Amber Briggle
@mrsbriggle.bsky.social
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I'm that mom from Texas suing Gov Abbott to
#ProtectTransKids
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 www.lovetothemax.net
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As I'm new to bluesky, I thought I'd post a few links to introduce myself and my family. A thread (is that what they're called on this app?):
about 1 year ago
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What a surprise to see my family mentioned here. Thank you,
@lgbtqnation.com
, for spotlighting these fearless parents in this inspiring article.
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Kristi Noem: “I don’t feel safe in my own home.” Also Kristi Noem: Made South Dakota so unsafe and unlivable for trans kids that they had to literally flee. Anyway, thoughts and prayers, Governor. Sending you the exact amount of empathy you gave them: zero. 🫶
4 months ago
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Greg Abbott: "Texans don't run away from a fight" Texans who ran away:
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Pretty rich for Paxton to spend years writing + defending policies meant to define trans inclusive families as "sinful" while his own family falls apart for "biblical reasons", then ask for "privacy" when he's repeatedly sought access to trans kids' medical files. Thoughts and prayers, buddy.
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PS- As if I'm not salty and petty enough, here is a playlist I created a while back to celebrate the absolute karmaaaaaa he keeps getting into. Enjoy the schadenfreude, babes. Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum.
open.spotify.com/playlist/1dh...
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5 months ago
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In 2016, Ken Paxton had the audacity to sit at my table and break bread with my family knowing full well that my son is trans, then SIX YEARS LATER wrote an opinion stating that families like mine shouldn't exist. Within days, a CPS investigator was in our home threatening to remove our children.🧵
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I'm obsessed with a single i heard on
@npr.org
today by an artist named
#EphSee
called "malachi the uber driver" and I can't find it on Spotify and its driving me crazy! The song and the story behind it are stuck in my head and im kind of obsessed. Where can I download and listen? Thanks!
6 months ago
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Kara Swisher
8 months ago
Perfection
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Susan McPherson
9 months ago
This deportation was planned as a political spectacle. The deportees were carefully chosen, as was the language used to describe them. Absolutely illegal! Via
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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The evil at your door
The deportation action as regime change
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-evil-at-your-door?r=opib
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Fred Wellman
9 months ago
It's not hard. This is unacceptable. They won't stop at him.
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GLAAD
9 months ago
This podcast episode left out facts about inclusion in sports. The truth is, young people learn many life lessons playing sports: leadership, confidence, self-respect, and the value of teamwork. No one should be denied the opportunity to play sports just because of who they are.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom faces backlash over comments he made about transgender student athletes
The California governor, once hailed as a protector of LGBTQ+ rights, premiered his podcast by interviewing and agreeing with far-right transphobe Charlie Kirk.
https://www.advocate.com/politics/gavin-newsom-abandons-transgender-athletes?fbclid=IwY2xjawI368BleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQ0L470H5LxTn66lrZV9l0BlmDGTgGCLwxJ29C8NpMQyrTbHayWW0aTcJA_aem_nx9Ki3oLS2wbFdNvLzIAZg
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Susan McPherson
10 months ago
Maybe he should stop trying to become a dictator and instead focus on what he said he was going to do!
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Molly Jong-Fast
10 months ago
Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here
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Congratulations,
@abriggle.bsky.social
❤️ This is more timely than ever and I'm proud of you. You're a great philosopher and an incredible dad.
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10 months ago
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Sophie Labelle
10 months ago
Now more than ever.
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idk. i'm a mom of a trans teen in texas and just feeling a little salty and bitter this morning. 🧵
10 months ago
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Aaron Rupar
10 months ago
Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
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My Texas town had a rally to support immigrants today and my local paper was there and anyway I fixed their caption. ✌️
10 months ago
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danah boyd
10 months ago
As the EOs and orders keep coming, I keep thinking of the exhibit in the Berlin Jewish Museum that displays the 962 anti-Jewish laws and policies in order as they came down. These kinds of drumbeats are designed not just to oppress but to normalize oppression.
www.jmberlin.de/en/jmb-journ...
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Assigned Media
10 months ago
Axios [Jan 31] -- Federal websites tracking health care information on HIV prevention and transgender care went dark this afternoon. Also gone was information on contraception and gender-based violence. [by
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
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HIV, transgender care and other federal websites go dark
Several CDC pages were taken down Friday afternoon. Some redirected users to other sections of the site.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/31/health-cdc-websites-data-removed-trump
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Judd Legum
11 months ago
This is grossly irresponsible reporting by the AP. What’s being offered is not a buyout. The deal is if you agree to resign in September you can continue working remotely until then. There is no buyout or severance.
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Erin Reed
11 months ago
1. Yesterday, Trump released a broad anti-trans executive order that could have extreme impacts on transgender people's lives if implemented. There has been much discussion of what it actually does. In my latest piece, I go line by line to explain it. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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A Line By Line Analysis Of Trump's Big Anti-Trans Executive Order
Trump released over 70 executive orders on Monday. While orders on immigration and climate got a lot of attention, his anti-transgender order could have sweeping impacts as well.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/a-line-by-line-analysis-of-trumps
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Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE)
11 months ago
We're prepared to defend our community from the wave of anti-trans attacks. This Wednesday, January 29th our legal and policy experts will explain how A4TE plans to fight back – and how you can join us. Sign up here:
action.transequality.org/a/a4te_vs_tr...
