k @bookbooktrashtrash.bsky.social · 05/07/2025exulting over the suffering of others is generally pretty gross, but it gets esp wild in this country when you consider that our electorally reddest states are largely the ones with the most intense voter suppression 120 0
Reposted by kDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/05/2025You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).regulations.govRegulations.gov 14537513080 0
k @bookbooktrashtrash.bsky.social · 14/05/2025it's probably gonna be a good book when you're *daaaaaaaaaamn*ing at a footnote on the second page of the preface 010 0
Reposted by kSte Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 12/05/2025There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park" 47106323206 0
Reposted by kCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/04/2025Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...nymag.comSeniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Die OffSometimes older voters aren’t just naturally more conservative. It’s just that wealthier and whiter people tend to live longer and healthier lives. 172110133764 0
Reposted by kemily blight 🐦⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 10/04/2025public comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit & strip care from DACA recipients ends at 23:59pm EDT tonite if you haven't commented, it won't take long & is worth doing. context & guidance in-thread ⬇️ if you have commented, thank you💜🏳️⚧️ 3410431029 0
Reposted by kTristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional. 14474797312723 0
Reposted by kJosie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 09/04/2025This is right. The fact that they’re doing this to “innocent people” is not irrelevant, but it’s ultimately not the point. People convicted of crimes have rights too. And you can be damn sure that if they want to convict them - or me, or you - of something, they will. 202993949 0
Reposted by kJason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 03/04/2025You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino. 7955991110257 0
k @bookbooktrashtrash.bsky.social · 31/03/2025incredibly earnest babies next to me have just pledged to each other that if one reads foucault, the other will read spinoza. all happiness, sweet babies. 131 0
k @bookbooktrashtrash.bsky.social · 31/03/2025last night of this seminar on moby dick, & bro near me is inviting another bro to hang out on his boat 000 0
Reposted by kAnna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 17/03/2025And everyone, when evaluating James Carville's winning advice, please consider what Gavin Newsom's anti-trans swing has done for his numbers: 17438301020 0
k @bookbooktrashtrash.bsky.social · 17/03/2025man who last week was extensively hilarious on his own inability to understand transgender folks pronouns, is this week delighted at length by Melville showing that some 1851 white folk knew that other white folks' racism was wrong 000 0
Reposted by kregular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 16/03/2025every single protest i attend there's a couple 9000 year old white people waving signs they painted themselves and offering everyone homemade trail mix bro old people love to protest chuck schumer is just weak. 643288540 0
Reposted by kBriar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 12/03/2025they know this kind of thing can constitute sexual assault and that is the intent: that kids will get molested as a punishment for being trans, GNC, intersex, or just androgynous-looking 517154 0
Reposted by kPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025very likely that they’re about to find a constitutional right to forced conversion therapy 401911290 0
Reposted by kSyws Bee @soozbee.bsky.social · 03/03/2025I keep seeing a lot of these FAFO assholes regurgitating the lie that most Trumpers are poor people, so I just want to remind folks that that is not true. 33725173 0
Reposted by kGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 03/03/2025A whole host of overpaid consultants and talking heads told them not to do the right thing and they still chose to do the right thing, so I'd even go a step further and encourage people to contact Senators who opposed this measure (SB 9) and thank them for standing by trans people and our families 142362486 0
Reposted by kR.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social · 01/03/2025"Authoritarian parenting is a vital ingredient in the recipe for patriarchal socialization because it sets girls up to actively seek out abuse, to perceive abusive behavior as loving, and to never fully trust themselves."zawn.substack.comHow authoritarian parents set their children up for abusive marriagesAuthoritarian parenting sets women up for a lifetime of coercion, and makes abusive marriages nearly inevitable. 210524 0
Reposted by kAlisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 26/02/2025The "WHY ISN'T AMERICA PROTESTING RIGHT NOW" takes - even from Americans! - really show how many people are programmed to believe the only "real" action is mass protests. Even with the constant stories of town halls & locals fighting back, people dismiss it because it's not "big." That's a problem. 281102269 0
Reposted by ktuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 19/02/2025I do not need more seasons of love on the spectrum. I need an all-autistic season of the traitors. I want to see what would happen when everyone is doing inappropriate affect at each other while also being very invested in the concept of justice. 21185 0
k @bookbooktrashtrash.bsky.social · 19/02/2025basically molly conger on why molly conger's podcast is a comfort listen. 110 0
Reposted by kpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales" 486192612133 0
Reposted by kpilot @pilotv.bsky.social · 14/02/2025do you think all the #resist dems freaking out about dying because of RFK will start masking again or nah? 2368 0
