Ember 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🐍
@embershadows.bsky.social
Don't post a lot of my own. Happily nb and enjoy being at home with my wife and pets.
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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The stupidity of State media and fascist consolidation is the point.
December 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
The stupidity of State media and fascist consolidation is the point.
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This year, many people resigned their posts at the slightest hint that the Trump regime was displeased with them instead of staying and making someone fire them.
Sharyn Alfonsi is showing us why you stay and refuse: you make clear your superiors are wrong and may them pay the costs of firing you.
Sharyn Alfonsi is showing us why you stay and refuse: you make clear your superiors are wrong and may them pay the costs of firing you.
Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
December 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This year, many people resigned their posts at the slightest hint that the Trump regime was displeased with them instead of staying and making someone fire them.
Sharyn Alfonsi is showing us why you stay and refuse: you make clear your superiors are wrong and may them pay the costs of firing you.
Sharyn Alfonsi is showing us why you stay and refuse: you make clear your superiors are wrong and may them pay the costs of firing you.
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COLORADO — Trump rejects a federal disaster relief request, because the state is run by Democrats.
Sen. Bennet: “Trump continues to use Coloradans for political games; it is malicious and obscene.” www.denver7.com/news/local-n...
Sen. Bennet: “Trump continues to use Coloradans for political games; it is malicious and obscene.” www.denver7.com/news/local-n...
December 22, 2025 at 5:34 AM
COLORADO — Trump rejects a federal disaster relief request, because the state is run by Democrats.
Sen. Bennet: “Trump continues to use Coloradans for political games; it is malicious and obscene.” www.denver7.com/news/local-n...
Sen. Bennet: “Trump continues to use Coloradans for political games; it is malicious and obscene.” www.denver7.com/news/local-n...
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GOP majority NCGA continues to divert taxpayer dollars to troubled for-profit online learning company.
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
Why NC’s 2 low-performing virtual charter schools say they should be renewed
This is the first time since the schools opened in 2015 that they’ve had to request renewal from the group that oversees charter schools.
www.newsobserver.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
GOP majority NCGA continues to divert taxpayer dollars to troubled for-profit online learning company.
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
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US justice department halts funding for human-trafficking survivors www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US justice department halts funding for human-trafficking survivors
DoJ has nearly $90m appropriated by Congress to support victims, but organizations say funding has been cut
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
US justice department halts funding for human-trafficking survivors www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This is what happens when you allow the executive to have arbitrary power over "some" people: it instantaneously morphs into arbitrary power over EVERYONE, because one use of arbitrary power is to undermine the boundaries between status categories
WE LEARNED THIS SHIT IN 1850, FOR FUCK'S SAKE
WE LEARNED THIS SHIT IN 1850, FOR FUCK'S SAKE
This is a terrible, shocking story... they won't believe her but certificate or hospital records evidencing she was born in the US -
ICE Says U.S. Citizen’s Birth Certificate Is Fake After Arresting Her: Attorneys www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
ICE Says U.S. Citizen’s Birth Certificate Is Fake After Arresting Her: Attorneys www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This is what happens when you allow the executive to have arbitrary power over "some" people: it instantaneously morphs into arbitrary power over EVERYONE, because one use of arbitrary power is to undermine the boundaries between status categories
WE LEARNED THIS SHIT IN 1850, FOR FUCK'S SAKE
WE LEARNED THIS SHIT IN 1850, FOR FUCK'S SAKE
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YOUR COMMENTS NEEDED
Weakening the Endangered Species Act!Comments due tomorrow, Dec 22.
Comments needed related to blanket protections for species classified as threatened. Endangered species will still have blanket protections, but threatened will NOT unless there is a species-specific plan.
Weakening the Endangered Species Act!Comments due tomorrow, Dec 22.
Comments needed related to blanket protections for species classified as threatened. Endangered species will still have blanket protections, but threatened will NOT unless there is a species-specific plan.
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
December 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
YOUR COMMENTS NEEDED
Weakening the Endangered Species Act!Comments due tomorrow, Dec 22.
Comments needed related to blanket protections for species classified as threatened. Endangered species will still have blanket protections, but threatened will NOT unless there is a species-specific plan.
Weakening the Endangered Species Act!Comments due tomorrow, Dec 22.
Comments needed related to blanket protections for species classified as threatened. Endangered species will still have blanket protections, but threatened will NOT unless there is a species-specific plan.
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The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has finally received full federal recognition, which it has sought since 1888. Tribal leaders were moved to tears after President Trump signed the measure. n.pr/3L95mJU
North Carolina's Lumbee Tribe receives full federal recognition after 137-year effort
The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has finally received full federal recognition, which it has sought since 1888. Tribal leaders were moved to tears after President Trump signed the measure.
n.pr
December 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has finally received full federal recognition, which it has sought since 1888. Tribal leaders were moved to tears after President Trump signed the measure. n.pr/3L95mJU
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BREAKING: Democrats are now +16 on the general ballot. I don't think I've seen anything like this. Also, this is a A+ poll taken BEFORE the government botched the Epstein release today.
