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Every time I open Bluesky,

If you can take a look at this crisis of American fascism; take a look at the numbers and see who keeps putting their lot behind the proto-fascists of the Republican/conservative party and come to the conclusion it's 'leftists' that are the problem? Then you're not serious about being anti-fascist.

Actually, the communists were 100% down to stop Hitler at all times. Would you like to know how Hitler secured the votes for the Enabling Act? He appealed to the liberals.

That's the guy, folks. That's the one. www.404media.co/stripe-forbi...

Also love how Mechwarrior 5 Mercs and Clans both accurately depict the way people in the Battletech universe age: they don't, they just hit 80 and die Natasha Kerensky is canonically 80 years old and she looks like a somewhat hard-living 45 year old

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

gwen does fantastic work as usual on some of the 401,000 trans people who’ve had to flee hostile territory in their own country in the past 18 months.

what fucking benefits. my vice president in christ you are the ones deliberately cutting funding! benefit fraud is already as illegal as it can be. there is literally nothing that a government can "do" about this "problem" that is not plain and simply rounding up innocent people and murdering them.

reason number 7,386,591 why seattle needs way more housing. truly what is the point of declaring an emergency if the trans woman fearing for her life in texas can’t afford to move to our sanctuary city and start a new life here

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

"If socialization really worked the way that some people imply when they wield “male socialization” against trans female/feminine people, then gender conversion therapy would work every single time."

The core demands of the left right now are all demands that the middle actually help fight to fix the emergency instead of repeatedly offering bipartisan support to fascist bills written by fascists to do fascist things like censoring LGBT people.

Please ignore the data showing that Democrats get even fewer crossover votes from Republicans when they try to pander to them (because Republicans willing to oppose the GOP on the basis of principles aren't going to pick someone abandoning their principles to support the GOP! Weird, right?)

I will end anyone that calls this cute

STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE GIRLS LIKE US ARE NOCTIDE TO THE CORE

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another glimps from #driftlight 💙 #strapon

"I was cancelled by the right" tours should be a thing 🤷‍♀️ It happens far more frequently.

Exclusive: She wasn’t “demonized for grading a poorly written psychology paper”— the student, encouraged by her far-right mother who legally assisted January 6th insurrectionists, wrote a politically charged, bigoted hit piece as an attack against trans people and she reacted accordingly.

you couldn’t have asked for a better example of how infested everyone, even the avowed ally and devoted activist, is with reactionary, transmisogynist biases and impulses than “giving the worst essay ever a 0 means she was no saint and you’re not allowed to criticize me don’t you know I’m IMPORTANT”

French here, so, about our current situation, for a quick summary, [1/61]

Man what happened to Taylor Lorenz. She’s seemingly doing ads for Elon’s grok and implying people are stupid for being anti AI now. Disappointing.

Yes, we gave up without trying, but consider: we also blew $100 million and have nothing to show for it bsky.app/profile/greg...

still haven’t forgotten how many Big Important Allies and Lawyers went out of their way to let us know they thought she was the one in the wrong and deserved the demonization for giving that essay a zero, nor the entitled fits they threw when receiving pushback for it.

when this happened all the legal eagles on here did their favorite thing, which is to say "regrettably and with a heavy heart i must say that the howling reactionaries are in the right here"

144 House Democrats joined 203 Republicans to vote for this bill which gives DHS and ICE new powers to collect personal information of both migrants and American citizens

The Hound has fleas, call that an it/she

I think the problem I have with World of Darkness Werewolf (both Apocalypse and Forsaken) is that a core theme of the series is "you don't want to be a werewolf, actually" Actually I do want to be a werewolf. You, the writers, were the ones who made being a werewolf suck.

There is no shame in being wild by nature #Werewolf #WarmUp

John McDonnell has speculated if Wes Streeting's apparent leadership run against Starmer is at the behest of one Peter Mandelson By @skwawkbox.org

STREETING HAS RESIGNED

male socialisation is when they hold you down and [cut footage of trans girl’s entire childhood and teen years] and after a while you stop even crying because what would be the point

right lads, we've all been there, shivering in the showers next to the locker room, hoping they don't hear you, trying to change clothes as fast as possible and upset that you can't wear your usual baggy clothes that hide as much of you as possible. Not that it'll stop them from [] but that's normal

#kitsune #puppygirl #handjob #furryart  This was inspired by an encounter with my long-time friend Chrome. He may be a hypnotist who's good with his words, but I'm an artist who's good with her hands. 🥰 Find more at the.choco.one

One of the things I most respect about Tomodachi Life is how it lets you create explicitly furry characters without even remotely abandoning the Mii aesthetic

they would

can we trend regional mikus again? whatchu think of midwest miku??

Genuinely considering the possibility that THIS is what ends his career

It's infuriating because it's not like we (trans people and Co) have ever been opposed to more research on trans healthcare and lives. of course we want that! Cass was right that there is not enough even if she ignored a lot of the positive stuff to make her pre determined conclusion work.

This is also the reason why torture in general (and not just conversion therapy, which is torture) is generally stupid and ineffective: all the pain does is make them tell you what you want to hear, not what's true, because their goal is to make the pain stop.

Trans folks literally--and I mean LITERALLY--had entire whisper networks and early online resources dedicated to WORKSHOPPING how to lie to doctors and researchers better in order to get the care gatekept from them by parsing what researchers wanted to hear (i.e., their dumb uninformed pet theories)

What a bizarre comparison considering the terf to Zionist pipeline.

Bluesky liberals are wrapping their heads in circles to try to justify their friends and website admins purging trans women in the midst of mass crackdowns on trans rights without sounding like a Nazi (they failed and they're still Nazis)

"But John Money-" John Money wasn't even a trans person.

Discord so desperate to stem the bleeding of Nitro cancellations they now have to convince other companies to offer free stuff (because Discord themselves can’t give enough of an offer alone). Don’t fall for it. Keep cancelling & stay unsubscribed. Xbox (Microsoft) also supports AI programs anyway.

Incidentally, this is WHY the research on trans youth is so tortured to begin with! Families had to validate cranks like John Money and Ken Zucker whereas adults had to validate and/or fuck Michael Bailey and Ray Blanchard in order to get even a whiff of care. And that research stayed published.