@onlysound.bsky.social
Hasn't truely understood social media since LiveJournal went bad.
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anyway; on second thought just blocked that guy who is even more horrible than I initially thought.
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 AM
anyway; on second thought just blocked that guy who is even more horrible than I initially thought.
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"Charlie Kirk gave me the courage to be more transphobic" is a wild thing to put in a both-sides hagiography
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
September 12, 2025 at 9:21 AM
"Charlie Kirk gave me the courage to be more transphobic" is a wild thing to put in a both-sides hagiography
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
May JK Rowling always be miserable.
August 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
May JK Rowling always be miserable.
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Like so many things we have lost or have never had in this country, I feel like it keeps coming down to this: the more not-white people start to get integrated into and benefit from a system, the more likely it is that we destroy it.
July 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Like so many things we have lost or have never had in this country, I feel like it keeps coming down to this: the more not-white people start to get integrated into and benefit from a system, the more likely it is that we destroy it.
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A South Asian man from Uganda checking two boxes in a college application isn't a scandal. The NYT pulling stolen data from a white supremacist to smear him in support of another candidate is.
July 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
A South Asian man from Uganda checking two boxes in a college application isn't a scandal. The NYT pulling stolen data from a white supremacist to smear him in support of another candidate is.
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Today, I am calling on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other top officials in the Trump administration to resign immediately due to their reckless and unlawful disclosure of national security secrets. Their actions have put our country at risk, and immediate accountability is necessary
March 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Today, I am calling on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other top officials in the Trump administration to resign immediately due to their reckless and unlawful disclosure of national security secrets. Their actions have put our country at risk, and immediate accountability is necessary
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Don't respond to a gay man who grew up in the '80s and '90s by telling him that talking about being thankful for a Reagan presidency is a smart strategy. Because, fuck that.
March 5, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Don't respond to a gay man who grew up in the '80s and '90s by telling him that talking about being thankful for a Reagan presidency is a smart strategy. Because, fuck that.
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Let's just be clear about this--Reagan was not in any way a good president. And without him, we wouldn't be in this whole mess right now. 🧵1/
March 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Let's just be clear about this--Reagan was not in any way a good president. And without him, we wouldn't be in this whole mess right now. 🧵1/
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"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary.
It can't get a distributor in the US.
Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.
It can't get a distributor in the US.
Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.
March 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary.
It can't get a distributor in the US.
Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.
It can't get a distributor in the US.
Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.
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🔥 CROCKETT: “Facts matter.”
February 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
🔥 CROCKETT: “Facts matter.”
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House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
February 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
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If you're struggling to understand how eugenics impacts daily life right now, I recommend going back to the historical records to see how the eugenics movement took off 100 years ago. We need to be able to recognize it when we see it, so that we can push back and resist. 1/20
February 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM
If you're struggling to understand how eugenics impacts daily life right now, I recommend going back to the historical records to see how the eugenics movement took off 100 years ago. We need to be able to recognize it when we see it, so that we can push back and resist. 1/20
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Breaking someone's wheelchair is like breaking an abled person's legs. The entity who did it should be held responsible.
Signed,
Wheelchair User
Signed,
Wheelchair User
Five major airlines are suing to overturn a rule from then-Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg that actually holds airlines accountable for damaging disabled people's wheelchairs. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Airlines sue to overturn rule against breaking wheelchairs
Major carriers are trying to overturn a Biden-era policy that ended decades of mistreatment.
www.motherjones.com
February 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Breaking someone's wheelchair is like breaking an abled person's legs. The entity who did it should be held responsible.
Signed,
Wheelchair User
Signed,
Wheelchair User
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I see Martina Navratilova is running her mouth about trans people again, so I would like to once again remind cis gays, especially those into respectability politics, that those on the front lines of fighting for your rights have always been trans people, butches, drag queens, flamers, etc
February 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I see Martina Navratilova is running her mouth about trans people again, so I would like to once again remind cis gays, especially those into respectability politics, that those on the front lines of fighting for your rights have always been trans people, butches, drag queens, flamers, etc
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no the fuck we are NOT making “LGBQ+” a thing and if I see any of you motherfuckers using that acronym it’s on sight
Marsha P. Johnson did not smash in the windshield of a police car for this
Marsha P. Johnson did not smash in the windshield of a police car for this
‼️ The National Park Service has REMOVED mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall. Not only did the remove the world "Transgender" but changed "LGBTQ+" to "LGBQ+".
The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history.
This pride, we riot.
The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history.
This pride, we riot.
February 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
no the fuck we are NOT making “LGBQ+” a thing and if I see any of you motherfuckers using that acronym it’s on sight
Marsha P. Johnson did not smash in the windshield of a police car for this
Marsha P. Johnson did not smash in the windshield of a police car for this
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I think the correct thing is for state governments to pass legislation to seize federal employment taxes to make up the promised shortfall and put them directly to their own coffers.
