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Heterodox This

@heterodoxthis.bsky.social
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Former union VP. Likes, re-posts & follows ≠ endorsement. Living on unceded Xučyun Ohlone land and sometimes on Kumeyaay land. Pronouns: She/her/gurlpahleez

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
sfstandard.com
Manny Yekutiel ‘crossed so many boundaries’: New allegation against SF candidate
Yekutiel, who said he does not recall the alleged 2023 incident, was previously accused of sexually assaulting Brad Joseph Chapin in 2020.
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today’s long read: “MAGA and Trump’s political strategists continue to work with Eduardo and Flávio Bolsonaro to interfere in Brazil’s elections. Their goal is to annex Latin America to the US.”
panamericandispatch.org
Trump, Rúbio and the Bolsonaros’ Electoral Fraud and Cyber Attacks
MAGA and Trump’s political strategists continue to work with Eduardo and Flávio Bolsonaro to interfere in Brazil’s elections. Their goal is to annex Latin America to the US.
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
CANADA NEWS 1) “A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.”
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Australians along the east coast are reporting many sightings of endangered bogong moths as the insects continue their long migration towards the country’s alpine regions.
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale urged people to be less judgmental about the Iran school bombing that killed over 150 people, mostly children. Pentagon officials have linked the bombing to an “overreliance on Palantir's tech” while, UN investigators have concluded the attack was a war crime.
motherjones.com
Palantir’s co-founder thinks we should be less judgmental about that deadly Iran school strike
The AI-assisted attack at the start of Donald Trump's war killed more than 150 people, mostly children.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 20/09/2026
More Australians to live into their 90s as life expectancy forecast to rise over coming decades
theguardian.com
More Australians to live into their 90s as life expectancy forecast to rise over coming decades
Treasury’s latest intergenerational report projects life expectancy at birth will reach 89 for women and 86 for men by 2065/66 Australian households will shrink but more people can expect to live well into their 90s, according to the latest update to forecasts of the country’s long-term future. Treasury’s latest intergenerational report, to be published in full on Monday, will project the impact of government policies 40 years into the future. Continue reading...
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bari Weiss has plunged CBS News into ratings calamity. —"Evening News" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —"CBS Mornings" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —And now "60 Minutes" has posted worst ratings of 21st century More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...
status.news
Bari’s ‘60’ Bust
Bari Weiss blew up “60 Minutes," ostensibly to create a better show. Instead, her revamped premiere just suffered its worst debut ratings of the 21st century—what one longtime TV executive told Status...
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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 15/09/2026
A judge has dismissed the charges against 18 people arrested in this year's "Stud Alley" party, which took place over San Francisco Pride weekend. The judge said the evidence did not support the charges, & tossed them "in the interest of justice." missionlocal.org/2026/09/char...
missionlocal.org
Judge tosses all charges against Stud Alley partygoers ‘in the interest of justice'
Judge dismisses cases against 18 people accused of failing to leave unpermitted party during pride weekend
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.
nytimes.com
Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)
The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.
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betsy cooley @betsycooley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Snowy Egret marching across San Francisco Bay, next to Bay Trail, Emeryville, California. #birds #nature #eck #eastcoastkin
Large white shorebird walking along in shallow blue water.
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PatMalan @patmalan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
As Dickens wrote: "If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population... Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?" Scrooge's words. Apparently our present day misers agree. What the hell have our rulers become? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/u...
nytimes.com
How the Billionaire Joe Lonsdale Shaped Trump’s Homelessness Policy (Gift Article)
As Republicans have embraced tough measures to clear the streets, no group has led the way more than the Cicero Institute, founded by the venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale.
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
69% of Canadians say Carney showed strength by refusing to accept terms not in Canada's interests, according to Angus Reid
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Tim Mathews @timmathews.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
wsj.com
Opinion | The Dumbest Trade War Revisited
Trump’s decision to escalate a tariff brawl with Canada makes no economic or political sense.
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Ugh 😩
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Why do you want a garden, chickens, and to move off grid? I live in the Bay Area.”
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Orli I Autoimmune & Gut RD on Instagram: "That last one really got me"
103K likes, 970 comments - thrivingbiome on June 25, 2026: "That last one really got me".
