Kimberly Power-DeFer
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Software Engineer, Geek, Transwoman, Liberal
Software Engineer, Geek, Transwoman, Liberal
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This post by Musk is a direct threat against trans, queer and all things DEI. He really does plan to make us disappear. That is genocide. If he is not stopped, we could make Hitler look like the lesser evil
The dead child/family member phrasing is very common in anti-trans groups, but this is an extreme elevation of that rhetoric, coupled with a direct threat of death against all queer people.
![Elon Musk tweet: Exactly. My son, [deadname redacted], died. He was killed by the woke mind virus. Now, the woke mind virus will die.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wpdti66qcvzywaum55sucghw/bafkreibb7hyb2albsyzcvyqlnj4crrvstplhoivpfnsjsbsi3ddydjw6gu@jpeg)
March 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This post by Musk is a direct threat against trans, queer and all things DEI. He really does plan to make us disappear. That is genocide. If he is not stopped, we could make Hitler look like the lesser evil
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lol. The team has already removed this image from the announcement.
THAT NEW CHESAPEAKE OYSTER CATCHERS LOGO MY GOODNESS
March 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
lol. The team has already removed this image from the announcement.
So now they are trying to erase NGOs as well as government agencies. WTF?
USIP owns their building. DOGE is vandalizing a building the federal government DOES NOT OWN.
After breaking into the US Institute of Peace (USIP) Monday, DOGE members immediately got to work taking down signs to erase the independent agency.
Photos taken yesterday shared directly with me:
Photos taken yesterday shared directly with me:
March 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
So now they are trying to erase NGOs as well as government agencies. WTF?
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It’s really not all that wild - they’ve been pushing this unitary executive theory bullshit since the beginning of the campaign.
You know, when they were pretending Project 2025 wasn’t real?
You know, when they were pretending Project 2025 wasn’t real?
FRIGGIN' WILD: In email obtained by TPM, White House claims that the Appointments Clause of the US constitution conflicts with Trump's "inherent authority" ...
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Makes Aggressive New Claim of Executive Power To Circumvent The Senate talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Makes Aggressive New Claim of Executive Power To Circumvent The Senate talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Makes Aggressive New Claim of Executive Power To Circumvent The Senate
The Trump White House has taken its attempt to seize direct control...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
It’s really not all that wild - they’ve been pushing this unitary executive theory bullshit since the beginning of the campaign.
You know, when they were pretending Project 2025 wasn’t real?
You know, when they were pretending Project 2025 wasn’t real?
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Republicans are working hard to pretend Trump inherited a bad economy.
He was handed an economy that analysts thought had no chance of recession and was expected to grow by 2.5%
We will need lots of visuals like this. They are destroying a good economy
He was handed an economy that analysts thought had no chance of recession and was expected to grow by 2.5%
We will need lots of visuals like this. They are destroying a good economy
March 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Republicans are working hard to pretend Trump inherited a bad economy.
He was handed an economy that analysts thought had no chance of recession and was expected to grow by 2.5%
We will need lots of visuals like this. They are destroying a good economy
He was handed an economy that analysts thought had no chance of recession and was expected to grow by 2.5%
We will need lots of visuals like this. They are destroying a good economy
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I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
Vet found hanging draped in trans flag
The suicide letter they won't publish
zerodoesntsleep.substack.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
They are too slow to realize what is happening and still think that the sort of political grandstanding that would have cowed other administrations will still work. Trump doesn’t care what you or your constituents think. You needed to stop him before he got elected.
Our congressional delegation pursuing oversight on reports of Elon Musk’s illegal activity at USAID was just barred from entering the building on the orders of Musk and the Trump Administration.
Nobody elected Musk — this is illegal and corrupt and we will keep fighting it.
Nobody elected Musk — this is illegal and corrupt and we will keep fighting it.
Members of Congress with @beyer.house.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov now seeking entry at USAID
February 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
They are too slow to realize what is happening and still think that the sort of political grandstanding that would have cowed other administrations will still work. Trump doesn’t care what you or your constituents think. You needed to stop him before he got elected.
This would be the you can’t be transgender in public ban. It would effectively turn all transgender people into criminals unless they stay home. This is by design.
1. The EEOC acting chair, Andrea Lucas, has announced that a private business transgender bathroom ban is her top priority.
This comes in the wake of a slew of anti-trans executive orders.
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This comes in the wake of a slew of anti-trans executive orders.
Latest from Mira Lazine.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/eeoc-chair...
EEOC Chair Announces Transgender Bathroom Ban in Private Businesses "A Priority"
The new chair states that her top priority is the targeting of transgender people in the workplace.
www.erininthemorning.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:22 AM
This would be the you can’t be transgender in public ban. It would effectively turn all transgender people into criminals unless they stay home. This is by design.
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Pretty sure this violates 60 years of aggregated regulations that cannot be simply wiped out by presidential fiat.
A case in point
January 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Pretty sure this violates 60 years of aggregated regulations that cannot be simply wiped out by presidential fiat.
Straight up firing everyone in the tainted division then asking the rest to rat in each other or risk being fired, is straight from the Nazi/KGB playbooks.
1/It goes beyond what happened at DHS & NASA today.
CIA employees were told all resource & affinity groups are canceled. No black history month or MLK celebration, or any other ethnic recognition months. DEI folks are to be fired rather than allowed to rotate back to former offices.
