Rebecca Kling
@rebeccakling.bsky.social
Transing it up.
Co-founder of Better World Collaborative - www.bwcollab.com
Co-author of The Advocate Educator's Handbook: Creating Schools Where Transgender and Non-Binary Students Thrive, available now www.theadvocateeducator.com
Co-founder of Better World Collaborative - www.bwcollab.com
Co-author of The Advocate Educator's Handbook: Creating Schools Where Transgender and Non-Binary Students Thrive, available now www.theadvocateeducator.com
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“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 7:31 PM
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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And this was interestingly unanimous— and not being that well reflected yet in the offerings from actual Dem politicians. Word to the wise
February 17, 2026 at 4:10 PM
And this was interestingly unanimous— and not being that well reflected yet in the offerings from actual Dem politicians. Word to the wise
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
February 17, 2026 at 11:41 AM
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
Black Mirror, Cyberpunk 2077, Upload (the TV show), Altered Carbon, and of course the sci-fi classic Don't Create The Torment Nexus.
There's ALWAYS a Black Mirror episode
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February 17, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Black Mirror, Cyberpunk 2077, Upload (the TV show), Altered Carbon, and of course the sci-fi classic Don't Create The Torment Nexus.
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Elon Musk is a monstrous hatemonger and if you're still merrily posting bullshit on X like it's a normal place I'm judging you.
The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.
February 17, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Elon Musk is a monstrous hatemonger and if you're still merrily posting bullshit on X like it's a normal place I'm judging you.
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I really think @julianastratton.bsky.social is the real deal in the IL senate race
🚨🚨🚨 I want to abolish ICE. Period. @rajaforil.bsky.social thanked ICE, funded ICE, and took money from an ICE contractor.
February 17, 2026 at 2:50 AM
I really think @julianastratton.bsky.social is the real deal in the IL senate race
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online arguments aren’t about convincing the other party. they’re about establishing a psychosexual dominance over them that will burden them every time they see your posts from that point forward.
The secret to engaging in social media debate is knowing you will never win anyone over. The best you can hope for is to have people who already agree with tell you you're awesome. You might great a dopamine thrill from the righteousness of your anger! Fine benefits, all. But you will never win.
February 16, 2026 at 11:49 PM
online arguments aren’t about convincing the other party. they’re about establishing a psychosexual dominance over them that will burden them every time they see your posts from that point forward.
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Foxtrot guy is the anti-Dilbert. He comes on here once a day to post a little cartoon he drew on a napkin, I have no idea about his personal life, his comic is generally funny and enjoyable,
February 17, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Foxtrot guy is the anti-Dilbert. He comes on here once a day to post a little cartoon he drew on a napkin, I have no idea about his personal life, his comic is generally funny and enjoyable,
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The drunk uncle theory.
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
agree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with
The secret to engaging in social media debate is knowing you will never win anyone over. The best you can hope for is to have people who already agree with tell you you're awesome. You might great a dopamine thrill from the righteousness of your anger! Fine benefits, all. But you will never win.
February 16, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The drunk uncle theory.
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
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“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.”
-NYT ethical guidelines
-NYT ethical guidelines
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 7:48 PM
“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.”
-NYT ethical guidelines
-NYT ethical guidelines
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If anyone wants an example of the kind of stuff I wish more Democrats would do when it comes to defending trans rights, look no further than this from @jayapal.house.gov
My Trans Bill of Rights protects the freedom for all trans people to live as their full, authentic selves. It’s time to get this passed!
February 16, 2026 at 9:16 PM
If anyone wants an example of the kind of stuff I wish more Democrats would do when it comes to defending trans rights, look no further than this from @jayapal.house.gov
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”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”
February 16, 2026 at 5:11 PM
”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”
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One reason Republicans are so laser targeted on trans kids existing, is that trans kids existing requires accepting the bodily autonomy and consent of children.
Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles.
Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent
Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles.
Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent
February 16, 2026 at 11:34 PM
One reason Republicans are so laser targeted on trans kids existing, is that trans kids existing requires accepting the bodily autonomy and consent of children.
Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles.
Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent
Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles.
Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent
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agree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with
The secret to engaging in social media debate is knowing you will never win anyone over. The best you can hope for is to have people who already agree with tell you you're awesome. You might great a dopamine thrill from the righteousness of your anger! Fine benefits, all. But you will never win.
