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"We’re terrified that if she remains in an environment that is so hateful that she might follow the path of so many trans people and spiral into depression and self-harm. So we’re going to do whatever it takes to keep her safe."
Here's how families are fighting to survive Trump’s war on trans kids.
Here's how families are fighting to survive Trump’s war on trans kids.
"We're going to do whatever it takes to keep her safe"
How families are fighting to survive Trump's war on transgender kids
www.motherjones.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"We’re terrified that if she remains in an environment that is so hateful that she might follow the path of so many trans people and spiral into depression and self-harm. So we’re going to do whatever it takes to keep her safe."
Here's how families are fighting to survive Trump’s war on trans kids.
Here's how families are fighting to survive Trump’s war on trans kids.
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Regarding The Essay:
If you have not yet figured out in Dec. 2025 that an appeal to a strict and fair adherence to the First Amendment is a rigged game, I would like to inspect your wallet for just a moment.
The Essay was a trap designed to do just this - fail and then gin up far-right grifting 1/
If you have not yet figured out in Dec. 2025 that an appeal to a strict and fair adherence to the First Amendment is a rigged game, I would like to inspect your wallet for just a moment.
The Essay was a trap designed to do just this - fail and then gin up far-right grifting 1/
December 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Regarding The Essay:
If you have not yet figured out in Dec. 2025 that an appeal to a strict and fair adherence to the First Amendment is a rigged game, I would like to inspect your wallet for just a moment.
The Essay was a trap designed to do just this - fail and then gin up far-right grifting 1/
If you have not yet figured out in Dec. 2025 that an appeal to a strict and fair adherence to the First Amendment is a rigged game, I would like to inspect your wallet for just a moment.
The Essay was a trap designed to do just this - fail and then gin up far-right grifting 1/
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Reminder that "firing on the shipwrecked" is literally THE example used in the DoD War Manual of "a clearly illegal order"
“Leavitt told reporters at the White House press briefing that Hegseth authorized Adm. Frank Bradley to carry out the second strike, which reportedly killed two people who were hanging onto the burning vessel after an initial strike.” Wow. 12/1/25 thehill.com/homenews/562...
December 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Reminder that "firing on the shipwrecked" is literally THE example used in the DoD War Manual of "a clearly illegal order"
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Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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fed up with spam comments from "christians" saying performative shit and have just started replying with 'Matthew 6:1,' which cautions against 'practicing [one's] righteousness' in front of other people for the sake of being seen doing so
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
fed up with spam comments from "christians" saying performative shit and have just started replying with 'Matthew 6:1,' which cautions against 'practicing [one's] righteousness' in front of other people for the sake of being seen doing so
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genuinely one of my favorite pieces of civil war memorabilia
CONCEIVED IN SIN,
BORN IN INIQUITY,
NURTURED BY TYRANNY,
DIED OF ACHRONIC ATTACK OF PUNCH
BORN IN INIQUITY,
NURTURED BY TYRANNY,
DIED OF ACHRONIC ATTACK OF PUNCH
November 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
genuinely one of my favorite pieces of civil war memorabilia
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Silksong has some really incredible themes:
- strength of community
- who you're born vs who you become
- the path you're destined for
- anthony bourdain's wish to beat henry kissinger to death after visiting cambodia
- strength of community
- who you're born vs who you become
- the path you're destined for
- anthony bourdain's wish to beat henry kissinger to death after visiting cambodia
October 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Silksong has some really incredible themes:
- strength of community
- who you're born vs who you become
- the path you're destined for
- anthony bourdain's wish to beat henry kissinger to death after visiting cambodia
- strength of community
- who you're born vs who you become
- the path you're destined for
- anthony bourdain's wish to beat henry kissinger to death after visiting cambodia
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Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
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Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
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Yo, this is why the ghouls out there, you know the ones, don't stand a chance in the long run. This is what humans *do*.
good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong
this story delights me every year
this story delights me every year
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
November 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Yo, this is why the ghouls out there, you know the ones, don't stand a chance in the long run. This is what humans *do*.
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good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong
this story delights me every year
this story delights me every year
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
Arizona pair celebrates decade of friendship that started with wrong text
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
www.azfamily.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong
this story delights me every year
this story delights me every year
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I also know there are people who have successfully left using the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty which remains one of the best bargains for self-employed people with even a modest amount of money to establish themselves (under $10k all-in)
November 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I also know there are people who have successfully left using the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty which remains one of the best bargains for self-employed people with even a modest amount of money to establish themselves (under $10k all-in)
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
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Let's move on with the rest of the passage.
Lewis recognizes that modesty raises thorny issues, but he sweeps them aside to focus on the more important spirit. I want to bring your attention to the last sentence here:
Lewis recognizes that modesty raises thorny issues, but he sweeps them aside to focus on the more important spirit. I want to bring your attention to the last sentence here:
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Let's move on with the rest of the passage.
Lewis recognizes that modesty raises thorny issues, but he sweeps them aside to focus on the more important spirit. I want to bring your attention to the last sentence here:
Lewis recognizes that modesty raises thorny issues, but he sweeps them aside to focus on the more important spirit. I want to bring your attention to the last sentence here:
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imagine having to hear shit like "study confirms giving diabetic children insulin reduces their death rates by 100%" as if that hasn't been known for like a hunred years. that's what being trans is like
November 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
imagine having to hear shit like "study confirms giving diabetic children insulin reduces their death rates by 100%" as if that hasn't been known for like a hunred years. that's what being trans is like
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A lot of people don't.
It's also not the only time - 1985 MOVE bombing
But y'know, let's keep that out of our history books.
It's also not the only time - 1985 MOVE bombing
But y'know, let's keep that out of our history books.
I....did not know racists fucking *bombed* Black people during the Tulsa massacre. Holy shit.
The first time terrorists used planes to attack Americans wasn’t on 9/11 or at Pearl Harbor. It was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 when white supremacists flew a dozen planes to drop turpentine or nitroglycerin bombs on Black Americans.
Viola Fletcher was there.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/viola-flet...
Viola Fletcher was there.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/viola-flet...
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
A lot of people don't.
It's also not the only time - 1985 MOVE bombing
But y'know, let's keep that out of our history books.
It's also not the only time - 1985 MOVE bombing
But y'know, let's keep that out of our history books.
I have no idea how realistic this is, but sweet merciful heavens, please let it work.
How to get rid of Citizens United?
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment.
There’s a far simpler way. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment.
There’s a far simpler way. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way
robertreich.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I have no idea how realistic this is, but sweet merciful heavens, please let it work.
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It's out! Blood Doll Season 1 is out!
If you love postmodern dissections of vampires, erotic debate clubs, consensual Dominance/submission play where both sides are actively themselves, and ultimately depictions of healthy plurality, point your browser over to:
blooddollpod.com
#vtm #audiodrama
If you love postmodern dissections of vampires, erotic debate clubs, consensual Dominance/submission play where both sides are actively themselves, and ultimately depictions of healthy plurality, point your browser over to:
blooddollpod.com
#vtm #audiodrama
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
It's out! Blood Doll Season 1 is out!
If you love postmodern dissections of vampires, erotic debate clubs, consensual Dominance/submission play where both sides are actively themselves, and ultimately depictions of healthy plurality, point your browser over to:
blooddollpod.com
#vtm #audiodrama
If you love postmodern dissections of vampires, erotic debate clubs, consensual Dominance/submission play where both sides are actively themselves, and ultimately depictions of healthy plurality, point your browser over to:
blooddollpod.com
#vtm #audiodrama
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Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.