December 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
BREAKING: Democrats are now +16 on the general ballot. I don't think I've seen anything like this. Also, this is a A+ poll taken BEFORE the government botched the Epstein release today.
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The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
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The end goal is eugenicist. RFK and his ilk know that this will make vaccines more expensive and time-consuming — and therefore marginalized children are most likely to fall through the cracks.
This is about killing kids who aren't born to privilege.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
This is about killing kids who aren't born to privilege.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The end goal is eugenicist. RFK and his ilk know that this will make vaccines more expensive and time-consuming — and therefore marginalized children are most likely to fall through the cracks.
This is about killing kids who aren't born to privilege.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
This is about killing kids who aren't born to privilege.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Trump & RFK Jr. are threatening hospitals to stop providing care for trans youth—including in WA state. This is dangerous & wrong.
Families & their doctors know what’s best for them. NOT the federal government. Democrats will fight back.
Families & their doctors know what’s best for them. NOT the federal government. Democrats will fight back.
Federal plan to ban gender care for minors is 'cruel,' state AG says
Pediatricians and legal experts in Washington expressed outrage at Trump administration proposals to effectively ban gender-affirming care for minors.
www.seattletimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Trump & RFK Jr. are threatening hospitals to stop providing care for trans youth—including in WA state. This is dangerous & wrong.
Families & their doctors know what’s best for them. NOT the federal government. Democrats will fight back.
Families & their doctors know what’s best for them. NOT the federal government. Democrats will fight back.
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Doesn’t feel good that the head of BBC News Content is instructing reporters to refer to trans people with slurs. If this leak is real it raises questions about who made this decision, who was consulted, and why the BBC chose to ignore its own editorial guidelines on slurs and offensive language
EXCLUSIVE
The BBC has circulated leaked guidance telling journalists to describe trans women as “biological males”.
Clarity should not come at the cost of dignity. #bbc #humanrights #journalism #transparency #transrights
The BBC has circulated leaked guidance telling journalists to describe trans women as “biological males”.
Clarity should not come at the cost of dignity. #bbc #humanrights #journalism #transparency #transrights
December 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Doesn’t feel good that the head of BBC News Content is instructing reporters to refer to trans people with slurs. If this leak is real it raises questions about who made this decision, who was consulted, and why the BBC chose to ignore its own editorial guidelines on slurs and offensive language
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Disgusting and hateful. @repilhan.bsky.social is a duly elected Member of Congress with more grace, patience, and respect from her constituents than you will ever have, Rep. Fine. Islamophobia is dangerous; this cannot and will not stand.
December 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Disgusting and hateful. @repilhan.bsky.social is a duly elected Member of Congress with more grace, patience, and respect from her constituents than you will ever have, Rep. Fine. Islamophobia is dangerous; this cannot and will not stand.
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Journalists need to ask Trump why the US is reviving the Tuskegee experiments, this time on babies and why he is okay with that.
Ask Bill Cassidy as well.
Ask Bill Cassidy as well.
This is not the first time RFK Jr or his fellow anti-vax travelers conducted a study they knew would harm or kill children in low-income countries. It is a dehumanizing, colonialist model of manufacturing evidence: sacrificing foreign kids for political pseudoscience.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
www.notus.org/health-scien...
CDC to Fund Controversial Study in West Africa on Infant Hepatitis B Vaccines
The study prompted swift outcry from scientists in the U.S. who say it’s “unethical.”
www.notus.org
December 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Journalists need to ask Trump why the US is reviving the Tuskegee experiments, this time on babies and why he is okay with that.
Ask Bill Cassidy as well.
Ask Bill Cassidy as well.
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Today is the deadline to release the Epstein files. The DOJ is refusing to comply.
This is about justice for survivors and holding participants and co-conspirators accountable.
The Epstein Files Act is the law, not a suggestion.
Release the files. Immediately.
This is about justice for survivors and holding participants and co-conspirators accountable.
The Epstein Files Act is the law, not a suggestion.
Release the files. Immediately.
December 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Today is the deadline to release the Epstein files. The DOJ is refusing to comply.
This is about justice for survivors and holding participants and co-conspirators accountable.
The Epstein Files Act is the law, not a suggestion.
Release the files. Immediately.
This is about justice for survivors and holding participants and co-conspirators accountable.
The Epstein Files Act is the law, not a suggestion.
Release the files. Immediately.
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This is an important moment, and we need to explain to the public why it's important.
An agency with the power to decide who gets to broadcast is supposed to be independent from the president so it won't abuse that power. If it's not, then we are letting the president seize the power to censor.
