abifergus.bsky.social
@abifergus.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.
February 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Education Department employees have been placed on leave for attending diversity training. Meanwhile, Republicans have introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education.
February 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Billionaire Elon Musk has stated that work is underway to shut down the U.S. foreign aid agency, USAID. Officials have been instructed not to report to work and have been locked out of the building.
February 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Massive protest at Children’s National in DC.

A former patient is speaking who they used in promotional to show how much they care about trans kids.

Now the hospital is one of a small few nationwide complying with trumps unlawful EO to end trans care.
February 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Had a sweet time teaching tracking to kids and being part of them reveling in snowy nature. Helping kids foster nature connection can send ripples in the future and give this kiddos memories that climate change can't take away even if we don't get this snow in the future.
February 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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5 ways to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth (cause the fed govt doesn’t run your house)

1. Find out what Sojourner Truth REALLY said
2. Buy a Black horror, scifi or fantasy book
3. Listen to “Naima” by John Coltrane
4. Send the victims of the LA fires in Altadena a few coins
5. Get a library card
February 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Just a dog and her walnut she fetches
February 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Juniper's new headshot
February 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Sugarbush dogs
February 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Sugarbush time
February 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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The Guardian [Jan31] -- Federal employees at multiple government agencies told they must remove personal pronouns from their email signatures by 5pm today.

[by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]
US federal workers ordered to remove pronouns from email signatures
Internal email says agency is ‘reviewing’ programs and contracts that ‘promote or incubate gender ideology’
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Axios [Jan 31] -- Federal websites tracking health care information on HIV prevention and transgender care went dark this afternoon. Also gone was information on contraception and gender-based violence.

[by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]
HIV, transgender care and other federal websites go dark
Several CDC pages were taken down Friday afternoon. Some redirected users to other sections of the site.
www.axios.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Happy to report that the post I wrote earlier today regarding the Transgender Unity Rally held in nine state capitals today, has been picked up by the PRIDE SOURCE news outlet.

pridesource.com/article/tran...

Hopefully, it will encourage more in our community to join the fight!

--- 𝓐𝓷𝓷𝓲 🏳️‍⚧️
Today Is the Day: Rallies at State Capitols, Including One in…
Every revolution has a starting point, a historical touchstone that when looked back upon, people will say it was when anger and fear and ideologies
pridesource.com
January 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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4. ACT UP LA organizing history archive that I highly suggest reading:

oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:...

I am working on a story covering ACT UP LA, but in the meantime I do want to emphasize that it's extremely important for every single trans person to become organized as soon as possible!!
ACT UP / Los Angeles records
oac.cdlib.org
January 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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BREAKING - U.S. District Judge George O'Toole has temporarily blocked a transgender inmate from being forcibly detransitioned and transferred into a men's prison under President Trump's new executive order, per Reuters.
January 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Years ago, ACT UP protested at hospitals cutting off LGBTQ+ people from their care.

They didn't stand for it.
January 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Perfectly camouflaged the spots on this bobcat break the pattern enough allowing it to blend into granite and grass alike.🧪🦊📷
January 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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This is the biggest danger of Trump's EOs.

They are not law, and yet Denver Health is complying in advance, ending all trans surgeries under 19 years of age, including chest masculinization - a rare, but much needed surgery for some trans teens.

www.9news.com/article/news...
January 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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1. Getting word that we have another anti-trans EO tonight, this time targeting teachers.

It directs the federal government to work with state AGs to put teachers who use trans kids pronouns in jail through "sexual exploitation" laws or "practicing medicine without a license."

From a RW source:
January 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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So Trump's shutting down of the entire government's funding system for American projects is literally so he can go line by line and target transgender people and other minorities.

When we said transphobia affects cis people too, well... here you go.
January 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Forbidden cinnamon roll (mourning dove scat in Juniper tree)
January 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM