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berserkirontits.bsky.social @berserkirontits.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
History will put into context everything that is incomprehensible in the moment: November 10, 2016 www.nybooks.com/online/2016/... November 8, 2017 www.newyorker.com/news/our-col... November 15, 2024 www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...
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Autocracy: Rules for Survival | Masha Gessen
In the face of the impulse to normalize, it is essential to maintain one’s capacity for shock. This will lead people to call you unreasonable and hysterical, and to accuse you of overreacting. It is n...
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Pregnancy Justice @pregnancyjust.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
We knew they would take every opportunity to establish fetal personhood, and this is the first. An executive order attacking trans and nonbinary people is also an attack against pregnant people.
Executive order title adjusted to read: "Attacking women, trans folks, and anyone who can get pregnant and restoring control of people's bodies & reproduction to the federal government." 

Executive Order, January 20, 2025Executive order language: 
(d)  “Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.
(e)  “Male” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.

Why include conception? 
It’s strategic. This is a chance to establish that fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses are people.

What does that mean?
If fetuses are people, there is a direct conflict between the rights of pregnant people and “unborn children.” 
It’s a way to impose government control over people’s bodies.

Why does it matter?
Fetal personhood leads to people being criminalized for actions during pregnancy, forced medical interventions during pregnancy, threats to IVF, abortion, and denying life-saving health care all to protect “fetal life.”
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berserkirontits.bsky.social @berserkirontits.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Now that everyone who passed 10th grade biology has had a good laugh that we are all biologically female now, thanks to the “belonging, AT CONCEPTION” language in that EO, let’s strap in for a Constitutional Law 101 primer 🧵
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berserkirontits.bsky.social @berserkirontits.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
NYers: OTDA just closed the application window for regular HEAP, a federally-funded program that assists with heating fuel costs to low income households, effective TODAY. Guidance does not say why the earlier end date. If you are in need, applications postmarked or submitted today still count.
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berserkirontits.bsky.social @berserkirontits.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I said a few times yesterday: “Resistance isn’t one heroic act. It’s good people consistently doing what they know to be right in the face of circumstances that would have them behave otherwise.” 🧵
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berserkirontits.bsky.social @berserkirontits.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Some of us 😒 still love a good fact-checking
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berserkirontits.bsky.social @berserkirontits.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The First and Second ladies benefited from immigration policy that allowed them and their families to establish citizenship. Today’s executive orders cancelled asylee’s pending appointments and promised prosecution, expulsion, and fierce military presence at the border. The hypocrisy is unbounded.
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berserkirontits.bsky.social @berserkirontits.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Finally, a small horror to combat the large one: the gentle sound of my cat licking each individual pepperoni on the slice of pizza I left abandoned for 8 seconds too long.
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Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
“The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress" (MLK) - I wholeheartedly believe in the power of labor movements, not just for the workplace but for society. To build real momentum, we need pro-union and pro-worker legislation.
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MLK's dream fulfilled: Why the labor movement is suddenly surging
Racial and economic justice are inherently intertwined -- and you can't have either without organized labor
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Let’s share this one more time: advice for US government scientists before the new administration takes over. 🧪🌎 therevelator.org/scientists-m...
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Advice for U.S. Government Scientists: Lessons Learned From the ‘Muzzling’ of Their Canadian Counterparts • The Revelator
The next four years will be awful for the science and conservation community. By learning from past experiences, we can minimize the damage.
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berserkirontits.bsky.social @berserkirontits.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
ABC pundit uncomfortably trying to claim “we will become color-blind and merit-based” is what MLK would have wanted is absolutely WILD
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berserkirontits.bsky.social @berserkirontits.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Sound Guy is absolutely delivering with this “technical difficulty.” Unfortunately, he will be black-bagged immediately with Carrie Underwood’s a capella rendition of America The Beautiful drowning out his screams.
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berserkirontits.bsky.social @berserkirontits.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
“As of today, it will be the official policy of the United States that there are only two genders: male and female.” To the bigoted family who voted for this, it’s why we can’t eat ham together 2x a year anymore. I’m glad you’ll miss us. We’ll be busy missing loved ones gravely impacted by this.
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berserkirontits.bsky.social @berserkirontits.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
“End Green New Deal and revoke electric mandate” Tesla like:
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berserkirontits.bsky.social @berserkirontits.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
“We will drill, baby, drill.” Worst Steve Martin impression 👎
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berserkirontits.bsky.social @berserkirontits.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
“We will not forget our Constitution, and we will not forget Our God…” That has got to be the fastest short term memory loss I have ever witnessed. 1st Amendment was fun while it lasted.
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berserkirontits.bsky.social @berserkirontits.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
FFS 😅
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berserkirontits.bsky.social @berserkirontits.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Unprecedented, preemptive pardons to shield individuals from political persecution for acting in their official capacities to protect public health; uphold principles of justice and rule of law; maintain the integrity of free elections in the US; and stop a literal coup. 🔗: tinyurl.com/NYTpardons
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