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Mazana Boerboom (they/them)

@mazygolucky.bsky.social
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Portland-based queer disabled journalist • 25 • hEDS and ADHD • TTRPG enthusiast • University of Montana J-School class of ‘22

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Mazana Boerboom (they/them) @mazygolucky.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Go check out Emma’s work! She did some amazing research and reporting to paint a picture of the current vaccine policy in the United States!
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Belphegor (Pantxika) @frenchbelphegor.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The 9th level Counterspell made me cry last year, a LOT. And draw. 1/7 Happy 10th, @criticalrole.bsky.social! Here's to many more years - more laughter, more love, and more legendary moments like this one 💔 #criticalrole #criticalroleart #criticalrolefanart #voxmachina
a digital drawing in two parts depicting a scene from the end of Campaign 1 of Critical Role. In the top half, gnome bard Scanlan Shorthalt shown from chest to hips, right hand starting to glow with a spell. At the bottom, Sam Riegel, looking unsure, asking long-time friend and fellow actor/DnD player Liam O'Brien "Is it worth it?" to which Liam replies with certainty, "To keep him here? Yeah, he's getting away!"
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Gracu ✨🌈 @prismagic.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Also if you use AI I hope your computer turns into a wheel of cheese
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
If you're trying to figure out what to do right now, my advice is to just pick a thing that you think might be useful in some way, however small, and do it. Doing a thing leads you to doing another, bigger thing, and prepares you for that next thing.
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Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @brianamillslmft.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Please stop believing we don’t owe each other anything. We owe each other so much! We owe each other love, equity, understanding, community, compassion, and much more. Don’t let this toxic hyper individualism cut you off from humanity. We’re all connected. We all need each other.
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Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @brianamillslmft.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Disabled people are worthy of relationships. We’re worthy of sex. We’re worthy of being romanticized. Disabled people are worthy of love. Happy Valentine’s Day to all disabled people. 🥰
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 11/02/2025
a year ago 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict died after a bathroom beating. in the time since, we've lost more trans kids, while losing federal trans rights. how a community is holding itself together after years of living under Trump's current anti-trans policies at the state level @teenvogue.com
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A Year Without Nex Benedict
"We are saying that the rhetoric is just as damaging as the bullet or the blow."
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Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @brianamillslmft.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The physical fatigue that comes with feeling grief every single day about the country you live in, the people who run it, the world you are a part of.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Trump claimed that DOGE has uncovered billions in “fraud, waste, and abuse.” However, no evidence has been provided, and all public fraud claims from both Elon Musk and Trump have been debunked as false.
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 04/02/2025
we need to make cynicism uncool. like having doubts in your heart and being overwhelmed is one thing, but a lot of us got trained by twitter to post our most cynical snark for engagement and that broke something in a lot of us. (me included!) giving up is not actually that sophisticated!
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Association of Health Care Journalists @healthjournalism.org · 31/01/2025
What journalists should know about disappearing federal health data. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/01...
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Download time: What journalists should know about disappearing federal health data
Following a Jan. 29 memo, staff at the CDC are removing any content related to “gender ideology,” with a deadline of Friday afternoon.
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
PLEASE REPOST: Health equity researchers, Please let me know if your centers or programs are being altered, closed, or threatened by your universities to comply with new EOs or if staff are being laid off. Signal: usha.22 or 👇(Won't use anything without permission.) www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...
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Are you affected by the Trump administration’s pause on health communications, science meetings, and reviews?
Have you been affected by the Trump administration’s pause on communications, science meetings, and reviews? @statnews would like to hear from you.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/01/2025
Hospital protests have begun for hospitals that are complying with an executive order banning gender affirming care. The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care. This one at UVA Hospital.
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Kylie Mohr @thatsmohrlikeit.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
If you're a Forest Service employee who got an email telling you to delete all references to climate change on agency websites...I'd love a copy of that message. You can reach me 509-953-7883 on Signal for secure communication.
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Viral posts that claim the pilot of the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the crash in Washington DC was a transgender woman named Jo Ellis who deliberately caused the incident are false and baseless. Jo Ellis has posted on Facebook to confirm she's alive, and not the Black Hawk pilot.
