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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising

@jillianw.bsky.social

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"The thirst trap of Andersonville!" - Anne Love, ferocity, and mathematics. She/her. Late-blooming 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈, making up for lost time. Scientist, socialist, musician. Yorkshire lass, living the dream in Chicago, with @scarlettaddams.bsky.social 👰👰 10/28/21

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · Apr 17

With love, ferocity, pride, and spite, we will endure.

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Selfie, under a rainbow umbrella. Green denim jacket with pride and pronoun pins, hair down, trans pride necklace.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 6h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 6h

Eating more black pudding from now on. For the planet.

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 7h

Feminism win! The 19th-century robber baron cat is a girl!
www.instagram.com/persian_lucy...

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 8h

Grim, and completely unsurprising.

QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 8h

Despite two different parliamentary committees expressing opposition to her appointment

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-critical-mary-ann-stephenson-named-as-new-ehrc-chair-as-government-overrules-mps/

Gender critical Mary-Ann Stephenson named as new EHRC chair as Government overrules MPs

Despite two different parliamentary committees expressing opposition to her appointment

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 9h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession understands:

"ChatGPT guided my analysis"

(actual quote)

Anne @anneb.bsky.social · 14h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession understands:

"Power's negative center pin"
"Why is it smoking?"
"Missing } Line 851"
"The editor wants revisions"
"Windows 11 installing updates"
"Part cost doubled: tariffs"
"Scarlett bringing cherry pie"

Spooky Scary Sarahtons 🎃 (they/them) @sarahndipity.bsky.social · 16h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“the pharmacist is calling"

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 9h

So that's coconut walnut cake next week, then.

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Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 10h

Did you know you can be a multiple issue person, but that some issues are completely disqualifying? Human rights are not up for debate and yes that's disqualifying if you want to be president and you don't agree with that

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 11h

The Cult of Newsom is such a weird little subculture!

Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 12h

Screenshot for posterity.

There's that Joined Nov '24 + BlueMAGA correlation again.🙄

1diane.bsky.social
Joined Nov '24
Are you a one issue person?

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 12h

There are other issues, but my bare minimum is the survival of my community. If Newsom or any other Dems don't want that, they don't want my support and I'll respond accordingly.

Diane's one issue is trolling trans people with this same reply whenever they criticize St Gavin The Immaculate.

On a trans flag background:

There is no larger issue for me
than my right to exist and
participate in society as my
authentic self. If that's a
purity test, then so be it.

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 12h

The season evolved from "ha ha Cubs-Mariners World Series how silly" to "holy shit Cubs-Mariners World Series might actually happen" and now to "well shit."

A Pilots-Mariners World Series would be cool though.

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 14h

"Transitioning later in life means you let yourself become who you are at a pace that honoured your life."

And according to my Most Accurate Watch in the World, it's still Never Too Late O'clock.

Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 16h

Some people know early. Others take the long road.

Both paths are valid.

Transitioning later in life means you let yourself become who you are at a pace that honoured your life.

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 14h

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 15h

Argentinians? That's some high-end political analysis.

Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 1d

Bellingham's very cool

Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 1d

It was contingent on the feelings of one person.

Anne and I exchanged war stories and virtual hugs during our divorces, which happened at the same time. Mine was rough. Anne's was off the scale.

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Carrie's mulligans 🏳️‍⚧️ @cks490.bsky.social · 1d

A random trans woman online who helped me through my cracking told me "transition has a gravity to it" and ain't that the truth

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 1d

Same, girl. Same.

Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 1d

I got "you'll never be a woman" and "I'm not a lesbian" IN THE SAME DAMN CONVERSATION.

I mean, at least be consistent in your choice of hostility.

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 1d

By autumn 2019, I was out everywhere except work. I'd planned on National Coming Out day, but for various reasons I delayed for a week.

So that's yet another Jillian/Anne parallel - out at work within five days of each other!

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Elliot 🥕 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 2d

LOSING MY MIND AT THE PHONE NUMBER ON THIS BUS IN FRONT OF ME

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Anne @anneb.bsky.social · 1d

Can you have loss if you come out? Yes. I lost a spouse and more. But I gained so much, it exceeds and eclipses. I have grown. I have love again and many more friends. I have community.

I will no longer die a lonely old man asking "what if."

I have nearly always jumped against odds and done well.

Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 1d

Once you take the first steps, the courage feeds on itself. Coming out can change you, more than you might expect.

Anne @anneb.bsky.social · 1d

I was told by my ex even a few years ago that it was not a good atmosphere to be coming out.

It wasn't a choice, like wearing a bow tie. I'm me, I must live my life as my true self. I was afraid but I drove forward, as I had turned back too often and that hurt more.

I am out, free, me. Happiness.

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 1d

"she made out she was fully a girl" on account of being fully a girl.

This guy is a menace.

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 1d

It's AT BEST "my enemy's enemy is my friend." And that's giving her the benefit of a lot of doubt.

Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 1d

I wish any other American politician would say anything even half as good as this

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