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Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

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"You're so brave!" No, I'm not. I am SOFT. Always have been! I love fairy tales and flowers, good coffee, tea, and good books. I'm an empath. An optimist. I believe strangers are potential friends. I'm a little prissy. I like things just so. I'm Black. What you call "brave," I call surviving.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

I hate these bastards in Silicon Valley so much for what they've done to the idea of tech. The idea that we as a collective people could work together to improve our lives through ingenuity, collaboration, and determination. Instead, it's become a ponzi scheme based on the idea of line goes up.

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

“They’re not coming out and saying, ‘We want to fire the queers,’” said “Michael,” a gay employee at the Department of the Interior. “They’re not asking people, ‘Are you gay? Are you lesbian?’ They’re asking, ‘Who is participating in DEI?’ But in the end it’s going to have the same effect.”

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

DOGE to manatees: drop dead. www.tampabay.com/news/environ...

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Pathetic

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Job in Palestine Studies! UC Davis seeks to hire an Anthropologist of Palestine at assistant/associate professor rank, Seeking a scholar with a cutting-edge, ethnographically grounded research agenda and interest in collaboration. Review begins March 5. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06996

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

submitted 3 days ago • 564 comments

my dad was a diabetic who was uninsured for most of his adult life and often couldn’t get the meds and treatments he needed to control his disease. we never voted the same way. but that doesn’t mean he deserved to die at 67. some of you sound just as broken as the people you want to beat.

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

Here’s what I want from society as a trans person: ✅ the right to exist freely without laws that interfere with that right ✅ gold standard gender affirming healthcare ✅ to be left the fuck alone

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NBC [Feb 22] -- Mother of a slain Minnesota trans man Sam Nordquist who was killed in upstate NY has slammed local Canandaigua PD claiming she requested two wellness checks on him after he expressed feeling he was in danger but CPD never conducted them. [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

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💯

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Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 5 days ago • 51 comments

ProPublica is recording the casualties of the DOGE purge, highlighting the scale of what is being lost as public health programs and seasoned experts are caught in the Trump administration’s blunt-force drive to shrink the federal government. Read 👇 by @anniewaldman.bsky.social @deldeib.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

This is a hopeful perspective, and also a very necessary one. The more people see angry citizens, public refusals to comply or to kneel, and public servants speaking about their loyalty to the Constitution, the more fragile the Trump coalition will be, and the more isolated the Musk clique will be

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

"What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy. They [want to retain] plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity"

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Big protest coming to Stonewall National Monument in just an hour or two. If you are in the area, get down there, be active, show your disapproval of the removal of transgender people from all online websites for the Stonewall National Monument page!

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

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?"

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

"Tesla Reported Zero Federal Income Tax on $2 Billion of U.S. Income in 2024" itep.org/tesla-report...

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Oh dear, hope no one disrupts this

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

Ngl this photo made me physically ill for a sec

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Looks like lots of families won't be able to enjoy the national parks this spring and summer because of Elon Musk and DOGE www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... It's very MAGA!

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

If you are a cis person please take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

These are legal immigrants the Trump administration is fucking over for no reason other than cruelty and racism www.npr.org/2025/01/28/n...

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

submitted 6 days ago • 80 comments

funding our programs is a TREATY OBLIGATION. it's illegal for the federal government to not uphold their side of the bargain. they refuse to follow the law (which they always have! welcome to the club!) - finally see it now? can you see how horrendous this occupying government actually is?

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Federal crash test ratings are broken. Case in point: The Cybertruck, of all things, just got a top five-star rating. Did NHTSA consider how it could kill pedestrians? No. The likelihood that its rigid body might pulverize those in other cars? Nope, not at all. These ratings are useless.

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

Rest in power Sam and Tahiry. We remember and honor the lives of two Black trans people whose lives were brutally cut short by anti-trans violence.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve been thinking a lot, like everyone else, about What Can Be Done when #Democrats have no institutional power & the media ignores them. I think they need to get WAY more theatrical. Do wild stunts the media can’t look away from. Stop being respectable.

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

Note this is unfortunately routine practice already--its called the foster care system. We remove more children from their families than any country on earth and 90% of them are victims of poverty, not abuse or violence. What Kennedy is calling for is the expansion of a system that already exists.

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 9 days ago • 850 comments

This is a genocidal document that uses the language of eliminationist theory and mass death to describe the most at risk in society. The federal government is retooling to murder vast swaths of the government if we let them.

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I'm in. February 28, 2025!

submitted 10 days ago • 339 comments

Me: closes Bluesky. Quietly walks into the sea, never to return

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1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

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Amid a housing shortage, investors continue to exploit a gap in an affordable housing law to raise rents. Congress has repeatedly failed to act – via @propublica.org truthout.org/articles/wea...

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In case you missed it: “social justice” and “equity” now interpreted as illegal in education under this far-right U.S. administration. We are experiencing the rollback of civil rights protection that only lasted two generations in American history. www.ed.gov/media/docume...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Well I NEVER 😯

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

submitted 25 days ago • 44 comments

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

submitted 12 days ago • 231 comments

I am going to be so pissed if--after everything--I do, in fact, die of dysentery.

submitted 13 days ago • 90 comments

Erasing our history won't erase us. Transgender people have always been here — and we always will be.

submitted 13 days ago • 165 comments