Natalie Colleen Gates
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Trans. Liberal. Democratic voter. Artist. Big Tolkien fan. Writer of stuff. Rideshare driver.
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Katelyn Burns
1 day ago
Very much not the point but listing sex at birth on a document meant to identify you right now is utterly useless from a security standpoint. but of course this is about cruelty and forced outing of queer private lives.
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@GottaLaff
1 day ago
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Julian Sanchez
1 day ago
They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.
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Gillian Branstetter
1 day ago
They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.
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Human Rights Campaign
2 days ago
The President is listed thousands of times in the Epstein files — but instead he’s focused on bullying trans youth.
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jamelle
2 days ago
democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly
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Senator Mark Warner
2 days ago
Walked out of the State of the Union because I couldn’t sit through hours of Trump’s lies. Americans know the truth: he’s spiking prices and wrecking our economy. We’re a better country than this.
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Joanne Freeman
2 days ago
Now we move on to the anti-Trans portion of the speech.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen
2 days ago
Things Mike Johnson hasn't called "detestable": - DOJ covering up the Epstein files - Stripping millions of Americans of their health insurance - Trump’s masked ICE agents killing people on our streets So, forgive us if we don't give a damn. See you on the Mall at 8.
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Johnson calls it "detestable" that some Democrats are boycotting Trump's State of the Union
"We play for one team," House Speaker Mike Johnson told "CBS Evening News" anchor Tony Dokoupil ahead of the State of the Union. "We're all for America."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-johnson-interview-cbs-evening-news-state-of-the-union/
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So the post office can just refuse to deliver something I paid them to deliver and I have no recourse?
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Billie Jean Sweeney
3 days ago
The 1st time the nyt leadership engaged me on trans issues, in 2021, they asked my opinion of a Jesse Singal review of a book by the transphobic writer Helen Joyce. The piece had been assigned by Pamela Paul đź§µ
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It's ME(Jaime)
3 days ago
HHS could eliminate the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPTF) or delegitimize the body like it did with CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This would lead to "an existential threat to clinical practice", insiders warn đź§Ş
www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/...
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RFK Jr. May Eliminate the USPSTF, Original Task Force Members Warn
Dismantling the task force would be 'an existential threat to clinical practice,' they said
https://www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/preventivecare/120005
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Parker Molloy
5 days ago
Yeah, that line stuck out to me, too. Like... right there, the paper is editorializing and framing this as if trans people aren't actually a thing. Just people who "identify as transgender."
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Alejandra Caraballo
4 days ago
Roughly 1,700 trans people in Kansas are going to have their driver's licenses and birth certificates revoked this week.
apnews.com/article/tran...
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New law puts Kansas at vanguard of denying trans identities on drivers licenses, birth certificates
Kansas is set to invalidate about 1,700 driver's licenses held by transgender residents and roughly as many of their birth certificates.
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-rights-drivers-licenses-birth-certificates-bathrooms-3048b856b81d24553efd9da4aaa94bc7
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Alejandra Caraballo
5 days ago
You can explain a lot of the shift towards blatant transphobia by the centrist political class from them remaining on Twitter after Elon bought it. It's one of his singular missions to destroy the trans community to get back at his daughter Vivian.
nymag.com/intelligence...
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X Really Is Pulling Users to the Right
Elites may not be as immune to this kind of algorithmic radicalization as they think.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/x-really-is-pulling-users-to-the-right.html
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Black Aziz Anansi
5 days ago
Oh
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John Collins
5 days ago
This one hits hard.
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Tasha Monroe
6 days ago
There’s a reason we say listen to Black voices. Malynda explains it well. So if you come into my comments trying to bait me, my SILENCE is my whole response to you.
@malyndahale.bsky.social
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Alejandra Caraballo
6 days ago
The rules are pretty simple, Trump can do whatever he wants to minorities, immigrants, his political enemies etc. but he can't fuck with the money.
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Mueller, She Wrote
6 days ago
But placing him above the law by granting immunity and letting him wiggle out of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment is totally cool.
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Casey Stegman
6 days ago
The Supreme Court:
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
8 days ago
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My exciting day in the parking deck
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Adventures in owning a vehicle
Fun with EV charging and batteries
https://open.substack.com/pub/nataliecolleengates/p/adventures-in-owning-a-vehicle?r=2hz6os&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Robert Reich
8 days ago
The Trump regime deported a 2-month-old baby and his family after the infant was hospitalized following their detention at the Dilley family detention center. Rep. Joaquin Castro says the family was shipped off with only the money in their commissary — $190. The cruelty is endless.
