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Jen Cousins

@jencousins.bsky.social
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Mom 🏳️‍⚧️ LGBTQ+ rights activist 🏳️‍🌈 social justice warrior ⚔️ she/her | views expressed are my own

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Jen Cousins @jencousins.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Haven’t been on here in a while, but I think it’s important to highlight Florida’s US Senate race. @avindman.bsky.social is running in a primary against @angieforfl.bsky.social. He continues to deny that we are committing a genocide and also refuses to debate Angie. Watch this video:
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Jen Cousins @jencousins.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Haven’t been on here much lately but I need ALL OF YOU to send these emails to your elected officials! They should all be ashamed, especially the Dems, of remaining on a nazi platform #DumpYourToxicX @teslatakedown.com
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Tell Elected Leaders: Dump Your Toxic X
We are calling on elected officials, celebrities, activists and everyday people to Dump Your Toxic X. Elon Musk is making a profit by enabling the creation of sexualized deepfakes, which experts call ...
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
They are pushing a burning dumpster towards the cops
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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
A gang of ICE agents executed a man in broad daylight in Minneapolis today. No other way to put it. No excuse. It was a public execution by a gang of government agents.
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Jen Cousins @jencousins.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Central Florida friends, come out on Friday night for an author’s discussion with my friend Nico Lang! “American Teenager” is a must read! 🏳️‍⚧️ 1/16/26 @ 6:30PM Joy MCC 2351 S. Ferncreek Ave Orlando, FL
Author Reading and Q&A
American Teenager
How Trans Kids Are
Surviving Hate And Finding Joy In a Turbulent Era
January 16 6:30pm
Joy MCC
2351 S. Ferncreek Ave.
Orlando, FL
joy mcc
• • metropolitan community church
W/ Nico Lang
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Jen Cousins @jencousins.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Hey fuck you Amy
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 07/01/2026
~news~: this week I started at The Guardian US @us.theguardian.com as Movement Building reporter, continuing my coverage of protest, repression and resistance against war, LGBTQ rights, policing, labor, and more under Trump. organizers, advocates—send me your stories! I’m on Signal lex.mcmenamin.68
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Jen Cousins @jencousins.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot is on an undressing spree, creating sexual deepfakes of women and kids. Musk's response? To blame users and post laughing emojis. HELL NO app.sosha.ai/s/65HkX8dp
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Grok is generating child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Demand Apple & Google remove Grok from their app stores!
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Who is Randy Fine and where did he come from? Spoke with folks on all sides of the aisle, a school board official he called a “whore,” a construction contractor who felt compelled to primary him, a classmate from his time causing ruckus in Harvard student government, and more to find out.
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Meet Randy Fine, America’s Most Racist Congressman
The Florida lawmaker says 'destroy' mainstream Muslims. Who is he and where did he come from?
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Jen Cousins @jencousins.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Thank you so much Orlando Pride, it was an honor to serve as a Grand Marshal and spend a beautiful day celebrating our queer and trans joy and resistance 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Me next to the car I rode in the parade with a sign with Pride colored stripes that says “Grand Marshal Jen Cousins.”Our car with supporting crew on the parade route through Orlando Fireworks over Lake Eola
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Jen Cousins @jencousins.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Rest in power Miss Major, I am so lucky I ever shared space with such a legend 🏳️‍⚧️
Me with Miss Major at an event in Orlando
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Jen Cousins @jencousins.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Actual Facebook post by the DHS made on the same day Trump says the Feds are taking over DC. Totally not Nazi propaganda.
Facebook post from the DHS showing a 1940s rendering of Capitol Hill with the comment “We Can Return.”
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 12/08/2025
Behold the private citizen turned Heritage Foundation martyr: Kim Davis. Four marriages. One jail stint. Hundreds of thousands owed for trampling rights. Out of office since 2019, still clawing to void your marriage — a trailer-park tyrant with a cross and a grudge.
Mugshot of Kim Davis, the former Rowan County, Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. She has long brown hair, wears glasses and a light blue shirt, and stands against a height chart background marked in inches, facing the camera with a neutral expression.
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Tawni Monster Mash-all @tawnimarshall.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I'm no consultant, but I think it's a losing strategy for Dems to appeal to the "reasonable concerns" of voters who can be won over with this kind of gutter level transphobia and homophobia.
“Man-to-man defense isn’t woke enough for Ossoff – he’s playing for they/them. Call and tell Sen. Ossoff, stop dunking on defenseless girls,” said the ad, from an affiliate of SLF and backed by more than $350,000. Meanwhile, one of Ossoff’s challengers, Georgia Rep. Buddy Carter, is running  an ad featuring a person wearing a dress and a wig complaining that Carter “helped Trump” in “banning people like me from competing in women’s sports.” Man in an Ossoff Jersey blocking a girl's jump shot in a smoke filled gymnasium.An unshaven man in drag holds a trophy while complaining into a phone on speaker.
