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Briar 🦝 @creekmonstrcryptid.bsky.social · 2h

I'm immune suppressed, and so I don't go to many large gatherings/protests due to my health status. I was fully masked the entire time, but I saw very very few others with them on. I did have a hope that more people would have been conscious of others but alas. 😕😓

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Briar 🦝 @creekmonstrcryptid.bsky.social · 2h

I'm immune suppressed and was wearing my mask, but I saw very very few others with them on too. I don't go to many protests/large gatherings because of my health status, and I did have a hope that more people would be conscious of others, but alas. 😕😓

#nokings #nokingsindianapolis

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15h

If you were at the No Kings events, please wear a mask for the next few days.

Covid is not over.

You can infect others before you feel symptomatic.

People are losing their healthcare. They’re losing their food assistance. They’re losing housing.

We need to protect each other.

Briar 🦝 @creekmonstrcryptid.bsky.social · 19h

#caturday

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Briar 🦝 @creekmonstrcryptid.bsky.social · 19h

My BoBo is a twinsie!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

OMG

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Briar 🦝 @creekmonstrcryptid.bsky.social · 20h

Back in 2013-2017 when I was living in PGH, friends & I did too. He was at a lot of protests/rallies, and I got to speak with him some and thought he was super rad. A lot of stuff stayed quiet or talked about as if he "got better"; folks who tried to warn about him got shouted down for far too long

Briar 🦝 @creekmonstrcryptid.bsky.social · 22h

Sharon Lee @smitty11.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings
No Kings in Indianapolis today. Photo taken from parking garage roof across from the Indiana Statehouse.

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Briar 🦝 @creekmonstrcryptid.bsky.social · 22h

My grandma lived in Angola and so I spent a lot of time there growing up, and it makes me so proud to see this ✊🏻

Briar 🦝 @creekmonstrcryptid.bsky.social · 23h

Proud of you for recognizing that things were very wrong and that something had to change for you both - that is a really hard thing to do when you've been so immersed in that type of culture!

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Briar 🦝 @creekmonstrcryptid.bsky.social · 23h

I'm so proud of our turnout here! I can't wait to see the estimated final count

Briar 🦝 @creekmonstrcryptid.bsky.social · 1d

I was out with my 81 year old (chosen family) grandma! She was an *absolute* trooper who's been out fighting since the 60's. 💜

Briar 🦝 @creekmonstrcryptid.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings #NoTyrants #NoDictators #NoKingsIndianapolis #TransRights

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Don't engage. Just block. They want to push their rage bait on here. Don't give them the satisfaction.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

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Briar 🦝 @creekmonstrcryptid.bsky.social · 1d

I swear to god y'all just block the white house, HHS, DHS, department of war, department of state, department of the interior, department of transportation, etc on bluesky. Remember the early internet - don't feed the trolls and they'll probably get bored.

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Politico @politico.com · 5d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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Briar 🦝 @creekmonstrcryptid.bsky.social · 5d

"Intolerant leftists preparing to persecute others for having different opinions, 1944"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Briar 🦝 @creekmonstrcryptid.bsky.social · 22d

#caturday

NOTICE ME

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Briar 🦝 @creekmonstrcryptid.bsky.social · 22d

It's wild just trying to like, balance and live a little personal life while being terrified all the time about being trans, autistic, schizo, disabled... (and for everyone else too).

But fuck them. The fascists want to see us be bowed, be in hiding, and not show ourselves, and just fuck them.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 23d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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Briar 🦝 @creekmonstrcryptid.bsky.social · 23d

RFK to UN: We cannot accept language that pushes destructive gender ideology. Neither can we accept claims of a constitutional or international right to abortion."

There is no mention of reproductive rights or gender in the declaration except in reference to specific challenges facing women.

Screenshot of the title and abstract of an article from The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/sep/26/us-refuses-to-support-un-health-declaration-on-noncommunicable-diseases)

US refuses to support UN health declaration on noncommunicable diseases

General assembly backs new targets on cancer, diabetes and heart disease, but Robert F Kennedy Jr objected over abortion and gender ideology

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Briar 🦝 @creekmonstrcryptid.bsky.social · 24d

Really, really enjoyed this article from my state's independent news. Compassionate, expansive on the complexity and diversity of autism in terms of potential causes and our behaviors, they spoke with *actual* experts, and combatted misinformation and outright lies. Thank you, Capital Chronicle! 💜

Indiana Capital Chronicle @indianacapitalchronicle.com · 24d

Trump and RFK Jr. are making claims about autism. What do medical experts say?

Trump and RFK Jr. are making claims about autism. What do medical experts say? • Indiana Capital Chronicle

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stirred controversy about a report revealing the causes of autism by the end of September.

indianacapitalchronicle.com

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Briar 🦝 @creekmonstrcryptid.bsky.social · 24d

You spoke with *actual* experts, elucidated the diversity and complexity of the spectrum in both potential causes and behaviors, and even highlighted that many of us feel that our communication is different, but not "worse" than how NT people typically communicate. I really appreciate this!

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Briar 🦝 @creekmonstrcryptid.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you for writing such a compassionate and expansive article on this. I'm autistic, and I always get a pang of anxiety when I read a news article about us and the entire neurodivergent community. Even if it starts out in a good way, I wait for the other shoe to drop.

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