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Plain 🐈‍⬛SPOOKY👻 Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️ @nattygo.me · 55m

Time and again, the comfort of cis people is prioritized over the dignity of trans people.

Plain 🐈‍⬛SPOOKY👻 Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️ @nattygo.me · 1h

“I don’t have a problem with trans people at all until it makes me uncomfortable."

WOWWWW this quote says quite a lot, doesn't it?

www.them.us/story/oregon...

Oregon High School Students Stage Walk Out Over One Trans Kid's Locker Room Usage

The group was confronted by counter protestors who called the action “transphobia and bullying.”

www.them.us

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3h

i'm not going to chide or scold anyone for only now leaving twitter. your private, unspoken acknowledgment that i'm your intellectual and moral superior is all i need

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Plain 🐈‍⬛SPOOKY👻 Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️ @nattygo.me · 1h

Jesus tapdancing Christ

Plain 🐈‍⬛SPOOKY👻 Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️ @nattygo.me · 2h

Love that dress, lady! 💙👗

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Plain 🐈‍⬛SPOOKY👻 Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️ @nattygo.me · 2h

The Democratic Party and the legacy media sat by and watched as the GOP ran further and further to the right, acting as if everything was fine and normal, politics as usual, both sides do it, etc. Many of us have been screaming at them for years that this was NOT NORMAL.

Now, it is likely too late.

Plain 🐈‍⬛SPOOKY👻 Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️ @nattygo.me · 2h

Every day, it becomes clearer to me that nothing short of truly radical and unprecedented action will stop this country from sliding deeper into illberalism or from fracturing along ideological lines.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 3h

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy.
slate.com/news-and-pol...

Is it racist to remedy racism? That’s the question at the heart of Callais v. Louisiana, which the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. The case asks whether the Voting Rights Act gives Black Louisianans too much political power—and if so, whether the landmark law violates the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, the Republican-appointed justices seem eager to rule that it does. Throughout oral arguments, they suggested the VRA protects minority voters too effectively, dragging the government into race-conscious considerations that offend the equal protection rights of the white voters who sued in this case. And they floated various ways to gut what remains of the statute by twisting it beyond recognition or striking it down altogether. The result would be a windfall for Republicans, who stand to gain at least 19 seats in the House of Representatives if the Supreme Court frees them to gerrymander Black communities into oblivion. Such a decision would also devastate minority representation in Congress, eliminating up to 30 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 11h

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

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Sue Donym, who I will remind you was acquited on all charges, @suedonym.bsky.social · 9h

I support an informed consent model for HRT. The doctor should have to make sure you know the risks, like that you might start getting into dogshit music.

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Plain 🐈‍⬛SPOOKY👻 Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️ @nattygo.me · 2h

I mean, you seem to get freaky more than I do, so if anything, I'm your innocent younger sister.

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Plain 🐈‍⬛SPOOKY👻 Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️ @nattygo.me · 2h

Area transsexual currently has more Diet Coke than blood in her veins

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Plain 🐈‍⬛SPOOKY👻 Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️ @nattygo.me · 5h

It's amazing how many things Johnson doesn't seem to know!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Plain 🐈‍⬛SPOOKY👻 Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️ @nattygo.me · 17h

Me looking in the mirror the night before my shot

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Plain 🐈‍⬛SPOOKY👻 Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️ @nattygo.me · 17h

Huh?

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 22h

Woke 2.0 is going to hit like 80s crack

@loganclarkhall

Trump won. You don't have to do this anymore.

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Young Republicans

We are appalled by the vile and inexcusable language revealed in the Politico article published today. Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican, and stands in direct opposition to the values our movement...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 20h

“you can’t make fun of this” - famously an edict that the military obeys unquestioningly and would never disobey out of earshot of an officer

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Plain 🐈‍⬛SPOOKY👻 Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️ @nattygo.me · 19h

Fascists wreak havoc but they are, fundamentally, quite stupid

Plain 🐈‍⬛SPOOKY👻 Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️ @nattygo.me · 20h

Good God, the awful sex those people must be having.

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Plain 🐈‍⬛SPOOKY👻 Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️ @nattygo.me · 20h

This doesn't show strength.

This shows profound insecurity.

It's weak and pathetic.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

If a random guy in a mask grabbed someone and threw them in a vehicle—we'd call that a kidnapping. Until an alleged ICE agent identifies themselves, that's what this is.

For all we know they're a rapist murderer stalker looking for their next victim. Indefensible. Dem leadership must act NOW.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

ICE targeted an apartment building near my home. Masked agents in unmarked cars. I've said this before. Democratic Governors & Mayors need to order their local police depts to arrest any & all unidentified & masked alleged ICE agents.

This anonymous denial of due process is deadly.

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Plain 🐈‍⬛SPOOKY👻 Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️ @nattygo.me · 20h

Look, Lorena thing I plan to do about it but gosh Bobbitt a girl can dream!

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Plain 🐈‍⬛SPOOKY👻 Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️ @nattygo.me · 21h

I'm having certain thoughts about a certain something happening to a certain part of a certain man who is certainly NOT pictured below.

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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Plain 🐈‍⬛SPOOKY👻 Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️ @nattygo.me · 21h

Noooooooooo.

Those first few months were seriously rough. I had been suppressing my gender dysphoria for so long that once I finally let it out, it was like a fire hose of misery until my transition started to pick up steam.

Plain 🐈‍⬛SPOOKY👻 Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️ @nattygo.me · 21h

I'm really onto my Natty shit tonight, it seems.

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