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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

For context, the staffer was fired because he posted, "I just want a eugenic immigration policy, is that too much to ask," "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity," and "Normalize Indian hate."

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Chris Vanderveen @chrisvanderveen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Let's talk about some of the reporting on the ICE raids that took place in Denver/Aurora yesterday. There are clearly some inaccuracies circulating online right now Let's start with this one It's categorically not true. (this aired this morning on @FoxNews) 1/

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

it's hard to overstate who fucking stupid every single reporter and pundit was who denied their responsibility in preventing this eventuality, not just for the complete and total lack of professional ethics, but also zero survival instinct

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

It's even worse. "We were DIRECTED by the Office of the Deputy Attorney General to provide the lists identifying employees by name." - Acting FBI Director Driscoll (h/t: @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social) What DOJ did contradicts what DOJ told the federal judge in writing (see my post below).

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Free speech absolutist Elon Musk calls for the firing of a journalist who revealed that one of the people Musk hired for DOGE bragged about being racist on social media

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

You know all of this is happening because a billionaire wants to populate Mars and the Christian nationalists want to bring about the rapture…

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 07/02/2025

JK Rowling after years of amplifying transphobic hate and misinformation: The fascists are saying the same thing as me and it's YOUR FAULT

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

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Dr Han-kenstein 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Today Shetland Islands Council are flying the Pride flag above the Lerwick Town Hall and one of my old primary teachers is asking why we don't have a straight flag 🫠 hen, you were a teacher in the '90s, how the fuck did you not remember Section 28 was a thing?

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This report is especially notable because it seems that, just hours before it was published, Treasury Secretary Bessent lied to GOP members of the House Financial Services Committee about this exact issue. (And props to @murray.senate.gov for calling BS on it.) www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent privately reassured Republican lawmakers Monday that Elon Musk and his team do not have control over a sensitive government system that manages the flow of trillions of dollars in payments, according to five lawmakers in the room for a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill.

Sen. Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, rejected the idea that Musk allies’ access to the payments system was as limited as Republicans and the administration are claiming.

“Why on earth should we believe that, particularly when he is saying the exact opposite, loudly and repeatedly for everyone to see?” Murray said.

Musk in recent days has said on X that his DOGE team was “rapidly shutting down” payments to Lutheran charities that provide refugee services. Musk also suggested — without offering any evidence — that career Treasury officials were breaking the law in approving some payments and had approved payments to known fraudulent organizations and terrorist groups.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

There’s a media dynamic to this too I think. When Biden pushed limits the press coverage was often like “Preposterous! A dog can’t play basketball.” But with Trump we’re getting a lot of “Golden Retriever stuns onlookers with flawless dunk.”

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 01/02/2025

By complete coincidence, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan's CEO, was singing the praises of tariffs the other day. Now it turns out JPMorgan's about to make a tonne of money on demand for gold, driven by - you guessed it - fear of tariffs.

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JPMorgan’s $4bn delivery of gold bullion adds to fears Trump’s tariffs will reshape global trade

US bank, world’s biggest bullion dealer, says it will deliver raw material against contracts that will expire in February

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I've been adding a load of new SIGNED books onto my adorable website. I will no doubt be posting stuff on here about each of them, but before I do that, if you wanna get in early, here's ten of them. There are some absolute BEAUTIES. www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

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SIGNED COPIES - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.

The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Freedom my arse. It was your fucking deal - you agreed it and boasted about - and it was shit, you shameless, lying, self-serving charlatan.

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Chris @chrismartinfilm.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

🤮 They’re gonna push this brand and the same old are gonna fall for it. This is genuinely getting ridiculous now.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 01/02/2025

the democratic party will never learn

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

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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Real Nature Magic 🔮✨ (they/them) @realnaturemagic.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I'm serious about archiving stories & literature that is written by & for the trans/queer/disabled/black/indigenous communities. I already have one off-site server that volunteered to back it up 💙📚 🌈📚 If you are an author that would like your book included DM me #BookSky #queer #trans #disabled

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

So that’s a federal subsidy for the media platform owned by the president’s biggest donor, which he’s made a gathering place for nazis

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Ordering the NIH, NSF, and CDC to erase any mention of "LGBT", trans people, gender... We are watching Magnus Hirschfeld's research institute be burnt down by Nazis all over again This is *why* people see transness as a fad. We were erased from history! www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

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The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic

The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 01/02/2025

Please do not ask me my gender assigned at birth. I was assigned tired at birth.

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

take it from a jewish former congress reporter: the word reporters and politicians won’t say is genocide

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The most telling example of ID policy to me is in Nevada where, in order to change the gender marker on your birth certificate, you need to get two letters from literally anybody attesting to your gender. Not a doctor, not a therapist--they will literally take anyone's word over the trans person's.

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C-Bo the Eggman @cbotheeggman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

In case anyone is wondering why Trump is going after Canada and Mexico much more than China, the answer is very simple: Elon Musk is in charge, and he makes his cars in China, while his competitors use auto parts made in Canada and Mexico.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 01/02/2025

Transphobia and racism are two sides of the same coin: cis white people want to be able to put everyone in boxes based solely on first impressions and implicit biases and rather than challenging their preconceptions, they want reality to warped to match them.

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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

So strange 🤔 I could have sworn this orange buffoon boasted that he wiped out ISIS during his first term.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 01/02/2025

So we threw Black people under the bus and we threw Indigenous people under the bus and we threw Palestinians under the bus and we threw disabled people under the bus and we're throwing trans people under the bus and I'm just wondering if it will only stop when cis white folks are the only ones left

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Please note: Trump has warned Canada if we retaliate, they will increase the tariff rates. Putinesque. Mafia. Hit them and hit them harder. Place 25% export taxes on oil/gas/aluminum/potash/steel

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

In a functioning democracy, a President who pardoned a mob that assaulted the Capitol while trying to overturn the election, and who then fired the prosecutors who put them behind bars, would be removed from power.

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This is what "merit hire" means to them

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Trevor Bartlett @trevorbartlett.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Quick reminder that #DEI initiatives were not put in place to ensure lower-qualified minorities could get hired instead of more highly-qualified white people, it was put in place to ensure lower-qualified white people were not hired instead of more highly-qualified minorities.

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Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.blacksky.app · 01/02/2025

Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 01/02/2025

This Black History Month remember human trafficking was legal. Slavery was legal. Jim Crow was legal. US Govt paying reparations to white enslavers but not to the enslaved was legal. Prison slavery still IS legal. Do not let legality & power be a measure of morality & justice.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

While Elon Musk’s companies pay zero in federal taxes Immigrants usually pay about $59 billion per year-plus another $37 billion in state and local taxes Yet the US government subsidizes Musk While hunting down, imprisoning and-ultimately-deporting immigrants It’s not only cruel It’s senseless

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 01/02/2025

Fired Jan. 6 prosecutors were told they were terminated "based upon your actions in the prosecution of persons relating to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021," and cited Trump calling it a "grave national injustice."

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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This is what it looks like when a criminal president fires the people who prosecuted his coup attempt.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Louder, for those in the back: ‼️ Tariffs are import taxes that are ultimately paid by American consumers — NOT the exporting country. If you don’t understand that yet, you soon will. ‼️

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