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Bible college dropout. Amateur woodworker. Always fighting for trans people to get a fair shake. Director of Communications @hrc.org. Opinions mine. 🏳️‍⚧️

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apropos of nothing, New Mexico generally seems like a really chill place

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)@repstansbury.bsky.social

Whether in New Mexico or at the national level—as a proud member of the Equality Caucus—we are fighting every day to make sure every person can live as their true, joyful and authentic self, to pass the Equality Act, and to protect the rights and well-being of the LGBTQ+ community.

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Rafa Sales Ross
@rafiews.com

Replying to @rafiews.com

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.

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Every time I see this Last Week Tonight episode pop up I think of Henry (this is the one he was in), how much he had ahead of him, and how I wish he was still here in the fight with us now

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Mel Woods
@melwoods.me

Seeing a lot of fear-mongering on my timeline tonight from trans folks and allies outside of B.C. Yes, this result is what it is. But this is not a “stockpile your HRT now” situation. And I think suggesting people do that is uneccessary and actively harmful to people who actually live here.

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PC Gamer
@pcgamer.com

To honor one of the studios that defined PC gaming, we've republished more than 20 articles about BioWare today. The pcgamer.com homepage is dedicated to interviews, retrospectives, and making-ofs about some of the best RPGs of all time.

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Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

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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What R is going to James Carville for permission to do anything at all

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

James Carville on Republicans who are done with Trump: "It's okay to vote Democratic. You have permission to do it. It's the right vote right now.”

Laurel is on parental leave
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I can count at least four ways this skeet illustrates a profound lack of understanding of how the Senate works or where folks’ votes would be on this hypothetical bill Can you find a fifth?

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3) if Schumer is against it, it doesn’t move at all 4) you can’t just come up with a hypothetical pro trans bill and vision cast it. What is the bill? Who wrote it, does the equality caucus sign on, does it have a House companion? What committee is Warren on where she can move it through?

Laurel is on parental leave
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John Fetterman has been pro-trans from the jump and has gotten entirely too much shit from our community and if he ever turns on us, well, it’s not like we made it a difficult choice (I don’t think he will)

Laurel is on parental leave
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I can count at least four ways this skeet illustrates a profound lack of understanding of how the Senate works or where folks’ votes would be on this hypothetical bill Can you find a fifth?

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For those keeping score: 1) Fetterman would more likely than not be on the pro side of pro-trans legislation but none of you fuckers are ready to have an adult conversation about that 2) it would fail because it wouldn’t have 60 votes, not because four Dems would defect

Laurel is on parental leave
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I can count at least four ways this skeet illustrates a profound lack of understanding of how the Senate works or where folks’ votes would be on this hypothetical bill Can you find a fifth?

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Can’t stop the signal, Mal

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

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Bill Kristol Thought on Wokeism with Individual Responsibility Characteristics for a New Era

Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

Is it woke to be horrified by what happened at Cornell--and by the "boys will be boys" excuse-making of so many then and now? If so, perhaps we should all be a little more woke?

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Bill Kristol
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

Is it woke to be horrified by what happened at Cornell--and by the "boys will be boys" excuse-making of so many then and now? If so, perhaps we should all be a little more woke?

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forward brookyln

Jessy Edwards@jessyedwards.bsky.social

You probably assumed that the show must finally be over—Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn and her supporters would surely have to pack it in. You simpleton! Have you learned nothing from watching these guys in action? hellgatenyc.com/zombie-brook...

hellgatenyc.comDesperate to Cling to Power, Zombie Brooklyn Dems Resort to Sham, Late-Night Zoom Election“It’s a pretty flagrant move to just say, ‘Fuck this court, fuck these orders.’”
Laurel is on parental leave
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anybody have a line on the DC SBOE races? my ward has two people who are both policy- or policy-adjacent at think tanks and whose platforms are practically identical (and neither seems to want to take a holding-parents-accountable approach on truancy)

Laurel is on parental leave
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IMO he is lying about Obergefell simply to try and give Rs as soft a landing in the midterms as possible. We all know they’re gunning for it as soon as they can. Don’t believe him.

Marty Lederman@martylederman.bsky.social

Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."

cbsnews.comThe Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justiceJustice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.

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interACT Advocates
@interact.bsky.social

Dakota West was told by Kansas to give up her driver's license. She was born intersex and lived as a girl since childhood. Now, if she wanted to keep driving, she needed a license that said male. She's suing with the @aclu.org. “I’m just a girl trying to have a life like everybody else.”

washingtonpost.comTrans people, anguished by Kansas driver’s license law, go to courtPlaintiffs are expected to testify this week about the negative effects of carrying identification that doesn’t match how they look and feel.