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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 17h

Newsom vetoes both the PreP access and the HRT stockpile bill because he is worried it would increase healthcare costs...

He claims to support the aims of these bills. But the vetoes deny access to medical care for queer people.

(Context: He vetoed these 2 while signing 8 other queer rights bills)

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 17h

He also signed SB 590, which bolsters paid family leave.

Read his veto messages here:

www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

www.gov.ca.gov

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Erica Picatinny ᛒᛉᛞᚹ 🏳️‍⚧️ @picatinnyrailed.bsky.social · 24m

You can't have hormones under 18, you can't have an inhaler for asthma, you can't have a rifle, and you can't have coffee.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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Jane Dough @janedough.bsky.social · 2m

Democracy can be an extremely effective tool to lend fascist policies a venner of legitimacy after all

Jane Dough @janedough.bsky.social · 4m

Well, as long as it tastes good (or at least, inoffensive) to the people who eat it, I've always maintained that any food is good food

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Jane Dough @janedough.bsky.social · 5m

Which ones do you want?

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𝕴𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖝 𝕾𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖆 @infernatrixsophia.bsky.social · 2h

ACAB

Batallon Bakunin @batallonbakunin.bsky.social · 1d

Antifascism is so often exactly this. Attacking the explicit fascists, while fighting off the repressive arm of the state at our rearguard— as the Basque comrades so effectively did today in Vitoria against Spanish falangist fascists.

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Erica Picatinny ᛒᛉᛞᚹ 🏳️‍⚧️ @picatinnyrailed.bsky.social · 2h

This is the guy Democrats really like and find it worth being brutally transphobic to others in the party over...

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Newsom rejects bill giving descendants of slaves preference in college admissions

The measure was likely to face legal challenges by opponents of affirmative action.

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Jane Dough @janedough.bsky.social · 13h

I like zombies but damn if it doesn't trend towards the most deranged fascist power fantasies you ever did see (only barely held back by "the real monster was maaaaaaaan!")

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Jane Dough @janedough.bsky.social · 13h

One wonders if there are any prisons where this *isn't* true....
But I think we all know the answer.

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 19h

"[T]he population of [Idaho's] imprisoned women increased by 50 times since 1980."

"[T]hey're kept there by guards — mostly men — who control every aspect of their lives; who can harass, grope, and sexually assault them with confidence that it will be kept quiet."
#Idaho #USA #Incarceration

In Idaho women’s prisons, guards get away with sex abuse

A yearlong investigation finds rampant sexual abuse by guards, systemic cover-ups, and punishment for victims

www.investigatewest.org

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Misandria 🦇 @andria-girl.bsky.social · 15h

fuck… i grew up there and just moved away

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 19h

"[T]he population of [Idaho's] imprisoned women increased by 50 times since 1980."

"[T]hey're kept there by guards — mostly men — who control every aspect of their lives; who can harass, grope, and sexually assault them with confidence that it will be kept quiet."
#Idaho #USA #Incarceration

In Idaho women’s prisons, guards get away with sex abuse

A yearlong investigation finds rampant sexual abuse by guards, systemic cover-ups, and punishment for victims

www.investigatewest.org

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Jane Dough @janedough.bsky.social · 13h

Oedipus (Oedipea?) escaped his prophesied doom with One Weird Trick!
Seers hate her!

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Tacticool Memes @tacticoolmemes.bsky.social · 14h

From the same asshole who signed a ban on the most common type of handgun in the country...

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 17h

Newsom vetoes both the PreP access and the HRT stockpile bill because he is worried it would increase healthcare costs...

He claims to support the aims of these bills. But the vetoes deny access to medical care for queer people.

(Context: He vetoed these 2 while signing 8 other queer rights bills)

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 17h

He also signed SB 590, which bolsters paid family leave.

Read his veto messages here:

www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

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Cupid's Molotov @cupidsmolotov.bsky.social · 14h

To everyone who thought the establishment and cops would protect you and your "rights":

We fucking told you.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 21h

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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Jane Dough @janedough.bsky.social · 15h

If you think about it, a drill sergeant is kinda like a hypnotist (their job is to condition people to respond to commands with subconscious obedience)

esoteric cyberdoll @dyadicsapphic.meangirls.online · 15h

to a hypnotist, a crane operator, a drill sergeant, a turd, and an album, "drop" means many different but still the same things

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Valkyrie Thunderbitch @valkyrieladyk.bsky.social · 16h

"with autism"

I am going to start throwing hands if you ableist fucks don't stop treating "autistic" like a dirty word.

There's not a "normal" person hidden behind the autism.

Autism is not something you can separate from an autistic person.

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Valkyrie Thunderbitch @valkyrieladyk.bsky.social · 15h

Werewolf: The Apocalypse

Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Nov 23

"Look at me, I'm a human! I pay taxes, I have depression, I'm behind on chores!" said by the wolf standing on his hind legs in the image.

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Valkyrie Thunderbitch @valkyrieladyk.bsky.social · 15h

I realize this isn't the important part, but WHY DO HETEROSEXUALS NOT LOCK THEIR PHONES?

AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · 19h

Nope.

r/TwoHotTakes u/Zyphira616. 1h

My boyfriend keeps a secret "strike system" for me and I found it by accident

Advice Needed

Im 28F and my bf 30M left his phone on the couch while he showered. A notification popped up from Notes, I opened it thinking it was a grocery list. It was a document titled "Girlfriend Strikes". He literally tracks my "offenses" with dates and points. Being late to his mom dinner, 1 point. Not laughing at his joke, 0.5 point. Buying myself flowers, "attention seeking", 1 point. At 10 points he wrote "serious talk" and at 15 points "reconsider relationship". I confronted him and he said its just a system to keep things fair because I am emotional and forget what I do. I felt sick, like I was an employee on probation, not a partner. I packed a bag and stayed at my sisters last night, now he is spamming me that I violated his privacy and proved his point. Is this breakup material or am I

overreacting?

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes Crows look black and sometimes they don't #birds

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 20h

HOLY SHIT for the last time: ALLL women, children, and men over 50 were released under previous ceasefire agreements.

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 20h

Once again, ALL women, children, and men over 50 were released under previous ceasefire agreements

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Valkyrie Thunderbitch @valkyrieladyk.bsky.social · 16h

Once again reminding people that when someone has "Ex-feminist" in their bio, much less as the very first thing listed, you can just safely ignore anything they have to say

"The real villains are feminists and lesbians!"

Yeah, you're really fighting the power, girl. /s

Daisy 🏳️‍⚧️ @daisygeekytgirl.bsky.social · 1d

And yet those cis lesbians will turn on us in a second. They’re leading the charge against us in Britain and Korea, although Korean politicians fight back against feminism rather than bend over for it.

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Valkyrie Thunderbitch @valkyrieladyk.bsky.social · 16h

So this is just lesbophobia, and I need bisexual trans women to understand that.

You're literally just being lesbophobic when you say shit like this.

You're not fighting patriarchy, you're punching down.

You're being part of the problem.

Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Cis lesbians literally earn more on average than straight cis women.

But in a certain current of "transfeminism", you keep seeing trans women simping for cis lesbians under the guise of "intersectionality" (truth: being seen as a good valid woman/lesbian by them)

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+EthosSketches+ COMMS OPEN @ethossketches.bsky.social · 1d

new OC

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19h

you cannot "abuse" your rights.

civil rights either are protected and real or they are not.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 21h

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

JB wants you to believe he’ll stop trmp when he won’t even stop the Illinois state police from attacking residents

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