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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 14h

this is one of the best campaign ads i’ve seen in years 🔥🔥🔥🔥 love that it focused on the material improvements your campaign is focused on!

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 6h

Does anyone else spend time thinking about horrific in-universe explanations for animated comedies where the characters, especially the kids, never age and yet time clearly passes like multiple summer vacations or Christmas’ happening?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17h

This shit just sucks. It's the worst watching incredibly hard working and talented journalists lose their jobs because their work makes the white supremacists in power uncomfortable while billionaire oligarch sycophants like Bari Weiss get 9 figure paydays and fail upwards. This is unsustainable.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17h

This is worse than just axing these verticals. They are eliminating the teams behind them but will push stories under these verticals by newsroom staff without the expertise or background to properly report. So we'll have NBC OUT stories reported by non-LGBTQ staff w/ no experience in the subject.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17h

It's the worst thing watching resegregation happen in real time to please a bunch of white supremacist nazis in power.

www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17h

JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer."

JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19h

I can't stress enough how young staffers working for Republicans are basically all groyper Nazis now. The leaked texts yesterday saying "I love Hitler" and now swastikas on congressional offices.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18h

This is Chicago, armed fascist thugs pointing guns at unarmed US citizens.

Photo by Anthony Vazquez at the Chicago Sun-Times.

Armed officers in military-style gear confront a group of civilians during a tense outdoor standoff; one officer points a rifle at a young man who raises his hands defensively while others shout in the background, with trees and houses visible behind them.

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Ashbasher22 Art; Animation Fan 🌈🍉🇺🇦 @ashbasher22nerd.bsky.social · 17h

I agree with this, it's spot on.

The felon is cognitively declining and is unable to recognise AI from reality, so distant from reality.

I think he's an evil ghoul, I think he may not last long on his planet.

Because if you know someone who had dementia, you would know.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18h

You have to wonder if White House staffers are simply showing him AI videos at this point and he thinks it's reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "The people of Chicago are walking around with MAGA hats. You have women, beautiful Black women, walking around with MAGA hats. 'Please let the president in and we don't care how he does it ... bring in the Marines.'"

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 3d

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Caio Almendra @caioalmendra.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: Cuba has free trans healthcare, including surgeries, for 17 years now.

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 2d

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
X.com
Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

Trans people have been warning about these people for *years*

Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 2d

This is a huge story but massively under the radar in the UK.

A US Christian legal org called the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is working to roll back abortion rights here using the same playbook it used in the US: briefing politicians, watching, waiting.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 1d

ANNOUNCEMENT
This evening, 14/10/25 the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network have taken the next step in the struggle to restore the human rights, dignity & safety of UK trans people.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23h

A Bronx family lived without utilities for over 6 weeks after they were shut off without explanation.

The landlord, despite receiving severe violation notices, didn't fix the problem.

HPD couldn’t turn the utilities back on, so it issued the family a vacate order.

These Bronx Tenants Lived Six Weeks Without Water and Power. The City’s Fix? A Vacate Order

The plight of the Ramos family reveals the weaknesses in the City's system to protect tenants from unlivable conditions—and from being put out on the street.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

This morning in Astoria — alongside State Senate Education Chair John Liu, City Council Education Chair Rita Joseph, and UFT VP Mary Vacaro — we released “Community to Classroom,” a new citywide teacher recruitment initiative.

Zohran at a podium in a park. Behind him are State Sen. John Liu, Councilmember Rita Joseph, and UFT VP Mary Vacaro.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

We’re kicking the politics of the past aside and scoring a new generation of leadership — and we want you on our team.

Join us for The Cost of Living Classic, a free citywide soccer tournament in Coney Island this Sunday, co-hosted by NYC Footy.

Details + register at zohranfornyc.com/colclassic ⚽

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20h

CUNY is the nation’s largest urban public university system and an engine of social mobility for the city's working class.

But like so many of our public institutions, Andrew Cuomo subject it to years of disinvestment and neglect as Governor. That record cannot be forgotten.

Cuomo’s controversial CUNY record resurfaces as affordability concerns dominate mayor’s race

Advocates, union leaders and lawmakers have criticized his previous push to cut state aid.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

8. A Fenway spokesperson would not comment on the record beyond their existing statement, but they did refer Erin in the Morning to a memo from the HRSA. That agency cites the debunked, anti-trans screed published by the Department of Health and Human Services in May/

Fact Check: Trump's HHS Review On Trans Care Filled With Pseudoscience, Pushes Conversion Therapy

The review, which was made possible by an executive order calling transgender healthcare "mutilation," reached its predetermined conclusion on its May 1st publication date.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

7. “They have provided no actual changes in federal regulations that would require them to do so and are not being truthful about why they are ceasing care,” one legal expert said. “This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve."

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

6. Fenway is the latest domino to fall as trans-affirming clinics around the country enact restrictions, and states begin to take aim at adult care, too. Like Fenway, many clinics are citing federal or state guidelines. But there is no federal law banning gender-affirming care for trans people.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

3. Gretchen, a Massachusetts mother to a trans teen who has been receiving health care at Fenway, told Erin in the Morning she was shocked when they learned about the end of the program. She requested her full name be withheld due to privacy concerns about her family’s medical care.

Gretchen, a Massachusetts mother to a trans teen who has been receiving health care at Fenway, told Erin in the Morning she was shocked when they learned about the end of the program. She requested her full name be withheld due to privacy concerns about her family’s medical care.

“We were devastated—we don’t have a back up plan,” Gretchen said. “The biggest blow for me is that we live in a very blue state with a governor who is very understanding of these issues. I was shocked that, in our blue bubble, this came to pass.”

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

2. This means even 18-year-olds—legal adults—will be impacted by the restrictions. Those under the cut-off will no longer be able to access these evidence-based best practices in care for transgender young people

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

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Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

I was on the board of Fenway and I warned the then CEO in 2023 that this would happen. This was cowardly capitulation sacrificing trans youth.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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