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Cj @handmedowncj.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Wrote for @thenation.com about the complicity of some liberal politicians and pundits in the conservative campaign to exterminate trans people www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The Right Wants to Exterminate Trans People. Liberals Are Helping.
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative movement has accelerated its war against trans people. And too many centrist Democrats have kept up their trans bashing.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 28/08/2025
Palantir’s Gotham platform lets the government weave together driving records, police reports, even social media — creating powerful maps of people’s lives. Critics warn it’s surveillance by algorithm, with little public oversight.
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When the government can see everything: How one company – Palantir – is mapping the nation’s data
Government agencies are contracting with Palantir to correlate disparate pieces of data, promising efficiency but raising civil liberties concerns.
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 28/06/2025
why does this matter so much? • despite hard work to reframe it by the media, trans care isn’t a luxury item • there are ~1.3 million trans people in the US • ~ 275,000 rely on medicaid for care access—about 22% • stripping access to lifesaving care for a 1/4 of trans people is a genocidal move🧵
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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 01/05/2025
🧵 Mohsen Mahdawi, a student who helped lead protests against the Israel-Hamas war at Columbia University, sent a message to President Donald Trump on Wednesday following his release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention. (1/x)
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
One of my Radical Leftist opinions is the government shouldn't be able to deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/03/2025
Republican congressman Keith Self introduced transgender Representative Sarah McBride as "Mr. McBride." Sarah snapped back and called him madam chair. Dem Congressman Bill Keating went off on Rep. Self and adjourned the meeting over his lack of decorum and purposeful targeting of Sarah McBride.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 12/02/2025
Researchers examined compassionate behaviors like charitable giving, volunteering and disaster recovery aid, finding that despite deep polarization, many Americans remain driven to help others. buff.ly/3EwiuoW By Tara Sonenshine, Tufts University #compassion #empathy
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Even as polarization surges, Americans believe they live in a compassionate country
Compassion starts with the individual – self-care and personal wellness. It then radiates out to the wider community in the form of action and engagement.
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The Advocate @advocate.com · 12/02/2025
Kansas Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has again vetoed a ban on gender-affirming care for minors, saying it would be "infringing on parental rights."
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Kansas Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly once again vetoes gender-affirming care ban for minors
Senate Bill 63 sought to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria while allowing the same treatments to continue for cisgender minors with other conditions.
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
One of these days we're gonna have to reckon with the fact that "money that I spend which does not directly benefit me is a waste" is a popular sentiment. I think we should state plainly that this is selfish on its face. And stupid when you have awareness which extends beyond your nose.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 07/02/2025
democrats have a free winning message in that donald trump is specifically endorsing pedophilia against trans kids, after the party has spent years falsely accusing trans kids of being a product of pedophilia. will they take it ... ? probably not. but it's there! just saying!
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Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 04/02/2025
1. The state department has removed transgender people from its website and just reads "LGB Travelers," as reported by a number of journalists. However, on further investigation, it is also removing trans-specific directions for individual countries. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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State Department Travel Safety Website Changes "LGBTQI+ Travelers" to "LGB Travelers"
The change is an attempt to insert a divide in the LGBTQIA+ community by the Trump administration, and to erase transgender people from any consideration or recognition.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 02/02/2025
In a study of Gen Z's personal goals, "to be safe" ranked as the top priority, outweighing traditional teenage desires like popularity and fun. A developmental psychologist explains what this says about growing up in an era of constant crisis:
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Gen Z seeks safety above all else as the generation grows up amid constant crisis and existential threat
Recent generations may have taken safety for granted, but today’s youth are growing up in an era of compounded crises – and being safe is their priority.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I just need you to understand the degree to which every columnist and pundit claiming they just wanted to "follow the science" or have more research on trans kids is just remarkably full of shit
In the order, CDC researchers were
instructed to remove references to or
mentions of a list of forbidden terms:
"Gender, transgender, pregnant person.
pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual,
non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at
birth, assigned female at birth
biologically male, biologically female,"'
according to an email sent to CDC
employees (see below)."
