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We could make fun of this in so many ways, but telling people, "We are poor because transgender people are taking all the money," should be uncomfortably familiar to people familiar with 20th century history.

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JK Rowling naming an Italian

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Fifty years ago, the dystopic film that imagined suburban white men swapping their spouses for robot trad wives terrified viewers. Now, it watches like a GOP playbook. by @damemagazine.bsky.social

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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Just as govt websites are being pullled down: “A 2nd type of bird flu has been found in US dairy cows for the 1st time, the USDA announced. This version of bird flu, known as D1.1, has only ever previously been detected in wild birds and poultry, indicating that it has now spilled over into cows.”

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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

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How sad it is that enough people - including the previously liberal - fell for the fear-mongering against trans people and this wedge issue helped return Trump to power and now we see the terrible cost that must be paid by both the trans community and many others too

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Once, accident. Twice, coincidence. Third, enemy action. Fourth, Reich.

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Sometimes you sort of forget how bad it was growing up under Section 28 and then you're like...oh yeah, it was This, Everywhere

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We told you and told you and told you

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🚨 SCOOP: Labour MP Preet Kaur Gill accepted £10,000 from firm that has helped wealthy Russians obtain 'golden visas' since the war in Ukraine Calls for Labour to investigate donation to Business sec Johnathan Reynolds' PPS New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-mp-...

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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

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I spoke with some of Brianna's online friends after her murder and they were willing to go to prison to stand up for her and see that she got justice. They truly loved her. It feels like such a huge betrayal to see Esther now campaigning against the only friendships her daughter really knew.

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Thinking about that John Green video about the woman who got tuberculosis in her bones from raw milk

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Keir Starmer, Wes Streeting and NHS boss Amanda Pritchard all want more private sector involvement in our #NHS Let’s get out there and show them the public wants to keep our NHS public! #KeepOurNHSPublic #PatientsNotProfit

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So does the ‘correction of diversity issues’ mean sacking women and people of colour? God help you America. Trump fires top US general CQ Brown in shake-up at Pentagon www.bbc.com/news/article...

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1/12 🚨H5N1 Indoor Cats🚨 BREAKING: Two critical H5N1 developments: • Indoor cats may have caught bird flu from dairy workers • Ohio counties declare emergency as poultry outbreaks surge Major implications for public health, agriculture, and food supply. #H5N1 #PublicHealth #CDNhealth #ABhealth

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I find this very moving: a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy who moved to the West of Ireland 2 years ago as a refugee, speaking in Irish of his love of playing Irish music

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This is why we need independent media outlets funded by the public. Our Byline Times story is still available to read despite attempts to suppress it.

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Just the the world’s richest man (and apparently co-president), casually calling for extrajudicial targeted assassinations of anyone he claims are “terrorists,” within the borders of a neighboring country that is supposedly an American ally.

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Listen, I was fine with everyone's social services and healthcare being gutted by a teenage nazi who is one degree of separation away from a global online child sexual abuse cult, but now you're telling me his grandad might have once been a COMMUNIST?! Well that is simply unacceptable!

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I applied to change my middle name on my passport mid December. It was approved on December 26th, and at the US embassy January 2nd. Since I was unable to pick it up by the time the new administration was sworn in, an embassy official destroyed it. Solely because it listed my sex as "X".

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"Fear now stalks the land." - "The last line of defense is civil society." Grim, timely analysis of this moment by sociologist Larry Diamond. www.persuasion.community/p/the-crisis...

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The loneliness and poverty of long-term unpaid carers Long-term unpaid carers face overwhelming personal and financial pressures; how can we all help out? @garygilligan.bsky.social

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Brilliant front page

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This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

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Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

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ny times, the most well financed, praised news source on the planet, able to influence govts, institutions, etc: "here's some lie, dont fact check it, just trust us" me, who failed high school geometry, googling while waiting for a burger: "yeah, that's not true." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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ICYMI Amazon is discontinuing the option to download your library. As a girlie with a Kindle from 2013 - I need my digital library accessible. 🥲 Here's video how to bulk download your book purchases! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGJD... #booksky

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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

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Starmer's Labour, nastier than the Nasty Party. 😡 #sanctions #IDanielBlake

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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked President Trump's executive order that sought to end government support for programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. LET’S FUCKING GO!!!! apnews.com/article/dei-...

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Oh look, it's the exact thing trans people warned all the cis women would happen to them as a result of this discrimination. Countdown to black women being told they don't qualify as "genetic women."

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The same fucking thing.

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Always seems to be women, minorities, and the LGBTQ folks doing the brave stuff, ay.

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It's not like the rationale even works either. You compromise with fascists, they just see you as weak and push you even further. You gain nothing - nothing at all - from yielding at the early stages. This has happened throughout history.

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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Love to see the AP showing the rest of the media orgs how it’s done

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This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

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