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Cmon Man
Cmon Man
@grahamgallagher.bsky.social
Monstrous and reviled, Floridian, PhD, ex-academic, synthpop enjoyer, single issue voter It’s genuinely politically hopeless for a long time, sorry!
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There are some people who claim "oh, Dems in blue states will never shift towards enacting anti-trans policy" Meanwhile Colorado is literally enacting a medical detransition protocol for trans youth on medicaid.
Rather than cover the cost of gender affirming care for trans youth under medicaid, Colorado is voluntarily enacting the republican "taper and detransition" policy for youth on medicaid and dropping coverage. WTF.
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His takeaway is so weird. Gavin Newsom was progressive on trans issues because it was politically advantageous as Mayor of San Francisco. He's retreating because it's politically disadvantageous now. The story is that Newsom is untrustworthy not that he's some political genius.
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I intend to stand on this principle, that trans people are humans entitled to full equality, that we did nothing wrong, and that the rollback of our rights was unjustified and unjustifiable, come hell or high water. It could be years. It could be decades. I'm not budging.
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Small note: Josh Turek's wording in this ad is the same language the GOP uses to include puberty blockers & hormones. This ad isn't just him agreeing with Marjorie Taylor Greene and Dan Crenshaw's bills to ban Medicare for youth trans health, it's him saying the bills didn't go far enough.
Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.
Turek has to lose
Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.
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This post in particular is really telling. It's saying - don't expect Democrats to simply right the wrongs. What Republicans take away in 4 years you must expect to spend 20 years to restore, fighting Democrats the whole way.
Actually, positive change is slow, difficult and incremental by nature. Destroying is fast, building is slow. It is easy to bring misery to people - any idiot can do it, as Trump shows - but very hard to improve their conditions. Building a better society is slow, careful, patient work.
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I consider myself very fortunate because I disguised my humanities dissertation as a social science dissertation, and they gave me a doctorate for it 
Humanities dissertations have fallen by 49 percent since 2015, compared with a drop of 4.5 percent in the social sciences, according to a new analysis of nearly 445,000 dissertations in these two fields over 65 years. Explore the data: https://chroni.cl/4yxUZ4S
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The DCCC funding this means that the Democratic party itself, not individual politicians, is endorsing anti-trans policies as an electoral talking point
In a major escalation in Dems embracing anti-trans positions, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the official campaign arm of House Democrats, released its first anti-trans ad supporting Nancy Lacore in SC-01. Transphobia is spreading among dems. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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In a major escalation in Dems embracing anti-trans positions, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the official campaign arm of House Democrats, released its first anti-trans ad supporting Nancy Lacore in SC-01. Transphobia is spreading among dems. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Democrats are evil, man
In a major escalation in Dems embracing anti-trans positions, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the official campaign arm of House Democrats, released its first anti-trans ad supporting Nancy Lacore in SC-01. Transphobia is spreading among dems. Subscribe to support our journalism.
This movie is so goofy - I love it so much. MR James is also a favorite of mine
***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Now available on Blu-ray in the UK from @indicator.bsky.social in the UK to celebrate their 10th Anniversary: #NightOfTheDemon (1957)! NOTE: This two-disc Tenth Anniversary Limited Edition contains identical disc and book content to the original 2018 Limited Edition of the film.
I give thanks to god for this small miracle and relief to incarcerated trans people
BREAKING: SCOTUS rejects Trump admin's request to allow it to end gender-affirming medical care in prisons — a significant, if tentative, rejection of one of the admin's most extreme anti-trans arguments. Only Thomas and Alito noted they would have granted the stay. More to come: www.lawdork.com
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Getting into retro gaming consoles, and collecting vinyl doesn’t seem as stupid as it used to does it huh?
'the price of the [Xbox] Helix console has internally been projected to cost consumers between $1,200 and $1,800, unless Microsoft decides to subsidize the cost' -Game Pass planning major overhaul (a la carte) -next-gen handheld by 2027 holidays, console 2028 holidays fortune.com/2026/10/20/t...
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Of course I want an expanded welfare state, but if we’re telling ourselves that that’s the one-shot kill to Transatlantic fascism and pretending it isn’t primarily a question of civic morality we’re just setting ourselves up to do this all over again in five or ten years’ time
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