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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 4h

may be more relevant as a vibe shift than as policy shift—because decrim requires changes to state laws, and also because there will be no meaningful decrim in NYC with the NYPD we have. I would be asking a lot more re: how he'd get the NYPD to abide *any* policy change he wants to make

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 4h

In the past, Zohran Mamdani has supported full decriminalization of sex work (which is undoubtedly the leftist position). But he's been harshly criticized by social conservatives for that position, and now his campaign suggests he may be open to the Nordic model. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/n...

“Criminalizing clients, friends, family and allies of sex workers makes it extraordinarily difficult for them to meaningfully participate in public life, including paying rent, earning a living or even walking down the street,” he wrote in a questionnaire when running for re-election in 2022.

He also said in the survey that he opposed the “Nordic model,” legislation that would prohibit arresting prostitutes themselves while allowing clients to be detained and charged.

Asked if Mr. Mamdani still opposes that approach, Dora Pekec, his campaign spokeswoman, said the campaign was still weighing the advice of policy experts and advocates.

Mr. Mamdani cosponsors several bills to decriminalize prostitution, none of which have advanced out of committee. One would have repealed “statutes that criminalize sex work between consenting adults, but keep laws relating to minors or trafficking.”

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Lorelei Lee @loreleilee.bsky.social · Aug 23

Trans & nonbinary people are here. We've been here. We always will be. Nothing you can legislate will change that.

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Lorelei Lee @loreleilee.bsky.social · Aug 13

Don't be shy.

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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 1d

The party of limited government (and also some other minor stuff too, don’t worry about the details).

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Lorelei Lee @loreleilee.bsky.social · 1d

There are no words for the rage I feel when people use marginalized lives and marginalized people's trauma as currency for their own in-group membership. These young Republicans are far from alone in their (horrifying) behavior www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

“This is not sustainable”

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 5d

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 5d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Lorelei Lee @loreleilee.bsky.social · 6d

😂 some big TKs!!

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Lorelei Lee @loreleilee.bsky.social · 6d

I love having a low white blood cell count during nationwide vaccine rollbacks and healthcare cuts

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Lorelei Lee @loreleilee.bsky.social · 7d

In a world where we can't believe anything recorded on video or posted on social media is actually real, do we go back to talking to people in person?

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Lorelei Lee @loreleilee.bsky.social · 9d

That one time when 2 TV actors tried to hit on us as we were counting our cash. As though fame deserves a discount & not a price bump. We laughed in their faces & then ignored them. They loved it. So would you 💋💅

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Lorelei Lee @loreleilee.bsky.social · 11d

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Lorelei Lee @loreleilee.bsky.social · 11d

"The cruelty is the point."

prismreports.org/2025/09/29/b...

Big Beautiful Bill' is deadly to vulnerable groups across the U.S.

Work requirements, increased red tape, and reduced eligibility for safety net programs will disproportionately impact poor people

prismreports.org

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Lorelei Lee @loreleilee.bsky.social · 11d

literally bombing boats he claims contain drugs while also cutting funding for substance use treatment is so quintessentially this man's necropolitics

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Lorelei Lee @loreleilee.bsky.social · 11d

I know this might not feel important right now, but words make the world. Using disabled experience as a metaphor for abled experience deprives that language of its specific & necessary meaning and underscores our erasure in public life. It ensures we don't get to be protagonists, just costumes.

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Lorelei Lee @loreleilee.bsky.social · 11d

Ablist phrases to get out of your vocabulary because you're a kind person who doesn't want to casually or accidentally hurt others with your words:

"Blind spot" as a metaphor

"Paralyzed" as a metaphor

"Crippled" in reference to anything, not just people - this word is a slur

"Wheelchair bound"

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 11d

Toni Morrison: "“Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing—marketing for power. It is recognizable by its need to purge, by the strategies it uses to purge, and by its terror of truly democratic agendas."

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11d

The skeleton key to unlock the Trump administration is to understand that everything it does is for the sake of posting. It wants to get likes and shares. And it is specifically captured by a neo-Nazi, fascist audience that wants images of torture, violence, and murder, especially of minorities.

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Lorelei Lee @loreleilee.bsky.social · 13d

There's nothing worse, when you know you've been discriminated against, than someone not in your stigmatized cohort being like, "I'm sure they didn't mean it."

Don't be that guy

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 16d

Trump is asking us to start choosing groups we're willing to abandon, and the only way to make him stop is to be clear we're not fucking abandoning ANYONE.

Call your reps. Call your fucking reps. Especially in red states. Use the @5calls.org app, it's easy and free.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 16d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Lorelei Lee @loreleilee.bsky.social · 17d

What I'm actually mourning: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

www.nytimes.com

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NH's "Play-by-Play" Guy @egall.bsky.social · 18d

Relatedly: I get so annoyed when people push me to try to be "independent":

Lorelei Lee @loreleilee.bsky.social · 18d

People hate the disabled because we demonstrate the fact that people need people. All of you are interdependent on each other, and we make you face that. You're terrified of us for making clear that you cannot survive alone. You want us out of sight so you can keep pretending

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Sharon Blady⁷ @sharonblady.bsky.social · 18d

🎯 The currently non-disabled also don't want to face the fact that at any moment they could become one of us, and like any normative group that oppresses Others, they fear being on the receiving end of the same discriminatory behaviors they currently engage in.

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