Rachel 🏳️⚧️
@undertheovertones.bsky.social
she/they - cat lover w/ @marigold-enjoyer.bsky.social
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Mono Lake Could Be Losing Its California Gulls www.kqed.org/news/1204667...
Mono Lake Could Be Losing Its California Gulls | KQED
Decades of state water policy have contributed to the breeding failure, which saw just 324 chicks spring from 20,000 adult gulls.
www.kqed.org
July 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Mono Lake Could Be Losing Its California Gulls www.kqed.org/news/1204667...
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Struggling with the work/they're building concentration camps balance.
July 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Struggling with the work/they're building concentration camps balance.
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caltrans is a fucking joke of an agency
Can you imagine spending $500 million adding lanes to a highway that the agency admits will underwater due to sea level rise in 25 years? And fixing the sea level issue will cost $10B. We're living in a fantasy rather than dealing with climate reality. www.sacbee.com/news/local/t...
Is a California highway project ‘dumping half a billion dollars into the ocean’?
Will the state spend $500 million on Highway 37, which is expected to be underwater by mid-century?
www.sacbee.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
caltrans is a fucking joke of an agency
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We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
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U.S. House votes to take California fish off endangered species list - @ianjames.bsky.social @latimes.com
www.latimes.com/environment/....
www.latimes.com/environment/....
House Republicans vote to remove California fish from endangered species list
House Republicans vote to repeal a decision that placed a California fish, longfin smelt, on the endangered species list. Democrats and environmentalists condemned the action.
www.latimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
U.S. House votes to take California fish off endangered species list - @ianjames.bsky.social @latimes.com
www.latimes.com/environment/....
www.latimes.com/environment/....
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It is mind-boggling to me that people say "but I had to comply with the fascists because otherwise there would be some cost—"
NO FUCKING KIDDING. Did you think you'd never have to make a hard choice in Fascist America? That you wouldn't be asked to sacrifice someone and be rewarded for it?? JFC
NO FUCKING KIDDING. Did you think you'd never have to make a hard choice in Fascist America? That you wouldn't be asked to sacrifice someone and be rewarded for it?? JFC
“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding”
Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure.
We are all in this together, and we all go down together.
I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.
Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure.
We are all in this together, and we all go down together.
I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.
FWIW, the choice was scrubbing their website or potentially closing down because their funding was turned off. Sure they could have sued, but what then?
February 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
It is mind-boggling to me that people say "but I had to comply with the fascists because otherwise there would be some cost—"
NO FUCKING KIDDING. Did you think you'd never have to make a hard choice in Fascist America? That you wouldn't be asked to sacrifice someone and be rewarded for it?? JFC
NO FUCKING KIDDING. Did you think you'd never have to make a hard choice in Fascist America? That you wouldn't be asked to sacrifice someone and be rewarded for it?? JFC
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NEW: Whitman Walker, a LGBTQ health center in Washington DC, has scrubbed its site of descriptions of gender affirming care services.
This is pure cowardice and stabbing the trans community in the back. While services are not affected, it will limit access to resources if patients can't find them.
This is pure cowardice and stabbing the trans community in the back. While services are not affected, it will limit access to resources if patients can't find them.
February 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
NEW: Whitman Walker, a LGBTQ health center in Washington DC, has scrubbed its site of descriptions of gender affirming care services.
This is pure cowardice and stabbing the trans community in the back. While services are not affected, it will limit access to resources if patients can't find them.
This is pure cowardice and stabbing the trans community in the back. While services are not affected, it will limit access to resources if patients can't find them.
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DHS has removed manual guidance barring investigations solely based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ.
news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ.
news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
DHS Scraps Ban on Surveillance Based on Sexual Orientation (1)
A Department of Homeland Security unit eliminated policies prohibiting personnel from conducting intelligence activities based solely on a person’s gender identity or sexual orientation.
news.bgov.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:02 AM
DHS has removed manual guidance barring investigations solely based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ.
news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ.
news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
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It's not just Stonewall, it's all over NPS.gov - They're erasing Trans people from history.
Those photos of Nazis burning books in 1933? Those were books on gender and sexuality.
This is a 21st century book burning in the public square. It's Memoricide - a speedbump on the road to Genocide.
Those photos of Nazis burning books in 1933? Those were books on gender and sexuality.
This is a 21st century book burning in the public square. It's Memoricide - a speedbump on the road to Genocide.
February 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
It's not just Stonewall, it's all over NPS.gov - They're erasing Trans people from history.
Those photos of Nazis burning books in 1933? Those were books on gender and sexuality.
This is a 21st century book burning in the public square. It's Memoricide - a speedbump on the road to Genocide.
Those photos of Nazis burning books in 1933? Those were books on gender and sexuality.
This is a 21st century book burning in the public square. It's Memoricide - a speedbump on the road to Genocide.
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We have H5N1 one spreading like wildfire through the animal population, mutating in ways that could make it easier to jump to humans, & we’re eliminating disease detectives?
Most people don’t even realize we’re still in the Covid pandemic. How in the heck will we get them to recognize another one?
Most people don’t even realize we’re still in the Covid pandemic. How in the heck will we get them to recognize another one?
CDC source:
“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.
They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.
They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
February 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
We have H5N1 one spreading like wildfire through the animal population, mutating in ways that could make it easier to jump to humans, & we’re eliminating disease detectives?
Most people don’t even realize we’re still in the Covid pandemic. How in the heck will we get them to recognize another one?
Most people don’t even realize we’re still in the Covid pandemic. How in the heck will we get them to recognize another one?
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Facing the loss of their entire federal grant funding, NCMEC just caved and agreed to remove all references to LGBTQ youth and will dead name and misgender missing trans youth going forward.
Words cannot contain the level of rage I feel in this moment.
Words cannot contain the level of rage I feel in this moment.
NMEC plans to comply with DOJ threats. This email was sent out Wednesday night to staff, but it noticeably doesn't mention anything specifically about LGBTQIA+ kids or DOJ, just general compliance with executive orders:
February 7, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Facing the loss of their entire federal grant funding, NCMEC just caved and agreed to remove all references to LGBTQ youth and will dead name and misgender missing trans youth going forward.
Words cannot contain the level of rage I feel in this moment.
Words cannot contain the level of rage I feel in this moment.
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World Wildlife Fund Now Just Trying To Get Few Nice Photos Of Every Species For Posterity
theonion.com/world-w...
theonion.com/world-w...
February 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
World Wildlife Fund Now Just Trying To Get Few Nice Photos Of Every Species For Posterity
theonion.com/world-w...
theonion.com/world-w...
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for USians who dont know - that famous picture of the German book burnings you maybe saw in school idk - that was research on gender, trans and sexuality
January 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
for USians who dont know - that famous picture of the German book burnings you maybe saw in school idk - that was research on gender, trans and sexuality
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In my years of reporting on LGBTQ news this was by far the hardest.
But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy.
Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live.
Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.
But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy.
Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live.
Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.
January 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
In my years of reporting on LGBTQ news this was by far the hardest.
But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy.
Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live.
Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.
But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy.
Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live.
Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.
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"When the mother of a transgender teen asked Hruz what would happen if children like hers were denied access to health care, he said, "Some children are born into this world to suffer and die." www.newsweek.com/will-supreme...
Will the Supreme Court Put the State Ahead of Parents Rights? | Opinion
It's not a tragedy that Catherine was born or that Sarah is a girl, but they met and meet tragic circumstances.
www.newsweek.com
December 4, 2024 at 6:39 PM
"When the mother of a transgender teen asked Hruz what would happen if children like hers were denied access to health care, he said, "Some children are born into this world to suffer and die." www.newsweek.com/will-supreme...