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Political junkie, history, pop culture & science fiction geek. Left handed, cisgender, lesbian feminist, social justice activist & educator from Chicago.
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I am DONE being NICE to people who refer to trans folks with slurs EVEN if they didn't mean it. The GLAAD media resource guide exists. USE IT. glaad.org/reference/tr...
Glossary of Terms: Transgender | GLAAD
For additional tips on creating stories about transgender people, please see In Focus: Transgender People If you are seeking information about how to create transgender and nonbinary characters for fi...
glaad.org
February 11, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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Somehow, in the attention to Howard Lutnick's lies about Epstein and his general toadying, attention has drifted away from his buying a house in DC for $25 million. In cash. From ... Brett Baier of Trump state media, aka Fox.

(We walk past its gates frequently)

washingtonian.com/2024/12/20/b...
Bret Baier’s DC House Sells for Record $25 Million—in Cash - Washingtonian
Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary pick, buys the Foxhall estate as team Trump rolls into town.
washingtonian.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Again, we live in hell.
A year ago, we were on the cusp of turning many cancers into chronic rather than terminal diseases through immunotherapy and mRNA vaccines. Today, we're working through the curative qualities of a magical horse paste instead.
National Cancer Institute studying ivermectin’s ‘ability to kill cancer cells,’ alarming career scientists
The National Cancer Institute is studying ivermectin as a potential cancer treatment, according to its top official, alarming career scientists.
www.statnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Six Dem Gov. candidates in CA need to drop out NOW.
February 11, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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HUGE: Democrat Elizabeth Bennett-Parker wins the special election for Virginia Senate District 39, protecting the Commonwealth’s Democratic trifecta.

Congratulations, Senator-elect Bennett-Parker!
February 11, 2026 at 12:28 AM
It would have been nice if you had defended MY LGBTQ+ community on every issue but you decided not to in 2024 @kamalaharris.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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During the Japanese Internment, their property was confiscated by the government and/or sold for as little as 10% of their value to locals.

I just wonder what happens to immigrants' homes and other property when they're send to a camp and deported?
Has anyone read or seen anything ab out what's happening to all the property left behind by the immigrants ICE is snatching and deporting?
February 10, 2026 at 11:43 PM
What the fuck?????????? Pope Leo needs to intervene here NOW.
February 11, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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That's another thing. The TPUSA halftime thing was prerecorded. And they paid people to pose as audience members!
Yea it was heavily botted. Also it was prerecorded and kid rock didn’t perform until bad bunny was finished
February 10, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Threads is filled with MAGAt NAZI KKK Christofascists.
February 10, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Again, this Save America Act 2.0 cannot fucking pass into law.
The new voter suppression bill—called the "Save America Act"—would require 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates to register to vote.

Most don't have these documents. This is a poll tax by another name.

#StopTheSaveAct
Contact Your MOC
social.demcast.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:17 PM
I'm so fucking enraged at literally everything going on right now.
February 10, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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Bad news for Trump: These colors don’t run.
February 10, 2026 at 4:11 PM
The Richard Branson / Epstein connection.

Here Epstein is asking if he can bring two Russian girls to Brandon’s island. In 2013.

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
February 10, 2026 at 10:50 PM
This is a fucking lie
Lyons says ICE agents actually "took care" of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos when they detained him, before shipping him off to a horrific Texas ICE facility.

He says ICE officers "comforted him" as they chased his dad, put him in their car to play "his favorite music, then took him to McDonalds."
February 10, 2026 at 10:46 PM
This is the shit you continue to support @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social
A family was going to Disneyworld.
Now they are in a concentration camp.
D I S N E Y W O R L D.
February 10, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Fucking stop this unconstitutional shit @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
They're not stopping at your birth certificate. SAVE 2.0 would END online voter registration in, KILL mail-in registration, and STOP voter registration drives.

It's a full-scale attack on your right to vote.
Call your MoC (202) 224-3121 and tell them #StopTheSaveAct

social.demcast.com/s/TxRgzkPM
February 10, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Fuck you NBC.
NBC repeatedly misgendered trans Olympic skier Elis Lundholm - www.outsports.com/2026/2/10/24...
February 10, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Fucking criminal bullshit.
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.

That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
www.huffpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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Amber Glenn won Olympic gold on Sunday. That same day, she left social media because of death threats. Her offense: she'd told reporters the queer community is going through "a hard time." The headline called it "backlash." www.readtpa.com/p/the-thresh...
The Threshold
The right used to attack athletes who protested. Now they attack athletes who express feelings at all.
www.readtpa.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:17 PM
There are a million criminal fucks in positions of power in America who belong in prison for the rest of their lives. Most of them are right-wing assholes.
February 10, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Boycott Starbucks entirely.
Want to stand with the baristas fighting for a better future at the world's largest coffee company?

It's easy: Stop buying Starbucks and delete the app. ✊
Starbucks has scrapped a $250,000 limit on its CEO's use of the company jet for personal travel.

CEO Brian Niccol uses the jet to commute from his house California to corporate HQ in Seattle.

The company is lifting the cap while refusing thousands of baristas a union contract.
February 10, 2026 at 7:42 PM
These two North Korean defector sisters are the only ones who get to be excited about traveling to the USA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bXK...
February 10, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Stop using Segway's.
February 10, 2026 at 7:37 PM