Liz but on Bluesky
@lizzz.bsky.social
Trying my best -- often failing, but occasionally succeeding.
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The scope of Trump's campaign to drive trans Americans from public life is vast. On the last day of 2025, Evan Urquhart attempts to capture all of what we lost.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
The Year We Lost Everything — Assigned
An authoritarian government, a captured press and cowardice at the head of most major institutions led to a year of losses for trans people’s safety and equality in the US.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The scope of Trump's campaign to drive trans Americans from public life is vast. On the last day of 2025, Evan Urquhart attempts to capture all of what we lost.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Then this piece, again for DAME. I feel like this had the best response of anything I wrote this year? Watching it go viral was a real pleasure.
Really, the big takeaway I wanted people to get from this was to be patient. This could be a very long struggle.
Really, the big takeaway I wanted people to get from this was to be patient. This could be a very long struggle.
Anti-Fascist Movements Have Succeeded in the Past. Can They Work in the U.S.? - Dame Magazine
For many of us, the idea of life under dictatorship tends to conjure images from George Orwell’s 1984, where we imagine the government is all-powerful, and resistance is futile. Perhaps that’s where t...
www.damemagazine.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Then this piece, again for DAME. I feel like this had the best response of anything I wrote this year? Watching it go viral was a real pleasure.
Really, the big takeaway I wanted people to get from this was to be patient. This could be a very long struggle.
Really, the big takeaway I wanted people to get from this was to be patient. This could be a very long struggle.
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Izolde is a delightful trans woman who comes to the trans nerd meet up regularly, and a valued member of the community.
Alas, she's going thru a rough patch. And it's the end of the month, and a shitty time to be seeking a job and new housing. Can you please help her survive until January? <3
Alas, she's going thru a rough patch. And it's the end of the month, and a shitty time to be seeking a job and new housing. Can you please help her survive until January? <3
rent fundraiser for this month, b/c it's mid-december and i'm still unemployed and at this point that is not changing before year end. i will bring in *some* amount of money this month but atm i'm assuming it's not gonna be a ton.
ko-fi.com/iafishman/go...
#helpsky #transcrowdfund
ko-fi.com/iafishman/go...
#helpsky #transcrowdfund
Support Izolde Fishman
Support Izolde Fishman
ko-fi.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Izolde is a delightful trans woman who comes to the trans nerd meet up regularly, and a valued member of the community.
Alas, she's going thru a rough patch. And it's the end of the month, and a shitty time to be seeking a job and new housing. Can you please help her survive until January? <3
Alas, she's going thru a rough patch. And it's the end of the month, and a shitty time to be seeking a job and new housing. Can you please help her survive until January? <3
This is what we could have had. Instead we have little surveillance machines in our pockets.
December 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This is what we could have had. Instead we have little surveillance machines in our pockets.
Y'all, I'm trying to figure out how to share creative stuff that is least aligned with a hideous tech platform, as well as how to accept payment (tips, membership, product) with the least potential for censorship.
My creative work isn't necessarily controversial, but it often deals with complex
My creative work isn't necessarily controversial, but it often deals with complex
December 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Y'all, I'm trying to figure out how to share creative stuff that is least aligned with a hideous tech platform, as well as how to accept payment (tips, membership, product) with the least potential for censorship.
My creative work isn't necessarily controversial, but it often deals with complex
My creative work isn't necessarily controversial, but it often deals with complex
So I'm going to be getting like 100 of these and if you want one, you should let me know.
Just put in an order for these stickers today so fingies crossed I receive them in time to hand out for my birthday.
December 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
So I'm going to be getting like 100 of these and if you want one, you should let me know.
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John Carpenter’s THE THING is a Christmas movie.
December 6, 2025 at 3:23 AM
John Carpenter’s THE THING is a Christmas movie.
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Remembering and celebrating the late, great Carrie Fisher with this still-brilliant piece of art by @lindsayvanekart.bsky.social (Prints of which you can still order from Lindsay's site)...
August 10, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Remembering and celebrating the late, great Carrie Fisher with this still-brilliant piece of art by @lindsayvanekart.bsky.social (Prints of which you can still order from Lindsay's site)...
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"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't
Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.
bit.ly
December 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
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It’s hard to believe that one man can cause so much stress, so much fear, so much pain and suffering…a man who took an oath to preserve and protect our Constitution. This man, who is inciting terror across our land, must be removed from office. In a sane world, it would happen immediately.
December 27, 2025 at 2:26 AM
It’s hard to believe that one man can cause so much stress, so much fear, so much pain and suffering…a man who took an oath to preserve and protect our Constitution. This man, who is inciting terror across our land, must be removed from office. In a sane world, it would happen immediately.
Just put in an order for these stickers today so fingies crossed I receive them in time to hand out for my birthday.
December 27, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Just put in an order for these stickers today so fingies crossed I receive them in time to hand out for my birthday.
This administration has committed so many acts of abysmal embarrassment, but by far the most embarrassing has to be the fact that PDF editors warn you that merely obscuring the text does not remove it.
December 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This administration has committed so many acts of abysmal embarrassment, but by far the most embarrassing has to be the fact that PDF editors warn you that merely obscuring the text does not remove it.
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ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people … with a smaller facility holding up to 1,500 people in Woodbury. wapo.st/4axtwZ4
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
wapo.st
December 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people … with a smaller facility holding up to 1,500 people in Woodbury. wapo.st/4axtwZ4
We wouldn't need to see his name in the files if we just believed girls and women.
December 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
We wouldn't need to see his name in the files if we just believed girls and women.
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ICE whistles work.
The horns and whistles work
What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
www.motherjones.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
ICE whistles work.
Oh how much I miss my puppy 💔
December 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Oh how much I miss my puppy 💔
How is it possible for such a little guy to leave such a big hole in my heart?
What a bittersweet gift it is to hurt so much because I loved so hard.
What a bittersweet gift it is to hurt so much because I loved so hard.
December 17, 2025 at 5:48 AM
How is it possible for such a little guy to leave such a big hole in my heart?
What a bittersweet gift it is to hurt so much because I loved so hard.
What a bittersweet gift it is to hurt so much because I loved so hard.
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CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the hate group expanding its presence in Tennessee
They are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the middle of American cities and claiming to be patriots.
www.newschannel5.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
Missing my Matty. How can a creature so small create an absence so painfully large?
December 16, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Missing my Matty. How can a creature so small create an absence so painfully large?
Everything is so different without my puppy.
I don't even care that I totally became the crazy dog mom stereotype because Matty was actually that good, and if you had known him the way I did, you would make him your whole personality too.
I don't even care that I totally became the crazy dog mom stereotype because Matty was actually that good, and if you had known him the way I did, you would make him your whole personality too.
December 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Everything is so different without my puppy.
I don't even care that I totally became the crazy dog mom stereotype because Matty was actually that good, and if you had known him the way I did, you would make him your whole personality too.
I don't even care that I totally became the crazy dog mom stereotype because Matty was actually that good, and if you had known him the way I did, you would make him your whole personality too.
Yes, the United States has a domestic terrorism problem, but it's certainly not "antifa."
December 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Yes, the United States has a domestic terrorism problem, but it's certainly not "antifa."
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13 years ago today.
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
13 years ago today.
Earthquake? ... !
December 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Earthquake? ... !
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i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.
I'm not even kidding -- the few times I've tried using AI, I always end up frustrated and doing the task myself in less time than it took me to iterate through multiple useless turns.
December 13, 2025 at 4:51 AM
I'm not even kidding -- the few times I've tried using AI, I always end up frustrated and doing the task myself in less time than it took me to iterate through multiple useless turns.