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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 2m

I have normal coping mechanisms

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 2m

name a more iconic duo than girlkissing/brainfixing

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 26m

white woman talking down to poor and POC trans people about how we NEED capitalism to be transgendered

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 1h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 7h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 31m

lol I wonder what the STAR ladies would've thought about this

Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, who today we consider the founding leaders of the trans liberation movement, identified as "queens" and named their organization the "Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries." Trans liberation *must* be an inclusive movement.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 35m

turns out this headline was right after all, just not the way we had expected 😭😭😭

Revealed: women will be having more sex with ROBOTS than men by 2025

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1h

as someone who makes polls you're evil wtf 😭

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1h

a lot of the rich white queers out here who prop up Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P Johnson, etc. constantly treat trans POC activists the exact same way white gay treated the STAR women.

don't trust people's words, watch their actions! now is the most important time to have solidarity and be anti-racist.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 4h

she is a wannabe McBride imo lol

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 4h

*counting influential trans people not regular people on there for memes or whatever

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 4h

every single trans person who exiles themselves to only using twitter goes insane very quickly

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 5h

*clears throat*

RHETORIC: (FAILED) Diabetic children are the oppressive bourgeois class because they rely on insulin and exploit the labor of hard working capitalists for their bourgeois hormone injections.

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 7h

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 5h

what do you mean not all trans people are rich white women exactly like me???

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 13h

Transsexualism is bourgeois, which is why most of the Western girls I know are crowdfunding their healthcare costs to get it overseas

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 13h

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
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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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Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 13h

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 19h

Worker action can have impacts as well, as we saw with Microsoft finally cutting some ties with Israel after worker outrage and activism.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 19h

I have seen this myself in my time working at various companies. Leadership will always take revenue from even the most unsavory of sources, even ones they claim to disagree with. They find ways to justify it, telling workers their jobs depend on the revenue. The only stop to it is mass boycott.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 19h

A lot of people wonder how companies like IBM, Ford, Coca Cola, and General Electric got away with supporting Nazi Germany in their genocidal war.

This is how. Companies have always taken profits, wherever it comes from, no matter what atrocities they are enabling. Fascism is built on corporations.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 21h

He also vetoed two of the most important bills for trans medical access! It's not all reasonable. bsky.app/profile/did:...

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

Newsom vetoes both the PreP access and the HRT stockpile bill because he is worried it would increase healthcare costs...

He claims to support the aims of these bills. But the vetoes deny access to medical care for queer people.

(Context: He vetoed these 2 while signing 8 other queer rights bills)

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 1d

He also signed SB 590, which bolsters paid family leave.

Read his veto messages here:

www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 21h

Well Newsom does his part to contribute to at least two of those.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 21h

bsky.app/profile/mady...

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 22h

No bills have been veto overridden since 1979, and I've already been told by one source that they don't expect that to happen to any bills this year either.

That said, you should definitely express your discontent to your CA representatives. They can also refile the bill next year with changes.

BumboJumbo @bumbojumbo666.bsky.social · 22h

Wait if this had so much bipartisan support, is there a chance for a veto override? I'm not familiar with CA politics.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 21h

Notably missing here is Trump's war on trans people.

Trump can't go ten seconds without mentioning trans people, usually in the same breath as his immigrant hate.

Newsom very clearly still does not understand what is happening, at all.

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 1d

Donald Trump is a wartime president.

War on women.
War on voting rights.
War on Latinos.
War on California.
War on institutions.
War on history.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 22h

No bills have been veto overridden since 1979, and I've already been told by one source that they don't expect that to happen to any bills this year either.

That said, you should definitely express your discontent to your CA representatives. They can also refile the bill next year with changes.

BumboJumbo @bumbojumbo666.bsky.social · 22h

Wait if this had so much bipartisan support, is there a chance for a veto override? I'm not familiar with CA politics.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 22h

it takes time! I'm sure you'll figure it out :)

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 22h

AB 554, which Newsom vetoed and would've protected access to PreP, was so uncontroversial that *every Republican but one* voted for the bill across both houses! Republicans who voted no on the suicide hotline bill, btw.

This is purely a decision made to protect health insurance companies.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

Newsom vetoes both the PreP access and the HRT stockpile bill because he is worried it would increase healthcare costs...

He claims to support the aims of these bills. But the vetoes deny access to medical care for queer people.

(Context: He vetoed these 2 while signing 8 other queer rights bills)

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 1d

He also signed SB 590, which bolsters paid family leave.

Read his veto messages here:

www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

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