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Lawyer (not yours); Trans (not Atlantic); Stupid (not untrue).

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jessdee.bsky.social @jessdee.bsky.social · Sep 9

Transness, as it exists, is embedded in some pretty fundamental layers of material reality... How can I describe it; @foldablehuman.bsky.social put it best; you can convince someone of flat earth, but then you have to convince them that lagrange points don't exist, or like, the satellites that make

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
U.S. Code
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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samus aran enjoyer @riotlinguist.bsky.social · 2h

it's the same reason we are seeing epidemic levels of sexual violence in ICE custody. this is how patriarchal regimes work.

publicly openly sexually threatening greta is effectively an admission--a gloat, really--of what they are doing to palestinians.

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samus aran enjoyer @riotlinguist.bsky.social · 2h

i am extremely certain there are untold thousands of palestinian victims, of all genders and ages, who have been subjected to systematic mass rape by the occupying forces. untold and untellable numbers because of how many of the victims are now dead. we will never know the true number.

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samus aran enjoyer @riotlinguist.bsky.social · 2h

(> to paraphrase one of my favorite history papers by historian brooke holms.)

Greta was singled out because she is a highly visible woman, and thus needed to be highly visibly sexually humiliated as an example, as a message, as an act of bragging about their impunity and power to violate.

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samus aran enjoyer @riotlinguist.bsky.social · 2h

sexual violence is one of THE most universal and timeless technologies of oppression in all of human history. it is a foundational component of war, of genocide, of colonialism. it is an expression of the right of the invading body to consolidate power thru the fragmentation of the subjugated body >

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samus aran enjoyer @riotlinguist.bsky.social · 2h

the implication is "you are violable. you are at our mercy. you are female and in our hands and we can do whatever we want."

as she herself points out, this is extremely grim (but consistent with all other reporting) indicator of how much worse they are definitely treating palestinians.

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samus aran enjoyer @riotlinguist.bsky.social · 2h

CW: SA
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i hate to be on my usual fucking bullshit but it really needs to be said that these are rape threats.

they also stripped her and filmed her.

elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 18h

Greta Thunberg was beaten and tortured by the Israelis. They learned how to call her a whore in Swedish, and forced her to wear the Israeli flag.

The Swedish foreign ministry abandoned its citizens in Israel, and downplayed what they went through.

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Beating, kicking, and threats of being
gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla are now sharing details about their five days in Israeli captivity - and how Swedish Foreign Ministry staff left
them without help. Aftonbladet's investigation shows how the Foreign Ministry downplayed the
abuse in its communications. Her red suitcase lies in the hall. "Whore Greta"
someone has written in large black letters. Around the text: an Israeli flag and an erect
penis. The bag was confiscated by the Israeli military from the boat - and returned to her like this. She
laughs.
- They're like five-year-olds!

- They dragged me to the opposite side from where the others were sitting, and I had the flag around me the whole time. They hit and kicked me.
Greta laughs.
- Then they ripped off my frog hat, threw it on the ground, stomped and kicked it, and kind of threw a tantrum.
- They moved me very brutally to a corner that I was turned towards. 'A special place for a special lady', they said. And then they had learned 'Lilla hora' (Little whore) and 'Hora Greta' (Whore Greta) in Swedish, which they repeated all the time.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1h

Folks, Israel is not letting aid in which means Palestinians continue to have to buy fought on the black market from Israel sponsored gangs. If you can donate a little money to the fundraisers we're posting, you can keep someone alive. Palestinians wouldn't beg if they didn't have to.

UNRWA @unrwa.org · 2h

UNRWA has enough food outside #Gaza to supply people there for 3 months, amid desperate need. Our teams stand ready to deliver it.

But despite the #ceasefire, the Israeli Authorities’ block on UNRWA bringing any supplies into Gaza still continues.

Let us get aid into Gaza at the full scale needed.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 1h

Falkner writing a pissy letter to the minister going “its been six months and trannies are still legal what gives“ is quite funny tho

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 18h

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"

“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion

After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.

goodlawproject.org

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 1d

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 27m

Big part of the trouble with politics these days is that "we disagree on the right solution to this problem" and "we disagree on the material reality of what the problem is and how it functions on a fundamental level" are treated as equally legitimate

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 6h

Help the Juno, the Juno is good

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 9h

I am 375/650 on my mutual aid need. I’m so close !!! Thank you so much for sending tips

I don’t mean to be a poor and struggling artist.

I promise I won’t be soon.
My journalism and novels etc are too good for the haters to keep ignoring at levers of power.

Organic growth can’t be stopped

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SorryHat @sorryhat.bsky.social · 9h

All hell can’t stop us now.

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jessdee.bsky.social @jessdee.bsky.social · 6h

That grift can be all yours for four easy payments of €99.99.

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 1d

“Keisha and Sean became determined to fill this resource gap. They’re among a growing group of Black parents who are building a support network.”

No one was helping Black transgender youth. So these parents stepped in.

A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

19thnews.org

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jessdee.bsky.social @jessdee.bsky.social · 7h

I can't imagine having the time and energy to vet one of those things.

They're like a grab bag package deal; sometimes I wind up following people who post bad and I get to laugh at them posting some dumb bullshit. Win-win tbh. If I decided to follow you, unfollowing would be cowardice tbh.

jessdee.bsky.social @jessdee.bsky.social · 7h

Scott Steiner definitely wears chainmail during both.

jessdee.bsky.social @jessdee.bsky.social · 7h

Hell yeag; that thing has changed a few of my friends' lives.

jessdee.bsky.social @jessdee.bsky.social · 9h

It's worth underscoring that their ideology was literally "We will return our nation and people to [the imagined pre-lapsarian past glory] or we will die in the attempt."

Literally "we will do something that makes no material sense and is technically impossible or die"

Guess they'll die, then.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 10h

Someone asked what happened to the casual Nazi at the end of WWII. The people who supported the Party

The answer? Suicides and murders. If they weren’t beaten to death or shot in the streets, they killed themselves

There’s a book called Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself by Florian Huber about it.

The mass suicides by ordinary citizens in the last days of Nazi Germany
Historian Florian Huber's book examines how civilians took their own lives in greater numbers than military and government officials as the Third Reich collapsed
Soviet Army officers observe the bodies of women who committed
suicide in a Vienna park at the end of World War II.
CORDON PRESS / YEVGENY KHALDEINULL

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 11h

The Vermont state senator in the Hitler chat group is playing the, "I am but an innocent smol bean" card.

Samuel Douglass hasn't decided yet if he'll resign: www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

“My role in the group chat in question was a procedural one about bylaws and floor strategy. There were often periods of multiple days when I didn't check this group chat and I was unfortunately unaware of those comments,” Douglass said in a written statement sent to Vermont Public Wednesday afternoon. “I should've been more vigilant, more careful, and less naive about who I associate with and my digital environments.”

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 12h

Oh they mad

Aidan @aidanxitter
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A friend of mine got blackmailed into leaking these chats. A total fucking coward and a useless piece of shit
One of the people in here, he attended his wedding with me and still sold him over to the devil
All over some useless YR beef
And then the GOP condemned them
Fuck these people
The GOP treated to fire my friend and vice chairman from his AG job because of tiktoks I posted about immigration
I wasn't allowed to talk about "replacement theory" or any mainline immigration stans They asked me to resign over Trump's gr card diploma mill comments

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13h

Land of the free, home of the brave

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14h

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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