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Kate K

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Death before detransition.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16h
Annie Andrews in 2022: "This does nothing to protect or support women or children in SC. I will always support trans youth" Annie Andrews in 2025: It's wrong to "throw this population under the bus to score political points." Annie Andrews today:
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 17h
Donald Trump posted on Truth Social calling Dr Annie Andrews a transphobic slur this week, and her response is to ensure everyone knows she hates trans people too. Christ, the Democrats are fucking pathetic.
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...
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Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 07/10/2026
Arizona and Virginia, both of which are governed by Democrats, are ending Medicaid coverage of care for trans youth, Transitics has learned. The bans, which go into effect on October 13th, mark the most significant Democratic capitulation to Trump's anti-trans demands yet. Cowards.
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Democrat-led Arizona, Virginia Quietly End Medicaid Coverage of Care for Trans Youth, Acquiescing to Trump Demands
The policy changes, which go into effect on October 13th, see Arizona and Virginia join Kansas as states where Democrats have needlessly opted to restrict Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care.
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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pregnancy is famously a highly abstract theoretical social philosophy experience, with no connection to the concrete material reality of one's life.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I fear that any midterm “mandate” angry voters give them will be squandered on dinner party invites instead of building the accountability regime people are desperate for and are putting their bodies and lives on the line to get.
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 07/10/2026
It's not just Andrews: 45 of the SC legislature's 47 Dems have an anti-trans voting record. - 11 voted for a sports ban (9 abstained) - 19 voted for a bathroom ban (6 abs.) - 30 voted for a prison GAC ban (14 abs.) - 3 voted for a youth GAC ban (6 abs.) South Carolina Dems have ALL abandoned us.
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Untitled Anarchist Seagull Channel/Hyperpolyglotting @uaschyperpolyglot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
'I don't think trans people's lives matter enough to be an election issue' is not the rousing defence of trans people some liberals seem to think it is.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And, if you are unaware of my longstanding and repeatedly expressed views here …
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Emil Bove, thumbing his nose at America, is making a mockery of the rule of law
Attending Trump's rally on Tuesday, Judge Emil Bove let it be known that his DOJ actions were just the beginning. Bove must face accountability, and ultimately impeachment.
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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Anine is one of the people who worked to expose the research misconduct against trans people at Oslo University Hospital. Yesterday, she was told she is no longer on their waitlist to receive gender-affirming care. This is so obviously retaliatory, it's hard to put into words!
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: Following the Supreme Court OK'ing states' trans sports bans, ADF is now taking its targeting of states with pro-trans sports policies to SCOTUS — via the shadow docket in a case out of Washington. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So, one of my best argument against the electoral college is that it actually provides perverse incentives to presidents to ignore states they’re not going to win. Of course, Trump takes “perverse” to unhinged extremes.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/10/2026
Can't wait for this to be cited in court cases about animus around various anti-trans policies and then SCOTUS says it doesn't count.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 06/10/2026
every "pride" Democrat org: "For party leadership, the caucus is simply a recruitment and sales team. The job, in their eyes, is not to represent the LGBTQ+ community to the party, but to sell Democratic candidates to the LGBTQ+ community, regardless of the harm those candidates may cause."
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
2026 midterms, simplified:
Scale, equibalanced between $10/gal gasoline and trans people existing, while the average voter ponders the question.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026
We've reached the open use of anti trans slurs phase by Trump. Dems haven't done shit to call out Pete Hegseth and Nancy Mace doing it so now it's become normalized.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Rabid hatred of all transgender people—including veterans!—is the point. And the Respectable Republicans™️ and Thoughtful Conservatives™️ are all on board with it.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
vile, disgusting, irredeemable people
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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"it's been an honor to decimate this institution and make a shitload of money i don't deserve"
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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yes, that’s correct. Brazil successfully prosecuted its former head of state for trying to do a coup. The fact that the rightwing may win the presidency again isnt a reason not to do that.
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I feel like I’m the only one writing about realistic deliverables in the next two years: www.ms.now/opinion/demo... and www.salon.com/2026/09/24/t...
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The Democratic playbook for taking on Trump after the midterms
The party will have many tools to hold the administration accountable — if it uses them
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A key reason why court reform post-Trump will have to include the lower courts and not just the Supreme Court: www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Trump is putting a generation of young judges on the bench — for life
Trump has nominated at least 33 people in their 30s to lifetime federal judgeships.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
As ever, the true victims of the anti-trans pogroms are the feelings and fortunes of cis people. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Some Democrats, Scarred by 2024, Take a Harder Line on Trans Athletes (Gift Article)
Democrats competing in historically conservative territory in the midterms are more aggressively responding to Republican attacks casting them as extreme.
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Nikko @dyadiccalamity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The media probably doesn't want to address it because then they'd have to address what he's saying "mutilization" about... ...and they don't want to address what's happening to transgender people in this nation.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
But NYT's biased agenda is to make the tiny number of Democrats who have made anti-trans statements sound like heroes. So the piece centers them and downplays the actual news about where Democratic strategy landed on this.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The NYT story is a great example of NYT making informing readers subordinate to pushing their agenda. If you read it carefully, it's clear that Democrats have largely decided to counter attack by saying Rs are obsessed with trans issues and neglecting things that impact ordinary Americans.
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 03/10/2026
These people don't want a "color-blind meritocracy"! They are white supremacists who believe non-whites are inferior and the benefits of our citizenship should reflect it.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 04/10/2026
If this were a group of immigrant men accused, Kelly would be calling for the electric chair.
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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Clarke on B.P.J.’s Deviation From Heightened Scrutiny Jessica A. Clarke (University of Southern California Gould School of Law) has posted B.P.J.’s Deviation From Heightened Scrutiny…...
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Clarke on B.P.J.’s Deviation From Heightened Scrutiny
Jessica A. Clarke (University of Southern California Gould School of Law) has posted B.P.J.’s Deviation From Heightened Scrutiny (Yale Law Journal Forum, forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In West Virginia v. B.P.J., the Supreme Court upheld a state law barring transgender girls and women from girls’ and women’s sports. In doing so, it reasoned that the law met the heightened scrutiny standard that applies to sex-based classifications under the Equal Protection Clause.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/10/2026
My fundamental gripe with originalism beyond its practice being indistinguishable from divination, it's also an implicit framework that forces us to be governed by the dead or worse, the malicious interpretation of the dead.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 03/10/2026
"In America, you can go to prison for decades for moving a box of zines or attending a peaceful protest, but billionaires creating AIs that mass generate CSAM is a constitutional right."
Yeonmi park on microphone meme
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Maddie Chthonia @maddiequestions.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
it's cool how every time Leo clears a low bar for something half the website has to cheer him on and not think about all the reactionary things the Catholic Church does on a daily basis pls call me when Catholic hospitals do abortions and trans healthcare
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“This Labour Government is the worst thing to have ever happened to trans children. They have step by step dismantled every protection that supported my daughter […] At every point when the Labour Government could have made something better, they have turned around and given her another kick.”
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Might be smart for Troy Johnson to make an issue of forcing Susan Collins to vow not to vote to approve any Trump Supreme Court appointee during a lame-duck session, especially if she loses.
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TomT @tomt23.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
everytime tucker speaks he shows his whole ass. anyone finding "strange new respect" for tucker needs their fuckin head examined.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 03/10/2026
There is a line between "pushing the law rightward" and "acting as an enemy to the U.S. Constitution", and I think Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have crossed the line quite a while ago (seeking to nullify Reconstruction-era birthright citizenship constitutional amendments is just one example)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tucker: “I never understood why 🇬🇧 fought World War 2?” 😕 Rees-Mogg: “It was good vs. evil…We did the right thing…” Tucker: “Has 🇬🇧 benefitted?” RM: “We defeated Hitler… We’d all be speaking German…” Tucker: “Who cares?” 🤔
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Elon, whose genAI is the world's largest distributor of CSAM, has essentially infinite money to throw at evading any kind of consequences for producing and distributing more CSAM than any human in history.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/10/2026
generic reply to emphasize, I’m a police and prison abolitionist, I have been writing about these systems for two decades
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Stephen Spaulding @stevespaulding.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Majority Leader John Thune already said earlier this summer that the Senate would jam through a successor in the lame duck if the Senate flips and a justice retires.
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
Trump on Letitia James being special prosecutor for the Cornell rape case: "I feel badly for whoever she's looking at, because they won't get a fair shake"
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Melinda's century of humiliation @melindamagpie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“People moved to NYC because of its shield law for trans kids. These hospitals have completely left them behind and shirked responsibility. They have not even been told whether they can receive continuity of care.” Eliel Cruz, a co-founder of Gender Liberation Movement
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Activists Picket New-York Presbyterian as Hospitals Continue to Block Access to Gender-Affirming Care for Youth
LGBTQ+ Activists are continuing to pressure hospitals to not give in to the Trump administration, in the wake of Mount Sinai’s settlement and agreement to suspend care for trans youth.
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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026
This is genocidal rhetoric, if you're keeping track. This is the kind of thing they go for in the "Heterodox" community.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Really good piece from @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social and Wendy Wagner on Suncor and the importance of federalism -- and state-court litigation -- to democracy's fight against authoritarianism. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The Next Anti-democratic Threat From the Supreme Court
Industry-backed preemption arguments in the climate deception case threaten the federalism safeguards that check an imperial presidency.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is a guy that the media has promoted a dozen times in the last few years. He was on Bill Maher's show two weeks ago as a reasonable conservative.
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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 02/10/2026
This episode is a one-hour dramatisation of this tweet. Funny (especially Glenn Beck trying to pronounce "East Anglia") but also absolutely maddening.
Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.
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