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Allison Chapman (she/her)
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civil rights & health equity fellow

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Allison Chapman (she/her) @alli.gay · 6d
I haven’t been posting much but this doesn’t mean that I have stopped fighting for transgender rights. In fact, everyday I fight back as a Civil Rights fellow @lawyers4goodgov.bsky.social!

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Leading the Charge
GIVING TUESDAY 2025 2025 proved what’s possible when lawyers unite with purpose This year, we launched the Pro Bono Litigation Corps when traditional firms faced political pressure. We mobilized 10,00...
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alli.gay
We are experiencing a civil war. Not one fought with guns and bullets but one fought with paper in legislatures and courts.

The country has fractured into Blue and Red states, where your rights and protections vary widely. We are no longer one country, but two.
December 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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December 5, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
Parker nails it, as always.
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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FDA Approves New Drug  That Reverses Effects Of Narcan
FDA Approves New Drug  That Reverses Effects Of Narcan
SILVER SPRING, MD—Praising the drug’s ability to quickly and effectively increase fatalities amongst the nation’s opioid users, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new nasal spray Wednesd...
theonion.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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alli.gay
I haven’t been posting much but this doesn’t mean that I have stopped fighting for transgender rights. In fact, everyday I fight back as a Civil Rights fellow @lawyers4goodgov.bsky.social!

Please join us by donating to support our work!

l4gg-org.donorsupport.co/page/FUNGGBY...
Leading the Charge
GIVING TUESDAY 2025 2025 proved what’s possible when lawyers unite with purpose This year, we launched the Pro Bono Litigation Corps when traditional firms faced political pressure. We mobilized 10,00...
l4gg-org.donorsupport.co
December 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
alli.gay
I haven’t been posting much but this doesn’t mean that I have stopped fighting for transgender rights. In fact, everyday I fight back as a Civil Rights fellow @lawyers4goodgov.bsky.social!

Please join us by donating to support our work!

l4gg-org.donorsupport.co/page/FUNGGBY...
Leading the Charge
GIVING TUESDAY 2025 2025 proved what’s possible when lawyers unite with purpose This year, we launched the Pro Bono Litigation Corps when traditional firms faced political pressure. We mobilized 10,00...
l4gg-org.donorsupport.co
December 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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ulw4tl.bsky.social
We are back at the bargaining table! And it's been FIVE months.

There is no time but the present, @transequality.bsky.social

Let's Negotiate!
Clown emoji! We're back! The ULW4TL is back at the bargaining table and boy are we mad! We have been back to the bargaining table for 5 months and have yet to receive comprehensive economic offers. Since our initial contract in 2023, the rate of inflation has skyrocketed and Trump's tariffs have significantly reduced buying power. Since then, our salaries have only received 2.5% COLAs per year. Not only has inflation skyrocketed, the cost of rent has increased between 5-6% yearly in NYC and D.C., where the majority of our unit lives. A4TE has cited budgetary concerns, and while we sympathize with these difficulties, we find them to be self-inflicted. A4TE chose to hire a plethora of C-Suite staff with high salaries and chose to increase its CEO's salary by nearly 100k from 2023-2024 according to the latest IRS filings. Poor budgetary planning, especially when management knows contract negotiations were around the corner is not the Unit's fault. Contract negotiations were foreseeable by management, but the respective unions at TLDEF and NCTE were blindsided by the costly merger that has seemingly left management only with enough money to give themselves thousands in raises while barely offering the status quo to its least paid and underappreciated staff. Management expects to exhaust us with a drawn out, "woe is me" approach. Unfortunately, this strategy only energizes the most tired of us all. Management will now have to deal with a forceful and unrelenting public resistance to this strategy until our needs are met. A Union's first contract is the floor and we have no where to go but up. This organization will crumble without its administrators, its organizers, its policy team, its communications staff, its development team, or its legal team. A machine without its cogs, breaks. There is no time but the present, @transequalitynow Let's Negotiate.
December 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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oldsquida.bsky.social
“Wisconsin lawmakers are escalating their war on privacy by targeting VPNs in the name of ‘protecting children’.”

yes, really

it won’t even work as people will just bypass those draconian laws by using non-commercial VPNs or find workarounds within hours.
Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing
It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Pr...
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November 29, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
We don't really know how bicycles work.
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
In sorting my own thoughts about the moment, I began writing about the way science is being used by bad actors under the guise of "evidence-based medicine". I also talk about the limits of our ability to fully boil down evidence into axioms that make subjectivity irrelevant.
The myth of an apolitical science — Jessica Kant
What we might call the modern anti-science movement, starting with efforts to hide the obvious linkage between tobacco and cancer, and the rise of “climate skepticism”, has grown in scale enormously i...
jessk.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
alli.gay
My tummy hurts and I'm mad at the government
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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joleneroise.bsky.social
I didn’t expect my daughter’s first lesson in gender politics to happen between circle time and snack.

But here we are.

Check out my Substack to learn more.

#protecttranskids #Inclusiveschools
#parenting

open.substack.com/pub/jolenega...
When School Stops Feeling Safe
New School. New Start.: Navigating courage, hope, and affirmation in school transitions
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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drdevonojeda.bsky.social
Regardless of what happens with the result of this shutdown, the Democrats had better come back with a policy platform that includes universal healthcare when they run again.

We should not compromise for less.
November 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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simplyskye.bsky.social
If you’re not familiar with “the brown shirts” of 1930’s Germany — just look to #Bovino, who is 💯 aware of the message he is sending
Bovino on Fox “News” dressed in a uniform resembling that of 1930’s Nazi Germany
October 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
alli.gay
“We celebrate the networked world for the many ways in which it enriches our capabilities and prospects, but it has birthed whole new territories of anxiety, danger, and violence as the sense of a predictable future slips away.”

—
Shoshana Zuboff
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
October 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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imarajones.bsky.social
I’ll be on @msnbc.com @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social tonight at 8:40 pm ET. Tune in!
October 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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esqueer.net
Gotta block them all! Block early, block often!

bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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socialistdogmom.bsky.social
it’s weird how normal it already feels to get emails from congressional candidates about being beaten by the gestapo outside the camps
October 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
alli.gay
I’m seriously considering getting an iPod Classic, doing a few small mods, and daily driving an iPod for all my music and completely ditching streaming
October 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.
October 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
Say it!
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Oct 16
AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
October 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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anthonylfisher.bsky.social
As Trump wages war on DEI, Apple essentially just ratified the MAGA view of law enforcement officers as a protected class.

(new @msnbc.com column)
Opinion | How Apple gave ICE agents the ‘Blue Lives Matter’ treatment
The tech giant removed an app that helped communities log immigration law enforcement activity, in part because agents could be part of a “targeted group.”
www.msnbc.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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turban.bsky.social
As a reminder:
October 15, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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charlotteclymer.bsky.social
They're not even trying to hide it. Gone are the days in which these views were couched in doublespeak. The racism is on shameless, full display in the most powerful rooms in the federal government.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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esqueer.net
It's the worst thing watching resegregation happen in real time to please a bunch of white supremacist nazis in power.

www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...
NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams
The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...
www.thewrap.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM