thus, it is no surprise that, when presented with even
more uncontroverted evidence by the State-Plaintiffs about the
need for an injunction of the current breadth, the District Court
again found that a narrower injunction would leave unremedied
"administrative and financial harms." We therefore decline to
conclude that the District Court has abused its discretion in
fashioning relief. See Philip Morris, Inc. v. Harshbarger, 159
F. 3d 670, 680 (1st Cir. 1998) (explaining that "[als a general
rule, a disappointed litigant cannot surface an objection to a preliminary injunction for the first time in an appellate venue"
because doing so deprives the district court of the opportunity to
"consider [the objection] and correct the injunction if necessary,
without the need for appeal" (quoting Zenon, 711 F.2d at 478)).

The "lessons of history" thus give us every reason to be
wary of now blessing this most recent effort to break with our
established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to
make citizenship depend on the actions of one's parents rather
than -- in all but the rarest of circumstances -- the simple fact
of being born in the United States. United States v. Di Re, 332
U.S. 581, 595 (1948). Nor does the text of the Fourteenth
Amendment, which countermanded our most infamous attempt to break
with that tradition, permit us to bless this effort, any more than
does the Supreme Court's interpretation of that amendment in Wong
Kim Ark, the many related precedents that have followed it, or
Congress's 1952 statute writing that amendment's words in the U.S.
Code.
The District Court's order for entry of the preliminary
injunctions is affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded for
further consideration consistent with this decision.

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VMcClain @vmcclain.bsky.social · 6d

As soon as I posted this my kid borrowed my headphones so they could sing off key at the top of their lungs so... That backfired. 😂

VMcClain @vmcclain.bsky.social · 6d

Being a neurospicy parent with misphonia to a neurospicy kid who loves verbal stemming means that investing in fancy-ass noise cancelling headphones has been a life changer.

Holy shit these things are worth every overpriced penny.

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VMcClain @vmcclain.bsky.social · 6d

Also, thanks autocorrect for turning stimming into stemming.

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VMcClain @vmcclain.bsky.social · 6d

Cause I never want my kid to feel like they can't stim around me. But sometimes their latest stim makes me want to scream (thanks, misphonia, you're a gem), and these fancy headphones mean they can stim all they want and I can just chill in my little soundproof box.

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VMcClain @vmcclain.bsky.social · 6d

Being a neurospicy parent with misphonia to a neurospicy kid who loves verbal stemming means that investing in fancy-ass noise cancelling headphones has been a life changer.

Holy shit these things are worth every overpriced penny.

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Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · 9d

Alrght everybody, get your Tin Can Telephones out. We need your help!

We reach new people by word of mouth. Send all your educator friends this pic! Teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, etc! We offer our program for free, so we need help getting the word out without advertising $$.

A purple and red octopus talk to each other on the tin can telephone. Purple octopus says “want to connect your students with real
Scientists?” Then red octopus says “Skype a scientist matches groups with scientists for virtual q&as. It’s free!” And then an orange flapjack octopus says “get a match at skypeascientist.com”

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VMcClain @vmcclain.bsky.social · 9d

Ugh. That sounds awful

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VMcClain @vmcclain.bsky.social · 9d

Oh gods, are they doing their purely fictional "we picked up your package from customs - which we were already paid to do - so now you owe us $20 for doing our damned job" fee? Or is it something else?

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VMcClain @vmcclain.bsky.social · 9d

And if reading these reports is too much for you right now, then please consider finding local indigenous led events in your community today and tomorrow, and go engage with folks who are reaching out directly to educate and build community with us. Every little bit helps.

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VMcClain @vmcclain.bsky.social · 9d

And I am not by any means an expert or authority on what Truth and Reconciliation means, can mean, or should mean.

I'm just someone who has heard First Nations people ask us to do this work, and I am attempting to do it. And trying to share that message to encourage others to do it too.

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VMcClain @vmcclain.bsky.social · 9d

It may be easier to do this as someone who is newly Canadian, and who did not learn a history of Canada that had erased these events. (I'm originally from a country that has erased very similar and even worse events from its history classes, so I'm not throwing shade, just stating facts.)

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VMcClain @vmcclain.bsky.social · 9d

But I'm just going to accept that feeling and recognize that I would feel even sillier if I didn't read them now that I know they are there to be read.

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VMcClain @vmcclain.bsky.social · 9d

But those of us living on stolen lands who are not the descendants of the people it was stolen from should try to make the effort when we can. And now is a good time to make that effort.

I feel a bit silly for not knowing that these reports have been available to read for the past 10 years.

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VMcClain @vmcclain.bsky.social · 9d

I know we don't all have time to read these reports and I know that even if we have the time it can be difficult to summon the energy to read about more brutality in a world that is already littered with it.

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 9d

Month is almost over, but it's still a great time to pick up this book ✨️

Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · Sep 2

Looking for the perfect read for both #SapphicSeptember *and* #BiVisibilityMonth? Have I got the book for you! Check out my sapphic ace romantasy with two disaster queers raising a baby dragon. 🌈📚
books2read.com/u/bpVEQ6

The Dragon Next Door by Vanessa Ricci-Thode

Tollar's got a stolen dragon egg, and that's the least of her problems!

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VMcClain @vmcclain.bsky.social · 9d

I'm currently reading the report and I am planning to read through the calls to action as well the progress reports. In addition to wearing orange shirts tomorrow, we should all read these documents and bear witness to the truth of survivors and victims of residential schools.

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VMcClain @vmcclain.bsky.social · 9d

Tomorrow is the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation in Canada and if you're like me and didn't know you could read the full report from the Truth & Reconciliation Commission along with the 94 Calls to action then you might want to check out this page:

nctr.ca/publications...

Delivering on Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action

Government of Canada's progress in responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 94 Calls to Action.

www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 11d

Abolish ICE. Now.

www.newsweek.com/ice-detentio...

ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program: Complaint

A federal complaint accuses the warden of creating an ad hoc work program used to demean trans detainees.

www.newsweek.com

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Julia Kitvaria Sarene 📚🐉⚔️☠️ @kitvaria.bsky.social · 12d

I couldn't agree more, and you all should read this!

David Green @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social · 12d

Delighted to reveal 'Magic, Maps, and Mischief'.

This has had quite the journey to publication. Want stories about neurodivergent people finding one another in a world trying to limit them, writing *by* and autistic person.

Pre-order now: mybook.to/magicmapsand...

Cover by @lizdelton.bsky.social

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Devin Madson | Rebecca Ide @devinmadson.bsky.social · 15d

wishing all my fellow bisexuals a very visible #bivisibilityday

the most visible thing i do is write SFF about horny queers making terrible life choices, so why not check out this trilogy-starter full of shifty politics and grumpy dragons

it would be easier to count the characters who AREN’T bi🔥

Between Dragons and Their Wrath

Check out Between Dragons and Their Wrath - <B>From Aurealis Award–nominated author Devin Madson comes a new sweeping epic fantasy full of dragons, alchemical magic, and forbidden romance t...

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Dyrk Ashton @undyrk.bsky.social · 15d

SURPRISE! The Thunder Kraken (Kraken Rider Z #2) Audiobook has been released!
David Estes and I had expected it in November - but here it is! The adventures of Zee and Jessup now continue for your ears, once again voiced by the fabulous Tim Gerard Reynolds. Link in reply!
@wraithmarked.bsky.social

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