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Máel Sheridan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @maelsheridan.bsky.social · 10h

WOW!

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Máel Sheridan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @maelsheridan.bsky.social · 12h

I can’t describe with anything resembling accuracy my disdain for this creature. 🤬

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Máel Sheridan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @maelsheridan.bsky.social · 12h

F’in ass.

Máel Sheridan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @maelsheridan.bsky.social · 22h

A legend. RIP, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy.

Miss Major, trailblazing US trans rights activist and Stonewall veteran, dies aged 78

Longtime organizer and founder of House of gg earned reputation as champion for liberation of Black trans women

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Máel Sheridan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @maelsheridan.bsky.social · 23h

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Máel Sheridan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @maelsheridan.bsky.social · 1d

Funny. I thought they had done him a favor with the hair. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Máel Sheridan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @maelsheridan.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for making me chuckle aloud!

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Máel Sheridan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @maelsheridan.bsky.social · 2d

WTF?

“….black culture….evil, murderous, violent, bestial people; they steal, they kill, they destroy, they look like Satan in how they act, they are sinful to the core, they have besetting sins that are like fatherlessness, sexual immorality, they molest children at a high rate.“

Brian Sauvé Calls For Rebellious Young Black Men To Be Killed By The State

Christian nationalist pastor Brian Sauvé says those who participate in "black culture" are not welcome in his church and calls for "rebellious" young Black men to be executed by the state, in accordan...

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Máel Sheridan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @maelsheridan.bsky.social · 3d

Came here to say exactly that.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3d

This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.

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Máel Sheridan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @maelsheridan.bsky.social · 5d

“Today we’re signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatar Emiri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho,” Hegseth told reporters. “It’s just another example of our partnership.” Hegseth said that the facility would host a contingent of Qatari F-15s and pilots.

#Stunned

Qatari Air Force Facility to Be Built in Idaho: Hegseth

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that the facility will host a contingent of Qatari F-15s and pilots.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6d

If this stuff would end up on the news it would absolutely motivate voters. Plenty of people who don't give a shit about politics would absolutely give af about this.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

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Máel Sheridan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @maelsheridan.bsky.social · 6d

“A[n] expert on antifa tried to flee the US with his family on Wed. night in the wake of death threats…when Mark Bray, got to the gate…after getting the family’s boarding passes, checking their bags and going though security, he was told by the airline that “the reservation was just canceled.”

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

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Máel Sheridan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @maelsheridan.bsky.social · 6d

“A Rutgers University expert on antifa was fleeing the United States with his family on Wednesday in the wake of death threats that followed President Trump’s push to characterize the left-wing antifascist movement as a domestic terrorist organization.”

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Receiving Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

Máel Sheridan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @maelsheridan.bsky.social · 8d

I missed this one. “FBI Director Kash Patel has fired a longtime bureau employee who displayed a Pride flag in his workspace during a past assignment, according to multiple people familiar with the termination.”
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FBI fires agent trainee who displayed Pride flag, sources say | CNN Politics

FBI Director Kash Patel has fired a longtime bureau employee who displayed a Pride flag in his workspace during a past assignment, according to multiple people familiar with the termination.

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Máel Sheridan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @maelsheridan.bsky.social · 10d

Maybe a little off point but what the **** are 42, 43, 44, and 46 doing to stop the erosion of constitutional rights and the fall of democracy?

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 10d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Máel Sheridan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @maelsheridan.bsky.social · 10d

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Máel Sheridan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @maelsheridan.bsky.social · 10d

Ald. Jessie Fuentes handcuffed by ICE agents at Humboldt Park hospital

YouTube video by CBS Chicago

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Máel Sheridan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @maelsheridan.bsky.social · 10d

Anyone who frequently travels in the US will have noticed the phenomenon. The back story is fascinating.

How a simple question about American hotels led to ‘the greatest immigration story never told’ | CNN

The biggest name in hotels isn’t Hilton or Marriott, according to a new film. It’s Patel.

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Máel Sheridan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @maelsheridan.bsky.social · 10d

Something fun, for a change. How many of these do you remember, or at least have seen after their initial publication?

The 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time

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Máel Sheridan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @maelsheridan.bsky.social · 12d

Everything old is new again...

NB: Song by Peter Allen, a gay man who was once married to Liza Minnelli, and who died of AIDS in 1992 at the too young age of 48. In this article, take a look at what @msignorile.bsky.social has to say, and perhaps watch the 2009 film, "Outrage," available on Tubi.

What's the latest 'secret gay sex scandal exploding' in Washington?

Speculation is swirling around a GOP member of Congress. But really, there's always a DC gay sex scandal. As LGBTQ rights are under attack, our media needs to report on the hypocrites.

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Máel Sheridan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @maelsheridan.bsky.social · 12d

I haven’t been to a US national park in a while but I’m guessing that, given the staff cuts, they may now be in pretty dire straits. This video also contains part of an interview with the person fired for hanging a trans flag at El Capitan in Yosemite.

National Park Rangers Have A Dire Warning for Americans

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Máel Sheridan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @maelsheridan.bsky.social · 13d

All the little, or not so little, cracks… Eventually a thing becomes so broken that it simply falls apart. No kintsugi expert in the world can repair it. And so goes the United States.

Florida Court Rejects Free Speech Argument in Book Removal Case

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