Little lost demon, lurking in shadows
@jdstarflower.bsky.social
Xennial sapphic trans femme/them trying to find community in the digital wasteland.
Pinned
As someone once pointed out, if non-citizens aren’t afforded due process, _nobody_ gets due process.
All they’ll need to do is claim you aren’t a valid citizen and suddenly you have no due process to argue against that claim.
And they can do it to _anyone_ for any reason.
All they’ll need to do is claim you aren’t a valid citizen and suddenly you have no due process to argue against that claim.
And they can do it to _anyone_ for any reason.
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
I’m going to say this again. Our judicial system relies on the idea that EVERYONE is entitled to due process.
It doesn’t work if we ignore that.
It doesn’t work if we ignore that.
I don’t usually share TT links, but this one expresses a point that I feel is very important in a way that resonates with me.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DTBk98/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DTBk98/
Trans women experience transmisogynistic violence pre-transition and i’m tired of pretending otherwise #lgbt #trans #wlw #lgbtq #feminism
TikTok video by lily of the valley ⚢
www.tiktok.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I don’t usually share TT links, but this one expresses a point that I feel is very important in a way that resonates with me.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DTBk98/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DTBk98/
This is what allies do. Now what we need are accomplices.
60,000 cisgender women write powerful open letter in support of trans community: ‘We have had enough’
www.thepinknews.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.thepinknews.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
60,000 cisgender women write powerful open letter in support of trans community
“Not in our Name” is the title of a collective of cisgender women who have written an open letter calling out the media and politicians for promoting anti-trans rhetoric.
www.thepinknews.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This is what allies do. Now what we need are accomplices.
My parents brought me up on documentaries about the civil rights and women’s rights movements. I watched nightly news about the gay rights movement. It is now time to be part of and see the same activism for trans rights.
We are all equal and deserve to be treated as such.
We are all equal and deserve to be treated as such.
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
My parents brought me up on documentaries about the civil rights and women’s rights movements. I watched nightly news about the gay rights movement. It is now time to be part of and see the same activism for trans rights.
We are all equal and deserve to be treated as such.
We are all equal and deserve to be treated as such.
This is the cruel update that I’ve been expecting to drop since the SCOTUS decision. This will effectively limit the ability for trans individuals to travel internationally. It could well keep many people from being able to flee the country if they had previously been able.
1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports
The change comes after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration and lifted a temporary injunction.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
This is the cruel update that I’ve been expecting to drop since the SCOTUS decision. This will effectively limit the ability for trans individuals to travel internationally. It could well keep many people from being able to flee the country if they had previously been able.
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I got a COVID booster because I continue to see “healthy” people lose their health to COVID and don’t want to risk it happening to me
About 1 in 4 American adults got a covid vaccine shot during the 2024-25 virus season, a fraction health care experts warn could be smaller this year as millions wrestle with conflicting advice from the government and trusted medical orgs about the value of a shot. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I got a COVID booster because I continue to see “healthy” people lose their health to COVID and don’t want to risk it happening to me
This whole thread is a blazing condemnation of patriarchy.
And at some point our society needs to grow a pair and actually put its actions where its words are.
If we’re going to say that SA is a problem, we need to act to stop SA in all its forms.
And at some point our society needs to grow a pair and actually put its actions where its words are.
If we’re going to say that SA is a problem, we need to act to stop SA in all its forms.
This also tracks with my experience of street harassment and physical abuse.
An adult man -- a complete stranger -- photographed me playing on the swing set in the playground after school when I was younger than 10.
When I tried to run away, he started following me until I screamed for a teacher.
An adult man -- a complete stranger -- photographed me playing on the swing set in the playground after school when I was younger than 10.
When I tried to run away, he started following me until I screamed for a teacher.
I was talking with a friend my age not long ago about how she received the largest amount of male interest from older men when she was ~8 years old to around 19 or so.
At least a couple of them--from church, mind you--said she was "worth the risk with law enforcement". She wasn't safe at church.
At least a couple of them--from church, mind you--said she was "worth the risk with law enforcement". She wasn't safe at church.
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 AM
This whole thread is a blazing condemnation of patriarchy.
And at some point our society needs to grow a pair and actually put its actions where its words are.
If we’re going to say that SA is a problem, we need to act to stop SA in all its forms.
And at some point our society needs to grow a pair and actually put its actions where its words are.
If we’re going to say that SA is a problem, we need to act to stop SA in all its forms.
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What would be news is if the conversation actually changed.
If there were a groundswell of support for survivors of CSA and SA.
If men no longer felt comfortable casually sexualizing children and women.
If abusers were held accountable. Fired. Stopped.
If, for once, change seemed possible.
If there were a groundswell of support for survivors of CSA and SA.
