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Your neighborhood friendly(ish) bi grey-ace/aro atheist feminist super geek ARMY. She/They
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“Although this administration has now suspended issuing passports with accurate identity information moving forward, it’s important to emphasize that passports issued prior to the executive order remain valid.” – Paul Castillo, Lambda Legal Deputy Legal Director via @washingtonpost.com
What Trump’s executive order on gender means for passports
Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered a suspension of passport applications that use a gender-neutral marker or request a change in gender.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Colombia is calling Trump's bluff. This is how it's done. Good on president Petro!
Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors
January 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Grateful for @sharonzhang.bsky.social and @truthout.org's coverage:

"The success of the ceasefire is heavily dependent on compliance from Israel, whose leaders have been insistent throughout ceasefire negotiations that they be allowed to continue their assault"

truthout.org/articles/gaz...
Gaza Ceasefire Deal Announced After 466 Days of Genocide and 46,000 Dead
The deal is slated to begin on Sunday, Qatar’s prime minister said, beginning with a 6-week cessation of hostilities.
truthout.org
January 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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I see some people are demanding we watch the inauguration and I'm all, motherfucker, I didn't watch his first one and spent four years actively avoiding the sound of his voice, what makes you think I'm going to do any different this time around
January 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Banning TikTok is hugely advantageous to both Google and Meta. They've both already built competitors, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels. And while Congress and the Supreme Court cite data privacy and China wrt TikTok, Meta gave U.S. data to China before TikTok even existed
January 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Do me a kindness! Share this if you love and support your local library & librarians (and remember: that includes your school library & school librarian) 😊📚

Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚
January 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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I don't have a lot of respect for Aaron Sorkin, but I gotta hand it to him for his choice to depict Mark Zuckerberg in THE SOCIAL NETWORK as a misanthropic incel type whose driving motivation is misogynist resentment
January 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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It's amazing that DEI is something corporate consultants came up with to keep their clients from getting sued and now CEOs themselves are freaking out over how it's reverse racism, it's like if your mom was scared of the bogeyman
January 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The vibe shift here is so dramatic that the only thing keeping us from being at each other's throats is the nuclear block and the ability to detach quotes.
January 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
All my follows are from desperate people in Gaza who I would love to donate to ~OR~ they’re from OF sexbots who I would not like to donate to. It’s pretty bleak out here in my view 😔
January 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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look i made it the 1979 ibm warning
January 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I think about this A LOT
January 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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I was in this apartment four years ago today, & the Capitol was in the view of my house, & armed white supremacists roved the streets of our city targeting Black people, & the mayor put us under a curfew. And Trump flagrantly had a coup that was given no consequence to the point he's now president.
January 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This is an excellent read
Because I know how easy it is to divide us: I am a transgender woman. Jude’s essay, in which he saliently and explicitly outlines the ways in which cis “allies” use us as shields until we are to be discarded, is excellent and heartrending, and he is a better feminist than any TERF.
If I kept this in drafts until next week, I would just keep adding things until it grew to the size of the earth, so here it is: "Social constructs" and cis feminism's enduring failure to adequately reckon with transmasculinity: jude-doyle.ghost.io/terfs-trans-...
January 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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When you hear a former president is gone, but you find out his name was Jimmy, not Donald.
December 30, 2024 at 4:02 AM
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2024 saw inspiring wins for workers, from union drives to fair taxes to consumer protection.
10 Big Victories for Economic Equality in 2024
2024 saw inspiring wins for workers, from union drives to fair taxes to consumer protection.
truthout.org
December 29, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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Sixty-nine percent of respondents placed a "great deal or moderate amount" of blame on healthcare coverage denials by insurance companies like UnitedHealthcare, for Thompson's killing.

www.commondreams.org/news/united-...
Nearly 7 in 10 Americans Say Insurers' Greed Played Role in UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing | Common Dreams
The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson sparked public outrage over the for-profit health insurance industry's practices. A new poll shows majority blame insurers for Thompson's death.
www.commondreams.org
December 29, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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On Dec. 29, 1890, the US 7th Cavalry massacred more than 300 Lakota people at #WoundedKnee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. More than half of them were women & children.
(We're not going to distress their descendants by posting photos of relatives' bodies lying frozen in the snow.)
December 29, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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Grassroots atheists/nonbelievers/secular Americans are very disproportionately liberal to progressive. There’s plenty of sociological data on this. It’s sad that the most visible and platformed English-speaking atheists are not. Also queer Americans skew heavily secular for reasons that make sense
December 28, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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December 28, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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February 18, 2024 at 2:55 AM
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December 28, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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December 28, 2024 at 11:41 AM