Screenshot of false tweet claiming the Black Hawk pilot was trans woman Jo EllisScreenshot of false tweet claiming the Black Hawk pilot was trans woman Jo EllisScreenshot of Jo Ellis post on Facebook saying she was not the Black Hawk pilot Screenshot of Jo Ellis post on Facebook saying she was not the Black Hawk pilot
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Even with DEI initiatives, disabled people are very much underrepresented in the workforce. Ableist stigma drives that. The same ableism that Donald Trump showed in full display he has this morning at a press conference.
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Lyric Rivera | NeuroDivergent Rebel @neurodivergentrebel.substack.com · 30/01/2025
Remember when I mentioned I didn’t think they would actually send these people home… 🍊 directs Guantanamo Bay to be prepared to host up to 30,000 migrants
Screenshot from the news story
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 30/01/2025
Excommunicated Latter-day Saint Laurie Lee Hall, a former bishop, stake president and temple architect, discusses her new biography, "Dictates of Conscience: From Mormon High Priest to My New Life as a Woman.”
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‘Mormon Land’: Amid national attacks on transgender rights, a former stake president tells her story
Excommunicated Latter-day Saint Laurie Lee Hall, a former bishop, stake president and temple architect, discusses her new biography, "Dictates of Conscience: From Mormon High Priest to My New Life as a Woman.”
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/01/2025
On day one Trump's EO said we were harmful to kids. On day two, it said we were dishonorable and disloyal. On day three, it said we were unAmerican. Transgender people have been a part of this country for centuries. We are not going anywhere. Do not comply with these EOs, they are not law.
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Mazana Boerboom (they/them) @mazygolucky.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This is a well done article. Detention centers are basically code for concentration camps. And saying that this issue is about crime or drugs is a scare tactic based on falsehoods. Immigrants are just trying to build a better life and no person is “illegal” that’s dehumanizing fascist language.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
If you’re a straight, cis person who has ever posted some version of a rainbow with “you’re safe with me” or similar, it’s time to back up the words with action— contact your reps and ask them what they’re going to do to protect trans people from this administration, particularly trans kids.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/01/2025
A reminder: Deadnaming and misgendering transgender victims of crimes is not only insensitive — it can make it harder to solve the case. Read @lucaswaldron.bsky.social and @schwanksta.com's story from 2018:
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The way cops in Jacksonville and other jurisdictions investigate the murders of transgender women adds insult to injury and may be delaying justice.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 28/01/2025
It's important to the journalists at Assigned Media that you Stay With Us. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Stay With Us — Assigned
Assigned Media wants you to live! And, what keeps us steadfast and ready to meet the moment is the example of other members of our community who refuse to let fear or hopelessness keep them from their...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/01/2025
Not my beat, but Trump just issued an executive order to potentially deport non-citizens attending school/university who are against atrocities committed in Gaza by Israel. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/01/2025
We've created a tracker that covers all executive orders affecting LGBTQ folks along with federal and state legislation. We're at 334 anti-LGBTQ bills. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Credit @alli.gay @erininthemorning.com @evanurquhart.bsky.social @miralazine.bsky.social @lizsaila.bsky.social
A screenshot of a multi‐column table listing several U.S. presidential Executive Orders relating to LGBTQ+ rights and antidiscrimination policies. Each row has columns for “Origin” (POTUS), “Number/Identifier” (e.g., EO 13988), “Title” (such as Preventing and Combating Discrimination…), “Action Type” (e.g., Broad Nondiscrimination, Military Nondiscrimination), “Summary” (key points of each order), and “Date Signed.” The listed orders span from early 2021 through early 2025, covering topics like preventing discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation, banning conversion therapy, rescinding prior harmful EOs, and restricting or expanding DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) initiatives.A spreadsheet at the top shows columns tracking anti‐LGBTQ bills by status and year: total bills (334), 2025 bills (327), 2024 rollovers (7), how many passed committees (3), passed one chamber (5), passed both chambers (0), enacted (1), vetoed (0), failed (3), and carried forward (0). Below that, another header row lists different types of anti‐LGBTQ legislation (e.g., gender‐affirming care bans, pronoun bans, “Don’t Say Gay,” drag bans, bathroom bans) with the total count of each category (e.g., 55 for gender‐affirming care bans, 20 for pronoun bans, 14 for “Don’t Say Gay,” etc.). A color‐coded U.S. map spans the lower half, with states shaded from light orange to deep red according to how many anti‐LGBTQ bills they contain. Texas appears in the darkest red (46 bills), with lighter shades indicating fewer bills in other states. A note at the bottom right explains that the map shows total tracked bills per state, which does not necessarily reflect each bill’s likelihood of passage.
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Never again. That has to mean something more than a slogan used to feel good about condemning a distant genocide it costs nothing to condemn.
Poster: text is red font, overlayed on black and white drawing of a smiling Anne Frank and Hind Rajab, with the dates of their birth and death. “Never again means never again for anyone”, with the word “anyone” underlined for emphasis. 