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Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
And the Dems are caving like the spineless cowards they are. You will never appease fascists.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military. And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
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Lee Harding @rockinbear.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
It wasn’t that long ago that Florida was chiefly known for 2 things: 1. the place of choice for retired folk, and 2. one of the favourite, possibly biggest tourist destination in the U.S. Now…it’s all about shackles, misery and inhumane treatment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges
Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied one of succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida
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Jen Cousins @jencousins.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Join us on Saturday for this important event!!
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales. This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide. We are doing this and history will never forgive us. Gaza:
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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
almost all of this comes from tactics honed in repro, but having watched this stuff develop and metastasize in state legislatures i'm convinced that this particular genre of inverted policyfucking is directly downstream of specifically sb8's legally inexplicable success
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Jen Cousins @jencousins.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
School starts soon in Florida & we’ve somehow found a commissioner of education who is more repugnant than the previous one. Would like to point out that all of these ppl can fuck themselves in the most acrobatic way possible bc my LGBTQ kids will continue to live & thrive under your cruelty 🖕
Letter from the new Commissioner of Education in Florida being transphobic and racist and threatening teachers. Letter from the new Commissioner of Education in Florida being transphobic and racist and threatening teachers. Letter from the new Commissioner of Education in Florida being transphobic and racist and threatening teachers.
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Jen Cousins @jencousins.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
🚨ACTION ALERT Sayfollah Musallet was tragically *beaten to death* by *illegal* Israeli settlers in the West Bank on 7/11/25. In moments like these, silence is unacceptable. Click to call on ALL Florida officials to publicly denounce this murder & stand in solidarity with the Muslim community.
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TAKE ACTION: Demand Elected Officials Speak Out!
We urge all Florida officials—especially those in the Tampa area—to denounce this murder and stand in solidarity with the Muslim community during this time of grief and injustice.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/07/2025
1. Earlier this year, Trump erased transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument webpage, digitally burning the history we helped create. Now, he's doing the same to bisexual people. No marginalized group will be safe from the admin's moving targets. Subscribe to support our journalism.
erininthemorning.com
After Trans People, Trump Now Erasing Bisexual People From Stonewall National Monument
The "History and Culture" page no longer includes bisexual rights.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
We live in a nation where I am now sending out alerts about what the U.S. attorney general is doing in our name. It’s a lot to sit with. It’s going to get a lot darker before it starts getting lighter, but I will keep doing what I do. And, it will get lighter again.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Genuine question: what ideas do people have for real theories of change to fight surveillance in this moment. Like, it's not like you can run a "tell Palantir to stop being Palantir" campaign or a "Tell ICE to stop being fucking fascists" campaign. What is actionable, winnable? Where do we focus?
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Jen Cousins @jencousins.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The free state of Florida was planning to remove our rainbow crosswalks before the Trump admin even sent the letters out. This FDOT memo is dated 6/30 (they are obsessed with pulling shit like this during Pride Month). The Trump administration didn’t send its letters to all 50 govs til 7/1.
ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS MEMORANDUM NO. 25-01
DATE:
June 30, 2025
TO:District Directors of Transportation Operations, District Directors of Transportation Development, District Design Engineers, District Construction Engineers, District Maintenance Engineers, District Traffic Operations Engineers
FROM:Will Watts, P.E., Chief Operating Officer, Assistant Secretary
COPIES: Jennifer Marshall, P.E., Chief Engineer of Production Rudy Powell, P.E., Chief Engineer of Operations
SUBJECT: Traffic Control Device Compliance on All Public Roads
This Memorandum highlights Department policy, Florida Administrative Code (FAC, Rule 14-15) requirements, and Florida Statute (F.S. 316.0745) requiring all traffic control devices, including pavement surface markings, be compliant with the FDOT Design Manual (FDM) and the Manual of Uniform Minimum Standards for Design, Construction and Maintenance for Streets and Highways, 2023 (2023 Florida Greenbook) on all public roads, as applicable.
Background
Non-standard surface markings, signage, and signals that do not directly contribute to traffic safety or control can lead to distractions or misunderstandings, jeopardizing both driver and pedestrian safety. Furthermore, uniform and consistent application of pavement surface markings is critical for the overall effectiveness of automated vehicle operation, as automated vehicle technologies rely heavily on consistent traffic control devices.