If men no longer felt comfortable casually sexualizing children and women.
If abusers were held accountable. Fired. Stopped.
If, for once, change seemed possible.
November 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
What would be news is if the conversation actually changed.
If there were a groundswell of support for survivors of CSA and SA.
If men no longer felt comfortable casually sexualizing children and women.
If abusers were held accountable. Fired. Stopped.
If, for once, change seemed possible.
If there were a groundswell of support for survivors of CSA and SA.
If men no longer felt comfortable casually sexualizing children and women.
If abusers were held accountable. Fired. Stopped.
If, for once, change seemed possible.
The man did so much harm to this country by continuing and amplifying Nixon’s policies, but this was something he was unwilling to do. Makes one think about how far we have fallen as a society.
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The man did so much harm to this country by continuing and amplifying Nixon’s policies, but this was something he was unwilling to do. Makes one think about how far we have fallen as a society.
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I cannot wrap my head around how cruel and destructive this is.
This is what comes of years of rhetoric demonizing and blaming the unhoused on the part of politicians (including big city Democrats) instead of seeing them as neighbors who need help
This is what comes of years of rhetoric demonizing and blaming the unhoused on the part of politicians (including big city Democrats) instead of seeing them as neighbors who need help
This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I cannot wrap my head around how cruel and destructive this is.
This is what comes of years of rhetoric demonizing and blaming the unhoused on the part of politicians (including big city Democrats) instead of seeing them as neighbors who need help
This is what comes of years of rhetoric demonizing and blaming the unhoused on the part of politicians (including big city Democrats) instead of seeing them as neighbors who need help
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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This is why Republicans hate public schools.
fascism can't work in an educated society.
November 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
This is why Republicans hate public schools.
These people should be held accountable for their stochastic terorrism. What they do should be considered a hate crime. And I am hopeful that someday it will be…
I just dont really think it’s going to win my lifetime.
I just dont really think it’s going to win my lifetime.
12 far-right influencers targeting the LGBTQ+ community
www.out.com/news/ant...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.out.com/news/ant...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
12 far-right influencers targeting the LGBTQ+ community
These right-wing extremists have targeted Pride events, DEI programs, and drag queens.
www.out.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
These people should be held accountable for their stochastic terorrism. What they do should be considered a hate crime. And I am hopeful that someday it will be…
I just dont really think it’s going to win my lifetime.
I just dont really think it’s going to win my lifetime.
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listen, with US journalism falling off a cliff i’ve seen multiple people touting the BBC for doing good “actual journalism”
and I need you to know they’ve been horribly transphobic and damaging to trans people for YEARS
and they’re about to get even worse
they are not the answer!
and I need you to know they’ve been horribly transphobic and damaging to trans people for YEARS
and they’re about to get even worse
they are not the answer!
The absolute gall of this. Trans people have been loudly decrying the blatant institutionalized transphobia being pumped out of the BBC offices FOR YEARS, and some staff made up bullshit "memo" sends the entire organization crashing within a week because they aren't transphobic ENOUGH.
“It reflected a “cultural problem across the BBC” which treats issues of gender and sexuality as ‘a celebration of British diversity’ rather than a complex and contentious subject.”
Just a second - what exactly is contentious about sexuality and gender identity?
Just a second - what exactly is contentious about sexuality and gender identity?
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
listen, with US journalism falling off a cliff i’ve seen multiple people touting the BBC for doing good “actual journalism”
and I need you to know they’ve been horribly transphobic and damaging to trans people for YEARS
and they’re about to get even worse
they are not the answer!
and I need you to know they’ve been horribly transphobic and damaging to trans people for YEARS
and they’re about to get even worse
they are not the answer!
This is one of the prime examples of older media that handled trans characters better than modern media.
Other good examples include S5E15 of The Love Boat (1982), S4E3 of The Jeffersons (1977), and the multiple appearances of the character Beverly LaSalle on All In The Family (1975-1977).
Other good examples include S5E15 of The Love Boat (1982), S4E3 of The Jeffersons (1977), and the multiple appearances of the character Beverly LaSalle on All In The Family (1975-1977).
Joanca is the only trans woman in animated media I've personally seen that is overtly transgender and not in a transmisognistic caricature way, but rather a humanizing way.
from 40 years ago btw.
from 40 years ago btw.
November 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
This is one of the prime examples of older media that handled trans characters better than modern media.
Other good examples include S5E15 of The Love Boat (1982), S4E3 of The Jeffersons (1977), and the multiple appearances of the character Beverly LaSalle on All In The Family (1975-1977).
Other good examples include S5E15 of The Love Boat (1982), S4E3 of The Jeffersons (1977), and the multiple appearances of the character Beverly LaSalle on All In The Family (1975-1977).
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these Senators should resign today.
