Cheryl M 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦
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Cheryl M 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦
@greatbigc.bsky.social
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consider getting your news coverage and commentary from the cool kids, idk 💅
Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
August 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Baby Dolphin Break
July 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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The problem isn't trans people and immigrants it's billionaires and fascists.
July 8, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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This is oligarchy. This is obscene.

While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.

End this oligarchy.
June 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
People really do not get how AI works...
Enjoying the emerging genre of posts by scholars who are reviewing applications/manuscripts which cite works by themselves that they never wrote, courtesy AI. Waiting for my turn!
June 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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As @velshi.com says, these are people's lives. Cannot fathom how it is all right to tell them they should not exist. #VelshiBannedBookClub #Velshi
A group of Maryland parents have put “Pride Puppy!” – an alphabet book about a puppy at a Pride parade – at the center of a Supreme Court case. Author @robinstevenson.bsky.social joins the #Velshi="/hashtag/VelshiBannedBookClub" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#VelshiBannedBookClub @12pET on the high stakes for authors, access & what it means for LGBT+ families. #Velshi
May 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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(Read Velshi below)
Please consider purchasing "Pride Puppy" 🐶 to show support for author Robin Stevenson & illustrator Julie McLaughlin - and to show support for ALL LGBTQ! 🏳️‍🌈
💙
#BlueCrew
#StongerTogether
#UniteBlue
@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social
@bluestormcomin1.bsky.social
@claynobles.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I'll be talking about Pride Puppy with Ali Velshi on MSNBC today. #VelshiBannedBookClub
A group of Maryland parents have put “Pride Puppy!” – an alphabet book about a puppy at a Pride parade – at the center of a Supreme Court case. Author @robinstevenson.bsky.social joins the #Velshi="/hashtag/VelshiBannedBookClub" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#VelshiBannedBookClub @12pET on the high stakes for authors, access & what it means for LGBT+ families. #Velshi
May 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
YES!
"As a western Canadian book awards organization, we can’t help but be deeply disturbed by the growing trend of politicians politicizing education which directly targets marginalized authors, illustrators, and students."
Read the full statement here: bcyukonbookprizes.com/2025/05/30/s...
May 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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THIS. Alberta's government is listening to a far-right Christian nationalist group- Action 4 Canada, a group that promotes anti-LGBTQ hate- while ignoring the expertise of the teachers and librarians who work in the provinces' public schools.

www.libraryassociationalberta.com/news/laa-let...
LAA Letter to Minister Nicolaides - 05-29-2025 : Library Association news for Library Association of Alberta in Alberta Canada
LAA Letter to Minister Nicolaides : The LAA continues our advocacy work in relation to Minister Nicolaides' May 26, 2025 announcement regarding new policy to govern materials available in school libri...
www.libraryassociationalberta.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Cool. Of course it's cats so how they use that info is up to them lol
May 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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I listened to this on the way to the office today and it was such an antidote to the usual drek that is today’s news.
May 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A great explanation of the misinformation being created by Justice Gorsuch at SCOTUS - WHICH IS SO FUCKING APPALLING - and how it contributes to book bans...and why that's a problem.
May 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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RFK Jr's "MAHA" report is filled with references to studies that literally do not exist, or that completely misinterpret the studies' findings.

“We did not publish a paper.. on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title,” says one cited researcher.

www.notus.org/health-scien...
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
www.notus.org
May 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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"Come on, baby, I know I said you were worthless and I didn't need you and I made jokes about leaving you nonstop, but I swear I'm a nice guy, baby, gimme a second chance, pleeeease"

globalnews.ca/news/1119560...
U.S. senators urge Canada to ‘give us another chance’ on trade, tourism - National | Globalnews.ca
Republican and Democratic U.S. senators who visited Ottawa this past weekend say they want to bolster the Canada-U.S. relationship despite U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war.
globalnews.ca
May 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"Patients that were seen at the gender clinic before the age of 18 had a lower risk of suicide compared to those referred as an adult.”
In case y'all missed it - Utah Republicans ordered a study on transgender healthcare, expecting it to come back unsupportive.

Instead, it found that trans youth care was safe and effective, and that transgender youth need it.

Whoops.

www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?
The Utah Legislature's own newly-released study found that gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Now, will lawmakers lift the treatment ban?
www.sltrib.com
May 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Review bombing sucks. Pride Puppy has had great reviews since 2021- and now, thanks to Neal Gorsuch, Moms 4 Bigotry, and Fox News, over 20% are one star reviews saying horrible things. But also, I am so grateful to all these lovely folks who have actually read our book and called out the haters 💜
May 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Canadian jurisdictions were listed on a U.S. gov’t site that encouraged snitching on doctors providing trans health care.

After journalist Ophélie Dénommée-Marchand pressed the department about it, those jurisdictions were quietly removed.

Her story: breachmedia.ca/trump-admin-...
Trump admin anti-trans snitch site targeted Canadian doctors ⋆ The Breach
Canadian jurisdictions were included on a U.S. ‘whistleblower’ form targetting trans care providers—and then were quietly removed after media enquiries
breachmedia.ca
May 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Auschwitz Exhibition
May 11 at 3:10 PM

"That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well"-Jewish writer Heinrich Heine on his play Almansor, 1821.
May 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Fox News is always so desperate.
May 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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unless I can buy "guaranteed won't get detained and sent to a concentration camp" vouchers for me and a few million other people that's a no for me dog
Seattle, feeling the pinch from lack of Canadian tourism with border crossings down 50%, have started a tourism campaign where local restaurants/hotels take Canadian dollars at par this weekend for the annual Jays-Mariners series
May 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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My aunt, the doctor,
told me a new joke.
She asked:

What happens
when your country shuts down
the Centers for Disease Control’s
infection control committee?

I said I did not know,
so she added.

Your country becomes
the center for diseases.

And then neither of us laughed.
May 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM