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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity is the only way

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 1d

One of my quotes:

"I know it's worth it because someday some young kid who's had everything about trans people censored all their life will happen across something I wrote and know they aren't alone. If I had it to do over, I'd do it all again and more."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

A federal judge said "DHS, you cannot legally put this language into a grant." So what DHS did is... keep putting that language in grants — but with a new disclaimer saying it would only apply if the court order was struck down.

The judge was NOT happy.

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Judge William Smith (W. Bush appointee): The Government has done "precisely what the ... [court's] Order forbids."

The case is Illinois v. FEMA

On Wednesday, we'll publish an updated catalogue of such judicial decisions on noncompliance with court orders at @justsecurity.org at the link below:

The “Presumption of Regularity” in Trump Administration Litigation

Comprehensive study of court cases involving Trump administration and the basis for courts no longer giving a "presumption of regularity."

www.justsecurity.org

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1d

yeah they are putting their thumb on the scale for her

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills.

Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 1d

WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Sums it all up

Martin Konený
@MartinKonecny
X.com
EU Commission press briefing
yesterday:
Journalist: You've said that Russia should repay for reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe Israel should repay for reconstruction of Gaza?
EU chief spox: It's an interesting question, on which I have no

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

What should be done while in power? Well, for starters, it'd be good to prosecute people for war crimes committed under prior administrations, which should at least deter some people from committing them when they return to power. (Yes, this is from 2018) fellowtravelersblog.com/2018/03/13/a...

A Case for Transitional Justice

If sunlight is the best disinfectant, a failure to apply it leaves a festering wound, with complications that continue to amass.

fellowtravelersblog.com

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

Here is an enduring challenge in my field, foreign policy. For decades, there was a broad and bipartisan consensus of US foreign policy abroad, within which presidents would vary. Things like "treaties will be honored" and "basing commitments will last as agreed to by our predecessor", predictable.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

yesterday on twitter, some of the biggest far right doxxing users were suspended and then elon musk caught wind, and reinstated them. get everyone you can off twitter. it is firmly a pro-doxxing-if-you’re-far-right platform

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

'“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno...wrote'

'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · Aug 28

i don't mean this in a mean way, but it is sometimes obvious that sports is a weakness because most trans people do not give a shit about sports and have difficulty discussing the subject normally with people who do

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Finn Longman @finnlongman.com · Nov 24

I was genuinely joking earlier that being both trans and a cyclist means I spend most of my time annoying people with more power than me simply by existing in spaces they think they're the only ones entitled to exist in.

Didn't expect someone to actually make that comparison, though...

emily north @north0fnorth.tgirl.gay · Nov 23

do you ever read a phrase like “big bicycle are the trans people of traffic” and have your eyes roll so far back into your skull you can see your own brains

a tweet from a blue check account reading “Big bicycle not happy just slowing you down in traffic the old way, now wants to ban turning on red lights. They think the world should revolve around them, they're the trans of traffic.” along with a screenshot of a news opinion column claiming “with pedestrian and cyclist deaths on the rise, it’s time to ban right on red”

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

every special boy Politics Understander who downplayed the city occupations 2 months ago should probably keep their mouths closed about politics for a quick minute or two.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

video shared to social media shows dozens of masked border patrol agents facing protesters for roughly an hour before they ultimately used chemical munitions to disperse the crowd.

alder peter chico was spotted on the scene.

dozens of border patrol agents stand in a residential intersection. most are wearing dark green uniforms with long sleeves and pants. some are wearing camouflage. most have helmets and are wearing gas masks.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 10d

Some on the left fear Zohran Mamdani won't be accountable to DSA and will distance himself from the org's positions. NYC-DSA tried to reassure members that Zohran actually works closely with the org – which led the NYPost and Andrew Cuomo to claim that Zohran will let DSA run City Hall.

Exclusive | Mamdani expected to follow radical-left DSA agenda if elected, group’s leaders boast at meeting attended by Post

Zohran Mamdani is expected to be a party apparatchik who will follow the radical agenda of the Democratic Socialists of America, power mad members of its NYC chapter declared at a meeting infiltrat…

nypost.com

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 8d

The Democratic Socialists of America are now the largest socialist organization in US history since 1919:

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 8d

At the end of September, DSA had just shy of 80,000 members in good standing nationally, while NYC-DSA had just shy of 11,000 members in good standing.

Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 9d

For the first time in history, DSA has 80,000 members in good standing! Tens of thousands of new members have joined the last year alone. In the face of rising fascism, a US-backed genocide, and an escalating climate crisis, socialism is the only path forward. 1/3

DSA Members in Good Standing -- 80K and Counting! Join today! dsausa.org/join Line graph showing number of members in good standing rising from 50,000 in October 2024 to 80,000 in September 2025.

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Milwaukee DSA @mkedsa.bsky.social · 8d

Tired of status quo politicians not fulfilling their promises as we descend further into fascism?
Tired of voting every 4 years just to see things only get worse?
Tired of vibes based politics and want to see real policy proposals that uplift the working class?
JOIN DSA

milwaukee.dsawi.org/join-us/

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Coratee (Garfield Era) @thecoratee.bsky.social · 8d

Road to 100k. If you believe in a better future of real freedom where your life isn't controlled by faceless shareholders and their pet politicians join up and go to a DSA meeting:

act.dsausa.org/donate/membe...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 8d

We really hit on something with the 12 year old theory of governance because that’s really the entire political project. It’s being 12 years old and not even normal 12 year olds but real pieces of shit 12 year olds

Texas GOP candidate
Shelley Luther complains that students can't make fun of transgender children
By Jay Root, Staff Writer
Updated Feb 9, 2022 6:02 a.m.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 8d

Do you even hear yourselves?

NPR @npr.org · 8d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 8d

These Supreme Court oral arguments on conversion therapy are going to be painful. No matter what is said, know that trying to force someone to be what they're not is psychological torture with measurable negative consequences, and anyone trying to defend such efforts is a bigoted monster.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 8d

more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold

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onion person @junlper.beer · 8d

i’ll never get over how some people pointed out trump was going to do project 2025 and then eventually the media asked trump if he was going to do project 2025 and he said “never heard of it” and the media decided he surely couldn’t be lying about that one

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stylo [air max] 90 @stylo.bsky.social · 8d

the DC outskirts are full of suburbs where you can metro into the city and all the necessities of life are within a 5-10 min drive or bike ride. it’s pretty elite honestly and even better if we build out our biking infrastructure.

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