Esther Makhno
@anarchopianist.bsky.social
This satire/troll account has served its purpose. Go follow me @lucylauser instead.
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Lucy Lauser July 4th Topless Protest and Arrest
YouTube video by Lucy Lauser
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September 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law.
May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.
May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.
September 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law.
May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.
May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.
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What's happening to Lil Nas X is horrifying and should alarm every queer person in the United States.
The system is looking for excuses to devour us right now.
The system is looking for excuses to devour us right now.
August 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
What's happening to Lil Nas X is horrifying and should alarm every queer person in the United States.
The system is looking for excuses to devour us right now.
The system is looking for excuses to devour us right now.
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The world has changed so much since I wrote this, but at the end of the day it's still an essay I had a breakdown writing, an essay that took days because I couldn't stop crying long enough to write
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I’ll Laugh As You Bury Me: New Zealand, America and Cultural Hegemony
All science fiction has its basis in the real world. This is the real world I base mine in. It has jokes and cups of tea and big smiles. Sometimes I’m in awe of the power of fiction to unite us. I …
strangehorizons.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The world has changed so much since I wrote this, but at the end of the day it's still an essay I had a breakdown writing, an essay that took days because I couldn't stop crying long enough to write
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
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Do we want our kids to go hungry?
No? Then we transform what we eat & how we produce it. We elect governments willing to dismantle the multinationals & fight for a fair & sustainable food system.
Or we watch food shortages & hunger rip our society to pieces.
No? Then we transform what we eat & how we produce it. We elect governments willing to dismantle the multinationals & fight for a fair & sustainable food system.
Or we watch food shortages & hunger rip our society to pieces.
Farmers devastated as unprecedented crisis wipes out key crop: 'There's nothing here'
Many growers have exited the industry.
finance.yahoo.com
August 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Do we want our kids to go hungry?
No? Then we transform what we eat & how we produce it. We elect governments willing to dismantle the multinationals & fight for a fair & sustainable food system.
Or we watch food shortages & hunger rip our society to pieces.
No? Then we transform what we eat & how we produce it. We elect governments willing to dismantle the multinationals & fight for a fair & sustainable food system.
Or we watch food shortages & hunger rip our society to pieces.
I'm on TV now?
A Stevenson city councilor protested topless for trans rights. She now faces a recall campaign
YouTube video by KGW News
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July 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I'm on TV now?
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the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this
July 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this
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i just think it's unfair that some people are biologically better at sports than me and i think they should all be banned from sports until i am the best at sports
July 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
i just think it's unfair that some people are biologically better at sports than me and i think they should all be banned from sports until i am the best at sports
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UPMC is forcing their trans patients under 19 to taper off their medication while simultaneously telling their emergency staff to expect more suicide attempts, mental health crises, and psychotic episodes as a result of being forcefully pulled off their medication.
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The Fight for Trans Youth Healthcare at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
It Could Happen Here · Episode
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July 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
UPMC is forcing their trans patients under 19 to taper off their medication while simultaneously telling their emergency staff to expect more suicide attempts, mental health crises, and psychotic episodes as a result of being forcefully pulled off their medication.
open.spotify.com/episode/3HJN...
open.spotify.com/episode/3HJN...
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This is basically the story of modern anarchist politics
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
If you look at the Epstein story through the lens of his victims and their life stories you get a story about every powerful institution in public life failing on any measure of accountability but repeatedly being outmatched by the courage of teenagers, sex workers, and runaways
July 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This is basically the story of modern anarchist politics
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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the science is “this is the single best set of interventions against teen and also adult suicide we have for affected populations”
July 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
the science is “this is the single best set of interventions against teen and also adult suicide we have for affected populations”
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ANNOUNCEMENT: MadyCast News is now the Trans News Network, a non-profit worker-run newsroom under our 501c(3) host, Community Partners.
The need for trans journalism that is unapologetic, hard-hitting, radical and high quality is greater than ever.
We need your help to do it.
The need for trans journalism that is unapologetic, hard-hitting, radical and high quality is greater than ever.
We need your help to do it.
MadyCast News Relaunches as Trans News Network, a Worker-Run Nonprofit Newsroom
MadyCast News is relaunching as the Trans News Network, a worker-run nonprofit newsroom under Community Partners, and leaving Substack for Beehiiv
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July 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT: MadyCast News is now the Trans News Network, a non-profit worker-run newsroom under our 501c(3) host, Community Partners.
The need for trans journalism that is unapologetic, hard-hitting, radical and high quality is greater than ever.
