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Atheist, Anti-Fascist, Bookish 📚, 🐈🐈‍⬛
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heathenrevolution.bsky.social
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November 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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As a “New Atheist” of the early 2000s, I knew it was crucial to stop the Religious Right from destroying the wall separating Church & State. But even I didn’t think that by 2025 the President would green light sending ppl to Guantanamo for being “anti-Christian.” skepchick.org/2025/10/trum...
Trump Declares Atheists are Terrorists
Transcript: I know things are pretty depressing right now in the United States, so I’m going to open today’s video with some good news: Jimmy Kimmel is back! His show was taken off the air because …
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October 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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skepchick.org
It's understandable if you missed or forgot when, two weeks ago, an American public university fired three people for telling students that LGBTQ+ people exist. I think it's worth keeping it on our radar because it's extremely fucked up skepchick.org/2025/09/fire...
Fired for Mentioning LGBTQ People Exist
Transcript: About 3,000 news cycles ago, by which I mean about two weeks ago, a video hit social media, showing a college student at Texas A&M challenging her professor. (Plays video) When I fi…
skepchick.org
September 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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resistancerangers.altgov.info
🎙️✨ We interrupt your regularly scheduled
doomscrolling to bring you:

Resistance Rangers
On the Air

🙌 Our brand new podcast!
“Resistance Rangers On The Air” circles around a skull with a ranger hat, glasses that shine with LGBTQ pride flags, head phones, and instead of crossbones, cross microphones. The background is light green with radio waves a faded background of the Stonewall Inn today, as Stonewall National Monument. Words say “Episode 1 catches you up on the current insanity at the National Park Service and in the federal government. Then we dive into Stonewall National Monument!” A black and white image of Marsha P. Johnson among other LGBTQ supporters at the top. At the bottom is the image of the trans flag proudly waving at Yosemite. In the foreground are words that say “As our only national park site dedicated to LGBTQ+ civil rights, Stonewall stands in conversation with other historic American protest movements From Seneca Falls to Selma All reminding us the fight for civil rights is intersectional and ongoing. “ image background is a sunset over the DC mall with a view of the Washington monument. The words say “Yearning for more? There is always good trouble you can get into on our website and socials Info in bio!”
July 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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resistancerangers.altgov.info
📡 Broadcasting from the belly of bureaucracy
🎧 Real stories, rogue rangers, and righteous rage
🔥 Because truth deserves a mic, and fascists hate fun

The first episode will catch you up on the insanity going on so far, and then dive into Stonewall
National Monument.
July 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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resistancerangers.altgov.info
Monthly main shows + bonus episodes in between.

Link in bio. Tune in, hold fast, resist loud,
and Ranger on ✊

#PodcastLaunch #LGBTQHistory #ProtectandPreserve
July 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
heathenrevolution.bsky.social
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genderhorizon.com M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · Jun 30
We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.
Project 2052 — Common Notions Press
Project 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.
www.commonnotions.org
July 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
heathenrevolution.bsky.social
WTF? And we're supposed to think DJT's Regime is going to take care of our people that they kidnap off the streets?!
July 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
heathenrevolution.bsky.social
Seems we can't stand up and protest without a threat on our lives. That's when we will find heros in places you didn't think you would find them.
A seamstress who sews pretty dresses. Now sews body armor. She's a bad ass whether she knows it or not ✊🏼🖤🏴
It’s so funny I used to really want to join the army as a kid until I was in like 4th grade history class. The typo is an algorithmic strategy okay?? repost but I’m trying to get it eligible for th...
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July 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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jim-stewartson.bsky.social
In 1938, Hitler launched “Work-Shy Reich” a program to remove the homeless, beggars & mentally ill from the streets & forcibly institutionalize them.

Today, Donald Trump launched “ENDING CRIME AND DISORDER ON AMERICA’S STREETS”—which is the same thing. 🚨
www.mind-war.com/p/taking-akt...
Taking Aktion: Trump’s Plan to Disappear the “Work-Shy”
We are staring into the abyss of systematic mass cleansing that mankind might not recover from without intervention
www.mind-war.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
heathenrevolution.bsky.social
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Learning Together From Uprisings (InterRebellium with sub.Media)
Podcast Episode · The Final Straw Radio · 07/06/2025 · 51m
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July 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
heathenrevolution.bsky.social
"Disability is a minority group that anyone can join at anytime. The definition which is neither binary nor permanent"
*Richard Amm* of DARK - Disability Action Research Kollective
Anarchism and Disability, plus A-Radio Segments
Podcast Episode · The Final Straw Radio · 06/15/2025 · 1h 1m
podcasts.apple.com
July 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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downtownbatman.bsky.social
Join me tonight in fighting for our community. Trump signed an executive order encouraging forced institutionalization of homeless people can not and will NOT be tolerated.
July 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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birchbot.bsky.social
🗣️ WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THIS WEEK - July 14-27

Please share this flyer far and wide! Print and post them everywhere - hand them out at your next Tesla Takedown, at your church, at your grocery store!