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Evan Urquhart
9 days ago
This would be less scary if science journalists hadn't completely abandoned science in favor of right wing propaganda on youth trans care already.
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jamelle
9 days ago
ah greg, you need to understand that this is just the work of an energetic executive! as john roberts so patiently explained to us, the president needs to be able to dirext the activities of the DOJ to preserve executive authority and separation of powers!
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Joaquin Castro
9 days ago
After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.
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Ronan Farrow
15 days ago
(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
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Sean Sublette
10 days ago
Sample headline: "Gutting NCAR will make your insurance premiums cost more. Here's how:"
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Buttadeus
10 days ago
yeah I mean - I don't believe leftists abstaining had any significant impact on the 2024 election.
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George
10 days ago
Implementing this idea would quickly help fix the problem.
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Mark Copelovitch
11 days ago
👇🎯 People’s hate of Will here have driven them to InS(t)an(cil)ity You don’t have to like everything about Biden or his policies, or agree w/ everything Will says, to acknowledge the basic direction-of-the-sunrise fact that Biden was the most progressive POTUS in decades:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Evan Urquhart
12 days ago
When I see angry posts about Democrats' record on trans issues I can't just let them go by. I don't see it as my job to defend them, and I have a lot of problems with how they're meeting the moment, but on trans issues the support really DID NOT collapse the way many expected it to.
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Hopefully better than my last post, a little hope at the end.
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A few concerning quotes, MAGA can't win
Hopefully this will be better than my last post, but I don’t have much time; I have a long day of driving ahead of me.
https://open.substack.com/pub/nataliecolleengates/p/a-few-concerning-quotes-maga-cant?r=2hz6os&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Wajahat Ali
13 days ago
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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In victory for Democrats, Virginia Supreme Court says redistricting vote can go forward
Voters will get to decide on a proposed “10-1” map that could deliver four more Democratic seats in Congress.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/in-victory-for-democrats-virginia-supreme-court-says-redistricting-vote-can-go-forward/
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
13 days ago
We have now entered the "His Opponents Are Afraid of Falling Out of Windows" stage of Donald Trump's emulation of Vladmir Putin.
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Mark Histed
14 days ago
In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
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BWJones
14 days ago
If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees. This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
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Oliver Willis
15 days ago
We can’t tolerate another cycle of Democrats turning the page on these guys. We did it with Bush, Reagan, Bush II, Nixon and Trump I. Stop turning the page and throw the goddamned book. Lock them up.
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Frenemy of the People
18 days ago
“Candidate A supports 90% of what I believe in. Candidate B only supports 10% of what I belive in. Therefore, both candidates fail to support 100% of what I believe in and I will not vote for either.” And that’s how we got here.
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Senator Tim Kaine
17 days ago
Trump has promised that his new TrumpRx website will cut drug costs. Beware: this site does NOT include information about whether a drug has a cheaper generic alternative and you WILL have to pay fully out of pocket. Shop around to make sure you're actually getting a deal.
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onion person
17 days ago
the primary reason rightwingers will never control culture is because everything they do is hinged upon it being a reaction to the broader culture. the TPUSA half time event would not exist without it being a representation of their grievences
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Trump administration efforts to control the elections, and escape through history podcasts
Over the past couple weeks, the administration has seized ballots in Georgia and voting machines in Puerto Rico.
https://open.substack.com/pub/nataliecolleengates/p/trump-administration-efforts-to-control?r=2hz6os&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Andy Craig
18 days ago
If you were to run down a list of all the things distinctive about the United States in contrast to Old World Europe, most of it is stuff we instead have in common with Latin America. That's not some woke novelty, it's a deeply embedded centuries-old aspect of our culture and national identity.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
18 days ago
so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration
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Greg Sargent
19 days ago
People are mad at
@samuelmoyn.bsky.social
but this is a good piece from him and
@ryandoerfler.bsky.social
on need to accept that SCOTUS has become functionally illegitimate. Key point is legitimacy does require the public to think the court operates in good faith:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn
We need to remake the US high court so Americans don’t suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/19/us-supreme-court-legitimacy
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Parker Molloy
19 days ago
This photo is funnier than it has any business being
people.com/hairdresser-...
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kate
22 days ago
I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane
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