We need your help to do it.
The need for trans journalism that is unapologetic, hard-hitting, radical and high quality is greater than ever.
We need your help to do it.
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“Removing her shirt in public was, she said, a way to call out discrimination and threats she has faced for doing “something that men do freely with zero consequence,” adding that “since the federal government has actually declared that I am a man … I felt it was necessary.”
Stevenson divided over shirtless display | Uplift Local
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July 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
“Removing her shirt in public was, she said, a way to call out discrimination and threats she has faced for doing “something that men do freely with zero consequence,” adding that “since the federal government has actually declared that I am a man … I felt it was necessary.”
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Mass incarceration as a solution to crime is like using quarantine to fight food poisoning. Once you've had the meal it's too late.
We ought to be putting 90% of our resources into preventative measures like education, housing resources, and healthcare.
We ought to be putting 90% of our resources into preventative measures like education, housing resources, and healthcare.
July 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Mass incarceration as a solution to crime is like using quarantine to fight food poisoning. Once you've had the meal it's too late.
We ought to be putting 90% of our resources into preventative measures like education, housing resources, and healthcare.
We ought to be putting 90% of our resources into preventative measures like education, housing resources, and healthcare.
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I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like.
I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.
I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.
July 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like.
I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.
I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.
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1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year
This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.
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July 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
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Frankly, there should be a purity test. If you accept fascism, you fail, and no one should bother listening to you again.
July 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Frankly, there should be a purity test. If you accept fascism, you fail, and no one should bother listening to you again.
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The antipathy for the Department of Education is the most enduring relic of the cause that birthed the modern GOP: not having to go to school with Black people.
July 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The antipathy for the Department of Education is the most enduring relic of the cause that birthed the modern GOP: not having to go to school with Black people.
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NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care.
“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"
“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"
Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’
Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation
www.theguardian.com
July 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care.
“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"
“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"
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A transgender girl housed in a male unit of a Washington, D.C., juvenile detention center has been hospitalized after sustaining multiple injuries, including a broken jaw, officials say.
Trans girl housed in male unit has jaw broken at D.C. juvenile detention center
Officials said they've launched a "full review" after the Youth Services Center resident was transported to the hospital following the incident.
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July 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
A transgender girl housed in a male unit of a Washington, D.C., juvenile detention center has been hospitalized after sustaining multiple injuries, including a broken jaw, officials say.
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'V-coding' is the term used to describe the systemic sexual abuse of trans women placed in men's prisons.
![V-coding
A 2018 report from the Indiana University Maurer
School of Law, along with a subsequent report in
the UCLA Journal of Gender and Law,l118] found
hat it was common for trans women placed in
men's prisons to be assigned
cells with
aggressive cisgender male cellmates as both a
reward and a means of placation for said
cellmates, so as to maintain social control and to,
as one inmate described it, "keep the violence
rate down". Trans women used in this manner are
often raped daily. This process is known as "V-
coding", and has been described as so common
that it is effectively "a central part of a trans
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July 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
'V-coding' is the term used to describe the systemic sexual abuse of trans women placed in men's prisons.
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It’s a concentration camp and they plan on killing people there.
250 people detained in the Florida Everglades have no criminal convictions or pending charges.
Exclusive: Hundreds at Alligator Alcatraz have no criminal charges, Miami Herald learns
Descriptions of the Everglades detention center as a place for violent criminals tell only part of the story.
www.miamiherald.com
July 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
It’s a concentration camp and they plan on killing people there.
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Many men claim “gender wars” when women are speaking out against femicide, speaking out against gender based violence, and just laying out the reality of what women face. It’s only when it’s being called out that men want a voice, but never do they speak up when women are enduring such acts.
July 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Many men claim “gender wars” when women are speaking out against femicide, speaking out against gender based violence, and just laying out the reality of what women face. It’s only when it’s being called out that men want a voice, but never do they speak up when women are enduring such acts.
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When I see kids going through this, i think of the tiny handcuffs that were made for Native Kids at Carlisle Industrial "School"-one of the worst offenders of Native "Boarding Schools" in our Nation. I also remember the horrible things my father was made to go through.
US Government
US Government
#ABOLISHICE #ice #protestice #dtla #protectourchildren
TikTok video by LEX
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July 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
When I see kids going through this, i think of the tiny handcuffs that were made for Native Kids at Carlisle Industrial "School"-one of the worst offenders of Native "Boarding Schools" in our Nation. I also remember the horrible things my father was made to go through.
US Government
US Government
July 8, 2025 at 6:33 AM