AllieVi27
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Senate Bill 8, dubbed the "bathroom bill," goes into force on Dec. 4. The new law could impact transgender and cisgender Texans alike. bit.ly/3MiQI2T
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Senate Bill 8, dubbed the "bathroom bill," goes into force on Dec. 4. The new law could impact transgender and cisgender Texans alike. bit.ly/3MiQI2T
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In memory of all our lost transgender friends and neighbours.
20th November, The Transgender Day of Remembrance
亡くなった全てのトランスジェンダーの同胞たちを偲んで。
11月20日、トランスジェンダー追悼の日
20th November, The Transgender Day of Remembrance
亡くなった全てのトランスジェンダーの同胞たちを偲んで。
11月20日、トランスジェンダー追悼の日
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
In memory of all our lost transgender friends and neighbours.
20th November, The Transgender Day of Remembrance
亡くなった全てのトランスジェンダーの同胞たちを偲んで。
11月20日、トランスジェンダー追悼の日
20th November, The Transgender Day of Remembrance
亡くなった全てのトランスジェンダーの同胞たちを偲んで。
11月20日、トランスジェンダー追悼の日
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if you're transgender you have to live
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
if you're transgender you have to live
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Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
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“It feels like every day I look at the news and then the headline just reads, ‘Sorry, more things you’ve lost,’"
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/18/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/18/t...
Texas public schools “deadname” kids under new state law
The law requires school employees to use names and pronouns that conform to students’ sex at birth.
www.texastribune.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“It feels like every day I look at the news and then the headline just reads, ‘Sorry, more things you’ve lost,’"
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/18/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/18/t...
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The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
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200 Texas National Guard troops are returning home from Chicago, where they were sent to “safeguard” federal officers carrying out deportations. They’ve spent $4 million over five weeks to maintain a presence in the city where they were never allowed to deploy.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/17/t...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/17/t...
Texas National Guard Spent About $4 Million to Never Activate in Chicago. Now They’re Going Home for the Holidays.
The 200 Texas National Guard troopers were sent to “safeguard” federal officers carrying out deportation efforts.
thebarbedwire.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
200 Texas National Guard troops are returning home from Chicago, where they were sent to “safeguard” federal officers carrying out deportations. They’ve spent $4 million over five weeks to maintain a presence in the city where they were never allowed to deploy.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/17/t...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/17/t...
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Texas National Guard troops to be recalled from Illinois soon, according to reports.
Reports: Texas National Guard to return soon from Illinois
Several media outlets, quoting anonymous federal officials, reported that hundreds of Texas troops could be coming home soon from the Chicago area after their activation was halted by a federal court.
www.texastribune.org
November 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Texas National Guard troops to be recalled from Illinois soon, according to reports.
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Meloetta Miku 💚🩵 (Teto next, obvi)
November 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Meloetta Miku 💚🩵 (Teto next, obvi)
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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In this paragraph, we have a heartbreakingly bleak portrait of American society as it actually exists.
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
In this paragraph, we have a heartbreakingly bleak portrait of American society as it actually exists.
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See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
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Well, then @adobe.com, time to never use your products ever again… www.wired.com/story/adobe-...
Adobe Now Lets You Generate Soundtracks and Speech in Firefly
At Adobe’s annual MAX conference, the company also teased a ChatGPT integration and a new AI assistant in Photoshop.
www.wired.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Well, then @adobe.com, time to never use your products ever again… www.wired.com/story/adobe-...
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A photojournalist was arrested by ICE at gunpoint — and his DACA status revoked.
“Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime.”
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/04/h...
“Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime.”
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/04/h...
When Storytelling Is Called ‘Terrorism’: How My Friend and Fellow Journalist Was Targeted by ICE
As a DACA recipient, Ya'akub Ira Vijandre’s arrest holds drastic implications for the state of free speech in America.
thebarbedwire.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A photojournalist was arrested by ICE at gunpoint — and his DACA status revoked.
“Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime.”
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/04/h...
“Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime.”
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/04/h...
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The Texas Dept of Public Safety carried out aerial surveillance of Austin's No Kings protest after Gov. Abbott suggested that "violence & destruction" were likely.
Of course, the event was peaceful. Even the pilot, in video I obtained via FOIA, says: "Seems like it’s gonna be pretty peaceful, huh?"
