Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/09/2026The level at which the Ohio state Democratic party is attacking its own members to crack down on solidarity with trans people is extremely disturbing. 433270
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/09/2026The last 5 years have seen the largest rollback of civil rights of a minority group in modern US history. It's caused a mass internal displacement and refugee crisis that per capita is worse than the great migration in both scope and timescale. It's unprecedented. 1771109
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026Holy shit. Marcy Kaptur becomes the latest Dem to release an anti-trans ad, and its worse than all the rest combined. "I voted WITH Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of schools, and let me be clear, boys should NOT play in girls sports." This is getting out of control. 4734431931
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026Last week, it was a few Dems agreeing with sports bans, calling trans girls "men," and agreeing to vote for national bans on gender affirming care. This week is Marcy Kaptur in Ohio highlighting that she voted "with Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of our schools." 471049224
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵 69286014166
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth 11077383605
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026this shit sucks and it’s stupid. people respect candidates who stand on business. 661814193
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/09/2026Diesel is $6/gallon, we're in a trade war with Canada, and we're in a real war with Iran and the most pressing issue for Fox News is trans girls playing sports that they've already been banned from. 1549972
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialDarin Self @darinself.com · 31/07/2026So basically an adversary could attack any blue state and Trump wont care because he doesn't see himself as the President of the "United States" Without a doubt the most worst president we've ever had. Anti-republic, anti-democratic, anti-constitutional just devoid of basic dignity 441679439
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/07/20261. In major news, the Ohio Dem Party has banned the Progressive Caucus from criticizing candidate for Gov. Amy Acton's transphobia. It has now applied more pressure to quiet criticism of anti-trans politics than it has on its own nominee to stop embracing them. Subscribe to support our journalism.erininthemorning.comOhio Dem Party Has Banned Criticism Of Gov. Candidate Amy Acton Calling Trans Girls “Boys”The Progressive Caucus says it was forced to take down its post. 1202632949
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialRobert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026communism is not why your rent has skyrocketed. it's not why Blackrock is buying up millions of houses. communists are not the CEOs of health insurance companies nor are they building data centers. they weren't in the epstein files or on his island 25116
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialMolly White @molly.wiki · 09/06/2026Striking graphic in this latest Reuters piece, which finds that while President Trump and his family have profited by at least $2.3 billion since he retook the presidency, their more than a million investors have suffered $2.3 billion in net losses. www.reuters.com/investigatio... 16540021712
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialALOK @alokvmenon.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Book Report: 1. Please share this important history 2. To learn more consult the following texts "The Male Madonna and the Feminine Uncle Sam: Visual Argument, Icons, and Ideographs in 1909 Anti-Woman Suffrage Postcards" (Palczewski 2005) 3217
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/05/2026JUST NOW from @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream — ICE agents outside Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ pushed a protester into an 18-wheeler causing the truck to run over his leg. They then pinned him on the ground and carried him away. 5119381133
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialCeleste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 27/05/2026This is textbook racism. As in, this is an example that an elementary teacher might use to explain racism to a child: "If someone says all members of a particular race are stupid, that's racism, kids." Any news outlets that uses any word for this except racism is not reporting the truth. 21999539
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 18/05/2026your tax money my tax money we, personally, are being forced to directly pay outright traitors because the president decrees it intolerable 10711150
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 18/05/2026the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real 6165572084
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such. 7089244050
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/05/2026The Supreme Court has restored access to the abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacieshuffpost.comSupreme Court Restores Access To Abortion Pill Mifepristone Through Telehealth, Mail And PharmaciesThe Supreme Court has restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortion is provided across the nation. 10505157
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/05/2026Abortion access nationwide will be severely restricted, even in blue states after this. Will require in person dispensing. Pharmacies can no longer fill prescriptions and just stop dispensing. Providers like aid access may still be able to mail pills due to their setup. 7290109
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/04/2026What the actual fuck. 661578281
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Love to my trans friends on this Trans Day of Visibility and every day. I see you, I love you, I support you. 71333207
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/03/2026CW: extreme police violence. A trans masc attorney in Oklahoma was arrested while in court for "contempt of court." The police kicked him and put him in a chokehold while he screamed that he couldn't breathe. 65695282
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/03/2026I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/thedissident.newsThe RatchetIn 2015, state legislatures across the United States considered 75 anti-LGBTQ bills, of which 27 targeted gender identity.1 In 2025, that total reached 1,059—with 851 of the current-session bills targ... 4433551444
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/02/2026Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here. 5099271412
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/02/2026To be clear, Kansas Republicans rushed through a confusing and disastrous bill, created a panic, and wasted untold number of tax dollars all to target 300 out of the nearly 3 million people in the state. 271907591
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2026Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license. They can't even escape this by moving to another state. 9543802362
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/02/20261. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen... 23362833402
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2026Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen... 31784754195
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/02/2026KANSAS JUST ENACTED A BILL THAT INVALIDATES AND REVOKES THE DRIVER'S LICENSES OF TRANS PEOPLE. www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/... 691132606
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/02/2026In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD. Just some facts I think bear repeating. 791717708
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2026Trump could not be more explicit about his intention to rig elections this year and in 2028 1132406869
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/12/2025At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.” Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare. 431413461
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialNina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 17/12/2025NO WAR WITH VENEZUELA 1339584
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Unless proven otherwise, every Republican in Congress supports this image: 541997846
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/11/2025Damning new emails released by House Dems indicate that Trump "spent hours" with an alleged victim at Epstein's house and he was "the dog that didn't bark." 9560128
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialParty for Socialism and Liberation @pslweb.bsky.social · 23/10/2025JUSTICE FOR TA’SHAWN DAVIS! Tonight, community members in Columbus, Ohio rallied to demand justice for Ta’Shawn Davis, who was shot and killed by a CPD sergeant. We demand CPD release this officers name to the public, that he be prosecuted, and for killer cops to be sent to jail! 05512
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20/10/2025the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction 8771162229
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/10/20251. This is one of the most insane statements ever delivered by a presidential spokesperson in U.S. history. Totally disconnected from reality. 2. There is either going to be a civil war or abject Democratic surrender to autocracy. They are telling this you, to your face, in explicit terms. 31849931716
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/09/2025Is this not straight-forwardly a declaration of civil war? 101595386
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2025I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort 751181566388
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialWuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 29/09/2025ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards 1314218755527
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/09/2025I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu) 56262784113919
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialJordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 12/09/2025An ICE agent shot and killed someone during a traffic stop in Chicago today: www.wbez.org/immigration/...wbez.orgICE officer fatally shoots man during traffic stop in Chicago suburb, authorities sayU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were conducting “targeted law enforcement activity” in Franklin Park when they stopped the vehicle, according to a statement from the agency. 47651385
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialDhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 11/09/2025NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.bloomberg.comJeffrey Epstein Email Trove Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s SecretsA cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender. 267121135501
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/09/2025The Wall Street Journal just published the photo of the birthday letter from Trump to Epstein. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/... 1532785801
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2025The White House Press Secretary, the official spokesperson for the Trump administration, told reporters in an official briefing that the president wants to invade "every Democrat-run city" with troops. Any media still pretending that this is about "crime" is making a conscious choice to lie to you. 18054282011
Reposted by @refreshing-melon.bsky.socialGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/09/2025The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator. 20193562610927
