Madison Carstens, a transgender woman from Seattle, was attacked by six men in a transphobic hate crime on Sept 2. She suffered a ruptured eardrum - that may have permanently damaged her hearing - and a severe concussion that will keep her out of work for weeks or months. Do your thing, fam. (1/2)

I am at the bizarre nexus of being relatively optimistic that we can defeat this particular set of fascists and pessimistic that we can prevent fascism from coming right back in a slightly different form

The lessons of Carpe Jugulum are that every generation must kill its vampires.

Those medical alliances that are forming... sure would be nice if they included more than vaccine stuff & also included trans care...

ned is exactly right. the challenge is reconnecting the democratic party to a mass constituency and building real affinity between voters and the party. it would be more worthwhole to put $10 million into piloting democratic clubs and associated newspapers bsky.app/profile/resn...

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

puritans try to make it seem like you're perverted and gross for consuming or creating nsfw content, but that's just healthy. behind closed doors they're the same if not worse as in shown many times, that internalized guilt from religious trauma or whatever wont go away like this

pornography bans and censorships make no sense to me bc sexuality is quite literally part of being human.. suppressing that part or acting like it's gross is never going to be good, we've already been there, not even for teens who go through a lot of hormonal changes and should safely learn about it

It's about power and control

“Why do we descend into fascism” “Why don’t we ever understand the escalations” You reward assholes who are terrible about actual Black people long as they are stochastic terrorists And it’s terrible and you’ve never repaired it

I hope this revelation about Disney adult influencers standing against fascism boosts their public reputation cause I know several Disney adults and they’re all really good people who just like whimsy and wonder and fun and don’t deserve the negativity thrown at them.

Absolutely fucking crazy that a mascot is going harder for the lgtbq community than actual people in power I am forced to stan a legend

How I look getting ready to make a new tabletop character knowing damn well it's gonna be another chaotic good tiefling girl with a criminal background

Fuck a bluesky blackout, we need a whiteout. Cum everywhere, a week of moderators being unable to escape The Cum.

I don't know who made this but I feel it keenly.

Overwatch when Mercy had a good ultimate and people were too stupid to Kill The Healer First

semantics arguing about whether Trump can designate a “domestic group” as “terrorists” When Joe Biden got elected, he issued a new initiative that would declare environmental activists, anti-fascists, etc as “domestic violent extremists.” Symbols such as “ACAB” as used to “ID extremists”

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When Hulk Hogan died, this place was a straight up rave. Significantly harsher posts about it across the board. No problem! What in the world makes this situation any different? Grotesque double standards being applied. Shame on @moderation.bsky.app

Woah, Slate is gonna catch a ban for stating such self-evident truths...

Super weird that the guy who was Practicing Politics The Right Way somehow magically seems to have a following so racist against Black people that him getting shot by a white person in the whitest state in USA results in 7 Black universities receiving terror threats. What's this got to do with us?!

ATTN FELLOW CANADIANS: An actual MP has created a petition to stop financial discrimination against adult creators by payment processors. You have to confirm your email but thats because its something that can actually be shown to parliament.

I think, at the bare minimum, DC should: 1. Publicly apologize to Gretchen Felker-Martin. 2. Release completed issues of Red Hood. This is the absolute least they need to do to even start making things right.

So @dc.com pulled Red Hood from digital storefronts but you can still buy all of Sandman. The lesson here is that DC doesn't care if you sexually assault women, but don't you dare make fun of a dead fascist.

Banks: We will not let you have smut about furries or fairies or whatever you sick sick sick sickos Also banks: Oh hello Mr. International Pedophile how can we move your money today?

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Love when my political movement requires me to renounce maybe the most beloved novel in American history

"Ending Dictator Rule" needs to be one of the key/essential components of any demand Dems must assert in their messaging to Republicans re #NoBlankChecks when funding the Trump regime. @joshtpm.bsky.social Playing small ball around ACA subsidies won't cut it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/on-sh...

A Democratic messaging firm ("Navigator Research") tied to the establishment has sent out a memo on govt shutdown fight around DC this am. They want the Democrats/progressives to focus on "bipartisanship" and focus no pissing of Republicans by talking about "stopping Trump." 🙃

The Democrats every time the country breaks at a fundamental level more irrevocably.

I'm gonna use this blatant example of someone purchasing adult goods being banned to springboard and say: Now, more importantly than ever, if you are an NSFW creator using any payment provider for invoicing, you must be CAUTIOUS to NOT INCLUDE ANY TERMS that would single you out as an NSFW artist.

let’s also remember that this same court is in the process of playing games with birthright citizenship and is likely to be quite happy to entertain the Trump administration’s arguments that proof of citizenship/legal residence doesn’t actually count

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9. This will not become law unless a version of this makes its way to the Senate bill, AND 7 Democrats cave over shutdown fights. Still, it is important that they hear from you now that this is a non-starter. Find your rep and senators here: www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

8. These are not the only provisions in the appropriations bill targeting transgender people. Another section stipulates that any educational institution receiving federal funding could lose it unless they ban trans women from athletic programs and activities.

7. The funding ban would cover all forms of care, including “social” or “psychological” interventions. That language sweeps far beyond medical treatment and could place adult psychological counseling directly in the crosshairs, along with any federally funded effort deemed “social” in nature.

6. Trump could wield the language as yet another weapon in his ongoing campaign of federal funding threats. Armed with this, his admin could pressure hospitals—as it has already done with youth gender care—by threatening to pull federal dollars unless they comply with sweeping anti-trans policies.

5. The provisions would immediately strip Medicaid and Medicare coverage for gender-affirming care if passed by both chambers of Congress and signed into law. But their impact could stretch far beyond that narrow reading.

4. This new language would prohibit federal dollars from being used for transgender healthcare at any age, extending even to “social, psychological, behavioral, or medical interventions.” Read broadly, the provision could shutter entire hospital programs serving trans patients.

3. The measure, described by some as an anti-transgender “Hyde Amendment,” represents a dramatic expansion of a failed effort from earlier this year in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” his sweeping tax-and-spending package. www.erininthemorning.com/p/gop-drops-...

2. Today, Washington Bureau Chief Eric Michael Garcia at The Independent uncovered provisions in the newly released HHS approps bill that would bar federal funding for gender-affirming care nationwide. Our further analysis also shows a sports ban tied to funding and other provisions in the bill.

1. The HHS Appropriations Bill is out and it contains several devastating anti-trans provision. It would bar federal funding for trans youth and adult care nationwide, which could be used to bar hospitals from providing it at all. Will Democrats stand firm, or cave to avoid a shutdown?

Not to be all "ID BE AT BRUNCH RIGHT NOW" but i do miss those days when every act of the federal goverment didn't include "and try to kill you and your wife specifically" somewhere in the fine print.

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I picked up volume 1 of @mishacak3s.bsky.social's Eldritch Darling at RCCC this weekend and it is SO CUTE. As someone who also doesn't want her girlfriend to know she's an unknowable cosmic horror I found it very relatable.