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polerin

@polerin.bsky.social

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White trans woman, radical lefty, geek, pro web dev, derbyDerbyDerby. Will eat for food, & rock your face off. Or on. On is good. Seattle-ish

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polerin @polerin.bsky.social · Aug 25

I cannot state this strongly enough:

Trans healthcare is literally lifesaving. I would not be here today if it were not a thing.

It is not something that can be put off in a healthy way, it is not a frivolous lark. We exist, and we hurt in ways that most cis people cannot start to understand.

Truthout @truthout.org · Aug 25

On Friday, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management issued a memo announcing that, beginning in 2026, all federal employee health plans will be barred from covering gender-affirming care for both transgender youth and adults.

Trump Admin Memo Bars Federal Health Plans From Covering Gender-Affirming Care

The memo also mandates that insurers cover “faith-based counseling,” otherwise known as conversion therapy.

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 11h

It also includes Taylor Lorenz, who spreads conspiracy theories and misinformation on several topics.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15h

Holy shit. Friends, here is a panel on the question "why don't Americans trust the media?'

I scrolled ... scrolled ... increasingly amazed ... scrolled ...

Nope. No one so much as *mentions* the 6-decade, billionaire-funded campaign by the right to destroy trust in media! Not even in passing!

Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?, by Jelani Cobb, Taylor Lorenz, Jack Shafer, Max Tani

Anatomy of a credibility crisis

harpers.org

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 8h

can't find a better example of "police cause riots" than the cops turning off the TV at a bar to make a bunch of drunk sports fans extremely angry.

Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 9h

Los Angeles, CA -

LAPD has commanded The Douglas, the nearest bar to Dodger Stadium to turn off the televisions. They are now calling unlawful assembly, though as far as I can tell the only signs of anything are people on the sidewalk. It is the 9th inning.

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☠️ Texas Lanesaw Massacree ☠️ @runnerlane.bsky.social · 10h

Givin’g ‘em the ol’ razzle dazzle.

Blue Jays Clement Sliding home with some pizazz.

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polerin @polerin.bsky.social · 10h

that last part is the key. we aren't actually profitable

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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 12h

Per a conversation w/ @thefallingdream.bsky.social:

"AI Psychosis": ableist, saneist, makes it seem like an individual problem; washed

"AI Ensorcellment": highlights both the truth of the magico-religious commitments underlying all tech *&* the curse-like nature of systemic "AI" impositions; fire

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T. L. @poemless.bsky.social · 19h

And I cannot even get into how many people in our community are here because they or their parents or grandparents were being hunted and terrorized in Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia & the Soviet Union.

They know what this is. They know it's happening here.

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T. L. @poemless.bsky.social · 19h

Schools went on lockdown, people stayed inside. It lasted the entire afternoon. A constant din of whistles, sirens, helicopters, people shouting. Or dead silence.

I see the NYT, New Yorker, commentariat frame it as "activists clashing with ICE."

No.

ICE/CBP/DHS are terrorizing US citizens.

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T. L. @poemless.bsky.social · 20h

The viral videos show horrifying events, but do not capture the fact that they were EVERYWHERE and took people from at least 3 separate neighborhoods. This was not a one street, one incident event. It was a military style siege stretching from Calvary cemetery to Skokie.

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T. L. @poemless.bsky.social · 20h

Some context to the viral videos:

Around 9am Friday, ICE/CBP *encircled* several square miles of a safe suburb and *stormed* it using multiple units.

They were in cars, on foot in alleys & gangways, and in helicopters. They demanded papers, threatened residents, pointed guns, kidnapped people.

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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · 13h

ICE detained a Virginia mom while she was driving her 16yo daughter to school bc she couldn’t recall her SS#.

“The agent got flustered and lunged at her,” said her daughter.

ICE arrested her even after she showed proof of legal status.

“I want this video out there because I want my mother home.”

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12h

Kash Patel was angry about his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician girlfriend perform so he forced out a senior FBI official overseeing aviation, Bloomberg reports

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The FBI forced out a senior official overseeing aviation shortly after Director Kash Patel grew outraged about revelations of his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician girlfriend perform, said three people familiar with the situation.

Steven Palmer, a 27-year veteran of the FBI, became the third head of the critical incident response group—which includes FBI pilots—to be fired or removed in Patel’s short regime, adding to a year filled with retributive terminations.

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Tanisha @tanishaevonne.bsky.social · 2d

Take those dollars you were planning to spend vacationing in the Caribbean and donate them towards restoring the Caribbean.

Jamaica. Cuba. Haiti.

