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DRKLGHT Clothing @drklght.bsky.social · 10d

We do though! Were queer owned and operated and donate to trans folx all the time

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Alana McLaughlin🏳️‍⚧️ @alanaferal.bsky.social · 7d

Truly could be 😔

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 9d

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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It included illegal immigrants and handed
Democrats extra seats. Americans deserve a fair count and l'm fighting to fix it.
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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 9d

I get that everyone thinks it's a funny little joke when Trump says nonsense about "trangender for everybody" (because really, wtf does that even mean?), but I gotta say that as a trans person, I find it absolutely fucking insane that he's constantly obsessing over trans people existing. It sucks.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 9d

No shit I'm furious. I spent eleven years learning to write well about complex topics in ethical ways, often for criminally low rates, because I believe that work's important. It's deeply insulting to see a total dipshit get fabulously wealthy for telling the rich what they want to hear!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9d

In a press release, Texas Attorney General calls "transgenderism" a "corrupted ideology" that is "a cancer on our culture."

This is openly genocidal rhetoric about trans people from a sitting AG.

A press release dated October 7, 2025, with the headline: “Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Undercover Operations to Infiltrate and Uproot Leftist Terror Cells in Texas After Increased Political Violence.” The statement claims rising left-wing violence, referencing the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and outlines Paxton’s directive for undercover investigations. A highlighted quote from Paxton reads: “Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people.” The text further accuses the radical Left of fostering political violence, referencing incidents involving Antifa-like groups and a supposed assassin tied to transgender movements. It also notes that President Trump designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, with Paxton vowing sweeping investigations into radical leftist groups.

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 9d

Law enforcement historically loves announcing their undercover operations ahead of time

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Under- cover Operations to Infil- trate and Uproot Leftist Terror Cells in Texas After Increased Political Violence

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 9d

It is no longer reasonable to assume decency or honesty from any ICE agent.

Act accordingly. They will lie. They will cheat. They will steal. They will kill. All in order to hurt your friends and family for not fitting their broken definitions of what an American is.

Don’t play fair. ICE won’t.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 9d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 9d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d

If you’re in the mood for a historical conversation about events from a long time ago, give a listen…absolutely no parallels to today 😋

thestatebetweenus.bsky.social @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 9d

New episode up! 14. Lessons from the Modern School and Francisco Ferrer w/ Mark Bray. Check out patreon.com/thestatebetweenus to get a lot more!

14. Lessons from the Modern School and Francisco Ferrer w/ Mark Bray

Mark Bray, historian and author of Translating Anarchy (2013), Antifa...

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 9d

Please scream this from the mountains. Do we really want them to be as efficient as the Nazis before responding?

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move

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onion person @junlper.beer · 9d

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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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9d

To be clear, ADF cooked up a case with fake facts, distorted medical research and fabricated harms to be able to gain the constitutional right to torture LGBTQ children.

That's what they want to do, to torture LGBTQ youth.

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The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that seeks to undo a major triumph of the LGBTQ+ movement.

slate.com

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Alana McLaughlin🏳️‍⚧️ @alanaferal.bsky.social · 9d

Thinking about some carving or moldings on the frame, probably gold paint, maybe LED light strip

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Alana McLaughlin🏳️‍⚧️ @alanaferal.bsky.social · 9d

You didn't address anything. You're just here to spout fascist propaganda.

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Alana McLaughlin🏳️‍⚧️ @alanaferal.bsky.social · 9d

Sealioning.

Alana McLaughlin🏳️‍⚧️ @alanaferal.bsky.social · 9d

Eat shit.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 9d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 9d

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 9d

okay so we've been given a chronic medical condition by corporate polluters, and now it's incumbent on us to stop breathing. you love to see it.

Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 9d

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.

Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds

Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.

local12.com

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Alana McLaughlin🏳️‍⚧️ @alanaferal.bsky.social · 9d

I have never taken prog. 😐

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 13d

I don't think Jay and her band of God's lost bets understand the degree to which everyone not currently on Bluesky has already decided it's the Faggy App for Trans Commies. They aren't going to come here just because you run us off! We're all that's keeping you from being Spoutible.

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Alana McLaughlin🏳️‍⚧️ @alanaferal.bsky.social · 9d

Wise.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 9d

I refuse to read any further
www.the-berliner.com/english-news...

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Alana McLaughlin🏳️‍⚧️ @alanaferal.bsky.social · 9d

Corn dogs always have wood in them. 😐

I've made my peace with this.

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Alana McLaughlin🏳️‍⚧️ @alanaferal.bsky.social · 9d

What's the new dog whistle? I haven't been on bluesky much lately because my mentions and notifications are always broken

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