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knickatknight.bsky.social
Digital Wanderer, Tumblr can't satiate me, formerly @profplum_MD on twitter Trans Femme, They/Them/Theirs
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The people who believe that throwing trans people under the bus is a "winning" strategy are not only inhumane and wack but they are also deluded.

the same shit as david axelrod having trump advisor chris lacivita on his podcast right after the election. a strain of broken democratic brain that ought to be studied by scientists.

hey fam my partner and i are facing an imminent eviction this week details on the gofundme page we're trans queer elders/former sex workers/sexual violence survivors and we're running out of time. if you can give or share the post, love u babes #mutualaid www.gofundme.com/f/itsgonnabe...

Okay. I was already having a fucking week, but I finally made myself watch Anora, and I can’t sit on this anymore: Baker stole the characters, setting, themes, and tone from a tiny sex worker-made production I was in in 2015, and which was shared with him in 2016 *to solicit his advice*.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

why is this not a gigantic fucking scandal that we're talking about 24/7. an unelected billionaire is fueling threats against federal judges and he just keeps on with his wanton destruction of the federal government

tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)

www.alternet.org/tesla-takedo...

Whenever Janice Raymond comes up (so rarely anymore, thank god!) I remember her not-so-subtle insinuation that trans people were invented by Nazis b/c the first trans surgeries were "performed in Germany in the 1930's." That the Nazis burned that institute to the ground didn't make it into her book.

Portland Tesla dealership protests also double as ICE protests! (That's the ICE building right behind these protesters.)

the vice president of the united states is a groyper who spends his online time following nazis and esoteric reactionary influencers is true and yet the press seems completely disinterested in it

the thing about “democrats should take popular cultural positions” is that what constitutes popular is a function of an interaction between the public and elites. if a faction of elites start screaming about a vulnerable minority and another faction says they have a point, this shapes the public.

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

With alt text. Also, these aren't antics. These are public threats to another country's sovereignty by the Secretary of Homeland Security. We keep treating it like a joke because to your average American the idea of invading Canada seems ridiculous. They're not laughing.

he thinks he’s king. he issues executive orders (royal decrees) and the entire society is expected to obey

Hi Senator. Thanks for joining Bluesky. Can you use this space to explain why you're pushing a bill to remove Section 230, which would make it close to impossible for Bluesky to exist? www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

Democrats could never

Everyone in the media needs to be taking a long ass look in the mirror and decide if they want to keep carrying this water, man

“tHeY cAnT dO tHat!!!!!” ok well they are babe, idk what to tell you

And they got fired.

BREAKING — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has just announced the closure of major regional offices in Philly, LA and Chicago, per email shared with me. “5 alarm fire,” SEC employee tells me. Full email text:

"Here’s a fact that should appall New York voters, especially women: You paid for Cuomo’s lawyers to seek the gynecological records of an accuser. Why? It’s a good question that voters should ask the candidate as he makes the rounds." - @lindseyboylan.bsky.social www.vanityfair.com/news/story/n...

SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:

just wanna remind everyone that if trans and queer youth hadn't spoken out over the last several years, terrible legislation like the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) would currently be in effect, and the Trump administration would be actively weaponizing it for censorship. the work we do matters.

Love how every single liberal party strategy is “moving right wins elections” then when moving right repeatedly fails to win elections cause they’re running against OPENLY RIGHT-WING PARTIES they just go “Well clearly we didn’t move right enough.” Like even a child could tell you what’s wrong

Oh no

It cannot be emphasized enough that Andrew Cuomo - IN ADDITION TO BEING A SEXUAL PREDATOR - hid a massive number of COVID deaths in nursing homes. Governing isn't just press conferences.

I know everything about Nixon seems quaint in comparison, but this was specifically one of the crimes mentioned in the articles of impeachment against Nixon.

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.

This is what disabled people mean when we say ableism doesn’t care who you are.

I know some of these accounts are iffy but I do know for a fact that this one is run by current and recently fired DOL workers, so will be following it closely myself!

congrats to all the liberals calling the attacks on trans people in the U.S. "tragic but inconsequential since there aren't all that many of them" for finally finding out what they'd have done in 1930s germany

Almost 800,000 people on here are following a totally-not-real account claiming it's a group of rogue park workers and who are now posting cryptic nonsense to make it seem like they're sending messages to the deep state. Also they're selling resistance merch. WTF are we doing man?

it's been really weird how much stuff about Trump seems to ignore the fact that he was president before, and with Cuomo re-emerging I am starting to wonder if in like 2022 a huge portion of Americans just decided to forget 2016 - 2021. like. just straight up decided not to remember those years

My latest piece for @teenvogue.com delves into the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A. Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.

Rahm Emanuel covered up the murder of a Black teen, and shuttered public clinics and schools. Cuomo covered up COVID nursing home deaths and harassed women. These men heard "now is the time of monsters" and decided to attempt a comeback. They both belong in hell.

Okay... we feel like we say this every week but *a lot* of stuff happened. Let's break it down, starting with @brbarrett.bsky.social on why the DOGE takeover is worse than you think... (sorry, but you gotta read this one.)

relatedly, why is the entire political press completely uninterested in the verifiable fact that JD Vance has close relationships with online nazis?

This is why sex workers should be embraced by the left. No other group has learned to survive this far outside established systems of support — banking, funding, social media, legacy media, law enforcement. They're the first person you want on a quest.

my superpower for predicting things? paying attention to what people with power say and do

Bezos is not acting out of fear. He is participating in a political project that benefits him. This distinction is important.

hard to believe that our public institutions are suddenly behaving in a manner that many many people have been warning is the logical endpoint of a capitalist government for a hundred years

If news workers start to flee WaPo and LAT, I hope they won't just do the honorable mass resignation letters (although those can be useful comms tools). Ideally, the best course of action is to sabotage the organization on the way out. If it's compromised, permanently damage its credibility.

The federal government is methodically hunting and rooting out LGBTQIA+ people from service (with the help of alt right trolls) and this is the best NYT could muster. It’s pathetic and dangerous.

that should be the new slogan for the new york times, put it on the masthead- “stenography for a fascist regime”