Kristen Holmquist
@kristenholmquist.bsky.social
I’m mostly gonna lurk. No need to follow me.
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score one for "the pundits are projecting their own preoccupations onto the electorate"
Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia governor’s race.
November 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
score one for "the pundits are projecting their own preoccupations onto the electorate"
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Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:
October 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:
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I just want a world that stops trying to cure autism and starts supporting autistic people.
September 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I just want a world that stops trying to cure autism and starts supporting autistic people.
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its just not defensible in 2025 for democratic candidates and officeholders not to have a clear position on asserting the equal rights of transgender americans. if you're unwilling, step aside and let a patriot take your place.
September 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
its just not defensible in 2025 for democratic candidates and officeholders not to have a clear position on asserting the equal rights of transgender americans. if you're unwilling, step aside and let a patriot take your place.
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It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
September 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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The media is completely ignoring that Brown University just agreed to a full bathroom ban and defining trans people out of existence. Even worse, when they mention it, they're describing it as a sports ban. This is not just a sports ban.
The media is hiding what's happening here.
The media is hiding what's happening here.
August 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The media is completely ignoring that Brown University just agreed to a full bathroom ban and defining trans people out of existence. Even worse, when they mention it, they're describing it as a sports ban. This is not just a sports ban.
The media is hiding what's happening here.
The media is hiding what's happening here.
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This is HUGE. Parliamentarian knocks out Medicaid provider tax language, various Medicaid/immigration provisions (including penalty on states that cover undocumented w/state-only $), and bar on Medicaid for gender-affirming care.
🚨 The Senate parliamentarian just disqualified a bunch of provisions from the GOP bill — including Medicaid provider tax language, funding restrictions based on immigration status, spread pricing and one prohibition on gender-affirming care. List via a Democratic budget aide:
June 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This is HUGE. Parliamentarian knocks out Medicaid provider tax language, various Medicaid/immigration provisions (including penalty on states that cover undocumented w/state-only $), and bar on Medicaid for gender-affirming care.
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The path for Democrats is very clear: have good ideas, believe in them, state them clearly, stick to them, act decisively in support of these ideas, speak to the young half of the electorate, support other democrats who do these things. Follow Mamdani and Lander's example or fade into nothingness.
June 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The path for Democrats is very clear: have good ideas, believe in them, state them clearly, stick to them, act decisively in support of these ideas, speak to the young half of the electorate, support other democrats who do these things. Follow Mamdani and Lander's example or fade into nothingness.
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what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
June 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
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it turns out that embracing a multi-racial, multi-faith democracy is the best path towards peace in this chaotic world.
June 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
it turns out that embracing a multi-racial, multi-faith democracy is the best path towards peace in this chaotic world.
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i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan
June 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan
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leftists are consistently labeled as out of touch extremists, but there isn’t a single prominent left position this unpopular
"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?"
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
June 23, 2025 at 3:39 AM
leftists are consistently labeled as out of touch extremists, but there isn’t a single prominent left position this unpopular
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Being a con law professor these days is taking students who think they’re human beings with equal rights and giving them C pluses bc according to the Supreme Court that’s the wrong answer.
June 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Being a con law professor these days is taking students who think they’re human beings with equal rights and giving them C pluses bc according to the Supreme Court that’s the wrong answer.
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What are some good orgs for trans youth that could use some donations on this awful day? Reply below.
June 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
What are some good orgs for trans youth that could use some donations on this awful day? Reply below.
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Don’t forget to breathe.
Breathe in for 4, hold for 7, exhale for 8. It signals safety to your nervous system and helps bring you back to centre.
No matter the situation, we need to be regulated to think, to act, to not freeze.
Breathe in for 4, hold for 7, exhale for 8. It signals safety to your nervous system and helps bring you back to centre.
No matter the situation, we need to be regulated to think, to act, to not freeze.
June 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Don’t forget to breathe.
Breathe in for 4, hold for 7, exhale for 8. It signals safety to your nervous system and helps bring you back to centre.
No matter the situation, we need to be regulated to think, to act, to not freeze.
Breathe in for 4, hold for 7, exhale for 8. It signals safety to your nervous system and helps bring you back to centre.
No matter the situation, we need to be regulated to think, to act, to not freeze.
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Would be amazing to get a single piece of media on this topic centered on the right's firehose of bigotry and misinformation rather than "the trans rights movement's shortcomings"
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
June 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Would be amazing to get a single piece of media on this topic centered on the right's firehose of bigotry and misinformation rather than "the trans rights movement's shortcomings"
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
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this is a good wake up call for elected Dems to realize what’s happening and what’s going to happen
not generally, not in the abstract, but to them personally
shut it all down and start acting like you’re in immediate danger, because you are
not generally, not in the abstract, but to them personally
shut it all down and start acting like you’re in immediate danger, because you are
June 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
this is a good wake up call for elected Dems to realize what’s happening and what’s going to happen
not generally, not in the abstract, but to them personally
shut it all down and start acting like you’re in immediate danger, because you are
not generally, not in the abstract, but to them personally
shut it all down and start acting like you’re in immediate danger, because you are
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Move to hold the agents who assaulted a sitting senator in contempt of Congress. Call for articles of impeachment against Noem. Stop working on crypto legislation. Demonstrate the stakes of what is happening in LA with your actions.
Sen. Chuck Schumer: "I just saw something that sickened my stomach; the manhandling of a United States Senator. We need immediate answers to what the hell went on."
June 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Move to hold the agents who assaulted a sitting senator in contempt of Congress. Call for articles of impeachment against Noem. Stop working on crypto legislation. Demonstrate the stakes of what is happening in LA with your actions.
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If you think you can't make a political issue out of "people shouldn't be grabbed off the street and put in a foreign gulag forever," maybe consider getting out of politics/punditry. And these aren't technical slogans: they appear in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution (twice).
April 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If you think you can't make a political issue out of "people shouldn't be grabbed off the street and put in a foreign gulag forever," maybe consider getting out of politics/punditry. And these aren't technical slogans: they appear in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution (twice).
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Dean Chemerinsky and other #lawschool deans "speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."
March 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Dean Chemerinsky and other #lawschool deans "speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."
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It’s going fast. Lawyers have to move in unity - law firms, civil rights, law schools, tax lawyers, prosecutors, criminal defense, family law, civil law, immigration.
Stand together. Fight for our integrity and our profession.
Stand together. Fight for our integrity and our profession.
I don’t see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy.
Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court
MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBJECT: Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court Lawyers
www.whitehouse.gov
March 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It’s going fast. Lawyers have to move in unity - law firms, civil rights, law schools, tax lawyers, prosecutors, criminal defense, family law, civil law, immigration.
Stand together. Fight for our integrity and our profession.
Stand together. Fight for our integrity and our profession.
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Opposition Leader @aoc.bsky.social 👇🏽🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇸
AOC: If you are an LGBTQ kid or family, we cannot throw you under the bus in order to win an election. In this house, we stand together
March 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Opposition Leader @aoc.bsky.social 👇🏽🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇸
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Hey remember how Democrats said EXACTLY FUCKING THIS about abortion and gun control and now abortion is illegal and there’s a mass shooting every 36 hours
SCOOP: Sarah McBride and other Dems have discussed how the party must accept Ds with differing stances on trans rights to not alienate people
“We have to create more space in our tent,” she told me
An inside look at Dems’ reshuffling on trans issues:
www.notus.org/congress/tra...
“We have to create more space in our tent,” she told me
An inside look at Dems’ reshuffling on trans issues:
www.notus.org/congress/tra...
Inside Democrats’ Reshuffling on Trans Issues
Democrats are talking about how to handle transgender rights politically, after infighting and flailing over the issue in the last year. “We have to create more space in our tent,” said Rep. Sarah McB...
www.notus.org
March 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Hey remember how Democrats said EXACTLY FUCKING THIS about abortion and gun control and now abortion is illegal and there’s a mass shooting every 36 hours
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88% (!) of major U.S law firm partners are white and nearly 75% are men. And more than 50% of firms report having *zero* Black partners. These numbers are even worse when you look at equity partners.
This action by the EEOC is nothing short of disgusting.
www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeo...
This action by the EEOC is nothing short of disgusting.
www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeo...
EEOC Acting Chair Andrea Lucas Sends Letters to 20 Law Firms Requesting Information About DEI-Related Employment Practices
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S.
www.eeoc.gov
March 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
88% (!) of major U.S law firm partners are white and nearly 75% are men. And more than 50% of firms report having *zero* Black partners. These numbers are even worse when you look at equity partners.
This action by the EEOC is nothing short of disgusting.
www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeo...
This action by the EEOC is nothing short of disgusting.
www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeo...