Sam
@t-rexsam.bsky.social
Transgender (he/they). Historian of Middle East, Egypt, Mental Asylums. Will probably post about dogs, plants, sci-fi/fantasy, dark humor, and attempting to live well in the end times.
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Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote | Moira Donegan
Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote | Moira Donegan
Calls for disenfranchisement rest on a single assumption: that women’s citizenship is partial and conditional
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote | Moira Donegan
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
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This looks awfully intentional.
None can be primaried in the next cycle, Shaheen & Durbin retiring.
Hassan, Masto, Fetterman up for reelection in 2028.
Rosen, Kaine, King up for reelection in 2030.
Hassan, Masto, Fetterman up for reelection in 2028.
Rosen, Kaine, King up for reelection in 2030.
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This looks awfully intentional.
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It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.
October 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.
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For my Burns Notice newsletter, I wrote about what it was like being a trans person and see the entire right wing try to incite pogrom on us over the last several weeks. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-am-i-su...
What Am I Supposed to Tell My Terrified Friends?
Every time there's a mass shooting in the US, my trans friends and I hold our collective breath. If the shooter turns out to be trans, it could signal the final days of our human rights in a country t...
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September 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
For my Burns Notice newsletter, I wrote about what it was like being a trans person and see the entire right wing try to incite pogrom on us over the last several weeks. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-am-i-su...
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Wrote for @thenation.com about the complicity of some liberal politicians and pundits in the conservative campaign to exterminate trans people www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Right Wants to Exterminate Trans People. Liberals Are Helping.
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative movement has accelerated its war against trans people. And too many centrist Democrats have kept up their trans bashing.
www.thenation.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Wrote for @thenation.com about the complicity of some liberal politicians and pundits in the conservative campaign to exterminate trans people www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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This is absolutely true. If the NYT covered this the way they covered trans care, you all would finally understand what dangerous shit their trans care coverage has been.
i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
September 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is absolutely true. If the NYT covered this the way they covered trans care, you all would finally understand what dangerous shit their trans care coverage has been.
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We warned y’all.
Now, here we are.
Now, here we are.
We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.
September 18, 2025 at 10:40 AM
We warned y’all.
Now, here we are.
Now, here we are.
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Anti-racism isn't a luxury. Dismantling white supremacy is both a moral imperative and structurally required for the survival of the Republic.
Transgender human beings are not disposable. Human rights are universal or they are not human rights.
Transgender human beings are not disposable. Human rights are universal or they are not human rights.
September 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Anti-racism isn't a luxury. Dismantling white supremacy is both a moral imperative and structurally required for the survival of the Republic.
Transgender human beings are not disposable. Human rights are universal or they are not human rights.
Transgender human beings are not disposable. Human rights are universal or they are not human rights.
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For the record.
My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.
I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."
My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.
I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."
September 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
For the record.
My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.
I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."
My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.
I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."
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MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd and yet Fox News is just going to let this guy stay.
In a shocking on-air moment, a “Fox and Friends” co-host said homeless people suffering from mental health issues who refuse help should be killed
'Just Kill 'Em': Fox Host Makes Shocking Comment On Homeless People
"Fox and Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade made a jaw-dropping remark while discussing homelessness and mental health.
www.huffpost.com
September 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd and yet Fox News is just going to let this guy stay.
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I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.
September 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.
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i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is
September 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is
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When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.
It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.
September 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.
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The orgy of liberal pundits tripping over each other to praise Charlie Kirk—when he caused so much violence to the lives of Black and LGBTQ people (including me specifically)—is telling about why the Dems can’t build an antifascist coalition.
September 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The orgy of liberal pundits tripping over each other to praise Charlie Kirk—when he caused so much violence to the lives of Black and LGBTQ people (including me specifically)—is telling about why the Dems can’t build an antifascist coalition.
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One can be crystal clear that political violence is utterly out of bounds, mourn a human being's death, mourn his children's loss of their father, condemn his murder, without actively sanitising the far right at a time when the far right itself poses a severe, violent threat to people everywhere.
September 11, 2025 at 6:10 AM
One can be crystal clear that political violence is utterly out of bounds, mourn a human being's death, mourn his children's loss of their father, condemn his murder, without actively sanitising the far right at a time when the far right itself poses a severe, violent threat to people everywhere.
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Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
September 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
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Not a great sign when the NRA is doing more to speak up against trans people having constitutional rights stripped away than a lot of our actual supposed allies are.
Oh my god, Trump actually got the NRA to come out to defend trans people owning a gun.
September 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Not a great sign when the NRA is doing more to speak up against trans people having constitutional rights stripped away than a lot of our actual supposed allies are.
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Oh my god, Trump actually got the NRA to come out to defend trans people owning a gun.
September 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Oh my god, Trump actually got the NRA to come out to defend trans people owning a gun.
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Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say | CNN Politics
Senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.
edition.cnn.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Justice Department Considers Banning Transgender Americans from Owning Guns
Justice Department Considers Banning Transgender Americans from Owning Guns
In Minneapolis, Vice President JD Vance met Wednesday with families and survivors of last week's mass shooting at the Annunciation Catholic Church.
www.democracynow.org
September 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Justice Department Considers Banning Transgender Americans from Owning Guns
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Regular reminder that "pro-natalism" is a post-hoc rationalization for programs intended to force women and LGBTQ people out of public life, to retrench gender and racial hierarchies, and to promote eugenics.
👀 NEW: The group behind Project 2025 wants a "Manhattan Project" for more babies.
We have the Heritage Foundation's closely-held draft paper taking a hard turn into "pronatalism."
It pitches ripping up economic policy to induce straight, married couples to have more children.
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We have the Heritage Foundation's closely-held draft paper taking a hard turn into "pronatalism."
It pitches ripping up economic policy to induce straight, married couples to have more children.
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The group behind Project 2025 wants a ‘Manhattan Project’ for more babies
A draft position paper from the Heritage Foundation proposes massive revisions to U.S. economic policy to encourage heterosexual married parents to have more children.
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September 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Regular reminder that "pro-natalism" is a post-hoc rationalization for programs intended to force women and LGBTQ people out of public life, to retrench gender and racial hierarchies, and to promote eugenics.
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Three active-duty Marines who were part of the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were retained. But the Air Force will not allow transgender servicemembers to have hearings before it discharges them.
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New Air Force Policy Denies Transgender Troops Hearings Before They're Discharged
It is the second policy change the Air Force has taken in recent weeks to crack down on transgender service members.
www.military.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Three active-duty Marines who were part of the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were retained. But the Air Force will not allow transgender servicemembers to have hearings before it discharges them.
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
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The Air Force is rescinding early retirement for long-serving, dedicated trans service members, opting to force them out with no retirement benefits.
As if kicking them out was not enough, the Trump admin is denying these loyal service members the secure retirement they are entitled to.
As if kicking them out was not enough, the Trump admin is denying these loyal service members the secure retirement they are entitled to.
Exclusive: US Air Force denies early retirement for group of transgender service members
The U.S. Air Force is denying early retirement to all transgender service members with between 15 and 18 years of military service, opting instead to force them out with no retirement benefits, according to a memo seen by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
August 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The Air Force is rescinding early retirement for long-serving, dedicated trans service members, opting to force them out with no retirement benefits.
As if kicking them out was not enough, the Trump admin is denying these loyal service members the secure retirement they are entitled to.
As if kicking them out was not enough, the Trump admin is denying these loyal service members the secure retirement they are entitled to.
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Nothing— and I mean nothing— about this decision is more than the bare desire to harm.
WASHINGTON (AP) - US Air Force says it will deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service.
August 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Nothing— and I mean nothing— about this decision is more than the bare desire to harm.