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Union Gang HQ @usarmyoverlord.bsky.social · 9h
Dear Iran: Take him instead!
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patrickmgm.bsky.social @patrickmgm.bsky.social · 4h
Sorry to see people who give a shit being forced out by the ODP dastardly. I think there's one Dem on the ballot I'm supporting and voting for this year. Luckily, you're on my ballot.
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇
Part 1 of an open letter of resignation by Arienne Childrey, stepping down as Vice Chair and member of the Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) Pride Caucus. She states that party leadership treats the caucus as a recruitment and sales team rather than a representative body. She cites an incident where the ODP censored and denied permission for the caucus to post a letter by two trans leaders addressing harmful comments made by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton. The State Party Chair reportedly called the letter an "unwelcome distraction," which Childrey notes demonstrates how little party leadership values the voices and dignity of LGBTQ+ Democrats.
Since that decision, every Caucus plan, every potential post, and every path forward has been filtered through a lens of strict compliance and ODP approval. That may very well be the party's rule, but following those rules right now is a dereliction of our duty to the LGBTQ+ community.

For me, any rule that silences advocacy for the trans community during this time is an unjust rule, and I see no obligation to follow it. In alignment with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail:

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

We are living in incredibly dangerous times for the trans community. We are in an era where the GOP has so thoroughly weaponized trans lives that even some formerly self-professing allies within our own party have fallen prey to the rhetoric. Looking at the national trend towards Democratic anti-trans triangulation, as well as our own internal conversations, it is clear to me that this shift is much more than a simple coincidence.

We have to speak up—loudly, strongly, and unapologetically—or I fear what our 2028 choices may look like. The ODP would like everyone to believe they are a "big tent" party. However, their successful efforts to silence even the Pride Caucus—even in cases where we are simply begging our candidates not to trade on our lives for perceived electoral advantage—has proven otherwise. The tent hasn't gotten any bigger; it has simply shifted, leaving many trans individuals, progressives, and allies out in the rain.

I will continue to advocate, organize, and fight for our community with everything I have. But I can no longer compromise my own moral principles by remaining part of a caucus that appears more interested in party approval than in true, defiant advocacy.

Sincerely,
Arienne Childrey
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patrickmgm.bsky.social @patrickmgm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You did not let us down. Fuck the Ohio Democratic Party.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Union Gang HQ @usarmyoverlord.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Impeach and remove the Secretary of War Crimes!
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patrickmgm.bsky.social @patrickmgm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Since they're getting Star Trek in the merger, a more appropriate image for the merger would be this image of the brave crew of the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701C (from the TNG ep "Yesterdays Enterprise") traveling back through time to embrace its place in history.
The USS Enterprise, NCC-1701C entering a temporal rift (from the TNG episode "Yesterdays Enterprise")
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good on you Sister's 👏
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
to the cis people who are like “trans people were never erased from history, that’s a lie!” i want you to pay attention to it happening right in front of your eyes all of this to strip records from a whopping ELEVEN people in fifteen years erasing our accomplishments is part of it
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TRANS HISTORY 1 (how and why we name trans people in history) - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays
I’m not a historian. I’m not an expert in trans history, though I find it fascinating. I myself have a lot to learn on the topic, but one thing I DO know is that there have always been trans people. T...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today's hero! ✨This woman on Cornell U campus confronted Gillio Lopes, one of seven men accused of SA in the Cornell lawsuit.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Ciara RayneCloud 🏳️‍⚧️ @ciararaynecloud.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
c.org/f789pkSHGt You will not silence us ODP.
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Sign the Petition
Stop Censoring the Ohio Democratic Party's Pride Caucus
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patrickmgm.bsky.social @patrickmgm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What really makes no sense is the "...they can't just do whatever they want when they get in office!" part. Because we've all watched trump and the Rape-publicans do whatever the fuck they want for most of two years now. They're a bunch of gutless cowards who just want comfortable politics.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/09/2026
Transgender girls have a biological advantage at... winning homecoming queen? That's apparently what Clayton County Public Schools in Georgia believes. They have blocked a transgender girl from running for homecoming queen in her high school Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Georgia School Blocks Trans Homecoming Queen, Citing Title IX
A Georgia school district is saying Trump’s Title IX crackdowns means only cisgender women can run for Homecoming Queen.
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patrickmgm.bsky.social @patrickmgm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Clarification: these are the seven rapists. They're not all white. But they are rapist scum who deserve to have their lives ruined.
Pictures of the Cornell 7 rapists: Matthew Ingalls, Diego Sarabia, Winston Lee, Scott, Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Gillio Lopes, Johnathan Newell.
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Union Gang HQ @usarmyoverlord.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If only there were some warning signs...🙄
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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A 7 panel comic by the artist. First panel: The artist is running from a distance towards a group of people playing basketball in the park. The artist is holding a pumpkin above their head and screaming "AAAAAAAAA". Second panel: The artist has leapt up and is in position to slam dunk the pumpkin into the basketball hoop. Panel three: the pumpkin splatters violently against the backboard of the basketball hoop, sending orange pumpkin goop everywhere. Panel four: the players stand staring, covered in pumpkin goop and shocked. Panel five: the artist stares at them wide-eyed, also covered in the goop and says "it's October FIRST". Their hand reaches towards their face. Panel six: the artist rips off their own face like a rubber mask to reveal a skeleton beneath. Panel 7: the group of players stand shocked and horrified, watching as the skeleton falls to the ground in a pile of bones, the sound effects says "CLATTER".
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right”
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple Woman looks distraught, on the verge of breaking down. She says “that man raped me”
Orange Guy standing next to her is absent-mindedly checking his nails. He says “Wellll, I’ve always disliked him and his work.”

Panel 2:
Purple Woman begins to cry. Orange Guy adopts an incredibly smug expression and says “Guess I must just be a good judge of character”

Panel 3: 
Purple Woman dissolves into sobs. Orange  Guy notices, puts his hand on her shoulder and says “Aw”

Panel 4:
Purple Woman crumples to the floor. Orange Guy, looking bemused, asks “Are you crying because you’re jealous of how smart I am?”
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patrickmgm.bsky.social @patrickmgm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This was hard for me to write, because I do talk about my culpability in perpetuating the culture. And I think pretty much all men have at some point.
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Rape Post
Let’s not sugarcoat this shit. Our culture is a rape culture, and I’m going to talk about it, despite my discomfort by association.
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The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Union Gang HQ @usarmyoverlord.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Imagine serving under incompetent criminals.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/09/2026
Hey y'all, I don't usually share GFMs but Katra is a good friend and the fact that her job was terminated literally a day before her bottom surgery is atrocious. Definitely go give her some help if you can.
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Pinks📨 @pinksglobal.net · 30/09/2026
End domestic violence and sexual assault! #Pinks 💖✨
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mr-yoyito.bsky.social @mr-yoyito.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Excellent political cartoon. It’s too bad Ed Sheeran won’t get it.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/09/2026
When Third Way says that Dems should hold off their anti-trans strategies, you know things are changing. The organization tends to be more centrist, and they are noticing the same thing the far-right is... the Republican anti-trans campaign cycle is NOT working this year.
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Jennifer 🦋🐶☕️🦋 @jenelliot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#NOMORE
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026
In response to a slew of anti-trans Democrats pushing hate during the 2026 midterms, Governor Andy Beshear provided principled criticism to the idea that red-state Dems need to adopt anti-trans views to win: "We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus," he said. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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KY Gov. Beshear Has Message For Anti-Trans Dems: “We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus.”
The governor provides a counterpoint to those who believe red state Democrats need to capitulate on transgender rights.
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Essence of RBG 🦋 @rbgprevails.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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The Buckeye Flame @thebuckeyeflame.com · 30/09/2026
Ohio gets a failing mark on sex education policy from national group. Ohio’s curriculum stresses abstinence as a general policy and requires only some instruction about sexually transmitted infections. thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/09/30/o...
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Ohio gets a failing mark on sex education policy from national group
Ohio’s curriculum stresses abstinence as a general policy and requires only some instruction about sexually transmitted infections.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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patrickmgm.bsky.social @patrickmgm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
[waves the bunch of cilantro in my fridge at you for your heresy]
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patrickmgm.bsky.social @patrickmgm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amen to every single part of this except... ...your irrational hate of the sometimes soap-ish delight of cilantro. You're a monster.
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Welcome to #TransTuesday! Buckle up as we talk TERFs, where they come from, why they're terrible, and how if you simply watch what they do... they tell on themselves and give up the game CIS PEOPLE: send this to everyone in your life who thinks TERFs have some good points, and make 'em read it
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TERFs, PART 1: ANTI-SCIENTIFIC BIGOTRY - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays
Welcome to Trans Tuesday! It’s time to talk about everyone’s least favorite acronym, that bane of compassion and acceptance and rational thought: TERFs, part 1: ANTI-SCIENTIFIC BIGOTRY. What the heck ...
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE IS SICKENING......
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patrickmgm.bsky.social @patrickmgm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is how the Democratic Party became the less shitty GOP. This is how we get candidates like Vivek-lite Amy Acton. The only thing that props them up is that the actual GOP went to full fascist Rape-publican. Of course this IS Ohio, where they're likely moving to hunt queer people for sport....
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The Buckeye Flame @thebuckeyeflame.com · 28/09/2026
Insiders say the Ohio Democratic Party is censoring criticism of anti-trans ads. Two posts pushing back against Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s anti-trans ads have been removed. thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/09/28/i...
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Insiders say the Ohio Democratic Party is censoring criticism of anti-trans ads
Two posts pushing back against Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s anti-trans ads have been removed
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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patrickmgm.bsky.social @patrickmgm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This, more than anything, is why our two-party system, and both parties, needs to properly die. Because they demand loyalty while fucking their constituencies.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Ciara RayneCloud 🏳️‍⚧️ @ciararaynecloud.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Leadership from ODP told us in our meeting today, our job is to elect candidates. Yup. That's it. "You are the party." As Caucuses, the Pride and Progressive Caucus were told to our faces... that all that matters is getting Dems in to office. Not, advocating for our constituents.
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Blue Turquoise @bluet-urquoise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How do we really feel? This is the time we all need to speak out the elections are up ahead and anyone that reads our comments will benefit.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees.
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Union Gang HQ @usarmyoverlord.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The federal government protects and promotes white supremacists.
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patrickmgm.bsky.social @patrickmgm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I ought to stop spending money on card crack. But then they pull out a new cool set.
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patrickmgm.bsky.social @patrickmgm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am into Magic. That ends if you go to the transphobe's well and continue feeding trans genocide.
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The Buckeye Flame @thebuckeyeflame.com · 26/09/2026
Meet Ohio’s 2026 out LGBTQ+ candidates for public office. Many LGBTQ+ Ohioans are running for public office ahead of Ohio’s contentious midterms. ✏️ @hcomeriato.bsky.social thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/09/26/m...
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Meet Ohio’s 2026 out LGBTQ+ candidates for public office
Many LGBTQ+ Ohioans are running for public office ahead of Ohio’s contentious midterms
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patrickmgm.bsky.social @patrickmgm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You can stop when he's dead.
Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and Woodstock. Charlie Brown asks "Is he dead yet?" Snoopy answers, "No not yet." Woodstock says "Fuck!
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patrickmgm.bsky.social @patrickmgm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So you obviously don't live in Ohio, where some of the Democrats are also fascists (the Dem governor candidate is running to the right of the current Republican governor). So here, it's "Vote Blue (mostly)."
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Ohio Democratic Party is censoring its own Pride Caucus. When the caucus shared local party statements asking Rep. Marcy Kaptur to pull anti-trans ads, ODP leadership deleted the posts. They want a rubber stamp, not representation. Demand an end to the censorship: info@ohiodems.org
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