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Want some good news at the end of a very long week? Our short doc Love To The Max has been acquired by
@newyorker.com
and nominated for a
@glaad.bsky.social
Media Award! Trans kids won't be erased, no matter what Trump says. 💪🏳️⚧️ Watch it now at
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
11 months ago
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Erin Reed
11 months ago
I'm seeing a few reports of this, but I can't confirm this is widespread. I have been told a separate passport office is no longer processing changes, but new apps will go by your BC and renewals by your current info. There's a lot of confusion out there on passports and no real answer yet.
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Incredibly grateful for the work that
@glaad.bsky.social
does. This might be a baby step in the bigger march towards lasting change, but it is forward progress nevertheless and they should be proud.
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11 months ago
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Susan McPherson
11 months ago
Diversity and inclusion has never started a fire, but profound ignorance of climate change and a refusal to fund the government’s ability to address it certainly have. Truth from
@lizplank.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/lizplank...
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No, Lesbians and Black People Having Jobs Didn’t Start the Fires
Basic fact-checking has entered the chat.
https://open.substack.com/pub/lizplank/p/no-lesbians-and-black-people-having?r=opib&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Rachel Maddow
11 months ago
"This is an effort to invalidate votes, even though there is no indication that they’re fraudulent or that voters would have known they could be problematic..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Analysis | The gravity of a GOP election challenge in N.C.: ‘Invites incredible mischief’
Why the North Carolina Supreme Court allowing the case to proceed two months after the election is so extraordinary.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/08/gop-election-challenge-north-carolina/
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Riki Wilchins
11 months ago
The 19th [Jan 8] -- Great in-depth explainer on possible/pending federal actions against trans ppl. Sen. Dems can filibuster anti-trans bills but as w/ NDAA may be hard if attached to budget bills, and R's can still try to enacted some thru Presidential Exec. Orders [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social]
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The 19th Explains: Can trans rights survive in a Republican-controlled Congress?
Here’s what trans people should know about how a new Congress, and the first days of Trump’s presidency, could shape their lives.
https://19thnews.org/2025/01/trump-congress-transgender-bills/
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Molly Jong-Fast
11 months ago
Stay focused on protecting norms and institutions and not on the “gulf of America.”
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I think this says just as much about Texas as it does about Meta.
11 months ago
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Casey Newton
11 months ago
I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide"
www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
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Erin Reed
11 months ago
If you work at Meta and support LGBTQ+ people no you don't.
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Assigned Media
12 months ago
MOTHER JONES [Dec 31] ACLU's Chase Strangio selected Hero of 2024 for involvement in every major trans case of past decade: Gavin Grim, Chelsea Manning, NCar bathroom ban, Trump military ban, Harris Funeral Homes (added GI&E to 1964 Civil Rights Act) & now Skrmetti. [by
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Hero of 2024: Chase Strangio. What more can I say?
From my life as a closeted teen to being a trans reporter, Strangio’s bravery has made me braver.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/hero-chase-strangio-what-more-can-i-say/
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Maggie Smith
12 months ago
Lucille Clifton, always.
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Evan Urquhart
12 months ago
The most senseless thing of all is that we're doing things we know with 100 percent certainty cause harm to these kids because some people suspect the current treatments might in certain cases be harmful to some of them.
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Judd Legum
12 months ago
The art of the deal: 1. Make wild demands 2. Get nothing 3. Declare victory
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Chris Hayes
12 months ago
The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
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Erin Reed
12 months ago
In 2024, several New Hampshire Democrats, afraid that anti-trans attacks would work, voted in favor of a trans surgery ban and bathroom bill. They lost more seats than most other states. Now the R majority is ramping up targeting us. Capitulation didn't work. National Dems, take note.
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Roxane Gay
12 months ago
It really is bizarre how fixated people, and journalists in particular, are on trans kids and their healthcare.
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Molly Jong-Fast
12 months ago
Oh this is both bad and also bad
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8 years ago today my family was invited to the Obama White House where we met
@markhamillofficial.bsky.social
. He posed with my son (who is trans) in a WH that fought for his rights. It feels like a lifetime ago and I'm worried that the next administration will try to erase this. Be the resistance!
12 months ago
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Susan McPherson
12 months ago
and more.... "he (Trump) said he was pursuing legal action against “60 Minutes” for what he said was a misquote. "We have to straighten out the press. The press is very corrupt. Almost as corrupt as our elections.”
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Parker Molloy
12 months ago
This is why ABC News' capitulation is dangerous for journalism
www.readtpa.com/p/abc-news-j...
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I finally watched Die Hard for the first time last night. Verdict: it is *obviously* a Christmas movie. I will not be taking questions at this time.
12 months ago
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Sarah Kate Ellis
12 months ago
Here are the LGBTQ records of President-elect Donald Trump's nominees for his Cabinet and key positions in his second administration ⤵️
glaad.org/trumps-nomin...
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Trump’s Nominees on the Record on LGBTQ Issues | GLAAD
President-elect Donald Trump and his team are swiftly revealing important Cabinet, White House, and other key nominations for his second term. Trump's LGBTQ record is documented on the GLAAD Accountab...
https://glaad.org/trumps-nominees/
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Adam Serwer
12 months ago
Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.
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With all the bullshit that trans kids have had to endure lately, wouldn't it be amazing if this documentary ended up on the Oscars shortlist? Please repost and tag anyone you know who might be Hollywood-adjacent to get this on their radar! It's available to watch in the Academy Screening Room now!
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Our beautiful, powerful short doc "Love To The Max" is about my trans-inclusive family fighting to stay together in the face of persecution -- and is now available in the Academy Screening Room! Who do you know in the Doc branch of AMPAS? Help us get this film on the Oscar shortlist!
@newyorker.com
about 1 year ago
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