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polerin @polerin.bsky.social · 11h

honestly that looks comfy

polerin @polerin.bsky.social · 11h

nope is nasty though, Josh doesn't deserve that kind of beat up

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demon core vidal @regretagarbo.rip · 12h

twitter hiding replies from me is how my stalker was able to reply to me for months talking about raping me and cutting me into pieces without my knowledge. he was violating my protection order and i didn’t even know it.

it kept him out of jail.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 13h

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT

Hiding replies without my consent is *dangerous to me*

I use the mute function extremely carefully for a reason

I need to know if people are being violent at me so I can take action to protect myself

I need to be able to choose for myself who hidden

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Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 13h

Thanks I hate it.

Also like I enjoy artisinal blocking, and I want to know if people are saying toxic things to me so I can deny them access to my posts in the future???

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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 12h

As an autistic person, it is driving me fucking MAD that millions of "Christians" think this is okay.

Wouldn't interrupting Mass be like an enormous, biblical level sin? You're keeping Christians from being saved. Like you're the fucking Antichrist.

I am being driven up a wall.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 21h

At Broadview ICE detention facility for Mass today, Fr. David Inczauskis, SJ reveals “tragic” and “devastating” news that a member of group bearing Guadalupe Banner to Mass today, was detained by ICE this morning in procession to detention facility.

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TAKA! TORA! BATTA! @sourcedumal.bsky.social · 13h

Wanna become a criminal? Just be a cop

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 17h

20 police officers across the state of Mississippi, including TWO elected sheriffs, were just arrested on charges of providing police escort for drug and weapons trafficking across state lines in exchange for bribes

“Most are still employed today” - the DA IN this presser youtu.be/tzuGfqdQvjs?...

'Monumental betrayal of public trust' Mississippi officers arrested

YouTube video by 16 WAPT News Jackson

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 13h

The ceasefire continues according to virtually every media outlet. Israel is demolishing entire neighbourhoods in Gaza to make sure Palestinians never go back.

The genocide is ongoing

Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 13h

Israel razes entire neighbourhoods east of Khan Younis: Report - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-razes-entire-neighbourhoods-east-khan-younis-report

Israel razes entire neighbourhoods east of Khan Younis: Report

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polerin @polerin.bsky.social · 13h

nice country you got here....

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14h

It’s really incredible to me what an enormous reveal it is that the Dem establishment has been fighting tooth and nail against what is legitimately, when you really get down to it, such a MINOR move forward of “I just want to make your life a little easier with some child care and a free bus ride.”

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 14h

better: while not starting off with a roll of duct tape, his “here’s how it could feel better” is achievable even before The Revolution or whatever. doesn’t appear to be simple bluster. i appreciate that.

now. if my *own* mayoral candidate weren’t corrupt & colluding with ice, i’d be set.

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Tea’s so happy being Teddy Roosevelt @teaberryblue.net · 14h

Anyway, SNAP should be universal. Just like school lunches in NYC. Not everyone needs it to survive but everybody gets it, no means testing.

There should also be a lot fewer regulations on what you can buy with SNAP and discounts, not bans, on hot prepared foods.

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polerin @polerin.bsky.social · 20h

sheesus. ok I will definitely need to make sure we are trying to preserve visitor parking at the detention center.

fuck I hate all of this

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 20h

🧊✈️ SEATTLE SURGE 🧐

This is the third day in a row that ICE Air has visited Seattle, with two flights on Thursday, and one each Friday and today.

Strong indications that a massive ICE roundup is underway in the Pacific Northwest ⤵️

JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 21h

🧊🛩️ HEADS UP SEATTLE‼️⚠️

👉 ICE Air inbound to Boeing Field

Key Lime Air Embraer 145

Tail: N975DC – ETA 10:20am 👀

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Emerging Crises @emergingcrises.bsky.social · 23h

'The cumulative effect of multiple reinforcing dynamics is placing the nation on a trajectory toward competitive authoritarianism: a system in which elections, courts, and other democratic institutions persist in form but are systematically manipulated to entrench executive control.'

Robert @bearchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s help get this report out. 27 pages of talking points to your GOP family or parents deliver on Thanksgiving. Send to your reps. Email the pdf call their office request they read it. GOP staffers do answer their home office lines sometimes.

open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...

Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline

The Steady State | October 16, 2025

open.substack.com

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 20h

In today's edition of "it's the Reagan 80s all over again"

GibbertyFlibbet @thecorrection.bsky.social · 1d

If global airlines can't trust connections to be made through the US...

they're going to route around. Expect a small but measurable uptick through Canada and Mexico.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

80% of air traffic controllers absent at New York facilities.

The system is at breaking point.