Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/07/2026Imagine a country being so bigoted that nobody can safely eat lettuce 4450601141
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialhammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 13/02/2026end qualified immunity and make cops carry personal liability insurance 6439631007
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialAMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Enough is enough, how many of our neighbors and friends are being disappeared, brutalized, and killed on the streets? This ongoing terror campaign must end. Abolish ICE. 111121
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.social🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Reps Tarra Simmons and Shaun Scott have introduced a bill in the WA State Legislature that would prohibit state and local law enforcement agencies from hiring individuals who were previously employed as sworn officers with ICE on or after Jan 20, 2025. This is called an idea whose time has arrived. 12656204
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialCrip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 16/09/2025I've seen trans ppl promoting this piece several times today, but I haven't seen a single cis person linking or praising it. It's the same old thing, an article is written FOR cis ppl but ABOUT trans ppl and yet for some reason the cis folks to whom it's addressed seem to not notice the piece. 7504235
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialemily blight 🐦⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 09/09/2025hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵 746014802
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 26/08/2025LAPD choppers are a malignant nuisance. They're harbingers of surveillance, operated *continuously*—yet the city's own data show they raise stress, impair cognition and burn 100,000s of gallons of gas. The best part? there's no evidence they deter or reduce crime at all. It's time to ground them.bloodinthemachine.comGround the choppersThe LAPD's helicopter mania is both a policy disaster and a symbol of our malignant, badly functioning surveillance state. 441778388
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialAssigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 05/08/2025Disinformation has been a key driver of the anti-trans backlash, and @ghawinriver.bsky.social is an expert on how it is developed, spread, and leveraged. Dig in with this interview by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social.assignedmedia.orgUncovering the Christian Right’s Anti-Trans Disinformation Network with the Southern Poverty Law Center — AssignedQuinnehtukqut McLamore traced the vast disinformation network poisoning the science on trans youth care. 9355159
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 30/07/2025I would rather die than create an account to continue 6578651446
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialEric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 20/06/2025NEW from Me: Democrats are planning to challenge the "One Big, Beautiful Bill's" ban on Medicaid being used for gender-affirming care using the Byrd rule. This comes as Republicans continue to ramp up anti-trans legislation www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...independent.co.ukDemocrats wrestle whether to kill ban on trans care in Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’Democrats have an opportunity to protect transgender people’s health care. It also comes at a time when Republicans see anti-trans policies as a winning issue, Eric Garcia writes 69126
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 19/06/2025There is actually a very accurate historical document of the post-9/11 vibes. A clipart comic called Get Your War On. Click on through: www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w... 1432638729
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025The Supreme Court ruled that the Equal Protection Clause does not protect everybody equally. Instead it upheld the Tennessee law that seeks to eradicate trans kids. My latest in @thenation www.thenation.com/article/poli...thenation.comThe Supreme Court's Anti-Trans Decision Will Live In InfamyIn its bigotry and deceitfulness, US v. Skrmetti is destined to be seen alongside Plessy, Dobbs, Dred Scott, and all of the court's other most notorious decisions. 651750712
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialWIRED @wired.com · 18/06/2025Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.wired.comHow to Advocate for Trans Rights in Your CommunityWant to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions. 2317501118
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 18/06/2025There’s vomit on my sweater already, fuck Skrmetti. 0976
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialAdam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 18/06/2025I’m so tired of Democrats trying to poll test and ignore trans rights. Every single one that does this needs to be booed at Pride and then primaried. 531260
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 23/05/2025This comment period ends today, 5/23, at 11:59 pm ET. Please do comment asap if you believe the government should allow us to get COVID vaccinations. I can't believe we even have to petition them about this, but here we are. 3515551530
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 22/05/2025when i say "death before detransition" this is how i mean it btw 43987704
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 22/05/2025A VERY important point -- this bill is not final, not at all. It will now go to the Senate. If the Senate makes changes to the bill (they likely will), it will go back to the House for another vote. The House passed it last night with ONE VOTE. We can stop this. We have to. 4450172478
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 20/05/2025The fact that they would still give Covid boosters to people over 65 and people with preconditions means they know the boosters work and are needed. There is literally no justification for taking them away from everyone else besides just being huge dicks 431687513
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialKara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 20/05/2025The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...regulations.govRegulations.gov 1743704952
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 14/05/2025HBO Max, the company producing J.K. Rowling's new project, wants you to respect its second name change in as many years. 241807386
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 12/05/2025so you're telling me the NY Times has no problem actively harming trans people but the moment the paper needs to call out Trump as corrupt they resort to whoa whoa that's not how he self-identifies 10687133
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialKaty Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 12/05/2025American mainstream news is like "The far right science denier in charge who is responsible for the worst measles outbreak in recent history and who doesn't believe in germ theory says all the science is wrong about trans people, and this is why our Editorial Board agrees!" 121675364
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 11/05/2025The LAPD posts a net loss of $3.3 billion a year every year! But sure, we're gonna talk about the U.S. Postal Service instead 211624378
