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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 12h

🚨Christian children were told they'd "be Muslim by year 6"!🚨

😱Sounds outrageous?

You know the drill…

If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some 🪏

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 6h

Feds have got until midnight tonight to take down the fence in front of the Broadview ICE facility, per a recent ruling from district judge LaShonda Hunt.

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 7h

Not sure what’s up but this flatbed with what appears like more fence materials has pulled up outside Broadview.

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Tom Gordon MP @tomgordonld.bsky.social · 1d

The Council of Europe has warned that the UK gov’s treatment of trans people may breach human rights law.

This must be a wake up call.

We’ve seen an increase in hostility towards trans in recent years.

Everyone deserves dignity, safety, & respect - that includes trans people.

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TransLucent @translucent.org.uk · 4h

www.scenemag.co.uk/trans-postal...

Trans postal worker wins discrimination case against Royal Mail

A trans postal worker has successfully sued Royal Mail for harassment and discrimination after enduring repeated abuse from colleagues, in what is being hailed as a landmark legal victory. Sophie Col...

www.scenemag.co.uk

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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 4h

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 14h

Today, we and the Trans Exile Network have made a joint submission to the Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK Supreme Court's judgment in the For Women Scotland v. Scottish Ministers case of April 2025.

tacc.org.uk/2025/10/14/p...

Press Release – Submission to the CoE Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK’s non-compliance in Goodwin v. UK - tacc.org.uk

Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network seek urgent re-opening of enforcement of key human rights decision against UK. Today, the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective ...

tacc.org.uk

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 8h

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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Jemma Forte @jemmaforte.bsky.social · 15h

1970's: CEOs earn 20 x more than average worker
2025: CEOs earn 122 x more than average worker
The richest 1% own 50% of entire country's wealth.

Obscene inequality has been normalised.

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 4h

What’s that Jeremy? Your private healthcare couldn’t save your life but the NHS could?

People need to think long and hard about voting for Reform, Farage openly says we need insurance based healthcare, but what about people who can’t afford it?

They die. It’s simple.

Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 1d

Embarrassing Jeremy Clarkson u-turns on his criticism of the NHS after receiving urgent treatment his private care couldn’t provide.

Jeremy Clarkson reneges on NHS criticism after needing urgent treatment

Presenter, who called service ‘a creaking monster’, says he’s ‘eternally grateful’ to medics who aided him

www.independent.co.uk

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onion person @junlper.beer · 16h

israel has already broken the ceasefire

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 18h

So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 16h

Works fine for me

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 16h

I wonder which toilet she uses at work, the way the hostility is at the moment

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 17h

"Sophie Cole, 46, from Cambridge, was awarded £12,500 in damages following an employment tribunal that found Royal Mail failed to act on her complaints of bullying, verbal abuse, and even physical assault."

www.scenemag.co.uk/trans-postal...

Trans postal worker wins discrimination case against Royal Mail

A trans postal worker has successfully sued Royal Mail for harassment and discrimination after enduring repeated abuse from colleagues, in what is being hailed as a landmark legal victory. Sophie Col...

www.scenemag.co.uk

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 17h

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17h

The medication stockpile bill is the bill I had pegged this year as the most important kind of bill to pass given federal threats, with a short time window to make it happen. Washington passed the same bill earlier this year.

It's so shameful for Newsom to veto this bill.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17h

1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills.

Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.

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Maggie Chapman MSP (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 18h

Why do we keep talking about trans healthcare?

Because of statistics like this.
Because every day waiting, in this world obsessed with harassing trans people, is a battle that many don't survive.

So, we keep talking about it, and keep fighting back against systemic transphobia.

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 20h

Not new. AI will busy make it easier

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6HK...

FULL Audrey Hepburn Galaxy Commercial

YouTube video by Orissa Kelly

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 23h

“Beyond privacy concerns, being forced to disclose sex assigned at birth may also significantly increase people’s vulnerability to harassment, abuse and even violence…”

The British government has pursued the erosion of trans rights. Letting people use spaces that align to their identity is basic.

Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says

European Council commissioner voices concerns after April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman

www.theguardian.com

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 21h

The Supreme Court decision is “clear”.

A clear breach of trans people’s human rights:

Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 1d

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 20h

Very short positive thread

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 22h

There does appear to be a change in how this is reported in the media today!

"Trans people ‘have had their human rights breached’ after Supreme Court ruling"

metro.co.uk/2025/10/14/t...

Trans people 'have had their human rights breached' after Supreme Court ruling

Trans people's legal gender has been 'voided of practical meaning'.

metro.co.uk

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d

A young trans girl DIED by her own hand, in part over feelings of desperation that trans healthcare was unobtainable.

And Graham Linehan wrote THIS!!! 😤🤬

Save this and post it in response to journalists writing “trans people ruined my marriage” articles about him in the future!!!

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 1d

I do find it discouraging that he has not mentioned trans issues, amongst other worthy topics

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 3d

Quote: I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember this too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick. Stewart Lee

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