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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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“I don't think the point is: Why are we different? Why have we refused to walk one of two narrow paths, but instead demanded the right to blaze our own? The question is not why we were unwilling to conform even when being beaten to the ground by ridicule and brutality.

The real burning question is: How did we ever find the courage? From what underground spring did we draw our pride? How did each of us make our way in life, without a single familiar star in the night sky to guide us, to this room where we have at last found others like ourselves? And after so much of ourselves has been injured, or left behind as expendable ballast, many of us worry "What do we have left to give each other? Upon what basis will we build something lasting between us?"

I think we have a whole world to give back to each other.”
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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 · 27/01/2025
1. Iowa governor Kim Reynolds is pushing a new bill that would remove transgender people from the state civil rights act. Another bill would classify trans people as disabled. Attacks escalate in state legislatures. Mira Lazine writes the latest. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Iowa Republicans Attempt To Remove Trans People From Civil Rights Act, Classify As Disabled
If passed, the bill would mark the first time gender identity gets removed from a state civil rights act that previously passed protections.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Every day I am heartbroken and infuriated by what this country has done to these families
We put these forms in so that everyone in our family would have a valid passport, because that seemed suddenly very necessary,” she said, noting that access to gender-affirming care for minors is changing rapidly across the country. “We didn’t know if we would need to leave the country to get medical care, and for our son’s valid passport to be held with no indication of when we might get that back feels not legal and terrifying.”
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ACLU @aclu.org · 24/01/2025
All applications for gender marker change are on hold while the State Department changes this policy. Anyone who now submits an application for a change runs the risk of losing access to their passport and documents while their application is being processed.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 21/01/2025
An incoming White House official invoked a quote from Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech while announcing President Trump’s executive order dismantling federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
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Trump administration uses King's 'Dream' speech to introduce executive orders cutting DEI
In his inauguration speech, which fell on Martin Luther King Day, Trump said he would work to "make his dream come true.”
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Hails @whatuphails.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Bad news : You don't know what will happen. Good news : You don't know what will happen.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/01/2025
Major news breaking from NOTUS on Trump’s trans passport ban: It will not be retroactive. Very glad I and others encouraged people to get their passports in the lead up to Trump’s inauguration. Now hopefully this EO is defeated in court. www.notus.org/whitehouse/t...
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Trump’s Gender Order Won't Affect Existing Passports — Unless They’re Renewed
“They can still apply to renew their passport — they just have to use their God-given sex, which was decided at birth,” the White House press secretary told NOTUS.
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 21/01/2025
The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.
Never believe that anti-
Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/01/2025
Trump White House's first trans executive order is out. I'll be reading over it here and going through line by line to help you make sense of it. You can find it here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
whitehouse.gov
DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Can't imagine the youth will be too bummed about their high energy video app being banned when they can just log onto blue sky and read sentences written by elder millennials
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/01/2025
one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.
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Lucas @lltj.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I've tried many and the best so far is an evaporative humidifier like one of the Essick Air Care brand ones. They can take tap water and don't get as gross as the ultrasonic ones, and are easier to clean. There are whole house or smaller options.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
My door is always open if you want to stop by and fix my door
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11/01/2025
The Supreme Court said Friday it will review the constitutionality of a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires health plans to provide no-cost preventive care, including cancer screenings, immunizations and contraception, to millions of Americans.
washingtonpost.com
Supreme Court to hear case challenging Obamacare’s preventive coverage
At issue is a provision requiring health-care plans to cover no-cost preventive care, including cancer screenings, immunizations and contraception. A Christian-owned business has challenged it.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 10/01/2025
They’re challenging PREP?! Jesus Christ.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
the policy here really is wild. the entire concept is functionally to declare that gender and sexuality are not protected classes, that their legitimacy is a valid question
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 03/01/2025
direct line from calling writing, videos, music, art, etc. "content" to the legitimization of AI slop producers
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Texas--with one of the country's strictest abortion bans, highest maternal mortality rates, and the most women without health insurance--faces an "epidemic" of abandoned babies, some being found in ditches and dumpsters wapo.st/3ZXDbks
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‘Baby in a dumpster.’ A spate of abandoned newborns unsettles Texas.
Critics say these cases are no coincidence in a state with one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans and near-bottom rankings on women’s health care.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Excellent overview of how and why the Supreme Court's trans healthcare case could impact sex discrimination and gender inequality writ large. "Tennessee’s argument would call into question the longstanding freedom we all enjoy to live our lives as we wish, regardless of sex."
politico.com
Opinion | The Supreme Court Case Over Trans Youth Could Also Decimate Women’s Equality
The principle of sex equality itself is at stake.
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Lucas @lltj.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Finally went to H Mart for the first time and got some things i've been wishing i could find locally.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/12/2024
Hotels, short-term rentals and event ticket-sellers must advertise prices to include service fees, cleaning fees and resort fees — often characterized as “junk fees” — in the totals that are advertised to consumers, the FTC announced on Tuesday. Here’s what to know.
nytimes.com
Hidden ‘Junk’ Fees Must Be Disclosed, F.T.C. Rule Says
Hotels, short-term rentals and event ticket-sellers must advertise the full price of their offerings under the rule, which is supposed to go into effect in the coming year. Here’s what to know.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
What are the rules of litigation? The conservative justices on the SCOTUS are shredding what we’ve known. What I heard in the Skrmetti (gender- affirming care case) oral argument. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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I’m a Seasoned Litigator. Sam Alito’s Recent Questions Have Made Me Cringe.
I am still enough of an institutionalist that it pains me to hear Supreme Court justices embarrassing themselves on the bench.
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I can hardly think of a better example of the moral decay in modern health care than a Goldman analyst noting that biotech cures for diseases like hepatitis are cool and all, until their success diminishes the business opportunity for pharmaceutical manufacturers. www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
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Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'
Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/12/2024
Health Insurance CEO Reveals Key To Company’s Success Is Not Paying For Customers’ Medical Care theonion.com/health-insur...
Health Insurance CEO Reveals Key To Company’s Success Is Not Paying For Customers’ Medical Care

-The Onion
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
this is how they rationalize the disconnect between the false claim that trans kids don’t know who they are and the fact that transition regret is ridiculously rare
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12/12/2024
Gotta say it’s wild that every time Democrats win an election Republicans form an unbreakable bloc on every issue they prioritize but when Republicans win, Democrats go “oh yeah, mass deport, f the queers, defense of democracy what?” It’s a frustrating feature of American politics.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Amid this reckoning over the inhumanity and dysfunction of the American health care system keep in mind you're being asked to believe the same system is treating trans people *too* efficiently
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 12/12/2024
god please let the AI bubble burst soon, i know it's going to take half the economy with it i'm just sick of every tech product i use begging me to try their shitty fucking AI content generation
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
i’m trans. reporting this story nearly killed me. had to stop drinking and wound up on many friends “call to see if she’s ok” lists. please share it. (i’m ok now that it is done.)
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/12/2024
15 activists, including Chelsea Manning @xychelsea.tv and Raquel Willis @raquelwillis.com, were arrested for occupying a women’s bathroom across from Speaker Mike Johnson’s office in protest of his and Nancy Mace’s proposed federal trans bathroom ban, calling on Dems to “grow a spine” and fight it
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Trans Activists Arrested For Occupying Bathroom Outside Mike Johnson's Office
Teen Vogue was present as organizers were arrested from the women's bathroom across from Speaker Johnson's office.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/12/2024
the clear sign that they just don’t see these kids as real people is the endless concern over hypotheticals and the indifference to the reality that actual children are more likely to kill themselves because of these bans
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Gee @geestargames.yogscast.com · 28/11/2024
do you think if I sigh loud enough my problems will all go away
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Lucas @lltj.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
stir fry
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
theonion.com
It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible
The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention, knowing that o...
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
They are *depending* on us fracturing and working to only defend ourselves. They've been doing that for ages, but now they will need it to take hold of power. The only way out of this is together, and that's not just a nice line, it's a fact.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/11/2024
I’ll leave the messaging tactics aside, but I have seen no evidence that Republicans’ anti-trans politics are a “distraction”—unless by “distraction” you mean in 4ish years, Republicans passed laws banning hormones and blockers for minors in half the states, while many, many Democrats ignored them.
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Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
My edition of four travel journals by 18th-c servants is out now, including accounts of France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany and the Ottoman Empire by three valets and a maid – the majority of people who went on the 'Grand Tour' #skystorians #18thc #c18th global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Green cover of the book 'Servants Abroad: Travel Journals by British Working People, 1765–1798'. The image shows an 18th-century caricature of a male servant carrying books and wine.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I've been thinking a lot about Phyllis Frye who organized the first Trans Lobby Day in 1996. Trans people have been going in and out of the Capitol building--including its bathrooms--for a very long time
A black and white photograph of two dozen trans women gathered around a podium outside the US Capitol building
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This is genuinely great from Gessen if only because it takes something pretty basic about anti-trans politics (it's part of a broader reproductive regime akin to the eugenics of fascist cults) and explains it to an audience still convinced this has anything to do with fairness in women's sports
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Secret Behind America’s Moral Panic
Trans rights aren’t just trans rights. They’re reproductive rights.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 21/11/2024
whoa are you telling me that the trans panic is bad for cis people too ?? whoOOAOAHAHH!OOOOOOHHAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! time to care about it i guess
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Irin Carmon @irincarmon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is how they cover up what abortion bans do — fire anyone who helps tell the stories of harm. Everyone who is or can be pregnant will pay the price. www.propublica.org/article/geor...
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Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...
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