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AmIworking Onmyresearch?
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I have a lot of research to do but I also miss people who live far away. I miss farming and feeding everyone but I guess what I do now is important, too.
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eladn.bsky.social
Scoop from @jewishcurrents.bsky.social: The ADL is dropping its anti-bias training, and also "deleted lesson plans on topics such as transgender identity, white privilege, school integration, and the impact of boarding schools on Native Americans."

Very clear the org is going hard right.
ADL Shutters Flagship Anti-Bias Program
Former employees say the organization is shifting away from educational content on racism and the LGBTQ experience and focusing more exclusively on…
jewishcurrents.org
March 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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amandasmith.bsky.social
Fellow Jews, it’s time: we need to form some sort of anti-defamation league to fight what the ADL is trying to do in our name.
nick-martin.bsky.social Nick Martin @nick-martin.bsky.social · Mar 27
The Anti-Defamation League is making a big last-minute push for an anti-masking law in New York under the woefully and historically misguided belief that the law will fight antisemitism. This email went out to the organization's mailing list this afternoon.
Take Action: Tell NY Leadership to UnMaskHate External Inbox Summarize this email Scott Richman .... to me Unsubscribe View in browser ADL NEW YORK/NEW JERSEY Serving New York State, Northern & Central New Jersey Dear Nick, We are reaching out with an urgent request regarding #UnMaskHateNY a critical piece of legislation that will help curb masked harassment and intimidation while still allowing anyone to wear a mask for their health or religious beliefs, and who is not engaging in menacing or harassing conduct. The NY legislature is currently considering UnMaskHate, and we need you to let them know that you support this bill. Passing this into law would promote safety on campuses and in our communities by prohibiting menacing or threatening behavior while wearing a mask. You can find out more about this bill here. By clicking on the link below, you will be able to send a letter Governor Hochul, Speaker Heastie and Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins to let them know how important it is to you that they act to counter masked harassment and intimidation. Please take just 5 minutes to send this action alert today by clicking the button below and filling in your information. Your voice is incredibly impactful in ensuring that New York State prioritizes public safety and protects communities from masked harassment and intimidation. TELL NY LEADERSHIP TO UNMASKHATE Your advocacy makes a difference. Thank you for your time and commitment to this crucial effort. And feel free to share the alert with any friends or family who are New York residents. Thank you for your help in the fight against antisemitism! B'shalom, Scott Scott Richman Regional Director ADL New York/New Jersey
March 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
Meanwhile, Krome Detention Center in FL is so overcrowded, people are dying. A single cup of water a day, crowded in like pens. Starved. This is how death camps start. Don't look away.
March 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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denisenorris.bsky.social
And look what snuck in a proposed rule change for Affordable Care Act.👇

"...prohibit issuers of coverage subject to EHB [essential health benefits] requirements from providing coverage for sex-trait modification as an EHB."

Add a comment & say fuck no!

Make this viral!