@schumer.senate.gov
@senjackyrosen.govpeeps.us
@fetterman.senate.gov
@hassan.senate.gov
@senangusking.bsky.social
@durbin.senate.gov
@shaheen.senate.gov
@cortezmasto.senate.gov
@kaine.senate.gov
@schumer.senate.gov
@senjackyrosen.govpeeps.us
@fetterman.senate.gov
@hassan.senate.gov
@senangusking.bsky.social
@durbin.senate.gov
@shaheen.senate.gov
@cortezmasto.senate.gov
@kaine.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
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Expel the yes votes from the party and cut off all their access to fundraising, then remove Schumer from leadership. Anything less is mealy-mouthed coward bullshit.
As this vote moves to the House, I stand with Democratic leadership as they refuse to rubber stamp the full-scale Republican assault on Americans’ health care and I am proud of the majority of Senate Democrats who opposed this vote.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Expel the yes votes from the party and cut off all their access to fundraising, then remove Schumer from leadership. Anything less is mealy-mouthed coward bullshit.
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"We have to agree to cancel midterm elections because people need paychecks."
"We have to agree to the camps because people don't have paychecks."
And if that's where we are, the political process is already a lost battle.
That's why Democrats caving is bad.
"We have to agree to the camps because people don't have paychecks."
And if that's where we are, the political process is already a lost battle.
That's why Democrats caving is bad.
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"We have to agree to cancel midterm elections because people need paychecks."
"We have to agree to the camps because people don't have paychecks."
And if that's where we are, the political process is already a lost battle.
That's why Democrats caving is bad.
"We have to agree to the camps because people don't have paychecks."
And if that's where we are, the political process is already a lost battle.
That's why Democrats caving is bad.
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The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer
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We can't vote Schumer out until 2028 but we can make him being the senate majority leader a litmus test for 2026 candidates. Every single Dem senate candidate should be forced to go on the record and state they will not vote for him as majority leader.
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
We can't vote Schumer out until 2028 but we can make him being the senate majority leader a litmus test for 2026 candidates. Every single Dem senate candidate should be forced to go on the record and state they will not vote for him as majority leader.
Dear @fetterman.senate.gov
I know you aren’t up for reelection, so you don’t care what your constituents think, but you have decided to throw the entire country under the bus to make yourself look like some kind of peacemaker.
And it failed.
This isn’t a win.
This is unconditional surrender.
🤦♀️😡😢
I know you aren’t up for reelection, so you don’t care what your constituents think, but you have decided to throw the entire country under the bus to make yourself look like some kind of peacemaker.
And it failed.
This isn’t a win.
This is unconditional surrender.
🤦♀️😡😢
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Dear @fetterman.senate.gov
I know you aren’t up for reelection, so you don’t care what your constituents think, but you have decided to throw the entire country under the bus to make yourself look like some kind of peacemaker.
And it failed.
This isn’t a win.
This is unconditional surrender.
🤦♀️😡😢
I know you aren’t up for reelection, so you don’t care what your constituents think, but you have decided to throw the entire country under the bus to make yourself look like some kind of peacemaker.
And it failed.
This isn’t a win.
This is unconditional surrender.
🤦♀️😡😢
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It’s been five years since I last made an AMV, but I felt inspired.
Nimona // What it Sounds Like
youtu.be/XaDiOq7Zg70
Nimona // What it Sounds Like
youtu.be/XaDiOq7Zg70
Nimona // What it Sounds Like
YouTube video by Break Room of Geeks
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
It’s been five years since I last made an AMV, but I felt inspired.
Nimona // What it Sounds Like
youtu.be/XaDiOq7Zg70
Nimona // What it Sounds Like
youtu.be/XaDiOq7Zg70
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We joke about the Torment Nexus and all that, but...
The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us.
"Fear is the mind killer"
"Fear is a path to the Dark Side"
etc.
Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.
The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us.
"Fear is the mind killer"
"Fear is a path to the Dark Side"
etc.
Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.
November 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
We joke about the Torment Nexus and all that, but...
The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us.
"Fear is the mind killer"
"Fear is a path to the Dark Side"
etc.
Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.
The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us.
"Fear is the mind killer"
"Fear is a path to the Dark Side"
etc.
Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.
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Gay marriage has been legal for almost TEN YEARS, and the world hasn't ended. People never tried to marry animals or ban straight marriage. Aside from "it makes me feel icky" or "My Religion says it's gross" (First Amendment means freedom FROM religion too ), there is no argument to overturn.
November 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Gay marriage has been legal for almost TEN YEARS, and the world hasn't ended. People never tried to marry animals or ban straight marriage. Aside from "it makes me feel icky" or "My Religion says it's gross" (First Amendment means freedom FROM religion too ), there is no argument to overturn.