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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

This is the official website of the government I fund.

Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The amount Musk and Trump are boasting about regarding federally funded research aimed at studying health outcomes in transgender people (the $8 million)? Just out of the research grant budget for the U.S., it would be the equivalent of if you had a $10,000 budget and spent 86 cents on something.

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I mean, are we just numb to the insanity ? The president of the United States yesterday called for arresting American students protesting at campuses (they pay to attend) 😂

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

As Palestinians return Israeli bodies in coffins and Israel returns Palestinian bodies in blue body bags dumped out of a truck, today Netanyahu claims the opposite and withholds dozens of Palestinian hostages based on the lie. U.S. supports this while most western countries have criminalized him

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Heard a song at work today and had to try it immediately when I got home . Monopoly money by moon walker Can only post a 60 second clip cuz Bluesky . If anyone wants more I’ll post the rest also go listen to the original.

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Grammy’s Garden & Apothecary @grammysgarden.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

#InsectThursday I’m a retired nature teacher, and I raised dragonflies (among MANY things) I taught a Pond Life class, and brought live specimens to observe Did you know their larvae live in water for 9-12 months? Students got to see the larvae too! #dragonflies #PondLife #TeachOurChildrenWell

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

a brief history of fascism in America and how it must eventually fail bc it is based on fiction/non-reality. It’s 30 mins long, but you’ll learn something and maybe come away with a little hope?

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The Distorted Worldview of the American Fascist

YouTube video by NonCompete

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Watched Sugarcane tonight. The atrocities committed against indigenous children by the Catholic Church is entirely revolting, and the lack of accountability and justice too. Required watching. The struggle is intersectional, no one is free until we are all free from white supremacy.

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Erasure shows how weak this administration is. Cowards and sycophants all

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Nothing compared to the incredible work I see in #miniature groups, but thought I’d share these #minis I painted for the Clank legacy game me and @cosmic-katie.bsky.social are playing. I included an unpainted one for a “before”. #minipainting #clank #clanklegacy #boardgame #painting

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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

So, Google Calendar has removed Indigenous Peoples Month. Who here still supports the Native community? 🖐🏾

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I love this cat so much that it makes me cry sometimes. We’ve had each other for almost 14 years! My baby. 🩶🤍💚 #cats #soul #love

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Microscopic photo I took of fungal colonies that reminded me of the creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel #fungus #science #art #LGBTQ #microscope #hyphae #queerart #photography

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... Fascist christo America. See comments below, I’ll copy in some of this insane executive order there if you don’t feel like opening it yourself. I know you’re tired. But, umm, fuck. Also they erased the T from SSA: is now LGBQ

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Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose

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Antifa International @antifaintl.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

February's Antifa Action Of The Month Challenge: Show Them Where You Stand! Do something to show people that you oppose fascism & stand with the people targeted by fascists. Why you should do this + resources to help you do it: antifaintl.substack.com/p/february-2... #antifa, #antifascism

b&w photo of a person wearing a black jacket with the slogan NAZI HUNTER on the back

photo of nine different anti-fascist pins

Photo of a rather burly Japanese gentleman modeling a white t-shirt that reads TOKYO AGAINST FASCISM

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

On trying to make it as a trans girl of color in the heart of the empire. As a queer person who experienced homelessness for 6 mos in my early twenties and had few resources during those years to help me survive + loads of trauma, I relate hard. #lgbtq #trans #america #empire 🌈📚

