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Mel DeSilva

@meldesilva.bsky.social
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They/them; GenX; neurodivergent; parent of a trans kid; I fight for trans rights; pro democracy and anti fascist. All opinions are my own. 🏳️‍⚧️🩷🏳️‍🌈

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Transhealth @ourtranshealth.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Disability Pride Month is an annual observance in July that celebrates people with disabilities, promotes disability justice and visibility, and raises awareness of disability culture. #DisabilityPride #DisabilityPrideMonth #NoAbleism #ADA
The image background is the disability pride flag. On the bottom left and top right corners the background is a dark grey/off-black color. There are five stripes going diagonally through the middle, in these colors starting from the bottom left: Red, yellow, white, light blue, and green. The text of the image reads in large font: Disability Pride Month, July 2025. The Transhealth logo is in the bottom left in white.
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Transhealth @ourtranshealth.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
In the face of cruelty and fear, Transhealth will continue to offer healthcare, build community, and fight for a world in which every trans person—of every age—can thrive. Read our full statement transhealth.org/transhealth-...
Statement from Transhealth - The US Supreme Court Greenlights Healthcare Discrimination for Transgender Youth in US vs Skrmetti
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I’m a Transgender Defender. You can be too. Become a sustaining donor today and support @ourtranshealth.bsky.social
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Deplorable.
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The whole world just up and accepted the new Pope’s chosen name. Just like that. So don’t let anyone tell you they can’t do it for trans kids.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/05/2025
JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.
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Paula Poundstone @paulapoundstone.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Why isn't Kristi Noem dressing up in her ICE cosplay outfit, going to Oklahoma, and apologizing to the family they incorrectly took out of their home, in their underwear, and took their money and belongings? You made a terrible mistake, Kristi Noem. Fix it.
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Bloody hell
Kurt Loder is 80
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/05/2025
1. Today, the Trump administration's HHS Dept., under RFK Jr., released a review of transgender healthcare. It has no authors. It pushes pseudoscience and conversion therapy. It does not follow a scientific process. My fact check of the Trump HHS review. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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Fact Check: Trump's HHS Review On Trans Care Filled With Lies, Pseudoscience
The review, which was made possible by an executive order calling transgender healthcare "mutilation," reached its predetermined conclusion on its May 1st publication date.
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Transhealth @ourtranshealth.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Read Transhealth’s reponse to the unscientific attack on trans youth from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services transhealth.org/response-hhs-report
Transhealth’s reponse to the unscientific attack on trans youth from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Report promotes dangerous and discredited conversion therapy by another name.
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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
If you open the anti-trans HHS report’s appendix in NotePad, you’ll see that it was compiled by Alex Byrne. The appendix is a rigorous, scientific overview of systematic reviews. Alex Byrne is an MIT philosophy professor with no apparent background in science, let alone expertise in it.
Screenshot of XML information open in notepad, showing “Alex Byrne” under the creator tag..
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/04/2025
The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan is chilling.
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I’m so saddened by the number of people I went to school with who are now fascists.
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Paula Poundstone @paulapoundstone.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The Heritage Foundation, who wrote Project 2025, and to whom Trump is beholden to keep him in office, is actually, really, planning on making us all CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS. They are already having certain agency employees report on one another for criticising CHRISTIANITY.
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I thought we were supposed to be saving money. What a joke. Fucking unbelievable. www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...
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Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has not given any press briefings in the briefing room but has used the room as a backdrop for TV hits with Fox News.
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
JD Vance sucked the life out of a frail Pope Francis like a Dementor didn’t he?
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Bingo
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Lindsay Sabadosa @sabadosama.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Georgetown Law, Mt. Holyoke, Cornell: who else is on the list? Let's celebrate those who fight back!
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God @thegodshow.com · 15/04/2025
They don’t care. They don’t care that the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to bring an innocent man home to his family. They don’t care. They think it’s funny.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
“Prime, but with human beings.” JFC, what have we become?
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
A lot of the tariffs have been paused huh? Trump is clearly manipulating the global markets for his own financial gain and the financial gain of his family and friends. Beyond corrupt and immoral.
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Rise Up for Justice @riseupforjustice.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Good riddance but I’m sure the next person in charge of the USPS will be so much worse. www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/p...
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US Postal Service head DeJoy resigns | CNN Politics
Louis DeJoy resigned from his role as head of the US Postal Service on Monday, leaving the independent government agency at a time when the 250-year old service faces calls for privatization and scrut...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Hear, Hear! @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social lay out the hypocrisy, stupidity, and criminality:
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Signal Chat Disaster: Trump Admin Hypocrites Crushed by Their Own Past Words
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Why aren’t the Democrats all over this Signal shit?
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
None of that should have been discussed outside of a scif. They should all be fired.
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Everyone on that Signal chat (except the journalist who landed there by accident) should be fired and referred for prosecution.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 19/03/2025
This is a US court of law, refusing to bar illegal actions of the Executive branch out of an explicit concern that its agents will react with deadly force.
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
What a cruel, cruel young person.
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
What a dangerous, stupid asshole. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...
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RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread
The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Elon Musk is nothing but violence.
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
BOOM! 🏳️‍⚧️🩷🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
They’re moving us towards apartheid. Don’t stop fighting. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
You used to be able to opt out of having Alexa conversations recorded and stored in the cloud. That ends March 28th. Brick your devices. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
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Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The far right will break any rule in pursuance of its agenda. Meanwhile liberals will sacrifice everything they purportedly believe in to obey a bunch of rules they made up in their heads, like “ex-presidents can’t be political leaders” or “you can’t be honest about how bad the opposition is”
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Amazing
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
DOGE is plotting to cut Social Security phone support, according to leaked memo provided to Axios. The richest man in the word going after grandparents trying to get access to their own money is vile.
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Transhealth @ourtranshealth.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
It's the 23rd National LGBTQ+ Health Awareness Week, from March 17-21 🏳‍🌈🩺 This year's theme is "Health Equity NOW!" - Visit www.transhealth.org to support the critical health equity work we do at Transhealth!
A white background, at the top in large rainbow colored font it reads, "Health Equity Now!" Underneath that it says "National Coalition for LGBTQ Health - The 23rd National LGBTQ Health Awareness Week, March 17-21 2025. At the bottom is the transhealth logo.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Actually, the White House explicitly admitted to violating the order. Their claim is they don’t have to comply with court orders.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
DOGE claims to have saved $115 billion, but we can confirm this figure is overstated by 77.3%, meaning the actual savings amount to only $26.05 billion. To verify this, we had to rely on internal connections, as Musk has obscured details of these claims on DOGE despite promises of transparency.
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Sarah Rai @sarahrai.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
👇🏻🏳️‍⚧️🩷
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Brilliant.
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Nice job DOGE.
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
My grandpa killed Nazis.
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
JD Vance said to a bunch of seniors, “Don’t you all have jobs?” They’re going to cut social security which will be horrible but maybe that will wake some people the fuck up.
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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Be careful out there. People are being disappeared. Students, professors, tourists… People with valid visas, green cards. It’s just gonna get worse.
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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Looks like we've got a cure for sickle cell. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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Long Island man is first in New York history to be cured of sickle cell anemia
A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say.
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