H/T @scrappyaf.bsky.social
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and Affordability
This proposed rule would revise standards relating to past-due premium payments; exclude Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients from the definition of "lawfully present"; the evidentiary st...
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March 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
Nauseating ruling that previous HHS requirements prohibiting trans children from being placed with deliberately unaffirming foster families violates Texas law. In part, they argue it would interfere with the ability of DFPS to investigate affirming families.
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS TYLER DIVISION STATE OF TEXAS, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, et al., Defendants. § § § § § § § § § § § § § Case No. 6:24-cv-348-JDK MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER In 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) imposed a nationwide rule requiring experimental and controversial treatment on our nation’s most vulnerable: children in foster care. The problem for HHS here is that the agency lacks any statutory authority to do so. Finally, the Rule likely conflicts with Texas law. For example, Texas prohibits providing to minors several medical procedures for "the purpose of transitioning a child's biological sex" or "affirming the child's perception of the child's sex" if "inconsistent with the child's biological sex. See TEX. HEALTH & SAFETY CODE $ 161.702; Docket No. 19-1 41 16-17 (noting that such procedures may constitute child abuse under Texas law). These prohibitions are inconsistent with the Final Rule, which requires that "LGBTQI+ children receive an environment that will "support the child's LGBTQI+ status or identity and "facilitate" the child's access to "age- or developmentally appropriate services that are supportive of their sexual orientation and gender identity or expression. 45 C.F.R. $ 1355.22()(1)@)-(ii), (e). Nor could DFPS investigate potential child abuse or prohibited medical procedures without violating the Final Rule's retaliation provisions, which bar any attempt at "conversion therapy, the restriction of a "LGBTQI+ child's" access to "age- or developmentally appropriate materials, the disclosure of a child's perceived "LGBTQI+ status or identity" in a way that causes harm or risk to the child, using information about the child's claimed "LGBTQI+ status or identity" to initiate or sustain a child protection investigation, or taking action against caregivers who support a child's purported "LGBTQI+ status or identity. Id. $ 1355.22(d)(2)(i)-(vi). This conflict between Texas law and the Final Rule constitutes irreparable harm. See Texas v. Becerra, 2024 WL 3297147, at *10 (holding that irreparable injury occurs where a federal agency interferes with the enforcement of state law) (collecting cases); Wyeth v. Levine, 555 U.S. 555, 576 (2009) (recognizing that "an agency regulation with the force of law can pre-empt conflicting state requirements") Signature page the reasons stated above, Texas's motion (Docket No. 19) is GRANTED. Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that the Final Rule entitled "Designated Placement Requirements Under Titles IV-E and IV-B for LGBTQI+ Children" 89 Fed. Reg. 34,818 (Apr. 30, 2024), and its corresponding regulation codified at 45 C.F.R. $ 1355.22, are STAYED pending conclusion of this proceeding. So ORDERED and SIGNED this 12th day of March, 2025. D kee JEREMY D. KERNODLE
March 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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kathryntewson.bsky.social
If you work in a job with legal, ethical, or public policy implications;

and your job involves performing work to effectuate decisions made by people above you without your direct input;

start thinking NOW about what kinds of instructions you will refuse, and how you will refuse them.
March 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Collaborators with the fascists.
March 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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mombian.bsky.social
Love this! ❤️
March 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
farmrrr.bsky.social
The Fortunate Fall is one of my all time favorites. I picked it up in the late 90s in a mall bookstore, years before I came out as trans. I held onto it for years and then started buying used copies for all my friends. Now it has a second printing and an audiobook recording. I needed this good news.
March 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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wizardsvslesbians.bsky.social
The author of the Fortunate Fall joins us to discuss a book which is about the internet (astonishingly prescient), desire (rather quaint) and dinner parties (terrifying, as usual.)
Wizards Vs. Lesbians: BONUS: STARS IN MY POCKET LIKE GRAINS OF SAND
We kick off a new series of author's choice episodes with Cameron Reed, who has brought us a novel you can chew on like the ragged edge of a thumbnail. 
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March 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
this is why I once told someone I'm too Black to be transphobic lol like I know as soon as we start trying to limit and define womanhood and put Real, Proper Women in a box, Black women are gonna find ourselves outside of it
leftistlawyer.com Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine @leftistlawyer.com · Mar 8
One FULLY INTENDED effect of transphobia is to remove Black and other racialized women from the category of "women" and restrict womanhood to cis white conventionally attractive women who can bear children. It's all part of a white supremacist project.
shoshana.bsky.social Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · Mar 7
Walmart called the police on a cis-woman using the women's bathroom.

Even after proving she's a woman, "one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she 'looked like a man.'"

