Tina McKim
@sticksandwheels.bsky.social
Birchwood Food Desert Fighter, disabled semi-hermit, artist,writer, snacker and abolitionist.
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Queer lives are not a threat, censorship is 🔥🔥🔥
Check out @fightforthefuture.org for easy peasy ways to speak out against bad internet bills like KOSA!
Check out @fightforthefuture.org for easy peasy ways to speak out against bad internet bills like KOSA!
@warren.senate.gov just co-sponsored KOSA again 🤦🏽♀️
You CANNOT claim to be an ally to the LGTBQ community and support this awful bill. Your office blatantly ignored our Boston coalitions pleas, so let’s see how you feel about those phones being melted. CALL HER!
You CANNOT claim to be an ally to the LGTBQ community and support this awful bill. Your office blatantly ignored our Boston coalitions pleas, so let’s see how you feel about those phones being melted. CALL HER!
This Trans Day of Remembrance we’re holding the memory of countless trans lives lost to bigotry and hatred, and fighting like hell to preserve trans lives still with us today!
Trans people deserve to be seen + celebrated, not erased. Trans people deserve real allyship, not censorship.
STOP KOSA
Trans people deserve to be seen + celebrated, not erased. Trans people deserve real allyship, not censorship.
STOP KOSA
December 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Queer lives are not a threat, censorship is 🔥🔥🔥
Check out @fightforthefuture.org for easy peasy ways to speak out against bad internet bills like KOSA!
Check out @fightforthefuture.org for easy peasy ways to speak out against bad internet bills like KOSA!
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Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages flip.it/suFsPa
Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages
16 cases are linked to a church, which followed exposures at four schools last week.
flip.it
December 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages flip.it/suFsPa
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The disabled were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis because they knew people wouldn’t fight for us.
They knew that most people see the disabled as an expendable, so it’s easy to commit atrocities against us.
They called us “useless eaters” and threw us away
They knew that most people see the disabled as an expendable, so it’s easy to commit atrocities against us.
They called us “useless eaters” and threw us away
December 10, 2025 at 4:39 AM
The disabled were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis because they knew people wouldn’t fight for us.
They knew that most people see the disabled as an expendable, so it’s easy to commit atrocities against us.
They called us “useless eaters” and threw us away
They knew that most people see the disabled as an expendable, so it’s easy to commit atrocities against us.
They called us “useless eaters” and threw us away
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The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.
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This is incredible.
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
December 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This is incredible.
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If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
December 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
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"The group rallied amid frigid conditions at the Target store on East Lake Street, alleging it allowed agents to stage raids in the parking lot.
'You cannot celebrate our communities on your commercials while letting ICE stalk them in your parking lot'...”
www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...
'You cannot celebrate our communities on your commercials while letting ICE stalk them in your parking lot'...”
www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...
December 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"The group rallied amid frigid conditions at the Target store on East Lake Street, alleging it allowed agents to stage raids in the parking lot.
'You cannot celebrate our communities on your commercials while letting ICE stalk them in your parking lot'...”
www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...
'You cannot celebrate our communities on your commercials while letting ICE stalk them in your parking lot'...”
www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...
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6/ You can watch the entire 9-minute doc on YouTube… youtu.be/PWCrzM6dcYw?...
A visit to a homeless shelter for transgender Ugandans
YouTube video by Steven Thrasher
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
6/ You can watch the entire 9-minute doc on YouTube… youtu.be/PWCrzM6dcYw?...
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5/ And in the concluding Part 5, I explain as we leave the shelter how and why trans residents behave like spies, switching between modes of transit 2 or 3 times to get to work (which can take 2 hours each way)
www.gofundme.com/minorityshel...
www.gofundme.com/minorityshel...
December 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
5/ And in the concluding Part 5, I explain as we leave the shelter how and why trans residents behave like spies, switching between modes of transit 2 or 3 times to get to work (which can take 2 hours each way)
www.gofundme.com/minorityshel...
www.gofundme.com/minorityshel...
