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Rebel Moon [They/Xi]

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Fired Federal IC Contractor Queer/Trans 💙🤍🩷🩷💛💙 Gender expansive Feminist ND Weird Disabled Navy Veteran Green witch DEI rebel Conjuring change with glitter, grit, and a touch of professional revenge.

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Rebel Moon [They/Xi] @xy-moon.bsky.social · Apr 28

Thank you, @marisakabas.bsky.social, for helping us tell our story. Today starts my 3rd month of unemployment for daring to be trans/non-binary in federal spaces.
@cnn.com @apnews.com @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @wusa9.com.web.brid.gy @metroweekly.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Apr 28

NEW—In late Feb, Chris Rufo published leaked chats between queer/trans employees at US intel agencies. Then Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said she’d fire all involved.

I spoke to chat members who were fired, are on admin leave, and who kept their jobs about the new lavender scare:

Queer intel officers targeted by top secret chat leak get their chance to speak

Chris Rufo published the chats. Staffers say a new "lavender scare" is upon us.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 6d

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Sparkle @serenesparkle.bsky.social · 7d

GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA CONFIRMS the Israeli naval forces illegally intercepted and boarded the GSF’s vessel Sirius along with other boats in international waters.

38 PEOPLE from 16 COUNTRIES KIDNAPPED.

MAKE NOISE

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 7d

This is not a fight about tax credits.

This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin.

We have the chance to protect the health care of millions of Americans. We need to take it.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Rebel Moon [They/Xi] @xy-moon.bsky.social · 21d

Checks out, I am in fact humxn, thus I must have rights

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21d

Trans rights are human rights.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21d

They're openly saying they want to sacrifice LGBTQ people and the planet to appease fascists. This is not only a losing strategy, this is morally repugnant.

Every single one of these people should be ashamed, but we know they won't because they are amoral sociopaths.

"News article titled A New Democratic Think Tank Wants to Curb the Influence of Liberal Groups, published September 17, 2025, in The New York Times by Reid J. Epstein. The article explains that the Searchlight Institute, led by Adam Jentleson, aims to persuade Democrats to play down issues like climate change and LGBTQ rights to appeal to more voters. A color photo beneath shows five people standing outdoors: Cam Thompson, Charlotte Swasey, Adam Jentleson (center), Tré Easton, and Danielle Deiseroth."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22d

You can tell the right believes she's actually a woman because they're blaming her for the actions of a man.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 22d

it's kind of funny that they keep doing stuff like this because like ... we have the Internet. this type of censorship just like doesn't really work anymore (which is exactly why authoritarians are so hellbent on gutting Section 230, passing "protect the kids" censorship bills, online ID checks etc)

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22d

The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

www.404media.co

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22d

The president of the American Soybean Association is constantly on TV these days asking for a bailout and to answer two questions on your mind (1) yes, he's on record as voting for Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (2) yes his family has owned that Kentucky farm since before the Civil War. 🧐

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Paul Rieckhoff @rieckhoff.bsky.social · 22d

Dan is getting after it. And winning.🐺🇺🇸

Dan Osborn @osbornforne.bsky.social · 22d

🚨NEW POLL ALERT!🚨

We are WINNING!!!

Despite my billionaire opponent already spending $1.6 MILLION against me, it looks like people power is winning.

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 23d

They had kids, too.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 23d

WHAT THE HELL

Karen,
I am writing to inform you that The Post is terminating your employment effective
immediately for gross misconduct. Your public comments on social media regarding the
death of Charlie Kirk violate The Post’s social media policies, harm the integrity of our
organization, and potentially endanger the physical safety of our staff.
Among other requirements, the Company-wide social media policy mandates that all
employee social media postings be respectful and prohibits postings that disparage people
based on their race, gender or other protected characteristics. The policy also reminds
employees that everything they post is a reflection on the Company and should not affect
the integrity of The Post’s journalism. Your postings on Bluesky (which clearly identifies you
as a Post Columnist) about white men in response to the killing of Charlie Kirk do not
comply with our policy. For example, you posted: “Refusing to tear my clothes and smear
ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence is….
not the same as violence” and “Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that
people perform care, empty goodness and absolution for white men who espouse hatred
and violence.”
In addition, just last year, Opinions leadership asked everyone in the Opinions Department
to review the newsroom social media guidelines, attached those guidelines to an email to
the Department for review, and reiterated in that email the “bedrock principle that our use
of social media must never harm the journalistic integrity or reputation of The Post”.
The poor judgment exhibited by your public comments regarding Charlie Kirk arise against
the backdrop of documented performance concerns, which have been raised with you.
Given these concerns, and in light of your recent unacceptable Bluesky posts, we cannot
tolerate the risk your performance poses to The Post

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Rebel Moon [They/Xi] @xy-moon.bsky.social · 24d

I am dumbfounded that we've allowed people who cry about their infringed rights to continue to remove the rights of me and millions others to exist.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24d

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Rebel Moon [They/Xi] @xy-moon.bsky.social · 24d

Please, Pete, remember this when you continue to align with the right on anti-trans rhetoric. They are painting us as terrorist, when I and many other dedicated our lives to protecting and defending our constitution.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 27d

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible

The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention, knowing that o...

theonion.com

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Rebel Moon [They/Xi] @xy-moon.bsky.social · 26d

There wasn't evidence that justified the suspension of my clearance and removal from my IC contracting job either. Just identified as trans, that was enough.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27d

Big sigh. Watch this.

Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting?

No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.

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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · Aug 28

Massive walkout underway at CDC.

RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · Aug 25

Truth Art! #arresttrump #art

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Aug 22

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.

As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

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CNN @cnn.com · Aug 20

Target CEO Brian Cornell is stepping down after 11 years at the retailer, as the company faces slumping sales and backlash to its retreat on DEI. cnn.it/3UCqycs

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Aug 19

1. We have normalized having a toddler in the White House who uses random " marks ("HOTTEST"?). How is any of the below normal? How are we okay with this?
2. We have a president who doesn't want us to cover, in our museums "how bad Slavery was". Was it not bad? Imagine if Reagan had said this? FFS

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ACLU @aclu.org · Aug 19

BREAKING: A federal court ruled that Mississippi’s Supreme Court district lines must be redrawn to ensure Black people in the state don't have their voting power diluted.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Aug 19

Do you have access to the EPSTEIN Files? Want to be inducted into the Whistleblower's Hall of Fame, be glorified in history as the Savior of Democracy & have an annual holiday named in your honor?
All of this can be yours if you simply: #LeakTheEPSTEIN-Files!*

*victim's names redacted, of course

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