Amanda Clegg Lyon
@cleggie32.bsky.social
Lighting Designer. Chicagoan living in NYC. I point lights at things-sometimes people, sometimes trees. It’s a weird life.
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Dems who are willing to throw communities under the bus, including trans communities, we see you. I won’t forget come election time.
December 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Dems who are willing to throw communities under the bus, including trans communities, we see you. I won’t forget come election time.
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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I just want trans people the world over to be able to live in peace, and I don't think that should be an unreasonable ask or expectation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I just want trans people the world over to be able to live in peace, and I don't think that should be an unreasonable ask or expectation.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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shit ain’t over til it’s over
September 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
shit ain’t over til it’s over
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Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...
theonion.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
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Trans rights are human rights.
September 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Trans rights are human rights.
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I have infinitely more respect for a fullblown Walt-is-capitalist-Jesus / second home in Orlando-owning Disney Adult than I do for even the lowest-key Harry Potter casual gcn.ie/j-k-rowling-...
J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-trans organisation
Rowling's organisation will offer financial support to individuals or groups in the UK or Ireland who want to fight trans inclusion.
gcn.ie
September 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I have infinitely more respect for a fullblown Walt-is-capitalist-Jesus / second home in Orlando-owning Disney Adult than I do for even the lowest-key Harry Potter casual gcn.ie/j-k-rowling-...
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Creative spaces are hard enough without predators. Fuck this asshole directly into the sun.
Fuck that guy, eternally. Link within to Lila Shapiro's definitive @nymag.com piece. Using this link because some folks might not be aware that NG is **suing** one of the survivors of his alleged abuse. something something "ally" something something "feminism" www.vulture.com/article/neil...
July 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Creative spaces are hard enough without predators. Fuck this asshole directly into the sun.
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I'm imagining ICE doing to NYC what it's doing to LA — and the people of NYC responding the way people are in LA — and it all happening under Mayor Cuomo. He'll side with ICE, DHS and, of course, the NYPD. This man, who hates the city and doesn't live here, can not become mayor. Don't rank him.
June 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I'm imagining ICE doing to NYC what it's doing to LA — and the people of NYC responding the way people are in LA — and it all happening under Mayor Cuomo. He'll side with ICE, DHS and, of course, the NYPD. This man, who hates the city and doesn't live here, can not become mayor. Don't rank him.
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I’m not putting anyone on a pedestal but at every opportunity to be a shithead who throws marginalized people under a bus this man chooses the opposite and he’s wildly popular because of it and I don’t understand what about that isn’t clicking for other dems
Gov. Tim Walz is doubling down on trans rights — and criticizing members of his party who are retreating — at a time when the issue has become a political lightning rod nationally and back home in Minnesota.
Gov. Tim Walz backs transgender kids as Democrats grapple with debate over sports bans
The Minnesota Democrat has been critical of other members of his party who are retreating at a time when the issue has become a political lightning rod nationally and in Minnesota.
www.startribune.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I’m not putting anyone on a pedestal but at every opportunity to be a shithead who throws marginalized people under a bus this man chooses the opposite and he’s wildly popular because of it and I don’t understand what about that isn’t clicking for other dems
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eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same
May 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same
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hi, friends. This is Cookie the foster cat. He's coming up on 3 months here at Fort Rad, and he could use a forever home. If you're looking for a feline friend, live within 100 miles of NYC, and would like to know more, please DM me! (Or just repost. It's tough out there for rescue orgs rn.) 🍪
May 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
hi, friends. This is Cookie the foster cat. He's coming up on 3 months here at Fort Rad, and he could use a forever home. If you're looking for a feline friend, live within 100 miles of NYC, and would like to know more, please DM me! (Or just repost. It's tough out there for rescue orgs rn.) 🍪
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reposting with alt text bc hell yeah
May 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
reposting with alt text bc hell yeah
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There's simply no ethical way to support Harry Potter in 2025. It's not possible. $0.20 from every dollar you give JK Rowling goes directly to physically harming a trans person and that's not a joke or an exaggeration.
April 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
There's simply no ethical way to support Harry Potter in 2025. It's not possible. $0.20 from every dollar you give JK Rowling goes directly to physically harming a trans person and that's not a joke or an exaggeration.
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REMINDER: if you don’t want Cuomo (or Adams) in power, don’t rank him AT ALL when you vote.
DREAM. Don’t rank Eric [Adams] or Andrew [Cuomo] for mayor.
DREAM. Don’t rank Eric [Adams] or Andrew [Cuomo] for mayor.
Cuomo rolling out his plan to counter antisemitism at the West Side Institutional Synagogue in Manhattan:
“It is very simple: anti-Zionism is antisemitism.”
“It is very simple: anti-Zionism is antisemitism.”
April 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
REMINDER: if you don’t want Cuomo (or Adams) in power, don’t rank him AT ALL when you vote.
DREAM. Don’t rank Eric [Adams] or Andrew [Cuomo] for mayor.
DREAM. Don’t rank Eric [Adams] or Andrew [Cuomo] for mayor.
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Do not rank Andrew Cuomo on your primary ballot. And spread the word.
NEW: As NYC voters tilt slightly toward the center, the left-leaning Working Families Party hopes that a slate of four mayoral candidates will be better than the one moderate rival currently leading the polls, former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. w/ @mayaaking.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/n...
Working Families Party Endorses 4 Candidates in Strategy to Beat Cuomo (Gift Article)
The progressive group backed Brad Lander, Zohran Mamdani, Adrienne Adams and Zellnor Myrie for mayor as part of a broader effort to defeat the former governor, who is leading in the polls.
www.nytimes.com
March 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Do not rank Andrew Cuomo on your primary ballot. And spread the word.
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If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
March 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
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"Their daily fight for this is what keeps it from ever feeling like a history lesson. You know, writing the book is just the tax I pay to get to know them."
niemanstoryboard.org/2025/02/20/a...
#longreads #booksky
niemanstoryboard.org/2025/02/20/a...
#longreads #booksky
Inside the acknowledgments: The making of Wright Thompson’s 'The Barn' - Nieman Storyboard
You can learn a lot from a work of nonfiction by seeing whom the author thanks.
niemanstoryboard.org
February 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"Their daily fight for this is what keeps it from ever feeling like a history lesson. You know, writing the book is just the tax I pay to get to know them."
niemanstoryboard.org/2025/02/20/a...
#longreads #booksky
niemanstoryboard.org/2025/02/20/a...
#longreads #booksky
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I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance.
Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.
Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.
Oh please please i am begging, don't use generative AI for any reason if you can avoid it.
It's being marketed as a quick time-saver, but it's messy, inaccurate, it is putting entire industries of people out of work, and the environmental impacts (energy and water usage) are huge and debilitating.
It's being marketed as a quick time-saver, but it's messy, inaccurate, it is putting entire industries of people out of work, and the environmental impacts (energy and water usage) are huge and debilitating.
February 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance.
Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.
Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.
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Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
February 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
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Major demo for trans youth coming up by Act Up, GLM, & Transformative Schools following numerous NYC hospitals preemptively ending gender-affirming care for minors in violation of New York state law, which this past election enshrined trans rights into law.
Saturday at 1pm, Union Square.
Saturday at 1pm, Union Square.
February 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Major demo for trans youth coming up by Act Up, GLM, & Transformative Schools following numerous NYC hospitals preemptively ending gender-affirming care for minors in violation of New York state law, which this past election enshrined trans rights into law.
Saturday at 1pm, Union Square.
Saturday at 1pm, Union Square.
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Congestion Pricing is creating tremendous benefits.
Subway Ridership: ⬆️ 13%
Bus Ridership: ⬆️ 6% (⬆️ 21% weekends)
Transit Crime: 🔻36%
Fatal Car Crashes: 🔻44%
Trip Times: 🔻10-30%
Subway Ridership: ⬆️ 13%
Bus Ridership: ⬆️ 6% (⬆️ 21% weekends)
Transit Crime: 🔻36%
Fatal Car Crashes: 🔻44%
Trip Times: 🔻10-30%
February 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Congestion Pricing is creating tremendous benefits.
Subway Ridership: ⬆️ 13%
Bus Ridership: ⬆️ 6% (⬆️ 21% weekends)
Transit Crime: 🔻36%
Fatal Car Crashes: 🔻44%
Trip Times: 🔻10-30%
Subway Ridership: ⬆️ 13%
Bus Ridership: ⬆️ 6% (⬆️ 21% weekends)
Transit Crime: 🔻36%
Fatal Car Crashes: 🔻44%
Trip Times: 🔻10-30%
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YET ANOTHER STUDY shows that a tiny number of children are diagnosed with gender dysphoria and an even tinier fraction receive puberty blockers or hormones.
Anyone still pretending there is a "debate" about this is willfully ignoring all of the available data.
gidmk.substack.com/p/gender-dys...
Anyone still pretending there is a "debate" about this is willfully ignoring all of the available data.
gidmk.substack.com/p/gender-dys...
January 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
YET ANOTHER STUDY shows that a tiny number of children are diagnosed with gender dysphoria and an even tinier fraction receive puberty blockers or hormones.
Anyone still pretending there is a "debate" about this is willfully ignoring all of the available data.
gidmk.substack.com/p/gender-dys...
Anyone still pretending there is a "debate" about this is willfully ignoring all of the available data.
gidmk.substack.com/p/gender-dys...