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4/ In Part 4, a shelter manager (who also was once kicked out of home) tearfully says that they’re running out of hope: they owe 2 months back rent, they have no food for the residents & when they ask private donors for help, they say Trump won’t let them help
www.gofundme.com/minorityshel...
www.gofundme.com/minorityshel...
December 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
4/ In Part 4, a shelter manager (who also was once kicked out of home) tearfully says that they’re running out of hope: they owe 2 months back rent, they have no food for the residents & when they ask private donors for help, they say Trump won’t let them help
www.gofundme.com/minorityshel...
www.gofundme.com/minorityshel...
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3/ In Part 3, a shelter manager tells me that the United States, Netherlands, UK *and private donors* are forbidding these terms:
🛑 GBV (Gender Based Violence)
🛑 Trans
🛑 DEI (which was their code-term for “LGBTQ” in a coutry where being LGBTQ is illegal)
www.gofundme.com/f/minoritysh...
🛑 GBV (Gender Based Violence)
🛑 Trans
🛑 DEI (which was their code-term for “LGBTQ” in a coutry where being LGBTQ is illegal)
www.gofundme.com/f/minoritysh...
December 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
3/ In Part 3, a shelter manager tells me that the United States, Netherlands, UK *and private donors* are forbidding these terms:
🛑 GBV (Gender Based Violence)
🛑 Trans
🛑 DEI (which was their code-term for “LGBTQ” in a coutry where being LGBTQ is illegal)
www.gofundme.com/f/minoritysh...
🛑 GBV (Gender Based Violence)
🛑 Trans
🛑 DEI (which was their code-term for “LGBTQ” in a coutry where being LGBTQ is illegal)
www.gofundme.com/f/minoritysh...
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2/ In Part 2, I speak to John Grace of the Uganda Minority Shelters Consortium about coming up in queer shelters themself and their hope for what a queer shelter might be (yes, that’s a pig being slaughtered by a neighbor you’re hearing in the background)
gofundme.com/minorityshelters
gofundme.com/minorityshelters
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
2/ In Part 2, I speak to John Grace of the Uganda Minority Shelters Consortium about coming up in queer shelters themself and their hope for what a queer shelter might be (yes, that’s a pig being slaughtered by a neighbor you’re hearing in the background)
gofundme.com/minorityshelters
gofundme.com/minorityshelters
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🧵1/ I’m releasing my documentary “A Visit to a Homeless Shelter for Transgender Ugandans” in 5 parts.
In Part 1, we begin in Kampala’s “7 hills” to show how far from industry trans ugandans are living—as they try to avoid eviction.
(To support them: gofundme.com/minorityshelters)
In Part 1, we begin in Kampala’s “7 hills” to show how far from industry trans ugandans are living—as they try to avoid eviction.
(To support them: gofundme.com/minorityshelters)
December 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🧵1/ I’m releasing my documentary “A Visit to a Homeless Shelter for Transgender Ugandans” in 5 parts.
In Part 1, we begin in Kampala’s “7 hills” to show how far from industry trans ugandans are living—as they try to avoid eviction.
(To support them: gofundme.com/minorityshelters)
In Part 1, we begin in Kampala’s “7 hills” to show how far from industry trans ugandans are living—as they try to avoid eviction.
(To support them: gofundme.com/minorityshelters)
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🚨 Netanyahu’s Strategy to Drive Palestinians Out By Freezing & Starving Gaza Through Winter
Please listen in full to this update Gaza NGO coordinator Eyad Amawi shared w/ Drop Site, in which he describes in detail the humanitarian catastrophe engulfing the enclave.
He also lays out what he...
Please listen in full to this update Gaza NGO coordinator Eyad Amawi shared w/ Drop Site, in which he describes in detail the humanitarian catastrophe engulfing the enclave.
He also lays out what he...
December 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
🚨 Netanyahu’s Strategy to Drive Palestinians Out By Freezing & Starving Gaza Through Winter
Please listen in full to this update Gaza NGO coordinator Eyad Amawi shared w/ Drop Site, in which he describes in detail the humanitarian catastrophe engulfing the enclave.
He also lays out what he...