February 16, 2026 at 11:33 PM
agree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with
This is such a low bar! And it’s part of what should be the broader Dem agenda:
1. Revert Trump’s anti-equality policies writ large, e.g. trans rights, labor, repro, immigration, etc
2. Commit to fighting against future erosion of those rights
3. Support legislation codifying those rights into law
1. Revert Trump’s anti-equality policies writ large, e.g. trans rights, labor, repro, immigration, etc
2. Commit to fighting against future erosion of those rights
3. Support legislation codifying those rights into law
Again, all I'm asking is that any Democrat who wants my vote support 1. Reverting Trump's anti-trans policies, 2. Commit to fighting against the future erosion of trans rights, and 3. Support legislation codifying trans rights into law.
Very weird how many of you centrists think that's unreasonable
Very weird how many of you centrists think that's unreasonable
February 16, 2026 at 7:51 PM
This is such a low bar! And it’s part of what should be the broader Dem agenda:
1. Revert Trump’s anti-equality policies writ large, e.g. trans rights, labor, repro, immigration, etc
2. Commit to fighting against future erosion of those rights
3. Support legislation codifying those rights into law
1. Revert Trump’s anti-equality policies writ large, e.g. trans rights, labor, repro, immigration, etc
2. Commit to fighting against future erosion of those rights
3. Support legislation codifying those rights into law
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If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
On this day in 1921, Congress reluctantly accepted a sculpture memorializing women’s 19th A victory. Congress relegated the memorial to the Capitol’s crypt & painted over the feminist inscription. The statue stayed entombed in the crypt for 76 years. The inscription is still not restored. #WeTheMen
February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
I look forward to seeing the Obama Presidential Center it in person, ‘cuz these photos are…not doin’ it for me. But I probably would have said the same thing about the National Museum of African American History and Culture in DC (the “Black Smithsonian”) and I’m now 100% in love with that building
February 16, 2026 at 7:40 PM
I look forward to seeing the Obama Presidential Center it in person, ‘cuz these photos are…not doin’ it for me. But I probably would have said the same thing about the National Museum of African American History and Culture in DC (the “Black Smithsonian”) and I’m now 100% in love with that building
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As if "correct natural trajectory" was a thing! The goal should be "healthy and comfortable in one's own skin" not whatever "natural" nonsense Cass is making up.
"if they socially transition too early we think they can get locked onto a trajectory that may not have been the correct natural trajectory for them"
Direct quote.
Direct quote.
February 16, 2026 at 5:16 PM
As if "correct natural trajectory" was a thing! The goal should be "healthy and comfortable in one's own skin" not whatever "natural" nonsense Cass is making up.
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The current book ban movement is, at its core, a movement to defund the public good.
The necessary bigotries were a feature of that, not a bug.
The necessary bigotries were a feature of that, not a bug.
“But Josh, aren’t schools and libraries secondary to the fight for democracy, not actually part of it?”
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State Dept. orders nonprofit libraries to stop processing passport applications
Pennsylvania Reps. Madeleine Dean and John Joyce have proposed bipartisan legislation that would allow nonprofit public libraries to continue to serve as passport acceptance.
whyy.org
February 14, 2026 at 5:58 PM
The current book ban movement is, at its core, a movement to defund the public good.
The necessary bigotries were a feature of that, not a bug.
The necessary bigotries were a feature of that, not a bug.
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if you, the artist, cannot tell me about the decisions you made when creating a piece of music, then you didnt make it
What do we think about the assertion in this meme? I know, we think it's asinine, but I'm looking for specific arguments as to why it's asinine.
February 16, 2026 at 5:05 PM
if you, the artist, cannot tell me about the decisions you made when creating a piece of music, then you didnt make it
I am going to hurl myself into the sea
Nancy Pelosi is retiring from Congress, but she has more campaigns in mind. Among them: Boost Gavin Newsom as a potential contender for the White House in 2028.
Pelosi's new campaign: Boost Newsom for 2028
Publicly and privately, Pelosi has been touting the California governor.
www.axios.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:41 AM
I am going to hurl myself into the sea
ICE is taking the rare ‘pro cancer’ position, I see
A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
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This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
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February 16, 2026 at 2:39 AM
ICE is taking the rare ‘pro cancer’ position, I see
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"What are you going to do, gerrymander back?"
-quote from man who got gerrymandered back
-quote from man who got gerrymandered back
February 16, 2026 at 2:20 AM
"What are you going to do, gerrymander back?"
-quote from man who got gerrymandered back
-quote from man who got gerrymandered back
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"I'm sad all the time and I don't know why" isn't a polling category and also doesn't sound serious, but "the economy is bad" does.
February 15, 2026 at 11:54 PM
"I'm sad all the time and I don't know why" isn't a polling category and also doesn't sound serious, but "the economy is bad" does.