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 30/01/2025
"Officers went to trans women’s cells one by one and ordered them out, according to one incarcerated resident, a trans man housed with the women." ‘We don’t have to call you women anymore. Where you’re going, you’re going to be a man.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trans people in US federal prisons face brutal crackdown under Trump order
Advocates report harassment and loss of gender-affirming care as trans women face transfers to men’s prisons
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 30/01/2025
1. Here are some of my thoughts on the news by Erin Reed that some hospitals are denying new minor patients for gender affirming care: Hospitals that obey in advance to illegal executive orders can and should be targeted for protest actions by trans activists groups. bsky.app/profile/erin...
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/01/2025
This order will kill kids, there's no other way to say it. It's the government forcibly taking control of the bodies of thousands of children.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/01/2025
Major news: Donald Trump has just issued a trans military ban, with much of the details left to Hegseth. It states that being trans is incompatible with "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle" I know many military trans people who have served admirably for decades. Shameful.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/01/2025
Surprise Surprise... bathroom laws target cisgender women more often than trans ones, from a simple numbers game there are just so many more cisgender gender nonconforming people than there are trans people out there.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/01/2025
For the: "But China!" crowd... For gen Z, it's not China pushing guns in schools, its not China causing massive wealth inequality in the United States, its not China denying people healthcare for billionaire's profits. They see Zuck, Elon, the and the govt as way more dangerous to their lives.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/01/2025
“These kids just sit in foster care,” a family law attorney said, “because mom and dad are working at Subway and can’t afford a four-bedroom house.” With @wabe.org (Published April 2024)
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When the Number of Bedrooms in a Home Keeps Parents From Getting Their Kids Back
Even after resolving other safety concerns, parents in Georgia can wait for months to be reunited with their children, often because of what advocates say are stringent requirements sought by the…
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12/01/2025
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
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2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
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Michael Squires @mgsquires.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
“We wanted to help ProPublica’s readers recognize the humanity of the people we had met and talked to, so we gave them notecards and asked them to describe their experiences with sweeps.”
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“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/12/2024
2/ Since September, we’ve reported on five women — Amber Thurman, Candi Miller, Josseli Barnica, Nevaeh Crain and Porsha Ngumezi — who died after not receiving timely care in states with abortion bans:
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Life of the Mother
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, doctors warned that women would die, but lawmakers who passed state abortion bans didn’t listen. The worst consequences are now becoming clear.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/12/2024
In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a @wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing. (Published Jan. 2024)
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When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance
In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be…
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The Advocate @advocate.com · 13/12/2024
Voters in Odessa, Texas rejected three incumbent city council members just one month after they voted to implement a harsh anti-trans bathroom ban, replacing one with the city's first out gay council member.
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Texas City Council that targeted LGBTQ+ people gets voted out – and replaced with first gay member
Voters in this city rejected three incumbent city council members just one month after they voted to implement a harsh anti-trans bathroom ban, replacing one with the city's first out gay council memb...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/12/2024
A spill on a family farm in Oklahoma killed several acres of vegetation and contaminated drinking water. A judge ordered the farmers to pay when they went after the oil company. (Published May 2024)
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Oil Companies Contaminated a Family Farm. The Courts and Regulators Let the Drillers Walk Away.
The oil and gas industry has reaped profits without ensuring there will be money to plug and clean up their wells. In Oklahoma, that work could cost more than $7 billion if it falls to the state.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I will never post screenshots of Annoying Takes Peddlers for you to get mad at. That's a hippo account guarantee
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 04/12/2024
Chase Strangio, first trans attorney to argue at SCOTUS, walks out to cheers.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 03/12/2024
1. In a major development, the first national consensus guidelines for trans youth have been released in France. They recommend affirmation and medical care, denounce "wait and see." They refute much of the Cass Review. Subscribe to support my journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-french...
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New French Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Denounce "Wait-And-See" Approach
The new guidelines, published by the French Society of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, create the first French national medical consensus on trans youth care.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/12/2024
9. Trans kids denied gender affirming care do not become cis, they just are trans kids that are forced to suffer untreated gender dysphoria, which Ohio's bans do.
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Cj @handmedowncj.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I was permabanned from twitter in 2018 for saying I was going to sword fight TERFs so I’m really excited about this new platform (ie opportunity to threaten sword fights)
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