We are all we’ve got! And everyone has something to give. 💜
Executive Order to Lock up People Experiencing Homelessness and People with Mental Illness On Thursday, Trump signed a new EO that aims to put people experiencing homelessness and/or people with mental illness in jail or institutions. It plans to do so through several ways: To provide assistance and funding to States who seek to relax laws on involuntary “civil commitment, institutional treatment, and step-down treatment standards” for people with serious mental illness who “pose a danger to others or are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves.” The definition of what poses a danger to others is completely subjective and will be left up to law enforcement to decide. To prioritize funding to states who “enforce prohibitions on open illicit drug use, urban camping and loitering, and urban squatting.” It will prioritize funding to municipalities which take steps to remove homeless people from public places and put them into institutions under the guise of “mental health and substance use treatment.” What this means is they mean to take funding from states which don't criminalize homelessness and shift funding to states who are willing to arrest people experiencing homelessness. Note the use of “urban” which is directly aimed at Democratic cities. Homelessness looks much different in rural areas. Eliminating the “Housing First” model. The Housing First model works by assuming that shelter or housing should be the first step for a person in need of services. Once the person is housed, then they can have the opportunity to engage in whatever other services they need to achieve long term housing stability. Would you be able to focus on your mental health or maintain a job if you were sleeping outside? No. Housing First is the model because IT WORKS. Instead of following this research backed model, the Trump Administration wants to tie funding to the requirement that someone enter treatment “as a condition” of participation in a housing program. Call your Senators and Representatives Tell them to sign on as a sponsor for the Housing, Not Handcuffs legislation introduced by Rep. Pramila Jayapal and Rep. Maxwell Frost https://housingnothandcuffs.org/hnhact/ Protest through strategic non-cooperation Indivisible is training people across the country on what this looks like and how to build it into your fight against authoritarianism. https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/803953/?utm_source=indivisible&utm_medium=homepage Learn more about the causes and solutions to homelessness The US Interagency Council on Homelessness has been disbanded by the Trump administration but they information is still available on their website. This council was established by Congress and yet, the Federal government is now going against its own recommendations and research with this new executive order. https://usich.gov/guidance-reports-data/data-trends Donate to your local homeless shelter Even in the best of times, homeless shelters are vastly underfunded. With the cuts to rental assistance and low income housing programs, the number of people experiencing homelessness is going to increase substantially. They need your help. https://www.hud.gov/findshelter
July 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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anarchoterran.bsky.social
It's clear that Trump wants the homeless, drug addicts, and the mentally ill to be interned in concentration camps, just like Hitler.

Legally, an executive order cannot force the states to do this. Any state complying is complicit.
July 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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pinkzombierose.bsky.social
This is why I’ve been making such a noise about disability rights + telling my disability story. While you may not be disabled now, you could get sick, be injured, have a mental health crisis, miss a few paychecks, end up homeless. This is any of us and all of us.
OH HEY ITS THE EUGENICS OF DISABLED PEOPLE WE ALL TOLD YOU WAS COMING ACLU @aclu.org • 1h BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities. July 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM & Some people can reply
July 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing speaks out on behalf of the homeless in the US and says the Trump administration executive order violates both US and international law:
UN Special Rapporteur... @adequatehousing Follow I condemn this executive order by the US President to criminalize homelessness in the US in violation of both US law and international law. I have condemned this approach already in a UN report last year and call States in the US not to cooperate. The WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets From whitehouse.gov 11:42 PM • 7/25/25 • 5.1K Views
July 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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citizenscreen.bsky.social
Yesterday, “Trump signs an executive order to make it easier to remove homeless people from streets.”

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July 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Two days ago I posted about how many folks said disabled people who can’t cook for themselves should be institutionalized.

Today Trump signs an executive order permitting the arrest and institutionalization of homeless people & those with mental disabilities.

Eugenics.
July 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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patti3333.bsky.social
Trump signs executive order to remove homeless people .
Homeless people are not criminals !!
If not stopped they will be dragged off without due process
CRUELTY IS THE NEW NORM
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July 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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brian-goldstone.bsky.social
Predictable, but no less shocking or reprehensible: Trump just signed an executive order urging states to forcibly institutionalize homeless people, defund Housing First, criminalize encampments, and cut aid to cities that don't comply.
Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
July 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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clairezagorski.bsky.social
Cannot emphasize this enough.

On the whole, police don’t solve crimes for shit, and they don’t prevent crimes for shit. They are actively bad at both. The average Law & Order fan would be stunned to tears after following around real cops for a day.
July 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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qasimrashid.com
Dem Party: We are spending $20M to figure out how to talk to male voters.

Mamdani: Save your money. I have +45 favorability with male voters & +73 with men under 45. Endorse me.

Dem Party: No way dude. Now—why is our favorability is -54? Let's spend $20M on wealthy consultants to figure it out!
July 19, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
I refuse to give the NYT my eyeballs, so I can't speak to the specifics of this article. But any historians attempting to use AI for either writing or research should be run out of the field. AI is inherently unable to do anything we need it to do to understand and communicate history.
mkn.bsky.social Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · Jun 16
Lots of commentary on this piece already, all of which I agree with.

For historians, research is a fundamental part of writing.

To farm it out to AI changes the nature of this intellectual process in fundamental ways.

And as Stacy Schiff points out, it also takes all the fun out of it.
A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.
www.nytimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM