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MelodyMP @melodymp.bsky.social · 46m

This this this for trans kids too.

Bridget⸆⸉ 🏳️‍🌈 🛼🫶🪩💘🛵 @bridgeo.bsky.social · 9h

No amount of conversion therapy can make your kid not gay. Just like it can't make a black person white. These things can't be changed. If conversion therapy seems to work, it's because for their own safety, your kid started lying to you about who they are to stop you from torturing them.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 1h

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

COWARDS!!!!!!!!!!!

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 3h

The flotilla carrying Jewish Currents reporter Emily Wilder has been captured by the Israeli military. Please contact Emily's senators and representatives—Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, and Jimmy Gomez—and urge them to advocate for her safe release from Israeli detention

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 39m

This is the President not only purporting to arrogate unto himself the ability to “take away free speech rights,” but also to do so for speech because it “aggravates and irritates.”

The bottom line is these people running our country are literally foreigners to the concept of democracy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 36m

Who the Trump regime considers Antifa: "anti-capitalism..., extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality." So, socialists, immigrants, trans people, queer people, and pretty much anyone who ever voted Dem.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 51m

This just means everyone. This is what the executive orders designating all opposition to Trump or white nationalism as "terrorism" were about. Everyone is a target. And no, sacrificing trans people won't save you.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 57m

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Karoli @karoli.bsky.social · 35m

See how he always calls Black Dems "low IQ"?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 39m

Trump: "They've had hundreds of people shot and then a guy like Pritzker or this low IQ mayor gets up -- the people are all against him. Beautiful Black women are wearing a MAGA hat last night on TV. And they said, 'We don't care who comes, just stop the crime.' They don't care if it's military."

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 1h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Zoe🏳️‍⚧️the Smutress @zoethesmuttress.bsky.social · 24m

Dumb brutes do not do 'nuance.'

Zoe🏳️‍⚧️the Smutress @zoethesmuttress.bsky.social · 26m

@govpritzker.illinois.gov So why aren't you ordering IL LEOs and National Guards to protect those kids from ICE Gestapo? Protect people from having their doors kicked in, their homes destroyed, by ICE Gestapo who don't have any legal right to be there? Protect protestors from being shot in the face?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Zoe🏳️‍⚧️the Smutress @zoethesmuttress.bsky.social · 28m

Meeting the moment would be ordering state LEO and National Guard to DEFEND Illinoians against illegal assaults and black-bagging by Trump's ICE Gestapo.

This is. . . 80% of that.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17h

According to hacked emails obtained by @dropsitenews.com, 'journalist' Douglas Murray was allegedly writing secret draft speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN while also pretending to be an independent 'journalist'.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 11h

The most GC thing ever, we want to discuss how dangerous and evil trans people and how we must remove them from society but don’t you dare criticise us or call us terfs that’s mean.

Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 12h

"The panel claimed that others had “silenced” the debate previously and those with gender critical views had not been able to discuss them without being criticised."

Gender critics whine about being criticised.

It's not about the conversation, at all, is it?

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 22h

“It wasn’t really a debate; it was curated hatred. There were no voices from trans people on stage”

“It’s not just trans people, it’s immigrants, it’s asylum seekers, it looks like they’re going through a list of the most vulnerable people and blaming them for the problems of the world.” 😖

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Bodie A. Ashton @manwithoutatan.bsky.social · 16h

“Transgender issues are not the hill to die on” is an easy thing to say if you’re a person apparently happy for trans people to die, on a hill or otherwise.

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 11h

I don't understand why I see things so differently. I see a health insurance industry that thinks it's entitled to charge people 1/3rd of their income for healthcare. That industry shouldn't be "fixed." It should be burned to the ground and its ashes pissed on.

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 11h

I think it is bad that we have someone who is effectively an agent of a fascist foreign government as Prime Minister. It kind of feels like something that shouldn't be allowed.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 12h

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 12h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 12h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 11h

standing in opposition to israel is not antisemitic. i don't fucking care what keir starmer says. he can fuck off forever.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 11h

i hate keir starmer more than i've ever hated any politician. he's so very clearly acting solely on behalf of israel. he's essentially a foreign agent at this point. i do not trust anything he fucking says or does.

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 11h

Israel is not a Jewish state. It's a genocidal colonial enterprise laundering its bloodthirst through religion

HonestReporting @honestreporting.com · 11h

Since when was a call to arms for Palestinians to take over all of Israel, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, a "political slogan," @the-independent.com?

That's not political sloganerring, that's inciting for the violent destruction of the Jewish state.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/palestine-protest-london-starmer-police-b2841254.html

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calizaybak.bsky.social @calizaybak.bsky.social · 11h

A conservative thing has always been “If I don’t see the value of a thing then it cannot have any and I will not learn if there is” and why they so easily slip into fascism as that is the natural path.

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 12h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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an arch on @anarchonbury.bsky.social · 1d

Today my doctor told me it will be at least another six months until I can get the surgery on the NHS.

I am not exaggerating: I will be homeless and probably dead long before then. My situation is completely dire.

an arch on @anarchonbury.bsky.social · 14d

I've been quiet for a while. It's been due to a number of factors, the most prominent of which is poor health.

I need surgery, and I'm stuck in limbo. Please help.

www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Help raise £6500 to help cure James' disease. – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to help cure James' disease.. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

www.justgiving.com

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 19h

I really think this is why the subway looms so large in the conservative American mind. Because 99% of the time it is proof that the American experiment in diversity triumphs, as long as paranoid white people aren’t there

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 11h

Is "Labour" going to imprison half the population to protect the delicate fee-fees of a genocidal regime?

Apparently yes.

Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 11h

Keir Starmer will do absolutely everything except fulfil his legal obligation to prevent genocide.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/gove...

Government could crack down on chants at pro-Palestine protests, warns Starmer

The Government could launch a crackdown on some of the chants used at pro-Palestine protests, Sir Keir Starmer has said.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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