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Queer, sex favorable greysexual, transfeminine non-binary, grey biromantic, biaesthetic person. Pronouns are she/they. Host of the Queer PoliFaith and Queerly Popular podcasts.
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Welcome to today's episode of @queerpolifaith.bsky.social! Today, we have an introduction to executive orders before we look at ones that the seditious traitor has recently signed. We look at what they are, why they can be used, what they can be used for, and also talk about how they are used now

Morning Digest: Like snowbirds, pols from across the country are eyeing this Florida district A barrel of castoffs hope to revive their political careers—including Madison Cawthorn open.substack.com/pub/thedownb...

1 in 3 Americans believe COVID vaccines caused thousands of sudden deaths—here’s what the data show New study shows no increase in sudden cardiac deaths in young athletes during COVID vaccine rollout open.substack.com/pub/youcankn...

Bonus 126: [Chill] All the Lawyers Lawyers and law firms committed to the rule of law should be the first (and loudest) critics of the seditious traitor's administration's effort to punish and intimidate those who represent the "wrong" clients. open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...

Just stop with this awful bullshit. It's not funny, it's homophobia. I'll bet this person thinks they're an ally. They aren't. If you promote this sort of thing, you're promoting homophobia & are therefore a homophobe. Here's a list of people to block. Read the description bsky.app/profile/did:...

The seditious traitor posts music video promoting his plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza and build a luxury resort open.substack.com/pub/populari...

Democrats should make Elon Musk the face of the GOP budget He’s unpopular and House Republicans are starting to get nervous. open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

Breaking: Military issues policy banning trans military service, implementing the seditious traitor's EO The policy was filed Wednesday evening in a challenge to the executive order and will be subject to legal challenges. open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...

When They Come for the Judges open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The New York Times: "We need more data on trans healthcare, it shouldn't be allowed" Trump: "Fuck the very concept of data" NYT: *crickets* www.statnews.com/2025/02/25/c...

A child is dead from measles. 5 things on my mind and answers to your questions open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

State Senator Spanks Proverbs open.substack.com/pub/publicwi...

The Courts Strike Back Three back-to-back federal court rulings on Tuesday provide reason to cheer. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

The New McCarthyism: LGBTQ+ Purges In Government Begin After Chris Rufo leaked LGBTQ+ chatlogs from the intelligence community, Gabbard has announced that all those who participated in the chats will be fired. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Jeff Bezos Just Announced The Washington Post Will Now Be His Personal Megaphone With its new "free markets and personal liberties" mandate, democracy dies not in darkness but in billionaire ideology open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

Musk’s Fraudulent Fraud Squad A tired trope gets a new lease of life open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Morning Digest: 13-term Democrat could face primary after outburst at constituents Or, why Democrats should heed progressive ire over their response to the seditious traitor open.substack.com/pub/thedownb...

UPDATE: Federal court issues injunction against DOGE based on Popular Information report open.substack.com/pub/populari...

EPA head Lee Zeldin wants to steal $20B of green It's even dumber than you think, and yet the seditious traitor's DOJ is playing along. open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

Kentucky Considers Charging Abortion Patients As Murderers 2.25.25 open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

Breaking: The Social Security Administration "eliminated" its civil rights office "Please wait for instructions from the agency to ... report harassment." open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...

Speaking Truth to Power: The Seditious Traitor Doesn't Get a Pass Or a third term open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Seditious Traitor Is Letting Russell Vought Go Wild Vought's Project 2025 “unitary executive” theory has us headed toward a constitutional cliff open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...

SCOTUS orders new trial for man Oklahoma courts would have allowed to be executed Richard Glossip has long fought his sentence, and he was joined by the state's Republican attorney general fighting his conviction at the Supreme Court. open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...

Marco Rubio May Have Just Banned Trans Foreigners Seeking Visas From US Entry A new state department cable, meant to target transgender athletes, indicates a potential broader application to all transgender visas, which it states must contain "sex at birth." open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

"That Feels Indefensible": MSNBC's New Direction Leads Rachel Maddow to Speak Out As Joy Reid and Alex Wagner lose their shows, Rachel Maddow uses her platform to challenge management's decisions. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

Votes, Town Halls and Cleaning Out Toiletries: Lawmakers Tell Us the Five Things They Did Last Week Inspired by Elon Musk, we asked lawmakers how they spent last week. Some of them had a lot to say. www.notus.org/congress/elo...

The Supreme Court Could Stop The Seditious Traitor. But Will It? Experts said the conservative court may end up allowing the president to expand executive power — but not without limits. www.notus.org/courts/supre...

New Jersey’s Attorney General Warns of a Coming Crisis in Special Education The clock is ticking on a Department of Education order warning schools to cancel DEI programs, or risk losing federal funding. Education lawyers say the directive is too vague. www.notus.org/new-jersey/t...

The Seditious Traitor’s Order to End DEI in the Military Could Hurt Sexual Assault Prevention Efforts “We’re looking at an erosion of truth about sexual assault,” one expert said. www.notus.org/policy/milit...

Several Nonprofits Overcomply With The Seditious Traitor's EOs, Erase Trans People From Websites Organizations such as the Boys and Girls Club of America, the RAINN, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children are among dozens erasing trans people. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Judge Freezes ICE Raids at Quaker & Cooperative Baptist Churches open.substack.com/pub/publicwi...

On this week's episode of @queerpolifaith.bsky.social, we're going to talk about what executive orders are, some famous executive orders, how they differ from laws, and other basics about them. I will also be giving some plugs for books or podcasts a few of my friends are involved in. Coming out

HUGE: The Supreme Court sides with Richard Glossip, holding that prosecutors violated his constitutional rights by failing to correct false testimony at his trial. It directs the Oklahoma courts to vacate his conviction! www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Covering Up Crimes? An alleged assault by a Congressmember, multiple versions of the official police report, and an unsigned warrant for an arrest raise some troubling questions. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

Vive la Résistance ...and Thomas Paine open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Morning Digest: Ron DeSantis uses 'officially nonexistent' clout to tout wife as successor Florida Republicans no longer seem to care what the once-powerful governor thinks open.substack.com/pub/thedownb...

How to buy your way out of a federal lawsuit open.substack.com/pub/populari...

How the seditious traitor's lawyers are trying to make him a king They're advancing a roided-up version of the "unitary executive theory." open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

Paradise Lost: Book 7 "Out of the ground the Lord GOD formed them." open.substack.com/pub/karenswa...

Musk's "5 bullets" mess From a Saturday tweet to a government-wide email to pushback and confusion to pullback to a whining tweet on Monday evening. Also: Trans litigation update. open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...