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialMike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 03/05/2025basically no one wants to defund national parks - and even 3/4 of republicans want to maintain or even increase funding for national parks and forests and yet there's basically no political cost for them doing this. 727481
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialLogan S. Casey, PhD @loganscasey.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Re: HHS' latest attack on science, transgender youth: "Patients, their families, & their physicians—not politicians or government officials —should be the ones to make decisions together about what care is best for them based on evidence-based, age-appropriate care. " www.aap.org/en/news-room...aap.orgAAP Statement on HHS Report Treatment for Pediatric Gender DysphoriaThe American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is deeply alarmed by the report released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today on medical care for transgender and gender-diverse ind... 523863
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 01/05/2025reading the HHS "gender dysphoria report" summary and this is some truly insidious shit. sure, all the studies SAY the kids are happier, but we bet they aren't actually. they're all hopped up on something we bet probably 203167716
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialBillie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 23/04/2025So the nyt’s newest anti-trans hero, ICONS, has funded three multimillion-dollar lawsuits, but the nyt depicts it as a little old “not political” grassroots group. Just like the “concerned parents” whose affiliation with the anti-trans hate group GENSPECT was withheld from readers in 2023 2123
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialBillie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 23/04/2025The nyt has long history of outright animus toward trans people. It does not hire trans journos and it drives out the v few who slip into it ranks translash.org/podcasts/the...translash.orgCapturing The New York Times (S02 E05) | The Anti-Trans Hate Machine PodcastListen to 'Capturing The New York Times,' where Imara Jones examines how mainstream media frames trans issues and the implications for the trans community. 1102
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialJosephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 23/04/2025I don't know who needs to hear this, but don't go posting Babylon Bee articles on Bluesky I don't care if "this one is actually pretty funny" They're despicable anti-trans bigots who are half the reason Elon took over Twitter No mercy for evil 837850
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialdaryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 23/04/2025"elder scrolls" is just me looking at my phone 5658821166
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialRobert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 22/04/2025Totally unacceptable. The Democratic caucuses in Olympia are fundamentally broken and unable to deliver good policy or properly govern the state. Sweeping changes are needed to the membership of those caucuses if WA is to survive the Trump era with our values intact. #waleg 2469
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialJonathan Hansen @jonathanhansen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025"I want to say this directly to any TERFs who are looking for the return of their loved ones after years of transphobia: nobody shunned you because they thought you were wrong, they shunned you because you're an asshole." @katelynburns.compatreon.comYou have no friends because you're a transphobic asshole | Katelyn BurnsGet more from Katelyn Burns on Patreon 132539
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Gavin Newsom, a schmuck who has spent every waking moment the last 10 years of his life thinking about political optics, getting dogwalked by a guy half the country didn't even know existed like 5 days ago 10578161217
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/04/2025From my latest piece. The true motivating energy behind the anti-trans activists of today. 413049790
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialDex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 19/04/2025there's also people claiming we trans people are "holding allies to a purity test" here and to be clear: "Don't participate in stuff that actively funds the campaign to exterminate us" is a pretty fucking low bar. One might say it's not even "allyship," it's just decency. 342568659
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 15/04/2025The simple truth is that if it wasn't for Jesse's dishonest fear mongering about youth trans health care, we probably don't have fascism ascendent in the US today. The people who benefitted from the trans panic are the very ones now in power. 11694113
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialBear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 13/04/2025As the loving parent of a trans teen I will never promote your or your fave’s Atlantic or New York Times article. Fix your hearts or die! 310116
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialemily blight 🐦⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 09/04/2025hi, cis folks! the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11. it also strips care from DACA recipients. context & guidance in the thread. none of these people can afford to pay OOP for meds now. only 2 days left! 16583530
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialALTON🏺🦊 @rudefoxalton.bsky.social · 08/04/2025I still think about this tweet sometimes 67139952485
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 07/04/2025less than ten trans women tried to play collegiate sports and now the car dealership class gets to crash the global economy and set up sweatshops in the midwest 59121322525
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialemily blight 🐦⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 04/04/2025hi, cis folks! so, when they release the US cass review that makes the cass review look like a trans liberation manifesto, i think you should • ask who’s making the case against transition • answer whether they have trans people’s best interest at heart • listen to actual trans people instead 🧵 3027551134
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialJesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Transphobia is an enormous fucking electoral loser 367598
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialemily blight 🐦⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 01/04/2025update on california’s ab 89 & ab 844 anti trans sports/locker room bills. both down in flames. CA is CA, sure! but a lot of pundits & press are working OT to create a permission structure for dems to “moderate” on whether some kinds of people should have civil rights. this matters. fuck newsom. 13752173
Reposted by @merlferrer.bsky.socialAmy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Listen up, Seattle, because your CMs don't want to do the bare minimum to protect us from the onslaught of the federal gov't right now that includes the erosion of civil rights, the stripping of much needed funding, and a potential electricity shortage. 1277
