Manda
@amandasterling.bsky.social
Mom of an outspoken, gender-fluid tween and an incredibly brilliant, autistic son. Otherwise, nothing special, just me... a pansexual, thespian, pagan witch... who is proud to be a breast cancer survivor, and loves Minnesota winters.
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Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President should not be allowed to trade stocks.
Ban insider trading now.
Ban insider trading now.
July 31, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President should not be allowed to trade stocks.
Ban insider trading now.
Ban insider trading now.
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BREAKING: Judge says Mahmoud Khalil cannot be detained or deported based on Rubio’s determination. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
June 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
BREAKING: Judge says Mahmoud Khalil cannot be detained or deported based on Rubio’s determination. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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a woman just trying to get home gets shot
June 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
a woman just trying to get home gets shot
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In an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect.
This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus.
www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...
This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus.
www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...
May 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
In an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect.
This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus.
www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...
This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus.
www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...
Free Palestine!
Hasan Piker: A Progressive Mind in a MAGA Body
Hasan Piker pumps iron, likes weapons and wears pearls. His brand of masculinity has won him many fans online — and has been a useful vehicle for his politics.
www.nytimes.com
April 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Free Palestine!
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Stephen Fry's argument against God and His morals.
April 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Stephen Fry's argument against God and His morals.
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Mahmoud's case is a litmus test for the right to free speech in our country. This ruling jeopardizes dissent.
Attacks on the First Amendment will not stop with student activists advocating for Palestinian rights.
www.cbsnews.com/news/mahmoud...
Attacks on the First Amendment will not stop with student activists advocating for Palestinian rights.
www.cbsnews.com/news/mahmoud...
Judge allows government to continue effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil
Mahmoud Khalil, who led protests at Columbia University against Israel, appeared in immigration court in Louisiana Friday.
www.cbsnews.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Mahmoud's case is a litmus test for the right to free speech in our country. This ruling jeopardizes dissent.
Attacks on the First Amendment will not stop with student activists advocating for Palestinian rights.
www.cbsnews.com/news/mahmoud...
Attacks on the First Amendment will not stop with student activists advocating for Palestinian rights.
www.cbsnews.com/news/mahmoud...
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Members of Congress should never be allowed to trade stocks. Period.
April 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Members of Congress should never be allowed to trade stocks. Period.
Dear assface,
You often boast that you are protecting girls... but when parents and teachers also stand to protect girls (trans girls, black and brown girls, girls with disabilities, girls that pray to Allah, girls in sports)... your shattered ego seeks retribution - all girls will go hungry now!
You often boast that you are protecting girls... but when parents and teachers also stand to protect girls (trans girls, black and brown girls, girls with disabilities, girls that pray to Allah, girls in sports)... your shattered ego seeks retribution - all girls will go hungry now!
1. Trump has officially defunded school lunches in Maine for kids and disabled adults because of transgender people.
Trump is holding the funds hostage and will allow kids to go hungry unless Maine discriminates.
The latest from S. Baum.
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Trump is holding the funds hostage and will allow kids to go hungry unless Maine discriminates.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Trump Defunds School Lunches In Maine Over Transgender People
To use the term coined by conservative talking heads, Trump is holding school lunch money “hostage.”
www.erininthemorning.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Dear assface,
You often boast that you are protecting girls... but when parents and teachers also stand to protect girls (trans girls, black and brown girls, girls with disabilities, girls that pray to Allah, girls in sports)... your shattered ego seeks retribution - all girls will go hungry now!
You often boast that you are protecting girls... but when parents and teachers also stand to protect girls (trans girls, black and brown girls, girls with disabilities, girls that pray to Allah, girls in sports)... your shattered ego seeks retribution - all girls will go hungry now!
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75%
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM
75%
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Under this theory, there is also nothing that prevents them from shipping *American citizens* to a gulag in El Salvador and saying "nothing we can do."
April 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Under this theory, there is also nothing that prevents them from shipping *American citizens* to a gulag in El Salvador and saying "nothing we can do."
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Another new low from this White House: A "policy" simply intended to show disrespect for part of the United States population.
April 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Another new low from this White House: A "policy" simply intended to show disrespect for part of the United States population.
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Nancy Mace accused a trans ally who used a handshake as a moment to speak against her anti-trans actions of "assault."
She even wore an arm sling after.
The man was then arrested with charges of assaulting a congressperson.
Those charges have now been dropped.
A handshake is not assault.
She even wore an arm sling after.
The man was then arrested with charges of assaulting a congressperson.
Those charges have now been dropped.
A handshake is not assault.
Charge dropped against foster advocate accused of assaulting Rep. Nancy Mace
Mace (R-South Carolina) said through a spokeswoman that she was still recovering from the incident, which occurred when the two shook hands in December.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Nancy Mace accused a trans ally who used a handshake as a moment to speak against her anti-trans actions of "assault."
She even wore an arm sling after.
The man was then arrested with charges of assaulting a congressperson.
Those charges have now been dropped.
A handshake is not assault.
She even wore an arm sling after.
The man was then arrested with charges of assaulting a congressperson.
Those charges have now been dropped.
A handshake is not assault.
Less talk over the text kerfuffle... more outrage over the government admitting to war crimes by targeting and collapsing a civilian building in Yemen.
The text was incompetent, but our politicians gleefully sharing fire and fist bump emojis over innocent people being killed, is disgusting.
The text was incompetent, but our politicians gleefully sharing fire and fist bump emojis over innocent people being killed, is disgusting.
Tlaib: Democrats Rage Over Yemen Strike Leak, But Not at the Strike Itself
The US’s airstrikes on Yemen have reportedly killed dozens of civilians, with the US twice bombing a cancer hospital.
truthout.org
March 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Less talk over the text kerfuffle... more outrage over the government admitting to war crimes by targeting and collapsing a civilian building in Yemen.
The text was incompetent, but our politicians gleefully sharing fire and fist bump emojis over innocent people being killed, is disgusting.
The text was incompetent, but our politicians gleefully sharing fire and fist bump emojis over innocent people being killed, is disgusting.
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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
Pm Private GIF
ALT: Pm Private GIF
media.tenor.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
Hamdan Ballal, the oscar winning "No Other Land" co-director, attacked by settlers and taken by the Israeli army.
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March 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Hamdan Ballal, the oscar winning "No Other Land" co-director, attacked by settlers and taken by the Israeli army.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.
March 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.
Watching the UN Security Council... angered that the US government can easily say, "just as Hamas could end the war today, this moment, by releasing the hostages and laying down it's arms." but won't say the same to Russia? The US is on the wrong side of both these tragic wars.
March 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Watching the UN Security Council... angered that the US government can easily say, "just as Hamas could end the war today, this moment, by releasing the hostages and laying down it's arms." but won't say the same to Russia? The US is on the wrong side of both these tragic wars.
Yes!!
Netanyahu has not allowed any food, water, or fuel into Gaza in two weeks.
Now he has resumed bombing, killing hundreds of people and breaking the ceasefire that had given Gaza a chance to live again.
NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.
Now he has resumed bombing, killing hundreds of people and breaking the ceasefire that had given Gaza a chance to live again.
NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.
March 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Yes!!
Strength, passion, courage, vulnerability, truth... if you watch one thing today, watch this.
Carla Antonelli's passionate speech regarding trans rights Spain
YouTube video by Lenny Zenith
youtu.be
March 15, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Strength, passion, courage, vulnerability, truth... if you watch one thing today, watch this.
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
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Cherry picking false readings of studies and the anti-trans right, name a better duo.
abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...
abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...
Pentagon 'cherry picked' studies to support transgender service member ban, judge says
A judge on Wednesday signaled that she was deeply skeptical that the Pentagon's handling of transgender service members complies with federal law.
abcnews.go.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Cherry picking false readings of studies and the anti-trans right, name a better duo.
abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...
abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...
The world is watching, Donald...
U.S. Is Added to Human Rights Watchlist
The United States was added Sunday to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, due to declining civil liberties.
time.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
The world is watching, Donald...
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The Supreme Court is now considering whether to overturn laws that ban LBGTQ “conversation therapy.”
Conversion therapy tries to force minors to change their sexual orientation to heterosexual by inducing psychological trauma.
Conversion therapy tries to force minors to change their sexual orientation to heterosexual by inducing psychological trauma.
Supreme Court Will Review Ban on LGBTQ ‘Conversion Therapy’
The US Supreme Court agreed to consider whether scores of state and local governments are violating the Constitution by barring licensed counselors from trying to change a child’s sexual orientation o...
news.bloomberglaw.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The Supreme Court is now considering whether to overturn laws that ban LBGTQ “conversation therapy.”
Conversion therapy tries to force minors to change their sexual orientation to heterosexual by inducing psychological trauma.
Conversion therapy tries to force minors to change their sexual orientation to heterosexual by inducing psychological trauma.