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Danni Askini

@dnadmv.bsky.social
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Washington D.C / Seattle, WA - Executive Director - Gender Justice League. LGBTQ Policy, Gender Based Violence & Ballot Measure Campaigns.

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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Listening to the Talbot v. Trump Injunction Hearing - the transgender military ban case. Judge Reyes is not here for the DOJ showing up completely unprepared to answer any questions. It’s an appalling failure on DOJs part - 10,000 peoples jobs are on the line.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
thepinknews.com
Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher
Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 09/03/2025
🇺🇦🇺🇸 JD Vance’s cousin fought for over two years in Ukraine as part of the "Da Vinci Wolves." "JD is smart, but what they did to Zelensky was a dishonest ambush. Being relatives doesn’t mean I’ll accept him aiding in the killing of my comrades."
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
It has been a lot of early mornings and late nights for me. So much is happening in Trans Justice land. Looking forward to sharing exciting news this week. Responses to tyranny can take time.
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the fairy bear @thefairybear.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Meme showing screenshots from Star Wars where Padme says “so this is how liberty dies” and instead of saying “with thunderous applause” it says “with a coup by a fake government agency named after a meme run by the most divorced man alive and his troop of incel twinks”
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The level of witch hunt / moral panic insanity against trans people is still at “satanic panic” levels. Fuck every person who attacked this patriots reputation and competence - you hapless losers.
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
A terrifying breach of public trust - corruption in government and interference that is clearly illegal. Except, the Justice Department is captured so no prosecutions will happen.
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Given all the bullshit we are hearing this week - a reminder of US Department of Justice statistics prove: Undocumented people have the lowest crime rate based on immigration status. nij.ojp.gov/topics/artic...
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
This is craven and sick. This is the United States - where we pledge an oath to uphold the constitution - not the whims of a petty dictator. These dipshits are making us less safe every day.
apnews.com
Trump team is questioning civil servants at National Security Council about commitment to his agenda
At least some of these nonpolitical employees have begun packing up their belongings since being asked about their loyalty to President-elect Trump, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matt...
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The MAGA movement has convinced many that fleets of trans kids are being subjected to woke medical barbarism. The real numbers? 0.017% of youth are coded as trans and receive puberty blockers. 0.037% access hormone therapy. That's 1/20th of one percent. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Here’s the real number of children receiving gender-affirming medical treatment
New research reveals it's a fraction of a fraction.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 03/01/2025
A new study finds ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence. Learn more: scim.ag/4h2K0ID
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/12/2024
And just like that, the first anti LGBTQ bill in nearly 3 decades was signed by Biden and passed by a Democratic senate. It included a ban on gender affirming care for trans children of military families. So much for having our back, you god damn liar. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
whitehouse.gov
Statement from President Joe Biden on H.R. 5009, Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 | The White House
Today, I have signed into law H.R. 5009, the "Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025" (the
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
5th ER trip this month 🙄🙄🙄 All I want for Christmas 🎄 is decent healthcare. >$200,000 spent so far and I honestly am unbothered. Repeated stent / kidney infection that they keep catch & releasing me for despite debilitating pain and pure blood in my urine, but you know America! 🇺🇸!
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
This aged quite well for McCarthy… and quite poorly for Gaetz.
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
In all of the cluster fuck that was the 2024 election - my big take away having worked every election cycle since 1998 — Democrats refuse to hire trans people as experts on communicating about trans issues and will keep loosing. There is JUST as much exclusion in the Dem party as anywhere.
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
The House Ethics Committee Report on Matt Gaetz is a reminder that all of the Xenophobia, Racism, and Transphobia is a grift and front to distract from their own morally bankrupt corruption, abuse, and unaddressed addiction. Every accusation is a confession!
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
ab-so-fucking-lootly NOT. “Customer appreciation week” WTF is that? 🤢🤢🤮🤮 Your card is declined sir. We only take cash 💵. Up front. Good night.
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Terrifying. We will fight. We will win. There is no going back. Trans people will not go back into the closet or a society where we have to hide. These fuckers want a fight and they’re going to get it. The difference is - we weren’t born with rich daddies and silver spoons 🥄 in our mouth.
