FannishSunny (she/her)
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NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
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Im surprised that people are surprised as to why there’s a huge political gender divide that we see today.
I got an answer: women gained power, men felt threatened that their place on top of the hierarchy and the intrinsic power that came with it is gone
The reason there is more racism is the same
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If you have put your name down saying that you will be somewhere at a specific time, that becomes evidence in court that you were in fact there, even if actually it turns out you didn’t go bsky.app/profile/chan...
Gonna say this very very very slowly

The main issue with putting your name on a protest list

is not whether the government has your name

It is you providing information about where you are/will be

That is *legally* actionable
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The racial profiling case is the first step in unraveling the civil rights act. That's all.
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Wow. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. just single-handedly ruled that Congress doesn’t really control the purse strings. This is becoming a massive crisis for checks and balances and the separation of powers.
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Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
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If they can take away one minority's right to own firearms, they can take away any minority's right to own firearms.

If they can declare all transgender Americans "mentally unwell," it's easy to say the rest of LGBTQ Americans are mentally unwell.

They already say Dems are mentally unwell.
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Texas is the biggest state in the country to have a bathroom ban on the books, and aside from local news and a few national nonprofits, the coverage of it is pretty small. There are over 160,000 trans adults in the state of Texas
Actually wild that the Texas legislature banned trans people from bathrooms in government buildings yesterday and it hasn’t gotten a whiff of news coverage in the Associated Press, NYT, WaPo, etc

I guess the national news biz is just shrugging at this stuff now?
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This isn't even a new tactic and it will lead to more of us losing rights.
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also nb this is on the grounds of "mental illness," so get ready for this to extend to queers, feminists, and anybody else they don't like *real* fucking soon
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FYI folks, the Big Holidays coming up are:

Rosh Hashanah is Mon 22 Sep-24 Sep
Yom Kippur is Wed 1 Oct - 2 Oct

And also? You don't have to KNOW who's Jewish to not schedule meetings these days. Just do it.

(AND DON'T BE ALL "WE HAVE TO MOVE IT BECAUSE [PERSON] IS JEWISH" THAT'S TACKY & GROSS)
PUT 👏🏻 JEWISH 👏🏻 HOLIDAYS 👏🏻 IN 👏🏻 YOUR 👏🏻 CALENDARS

The head of my org is Jewish. I have the Jewish holidays calendar on my work calendar so I don't schedule meetings during important holidays! I don't want him to have to do that calculus!
NASA scheduled a major workshop for early career researchers during the most important week of the Jewish calendar, during two of the most important days of that week and expects me to accept that this was “difficult scheduling conflicts”

That’s what casual antisemitism sounds like
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This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.
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On this day in 1956, the governor of Virginia pledged to withhold funding from any local government that integrated its schools, saying, "If we accept admission of one Negro child into a white school, it's all over.”
Aug. 24, 1956 | Virginia Governor Vows to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
calendar.eji.org
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reposted this today because the inverse is also true:

if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period.

if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.
the thing about trans rights is that we fight the civil rights issues of our time. nazi chuds have made this the issue of our time.

it's not more *important* than other civil rights issues, but it is the battleground of the moment, and we have to meet the moment to support everyone's rights.
Centrists bigots and right wingers have this all backward. YOU are the ones constantly bringing up trans issues. I would be happy to not think about this shit every day of my life unless I was talking to or reading something by one of my trans friends and thought of it in passing. SHUT THE FUCK UP
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🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social
🚨 League of United Latin American Citizens v. Abbott
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
Slippery slopes are slippery #TransRightsAreHumanRights
Every single person who thinks a trans person should just pipe down until we restore democracy is, in my view, an enemy of democracy.

I’m not doing it.
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listen

the world is a mess

but a judge ordered the Florida migrant prison closed, California passed their "fuck around, find out" redistricting, and James Dobson is dead

this is the best net good news day in awhile, I really do think
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It's wild to see "Never let them take you to a second location" play out publicly against elected Black representatives while people go about their lives, but this is EXACTLY why Rep. Nicole Collier refused to normalize her own captivity.
Sheryl Cole, one of the Texas Democrats who broke quorum:
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this would be the pistol that misfire so regularly that multiple police departments are suing the manufacture, so when 30 national guard show up because someone was drinking on the sidewalk and one of these misfires... well, i'm sure you can picture it.
SCOOP — Members of DC National Guard are preparing to carry M17 pistols, multiple sources confirm to me.

This follows earlier reports that the guard reversed course and would soon be arming members in DC. Now we know they’re making sure they meet requirements if/when the order to arm them comes.
DC National Guard members actively training to carry pistols in capitol mission
Sources confirm to The Handbasket that task force members are preparing to be armed.
www.thehandbasket.co
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“That particularly a woman, and particularly a Black woman, would be held captive,” Eckhardt continued. “They were just shocked that in a modern democracy, you could hold a duly elected representative on a civil warrant regarding a quorum break in a session that sine died.”
New from @iamleslierangel.bsky.social and me:

Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night held hostage in the Texas House. Then four enraged women — many of them mothers — refused to leave her side overnight. The slept in jail; are banned from Capitol grounds for a year.

thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/19/h...
‘Women Have Always Been on the Front Lines.’ How Five Women at the Texas Capitol Stood Up to ‘Fascism.’
Rep. Nicole Collier, a Fort Worth Democrat, spent the night held hostage in the Texas House. Four enraged women refused to leave her side.
thebarbedwire.com
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Feel like one political party kidnapping an opponent should be bigger news
msnbc.com MSNBC @msnbc.com · Aug 19
NEW:

“I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.”

Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.