Reposted by kRebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Spending some time considering the mettle of your average senator versus, say, Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford. 632803625 0
Reposted by kJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 04/02/2025if you’re 25 years old with control of the entire treasury system and you don’t delete every student debt file, you are the biggest loser the world has ever seen 76123072537 0
k @bookbooktrashtrash.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Not to be too much a flippant asshole, but, also, waiting for the One Charismatic Leader is dangerous. Everything feels off & overwhelming, and you're waiting for someone charismatic to tell you exactly what to do? Who do you think it's going to say it's easy, just do exactly what they say? 100 0
Reposted by kKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 24/01/2025And if compassion doesn’t move you, asshole,how about the fact that the people with the mad skills at organizing, the ones who’ve been tried and tested on the front lines, are in the red and purple states? 9787114 0
k @bookbooktrashtrash.bsky.social · 24/01/2025you can donate at ufw.org/scarytimes or paypal.com/paypalme/ufwdonateufw.org 07525 0
k @bookbooktrashtrash.bsky.social · 23/01/2025...wild that the Smithsonian didn't mention the deeply classed exclusion of Gage, nearly as wild as calling Anthony her "friend" 🤣 100 0
Reposted by kAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/01/2025These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance. 131208477647 0
Reposted by kIsaac Fellman @isaac-fellman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025As an archivist working with queer materials, I'm concurring massively with this. And one more thing -- it's easy to see people in our queer past, who made their queerness known in times like these, as superhuman. They weren't. They were us. 0345 0
Reposted by kKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 19/01/2025It’s nearly impossible to explain to non disabled people the hope we had at the beginning of the pandemic. Hope for inclusion & accommodation. For better awareness & treatment of chronic illness. Having that hope ripped away and replaced with increasing ableism, eugenics & hatred? Its devastating 422656818 0
Reposted by kit's not looking great @itsnotlookinggreat.bsky.social · 19/01/2025"While the majority of news content creators across the social media landscape are conservative men, a recent study found that TikTok is the only platform where left-leaning news influencers outnumber right-leaning ones." 7405144 0
Reposted by kGadget @gadget44027447.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Dismissed and disbelieved, some Long COVID patients are pushed into psychiatric wards time.com/7206080/long...time.comDismissed and Disbelieved, Some Long COVID Patients Are Pushed Into Psychiatric WardsThe chronic illnesses that make doctors doubt their patients often start after what “should” be a short-lived sickness—like COVID-19. 54419 0
Reposted by kReo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 12/01/2025I know there are 10,000 things right now but please consider contacting your rep and asking them to vote NO on HR-28 which would ban trans and intersex kids from playing sports. action.transequality.orgTell Your Representative to Vote NO on H.R. 28Please enable JavaScript in your browser 25532 0
Reposted by kKeri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 12/01/2025I had a lot of people asking me so I wrote an explainer: Here's how you can help the incarcerated firefighter battling the blazes in Southern California this week: www.latimes.com/california/s...latimes.comHow you can help the incarcerated firefighters battling L.A. wildfiresThe Los Angeles-based Anti-Recidivism Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to ending mass incarceration, started a fundraiser on Friday to support the fire crews of California’s prisons. 271266918 0
Reposted by kKristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 08/01/2025this is the party that keeps texting me and asking for money 982614583 0
Reposted by kCara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · 05/01/2025After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false. www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...lgbtqnation.comNew French guidelines show doctors overwhelmingly support gender-affirming care - LGBTQ NationThe medical guidelines contradict numerous conclusions from the UK's infamous Cass Review. 306267825920 0
Reposted by kLydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 04/01/2025It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...pbs.org5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVIDFive years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries. 294129674576 0
k @bookbooktrashtrash.bsky.social · 04/01/2025baby queers who compliment your outfit at the coffee shop are national treasures. in a reasonable society they would all be millionaires. 000 0
Reposted by kGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 04/04/2024for Godzilla, every city is walkable 252472682 0
Reposted by kAshesIntoFlame @ashesintoflame.bsky.social · 06/11/2024Ex-librarian here—I'd say encouraging your followers to put in requests for books with marginalized authors/MCs and check out those books both in person and online would be best. To get books and keep them on shelves in times of scrutiny like this, there has to be a quantifiable demand for them. 4666442 0
Reposted by k🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 27/12/2024More women have been attacked by other women in restrooms for being suspected of being trans in 2024 than women have ever been attacked in a restroom by a trans woman in all of recorded history. 3737151199 0
k @bookbooktrashtrash.bsky.social · 26/12/2024when you have a wife who extremely gets you <3 #HappyChristmas 110 0