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Stories like this are truly upsetting on many levels.
thegatewaypundit.com
'Missing' GOP Congresswoman Not Seen For Six Months Finally Found Living at Dementia Care Home | The Gateway Pundit | by Ben Kew
A Republican Congresswoman from Texas who has been "missing" for the past six months has finally been found.
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
In both August and September I worked extremely hard to roll back Joe Manchin supported hateful anti-trans riders in the NDAA - I was honored to work with nearly a dozen orgs, almost 20 families, and hundreds of service members to share our stories with Senate and House Staff. It was powerful!
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
This is so completely fucked. The message from Democrats: “Trans youth must be sacrificed to fund the war machine.” So deeply disappointed at the endless capitulation of Democrats - while Republicans have obstructed everything to get their way. Endless weakness from Democrats is why we loose.
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Imagine if there was a Probiotic that helped to prevent Kidney Stones - sounds like a woo woo fantasy right? Turns out we have known of the bacteria for 40 years that “eats” Oxylate - one of the two chemicals that makes Calcium Oxylate stones responsible for 70% of kidney stones. A small thread: 🧵
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
These photos are from 1999 - when I joined more than 500 youth in foster care from around the country to lobby to pass the John H. Caffee Youth in Care Act. Rep. Nancy Mace insulted our work last night by falsely accusing and having arrested a former foster youth. It’s disgusting and appalling.
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Nancy Mace is a liar, a bully, and a coward. She can’t even take constituents asking her legitimate questions about her policies or answer questions. As one of the foster youth who helped pass the 1999 Chaffee Act - this is an insult to our collective work. CWLA and others MUST speak out!
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NACDL @nacdl.org · 11/12/2024
End pregnancy criminalization! Hospitals reported women for positive drug tests after giving them drugs for childbirth: medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections. #lawsky www.themarshallproject.org/2024/12/11/p...
themarshallproject.org
Hospitals Gave Them Meds During Childbirth. Why Did Patients Get In Trouble?
Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections.
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Day 5 and ready to be out of this place. Had surgery yesterday (cytoscopy w/ Kidney Stone removal & stint placement) but have continued to fight sepsis & kidney infection. Pain has been pretty intolerable all night. So angry my insurance denied coverage of IV antibiotics for Sepsis, like how?
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I love all of the salacious “Christian” values of this kleptocratic “family”. Nothing like our ambassadors being near relatives.
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I’ve been in agony the last 4 days with a 1.3 cm Kidney Stone that is coming out tomorrow morning. Feeling grateful to have health insurance that isn’t United Healthcare. Kidney stones are the worst.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 05/12/2024
The words "deny," "defend" and "depose" were found on shell casings near where Brian Thompson, the CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, was killed - as in, the legal tactics insurers use to reduce liability or reject claims abcnews.go.com/US/man-shot-...
abcnews.go.com
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shot dead in Midtown Manhattan, masked gunman at large
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot near a Midtown Manhattan hotel in a potentially targeted shooting early Wednesday, according to police.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 04/12/2024
in hindsight the NYT anti-trans crusade is one of the most despicable things that any big time journalism outfit in this country has ever done. a perfect and clearly intentional layup for the fascists on the Supreme Court
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
United Healthcare denied more than $43,000 in chemotherapy, immunotherapy, hospitalizations, and other medical care when I had LDBC lymphoma (the most common form of cancer) - forcing me into bankruptcy…. I wonder what motivated this assassination?!?!
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Sarah Kate Ellis @sarahkateellis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
This is a political battle not a healthcare battle. All of the major American medical associations approve this healthcare for trans youth. (1/2) abcnews.go.com/US/video/lan...
abcnews.go.com
Video Landmark Supreme Court case weighs gender-affirming care for trans kids
Sarah Kate Ellis, President of GLAAD, discussed the landmark Supreme Court case that weighs gender-affirming care for trans kids.
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Today’s hearing was a lot. I arrived at 5:00 and had to wait hours in the cold. Paid “line sitters” who make $25 / hr slept out overnight to hand their spot to rich people to get inside. Our system is so fucked top to bottom and it’s gross 🤮.
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
It’s 4am and I’m up and at em to head over to SCOTUS to stand in line for public tickets to see United States v Skremetti. It’s 23 degrees out. The first 50 tickets are released at 7:30 am. Here’s hoping.