Please listen in full to this update Gaza NGO coordinator Eyad Amawi shared w/ Drop Site, in which he describes in detail the humanitarian catastrophe engulfing the enclave.
He also lays out what he...
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Chuck for Queens
"Jackson Heights neighbors stood up to ICE this morning, who reportedly posted up early to try and grab parents walking their kids to school.
There's an old saying we all learn growing up in New York City.
We're teaching it to ICE, too: GTFOH"
"Jackson Heights neighbors stood up to ICE this morning, who reportedly posted up early to try and grab parents walking their kids to school.
There's an old saying we all learn growing up in New York City.
We're teaching it to ICE, too: GTFOH"
December 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Chuck for Queens
"Jackson Heights neighbors stood up to ICE this morning, who reportedly posted up early to try and grab parents walking their kids to school.
There's an old saying we all learn growing up in New York City.
We're teaching it to ICE, too: GTFOH"
"Jackson Heights neighbors stood up to ICE this morning, who reportedly posted up early to try and grab parents walking their kids to school.
There's an old saying we all learn growing up in New York City.
We're teaching it to ICE, too: GTFOH"
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Authorities are tracking online criticism and demonstrations against the immigration crackdown in New Orleans, monitoring message boards for threats while compiling updates on public “sentiment” surrounding the arrests, according to law enforcement records reviewed by The Associated Press.
Records reviewed by AP detail online monitoring, arrests in New Orleans immigration crackdown | CNN
State and federal authorities are closely tracking online criticism and demonstrations against the immigration crackdown in New Orleans, monitoring message boards around the clock for threats to agent...
www.cnn.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Authorities are tracking online criticism and demonstrations against the immigration crackdown in New Orleans, monitoring message boards for threats while compiling updates on public “sentiment” surrounding the arrests, according to law enforcement records reviewed by The Associated Press.
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🎥 At the Doha Forum 2025, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese drew a direct line between South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle and Palestine today.
“If you go to South Africa, you realize that Nelson Mandela couldn’t have been born in any other country,” she said, pointing to a strength of...
“If you go to South Africa, you realize that Nelson Mandela couldn’t have been born in any other country,” she said, pointing to a strength of...
December 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
🎥 At the Doha Forum 2025, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese drew a direct line between South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle and Palestine today.
“If you go to South Africa, you realize that Nelson Mandela couldn’t have been born in any other country,” she said, pointing to a strength of...
“If you go to South Africa, you realize that Nelson Mandela couldn’t have been born in any other country,” she said, pointing to a strength of...
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3 days ago, Hakeem Jeffries stated that Donald Trump was right on immigration and the border.
December 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
3 days ago, Hakeem Jeffries stated that Donald Trump was right on immigration and the border.
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Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
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for anyone interested, @hammerandhope.bsky.social ran an article on exactly this: "An organized urban wing of the railroad called vigilance committees focused on protecting, supporting, and learning from fugitives. That education went in both directions..."
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
The Black People Who Fled Slavery Had a Lot to Teach Their Northern Allies
Black-led vigilance committees not only protected and aided fugitives but also learned from the formerly enslaved as they built a movement pedagogy together.
hammerandhope.org
December 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
for anyone interested, @hammerandhope.bsky.social ran an article on exactly this: "An organized urban wing of the railroad called vigilance committees focused on protecting, supporting, and learning from fugitives. That education went in both directions..."
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
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Our ancestors did more with much less. We have no excuse.
December 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Our ancestors did more with much less. We have no excuse.
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This, among millions of other reasons, is why any attempt to meet transphobes in the middle was always a form of abandoning trans people.
Like immigrant demonization, any attempt at all to give any credence to right wing talking points was always just ammunition for the right wing.
Like immigrant demonization, any attempt at all to give any credence to right wing talking points was always just ammunition for the right wing.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This, among millions of other reasons, is why any attempt to meet transphobes in the middle was always a form of abandoning trans people.
Like immigrant demonization, any attempt at all to give any credence to right wing talking points was always just ammunition for the right wing.
Like immigrant demonization, any attempt at all to give any credence to right wing talking points was always just ammunition for the right wing.
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