Natalie Colleen Gates
@nataliecgates.bsky.social
Trans. Liberal. Democratic voter. Artist. Big Tolkien fan. Writer of stuff. Rideshare driver.
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A lot of journalists are writing stories about DIY now and I don't trust any of them not to scaremonger about it to build support for crackdowns. I've refused requests for interviews on this. Do not talk to the media about DIY.
Trans people need to be careful about talking about DIY. Yes talk about it in the general sense, quote the facts and figures but be careful. Don't give away sources to cis folks. Don't talk to journalists about the details. They're coming for it.
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
A lot of journalists are writing stories about DIY now and I don't trust any of them not to scaremonger about it to build support for crackdowns. I've refused requests for interviews on this. Do not talk to the media about DIY.
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An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.
December 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Richmond Virginia area batting a thousand this month. First the drunk raccoon, then the cat flooding the Cat Cafe, and now this...
December 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Richmond Virginia area batting a thousand this month. First the drunk raccoon, then the cat flooding the Cat Cafe, and now this...
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Tucked inside the Republican bill for health care subsidies, a clause that would restrict the money from being used for abortion (with exception for rape, incest or life of the mother) or for "any sex trait modification procedure or service."
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Tucked inside the Republican bill for health care subsidies, a clause that would restrict the money from being used for abortion (with exception for rape, incest or life of the mother) or for "any sex trait modification procedure or service."
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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everyone involved in this--from that nameless fuckface guard to john roberts himself--should spend their rest of their lives in prison
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
everyone involved in this--from that nameless fuckface guard to john roberts himself--should spend their rest of their lives in prison
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This has to be a non-starter for senate dems. has to be.
the senate republican proposal to address aca subsidies includes a ban on essential health benefit coverage for sex transition-related medical care
December 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
This has to be a non-starter for senate dems. has to be.
Struggled organizing my thoughts for this one. It's been a long work week trying to make up for the money spent and time off for Thanksgiving. Also I had like three different posts I wanted to write
Trans Moral Panic and the Effort to Impose Racial and Gendered Hierarchy
Aided, of course, by SCOTUS
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Struggled organizing my thoughts for this one. It's been a long work week trying to make up for the money spent and time off for Thanksgiving. Also I had like three different posts I wanted to write
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even congress becomes an agent of the president, as its ability to exercise authority over the executive branch becomes a function of the executive’s willingness to be held accountable.
December 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
even congress becomes an agent of the president, as its ability to exercise authority over the executive branch becomes a function of the executive’s willingness to be held accountable.
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a thought about trump v. slaughter. it is largely unspoken, but the assertion that there is an unlimited presidential removal power and that independent agencies functionally cannot exist is an assertion of presidential sovereignty.
December 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
a thought about trump v. slaughter. it is largely unspoken, but the assertion that there is an unlimited presidential removal power and that independent agencies functionally cannot exist is an assertion of presidential sovereignty.
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What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?
December 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?
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11YO: 8YO sat on my face!
8YO: He said my butt stinks.
11YO: Smells better than the rest of your body.
Me (outside): Buddy you can’t say stuff like that.
Me (inside): Holy shit an *immaculate* burn.
8YO: He said my butt stinks.
11YO: Smells better than the rest of your body.
Me (outside): Buddy you can’t say stuff like that.
Me (inside): Holy shit an *immaculate* burn.
December 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
11YO: 8YO sat on my face!
8YO: He said my butt stinks.
11YO: Smells better than the rest of your body.
Me (outside): Buddy you can’t say stuff like that.
Me (inside): Holy shit an *immaculate* burn.
8YO: He said my butt stinks.
11YO: Smells better than the rest of your body.
Me (outside): Buddy you can’t say stuff like that.
Me (inside): Holy shit an *immaculate* burn.
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Gramps here, lecturing leftists who say the Dems can't change that in 56 it was aligned with Southern segregationists (who got the VP noms), but by 64 with MLK, because of successful social movement organizing. Take the party over, leftists. Else you're not actually involved in US politics.
December 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Gramps here, lecturing leftists who say the Dems can't change that in 56 it was aligned with Southern segregationists (who got the VP noms), but by 64 with MLK, because of successful social movement organizing. Take the party over, leftists. Else you're not actually involved in US politics.
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I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
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Rage posting like this is exactly why so many people on the left stay mad at Democrats.
CA just passed Prop 50 to offset what TX is doing.
VA is on deck to follow our lead.
For the love of gawd...USE THE DAMN GOOGLE AND STOP BASHING DEMS!
It's voter suppression.
CA just passed Prop 50 to offset what TX is doing.
VA is on deck to follow our lead.
