Universal Public Freak
@madroselaw.bsky.social
Chicago area transgender lawyer fighting for a world with dignity and equality for all. Also TTRPGs, Math, and Labor. The Office of the Public Guardian must be destroyed.
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I’m old enough to remember the strike that happened a whole year ago because companies like Netflix claimed they don’t have enough money to pay residuals to actors for their work. Netflix has $82 Billion to buy Warner Bros.
December 6, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I’m old enough to remember the strike that happened a whole year ago because companies like Netflix claimed they don’t have enough money to pay residuals to actors for their work. Netflix has $82 Billion to buy Warner Bros.
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I am genuinely losing my mind. The joke is, prima facie, objectively true.
The reason Westport has continued to suck and decline in quality over the last decade is because it is literally in the death grip of racist petite bourgeoisie
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The reason Westport has continued to suck and decline in quality over the last decade is because it is literally in the death grip of racist petite bourgeoisie
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December 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I am genuinely losing my mind. The joke is, prima facie, objectively true.
The reason Westport has continued to suck and decline in quality over the last decade is because it is literally in the death grip of racist petite bourgeoisie
bsky.app/profile/utop...
The reason Westport has continued to suck and decline in quality over the last decade is because it is literally in the death grip of racist petite bourgeoisie
bsky.app/profile/utop...
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The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public
December 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public
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the person who named the Woolly Mammoth should’ve been able to name more things
December 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
the person who named the Woolly Mammoth should’ve been able to name more things
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Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.
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“We’re the Discrimination Secret Police, here to discriminate against you. All persons of the nationalities to be given unequal protection of law, please step to the side so that we can use an undue process to deny your liberty.”
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
“We’re the Discrimination Secret Police, here to discriminate against you. All persons of the nationalities to be given unequal protection of law, please step to the side so that we can use an undue process to deny your liberty.”
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It’s not “nationalism” in any American sense, loyal to the Constitution or values it embodies. It’s a white internationale intent on drawing a cordon blanc, you might say — and coldly willing to place democratic multiracial societies with long ties of loyalty to the U.S. outside of it.
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
It’s not “nationalism” in any American sense, loyal to the Constitution or values it embodies. It’s a white internationale intent on drawing a cordon blanc, you might say — and coldly willing to place democratic multiracial societies with long ties of loyalty to the U.S. outside of it.
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The final tragedy of Donald Trump will be that he will die more peacefully than he deserves
December 5, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The final tragedy of Donald Trump will be that he will die more peacefully than he deserves
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I wanna say that the point of pushing intersex women out of sports is not just transmisogyny, racism, intersexism, misogyny all play a role here, the boundaries of sex need to be violently enforced to uphold patriarchy
Cis women with higher levels of testosterone, a hormone that all women produce, are being bounced from their sports entirely to punish trans women who are INTENTIONALLY reducing testosterone (among other hormones). None of this makes sense scientifically
December 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I wanna say that the point of pushing intersex women out of sports is not just transmisogyny, racism, intersexism, misogyny all play a role here, the boundaries of sex need to be violently enforced to uphold patriarchy
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Kavanaugh should never be allowed to live down the Kavanaugh stop
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Kavanaugh should never be allowed to live down the Kavanaugh stop
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“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.”
December 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.”
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Yet the transphobes became obsessive about this issue upon trans people in general becoming more salient to them, and act as if _this thing that is already happening and manifestly not causing any great harm despite persisting for decades_ is on the verge of collapsing civilisation!
December 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Yet the transphobes became obsessive about this issue upon trans people in general becoming more salient to them, and act as if _this thing that is already happening and manifestly not causing any great harm despite persisting for decades_ is on the verge of collapsing civilisation!
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This element of the situation is so maddening because it adds this air of unreality to the transphobes statements - and yet they are taken totally seriously by our press and much of our political class. Very obviously people were muddling making accommodations and no great social crisis was caused!
The WI has been trans inclusive since the 70s, before I was born. Do you see who in this scenario was innocently minding their own business, coming to their own arrangements locally? Do you see who is forcefully imposing themselves and their demands upon others, via threats.
December 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This element of the situation is so maddening because it adds this air of unreality to the transphobes statements - and yet they are taken totally seriously by our press and much of our political class. Very obviously people were muddling making accommodations and no great social crisis was caused!
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you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to him!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jeffries: "The border is secure. That's a good thing. It happened on his watch. He wants to claim credit for it, of course he'll get credit for that. In terms of making sure that we actually deal with the issues that matter, including on immigration, there's a lot that's left to be desired."
December 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to him!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Lutnick: "Remember, as you deport people, that's going to suppress private job numbers of small businesses. But they'll rebalance and regrow."
December 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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For anyone who knows anything about genocides and the incitement of genocidal violence, this is the kind of hair-raising stuff you find in transcripts of testimony before special tribunals.
Tom Emmer pushes racist lies on Fox: "80% of the crimes being committed in the Twin Cities and Minnesota are being committed by Somalis"
December 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
For anyone who knows anything about genocides and the incitement of genocidal violence, this is the kind of hair-raising stuff you find in transcripts of testimony before special tribunals.
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Racism is also the conceptual fulcrum of Trump’s world view - despite the commentariat’s attempts to portray it as incidental.
December 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Racism is also the conceptual fulcrum of Trump’s world view - despite the commentariat’s attempts to portray it as incidental.
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I'm still hearing from sources who are dealing with the fallout of SNAP benefits lapsing, and the utter terror of worrying the program will be cut somehow or that they'll no longer qualify. Bragging about rolling back access to food is horrifying.
Rollins: Joe Biden increased food stamp program funding by 40%. Now… we continue to roll that back… Just gratitude and joy for this work. So, so grateful to you.
December 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I'm still hearing from sources who are dealing with the fallout of SNAP benefits lapsing, and the utter terror of worrying the program will be cut somehow or that they'll no longer qualify. Bragging about rolling back access to food is horrifying.
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The truth is that there are many good people in good institutions regretfully making the choice to sacrifice trans people because they fear for their own survival and their institution's survival...
...and it is incumbent on us to show them that their choice is not without consequence.
...and it is incumbent on us to show them that their choice is not without consequence.
December 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The truth is that there are many good people in good institutions regretfully making the choice to sacrifice trans people because they fear for their own survival and their institution's survival...
...and it is incumbent on us to show them that their choice is not without consequence.
...and it is incumbent on us to show them that their choice is not without consequence.
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it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
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The complaint names Pete Hegseth as the perpetrator, saying he “was responsible for ordering the bombing of boats like those of Alejandro Carranza Medina and the murder of all those on such boats.” It also claims that Hegseth’s conduct was “ratified” by Trump.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/a...
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Colombian family files first known formal complaint over deadly US strike in Caribbean | CNN
The family of a Colombian man believed to have been killed in a US strike in the Caribbean has filed what’s believed to be the first complaint against such attacks with the Inter-American Commission o...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:43 AM
The complaint names Pete Hegseth as the perpetrator, saying he “was responsible for ordering the bombing of boats like those of Alejandro Carranza Medina and the murder of all those on such boats.” It also claims that Hegseth’s conduct was “ratified” by Trump.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/a...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/a...
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Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
NEW: Republican-led states, in a new filing at the D.C. Circuit, say D.C. residents are irrelevant, D.C. belongs to everyone else. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
December 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
It is crazy to me how far off the general publics perception is on this. They seem to think that it's super easy and invasive to get disability accomodations, and that if schools/employers don't provide them it's a super easy lawsuit for a ton of cash. Both are far, far from the truth.
I think a lot of people don't realize how difficult it is to get accommodations for disability. in school, at work. there are invariably tons of hoops; it's slow. often it's humiliating.
December 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
It is crazy to me how far off the general publics perception is on this. They seem to think that it's super easy and invasive to get disability accomodations, and that if schools/employers don't provide them it's a super easy lawsuit for a ton of cash. Both are far, far from the truth.
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I think a lot of people don't realize how difficult it is to get accommodations for disability. in school, at work. there are invariably tons of hoops; it's slow. often it's humiliating.
December 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I think a lot of people don't realize how difficult it is to get accommodations for disability. in school, at work. there are invariably tons of hoops; it's slow. often it's humiliating.
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Christ, when even Brit Hume can see it
December 2, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Christ, when even Brit Hume can see it