@birthofthetrue.bsky.social
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It’s awful to see the ‘stop the puberty blocker trial’ petition gain 100k signatures so quickly. It’s absurd that those who demanded a puberty blocker ban because of a lack of evidence for their safety are now demanding a ban on the research they claimed to want.
PLEASE READ ON
PLEASE READ ON
January 13, 2026 at 12:43 PM
It’s awful to see the ‘stop the puberty blocker trial’ petition gain 100k signatures so quickly. It’s absurd that those who demanded a puberty blocker ban because of a lack of evidence for their safety are now demanding a ban on the research they claimed to want.
PLEASE READ ON
PLEASE READ ON
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The complaint is difficult reading, but if you need a condensed timeline of events in Minneapolis... I think I missed this incident entirely:
www.courtlistener.com/docket/72132...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/72132...
January 13, 2026 at 7:33 PM
The complaint is difficult reading, but if you need a condensed timeline of events in Minneapolis... I think I missed this incident entirely:
www.courtlistener.com/docket/72132...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/72132...
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If you have “sincere concerns” about trans athletes in sports, all it means is that you have given yourself a rationale for your bigotry that you sincerely believe exonerates you for aligning to a far-right tactic for marginalization and exclusion.
January 13, 2026 at 7:02 PM
If you have “sincere concerns” about trans athletes in sports, all it means is that you have given yourself a rationale for your bigotry that you sincerely believe exonerates you for aligning to a far-right tactic for marginalization and exclusion.
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This was last night. Just lawless actions.
ICE assaulted the President of the Minneapolis City Council just now and pointed a Taser* at him, painting him with a green laser dot. Then did the same to another man on the street.
Elliott Payne is Black. @elliottpayne.org
*Axon Taser-10 model
Elliott Payne is Black. @elliottpayne.org
*Axon Taser-10 model
ICE just indiscriminately stopped a citizen at a bus stop in front of the co-op. If this is how they treat the President of the Minneapolis City Council who is legally observing, just think of what they’re doing to everyone else in our City.
January 13, 2026 at 7:53 PM
This was last night. Just lawless actions.
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A lot of people who are posting that it’s too dangerous to resist are personally paralyzed by fear.
It’s okay to be afraid! An occupation is scary! But don’t try to cope with your own paralysis by discouraging the brave people to be less brave. Try to lead with gratitude instead.
It’s okay to be afraid! An occupation is scary! But don’t try to cope with your own paralysis by discouraging the brave people to be less brave. Try to lead with gratitude instead.
January 13, 2026 at 8:04 PM
A lot of people who are posting that it’s too dangerous to resist are personally paralyzed by fear.
It’s okay to be afraid! An occupation is scary! But don’t try to cope with your own paralysis by discouraging the brave people to be less brave. Try to lead with gratitude instead.
It’s okay to be afraid! An occupation is scary! But don’t try to cope with your own paralysis by discouraging the brave people to be less brave. Try to lead with gratitude instead.
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this essay addresses most issues related to trans people and sports (& clears up nonsense you may hear today in #SCOTUS)
...the anti-trans movement is at its core an anti-science movement:
on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/trans-peop...
& Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...
on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/trans-peop...
& Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...
Trans People and Sports: Everything You Need to Know
I have been writing about transgender people and issues for over twenty years now.
juliaserano.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:33 PM
this essay addresses most issues related to trans people and sports (& clears up nonsense you may hear today in #SCOTUS)
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The right-wingers at SCOTUS today argue that merely allowing a trans girl to compete in sports is a great harm because we must "protect women."
But a woman exercising her First Amendment rights is a smug ....
These people don't respect women 1/10th as much as any trans woman I know does.
But a woman exercising her First Amendment rights is a smug ....
These people don't respect women 1/10th as much as any trans woman I know does.
Fox News' Will Cain: “There's a weird kind of smugness... in the way that some of these liberal white women interact with authority”
January 13, 2026 at 8:31 PM
The right-wingers at SCOTUS today argue that merely allowing a trans girl to compete in sports is a great harm because we must "protect women."
But a woman exercising her First Amendment rights is a smug ....
These people don't respect women 1/10th as much as any trans woman I know does.
But a woman exercising her First Amendment rights is a smug ....
These people don't respect women 1/10th as much as any trans woman I know does.
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There are lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to Nazi Germany and there are also lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to the post-1850 Fugitive Slave Act U.S. and it's *weird* how people respond with interest to the former but total confusion to the latter
January 13, 2026 at 2:30 PM
There are lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to Nazi Germany and there are also lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to the post-1850 Fugitive Slave Act U.S. and it's *weird* how people respond with interest to the former but total confusion to the latter
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This is honestly the point they make it impossible to comply so they always have a reason to do what they want
It's impossible to comply with these goons, they tell her to go, she starts to go....and then the guy runs up and smashes the window and they all surround her and drag her out. Criminals doing carjackings are more organized than this
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
January 13, 2026 at 8:56 PM
This is honestly the point they make it impossible to comply so they always have a reason to do what they want
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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
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I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch.
It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵
It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵
January 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch.
It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵
It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵
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This is the mission, this is the work, this is what's left to us.
Instead of building a finer world, together, we work and struggle in the mud to survive this one, and to protect and uplift as many people as we can, for as long as we can, before eventually it is our turn to become mud, too.
Instead of building a finer world, together, we work and struggle in the mud to survive this one, and to protect and uplift as many people as we can, for as long as we can, before eventually it is our turn to become mud, too.
If I can meaningfully obstruct fascism I will, if I can protect other people from fascism I will, and if all I can do is refuse to pretend I'll just do that, then.
September 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is the mission, this is the work, this is what's left to us.
Instead of building a finer world, together, we work and struggle in the mud to survive this one, and to protect and uplift as many people as we can, for as long as we can, before eventually it is our turn to become mud, too.
Instead of building a finer world, together, we work and struggle in the mud to survive this one, and to protect and uplift as many people as we can, for as long as we can, before eventually it is our turn to become mud, too.
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Just read this. It's sobering to see the brightest young organizers in our community wrung out like this.
If you'll indulge me, here's a shorter and milder thread of my own echoing some of these sentiments. 1/?
If you'll indulge me, here's a shorter and milder thread of my own echoing some of these sentiments. 1/?
Let me clear something up.
I spent almost every waking hour from 2021 - 2024 thinking of how to persuade and recruit people to agitate against rising fascism.
And on November 6th, 2025, I understood my role had changed.
Prevention was no longer possible. Now we fight like hell to survive.
I spent almost every waking hour from 2021 - 2024 thinking of how to persuade and recruit people to agitate against rising fascism.
And on November 6th, 2025, I understood my role had changed.
Prevention was no longer possible. Now we fight like hell to survive.
September 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Just read this. It's sobering to see the brightest young organizers in our community wrung out like this.
If you'll indulge me, here's a shorter and milder thread of my own echoing some of these sentiments. 1/?
If you'll indulge me, here's a shorter and milder thread of my own echoing some of these sentiments. 1/?
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This is the real shit. This is fascism.
Until you acknowledge reality, you cannot meaningfully participate in creating a better reality, a reality we all deserve.
Until you acknowledge reality, you cannot meaningfully participate in creating a better reality, a reality we all deserve.
August 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This is the real shit. This is fascism.
Until you acknowledge reality, you cannot meaningfully participate in creating a better reality, a reality we all deserve.
Until you acknowledge reality, you cannot meaningfully participate in creating a better reality, a reality we all deserve.
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Good.
Appeals Court Upholds Carroll’s $83 Million Judgment Against Trump
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Good.
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Part of the reason transphobia is so politically convenient is it's "trying to solve" a problem that doesn't exist, so they can keep "trying to solve it".
"Banning trans women from toilets didn't make women remotely safer in public? Well, maybe we need to ban trans women from public in general."