Of course, the event was peaceful. Even the pilot, in video I obtained via FOIA, says: "Seems like it’s gonna be pretty peaceful, huh?"
November 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The Texas Dept of Public Safety carried out aerial surveillance of Austin's No Kings protest after Gov. Abbott suggested that "violence & destruction" were likely.
Of course, the event was peaceful. Even the pilot, in video I obtained via FOIA, says: "Seems like it’s gonna be pretty peaceful, huh?"
Of course, the event was peaceful. Even the pilot, in video I obtained via FOIA, says: "Seems like it’s gonna be pretty peaceful, huh?"
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Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels:
• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"
• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"
October 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels:
• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"
• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"
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The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
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the total erosion of people's basic morals over certain game purchases this year has, im ngl, made me feel a little hopeless that it's worth fighting for anything lol
I genuinely wonder when people are gonna start voting with their wallets and stop rewarding companies for using AI, Arc Raiders using it for genAI voices is frankly disgusting and it blows my mind that some people will defend it, and now Arc Raiders is sitting at 3rd top selling on Steam
October 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
the total erosion of people's basic morals over certain game purchases this year has, im ngl, made me feel a little hopeless that it's worth fighting for anything lol
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NEW: Crews showed up at 2:00 a.m. to remove the rainbow pride crosswalk in Houston's Montrose neighborhood, following a directive issued by Gov. Greg Abbott. By dawn, several people had been arrested after a demonstration and stand-off between protestors and HPD. www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Four arrested as Houston's rainbow crosswalk is removed from Montrose
The removal began in the early hours of Monday morning after a standoff ended in arrests.
www.chron.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
NEW: Crews showed up at 2:00 a.m. to remove the rainbow pride crosswalk in Houston's Montrose neighborhood, following a directive issued by Gov. Greg Abbott. By dawn, several people had been arrested after a demonstration and stand-off between protestors and HPD. www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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Statement from Houston City Council Member Abbie Kamin on Abbott's new directive. The Montrose crosswalk is in Kamin's district and she advocated for its return last week:
"He's wasting time twiddling on unhinged stunts and obsessing about paint colors."
"He's wasting time twiddling on unhinged stunts and obsessing about paint colors."
October 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Statement from Houston City Council Member Abbie Kamin on Abbott's new directive. The Montrose crosswalk is in Kamin's district and she advocated for its return last week:
"He's wasting time twiddling on unhinged stunts and obsessing about paint colors."
"He's wasting time twiddling on unhinged stunts and obsessing about paint colors."
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NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America
Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.
www.rollingstone.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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“It is psychologically manipulative."
"A place of constant, albeit quiet, torment.”
“A lot of thoughts [were] placed into my head about how disturbing and gross and creepy people like me were... I internalized a lot of these projections.”
"A place of constant, albeit quiet, torment.”
“A lot of thoughts [were] placed into my head about how disturbing and gross and creepy people like me were... I internalized a lot of these projections.”
SCOTUS wades back into the war on trans kids—and considers greenlighting conversion therapy
The science is in: The anti-LGBTQ "treatments" are ineffective and dangerous.
www.motherjones.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
“It is psychologically manipulative."
"A place of constant, albeit quiet, torment.”
“A lot of thoughts [were] placed into my head about how disturbing and gross and creepy people like me were... I internalized a lot of these projections.”
"A place of constant, albeit quiet, torment.”
“A lot of thoughts [were] placed into my head about how disturbing and gross and creepy people like me were... I internalized a lot of these projections.”
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Texas Tech isn't the only university system handing down chilling, verbal-only directives banning discussions about transgender identity. If this is happening at your institution, I want to know about it--reach me on Signal at emmawhitford.96
www.insidehighered.com/node/192421/...
www.insidehighered.com/node/192421/...
Texas Ban on Transgender Course Content Sows Chaos
Verbal-only policies prohibiting academic discussions of trans identity appear to be extending beyond the Texas Tech system and now include anti-trans curricular reviews.
www.insidehighered.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Texas Tech isn't the only university system handing down chilling, verbal-only directives banning discussions about transgender identity. If this is happening at your institution, I want to know about it--reach me on Signal at emmawhitford.96
www.insidehighered.com/node/192421/...
www.insidehighered.com/node/192421/...