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writer, artist, feminist, fancy. dedicated to reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ liberation, and racial justice. professionally trans over at A4TE, but all views shared here = my own.

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wow i am never getting in one of these

10.03.2026 23:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Please help me share the post below. I don’t have a huge following, but this nomination is a bit under the radar and deserves more attention. His committee vote is this Thursday.

10.03.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 173 πŸ” 170 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

I wonder how many times this DOJ has blamed β€œlack of stuff” for their lies and failures? it feels surreal when they lack staff because they are hemorrhaging anyone remotely ethical

10.03.2026 23:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

absolutely dying to investigate this piano purchase

10.03.2026 22:24 πŸ‘ 340 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

lmao this thread is unreal

10.03.2026 23:14 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

worth remembering, David Lynch directed β€œfix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic β€œno mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.

10.03.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 5748 πŸ” 2512 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

If you want to beat them, figure out how to organize a bloc of economic actors whose material interests are served by the transition. Organize a bloc with *more power* and then *defeat* them. That's how this works. You're not going to fucking seduce them with your clever verbiage!

10.03.2026 18:40 πŸ‘ 357 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 8

Not just that people focus on this, but they focus on it to the exclusion of almost everything else! Like the amount of f'ing language analysis from the left & academia *dwarfs* the amount of, say, *power* analysis. Y'know ... power? Anyone? Power?

10.03.2026 18:34 πŸ‘ 282 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 6

Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.

10.03.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 1705 πŸ” 705 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 12

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called β€œNumident” and the β€œMaster Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

10.03.2026 19:33 πŸ‘ 1772 πŸ” 950 πŸ’¬ 74 πŸ“Œ 44

i still hold a better world within my heart i still go to sleep most days thinking about what the world i wanna live in will look like. and even though its been a while i still know i will continue to see glimpses and moments of that world in our own

10.03.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 72 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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These pediatrician moms have a shared message: Release all children in immigration detention They didn’t know each other at the beginning of the year. Now these medical professionals text daily in their effort to advocate for the well-being of migrant children.

β€œHe looked pale, he looked sickly. He looked like a completely different child,” she said. β€œWhen I saw that image, my doctor brain turned on. I was like, this kid is sick. He needs medical attention.”

@bcrodriguez.bsky.social's latest for @19thnews.org.

10.03.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good question here. I wish the strategic ambiguity of DOGE had been more widely reported, because that was the source of its power.

Now that DOGE bros are showing up in court, we'll see that intentional ambiguity stripped away and we'll find out who gets left holding the bag.

10.03.2026 05:51 πŸ‘ 173 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3
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Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

10.03.2026 03:09 πŸ‘ 15618 πŸ” 3822 πŸ’¬ 277 πŸ“Œ 226
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Moms Are Risking Arrest to Protect Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth The government wants to ban care nationwide, and hospitals are shutting down treatment. Parents just want it all to stop.

www.them.us/story/trans-...

10.03.2026 03:33 πŸ‘ 1552 πŸ” 436 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 0

yeah!!! The arcs showing the angle of the ecliptic is sooo cool

10.03.2026 03:33 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

that’s so rad. it’s incredible how the math of the decoration works out! that fancy hat’s a calendrical computer!!

10.03.2026 03:26 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gold hat - Wikipedia

see also: these absolutely buckwild hats en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_hat

10.03.2026 03:11 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

I’ve been rereading Graeber and Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything and it is extraordinary how much we don’t know about the past - and how we have to be willing to look at all kinds of different stories about it. The mystery of the disc is just one that haunts me!!

10.03.2026 02:51 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

him little chin!!!

10.03.2026 02:47 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

such an upsetting number of similar cases.

10.03.2026 02:45 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The skeletons we dig up from preindustrial times are warped and fractured from literal backbreaking toil. The physical load on most of them is calculated to be equal to that of world-class competitive rowers.

09.03.2026 21:18 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Run on prosecuting war criminals and show ads with the missile hitting the school and show photos of the girls when they were alive. Make it a point to arrest and prosecute Hegseth and go from there. Trump won't protect him. He'll either be dead by then or cashed out.

09.03.2026 22:47 πŸ‘ 955 πŸ” 125 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 5
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3. We've heard so much about the way DOGE operated, but rarely have we gotten to actually see it up close. This clip reveals the entitlement Trump's USIP president and the DOGE team felt heading into the privately-owned building on the day of the raid:

09.03.2026 23:21 πŸ‘ 490 πŸ” 108 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

let's see if I've got this straight

the war is over, pretty much

except if we want to bomb iran some more, or israel does

or if iran decides to keep the strait closed

also the regime didn't change and we didn't accomplish anything but blowing up a bunch of kids and poisoning tehran

ok good work

09.03.2026 21:07 πŸ‘ 852 πŸ” 123 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 10

that article could have run in the onion w/ no changes. the eighteenth century was so horny for sugar and chocolate and coffee and insane pastries! like what do you MEAN

09.03.2026 23:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For all we know, Burke’s 18th century tastebuds would be so stunned by the taste of Starbucks’ coked out novelty drinks that he *would* deem them examples of the sublime.

09.03.2026 23:45 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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tap tap tap on the egg

09.03.2026 23:44 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

oh!

09.03.2026 22:51 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

lawyer randos are just walking into federal court and racking up Ws against the federal government lol gj everyone

09.03.2026 21:52 πŸ‘ 712 πŸ” 167 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2