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Joseph Duggan Lyons

@josephdlyons.bsky.social
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Iowan, madrileñ_ & queer activist tweeting about LGBTQIA+ rights, politics & travel. Madrid Summit co-director; former Rainbow Rose VP. He/they.

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Carla Antonelli @carlaantonelli.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
La conexión cordobesa de las Spice Girls: una sorprendente historia de amor y represión franquista, Geri Halliwell es bisnieta de un alcalde republicano “Los fascistas lo acusaron de ser comunista y lo ejecutaron mediante un pelotón de fusilamiento en la plaza del pueblo”
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La conexión cordobesa de las Spice Girls: una sorprendente historia de amor y represión franquista
Geri Halliwell es bisnieta de un alcalde republicano fusilado en 1940
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/06/2026
Been waiting for this story. ICE deports people to Venezuela three times a week, there are likely many more recent deportees with valid asylum claims in the rubble. Hope that GlobalX crew loses some sleep knowing they flew a planeload of shackled men & women, plus seven children, to their deaths.
An ADSBx map showing GlobalX N570TA going from Mesa, AZ, to El Paso, to Miami and Caracas, then returning to Miami via Curacao on June 24, 2026.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 22/06/2026
Starmer saying the next PM will inherit a country that is 'fairer' than the one he inherited 2 years ago. In the one Starmer inherited, trans people could use public toilets.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026
“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”
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Joseph Duggan Lyons @josephdlyons.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Everyone takes the non-suicide potential death so seriously (not to belittle other deaths).
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Carla Antonelli @carlaantonelli.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
La justicia europea avala el reconocimiento de los documentos de las personas trans en toda la UE y considera que la negativa de Bulgaria a inscribir a una mujer trans en el registro vulnera el derecho comunitario al obstruir la libre circulación así como la residencia en otro Estado miembro
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La justicia europea avala el reconocimiento de los documentos de las personas trans en toda la UE
EL TJUE considera que la negativa de Bulgaria a inscribir a una mujer trans en el registro vulnera el derecho comunitario al obstruir la libre circulación así como la residencia en otro Estado miembro
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/02/2026
This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The State of the Union: the president is a corrupt demented sex criminal who tried to overthrow the constitution.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/02/2026
This whole fight over transgender stuff happening on X is so weird to me. The most notable thing about trans issues in the last 5 years has been the enormous, coordinated anti-trans activism campaign across the right, aided by moral cowards in the center. But that campaign is *never mentioned*.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
There are some Dems who are uneasy about "trans issues" and would like to "find a compromise" with MAGA but: 1) there is no compromise with this rhetoric 2) they'd never compromise anyway 3) when you try to do that, all it does is show voters who lean your way that you are weak and unprincipled.
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Democrats Abroad @demsabroad.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
From the Chair of DA, Martha McDevitt-Pugh: “The “SAVE America Act” is a rebranded version of the anti-voter SAVE Act, and its new name should not fool anyone. It retains the most extreme provisions of the original proposal and goes even further.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-... #SAVEAct
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The SAVE America Act would disenfranchise Americans living abroad
The “SAVE America Act” is a rebranded version of the anti-voter SAVE Act, and its new name should not fool anyone.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/02/2026
this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me
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Joseph Duggan Lyons @josephdlyons.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Just watched Bad Bunny’s halftime show and realized I can’t not buy a ticket to one of his shows here in Madrid.
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Joseph Duggan Lyons @josephdlyons.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
See everyone at the first Pan-American Pride in Guadalajara, Mexico, next year! (@orgullopanamgdl27 on insta)
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juhneenhow she/her @juhneenhowe.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
We are in a small community outside Minneapolis and a child arrived to an empty house on Friday. No parents, ice kidnapped them and just leave children to wander alone after school
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
This is a perfect example of "I saw a thing that I could do and I started doing it"
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
“Renee and I chose kindness. We believed that every life deserves the same care, treatment, and dignity, no matter who they are or what they look like... That shouldn’t be radical. If it is, then I want Renee and our family to be known for how we practiced radical kindness every day.”
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taber @kvetch.gay · 06/02/2026
reading the US State Department travel advisories to Burma and struck by how many of the factors cited in the "Do Not Travel" rating apply to Minnesota, USA
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 04/02/2026
ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A reminder Anne Frank died from disease in a concentration camp. Because the conditions were so bad that many would get sick and die. That is also part of the Holocaust, it wasn’t just gas chambers and bullets.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally." In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
Tweet from Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun: "Ignorance like this cheapens the horror of the Holocaust. Anne Frank was in Amsterdam legally and abided by Dutch law. She was hauled off to a death camp because of her race and religion. Her story has nothing to do with the illegal immigration, fraud, and lawlessness plaguing Minnesota today.

Our brave law enforcement should be commended, not tarred with this historically illiterate and antisemitic comparison."
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Joseph Duggan Lyons @josephdlyons.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Gross, I didn’t know I shared a last name with someone carrying out the attacks on our cities. Given the executions he’s overseen, my lord.
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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The moral arc of the universe appears to be giving us the middle finger. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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Joseph Duggan Lyons @josephdlyons.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The “Smith” headline is a choice when one of the state’s U.S. senators is named Tina Smith (@smith.senate.gov) and she is not to whom the article is referring. I understand she largely agrees with the rule of law but the point stands.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/01/2026
ICE is underwater with noncollege whites, god damn
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Joseph Duggan Lyons @josephdlyons.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Had a meeting that stressed me out so much my heart rate monitor went off. The last time that happened was at my dad’s funeral, to give you an idea of how well it went. 🫠
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 21/01/2026
A Minnesota high school student was nabbed by ICE agents as she was trying to pick up food for her family after work. She was violently dragged from her car and lost her shoes. So, barefoot in the middle of winter, she was put into the back of an unmarked car in a small town (Willmar).
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
For ICE to have designated cells for Americans in immigration detention means that the unlawful arrest of Americans by ICE is a systematic issue.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/01/2026
Hit dog will holler. www.nytco.com/press/fact-c...
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Fact-Checking False Claims About Our Gender Identity Coverage | The New York Times Company
A recent post from Trans News Network included numerous falsehoods about New York Times stories on gender identity and maligned some of the journalists involved in the work. Our coverage is guided by…
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
So this is going to end up with Trump spending billions in U.S. government funds on Venezuela to support a corrupt regime, same as he spent billions in Argentina to keep Milei in power and billions in El Salvador for Bukele's prisons, isn't it? That's the "Donroe" Doctrine.
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Trump’s Venezuela Oil Revival Plan Is a $100 Billion Gamble
Realizing President Donald Trump’s plan for a US-led revival of Venezuela’s beleaguered oil industry could be a years-long and challenging process costing upwards of $100 billion.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/12/2025
Shockingly, this bill would have failed were it not for the 3 Democrat defections.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Primaries for senators
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/11/2025
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.
Displaying passport holders' sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to establish that the Government's choice to display biological sex "lack[s] any purpose other than a bare ... desire to harm a politically unpopular group." Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by declining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress expressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
BREAKING: SCOTUS lets Trump administration implement anti-trans, anti-nonbinary passport policy. The Democratic appointees, led by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented. The ruling, which applies during litigation, effectively reverses two lower court rulings. Today, at Law Dork:
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Breaking: SCOTUS lets Trump administration implement anti-trans, anti-nonbinary passport policy
The Democratic appointees, led by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented. The ruling, which applies during litigation, effectively reverses two lower court rulings.
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EuroPride EPOA @epoa.eu · 24/10/2025
AGM 2025 – Day 2! 🇪🇸✨ [Part 3/5] In the afternoon, we began our workshop programme of ten sessions. Themes included: building legacy and long-term social impact; LGBTQIA+ history (incl. South Asia); organising Pride during wartime (Ukraine); and how Pride evolves. 📸 Pride Barcelona #EPOA #AGM2025
Attendees seated in a conference room listening to a speaker at the EPOA Annual General Meeting in Barcelona.Person writing on a flip chart with markers at the EPOA Annual General Meeting 2025 in Barcelona. They are wearing a lanyard with rainbow colors.Person wearing a lanyard gesturing with hands, seated at a table during the EPOA Annual General Meeting 2025 in Barcelona.Attendee speaking during the EPOA Annual General Meeting 2025 in Barcelona, with other participants listening in a conference room.
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EuroPride EPOA @epoa.eu · 11/10/2025
West of Ireland wins EuroPride 2028! For the first time, EuroPride will take place on the island of Ireland. With 70% of the votes, West of Ireland will bring a uniquely rural and inclusive Pride — giving voice and visibility to smaller Prides and communities. 💖 #EuroPride2028 #WestOfIreland #EPOA
Promotional poster for EuroPride 2028, announcing West of Ireland as host for EuroPride 2028. The EPOA European Pride Organizers Association logo is shown at the bottom.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I'm not sure we can trust this guy with our money
Javier Milei with chainsaw
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.
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Bastard Toadflax @plumicorns.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
My brother is an attorney who works with the immigrant population in Iowa. It's 100% happening but there simply isn't time in the day to read about every raid in every small city and rural county across the US
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
"Deranged president increasingly threatening American citizens with deportation and denaturalization" sounds like a front page story to me
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