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Reconstructionism or National divorce. @georgiademocrat.bsky.social State Committee Member for Columbus-Muscogee County. California native. https://blackgaynerd.com #gapol

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Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 19d

I hate that it has come to this, but my biomom has been partly paralyzed due to gallbladder issues sustained throughout much of this year. She’s recovered several vital functions (speaking, eating solid food, breathing on her own), but her limbs remain incapacitated. Please help if you can.

Donate to Help Our Mom, Wanda, Recover After a Tramatic Medical Crisis, organized by Cedrica Dean

Hi, my name is Cedrica Dean, and I’m creating this GoFundMe w… Cedrica Dean needs your support for Help Our Mom, Wanda, Recover After a Tramatic Medical Crisis

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Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 1h

AB 260 seems like a path for the California LGBTQ Legislative Caucus to pursue for safeguarding HRT and PrEP access and telehealth next session.

Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 1h

Like seriously, is there a second option to requiring stockpiling of medication?

Apparently Newsom only started an emergency stockpile of misoprostol by executive order, but the furthest he’s statutorily gone on abortion meds is to allow prescriber information to be removed via AB 260.

Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 1d

Mixed bag on health access:

Signed:
AB1487 - Two-Spirit health grants
SB278, SB504 - Authorizes limited data sharing to improve access to HIV care

Vetoed:
AB554 - Expands access to PrEP
SB418 - Authorizes 12 month supply of hormones

Both vetoes' reason was the rising cost of health insurance 3/

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 2h

I am flying Freddy Mamani to the US to build townhomes & apartments

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 21h

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 8h

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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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 5h

Hot headline of the day, right? Sure!

wesin-🎃a spooky version of 🎃-japan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 6h

Oh wow, Young Republicans are racist?! Huh, wow

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Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 3h

What a sad life. Damn.

Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 4h

D’Angelo www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/dang...

D'Angelo - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This is a sad story. The non-prolific but brilliant R&B titan has died at the too-much-fucking-perspective age of 51: D’Angelo, the groundbreaking R&B artist who helped define the neo-soul movement ac...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 4h

RESULTS: voters in Oklahoma City have passed all 11 ballot measures that make up this package—unlocking $2.7 billion across hundreds of projects. All measures up by gigantic margins.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 5h

A set of elections to watch today: Oklahoma City residents are deciding whether to finance $2.7 billion in projects and services, a big chunk to street projects but also large pots for other purposes like funding parks.

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 4h

Seems like a particularly good time to support — with your membership — independent organizations like @consumerreports.org

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 13h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 4h

Chuds like to talk about American cities not being real America but I think we can all agree that the fakest places in America are towns in the exurban fringe.

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Dark Bedroom Enjoyer 7’4” 520 lb @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 5h

The cases will almost certainly get removed to federal court (and then dismissed) but in the spirit of Trump, the process is the punishment. Every minute you make ICE officers defend themselves against these lawsuits is a minute they’re not kidnapping people.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 10h

It's remarkable how many people have forgotten who their audience is

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 10h

Dr. Phil went full MAGA and tried to reinvent himself as a MAGA media mogul and culture warrior. Now his world is unraveling, his media company is laying off thousands and had to file for bankruptcy, and he's being sued for fraud. The whole plan is collapsing.

www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

www.rawstory.com

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Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 10h

And Young Dems in Georgia go up to 40.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 11h

Alex Pareene, 2017: "This is the state of the GOP leadership pipeline. In a decade, state legislatures will start filling up with Gamergaters, MRAs, /pol/ posters, Anime Nazis, and Proud Boys."

www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 11h

Feels like especially amongst young people the vibe has shifted hard against gender exploration and towards strict gender roles, with some people retreating to the closet. This is a worrying indicator of an increasingly reactionary and bigoted culture, not proof that non-binary is fake.

onion person @junlper.beer · 11h

people are acting like this is a study talking about all trans people but it’s just about nonbinary people which makes sense that this is lower, 9 out of 10 nonbinary people i’ve ever met have now transitioned lol

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

a couple of people have criticized this "but what if you do bad things with all that power" but like. look around you. the right has already grasped the power at hand and is using it. "republicans use the state to advance their goals; democrats unilaterally disarm" is not a sustainable equilibrium!

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 13h

Absolute legend. So many iconic works that are burned into my brain forever.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 13h

Drew Struzan, the great Hollywood illustrator, master of the airbrush and font of cinematic magic, has died. AI could fcking never.

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Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 13h

This is the way.

Gov. Newsom’s gerrymander gambit: Why California needs proportional representation

Let’s stop drawing lines to win. Let’s start designing systems to represent.

www.ocregister.com

Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 15h

The DNC, like the NDP, is a member party of the Progressive Alliance, a political international. I wonder how much that can be milked, or if it would be more effective if multiple Dem-branded entities (state parties, joint campaign committees) joined as part of the US delegation.

Progressive Alliance - Wikipedia

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 16h

U.S. citizens Adnaan & Tor Musto endured beatings & harsh treatment for 6 days in a notorious Israeli prison after being captured from the Global Sumud Flotilla. James Baratta talks to them & their family about how the State Department did nothing during their capture.

Democratic Senators Probe ‘Apparent Neglect’ of Detained Flotilla Activists

It took the State Department four days to assess the well-being of American citizens apprehended by Israel for participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla.

prospect.org

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Eli @elium2.com · 16h

This is an utterly disgusting statement. Three justices accuse schools of “involvement in and influence on” students’ “choices” of gender identity.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 16h

Alito, joined by Thomas and Gorsuch, suggest that public schools violate the Constitution when they help a student transition (by acknowledging them as trans) without their parents' knowledge or consent.

Would force schools to out trans kids to their parents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
JONATHAN LEE, ET AL. v. POUDRE
SCHOOL DISTRICT R–1
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED
STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT
No. 25–89. Decided October 14, 2025
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
Statement of JUSTICE ALITO, with whom JUSTICE
THOMAS and JUSTICE GORSUCH join, respecting the denial
of certiorari.
I concur in the denial of certiorari because petitioners do
not challenge the ground for the ruling below. But I remain
concerned that some federal courts are “tempt[ed]” to avoid
confronting a “particularly contentious constitutional questio[n]”: whether a school district violates parents’ fundamental rights “when, without parental knowledge or consent, it encourages a student to transition to a new gender
or assists in that process.” Parents Protecting Our Children, UA v. Eau Claire Area School Dist., 604 U. S. ___,
___–___ (2024) (ALITO, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari) (slip op., at 1–2) (citing Troxel v. Granville, 530 U. S.
57, 70 (2000) (plurality opinion)). Petitioners tell us that
nearly 6,000 public schools have policies—as respondent allegedly does—that purposefully interfere with parents’ access to critical information about their children’s genderidentity choices and school personnel’s involvement in and
influence on those choices. Pet. for Cert. 24. The troubling—and tragic—allegations in this case underscore the
“great and growing national importance” of the question
that these parent petitioners present. Parents Protecting
Our Children, 604 U. S., at ___ (slip op., at 1).

Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 23h

Single-winner districts, even minority-majority, were never a good idea for legislative bodies. The Democratic Party collective must leave them behind. Time to aggressively fight for proportional representation.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 6d

FUCK THE YANKEES!

Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · Jul 22

True meaning of Transness

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

if global rightwing authoritarianism is doing a hybrid war against you, at the very least you also have to respond with hybrid war.

Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 1d

liberals are engaged in a global struggle for the survival of liberalism, one that transcends national borders, and if we retake control of the strongest military on earth it is our moral responsibility to use it for the good of liberalism

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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 1d

Remember Prop 36? Which promised to "help everyone come indoors" through longer prison sentences and drug treatments?

Guess how many people completed the drug treatment in the first 6 months!

Did you guess... 25?

calmatters.org/justice/2025...

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 1d

It’s even worse. It’s reversing 400 years of Anglo-American constitutional development going back to Charles I’s personal rule when he refused to consult Parliament over spending and governance. Trump and his GOP lackeys are undoing stuff the Founders saw as fundamental to our system.

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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