Sam
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Sam
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the worst of both worlds
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Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."
January 26, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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New video shows the man who was killed moments before the shooting.

He was peacefully standing in the street observing before ICE agents started pushing him for no reason.
January 24, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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Transphobes (including “gender-critical feminists”) are fascists.

Not ‘fascist enabling’
Not ‘fascist adjacent’
Not ‘collaborating with fascists’

They are fascism’s core, fascism front and centre.
There's an anti-trans protest in manchester and it has:

* Local Fascists who are usually at the anti-asylum hotel protests
* "radical feminists"
* A guy with an huge cross
* A guy who keeps getting in trouble locally for shouting "Christ is king Fk Islam!"
* LGB Alliance and Women's Rights Network.
January 24, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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Oh look, all the same Dems that voted for criminal bans on gender affirming care and medicaid coverage bans voted for the ICE gestapo funding.
Per Jake Sherman, the Democrats who voted for it all hail from Trump districts
Henry Cuellar #TX28
Vicente Gonzalez #TX34
Jared Golden #ME02
Tom Suozzi #NY03
Don Davis #NC01
Gluesenkamp Perez #WA03
Gillen NY04
January 22, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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making me think about retirement homes as ersatz death camps and the meaning of a system being what it does 🫠
Just thinking about how those in aged care require constant help in both intimidate day to day settings and are managed in groups re: airborne transmissible diseases

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
January 22, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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Here's a 2018 Jezebel article by Harron Walker that spells out how Jesse Singal was busy radicalizing "left-of-center" journalists in a closed listserv against youth transition.

Nobody gave a fuck.
January 21, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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I and trans writers before me have gone repeatedly into tracing the trajectory of the 2010s, where we went from the first bathroom bill in NC resulting mass boycotts to over 1000 anti-trans bills being introduced by 2025.

There was a deliberate, targeted shift in discourse!
One of the reasons it’s a problem that Democrats keep ceding ground to transphobes is that it actually just helps conservatives get more votes by not contesting any of the transphobic shit that conservatives are using as a gateway message
January 21, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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Sulzberger’s nyt has played a major role in moving this radical, bigoted discourse into the mainstream. He platformed Singal and for years gave a Singal adherent, Pamela Paul, free rein to spread disinformation and sow hate
Here's a 2018 Jezebel article by Harron Walker that spells out how Jesse Singal was busy radicalizing "left-of-center" journalists in a closed listserv against youth transition.

Nobody gave a fuck.
January 21, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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prospect.org/2026/01/14/i...

You don't need to share Pink News' regurgitation of a story broken by other outlets, you can share original reporting instead.
January 20, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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Brianna Ghey was targeted by classmates who knew her offline. Online, she made friends and a community, and was making content to help other trans kids like her.

This is a grieving mother pushing for legislation that would have further isolated her trans child, that is supported by transphobes.
January 19, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. we can calculate the area under the curve using integration, which corresponds to net unnecessary suffering aaaand wow that's a really big number, i see now why we don't normally do this
December 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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i am a religious and political extremist
January 19, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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maybe we should make people who need pain relief experience 2 years real life experience pain management and require 2 referral letters from a therapist in order to treat their pain
January 19, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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some of u are afraid of doing something that is safer for the body than tylenol and it shows
January 19, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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"if there's a biological aspect to being trans then that could have troubling implications"

okay but what does that have to do with whether its true
January 18, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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Please don't mistake my sexual exuberance with being in any way capable of knowing when someone likes me. Like please hold up a neon sign. I assume I'm bothering everyone
January 18, 2026 at 4:19 AM
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Person with traceable online presence going back decades: "this Newsom character seems like bad news."

Tomasina_Cats1965.bsky.social with @ pfp who has only ever posted one other time, six months ago, to say they have valid concerns about trans kids: "The right is at it again 🙄"
January 18, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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in case you didn't understand why transphobic rhetoric worried us so much about this guy, well it's because it's a signal that shit like this is coming next.
January 16, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.
​Newport co-ed cheerleading team is at center of Trump transgender athlete crackdown​Trump admin focuses on swimming, cheerleading in Maine transgender athlete probes
The U.S. Department of Education announced a slew of Title IX-related investigations this week that include 2 school districts in Maine.
www.pressherald.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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Can i just say I really don’t agree with this idea they fear puberty blockers cause it means trans people pass for cis better if they get them. That gives way too much credit to forethought and thinking about trans youth as potential trans adults to these transphobes. Its all about control over kids
January 15, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Ultimately the crackdown on transness has never been about trans people its never been about us. Its the struggle between the firm hand of heteronormative patriarchy and the freedom of feminism, bodily autonomy, reproductive rights. We are just the border where that war is fought
There’s just no subtlety or smarts to transphobic thought and its a mistake to assign it any. Its a very base and banal thing. Just the manifestation of belief in the base structures of patriarchal heterosexual society and that people should know their place in it
January 15, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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Lmfao men are such fucking losers 💀💀💀
January 13, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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there's going to be a temptation to say that she had this coming but the reality is that this is about a billionaire misogynist pedophile eugenicist asserting himself over a woman and the products of her reproductive labor to rob her of child by using the courts he has contracted into his service.
January 12, 2026 at 5:38 PM