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Amber Briggle @mrsbriggle.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

What a surprise to see my family mentioned here. Thank you, @lgbtqnation.com, for spotlighting these fearless parents in this inspiring article.

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Amber Briggle @mrsbriggle.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Kristi Noem: “I don’t feel safe in my own home.” Also Kristi Noem: Made South Dakota so unsafe and unlivable for trans kids that they had to literally flee. Anyway, thoughts and prayers, Governor. Sending you the exact amount of empathy you gave them: zero. 🫶

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Amber Briggle @mrsbriggle.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Greg Abbott: "Texans don't run away from a fight" Texans who ran away:

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Amber Briggle @mrsbriggle.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Pretty rich for Paxton to spend years writing + defending policies meant to define trans inclusive families as "sinful" while his own family falls apart for "biblical reasons", then ask for "privacy" when he's repeatedly sought access to trans kids' medical files. Thoughts and prayers, buddy.

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Amber Briggle @mrsbriggle.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

PS- As if I'm not salty and petty enough, here is a playlist I created a while back to celebrate the absolute karmaaaaaa he keeps getting into. Enjoy the schadenfreude, babes. Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum. open.spotify.com/playlist/1dh...

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Criminally Indicted Ken Paxton's Impeachment + Cheaty Divorce Vibes

Playlist · Amber Briggle · 24 items · 68 saves

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Amber Briggle @mrsbriggle.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

In 2016, Ken Paxton had the audacity to sit at my table and break bread with my family knowing full well that my son is trans, then SIX YEARS LATER wrote an opinion stating that families like mine shouldn't exist. Within days, a CPS investigator was in our home threatening to remove our children.🧵

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Amber Briggle @mrsbriggle.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I'm obsessed with a single i heard on @npr.org today by an artist named #EphSee called "malachi the uber driver" and I can't find it on Spotify and its driving me crazy! The song and the story behind it are stuck in my head and im kind of obsessed. Where can I download and listen? Thanks!

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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This deportation was planned as a political spectacle. The deportees were carefully chosen, as was the language used to describe them. Absolutely illegal! Via @timothysnyder.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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The evil at your door

The deportation action as regime change

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

It's not hard. This is unacceptable. They won't stop at him.

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GLAAD @glaad.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This podcast episode left out facts about inclusion in sports. The truth is, young people learn many life lessons playing sports: leadership, confidence, self-respect, and the value of teamwork. No one should be denied the opportunity to play sports just because of who they are.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom faces backlash over comments he made about transgender student athletes

The California governor, once hailed as a protector of LGBTQ+ rights, premiered his podcast by interviewing and agreeing with far-right transphobe Charlie Kirk.

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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Maybe he should stop trying to become a dictator and instead focus on what he said he was going to do!

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here

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Amber Briggle @mrsbriggle.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Congratulations, @abriggle.bsky.social ❤️ This is more timely than ever and I'm proud of you. You're a great philosopher and an incredible dad.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Now more than ever.

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Amber Briggle @mrsbriggle.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

idk. i'm a mom of a trans teen in texas and just feeling a little salty and bitter this morning. 🧵

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2025

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

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Amber Briggle @mrsbriggle.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

My Texas town had a rally to support immigrants today and my local paper was there and anyway I fixed their caption. ✌️

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

As the EOs and orders keep coming, I keep thinking of the exhibit in the Berlin Jewish Museum that displays the 962 anti-Jewish laws and policies in order as they came down. These kinds of drumbeats are designed not just to oppress but to normalize oppression. www.jmberlin.de/en/jmb-journ...

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 31/01/2025

Axios [Jan 31] -- Federal websites tracking health care information on HIV prevention and transgender care went dark this afternoon. Also gone was information on contraception and gender-based violence. [by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

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HIV, transgender care and other federal websites go dark

Several CDC pages were taken down Friday afternoon. Some redirected users to other sections of the site.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This is grossly irresponsible reporting by the AP. What’s being offered is not a buyout. The deal is if you agree to resign in September you can continue working remotely until then. There is no buyout or severance.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/01/2025

1. Yesterday, Trump released a broad anti-trans executive order that could have extreme impacts on transgender people's lives if implemented. There has been much discussion of what it actually does. In my latest piece, I go line by line to explain it. Subscribe to support my journalism.

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A Line By Line Analysis Of Trump's Big Anti-Trans Executive Order

Trump released over 70 executive orders on Monday. While orders on immigration and climate got a lot of attention, his anti-transgender order could have sweeping impacts as well.

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Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) @transequality.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

We're prepared to defend our community from the wave of anti-trans attacks. This Wednesday, January 29th our legal and policy experts will explain how A4TE plans to fight back – and how you can join us. Sign up here: action.transequality.org/a/a4te_vs_tr...

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Amber Briggle @mrsbriggle.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Want some good news at the end of a very long week? Our short doc Love To The Max has been acquired by @newyorker.com and nominated for a @glaad.bsky.social Media Award! Trans kids won't be erased, no matter what Trump says. 💪🏳️‍⚧️ Watch it now at www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/01/2025

I'm seeing a few reports of this, but I can't confirm this is widespread. I have been told a separate passport office is no longer processing changes, but new apps will go by your BC and renewals by your current info. There's a lot of confusion out there on passports and no real answer yet.

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Amber Briggle @mrsbriggle.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Incredibly grateful for the work that @glaad.bsky.social does. This might be a baby step in the bigger march towards lasting change, but it is forward progress nevertheless and they should be proud.

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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Diversity and inclusion has never started a fire, but profound ignorance of climate change and a refusal to fund the government’s ability to address it certainly have. Truth from @lizplank.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lizplank...

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No, Lesbians and Black People Having Jobs Didn’t Start the Fires

Basic fact-checking has entered the chat.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

"This is an effort to invalidate votes, even though there is no indication that they’re fraudulent or that voters would have known they could be problematic..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Analysis | The gravity of a GOP election challenge in N.C.: ‘Invites incredible mischief’

Why the North Carolina Supreme Court allowing the case to proceed two months after the election is so extraordinary.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

The 19th [Jan 8] -- Great in-depth explainer on possible/pending federal actions against trans ppl. Sen. Dems can filibuster anti-trans bills but as w/ NDAA may be hard if attached to budget bills, and R's can still try to enacted some thru Presidential Exec. Orders [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

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The 19th Explains: Can trans rights survive in a Republican-controlled Congress?

Here’s what trans people should know about how a new Congress, and the first days of Trump’s presidency, could shape their lives.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Stay focused on protecting norms and institutions and not on the “gulf of America.”

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Amber Briggle @mrsbriggle.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I think this says just as much about Texas as it does about Meta.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project.

"I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/01/2025

If you work at Meta and support LGBTQ+ people no you don't.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 31/12/2024

MOTHER JONES [Dec 31] ACLU's Chase Strangio selected Hero of 2024 for involvement in every major trans case of past decade: Gavin Grim, Chelsea Manning, NCar bathroom ban, Trump military ban, Harris Funeral Homes (added GI&E to 1964 Civil Rights Act) & now Skrmetti. [by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

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Hero of 2024: Chase Strangio. What more can I say?

From my life as a closeted teen to being a trans reporter, Strangio’s bravery has made me braver.

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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Lucille Clifton, always.

“i am running into a new year” by Lucille Clifton

i am running into a new year
and the old years blow back
like a wind
that i catch in my hair
like strong fingers like
all my old promises and
it will be hard to let go
of what i said to myself
about myself
when i was sixteen and
twenty-six and thirty-six
even thirty-six but
i am running into a new year
and i beg what i love and
i leave to forgive me

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

The most senseless thing of all is that we're doing things we know with 100 percent certainty cause harm to these kids because some people suspect the current treatments might in certain cases be harmful to some of them.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

The art of the deal: 1. Make wild demands 2. Get nothing 3. Declare victory

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/12/2024

In 2024, several New Hampshire Democrats, afraid that anti-trans attacks would work, voted in favor of a trans surgery ban and bathroom bill. They lost more seats than most other states. Now the R majority is ramping up targeting us. Capitulation didn't work. National Dems, take note.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

It really is bizarre how fixated people, and journalists in particular, are on trans kids and their healthcare.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Oh this is both bad and also bad

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Amber Briggle @mrsbriggle.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

8 years ago today my family was invited to the Obama White House where we met @markhamillofficial.bsky.social. He posed with my son (who is trans) in a WH that fought for his rights. It feels like a lifetime ago and I'm worried that the next administration will try to erase this. Be the resistance!

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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

and more.... "he (Trump) said he was pursuing legal action against “60 Minutes” for what he said was a misquote. "We have to straighten out the press. The press is very corrupt. Almost as corrupt as our elections.”

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Amber Briggle @mrsbriggle.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I finally watched Die Hard for the first time last night. Verdict: it is *obviously* a Christmas movie. I will not be taking questions at this time.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.

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Amber Briggle @mrsbriggle.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

With all the bullshit that trans kids have had to endure lately, wouldn't it be amazing if this documentary ended up on the Oscars shortlist? Please repost and tag anyone you know who might be Hollywood-adjacent to get this on their radar! It's available to watch in the Academy Screening Room now!

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Amber Briggle @mrsbriggle.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Our beautiful, powerful short doc "Love To The Max" is about my trans-inclusive family fighting to stay together in the face of persecution -- and is now available in the Academy Screening Room! Who do you know in the Doc branch of AMPAS? Help us get this film on the Oscar shortlist! @newyorker.com

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