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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 33m

Westland's Jacquie Grant poised to become NZ's second transgender mayor

www.rnz.co.nz/news/n...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Westland's Jacquie Grant poised to become NZ's second transgender mayor

"I think people are more interested in what's between my ears than what was between my legs 55 years ago."

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 32m

This is just horrifying. The fear of ICE raids and the conditions in detention centers are causing immigrants who have been here for years to self deport, leaving
their families behind.

Feeling hopeless in custody, many drop claims to remain in the US, leave voluntarily

His health declined at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Tacoma, Washington..

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 9h

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Modern Day Bartleby @moderndaybartleby.bsky.social · 27m

There is no antifa and there is no havoc on our streets outside of what ICE has wrought.
The Democratic lawmaker in Minnesota was assassinated by a right winger.
We are living through a horrific cycle of fascism from Republicans like Bondi

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

this is fucking obscene

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 1h

24 people shot in a South Carolina bar. 9 dead in 5 shootings in Mississippi. So troops will be sent in to these violent Trumplandia hellholes, right? Right?

At least 9 dead across Mississippi after 5 shootings this weekend

Most of the shootings happened after high school football games Friday night. The last two happened at Alcorn State and Jackson State University Saturday.

www.wlox.com

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Andrew Longhofer @andrewlonghofer.bsky.social · 3h

they had a reason, and brett kavanaugh told them it was an acceptable reason, despite it being unconstitutional and immoral

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 22h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 2h

Therefore they are about 'entrepreneurs of memory' (ref: Marie Claire Lavabre) building (many reasons: political, financial gain, social cohesion, shaping of a 'national identity', etc.) a collective memory.

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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 2h

Statues are a work of selection aimed at turning a moment / a figure into a historical representation of the past and of the country.

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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 3h

there continues to be a shallow reading of what the toppling of statue is about (for political purposes). Misinterpretation is a way to indeed deny the importance of that historical moment of protest.

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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 3h

'I don’t think it’s ever a good idea to deny history. I think it’s always really important to face your own history honestly ...'

Toppling statues is an act of protest. It's about contesting a collective memory. NEVER about denying history.
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I don’t think it’s ever a good idea t...

The British Museum director on toppling statues, the Parthenon marbles and hosting London’s new star-studded answer to the Met Gala

observer.co.uk

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 59m

Some commentators have begun complaining about the declining proportion of “white British” in the UK population. Let’s call this turn what it is: racist, writes @benansell.bsky.social.

Who’s ‘white British’? Who cares?

Politicians seem to be fuelling racist debate about what it means to be British, rather than calling it out

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 55m

U.S. measles cases continue to climb, with outbreaks across the country : NPR www.npr.org/2025/10/12/n...

U.S. measles cases continue to climb, with outbreaks across the country

In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 5h

Conservatives have built their own social media platforms, Trump has his own Twitter alternative, his allies are buying major social media platforms to weaponize for their propaganda and influence and we’re still arguing if having a left-leaning social media platform is a bad thing

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9h

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Modern Day Bartleby @moderndaybartleby.bsky.social · 1h

Fascinating how the people most Anti-Christy don't realize THEY are the evil they describe

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 22h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Monster-Theory Medium Dave @azzageddi.myatproto.social · 1h

ONE-PIECE?? I’m used to the techno-fascists misinterpreting science fiction, but “Monkey D Luffy is Christ, his straw hat analogous to the crown of thorns” is some real C-plus-in-freshman-essay-level thinking.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 22h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about