This unlawful withholding of funds needs to stop. There are so many Coloradans depending on this funding and the ripple effects will have no political boundaries.
www.coloradopolitics.com/news/governm...
www.coloradopolitics.com/news/governm...
$570 million in federal funding remains inaccessible to Colorado following Trump's freeze, officials say
Colorado's governor and both of the state's U.S. senators asked the director of the federal budget office Monday to unlock what they said was more than $570 million in federal
www.coloradopolitics.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I think the correct thing is for state governments to pass legislation to seize federal employment taxes to make up the promised shortfall and put them directly to their own coffers.
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NWLC [Feb 11] -- Natl Women's Law Ctr a leading voice for trans women in sports up w/ a lovely op-ed: "No matter what happens I will continue to roar when the world tries to strip you of your dignity. You are a piece of my heart & I will never stop fighting for your right to exist ."
[riki wilchins]
[riki wilchins]
A Letter to My Transgender Daughter
No matter what happens, I will continue to roar when the world tries to strip you of your dignity.
nwlc.org
February 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
NWLC [Feb 11] -- Natl Women's Law Ctr a leading voice for trans women in sports up w/ a lovely op-ed: "No matter what happens I will continue to roar when the world tries to strip you of your dignity. You are a piece of my heart & I will never stop fighting for your right to exist ."
[riki wilchins]
[riki wilchins]
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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Some of the worst journalism in American history will be produced over the next four years and you don’t have to support it just to have access to a crossword puzzle
January 21, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Some of the worst journalism in American history will be produced over the next four years and you don’t have to support it just to have access to a crossword puzzle
It's always a good day to bemoan the existence of Ronald Reagan, but it feels even more apt this month.
January 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It's always a good day to bemoan the existence of Ronald Reagan, but it feels even more apt this month.
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Racism! Check out the relationship between the integration of higher education and the decision to increase tuition and cut state support for colleges. Public goods were only good when serving a specific version of the public.
I will never stop being aghast that the United States built a higher education system that was literally the envy of the entire world—our bitterest political enemies nonetheless sent their children to us to be educated, it was so good—& then just decided to systematically, ruthlessly dismantle it
December 17, 2024 at 5:34 AM
Racism! Check out the relationship between the integration of higher education and the decision to increase tuition and cut state support for colleges. Public goods were only good when serving a specific version of the public.
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This fascinating study would explain why people “vote against their own economic interests”.
One thing I keep hearing is that ppl who voted R in this (and other recent) US election(s) will come to regret it when their SS, medicare, other state assistance goes away.
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One thing I keep hearing is that ppl who voted R in this (and other recent) US election(s) will come to regret it when their SS, medicare, other state assistance goes away.
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New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social
Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹
Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state?
We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out
shorturl.at/zQ8bJ
Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹
Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state?
We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out
shorturl.at/zQ8bJ
December 6, 2024 at 11:57 AM
This fascinating study would explain why people “vote against their own economic interests”.
One thing I keep hearing is that ppl who voted R in this (and other recent) US election(s) will come to regret it when their SS, medicare, other state assistance goes away.
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One thing I keep hearing is that ppl who voted R in this (and other recent) US election(s) will come to regret it when their SS, medicare, other state assistance goes away.
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NEW: Monique Worrell won back the Orlando prosecutor's office.
The Democratic prosecutor was removed from office by Ron DeSantis last year, & ran for her job back.
But the Tampa prosecutor removed by DeSantis, Andrew Warren, lost as GOP dominated state:
boltsmag.org/tampa-orland...
The Democratic prosecutor was removed from office by Ron DeSantis last year, & ran for her job back.
But the Tampa prosecutor removed by DeSantis, Andrew Warren, lost as GOP dominated state:
boltsmag.org/tampa-orland...
Orlando Prosecutor Ousted by Governor Wins Her Job Back
Monique Worrell defeated the prosecutor Ron DeSantis appointed to replace her last year. In Tampa, however, another prosecutor removed by the governor lost his attempt at a comeback.
boltsmag.org
November 6, 2024 at 3:06 AM
NEW: Monique Worrell won back the Orlando prosecutor's office.
The Democratic prosecutor was removed from office by Ron DeSantis last year, & ran for her job back.
But the Tampa prosecutor removed by DeSantis, Andrew Warren, lost as GOP dominated state:
boltsmag.org/tampa-orland...
The Democratic prosecutor was removed from office by Ron DeSantis last year, & ran for her job back.
But the Tampa prosecutor removed by DeSantis, Andrew Warren, lost as GOP dominated state:
boltsmag.org/tampa-orland...
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long lines to vote are vote suppression 👍
November 5, 2024 at 2:36 PM
long lines to vote are vote suppression 👍