CIA employees were told all resource & affinity groups are canceled. No black history month or MLK celebration, or any other ethnic recognition months. DEI folks are to be fired rather than allowed to rotate back to former offices.
The Trump administration urged government employees to inform on each other and their departments in order to root out any attempts to hide diversity programs reut.rs/40IZlbJ
January 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Straight up firing everyone in the tainted division then asking the rest to rat in each other or risk being fired, is straight from the Nazi/KGB playbooks.
This Executive Order will erase transgender and intersex people. It is the first step in getting rid of us. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
This Executive Order will erase transgender and intersex people. It is the first step in getting rid of us. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
This is how you lose a democracy
CBS is considering "offer[ing] concessions to win approval" of a merger by ***paying the President off*** in a baseless lawsuit he filed.
How do you lose the rule of law? Gradually, then suddenly.
Not a drill.
How do you lose the rule of law? Gradually, then suddenly.
Not a drill.
Holy cow. Executives at CBS’s parent company have discussed settling Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News/60 Minutes, because they need the Trump administration to sign off on a planned corporate merger. www.wsj.com/business/med...
January 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This is how you lose a democracy
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'How did this happen?' asks The Times, which has run thousands of pieces inciting hatred of trans people.
January 16, 2025 at 6:23 AM
'How did this happen?' asks The Times, which has run thousands of pieces inciting hatred of trans people.
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I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
www.vulture.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
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Incredible reporting and writing from Lila, who is a treasure of American journalism 🔥
I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
www.vulture.com
January 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Incredible reporting and writing from Lila, who is a treasure of American journalism 🔥
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During the Holocaust, the Nazis and their collaborators paid bounties for every Jew they turned in.
academic.oup.com/ehr/article-...
academic.oup.com/ehr/article-...
The Missouri GOP is proposing SB 72, which includes a "certified bounty hunter program" to pay private citizens to track down undocumented immigrants.
It also mandates involuntary DNA collection and the creation of anonymous tiplines with paid rewards per arrest.
www.senate.mo.gov/25info/pdf-b...
It also mandates involuntary DNA collection and the creation of anonymous tiplines with paid rewards per arrest.
www.senate.mo.gov/25info/pdf-b...
January 7, 2025 at 6:13 AM
During the Holocaust, the Nazis and their collaborators paid bounties for every Jew they turned in.
academic.oup.com/ehr/article-...
academic.oup.com/ehr/article-...
Of course they are doing that. That is the whole usefulness of bitcoin. To evade our financial systems nd the controls in them
But, of course, it is.
Russia says it's using bitcoin to evade sanctions and sidestep traditional restrictions imposed by governments and institutions. www.axios.com/2024/12/25/r...
Russia says it's using bitcoin to evade sanctions and sidestep traditional restrictions imposed by governments and institutions. www.axios.com/2024/12/25/r...
Russia says it's using bitcoin to evade sanctions
The Kremlin recently passed a new crypto framework that allows international payments in crypto.
www.axios.com
December 26, 2024 at 10:31 AM
Of course they are doing that. That is the whole usefulness of bitcoin. To evade our financial systems nd the controls in them
The only plus side is she has been an Attorney General. Thing is she is a right wing loon that will do whatever Trump wants. She is a true believer.
NEW: Trump announces former Florida AG Pam Bondi as his new pick for Attorney General of the United States
November 22, 2024 at 1:05 AM
The only plus side is she has been an Attorney General. Thing is she is a right wing loon that will do whatever Trump wants. She is a true believer.
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This…this is it. In a nutshell, yes.
November 21, 2024 at 12:47 PM
This…this is it. In a nutshell, yes.
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to all the commenters saying "bigots don't read" or "won't read" this, I didn't fucking write this to convince bigots! I wrote it for the countless trans-unaware ppl who are constantly bombarded with these anti-trans talking points to convince *them* that this is a moral panic & not based in reality
this essay is full of actual research showing trans women pose no threat to cis women in restrooms & other sex-segregated spaces. if you encounter any cis ppl discussing/debating the Mace/McBride/congressional restroom fuckery, pls share this link with them:
juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-...
juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-...
Transgender People, Bathrooms, and Sexual Predators: What the Data Say
Content Warning: while I will not be describing any actual instances of sexual violence or child sexual abuse, these issues (and false…
juliaserano.medium.com
November 21, 2024 at 5:51 PM
to all the commenters saying "bigots don't read" or "won't read" this, I didn't fucking write this to convince bigots! I wrote it for the countless trans-unaware ppl who are constantly bombarded with these anti-trans talking points to convince *them* that this is a moral panic & not based in reality
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H5N1 shows the 1918 flu's PB2 E627K mutation and D190E, which shifts the virus to human receptors.
These mutations increase human infection risk, and with recent mammalian outbreaks, raise concerns about potential human-to-human spread.
These mutations increase human infection risk, and with recent mammalian outbreaks, raise concerns about potential human-to-human spread.
November 20, 2024 at 4:41 AM
H5N1 shows the 1918 flu's PB2 E627K mutation and D190E, which shifts the virus to human receptors.
These mutations increase human infection risk, and with recent mammalian outbreaks, raise concerns about potential human-to-human spread.
These mutations increase human infection risk, and with recent mammalian outbreaks, raise concerns about potential human-to-human spread.