Kate 🦻🤷🏼♀️✨
@forthefatlady.bsky.social
disabled & queer / trans rights are human rights / our struggles are intertwined / end-stage capitalism hater
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If you read an amazing article from Teen Vogue about politics in the last several years, chances are that Lex McMenamin wrote it. Any publication that is serious about meeting this moment would be lucky to have them.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
If you read an amazing article from Teen Vogue about politics in the last several years, chances are that Lex McMenamin wrote it. Any publication that is serious about meeting this moment would be lucky to have them.
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Especially when during the Ghomeshi trial, the fact that the victims spoke to each other before the trial was considered collusion! Meanwhile, men on the same hockey team who shared the same night texting this is somehow a non-issue.
How a judge could see evidence of that text “ We’ve got to get our stories straight” and not conclude nefariousness, I can’t even! 🤦♂️🤨
July 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Especially when during the Ghomeshi trial, the fact that the victims spoke to each other before the trial was considered collusion! Meanwhile, men on the same hockey team who shared the same night texting this is somehow a non-issue.
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Here's my quick advice on refuting garbage today:
July 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Here's my quick advice on refuting garbage today:
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“The practical effect of the EHRC's guidance is intended to force those who want to be kind to the trans community to be unkind to the trans community, which is a bizarre thing for a government department to want to do” says Jo Maugham @goodlawproject.org
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
Everything you need to know about Britain’s attack on trans rights
According to new EHRC guidance, trans people should be banned from using toilets and changing rooms corresponding to their gender. We speak to experts about what this means in practice
www.dazeddigital.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
“The practical effect of the EHRC's guidance is intended to force those who want to be kind to the trans community to be unkind to the trans community, which is a bizarre thing for a government department to want to do” says Jo Maugham @goodlawproject.org
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
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The things people want in order to have kids are things the left would like to give them and the right would like to burn down. Healthy environment, social safety net, stable access to non-bankrupting medical care, thriving society, not killing the planet, stuff like that.
April 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The things people want in order to have kids are things the left would like to give them and the right would like to burn down. Healthy environment, social safety net, stable access to non-bankrupting medical care, thriving society, not killing the planet, stuff like that.
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yeah, weird that the left wasn’t present at the Fourteen Words conference
does anyone have a cannon pointed at the sun I can borrow? need to shoot myself into the sun with a cannon
April 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
yeah, weird that the left wasn’t present at the Fourteen Words conference
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She has broken ZERO LAWS and she is now imprisoned because she wrote an op-ed.
NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...
April 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
She has broken ZERO LAWS and she is now imprisoned because she wrote an op-ed.
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“I think this is the first time a Cdn poli has crossed that line to officially say they want to interfere to control research topics. It could be a very terrible time for us.” Sound familiar?
In Cdn election, Poilievre vows to end ’woke ideology’ in science funding www.science.org/content/arti...
In Cdn election, Poilievre vows to end ’woke ideology’ in science funding www.science.org/content/arti...
In Canadian election, top Conservative candidate vows to end ’woke ideology’ in science funding
Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party is trying to topple Liberal government in 28 April election
www.science.org
April 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“I think this is the first time a Cdn poli has crossed that line to officially say they want to interfere to control research topics. It could be a very terrible time for us.” Sound familiar?
In Cdn election, Poilievre vows to end ’woke ideology’ in science funding www.science.org/content/arti...
In Cdn election, Poilievre vows to end ’woke ideology’ in science funding www.science.org/content/arti...
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A Florida high school teacher has been fired for using a student's chosen name instead of their deadname, a first under a 2023 law signed by Ron DeSantis. “She is a beloved teacher that changed her students’ lives” said one parent leading a petition with 7,400 signatures demanding her reinstatement
Florida teacher loses job for calling student by preferred name
It’s the first known dismissal stemming from the conservative campaign to limit schools' recognition of transgender identity.
wapo.st
April 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
A Florida high school teacher has been fired for using a student's chosen name instead of their deadname, a first under a 2023 law signed by Ron DeSantis. “She is a beloved teacher that changed her students’ lives” said one parent leading a petition with 7,400 signatures demanding her reinstatement
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This is CHILLING, the secretary of the Interior is saying we don't need to worry about extinction anymore! Just call Colossal! They made dire wolves so they can take care of the wolf, or bear or whatever! Go get your trophies, we can clone more!
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump team cites wolf ‘de-extinction’ as reason to cut endangered species list
The interior secretary hailed a biotech company’s claim to have brought back the dire wolf, while the administration and GOP push to roll back species protections.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is CHILLING, the secretary of the Interior is saying we don't need to worry about extinction anymore! Just call Colossal! They made dire wolves so they can take care of the wolf, or bear or whatever! Go get your trophies, we can clone more!