For the love of gawd...USE THE DAMN GOOGLE AND STOP BASHING DEMS!
It's voter suppression.
December 6, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Rage posting like this is exactly why so many people on the left stay mad at Democrats.
CA just passed Prop 50 to offset what TX is doing.
VA is on deck to follow our lead.
For the love of gawd...USE THE DAMN GOOGLE AND STOP BASHING DEMS!
It's voter suppression.
CA just passed Prop 50 to offset what TX is doing.
VA is on deck to follow our lead.
For the love of gawd...USE THE DAMN GOOGLE AND STOP BASHING DEMS!
It's voter suppression.
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Democrats get labeled as obsessed with trans people yet Republicans spent their time during the shutdown doing this.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Democrats get labeled as obsessed with trans people yet Republicans spent their time during the shutdown doing this.
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Virginia ABC needs to stop! 🤣
December 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Virginia ABC needs to stop! 🤣
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Anyway, if you're surprised at all about the SCOTUS decision, remember
- Bush v Gore chose the president on such nakedly partisan grounds they put in the opinion that it couldn't be used as future precedent
- Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito & Barrett all served on W's election legal team
- Bush v Gore chose the president on such nakedly partisan grounds they put in the opinion that it couldn't be used as future precedent
- Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito & Barrett all served on W's election legal team
December 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Anyway, if you're surprised at all about the SCOTUS decision, remember
- Bush v Gore chose the president on such nakedly partisan grounds they put in the opinion that it couldn't be used as future precedent
- Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito & Barrett all served on W's election legal team
- Bush v Gore chose the president on such nakedly partisan grounds they put in the opinion that it couldn't be used as future precedent
- Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito & Barrett all served on W's election legal team
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According to this Supreme Court:
❌ Using race conscious admissions in college to give minorities a fair shot
✅ Using race to profile people on the street to detain for immigration sweeps
✅ Using race to disenfranchise minorities in elecciones
The only consistency is white supremacy.
❌ Using race conscious admissions in college to give minorities a fair shot
✅ Using race to profile people on the street to detain for immigration sweeps
✅ Using race to disenfranchise minorities in elecciones
The only consistency is white supremacy.
December 5, 2025 at 12:37 AM
According to this Supreme Court:
❌ Using race conscious admissions in college to give minorities a fair shot
✅ Using race to profile people on the street to detain for immigration sweeps
✅ Using race to disenfranchise minorities in elecciones
The only consistency is white supremacy.
❌ Using race conscious admissions in college to give minorities a fair shot
✅ Using race to profile people on the street to detain for immigration sweeps
✅ Using race to disenfranchise minorities in elecciones
The only consistency is white supremacy.
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Trans people suffer the most violence in prison. PREA was never enough but it’s just disgusting to roll it back.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Trans people suffer the most violence in prison. PREA was never enough but it’s just disgusting to roll it back.
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If you see John Roberts in person, be sure to tell him he’s a worse Chief Justice than Roger Taney (pronounced “tawny”). That’s a nerd burn that will hit him where it counts.
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
If you see John Roberts in person, be sure to tell him he’s a worse Chief Justice than Roger Taney (pronounced “tawny”). That’s a nerd burn that will hit him where it counts.
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Even if she doesn’t win?
Everything is up for grabs .
EVERYTHING .
If someone tells you we should run from diversity cuss em out. They say women’s rights are too iffy?
Cuss harder
They say “trans rights are a problem” cuss harder still
Everything is up for grabs .
EVERYTHING .
If someone tells you we should run from diversity cuss em out. They say women’s rights are too iffy?
Cuss harder
They say “trans rights are a problem” cuss harder still
December 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Even if she doesn’t win?
Everything is up for grabs .
EVERYTHING .
If someone tells you we should run from diversity cuss em out. They say women’s rights are too iffy?
Cuss harder
They say “trans rights are a problem” cuss harder still
Everything is up for grabs .
EVERYTHING .
If someone tells you we should run from diversity cuss em out. They say women’s rights are too iffy?
Cuss harder
They say “trans rights are a problem” cuss harder still
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Reactionary centrists are getting everything they wanted out of the UK's Labour party, a purge of trans people from society, a crackdown on immigration, austerity measures on social safety net programs. It's only made Reform more popular and decimated Labour's support.
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Reactionary centrists are getting everything they wanted out of the UK's Labour party, a purge of trans people from society, a crackdown on immigration, austerity measures on social safety net programs. It's only made Reform more popular and decimated Labour's support.
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This is useful
December 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This is useful
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This this this
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This this this
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Take a moment to watch performance artist Guillaume Juncar. You won’t regret it.
December 2, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Take a moment to watch performance artist Guillaume Juncar. You won’t regret it.