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Runner, reader, cat owner in Palm Springs, CA. 💋

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The LGBTQ Community Center of the Desert @thecentercv.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
As one person put it, The Center's Red Dress Dress Red is "the kind of party where you know you're supporting a great organization and having just a blast being your authentic self for the night. Those kinds of parties are not the kind of thing that happens every day." #RDDR2026
desertsun.com
The Center builds community during 'exciting' Red Dress event
Red Dress Dress Red is one of the nonprofit's most visible and beloved annual events.
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Post Punk-y Brewster @krismeana.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
despicable. fuck this.
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Transgender women athletes banned from female events at Olympics by IOC
Transgender women athletes are now excluded from the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy on Thursday
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
“No deporting US citizens” is a CONCESSION???
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Barrett 🏳️‍🌈 @barrettn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It's Red Dress Dress Red week in Palm Springs! For @gedmagazine.bsky.social, I wrote about the history of The Center's signature celebration of joy and community. gedmag.com/afterdark/ho... @thecentercv.bsky.social #RDDR2026
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How Red Dress Dress Red Came to Be - GEDmagazine
On one magical night each year, Coachella Valley turns red. Not just any red, but bold, playful, fearless red. It’s the night when thousands of people gather for Red Dress Dress Red, The LGBTQ Communi...
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 27/01/2026
"These agents, and the president who sent them, are no one’s heroes, no one’s saviors—just men with guns who have to hide their faces to shoot a mom in the face, and a nurse in the back." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2025
We interrupt this coverage of a shooting with another mass shooting at a school. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...
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At least 2 students shot at a Denver-area high school, authorities say | CNN
At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end
This is Ms. Gaines’s intuition as an activist, too: If people accept the premise that transgender women do not belong in women’s sports, then they have conceded that transgender women are not fully, truly women.

As she sees it, more sweeping restrictions of transgender people flow from there, including the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that states can ban gender-affirming care for minors and the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee’s change of its eligibility rules to bar transgender women from competing in Olympic women’s sports.

“The gender ideology movement is a house of cards, and I believe it’s lying on that sports issue,” she said. “This will be the card that makes all of it crumble.”
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/08/2025
When you want to conduct a genocide without people seeing what you're doing, you kill all the journalists. That's exactly what Israel is doing. They just murdered 5 Al-Jazeera journalists living in a tent next to al-Shifa hospital. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
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Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Adolf Hitler used the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin to promote fascism. I hope the world deprives Donald Trump of that same opportunity 92 years later.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming. We obtained the memo: newrepublic.com/article/1987...
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Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows
A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.
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🫶🏻Layla🫶🏻 @laylabelle3.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
So many institutions have failed for this guy to end up a high-ranking DOJ official. www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...
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Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops
The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
This is what fascism looks like.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The world's democracies should boycott the Trump Olympics. Trump announces he will chair White House taskforce for 2028 LA Olympics www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...
theguardian.com
Trump announces he will chair White House taskforce for 2028 LA Olympics
President, who has clashed with LA officials over Ice raids, says Games will be ‘wonderful moment for America’
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.
Serve your country! Defend your culture!
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22/07/2025
This is excellent. In three minutes she explains how democracies become dictatorships. It's happened so many times, yet in each country, most people said, 'it can't happen here'
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
It's happening. As some of us predicted. Dark times:
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DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship
Denaturalization is a tactic heavily used during the McCarthy era and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's a tool usually us...
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Barrett 🏳️‍🌈 @barrettn.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Taking notes for when they decide removing us from school books isn’t enough.
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Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Orban’s Ban
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Barrett 🏳️‍🌈 @barrettn.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Today’s been hard but if you have it in you, please sign this petition to save the 988 Lifeline for LGBTQ+ Youth. Since 2022 it’s connected 1.3 million contacts with life-saving and inclusive crisis services. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Protect 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline for LGBTQ+ Youth
The federal government has proposed eliminating all federal funding for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized Services – a program that provides emergency crisis support to LGBT...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The way to beat Trump's fake populism is with real economic populism: - genuine solutions like rent control and free fast busses - directing the deep well of public anger up at the oligarchs, not the vulnerable. This is what Trump fears most - and it's why he never wanted to run against Bernie
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Barrett 🏳️‍🌈 @barrettn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
#Coachella starts in one week, and my organization has two billboards up on the nearby freeway reminding visitors and locals that we aren't letting up on the fight for affordable housing.
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Vice Mayor Burhan Azeem @burhanazeem.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The pro-housing movement is about making housing affordable. We need zoning reform and yes many homes built by the private market. But government can and should build homes itself! I’ve long been a supporter of affordable housing development and glad that Canada is showing us a national path ahead.
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Sarah @thetigersez.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Everyone should read this. And anyone who is non stop hysterical posting/catastrophizing online should read it twice
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Barrett 🏳️‍🌈 @barrettn.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Maybe #BroadwaySky or #MusicalTheatreSky can help me. Saw a video at the bar Sat night. Big show number from the Tonys or similar event. Great costumes that looked early 20th century. They played spoons. James Earl Jones was in the audience. I caught none of the words. What was it?
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