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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This a gobsmacking list of data types, and I say that as someone who's followed the DOGE's work closely.
The DOGE is an existential threat to privacy as against the federal government (and beyond).
The DOGE is an existential threat to privacy as against the federal government (and beyond).
The government knows an enormous amount about you in the data systems DOGE has sought to access.
Just for starters:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
Just for starters:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
April 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This a gobsmacking list of data types, and I say that as someone who's followed the DOGE's work closely.
The DOGE is an existential threat to privacy as against the federal government (and beyond).
The DOGE is an existential threat to privacy as against the federal government (and beyond).
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The number of American adults in the labour force with a disability since Covid
April 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The number of American adults in the labour force with a disability since Covid
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What a rich text
April 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
What a rich text
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Also love seeing drag queens front and centre at the Junos
March 31, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Also love seeing drag queens front and centre at the Junos
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dude u guys are about to get creamed. just fucking YOLO it to the left bro lol we already have a liberal party
Today, I announced a middle class tax cut.
The NDP’s tax cut will save families over $1,450 a year by cutting taxes and permanently removing GST from daily essentials.
The ultra-rich have Liberals and Conservatives looking out for them — I’m in it for you.
The NDP’s tax cut will save families over $1,450 a year by cutting taxes and permanently removing GST from daily essentials.
The ultra-rich have Liberals and Conservatives looking out for them — I’m in it for you.
March 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
dude u guys are about to get creamed. just fucking YOLO it to the left bro lol we already have a liberal party
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Sorry. I lied. Here it is.
People in the comments were right: the administration is taking advantage of Hegseth's security violation to take the first giant step down the road to ensuring we never have free or fair elections again
People in the comments were right: the administration is taking advantage of Hegseth's security violation to take the first giant step down the road to ensuring we never have free or fair elections again
Moments ago, Donald Trump signed a massive voter suppression executive order. This will not stand. We will sue.
March 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Sorry. I lied. Here it is.
People in the comments were right: the administration is taking advantage of Hegseth's security violation to take the first giant step down the road to ensuring we never have free or fair elections again
People in the comments were right: the administration is taking advantage of Hegseth's security violation to take the first giant step down the road to ensuring we never have free or fair elections again
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AND THERE IT IS FOLKS
(Not a "this is an unimportant" distraction, a "quick do something shocking and horrific and genuinely dangerous" distraction)
(Not a "this is an unimportant" distraction, a "quick do something shocking and horrific and genuinely dangerous" distraction)
March 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
AND THERE IT IS FOLKS
(Not a "this is an unimportant" distraction, a "quick do something shocking and horrific and genuinely dangerous" distraction)
(Not a "this is an unimportant" distraction, a "quick do something shocking and horrific and genuinely dangerous" distraction)
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Unlike Mahmoud Khalil, she wasn’t even a leader or heavily involved in the protest movement! She just attended some of them.
So yeah, the US government is seeking to deport a person here on a green card since she was a child because she went to a protest. Joe McCarthy would be proud.
So yeah, the US government is seeking to deport a person here on a green card since she was a child because she went to a protest. Joe McCarthy would be proud.
This is the latest person decreed by Marco Rubio to be a foreign policy threat and thus now subject to deportation:
March 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Unlike Mahmoud Khalil, she wasn’t even a leader or heavily involved in the protest movement! She just attended some of them.
So yeah, the US government is seeking to deport a person here on a green card since she was a child because she went to a protest. Joe McCarthy would be proud.
So yeah, the US government is seeking to deport a person here on a green card since she was a child because she went to a protest. Joe McCarthy would be proud.
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"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."
March 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."
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This is so fucking bleak.
Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Israeli settlers and detained by the army
Israeli settlers have beaten up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary film “No Other Land."
apnews.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This is so fucking bleak.
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In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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Wow. Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum officially recognizes Palestine as a state. Here she welcomes Palestinian ambassador Nadya Rasheed.
Sheinbaum is Jewish, supports Palestinian self-determination, & unapologetically condemns Netanyahu's attacks on Gaza.
Historic & inspiring leadership. ❤️✊🏽
Sheinbaum is Jewish, supports Palestinian self-determination, & unapologetically condemns Netanyahu's attacks on Gaza.
Historic & inspiring leadership. ❤️✊🏽
March 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Wow. Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum officially recognizes Palestine as a state. Here she welcomes Palestinian ambassador Nadya Rasheed.
Sheinbaum is Jewish, supports Palestinian self-determination, & unapologetically condemns Netanyahu's attacks on Gaza.
Historic & inspiring leadership. ❤️✊🏽
Sheinbaum is Jewish, supports Palestinian self-determination, & unapologetically condemns Netanyahu's attacks on Gaza.
Historic & inspiring leadership. ❤️✊🏽