An agency with the power to decide who gets to broadcast is supposed to be independent from the president so it won't abuse that power. If it's not, then we are letting the president seize the power to censor.
LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency?
CARR: I think th---
L: Yes or no
C: There's a test for this in the la---
L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question
C: The FCC is not
L: So is your website lying?
C: Possibly
CARR: I think th---
L: Yes or no
C: There's a test for this in the la---
L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question
C: The FCC is not
L: So is your website lying?
C: Possibly
December 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This is an important moment, and we need to explain to the public why it's important.
An agency with the power to decide who gets to broadcast is supposed to be independent from the president so it won't abuse that power. If it's not, then we are letting the president seize the power to censor.
An agency with the power to decide who gets to broadcast is supposed to be independent from the president so it won't abuse that power. If it's not, then we are letting the president seize the power to censor.
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A counterpoint from a gay man of a certain age: people like me weren’t part of Reagan’s noble idea of a “common humanity,” because we were not, in his eyes, fully human.
Fuck Ronald Reagan, and fuck his “legacy,” which we’re still paying for today.
Fuck Ronald Reagan, and fuck his “legacy,” which we’re still paying for today.
December 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM
A counterpoint from a gay man of a certain age: people like me weren’t part of Reagan’s noble idea of a “common humanity,” because we were not, in his eyes, fully human.
Fuck Ronald Reagan, and fuck his “legacy,” which we’re still paying for today.
Fuck Ronald Reagan, and fuck his “legacy,” which we’re still paying for today.
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I see why Newsom wants to be identified with Reagan, because just like Reagan, he’s abandoning LGBTQ people. Also he’s a neoliberal enabler of capitalist domination and control.
The presidency once served as a reminder of our common humanity. Ronald Reagan described its purpose as building "a nation composed of good and decent people."
December 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I see why Newsom wants to be identified with Reagan, because just like Reagan, he’s abandoning LGBTQ people. Also he’s a neoliberal enabler of capitalist domination and control.
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“We just use AI to generate ideas for our concept art”
Yes, you're just using a plagiarism machine that spits out a mishmash of creativity and ideas from thousands of creative people who didn't consent to their work being used in this way. And you're using this as the foundation for your game. 💀
Yes, you're just using a plagiarism machine that spits out a mishmash of creativity and ideas from thousands of creative people who didn't consent to their work being used in this way. And you're using this as the foundation for your game. 💀
December 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
“We just use AI to generate ideas for our concept art”
Yes, you're just using a plagiarism machine that spits out a mishmash of creativity and ideas from thousands of creative people who didn't consent to their work being used in this way. And you're using this as the foundation for your game. 💀
Yes, you're just using a plagiarism machine that spits out a mishmash of creativity and ideas from thousands of creative people who didn't consent to their work being used in this way. And you're using this as the foundation for your game. 💀
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Trans Kids Deserve Better are outside DHSC protesting the puberty blocker ban
December 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Trans Kids Deserve Better are outside DHSC protesting the puberty blocker ban
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A statue of Barbara Rose Johns, a Black teenager who in 1951 led a walkout of her segregated Virginia high school, replaced one of Robert E Lee in the U.S. Capitol.
www.npr.org/2025/12/16/n...
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Her 1951 walkout helped end school segregation. Now her statue is in the U.S. Capitol
Barbara Rose Johns was 16 when she led a walkout at her high school, credited with helping end school segregation. Her statue replaces Robert E. Lee's, which was removed in 2020.
www.npr.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A statue of Barbara Rose Johns, a Black teenager who in 1951 led a walkout of her segregated Virginia high school, replaced one of Robert E Lee in the U.S. Capitol.
www.npr.org/2025/12/16/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/16/n...
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“let trans kids suffer and die or go to jail for ten years” is state-enforced murder
CALL YOUR REPS
TRANS KIDS DESERVE TO LIVE
THEY NEED YOU 🩷
CALL YOUR REPS
TRANS KIDS DESERVE TO LIVE
THEY NEED YOU 🩷
Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Protect Trans Care Now
As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.
action.aclu.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:44 AM
“let trans kids suffer and die or go to jail for ten years” is state-enforced murder
CALL YOUR REPS
TRANS KIDS DESERVE TO LIVE
THEY NEED YOU 🩷
CALL YOUR REPS
TRANS KIDS DESERVE TO LIVE
THEY NEED YOU 🩷
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Trump announces his golden ballroom may now cost $400 million, which is double the original estimate of $200 million.
This comes as Americans’ health care premiums are set to triple in the next few weeks.
This comes as Americans’ health care premiums are set to triple in the next few weeks.
December 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Trump announces his golden ballroom may now cost $400 million, which is double the original estimate of $200 million.
This comes as Americans’ health care premiums are set to triple in the next few weeks.
This comes as Americans’ health care premiums are set to triple in the next few weeks.