😡 😡 😡
March 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
Did you know you can get the entire Bikini Kill discography, and some extras, all as a bundle on their bandcanp? Now you know that.
March 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
While Trump continues to weave increasingly deranged conspiracy theories about rogue state employees secretly making children trans, bills like these would not only allow conversion in foster care, but require courts to side with non-affirming parents in custody matters.
legiscan.com/SC/text/S024...
(B)(1) In any court or agency proceeding regarding child custody, welfare, abuse, neglect, or foster care placement, the act of affirming a child's biological sex shall be considered a positive factor in determining the best interests of the child. (2) Affirming a child's biological sex shall never be treated as a negative factor or as evidence of abuse, neglect, or unfit parenting. (C) Parents, legal guardians, and foster caregivers in South Carolina have the right to encourage, guide, or counsel a child to align with their biological sex, even if the child has expressed gender confusion. This right shall be protected and shall not be grounds for a negative determination in parental evaluations, custody hearings, or foster care placements. (D)(1) South Carolina agencies responsible for foster care placements shall consider the affirmation of a child's biological sex as a positive factor when determining the suitability of prospective foster homes. (2) Foster parents who encourage a child to identify with their biological sex shall not face discrimination in the foster care placement process.
March 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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transmenacebmore.bsky.social
Amplifying from the wonderful Trans Maryland:
For the entire month of March, you can donate to Trans Maryland and support Red Emma's Bookstore and Coffee House!

Make a purchase at Red Emma's and, while paying, you can add a donation to Trans Maryland.

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March 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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lateonsetgirl.bsky.social
Here are the opening paragraphs of my just-announced novel, WHAT WE ARE SEEKING.

"On the Free Ship _Edgar’s Folly_, traveling away from Essius at ninety-nine one hundredths of the speed of light, it was the last day of summer...."
On the Free Ship Edgar’s Folly, traveling away from Essius at ninety-nine one hundredths of the speed of light, it was the last day of summer. Tomorrow the ship’s engines would begin to sing, and everything that floated now would fall. The aft walls would become floors. Corridors would be converted back to elevator shafts, and where now the ship-folk glided freely back and forward through the air, they would be carried down and up in closed chambers. The informality of summer would give way to rank and hierarchy, bright clothes would be exchanged for uniforms; and on the old bridge, after the harvest feast, the summer captain would be laid to rest beneath the stars. Winter was coming early, and it would be a hard one: brief days at the gravity of lost Earth, long nights at twice as much. A message had come in, that was what everyone said; the ship would slow down just enough to send rescue. It was, they said, unprecedented. But if the sudden change of seasons had unsettled them, they were too busy to let it show. In one day the life of the ship, that had expanded into three dimensions in the summer, had to be compressed back into two. The toolbox fastened by a thin strip of elastic to a wall, the winter cookware webbed into a forward corner, the fish tank held by magnets to what soon would be a ceiling, each had to find a place where winter’s gravity would let it rest. And, from all the hidden spaces of the ship where they were kept, the parts of beds were being brought out: beams of metal and planks of wood, and what the ship called mattresses—which did not mean cloth made fat with moss or windweed silk, but great deflated bladders to be filled with water as a cushion against gravity. The comfort of beds was an intense preoccupation with them, for those who stayed awake in summer felt the winter in their bones. John Maraintha, who had been summoned to attend the captain and did not know why, kept to the edges and moved slowly. He had thought the ship’s ventral corridor, being widest, would be his easiest way to the old bridge, but now he realized his mistake: this was tomorrow’s cargo elevator, and everything unwieldy had to come through here. Up and down the shaft as far as he could see, ship-folk guiding or towing their burdens launched themselves on long diagonals, missing each other by instinct and the imperceptible communication of the space-born. They could all see each other’s next move in the set of a hand on a guide track, the tension in a leg or shoulder. John, not fluent in that language, could only try to make his path predictable. He clutched his bag tight, wondering if he should have left it behind. Nothing could make it practical in summer—it would not hang from his shoulder properly, and he had to bind it to him with a piece of borrowed netting, making a cumbersome mass above his hip. But he might need the medicines contained in it, and he liked to keep it with him, the only thing he had from home that mattered. The bag’s body was only waxed canvas, but the strap was a length of his great-uncle’s soul.
November 13, 2024 at 1:32 AM
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charliejane.bsky.social
This is huge and monstrous. The nasal vaccines are our only hope of getting back to a world where you don't have to fear getting covid indoors. I would like to stop masking some day, and they're going to make it impossible.
February 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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transexualmenace.bsky.social
We are absolutely back. Catch the cofounder on Twitch tonight 6pm EST with Assigned Media!

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butchbobross.bsky.social Ace @butchbobross.bsky.social · Feb 24
me waking up today to find that @transexualmenace.bsky.social is active again
a 4 panel meme with a person laying on a couch next to a tv screen. in the first panel, the speech bubble reads “oh, trans organizers, i’m feeling real low” , the second panel is the tv screen with the logo for the transexual menace on it with a speech bubble reading “we’re back”, panel 3 has the person staring at the ceiling with no speech bubble, panel 4 has them propped on one elbow, with the speech bubble reading “oh shit, for real?”
February 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
farmrrr.bsky.social
The question was if he’s worried… I doubt anything worries this guy. This is what they want, and he had yet another platform to say it out loud.
aridrennen.bsky.social Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · Feb 22
PBS Newshour gave a twelve minute interview to Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, who has called for the “eradication” of trans people from society
Image 1: A screenshot of a PBS NewsHour article titled “Commentator Michael Knowles on Trump’s power and the conservative movement,” published on February 20, 2025, at 6:35 PM EST. The article is authored by Amna Nawaz and discusses the Trump administration’s early policy changes and their impact on American institutions. The transcript section is selected, revealing an introductory paragraph summarizing the discussion between Amna Nawaz and conservative commentator Michael Knowles. A continuation of the PBS NewsHour transcript showing an exchange between Amna Nawaz and Michael Knowles. Nawaz asks about Knowles’ use of the word “eradicate,” questioning whether it puts a target on people’s backs. Knowles responds, “Well, you know what the word eradicate means,” followed by Nawaz pressing further on the potential harm of such language. Knowles dismisses the concern with “Certainly not,” and the transcript ends with “(Laughter).”
February 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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translash.org
In this week’s episode of TransLash Podcast, @imarajones.bsky.social delves back into the past for Black History Month to unearth the stories of two 19th century Black trans women, Mary Jones and Frances Thompson.

🎧 now on Apple Podcast or Spotify!
February 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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stevanzetti.bsky.social
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
www.texasobserver.org
February 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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maskuppgh.bsky.social
Please tell everyone you know who isn’t a total Covid denialist to order these tests to 1.
Provide evidence that this a popular program 2.
Prevent hundreds of millions of dollars of tests from being disposed of

covidtests.gov
February 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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sleeparks.bsky.social
The national Archivist has important roles in other areas besides presidential documents… and we should be alarmed. action.everylibrary.org/we_should_al...?
We Should All Be Paying Attention To What's Happening to the National Archives
Guest post from Dominic Byrd-McDevitt: Open knowledge advocate | Dedicated to building community and serving the public interest via data & tech.
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February 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
Department of Education FAFSA changes are open for public comment. The changes include requiring trans students to misgender themselves and removes the nonbinary option on forms. Note: comment period is 60 days, and comments are publicly visible.

Form here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Education published the information collection for the 2026-27 Free Application for Federal Student Aid ( FAFSA®) form in the Federal Register, the first public step in the FAFSA development process. The Department is on track to launch the 2026-27 FAFSA by Oct. 1, 2025 as mandated by the FAFSA Deadline Act. The Department also announced that current and future FAFSA forms will rightfully reflect the biological reality that there are only two sexes: male and female. Department officials will remove “nonbinary” as a gender identification option from the current year’s FAFSA form. “The Trump Administration will correct the failures of the last Administration and ensure students and families can easily access the FAFSA form in a timely manner,” said Acting Under Secretary James Bergeron. “Resolving ongoing problems with the 2024-25 form, reflecting biological reality by referencing sex identifiers, and beginning the process for the 2026-27 form on-time will allow the Department to earn back the trust of the American people. Families and students depend on the FAFSA form to plan their futures, and any release delays or unnecessary politicization of the form is wholly unacceptable.” Screenshot showing open comment form on federal register site
February 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM