Annie 🖤
@femmefury.bsky.social
Professional lesbian, amateur brain wrangler. Leather dyke Barbie (she/her)
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In sorting my own thoughts about the moment, I began writing about the way science is being used by bad actors under the guise of "evidence-based medicine". I also talk about the limits of our ability to fully boil down evidence into axioms that make subjectivity irrelevant.
The myth of an apolitical science — Jessica Kant
What we might call the modern anti-science movement, starting with efforts to hide the obvious linkage between tobacco and cancer, and the rise of “climate skepticism”, has grown in scale enormously i...
jessk.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
In sorting my own thoughts about the moment, I began writing about the way science is being used by bad actors under the guise of "evidence-based medicine". I also talk about the limits of our ability to fully boil down evidence into axioms that make subjectivity irrelevant.
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So much of recent history can be explained by the popularization of this idea that empathy and compassion are somehow gateways to evil. When our species dies out and this planet becomes a lifeless rock, it will be this ideology that got us there.
Can empathy lead to sin? Some conservative Christians argue it can
Some voices on the Christian right are arguing the virtue of empathy has become a vice. Those Christians claim empathy can manipulate people into accepting what they see as sins, like abortion access ...
apnews.com
August 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
So much of recent history can be explained by the popularization of this idea that empathy and compassion are somehow gateways to evil. When our species dies out and this planet becomes a lifeless rock, it will be this ideology that got us there.
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There is only one possible ending to this story, and sports aren't the last chapter. I guarantee that if you haven't lost five decades of rights in two weeks, you have no idea what this feels like, so I'm begging you: protect trans kids right now with everything you've got.
July 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
There is only one possible ending to this story, and sports aren't the last chapter. I guarantee that if you haven't lost five decades of rights in two weeks, you have no idea what this feels like, so I'm begging you: protect trans kids right now with everything you've got.
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"To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery”
July 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
"To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery”
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"Go where you may, search where you will ... search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the every day practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival"
FD, 7/5/1852
FD, 7/5/1852
July 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
"Go where you may, search where you will ... search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the every day practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival"
FD, 7/5/1852
FD, 7/5/1852
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When you're not in the room and no one is around to make excuses, this is the message your youngest constituents are left with. If you're okay with this, you need to rethink what you believe your job is.
If you have never had a child ask you "why do they hate us?" when all the cis people leave the room, trust me when I say your blood turns to cold vinegar. What do you say when the world they came into was so much better than what it is now? How do you apologize for failing to stop that?
May 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
When you're not in the room and no one is around to make excuses, this is the message your youngest constituents are left with. If you're okay with this, you need to rethink what you believe your job is.
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Oh, you're on bluesky @massdems.bsky.social? I think you'll find that once you're off Elon and Zuckerberg's echo chambers, your constituents are a lot less forgiving when you don't stand with trans kids.
May 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Oh, you're on bluesky @massdems.bsky.social? I think you'll find that once you're off Elon and Zuckerberg's echo chambers, your constituents are a lot less forgiving when you don't stand with trans kids.
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Miss me with the study order excuse. Any "strategy" that involves sidestepping a clear statement of direct support for trans youth at a time that they're being relentlessly denigrated and attacked is not only not good enough, it's cowardly and offensive. Do better.
📢 www.massdems.org/contact
📢 www.massdems.org/contact
May 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Miss me with the study order excuse. Any "strategy" that involves sidestepping a clear statement of direct support for trans youth at a time that they're being relentlessly denigrated and attacked is not only not good enough, it's cowardly and offensive. Do better.
📢 www.massdems.org/contact
📢 www.massdems.org/contact
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Host: You could call and get Abrego Garcia back.
Trump: I could
Host: But the Supreme Court has ordered you to facilitate his release.
Trump: I'm not the one making this decision
Host: You're the president!
Trump: I could
Host: But the Supreme Court has ordered you to facilitate his release.
Trump: I'm not the one making this decision
Host: You're the president!
April 30, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Host: You could call and get Abrego Garcia back.
Trump: I could
Host: But the Supreme Court has ordered you to facilitate his release.
Trump: I'm not the one making this decision
Host: You're the president!
Trump: I could
Host: But the Supreme Court has ordered you to facilitate his release.
Trump: I'm not the one making this decision
Host: You're the president!
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"While at face it comes across as simply a giant blog for badly-written opinion articles, it has a much darker side than just vapid posts on “hook-up culture” ... Psychology today is host to an extraordinary number of conversion therapists."
April 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"While at face it comes across as simply a giant blog for badly-written opinion articles, it has a much darker side than just vapid posts on “hook-up culture” ... Psychology today is host to an extraordinary number of conversion therapists."
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Unexpected full page in today's Observer on yesterday's protests and it doesn't interview a single GC for 'balance'
April 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Unexpected full page in today's Observer on yesterday's protests and it doesn't interview a single GC for 'balance'
This whole thread is horrifying.
This is already a reality in some states. Under a new, virulently anti-trans HHS, there is no chance of this being taken upon again beyond the Texas Supreme Court, and DFPS has been weaponized for years. Meanwhile, RFK jr and Gradison have already signaled a desire to make this national policy.
Nauseating ruling that previous HHS requirements prohibiting trans children from being placed with deliberately unaffirming foster families violates Texas law. In part, they argue it would interfere with the ability of DFPS to investigate affirming families.
law.justia.com/cases/federa...
law.justia.com/cases/federa...
March 31, 2025 at 3:55 AM
This whole thread is horrifying.
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Ever since Fulton was decided in 2021, the right has been accelerating plans to dismantle protections for LGBTQ young people in adoption and foster care. In 2023, this kicked into overdrive after Biden announced new guidelines. Now Project 2025 aims to repurpose these systems as tools of conversion.
The battle over trans youth in social services — Jessica Kant
For many years, the social services have been an under-reported battleground in the fight over LGBTQ youth. Spanning adoption, foster care, and the systems most frequently referred to as “child protec...
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March 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Ever since Fulton was decided in 2021, the right has been accelerating plans to dismantle protections for LGBTQ young people in adoption and foster care. In 2023, this kicked into overdrive after Biden announced new guidelines. Now Project 2025 aims to repurpose these systems as tools of conversion.
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"I want to live somewhere my own government doesn’t want me dead."
Finding the courage to flee U.S. to save my trans daughter
‘My child has begged for her safety so I must go’
www.washingtonblade.com
March 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
"I want to live somewhere my own government doesn’t want me dead."
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We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.
March 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
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NYC ACT-UP march is on the move toward the #TeslaTakedown.
March 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
NYC ACT-UP march is on the move toward the #TeslaTakedown.
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It's useful to watch changes in ADF priorities in real time by watching which meta ads they're running. New shifts highlight the way gender care was the onramp to abortion we all said it was as, now with Trump in office, their ads have switched from trans issues to abortion. And boy are they giddy.
March 3, 2025 at 4:33 AM
It's useful to watch changes in ADF priorities in real time by watching which meta ads they're running. New shifts highlight the way gender care was the onramp to abortion we all said it was as, now with Trump in office, their ads have switched from trans issues to abortion. And boy are they giddy.
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Either transgender Americans are important enough to warrant year after year of breathless coverage questioning their healthcare and existence, or they're so insignificant that destroying their rights is the "least consequential" action of a presidency. www.readtpa.com/p/not-exactl...
"Not Exactly Consequential": NYT Dismisses Trump's War on Trans Americans
After years of trans panic coverage, the paper now claims attacks on trans rights barely matter.
www.readtpa.com
March 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Either transgender Americans are important enough to warrant year after year of breathless coverage questioning their healthcare and existence, or they're so insignificant that destroying their rights is the "least consequential" action of a presidency. www.readtpa.com/p/not-exactl...
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If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
February 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
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"mandatory death penalty" ah yes very Catholic
March 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
"mandatory death penalty" ah yes very Catholic
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Immigrants are about the same share of the population 2000-Present as they were from 1860-1930. I do not see this as a problem at all.
March 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Immigrants are about the same share of the population 2000-Present as they were from 1860-1930. I do not see this as a problem at all.
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“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has scrapped privacy provisions which otherwise protected people from surveillance based on sexual orientation or gender identity alone”
DHS Scraps Surveillance Guardrails for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
If you’re able to violate the civil rights of one person or community, then there’s no limit to it, one expert warns.
truthout.org
March 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has scrapped privacy provisions which otherwise protected people from surveillance based on sexual orientation or gender identity alone”
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I mentioned this above, but, just to hammer the point home:
The White House ordering DOJ to drop pending prosecutions is a breach of the department’s traditional independence that would be an earthshaking scandal under ordinary circumstances.
To clarify this, Trump commuted the sentences of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers convicted in seditious conspiracy cases. He has pardoned everyone else who was convicted, including those who assaulted the police. And he has ordered DOJ to drop any pending cases.
January 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I mentioned this above, but, just to hammer the point home:
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I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.
ABC White House correspondent just released ANOTHER anti-trans EO expected that we did not cover in our piece this morning:
A federal ban on funding to programs that acknowledge and affirm transgender people.
A federal ban on funding to programs that acknowledge and affirm transgender people.
January 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.