of pressure to live a life of crime, to be the perfect woman. But don' fel guilty about it. You'll never have all of the right clothes, makeup, hair chat will suddenly add up into an unclockable woman. On my fishiest days, where I fully believe I'm giving Cis Girl, I get clocked by two or three people. I's very humbling and a nice reminder that passing is a losing game. Cis women chase this perfection, too, and it sucks years off their lives. Embrace imperfection. Be a nasty, hairy, disheveled, woman. Be the kind of woman with perfect makeup and fucked up hair or no makeup and impeccable tresses of hair cascading down your back. Wear your mom's hand-me-down Prada bag with your sweaty polyester nightgown that you stole from Village Discount. Don't try to be a good girl.
The only reason that us queers of color are at the bottom of this totem pole is because white dudes set it up this way centuries ago. They pilfered, they stole, they lied, killed, raped, burned shit to the ground, and set it up so they'd be on top. I'm not saying you should emulate the White Man, but I do think that breaking a few of the White Man's laws can help you get up from rock bottom. How're you supposed to save money when you zero out your paycheck every month on food and rent? Imagine what you could do with the money you spend in one year on groceries.
Crime is not only something you'll have to get used to as a trans person, it's a part of our history. Transsexuals, transgender people-we all transgress against the norm. We have to break the law sometimes. I'm writing this while living in the heart of the Empire, smack dab in the middle of the United States. There's a concerted effort to scapegoat trans people, queers, drag queens, all of us weirdos and try to erase us from public life. The ACLU has declared an emergency on behalf of trans people because we're facing unprecedented, coordinated legislative attacks against our personhood, all under a Democrat president who seems to be asleep…

hard to imagine a Republican president taking over and helping all these losers in their genocidal rage. Right now, I'm living in a perfectly legal transgender body. But next year I could be considered a criminal just for having a gender marker that's different from the one I was assigned at birth. Legislation could change the act of taking estradiol into a criminal act worthy of years in prison.
But a life of crime has gotten me this far, it's gotten me my career, a loving community of found family and blood relatives. It's shown me unending happiness. All those years of petty theft, of illegal existence, prepared me for the ultimate act of criminality: girlhood. And since I've already committed myself to this life of crime, I'm ready to continue to break whatever laws the man will write to keep me chained up.

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Tech elites, fueled by an ideology that embraces capitalist monarchy, helped Trump win the election. Now he's ramming through mass infrastructure projects to fuel AI - which will only accelerate jobs lost to automation. The future is here, you just weren’t invited. itsgoingdown.org/good-night-t...

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

DEIA initiatives helped ensure people from rural areas had equitable access to good paying jobs, but I think a lot of rural white ppl were brainwashed by their bot-infested social media feeds into thinking DEIA only considered black folks or gay folks.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

80% of my problems are solved if The Rapture happens. I won't be raptured, but that's the point, really.

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Anyone else read board game rules in the bath with a beer or just me? (Me and @cosmic-katie.bsky.social are going to play after I prune-ify myself to my liking.). #boardgamesky #everdell #everdellfarshore

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

BREAKING via NPR: Oracle, run by Trump associate Larry Ellison is likely to take over Tiktok, leaving Facebook, Instagram, X, and Tiktok and Fox (along with Rogan etc) all largely controlled by one party. The country remains split politically but the right has vastly more influence over the media.

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Antifa International @antifaintl.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

HAPPY ERIC CANTONA DAY! 30 years ago today, Man Utd. star Eric Cantona responded to sieg heiling National Front/British National party supporter Matthew Simmons' racial abuse with a flying kick! To celebrate, we've done a ltd run of this image as stickers. Want some? DM us for details! #kingeric

Eric Cantona, giving a flying kick to a sieg heiling racist in the stands of Selhurst Park after being racially abused by said racist. Captioned: KICK RACISM OUT OF RACISTS

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

There is nothing new under the sun , but there are new suns . 🗑️ 🇺🇸 🔥 🍾

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I didn’t realize the “new department” Elon musk is running ( called the department of government efficiency ) has the acronym DOGE… the name of the memecoin that was created as a joke but that Elon got involved in. Our lives and well-being are just a game for these ppl.

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

It costs taxpayers over $30k/year to criminalize a single person suffering from homelessness, & only $10,000 to provide shelter. Why do you think the gov doesn’t pick the more financially sound option? #socialcontrol #fascism #homelessness #lgbtq #classwar

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

“Don’t give them money, they’ll just buy booze.” -person to friend who’s about to give money to homeless person “Alcohol is the buffer a sensitive soul needs to withstand the crimes of a race - the human race - that has proved itself to be ungrateful and homicidal.” -recently homeless writer

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

He’s doing so many things, it’s impossible to engage in the due outrage and plan-formulation for each and every one. A deluge.

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

(1/2) Recently watched Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin on @means.tv , and I am entirely struck by her. At first I was a little skeptical because of her privileged upbringing, but by the end I realized that she is an American treasure for women, gender-conforming folks, & a voice against capitalism…

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

why do Democrats vote for fascist bullshit like the Laken Riley act? Fascist bullshit isn’t out of line with this country’s traditions. Historically there’s been bipartisan support for fascist policies…and that’s unfortunately still the case. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/democrats-...

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Democrats Cave Because Trumpism Is In Fact What America Is

The United States has a long tradition of fascism.

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This is giving Little Nicky vibes - when one of Satan’s sons disguises himself as a pastor and uses their idiotic blind faith to convince them to commit outlandish sins lmao . Only it’s real life. #dystopia #trump #grifters #empire #idiocracy

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/01/2025

Masks coming all the way off 🎉

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Trump announced that he would sign an executive order renaming the tallest mountain in North America as Mount McKinley, undoing a 2015 decision that had restored the peak’s Alaska Native name, Denali.

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Working class voted in a party that will poison the working class.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/01/2025

TLDR: There is nothing enforceable for the immediate future. It will take months or years to implement this via rulemaking or bureaucratic changes which are then subject to legal challenge. While it's worrying, there's no immediate change yet for most trans people. Do not comply in advance.

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

If gender was simple & binary, we wouldn’t need fascist laws to enforce it.

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

Trump White House's first trans executive order is out. I'll be reading over it here and going through line by line to help you make sense of it. You can find it here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT – The White House

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

@lindabonita.bsky.social welcome to Bluesky Linda ! Give this special person a follow if you’re a friend of mine. She was a beacon of love and curiosity in my conservative rural hometown and showed me there was a wider world out beyond. Love you Linda linda

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This shard from #cyberpunk2077 feels so prescient. This (incredible) video game gives players a glimpse of a realistic future US (called NUSA) where end-stage capitalism has led to the absolute extremes of wealth inequality and access to healthcare, privacy, food, water and shelter.

$Screenshot of a shard (fictional futuristic tech similar to a book) in the video game Cyberpunk 2077 that reads: THE UNDOING: FALL OF THE FIRST NET The first Net was supposed save us. It would serve as a plotform for those without a voice. It would offer unlimited knowledge to those who hungered for it. It would bring a fractured humanity closer together than ever before in our history. But these hopes were hollow. False. The Net spread its tendrils around the globe faster than anyone could have predicted. Before anyone could even consider the full range of consequences. This "information superhighway" turned out to be our path straight to hell. We were robbed of our privacy, deprived of our free will, stripped of our dignity. It was supposed to save us, but now even the Net itself cannot be soved. It was molded by the corps, with sharp edges, spikes and traps at every corner.. Think of the Net as a stream of water that flows aentiv into our minds... before Close (1/2)$

Shard text that reads: THE UNDOING: FALL OF THE FIRST NET
predicted. Betore anyone could even consider the tul range or consequences.
This "information superhighway" turned out to be our path straight to hell. We were robbed of our privacy, deprived of our free will, stripped of our dignity.
It was supposed to save us, but now even the Net itself cannot be soved. It was molded by the corps, with sharp edges, spikes and traps at every corner.
Think of the Net as o stream of water that flows gently into our minds... before freezing, swelling, and destroying us from the inside out. But remember this about ice - as hard as it may be, it's surprisingly brittle. One well-placed strike and it shotters into a million tiny pieces. Watch out today and you'll see just what I mean.
Rache Bartmoss
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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

We gotta be louder/brighter/bigger/gayer/tougher/bolder than ever. We gotta defend & protect one another in public spaces online and in person. We gotta feel out the parts of ourselves that are the most non-conformist and expand into them, get cozy in them.

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

It took way too long, but so happy Leonard Peltier is going to be free. Not a lot I would thank biden for, but this is one. 🕊️🕊️🕊️⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥🕊️🕊️🕊️ #landback #aim #indigisky #abolition #colonialism #imperialism

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Day 1 promises of Trump Administration against transgender Americans. #transnews #transrights #humanrights #fascism

Day one policy promises against transgender Americans from the Trump administration. News source: mother jones. Author: Madison Pauly

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