Reposted by Pink 🍍Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/05/2025Lol. They released their 400 page US version of the Cass Review and refused to even name who the authors were. It's a glorified book report. Anyway, this is out now y'all. I'll be looking it over today. opa.hhs.gov/sites/defaul... 19453441163
Reposted by Pink 🍍SJ Klapecki (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 21/04/2025ALRIGHT POPE FRANCIS IS DEAD TIME FOR MY POPE RANT Pope Francis was a kind mask for the Catholic church in a time of crisis who shied away from fundamental change, and the way he was and is being treated by mainstream news outlets is an indication of his success in shoring up reactionary power. 12613212
Reposted by Pink 🍍Dissent with Intent @dissentwithintent.bsky.social · 05/04/2025#handsoff in Grand Rapids, MI had #wethepeople celebrating #positivity and the #powerofthepeople #resist #getinvolved #indivisible @50501movement.bsky.social @westmi-indivisible.bsky.social @indivisibleggr.bsky.social 822643
Reposted by Pink 🍍calcounselor.bsky.social @calcounselor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Hands Off rally Grand Rapids, MI getting ready to make some good trouble. 07412
Reposted by Pink 🍍mkarlesky.bsky.social @mkarlesky.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Massive crowd for Hands Off anti-MAGA protest in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Stand up. It’s go time. #handsoff 24110
Reposted by Pink 🍍Ray Brown @raybrownco.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Big turnout for #HandsOff in Grand Rapids, MI today 0124
Reposted by Pink 🍍Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 08/03/2025Someone in the crowd started an anti-trans rant at the Markey town hall and was immediately swarmed by a bunch of older lib women who shouted her down and chased her out, like a bunch of crows chasing away a predator. 150100531235
Reposted by Pink 🍍Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 09/03/2025OK here's the thing, you don't have to love Blake Lively to recognize that she stood up against sexual harassment and is now facing a coordinated right-wing campaign designed to punish her and terrorize every other woman who faces similar conditions 472981518
Reposted by Pink 🍍Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/03/20251. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.erininthemorning.comNew German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass ReviewThe recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care. 93163994805
Reposted by Pink 🍍Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 04/03/2025And they do still have offices, which you can still go to regardless, and bring lots of angry friends with clever signs 38316
Reposted by Pink 🍍Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 04/03/2025Hakeem Jeffries’ social media makes complete sense when you just assume a Republican staffer runs it. 26113
Reposted by Pink 🍍Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Left-wing censorship was a fantasy, but the right-wing censorship is real, unconstitutional, and murderous. There was no majority anti-conservative social media bias or casual forced use of words like “birthing person.” But stripping protest rights and official language is actual deadly censorship 3355751226
Reposted by Pink 🍍Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/03/2025This is a blatant violation of the 1st Amendment but a lot of cowards in academia will use this as an excuse to crack down on campus protest. 1314467988
Reposted by Pink 🍍Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025How many lies has Joanne ("J.K.") Rowling told about her former poverty, and how much of it was fabricated by the media? Let's find out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeFU...youtube.comJ. K. Rowling: The Real StoryYouTube video by Caelan Conrad 35843193
Reposted by Pink 🍍Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 04/03/2025What's baffling is that all this is, is just a "threat" to pull funding. 1) He's making it sound like it's verboten, and/or that the feds have any legal authority to police the action (they don't) 2) Let's be real, now. They were gonna pull funding, anyway. People need to call these bluffs. 21025
Reposted by Pink 🍍Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 04/03/2025BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump's effort to fire Cathy Harris as a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board was illegal, issues a declaratory judgment that she remains in office and a permanent injunction against her removal unless Trump follows the removal provisions. 223072749
Reposted by Pink 🍍Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 04/03/2025The body of our nation is being disemboweled and skinned alive by a few hundred corrupt, greedy, self-dealing, traitorous individuals who don’t care if the rest of us live or die. 1343390
Reposted by Pink 🍍onion person @junlper.beer · 03/03/2025it would be great if we had a democratic party willing to go out and say “this is an insane lie to get you to irrationally hate a minority group trying to just exist peacefully” rather than start throwing us under the bus and twiddling their thumbs 12091461865
Reposted by Pink 🍍Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 03/03/2025First, what an unbelievable piece of shit. Second, I suspect he's not the only one on Team MAGA who thinks this way. Third, this massively overestimates US agency. Massively. 34771128
Reposted by Pink 🍍Zinnia Jones 🐍🗡️ @zinniajones.com · 03/03/2025(trans.cx Blog is new and in a process of actively iterating development and your sensible, well-intentioned feedback is welcome within reason)trans.cxBad Trans DayIt was a bad trans day and here's why 45214
