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We, internationally, need to do exactly what the Brazilians did and lead by example with: 1) Block all far right figures/accounts 2) Never share a far right account even to dunk on them 3) Never reply to a far right account even to dunk on them Completely cut their algorithmic advantage

Open anti-trans hatred among the Democratic Party has dramatically escalated this campaign season. Too many queer and trans gentry are excusing it. @davidforbes.bsky.social goes in-depth on how we got here, and why trans communities must reject compromise and fight for our survival and liberation.

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Raccoons are charming & adorable. However, for their safety & ours it’s important to leave them alone. If you see one in distress please contact a licensed wildlife rehabber. Also avoid handling their poop! (There’s an article going around about a guy & his raccoon “pet.” 🙄) #mammals 🌿

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Polymarket got the Brazilian election completely wrong. The glorified gambling platform had Flavio Bolsonaro's odds at over 80% all the way up to the day voting took place. Lula ended up with 51.8% of the vote. futurism.com/future-socie...

There's no pretense left. J. K. Rowling made her hate for trans women clear in a slur-filled screed slurring them a dozen times and describing them as deceitful and dangerous. So writes @evanurquhart.bsky.social this morning on Assigned Media. *WARNING: Article quotes Rowling's hateful language.*

This is big news. Ending the puberty-blocker ban in New Zealand is massive. It puts Cass & the entirety of Labour’s flagship anti-trans policies in doubt. Yet no mainstream media platform has even mentioned it. Indeed most alternative media, like @bylinetimes.bsky.social have failed to mention it.

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

Meet the billionaires spending millions to defeat California’s Proposition 40, aka the billionaire tax. A cadre of billionaires and tech elites, including Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt, is bankrolling the opposition to Proposition 40. lapublicpress.org/2026/10/la-c...

happy 25th pikmin! literally changed my life🌸

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

A story of the trans community's resilience and expanding cultural relevance, even as our lives are threatened by the fascist political movement that made us enemy #1. Don't miss this, from @c-cauterucci.bsky.social, on @slate.com slate.com/life/2026/10...

Especially if you are American, voting alone won't save you. You don't have a left wing party. The Democrats are making anti trans ads. Erika Hilton, a black trans woman, is the most voted congresswoman in Brazil and this is a video of Lula kissing her on the cheek.

Are you looking for a virtual phone banking opportunity for the US election? Advocates for Trans Equality is organizing phone banks to connect with voters in states with anti-trans ballot measures on the ballot, including Amendment 3 here in MO- an abortion ban also targeting care for trans youth

The "protection" narrative promoted by Trump and far-right groups like Heritage is a dangerous fallacy. Trump's DOE has abandoned sexual assault investigations under Title IX. It has set rules that effectively put the survivors of rape on trial and that favor the men accused of victimizing them.

People abroad don't understand the level of interference Meta & bots had in these elections. 5 days before the election a far-right politician posted a fake news video that got 157 MILLION views on Instagram in 24hs. For reference, GTA 6's reveal trailer got 90 million views on YouTube in 24hs.

A wrong lesson to take from the Brazilian elections is that voting can defeat fascism. That's not true at all. Democracy is an incredibly frail system and the US almost took over the country through it. ORGANIZED PEOPLE DEFEATED FASCISM

Everyone with a shred of objectivity already knows this to be obviously true, but it's still good to have data supporting the fact that transphobes are just bog-standard misogynist bigots, and the attempts to frame transphobia as some kind of feminist virtue are insultingly transparent.

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Lula Goes HARD

I think artists and sex workers should have a natural allyship. Both of us are often told we should not be allowed to charge for our work if it is at all pleasurable. Both of us are wanted for what we can do, but our work is considered not worth paying for. We should stick together

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

a lotta this stuff is kinda just this alex norris comic over and over

did yall forget theres a boycott on the nyt. did yall forget the continuous queerphobia in all branches of the military, and that many of the claims of queerness in the military are basically just taking homophobic injokes literally. did yall forget all the people who the military murders constantly

i will be honest the weird amount of sudden praise for the navy and marines from a bunch of trans people for allowing a handful of trans soldiers to keep doing imperialism that im seeing on this site is deeply uncomfortable, especially seeing people praise a meme about a pro-trans nazi as "based"

Outta my sight, scrub

If anyone's having issues at the polls and is trans, our editor in chief is very interested in hearing from you. Email: artemis.douglas<at>theneedlenews<dot>com OR signal: adrhetoric.52

I'm glad they are reversing this but let's be clear, blocking Onlyfans and Fanaly was not a bug (the images in this post even say as much) - I looked at the source code, someone deliberately added those urls as blocked domains. Do not believe the Bluesky team is anything but malicious.

That's unfortunate. I think a lot of people have broadened their definition of what dysphoria can be like though. I've had to accept that you can be trans and not have typical dysphoria at all, just the euphoria part can be enough. Being trans doesn't have to be defined by pain

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we should all be pissed off at this btw. if not because sex work is legitimate work and should be treated with respect, then because you should be concerned at attempts to gentrify online spaces as pretext to court investors and force out minorities so those spaces can become part of a portfolio.

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