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This is exceptionally chilling. Police in 10 states can access information about Testosterone prescriptions without a warrant or subpoena. It is deeply concerning for trans people in these states. Please consider using mail order pharmacies in Washington State where we have additional privacy!
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Trump opposes Bathroom Bills “things are fine the way they are”. How far we’ve come from HB 2 in NC in 2016. Trump was against bathroom bans to now Nancy Mace / Speaker Johnson in Congress pushing a ban. A decade of false outrage & blaming trans people.
youtu.be
Trump Today Show 2016
YouTube video by Parking Lot Patty
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Nothing like saying the quiet part out loud: “We passed a bill outlawing [gender affirming care] … so trans people won’t exist and this won’t be a problem.” This is what genocidal speech sounds like - eliminate the ability of a population to exist through legislation and then “problems” go away. 🤬🤬🤬
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Alexander Vindman is a patriot. Elon Musk, himself an oligarch, is drunk on power and out of control.
Post from Brian Allen:

BREAKING: Elon Musk accuses Alexander Vindman of working for Ukrainian oligarchs, labeling him a traitor and suggesting he could face the death penalty.  

This is where we are now—billionaires playing judge, jury, and executioner.
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 29/11/2024
The NYT quotes SJSU’s assistant coach saying that the trans woman on the team jumps higher & hits harder than the cis women she plays against—but doesn’t check to see if that’s true (it’s not—the screenshot on the right is ESPN’s reporting from earlier this week disproving those claims.
When Melissa Batie-Smoose, the Spartans’ assistant coach, arrived on campus nearly two years ago, she said that she hadn’t been told about the transgender player. But she recalled seeing the athlete play beach volleyball and telling Mr. Kress, “Oh, man, she hits and blocks like a dude,” because the player jumped so high and hung so long in the air. She also said the player avoided lifting weights, for fear of getting too muscular.Copy and paste is not working
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The @nytimes.com along with so many “liberal” publications continue to be all in on the endless anti-trans witch hunt. It sells clicks & papers. Fueling anti-trans hysteria is profitable. Complete with transphobic quotes - and no trans people quoted in the article.
nytimes.com
How a Women’s College Volleyball Team Became the Center of the Transgender Athlete Debate
Not since the swimmer Lia Thomas has a college athlete or team put the fiercely contested issue of transgender rights in sports under such a bright spotlight.
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
It is chilling to see the enthusiasm gap going into what is about to be one of the ugliest periods in this country’s history for Trans people.
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
People should re-read the 2018 decision from the original Trump Military Ban from the 9th circuit court of appeals. It’s a reminder: military bans are unconstitutional. lambdalegal.org/wp-content/u...
lambdalegal.org
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Here we go again. Another moronic and ill considered “transgender military ban”. We will fight this just like we did in 2018 and we will win. There is no place in this great nation of discrimination in service. 15,000+ brave trans people are serving our nation and this is a disgrace to all.
independent.co.uk
Trump reportedly plans to swiftly eject trans troops within days of inauguration
Trump’s actions could eject thousands of current trans service members
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
It’s deeply troubling given Russias role in the 2016 election that Tulsi Gabbard who had coddled brutal dictators is nominated to head Us Intelligence. We need qualified, competent and dedicated civil servants who center human rights in these roles, not Russian shills.
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I’ve been thinking a lot about the election and the double bind most trans people continue to face in this country: 1. Rampant Lawfare in R states vs. 2. Unaffordable Housing & Cost of living crisis in D states.
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This is a truly concerning visual. I have non-24 / delayed sleep disorder but even I get ~7 hours of sleep a night. Truly wondering how Elon continues to function in any real way. The risks of dementia are so elevated in this type of lack of sleep.
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Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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Frank O'Donnell @frank11285.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The extent of Salt Typhoon: “The penetration almost certainly gave China a road map to discover which of China’s spies the United States has identified and which they have missed.”
nytimes.com
Emerging Details of Chinese Hack Leave U.S. Officials Increasingly Concerned
Leaders of the big telecommunications companies were summoned to the White House to discuss strategies for overhauling the security of the nation’s telecommunications networks amid growing alarm at th...
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