Reposted by Pink 🍍News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Lying on an industrial scale from Trump. 3 big lies in 56 secs here. 1. “We’ve given much more than Europe”. LIE. EU has given 49.5% of funding, the US 43%. 2. “We gave $350 billion”. LIE. US gave between $120-180 billion. 3. “Europe get their money back”. LIE. Over 65% of EU funding is gifted. 45791380
Reposted by Pink 🍍The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Q: “Lindsey Graham & Speaker Johnson called on you to resign.” 🔥 ZELENSKYY: “When Lindsey Graham becomes a citizen of Ukraine, then his voice will gain weight.” 1543750710
Reposted by Pink 🍍Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Fox now displaying a ticker showing the stock market tanking while Trump is talking about tariffs 32158321235
Reposted by Pink 🍍Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 03/03/2025In every single interview I’ve done since Friday, I have been asked some version of: “But couldn’t this perhaps somehow *not* be what it looks like if we stipulate that Trump and Vance are not who they have repeatedly proven they are?” I really wish we could stop doing this. 852484
Reposted by Pink 🍍Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 03/03/2025We need to trust our eyes. Nazi salutes, racist purges, an ambush on the Ukrainian president by a far-right regime. If what we see aligns with what we know and is also in line with an established track record, our default assumption should be that what is happening is actually what it looks like. 523123948
Reposted by Pink 🍍Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/03/2025The idea that the correct conduct from Zelensky could have somehow secured a different outcome from Trump/Vance, who *went into the meeting w/the express goal of demonstrating Ukraine's submission to them,* is ridiculous. Correct from @brianbeutler.bsky.social www.offmessage.net/p/boycott-th... 40915200
Reposted by Pink 🍍I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 03/03/2025"If any research related to women or minority populations is under fire, then “we’re talking about maybe 65% of the American population. So at that point, what’s left?” said Dominic Boyer, an anthropology professor at Rice University" www.propublica.org/article/ted-...propublica.orgA Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude meth... 525499
Reposted by Pink 🍍COURIER @couriernewsroom.bsky.social · 03/03/2025"A lot of Americans – especially those who didn’t vote last year – still think it’s 'just politics' and everything will sort itself out in the end," writes @markjacob.bsky.social, author of COURIER's Stop The Presses newsletter.stopthepresses.newsTrump is mentally unfit. Why won’t major media say so?As well as being a would-be dictator, he’s unhinged and incompetent. 39620
Reposted by Pink 🍍chris_fumo96 @chrisfumo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025it's so funny how Dems always seem to believe that they will be given bonus points for appearing reasonable to some imaginary voter who is supposedly viewing all of this neutrally 2153
Reposted by Pink 🍍Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/03/2025RFK Jr. said in his Fox News OpEd that “Good nutrition remains a best defense against most chronic and infectious illnesses”. The best diet in the world will not prevent infection if you are unvaccinated and sharing air with someone who has measles. 20950701098
Reposted by Pink 🍍Micah @rincewind.run · 03/03/2025bathroom bills were considered a hugely bigoted overreach a decade ago and the backsliding on trans rights is the result of a sustained propaganda campaign by elites the pendulum can swing back the other way if you try, and anyone who is not willing to do so is showcasing their own bigotry 3869911798
Reposted by Pink 🍍Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/03/2025HHS employees received two emails this morning about new requirement to reply to DOGE's "what did you do last week" email. I'm reproducing the text verbatim. First (left) sent at 6:44am, second (right) about an hour later. 39628186
Reposted by Pink 🍍Truthout @truthout.org · 03/03/2025The Department of Homeland Security has removed surveillance restrictions related to sexual orientation and gender identity, raising concerns about civil rights violations. Experts warn that rolling back these protections could pave the way for broader government overreach.buff.lyDHS Scraps Surveillance Guardrails for Sexual Orientation and Gender IdentityIf you’re able to violate the civil rights of one person or community, then there’s no limit to it, one expert warns. 36228
Reposted by Pink 🍍Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 03/03/2025Israel has cut off the entry of all food and other goods into Gaza. The United Nations and other humanitarian aid providers are calling the decision a violation of international law. buff.lyIsrael Has Cut Off All Supplies to Gaza. Here's What That Means.Israel has cut off the entry of all food and other goods into Gaza in an echo of the siege it imposed in the earliest days of its war in Gaza. 1221197
Reposted by Pink 🍍Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Wow can't believe there's a loss in productivity from sending every employee an email demanding they drop everything to recount what they did, with their job on the line. Totally unforeseeable, so long as you're a nepobaby who has never done a day of real work in your life. 222157370
Reposted by Pink 🍍Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 03/03/2025Reading ‘Character Limit’, the book on Musk’s Twitter takeover, and it’s astonishing how many of his dumb stunts he’s repeating at DOGE. The “fork in the road” email, the “5 things” email, firing essential workers he had to hastily hire back. Guy has one playbook and it’s “fucking up spectacularly.” 291229258
Reposted by Pink 🍍David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 03/03/2025In other words, there are too many folks suggesting ways to get back to a normal and responsible position re Putin when the only way to do that is a new president in the White House and a new pro-US political party in charge in DC. 628556
