Can bluesky please lemme opt out of the sport related tags on top of the discover tab?!? I like checking for trending topics but not when it's nearly all sports, bleh.

Extreme censorship in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's death.

What is "plenary authority" and why is it a big deal that Miller said that Trump has it over the national guard?

Every time I feel like I know a lot about the rise of fascism in Germany, I learn something new.

Can't wait for my passport so I can get out of this fucking awful country.

I'm trying to cut down on caffeine ☕☕☕ I'm down to just one mug! (Doesn't matter that this one mug can hold literally two full pot of coffee 🤤)

idk which branch of Christianity this is, but if there’s a pamphlet or something, you have my interest

Yay, passport application is finally done! Was more expensive than I realized but so happy that it is at least done. Now its just a waiting game seeing if my passport will come back with the right gender marker 🤞 Even if that doesn't happen, it's still a passport I could use to get out when I can 🩷

Urgent... In line at a passport appt and finding out that I don't have all the funds needed to cover all the fees for this thing 😫 any chance anyone could pitch in a Lil bit? venmo.com/code?user_id...

We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at. A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth. HAIRCUTS. This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.

@sanders.senate.gov Any chance I could contact someone in your crew working the event this Friday in Denver to request for an ASL interpreter? I'm also somewhat low vision so I'm hoping for a spot somewhat close to the interpreter to see them more clearly. Really hoping to go and support y'all soon!

Let kids be who they are.

Accessibility is anti-fascist. You can do a lot by literally just adding alt text.

Regrets, I've had a few...

When you say you think vaccines cause autism, what I hear is that you’d rather your kid be dead than be like me.

It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.

I hate it when "Supreme Court" is trending.

Things are coming apart quickly, so a word to white folk: you’re going to have to get used to property damage if you want to survive. Getting upset protesters set an empty Target on fire & making THAT & not police murder the focus is part of how we got here.

I know using alt-text for images isn't yet habit for a lot of refugees from Xitter. I get it. But ESPECIALLY when sharing anything related to political activism, please use it. Disabled people, including blind folks or those w/ low vision, are targets right now. They must be a part of your activism.

... as seen in #Pawtucket #RhodeIsland ...

The next person to ask a trans person, ‘what rights don’t you have’ right now? Try a social experiment. Punch their front teeth out, then ask them, ‘what teeth don’t you have?’ Then tell them ‘that’s your opinion’ and ignore them while you walk away. Because that’s the shit that got us here.

Just a reminder; I immediately unsubscribe from any YouTuber who says they’re excited for the Harry Potter show, and also give side eye to any creator who covers Harry Potter news who does not at least passingly mention JK Rowling’s bigotry.

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

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Holy... Yeeting a corgi out of a plane?!? That was what I thought I randomly stumbled upon! Lmao!

AP could have been cowardly and rolled over for Trump. “We had to comply or we’d lose [funding/access/privileges]” like so many orgs are doing. It would have been easy for them to say “gulf of America” But it never stops there. They got the memo. Good job AP.

When everyone else is rushing to comply with fascism...

“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

This is a stunning betrayal by Whitman Walker in DC. You CANNOT jettison the trans community to protect yourself. It’s shameful. I got my name changed at WWH. I have promoted their research. Now they are capitulating to save gay people at trans people’s expense by trying to erase us.

I want to know what the plan is, other than podiums and press conferences, because there HAS to be one.

The Democratic party, as well as ALL Americans, need to realize something: The American people will absolutely NOT tolerate this to happen. We have FAR surpassed the point of 'we'll get em in the next election.' We won't HAVE a next election if this continues.

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

We know the new administration is ignoring our laws. What do we do when they start ignoring our courts? We are unprepared for what is about to happen.

Realizing we could simply offer people on the streets unused housing, right now, at any time, and it literally costs more to punish them for poverty or disability than it would to house them remains one of the clearest examples I know of that capitalism is a scam for power by the prop owning class.

Well fuck... Struggling to sell stuff to raise funds so I can get to Canada and visit friends while I wait this shit out. I'm enlisting the help of another trans woman nearby to help sell my crap and whatnot. (If anybody's willing to help a gal out, my venmo is in my profile 🤞🤞🤞)

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

Just helping out.

Now more than ever.

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There are no police to stop a coup. There are plenty of police to stop those who would stop a coup.

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

Same feeling escaping Alabama a few years ago

Not good: Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt falsely declaring Democratic leaders are inciting violence and must be held accountable. We’ll see what the fascists actually do, but they’re laying foundation of permission for political arrests.

People need to start saying the word “concentration camp” They need to ask questions: “How long will they be held?” “What’s your plan to keep them safe and healthy?” “Can they appeal your decision to round them up this way?” We know the answers. But shout the questions so others can see

Can we stop saying “he can’t do that, it’s illegal!” The man was convicted of 34 felonies and then rewarded with a second Presidential term He’s pardoned people who were involved in a violent insurrection He doesn’t care about the rule of law. You put a criminal in charge, they commit more crimes

Some have been so numbed to the creep of power that they keep asking what if this turns violent. Friends, it is violent.

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing