Empress of Emerald
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Science Educator(M.Ed.), Single Lesbian, LGBTQ Rights Advocate 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 and BLM , Mom, and D&D Dungeon Mistress
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Rage against the dying of the light, do not compile in advance, fight them for every inch, our country and futures, our very lives belong to us, the fascist don’t get to take them! #resist #democracy #skytok
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1. Many of you have seen a graph purporting to show trans identification has decreased in recent years.

Matt Walsh and Elon Musk celebrated it as a victory over "transgenderism."

Turns out, the entire graph is based on an egregious math and statistics error.

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Fact Check: No, There Is Not A New Survey Showing Trans Identity Is Decreasing
The claim, which originates from far-right professor Eric Kaufmann, appears to have made a glaring error: the survey actually shows more people have come out, not fewer.
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I can't stress enough how young staffers working for Republicans are basically all groyper Nazis now. The leaked texts yesterday saying "I love Hitler" and now swastikas on congressional offices.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office
An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
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14 Oct 2025 -- CA Gov Gavin Newsom, still tacking right for 2028, vetoes bill passed by overwhelming majorities which would allow trans ppl to stockpile a year's GAMT in case of new fed restrictions, falsely claiming it would drive up health care costs. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Gavin Newsom Vetoes Important HRT Stockpiling Bill For Trans Californians, Signs Other Pro-LGBTQ+ Bills
The bill would have allowed transgender people to maintain a safe supply of medication in the era of government crackdowns on care.
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sarahkendzior.bsky.social
"Everything they do is extremely violent."

Greta Thunberg on Israel:
Excerpt of greta thunberg article in link below
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1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

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Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump
“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”
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esqueer.net
I was on the board of Fenway and I warned the then CEO in 2023 that this would happen. This was cowardly capitulation sacrificing trans youth.
erininthemorning.com
1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

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Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump
“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”
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erininthemorning.com
Currently working on a potential takedown piece of this bogus graph going around on twitter and boosted by Musk claiming that trans identities are "dropping."

There are some very easy critiques of it, but one stands out that hasn't been reported on.

Any R wizards/data science/quant followers here?
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#redheadsdoitbetter #lesbian #altgirl #altgirlles #resist
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#redheadsdoitbetter #lesbian #altgirl #altgirlles #resist
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#leabian #altgirl #altgirlles #chappellroan
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#leabian #altgirl #altgirlles #chappellroan
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White colonizers nearly killed all the buffalo to extinction, for pure bloodsport.
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erininthemorning.com
1. Last night, John Oliver destroyed Bari Weiss and specifically called out her inaccurate and targeted coverage of transgender people.

It's the latest of several shows Oliver has done in defense of trans people.

Weiss at CBS is a disaster for trans people.

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John Oliver Destroys Bari Weiss In Defense Of Transgender People
The right-wing commentator is now the head of CBS.
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these people know how extreme they are
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aoc.bsky.social
If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.

The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.

And that’s why we’re fighting back.
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erininthemorning.com
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.
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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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Gavin Newsom Vetoes Important HRT Stockpiling Bill For Trans Californians, Signs Other Pro-LGBTQ+ Bills
The bill would have allowed transgender people to maintain a safe supply of medication in the era of government crackdowns on care.
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Politicians who meet fascists half way, are just fascists.

Newsom is all about publicity & nothing about integrity.

It’s been depressing watching American ppl hero-worship a power crazed sell-out. It’s not just Kimberly Guilfoyle & cosmetic surgery he has in common with the Trumps. READ this:
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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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Gavin Newsom Vetoes Important HRT Stockpiling Bill For Trans Californians, Signs Other Pro-LGBTQ+ Bills
The bill would have allowed transgender people to maintain a safe supply of medication in the era of government crackdowns on care.
www.erininthemorning.com
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erininthemorning.com
Love that we all wrote about this ad.

Go read Parker’s newsletter on it as well.
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Today's newsletter is all about this brilliant ad www.readtpa.com/p/a-politici...
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erininthemorning.com
Rest in peace, Miss Major.

We will carry the bricks forward.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d
The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.
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The war on rainbow crosswalks has come to Texas.

After DeSantis cracked down and tore up rainbow crosswalks across Florida, the community has resisted in protest.

Now, Abbott is doing the same in Texas, seemingly at the direction of Libs of Tiktok.

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The War on Rainbow Crosswalks Comes to Texas
A Republican state lawmaker called Texas “the biggest funder of transgenderism in America”...wishful thinking.
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Gov. Pritzker: "The Insurrection Act is called the Insurrection Act for a reason — there has to be an insurrection in order for [Trump] to be allowed to invoke it. He can say anything he wants, but if the Constitution means anything...the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked."
empressofemerald.bsky.social
No shit, the government has been taken over by fascist Nazis. That’s pretty obvious.