Joni Rae (she/her)
@joniroberta.bsky.social
avid cook, frequent exerciser, learning to sing.
Also TG
AKA squirrelelite
Also TG
AKA squirrelelite
Best of luck, Alex!
What Alex Uballez discovered about Albuquerque politics (and himself) running for mayor citydesk.org/2025/12/22/w...
What Alex Uballez discovered about Albuquerque politics (and himself) running for mayor citydesk.org/2025/12/22/w...
What Alex Uballez discovered about Albuquerque politics (and himself) running for mayor
“To move to a world in which so much operates off of power, off of money, off of favors and relationships that circle around power — to see it up close is different…” Six weeks after finishing third i...
citydesk.org
December 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Best of luck, Alex!
What Alex Uballez discovered about Albuquerque politics (and himself) running for mayor citydesk.org/2025/12/22/w...
What Alex Uballez discovered about Albuquerque politics (and himself) running for mayor citydesk.org/2025/12/22/w...
Cute! I laughed all through it.
Not the usual part of Downfall for parodies, but these scenes work great!
It does help if you have some familiarity with Scottish history.
Not the usual part of Downfall for parodies, but these scenes work great!
It does help if you have some familiarity with Scottish history.
So, Herr Starmer is going to be visiting Scotland more often then eh?
Here's a satirical take on his visit to reprimand Sarwar and BBC Scotland.
youtu.be/JmYE1FW37Dc?...
Written by
@para-handy.bsky.social
Produced by Meidas Scotland
Part 2 to follow in a few days.
Sound on and up.
Here's a satirical take on his visit to reprimand Sarwar and BBC Scotland.
youtu.be/JmYE1FW37Dc?...
Written by
@para-handy.bsky.social
Produced by Meidas Scotland
Part 2 to follow in a few days.
Sound on and up.
Sarwar and Starmers Downfall - Part 1
YouTube video by Media Scotland Network
youtu.be
October 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Cute! I laughed all through it.
Not the usual part of Downfall for parodies, but these scenes work great!
It does help if you have some familiarity with Scottish history.
Not the usual part of Downfall for parodies, but these scenes work great!
It does help if you have some familiarity with Scottish history.
So our government thinks that a VERY loose network of people who have opposed fascism (including groups flying Nazi flags) and haven't even been in the news for about five years (and then mainly in allegations about January 6) is a threat to them? Will they assert that, 'yes, we are Fascists'?
Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.
6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io
next.frame.io
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
So our government thinks that a VERY loose network of people who have opposed fascism (including groups flying Nazi flags) and haven't even been in the news for about five years (and then mainly in allegations about January 6) is a threat to them? Will they assert that, 'yes, we are Fascists'?
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Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
September 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
Since we still hear Lab Leak conspiracy claims, this video extracted from TWiV 1221 remains relevant.
Every so-called “proof” offered by the White House and others pushing the lab leak theory has been thoroughly debunked. Don’t just take my word for it - watch this episode of This Week in Virology where a panel of Virology PhDs dismantle the misinformation point by point.
youtu.be/rZ1FGCPenns?...
youtu.be/rZ1FGCPenns?...
TWiV Special: How the pandemic began in Nature, in 5 key points
YouTube video by MicrobeTV
youtu.be
May 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Since we still hear Lab Leak conspiracy claims, this video extracted from TWiV 1221 remains relevant.
Congratulations to the Meidas Touch Network and the hard-working people who have made it such a great source of news.
BREAKING: MeidasTouch has won the Webby Award for 2025 Podcast of the Year! Thank you for this incredible honor. None of this would be possible without this incredible pro-democracy community. Shoutout to the Meidas Mighty!
April 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Congratulations to the Meidas Touch Network and the hard-working people who have made it such a great source of news.
This is horrible. It only reinforces the cruelty and inhumanity of Trump's immigration policy.
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
March 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This is horrible. It only reinforces the cruelty and inhumanity of Trump's immigration policy.
This is unconscionable. But it's BAU for the MAGA Christo-Fascists and Trump.
I think the United States should treat as many kids with cancer as we can, regardless of their parents’ paperwork. Then again, I’m just a atheist liberal heathen. What do I know about morality.
U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents
The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.
www.nbcnews.com
March 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This is unconscionable. But it's BAU for the MAGA Christo-Fascists and Trump.
My thought for sometime has been that Democracy only works if we collectively are committed to making it work. That means even if we don't like the results. And that means resisting leaders who try to tear it down. Even if we like everything else about them (which is unlikely).
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
March 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
My thought for sometime has been that Democracy only works if we collectively are committed to making it work. That means even if we don't like the results. And that means resisting leaders who try to tear it down. Even if we like everything else about them (which is unlikely).
I'm saying good riddance to Twitter/X. I have never paid for membership. But having an account adds to the number he bases ad charges on. I can't support a man who is trying to destroy our government. This shot is a last memory before I delete my account.
March 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I'm saying good riddance to Twitter/X. I have never paid for membership. But having an account adds to the number he bases ad charges on. I can't support a man who is trying to destroy our government. This shot is a last memory before I delete my account.
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1. Major news in transgender care.
Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.
They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.
Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.
They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.
Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review
The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
1. Major news in transgender care.
Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.
They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.
Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.
They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.
Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Who would like to read a ten tweet (skeet?) summary of my latest article "Towards a Theory of Cis-Supremacy".
For those too tired to read a whole academic article, here's a very short summary thread on cis-supremacy. 1/12
For those too tired to read a whole academic article, here's a very short summary thread on cis-supremacy. 1/12
Thank goodness I can say cis on Bluesky!
My new article is just out: "Towards a Theory of Cis-Supremacy: Conceptualising Ongoing Barriers to Trans Equality".
It examines forces of cis power over trans communities, building on scholarship on white supremacy
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
My new article is just out: "Towards a Theory of Cis-Supremacy: Conceptualising Ongoing Barriers to Trans Equality".
It examines forces of cis power over trans communities, building on scholarship on white supremacy
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Towards a Theory of Cis-Supremacy: Conceptualising Ongoing Barriers to Trans Equality - Cal Horton, 2024
Trans scholarship and trans perspectives have historically been marginalised from mainstream academia. There is value in ongoing theoretical exchange between so...
journals.sagepub.com
November 24, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Who would like to read a ten tweet (skeet?) summary of my latest article "Towards a Theory of Cis-Supremacy".
For those too tired to read a whole academic article, here's a very short summary thread on cis-supremacy. 1/12
For those too tired to read a whole academic article, here's a very short summary thread on cis-supremacy. 1/12
This deserves greater attention!
March 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This deserves greater attention!
This merits further sharing. Democrats are upset that their leaders are not standing up to Trump in more visible ways. The press reports this. And yet the press are now critiquing Democrats like Rep Crockett for not just sitting there and listen to Trump spew soundbites.
March 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This merits further sharing. Democrats are upset that their leaders are not standing up to Trump in more visible ways. The press reports this. And yet the press are now critiquing Democrats like Rep Crockett for not just sitting there and listen to Trump spew soundbites.
Great quote for today's crises.
March 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Great quote for today's crises.
I think this is an important interview to have available. We will likely learn the outcome of U.S. vs Skrmetti in June.
Transgender people will not be erased — no matter what the Trump administration says or does.
On this episode of At Liberty, we break down what's at stake and how we're challenging the administration's dangerous anti-trans policies.
On this episode of At Liberty, we break down what's at stake and how we're challenging the administration's dangerous anti-trans policies.
Know Your LGBTQ+ rights with Chase Strangio
This week, the ACLU’s Chase Strangio joins W. Kamau Bell to discuss the current state of LGBTQIA+ rights across the country. Listen in as they explore how President Donald Trump’s executive orders hav...
www.aclu.org
February 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I think this is an important interview to have available. We will likely learn the outcome of U.S. vs Skrmetti in June.
A friend of mine wrote a few thoughts about the recent mess at NNSA.
wordpress.com/post/johnrha...
wordpress.com/post/johnrha...
WordPress.com
wordpress.com
February 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A friend of mine wrote a few thoughts about the recent mess at NNSA.
wordpress.com/post/johnrha...
wordpress.com/post/johnrha...
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Sonewall
February 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Sonewall
Transgender women like Sylvia Rivera were among the first to fight back against repeated police harassment in the original Stonewall riot which this monument commemorates. Not mentioning them (or their Queer fellows) should be unconscionable.
Sylvia Rivera
February 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Transgender women like Sylvia Rivera were among the first to fight back against repeated police harassment in the original Stonewall riot which this monument commemorates. Not mentioning them (or their Queer fellows) should be unconscionable.
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2024 Groom-Groom and Bride-Bride marriage licenses issued in Chicago by ZIP Code
February 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
2024 Groom-Groom and Bride-Bride marriage licenses issued in Chicago by ZIP Code
Don't let us get talked out of democracy. And tell your congressional representatives to stand up for their power to appropriate funds.
OK, I wrote my “who’s going to enforce it?” piece. It’s a lengthy read, trying to respond to a lot of questions I’ve gotten over the past three weeks, but it’s about democracy so I decided it was worth it to lay out in depth, with examples, what I’ve been talking about here and elsewhere.
Don't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracy
Trump and Musk are testing the limits, trying to sell America on being an authoritarian state — but they can’t do it unless we allow them to do so.
www.lawdork.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Don't let us get talked out of democracy. And tell your congressional representatives to stand up for their power to appropriate funds.
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BREAKING: Federal lawsuit filed challenging Trump's executive order against gender-affirming medical care for those under 19, as well as the Jan. 20 EOs funding ban.
The lawsuit is backed by the ACLU, Lambda Legal, Jenner & Block, and Hogan Lovells.
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...
The lawsuit is backed by the ACLU, Lambda Legal, Jenner & Block, and Hogan Lovells.
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...
February 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
BREAKING: Federal lawsuit filed challenging Trump's executive order against gender-affirming medical care for those under 19, as well as the Jan. 20 EOs funding ban.
The lawsuit is backed by the ACLU, Lambda Legal, Jenner & Block, and Hogan Lovells.
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...
The lawsuit is backed by the ACLU, Lambda Legal, Jenner & Block, and Hogan Lovells.
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...
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As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽💻
January 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽💻
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We warned people. I’ve been debunking RFK Jr.’s antivax conspiracy mongering since 2005. None of this is a surprise to me. If confirmed, he WILL go after vaccines hard. He’s lying when he claims otherwise.
This man cannot be confirmed. This is pre-meditated murder of children. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
RFK Jr.’s allies have a plan to upend childhood vaccination
Robert F. Kennedy’s Jr. advisers are sparring over how far he should go on vaccines as health secretary.
www.politico.com
January 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
We warned people. I’ve been debunking RFK Jr.’s antivax conspiracy mongering since 2005. None of this is a surprise to me. If confirmed, he WILL go after vaccines hard. He’s lying when he claims otherwise.
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Vaccine court myths – instead, here are facts about the NVICP
The article debunks common myths surrounding the U.S. vaccine court, clarifying that it offers a favorable system for compensating vaccine injuries, contrasts with civil courts, and does not grant manufacturers immunity. It also…
The article debunks common myths surrounding the U.S. vaccine court, clarifying that it offers a favorable system for compensating vaccine injuries, contrasts with civil courts, and does not grant manufacturers immunity. It also…
Vaccine court myths – instead, here are facts about the NVICP
The article debunks common myths surrounding the U.S. vaccine court, clarifying that it offers a favorable system for compensating vaccine injuries, contrasts with civil courts, and does not grant manufacturers immunity. It also emphasizes that vaccine-related payouts reflect safety, not danger, and asserts no causal link between vaccines and autism.
www.skepticalraptor.com
January 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Vaccine court myths – instead, here are facts about the NVICP
The article debunks common myths surrounding the U.S. vaccine court, clarifying that it offers a favorable system for compensating vaccine injuries, contrasts with civil courts, and does not grant manufacturers immunity. It also…
The article debunks common myths surrounding the U.S. vaccine court, clarifying that it offers a favorable system for compensating vaccine injuries, contrasts with civil courts, and does not grant manufacturers immunity. It also…