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@flyers-for-falastin
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Lyric Rivera | NeuroDivergent Rebel @neurodivergentrebel.substack.com · 28/01/2025
I’m not saying “we should stuff banned books into all the front yard community library boxes” - but I’m also not saying “we shouldn’t” 👀
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Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @brianamillslmft.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Why do many disabled people urge you to wear a mask? Because we know how the system works. Viruses can disable you and once you become disabled, doctors won't listen to you, you'll have to fight to receive any assistance, and you'll get denied over and over again. We want you to mask to spare that.
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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
If you're feeling overwhelmed, it's intentional. They're calling it "flooding the zone." The intent is to overwhelm and exhaust us so we can not effectively resist. Something simple you can do right now now is to make sure to take breaks and rest.
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Lyric Rivera | NeuroDivergent Rebel @neurodivergentrebel.substack.com · 25/01/2025
Remember… resting is resistance.
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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
That could’ve been 8,520,000 meals for Americans in need
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
⚡ via Twin Cities Workers Defense Alliance, a reminder of the SALUTE / ALERTA mnemonics — when reporting or signal boosting potential threats, provide as much info as possible. Spread information, not panic or chaos. We help protect one another by sharing useful, actionable information.
Light yellow text on a black background, sharing the SALUTE mnemonic for actionable information: 

"Spread information not panic. When reporting or signal boosting potential threats, provide as much info as possible. 

S.A.L.U.T.E.
S - Size/Strength - '5 armed agitators'
A - Actions/Activity - 'Harassing random people on the move” 
L - Location & Direction - 'Manhattan, East of Central Park, E 97th St'
U - Uniform/Clothes - 'Dark jackets, ballcaps'
T - Time & Date of Observation - '8:32 PM June01'
E - Equipment & Weapons - 'They have body armor and pepper spray” 

Not a useful tweet: 'proud boys spotted.' 
'Where? When? What are they doing? How many? What are they carrying?'

Use your judgement!"
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Lyric Rivera | NeuroDivergent Rebel @neurodivergentrebel.substack.com · 25/01/2025
Justice Department attorneys recently questioned Native Americans' birthright citizenship in the United States under the 14th Amendment.
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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...
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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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Mazana Boerboom (they/them) @mazygolucky.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I feel like the best way to combat this is more gender neutral bathrooms.
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45th Parallel Absurdist Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Since Oregon's sanctuary promise law explicitly prohibits granting federal agents access to any areas that are not open to the public, responding to ICE with a lockdown would also create a situation where no school employee can legally unlock classroom doors to end the lockdown while ICE is present.
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Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @brianamillslmft.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
One of the hardest parts about being disabled, in my opinion, is being someone who wants to do everything but being stuck in a body that struggles doing anything.
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Candace D. @diaryofasickgrl.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
For personal reasons I have decided to stop being chronically ill.
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Crystal Preston-Watson @scopicengineer.com · 22/01/2025
A heads up as it looks like most federal employees working on accessibility will be put on leave and eventually fired.
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White House orders government DEI employees to be placed on leave | CNN Politics
Employees in any federal diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility offices will be placed on paid administrative leave “effective immediately,” according to a post from White House press secretar...
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Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Take a deep breath. Look around. Find one thing you can do to help someone else. Do it. Take another deep breath.
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Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Reminder that the best thing you can do to support open and free information is to USE YOUR LIBRARY #booksky #librarysky #diversebooksky #supportyourlocallibrary #diversebooks #libraries
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ktforest7.bsky.social @ktforest7.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Why in the hell would you rescind lowering drug cost for seniors as one of your first executive orders? It tells you everything you need to know.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025
SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)
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Emma Smith @3mm4sm1th.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
This piece took me a while to be able to write. Before I developed Long COVID, I was an athlete. Learning how to live without climbing, skiing, running and rebuilding my relationship with journalism took time (and grieving). #LongCOVID Here was my experience: medium.com/long-covid-c...
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I am an Athlete. Then, I developed Long COVID
How living with a chronic condition changed my perspective on the outdoors
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