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
atlas
@creatine_cycle
billboards in SF:
- "let's get agentic"
- "are you ready for the permanent underclass?"
- SOC2 Compliance
- "Al saved my marriage. fuck an API today"
billboards in Oakland:
- disneyland
- jacoby and myers personal injury attorneys
- "cool people fix their AC"
- white claw
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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sour cherry comics on Instagram: "Join us at 850 Bryant at 8am on Tuesday 8/25 to PACK THE COURT FOR THE STUD ALLEY DEFENDANTS! After SFPD’s violent attack on queer people this June, 18 community memb...
232 likes, 2 comments - sourcherrycomics on August 22, 2026: "Join us at 850 Bryant at 8am on Tuesday 8/25 to PACK THE COURT FOR THE STUD ALLEY DEFENDANTS! After SFPD’s violent attack on queer people ...
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“There are many different pathways to homelessness and this video outlines some of the more common ones. No one grows up wanting to be homeless but it can happen to anyone in the blink of an eye.”
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Jill Wiwcharuk MD CCFP (EM) dip ISAM on Instagram: "There are many different pathways to homelessness and this video outlines some of the more common ones. No one grows up wanting to be homeless but i...
7,381 likes, 197 comments - streetdrjill on August 22, 2026: "There are many different pathways to homelessness and this video outlines some of the more common ones. No one grows up wanting to be home...
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“How Palantir billionaires paved the way for homeless detention camps.” “Cicero Institute, founded by former Palantir CEO Joe Lonsdale has been pushing laws that make it a crime to be homeless all across the country.”
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National Homelessness Law Center on Instagram: "The same billionaire tech bros that are helping ICE surveil and harass communities are the same billionaires pushing to fill jails and detention camps w...
3,680 likes, 78 comments - homeless_law on January 20, 2026: "The same billionaire tech bros that are helping ICE surveil and harass communities are the same billionaires pushing to fill jails and det...
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
🎯🎯🎯
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Professor Culhane said the idea that homeless people do not need housing aid was “a radical assertion that runs contrary to experience and common sense.”
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is where we are: a tech billionaire who, as an undergrad writing in the Stanford Review, "blasted a student movement to raise custodians' pay, warning it 'destroys incentive for them to improve themselves,'" is now a chief architect of a homelessness policy built around punishment and coercion.
nytimes.com
How the Billionaire Joe Lonsdale Shaped Trump’s Homelessness Policy (Gift Article)
As Republicans have embraced tough measures to clear the streets, no group has led the way more than the Cicero Institute, founded by the venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale.
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Lonsdale is pushing punitive & cruel policies- what one publication called a “grim march toward death” for the unhoused -that are well outside his domain of expertise. “I just can’t imagine having that much wealth and power and using it to kick people when they are down instead of lifting them up.”
The extent of Lonsdale's and Cicero's influence on the Trump administration's homelessness policy has not previously been reported, and the effort is just one piece of a broader project that has made him a singular force in the Trump era. Interviews with a dozen advisers, administration officials, friends and business associates — many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private deliberations - show how Lonsdale spent years cultivating the relationships and networks needed to push society and government in the direction he believes they should go.
A Silicon Valley investor, Lonsdale has a political reach that now extends well beyond homelessness, into housing, public safety, education and health care - issues far removed from the technology businesses that made his name.
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
On Joe Lonsdale— “He’s using the homelessness crisis to deflect attention from the broken economic system that both causes homelessness and enables people like him to become billionaires in the first place,” said Jesse Rabinowitz of the National Homelessness Law Center.
A co-founder of Palantir, the data-mining firm, Mr. Lonsdale, 43, is an unlikely force in homelessness policy. He brings to it vast wealth but no experience with homeless services and a distrust of conventional expertise. He argues that his outsider's perspective gives him and the young generalists he hires a fresh view.
A pugnacious presence on social media — he recently called for public hangings of repeat violent offenders — Mr. Lonsdale said he is fighting in part to defend "capitalist society."
He argues that a corrupt "homelessness industrial complex" dominated by liberal social service groups wants to increase homelessness to discredit society.
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Luke Foley @lukefoley.me · 20/08/2026
Never go out bushwalking without being properly prepared and dressed and always expect the unexpected. Always tell people exactly where you’re going too, what track you’re on etc. It might just save your life.