"Banning trans women from toilets didn't make women remotely safer in public? Well, maybe we need to ban trans women from public in general."
The grim reality of not fixing the systemic issues artificially limiting women’s sports while banning trans people and then being surprised that being transphobic didn’t solve anything because it wasn’t a real issue in the first place.
🤮
🤮
September 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Part of the reason transphobia is so politically convenient is it's "trying to solve" a problem that doesn't exist, so they can keep "trying to solve it".
"Banning trans women from toilets didn't make women remotely safer in public? Well, maybe we need to ban trans women from public in general."
"Banning trans women from toilets didn't make women remotely safer in public? Well, maybe we need to ban trans women from public in general."
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This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.
Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.
House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.”
Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests?
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House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social the transphobic group "Green Womens Declaration" have been given a stall at green party conference, this makes the entire conference unsafe for trans people.
What is your position on this?
What is your position on this?
September 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social the transphobic group "Green Womens Declaration" have been given a stall at green party conference, this makes the entire conference unsafe for trans people.
What is your position on this?
What is your position on this?
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I have said this a lot of times, and I'll say it a lot more times - for sports leaders, the main purpose behind banning trans women from sports is to collect praise from media and other people uninterested in women's sports without spending any money or resolving any real problems in women's sports
But they banned trans women from rugby, didn't that fix everything?
September 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I have said this a lot of times, and I'll say it a lot more times - for sports leaders, the main purpose behind banning trans women from sports is to collect praise from media and other people uninterested in women's sports without spending any money or resolving any real problems in women's sports
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A good reminder that despite this administration's actions, vaccinations, and especially childhood vaccinations, remain overwhelmingly popular in the United States. Opposing vaccination is an extreme, unhinged, minority opinion.
Fox: The Florida Surgeon General wants to end vaccine mandates for public schools. Good idea or bad idea?
Doctor: Bad idea. Measles is a wildly contagious virus and there is an incredibly effective vaccine. Nobody would say 'Can I bring a knife to school?' You can't bring measles to school either
Doctor: Bad idea. Measles is a wildly contagious virus and there is an incredibly effective vaccine. Nobody would say 'Can I bring a knife to school?' You can't bring measles to school either
September 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A good reminder that despite this administration's actions, vaccinations, and especially childhood vaccinations, remain overwhelmingly popular in the United States. Opposing vaccination is an extreme, unhinged, minority opinion.
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the conservative project is a project of ensuring unfettered sexual access to women and children for their patriarchs, the right to do anything, anything at all, whenever you want, to people you control completely.
September 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
the conservative project is a project of ensuring unfettered sexual access to women and children for their patriarchs, the right to do anything, anything at all, whenever you want, to people you control completely.
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anyone who's read the account of what he did to Marla Maples can put two and two together here
Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"
September 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
anyone who's read the account of what he did to Marla Maples can put two and two together here
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Whenever you are told that Bond traders are these smart people who should get to control the ebb and flow of money in the economy, remember that Nigel Farage got started as a trader because he played golf with one of his dad's friends.
September 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Whenever you are told that Bond traders are these smart people who should get to control the ebb and flow of money in the economy, remember that Nigel Farage got started as a trader because he played golf with one of his dad's friends.
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When the Stasi asks for your papers, all you have to do is show them your papers and then they famously let you go on living your life. Easy breezy.
This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:
September 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
When the Stasi asks for your papers, all you have to do is show them your papers and then they famously let you go on living your life. Easy breezy.
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Today I asked the government about double standards in the treatment of Palestine Action protesters.
The claim that other protesters would face the same response from the police can't be right.
We are talking about people holding signs...
The claim that other protesters would face the same response from the police can't be right.
We are talking about people holding signs...
September 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Today I asked the government about double standards in the treatment of Palestine Action protesters.
The claim that other protesters would face the same response from the police can't be right.
We are talking about people holding signs...
The claim that other protesters would face the same response from the police can't be right.
We are talking about people holding signs...