FDOT's traffic control device standards conform to FHWA's Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) in accordance with Florida Statute 316.0745. Doing so ensures our design practices remain in line with national standards.
In addition to adoption of the MUTCD, FDOT policy specifically addresses pavement surface marking design criteria in the following documents:
1. 2025 FDOT Design Manual
• FDM Chapter 230 provides clear guidelines on the proper use of traffic control devices, including surface markings, to ensure they serve a functional, safety-r…purpose. This chapter stresses the importance of clarity, consistency, and uniformity in traffic control, which is essential to maintaining an efficient and safe transportation network.
• FDM Chapter 127.2 (15) explicitly prohibits the application of pavement or surface art on travel lanes, paved shoulders, intersections, crosswalks or sidewalks. It defines pavement or surface art as surface markings that are not in direct support of traffic control or public safety. This language helps eliminate potential misinterpretation of the purpose and intent of surface markings.
2. 2023 Florida Greenbook, Chapter 18.D defines and explicitly prohibits the application of pavement art and surface art.
Examples of non-complaint surface pavement would include any pavement markings that do not meet the color, shape, or dimensions provided in the MUTCD or FDOT Standard Plans; including elements such as Bicycle Symbols, Crosswalk markings, or other pavement surface art that is associated with social, political, or ideological messages or images and does not serve the purpose of traffic control.
This memorandum showcases Florida's proactive steps to ensure that all transportation traffic control devices and pavement marking are installed for traffic control purposes and the safety of the traveling public with the passage of recently enacted legislation. This policy has now also garnered further support with our federal partners as U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)'s Secretary Duffy recently issued a memo (Link to USDOT Memorandum) further supporting the shared vision of safety related to developing consistent and uniform standards on transportation facilities.
Implementation
As stated in F.S. 316.0745, the Department has the authority to enforce compliance and withhold state funds from any public agency that is found to be in violation of the established standards for traffic control devices on public roadways. This includes directing the removal of non-compliant traffic contro…devices or pavement markings to remain may be granted at the Department's discretion, if the public agency is able to demonstrate good cause for doing so.
CONTACT
Rudy Powell, P.B
Chief Engineer of Operations
Phone (850)414-5238
Rudy.Powell@dot.state.fl.us
Jennifer Marshall, P.E
Chief Engineer of Production
Phone (850)414-5203
Jennifer.Marshall@dot.state.fl.us
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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
If you consider the existence of trans people in this country more threatening than the existence of concentration camps in this country, then your understanding of both history and humanity is fundamentally flawed.
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Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
When cis people say they need a "civil discussion" around "trans issues," what they really mean is they want a discussion amongst themselves about how quickly they can get rid of us, over tea, preferably before the rush-hour traffic.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
We will never be silent. The Trump administration has placed 139 EPA staffers on leave after they signed a letter of dissent opposing the agency’s current direction and policies. Silencing experts won’t silence the truth.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
To anyone in the Dem campaign world who happens to come across this: if you're asking people for money today, it should be to help people who will be impacted by the budget, not to help you.
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Devon Ombres @doo-dc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
An important article by one of my @americanprogress.bsky.social colleagues on the dangers of anticipatory obedience in backsliding democracy - www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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The Dangers of Obeying: 4 Risks for Organizations Bowing to the Trump Administration
The Trump administration is demanding unprecedented power and punishing those who refuse to comply, but civil society acting peacefully with collective courage can build a stronger democracy.
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Devon Ombres @doo-dc.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
It's not too late to sign up to attend the "Presidential Appeasement and the Supreme Court" discussion hosted by @americanprogress.bsky.social on July 9 at 11:00 a.m. Register through the link below: www.americanprogress.org/events/presi...
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Presidential Appeasement and the Supreme Court: The State of the Court in 2025
Please join the Center for American Progress for a virtual event on presidential appeasement and the Supreme Court in 2025.
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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
With the @upenn.edu cave, among many others, I am reminded once again (daily) that those with the most resources and capacity are often also the biggest cowards, leaving the rest of us to fight their battles for them.
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Jen Cousins @jencousins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
If you live in Monroe County, FL the state will give your k-3 student $11,950/yr to attend a private school. If you have a learning disabled kid in any county in k-5 the state will NO LONGER give you $1200/yr to access supplemental support. Pizzo voted to cut this. Remember that when he runs.
Dear Families,
The Florida Legislature has passed the state budget, and we wanted to let you know how this impacts the New Worlds Scholarship Accounts program.

The Florida Legislature has not provided funding for the New Worlds Scholarship
Accounts Program in the state budget for the 2025-26 school year.

While no new scholarships will be awarded in the 2025-26 school year, we want to reassure you that you can continue to use your student's remaining scholarship funds on approved items and services. Your current balance will remain available to support your child's education.

Please note that, beginning July 1, 2025, if no money is spent from your student's scholarship account for one consecutive fiscal year (by July 1, 2026), it will be closed, and any unused funds will be returned to the state.
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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
if we're 3% of the US, and if (pulling a number out my ass) 3% of us are activists, and if HALF of us are "aggressive," and if we ignore the obvious power and resource disparities, they still expect you to believe they've been bullied into submission by less than 1/20th of 1% of the population.
Adding to the mix is a problem not confined to this country: many adults in the room were driven to prudent silence by aggressive activists. “There are few other areas of healthcare,” Cass wrote in her foreword, “where professionals are so afraid to openly discuss their views, where people are vilified on social media, and where name-calling echoes the worst bullying behaviour.”
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Jen Cousins @jencousins.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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Jen Cousins @jencousins.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
“Land of the free,” eh?
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Jen Cousins @jencousins.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The majority of House Dems don’t bother going to Equality Caucus meetings that help refine talking points on things like trans issues. The Dems are just begging us to hate them at this point.
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Democrats Have Basically Given Up Trying to Message on Transgender Rights
“The Supreme Court has ruled,” said one House Democrat. “We’re either a party that supports the rule of law or not.”
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Jen Cousins @jencousins.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
#TransMarch at St. Pete Pride yesterday was amazing! Beautiful day spent with some of the people I love the most 🏳️‍⚧️ #ProudAndFree #TransRightsNow #ProtectTransKids Considering supporting a FL trans inclusive school here ⤵️ gofund.me/08503738
Me, my child and friend Four of us at the Trans March Me and Simone Chriss of Southern Legal Counsel Me and a bestie
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Tesla Takedown Central Florida @teslatakedowncfl.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
We’ll see you tomorrow Kissimmee to wish this jerk the most unhappiest of birthdays!! #MuskMustFall #TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com @dissentpins.bsky.social
Elon Musk being lifted up by red balloons on the left with the Tesla Takedown Central Florida, Orlando 50501 and Kissimmee 50501 logos under him. 

On the right, it says: 

#TESLATAKEDOWN
#MUSKMUSTFALL
Help us wish this Fascist Dork a Happy Birthday with a special party in Kissimmee!
We'll have cake and more!
Tesla Showroom Kissimmee
2935 N. Orange Blossom Trail
6/28/25 @ 11AM
@TESLATAKEDOWNCFL
Sign the petition to tell T-Mobile to end its partnership with Musk with a QR code
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