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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connie_chan_sf on Instagram: "AI misinformation has no place in our elections—especially when it reinforces racism and sexism.AI companies have a responsibility …"
AI misinformation has no place in our elections—especially when it reinforces racism and sexism.AI companies have a responsibility to provide factual information, and political campaigns have a responsibility not to weaponize these tools to mislead voters and perpetuate harmful tropes.
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The Phoenix Project @phoenixprojnow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
BREAKING🚨 (1/7) A whistle-blower from the Scott Wiener campaign has alerted the Phoenix Project of potential illegal campaign coordination between the Wiener for Congress candidate campaign and a Political Action Committee supporting Wiener’s Congressional bid.
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
“Scott Wiener can rightly take down his bigotry bot, but he can’t erase the concerns it raised among San Franciscans about his character and judgment.”
missionlocal.org
‘Apologize and take it down’: Scott Wiener pulls plug on Connie Chan AI chatbot
Several said the best thing for Wiener to do would be to scuttle his Connie Chan chatbot. And that came to pass.
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Scott Wiener: YIMBY for the rich, NIMBY for the poor “All that Scott’s bills have accomplished are giveaways to land speculators and pandering to the libertarian fantasies of the tech crowd and the pockets of his donors.”
sfbg.com
San Francisco Bay Guardian | Scott Wiener: YIMBY for the rich, NIMBY for the poor
All that Scott’s bills have accomplished are giveaways to land speculators and pandering to the libertarian fantasies of the tech crowd and the pockets of his donors.
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Truth.
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Christi👻n Rinc🎃n @christianrincon.com · 02/08/2026
you know what, hell yeah
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“Two polls show Scott Wiener & Connie Chan may have a tight race to replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress. One has Wiener at 45% & Chan at 40%, the other has Wiener at 39% & Chan at 38%. Both have double-digit rates of undecideds.”
missionlocal.org
Scott Wiener, Connie Chan have a tight race for Congress, polls show
New polling data suggests that the race between Scott Wiener and Connie Chan for Nancy Pelosi’s seat in Congress could be very close.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Malaysian authorities revoke the business licence of a US tech entrepreneur who was building a start-up community in a largely empty city.
abc.net.au
Home for digital nomads in Malaysian 'ghost city' shut down
Malaysian authorities revoke the business licence of a US tech entrepreneur who was building a start-up community in a largely empty city.
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
San Francisco video of a die-in 18th & Castro b/c the DA is charging 25 people arrested during Pride at the Stud Alley party & at the end of Trans March Charlie Hinton, witness to the 1979 White Night Riots, talked about the police riot at the Elephant Walk gay bar… Via @sadfrancisco.bsky.social
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sadfrancis.co on Instagram: "6/24: On the megaphone Charlie Hinton, witness to the 1979 White Night Riots, talked about the police riot at the Elephant Walk gay…"
6/24: On the megaphone Charlie Hinton, witness to the 1979 White Night Riots, talked about the police riot at the Elephant Walk gay bar (at the time located where the closed Harvey’s is) where SFPD smashed the bar and its patrons. Brooke Jenkins is trying to re-prosecute the Golden Gate 26, and is charging ~25 people arrested during Pride at the Stud Alley party and at the end of Trans March @gay.shame @queersunderminingisraeliterror
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Jeffrey Epstein models Zuckerberg's Meta glasses. Spoof advertisements featuring the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein wearing Meta’s AI glasses have been installed at bus stops across London in a guerrilla campaign protesting against privacy risks. The activist group Everyone Hates Elon
thetimes.com
Spoof Epstein ads go up around London in protest against Meta AI glasses
The activist group Everyone Hates Elon targets smart glasses in a guerrilla campaign over privacy risks and non-consensual recording
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 23/09/2025
From yesterday and today: it certainly appears ICE in Chicago are wearing the Meta AI Ray-Ban glasses.
Guy in camo with thick black glassesDifferent guy in camo with Arab style scarf, thick black glasses
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CBS News @cbsnews.com · 26/07/2026
BREAKING: Suspect in Berlin Pride ramming attack shot and killed by police, authorities say
cbsn.ws
Berlin Pride ramming attack believed to be act of Islamist extremist terror as hunt for suspect continues
German police have identified the suspect as 21-year-old Abdul B. and warned the public that he may be armed and dangerous.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/07/2026
FWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.
futurism.com
Meta Desperately Trying to Ban Creeps Misusing Its AI "Pervert Glasses"
Meta is vowing to crack down on creeps misusing its Ray Ban smart glasses. Whether it will be enough to regain trust remains to be seen.
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
From the the Brandenburg Gate to San Francisco they cannot erase us no matter how hard they try. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
A hand waves a large LGBTQ+ rainbow Pride flag in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin during sunset, lit with  rainbow lighting. Text reads, "THEY CAN HATE. THEY CAN HURT. THEY CAN TRY TO SILENCE US. BUT THEY SHALL NEVER TAKE OUR PRIDE."
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Terrible. 😢
dw.com
Berlin pride event canceled after vehicle drives into crowd
Police launched a manhunt after a vehicle struck several people near Berlin's Tiergarten on Saturday night during Pride celebrations, known locally as Christopher Street Day (CSD).
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Oh my goodness! This is truly heartbreaking. 💔 Love and solidarity with queer Berlin at this time. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
San Francisco—
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Queerly Complex on Instagram: "A rally, protest, and die in demanding cops out of @transmarch and all community events by @gay.shame and @queersunderminingisraeliterror, and more. It was a powerful ac...
67 likes, 0 comments - queerlycomplex on July 25, 2026: "A rally, protest, and die in demanding cops out of @transmarch and all community events by @gay.shame and @queersunderminingisraeliterror, and ...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/07/2026
“The family suing XAI is demanding monetary damages, the deletion of all unlawful depictions of their child, as well as for XAI to implement safeguards to prevent the generation of non-consensual sexually explicit depictions of real people, including minors.”
katv.com
Arkansas family sues xAI over use of Grok to create deepfake child sex abuse material
An Arkansas family is suing XAI, the artificial intelligence company owned by Elon Musk, after a Bentonville photographer allegedly used AI model "Grok" to turn
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
San Francisco Pride/Trans March Protest.
A pink protest flyer featuring a raised fist, flying drones, and text announcing a rally on Friday, July 24 at 7:00 PM at Harvey Milk Plaza in San Francisco showcasing a large, stylized black and white raised fist silhouetted against a hot pink background.

Text: "NO COPS IN COMMUNITY EVENTS", "DIVEST FROM COPS/INVEST IN US", and "DROP THE CHARGES 4 PROTESTORS" 
"COPS OUT EVERYWHERE" and "DROP THE CHARGES" in bold white lettering. "HARVEY MILK PLAZA SF", "CASTRO ST & MARKET ST", and "FRIDAY 7:00PM JULY 24".Graphics: Small grey drone silhouettes flank the fist, a lightning bolt appears at the bottom left, and a face mask icon is visible at the bottom right.
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
San Francisco Pride— Trans March
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pflagsf on Instagram: "The only moment I felt unsafe all day was when the police showed up. 🏳️‍⚧️That’s what Rose (they/them), our summer intern with PFL…"
The only moment I felt unsafe all day was when the police showed up. 🏳️‍⚧️That’s what Rose (they/them), our summer intern with PFLAG San Francisco and PFLAG Oakland East Bay, took away from this year’s Trans March. The day started with warm friendly faces, music, strangers who treated you like a friend the second they met you. Volunteers handed out water and snacks and looked out for each other.Then came the sirens. What arrived was officers, and a lot of them. In Rose’s words, the response didn’t feel proportional to the alleged crime.When Rose looks back on who actually kept people safe that day, the answer is the volunteers. The community. Each other.Send this to someone who thinks Pride is just a party. It started as a protest, and for a lot of trans folks, it still is one.@transmarch organizers have written a community letter to the city calling for real change. Read it, and add your name if it speaks to you. Link in our bio. To your trans loved ones: you’re not alone, and you’re loved.#PFLAGProud #PFLAGSF #TransMarch #ProtectTransYouth
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Sad Francisco @sadfrancisco.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Scott Wiener and Netanyahu are more alike than not
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Shame on you, @scottwiener.bsky.social.
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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Sidewalk art. Hillcrest, San Diego.
A simple sidewalk drawing of a yellow chick with black hair on its head, standing on a little square patch of green grass.
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