i love taking a day off work and feeling the sense of dignity and autonomy flood back into my body

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This 30-year-old transgender man, who can’t swim, jumped into Lake Michigan after a wind gust blew a baby in a stroller into the freezing water. He’s being called a hero. But now he has medical expenses, and people are donating to a fundraiser to support him. www.advocate.com/news/lio-cun...

i love taking a day off work and feeling the sense of dignity and autonomy flood back into my body

hey girl is your python a lower middle class person from Essex because it always starts by saying "__init__"

So many people don’t seem to know what a social contract is or why they are a part of it. Nor do they recognize the consequences of opting out.

I am normal and can be trusted with a costco membership

LOGGING ON

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have you seen the autistic lady building a tunnel under her house?

Fire every single officer and judge involved in this process and strip them of qualified immunity. Defund and abolish ICE and Border Patrol.

Taser Chess Teaches Valuable Lessons the Hard Way

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I can’t have kids because I’d be disappointed if they didn’t grow up to become whatever this is

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English. He spent a year in jail for this.

"This Court will continue to do whatever is required to protect the rule of law, including, if necessary, moving to the use of criminal contempt. One way or another, ICE will comply with this Court's orders."

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

Let's see if we can raise $10,000 today for red state or national queer orgs. Post proof here in the replies that you donated to a red state or national queer organization and I will share. Who's with me? (I can't donate myself because I'm a journalist who covers these orgs)

Transgender DOS and DON'T DON'T: "Hey, what is your real gender?" DO: "did you become integrated into the mothership, becoming her living core?" DON'T: "Hello [Deadname.]" DO: "Fleet Command, do you read"

i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.

Deeply evil, genocidal policy. Here are some orgs that may be able to help: Across Bsky, many people have shared Trans Continental Pipeline. This is a grassroots mutual aid network turned based in Denver that helps LGBTQ+ individuals relocate from unsafe situations to Colorado. tcpipeline.org

if they want to make me illegal i intend to deserve it

Not going to @ her, but local traffic reporter Kristen Eck is the most important trans celebrity for me. She's famous to me because she's been reporting the traffic from the WBZ copter since I was a little kid. Her voice is soothing. I'm frankly jazzed she's still at it, even as radio changes.

the damming of america's rivers has been an ecological crime on an unimaginable scale

There's optimism and vibrancy in many places outside of the United States that have been missing from our culture, society and economy for a very long time. It's also shocking when you visit countries that are regularly smeared as "unsafe" by US media... how inaccurate it is.

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

"Bluesky doesn't have the juice." "Real media access is still only on Twitter." "No one important uses or will ever use this site." Skill issue. If you post good, the right people will figure out how to get in touch with you.

ICE "should be abolished, but also it should be prosecuted" - Democratic Rep. @sethmoulton.bsky.social, from the centrist wing of the party, tells me he wants his party leadership to go further than just reforming ICE. Doing that is "no longer believable." Full interview: zeteo.com/p/moulton-ic...

This is a critical difference between reformers and non-reformers. You need to be willing to look leadership and their lawyers in the face and say “No, I’m going to try something else. You can help me or you can get out of my way.”

if being trans is a crime? Call me a career criminal

"the government can't detransition u" tell that to the kids. tell that to those in prison. in ice camps

The New York Times is in fact Adolf Hitler

And when we are arrested, in states like Kansas, under their new laws making it criminal for us to exist, this is the kind of treatment that awaits us. This is what trans people, particularly trans women, are facing in prison, when they are arrested as part of the growing effort to criminalize us.

You know how it’s cold here & winter sucks a lot? It’s cold in Gaza & it sucks worse for them because they don’t have real housing, just tents that collapse in the wind & rain or at best crumbling bombed our buildings. That’s why you see them asking for so much help right now.

"A Gallup poll last year found 40% of American women, ages 15-44, would like to permanently move overseas, if possible."

Portland is poised to be the largest U.S. city to allow polyamorous families to sue over discrimination.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Worth considering that, if you hate trans people, and especially if you didn't really think about trans people a decade ago, that it's directly and explicitly because some of the richest pedophiles on the planet have poured an enormous amount of money and energy into making you do so.

Urgent dispatch from the desert: it is bunny bullfighting season

being trans online is like [posts a silly joke] [sees news abt government trying to exterminate us] [like funny post by trans friend] [more news about gov wanting us dead] [repost funny joke] [trans friend shares horrible news about insurance issues/sexual violence/abusive family] [sees funny post]

counting or not counting gang violence

this bill is legitimately a three-alarm fire. if they manage to define trans existence as explicit then there is nothing stopping them from genocide. i need every single cis person talking about this, calling their reps, getting out in the streets.

Another video from FAU’s anti-ICE protest today

Move, move They all say we should Pick up and Move As if you could escape From having to Think About us By pretending There's a spot on earth To move us #poetry

If a single damn person says ANYTHING about Gavin Newsom to me in the next calendar year I am legally allowed to rip their spine from their body and hang it on my wall like I'm a The Predator

The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.

Seems like this ought to be a national story. This is straight-up Nazi shit.

Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

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