Katja 「Amethyst」
vulpine.house
Katja 「Amethyst」
@vulpine.house
Little Mx arctic fox & assn. Trans. Queer. Deafblind. Autistic/ADHD. Jew-in-progress. Anarchist. Poly. Median system.
Pinned
line in the sand:

I am a single-issue voter.

that issue is human rights.

- for trans people
- for disabled people
- for immigrants
- for those alleged or demonstrated to have caused harm
- for EVERYONE

if you can't support them for any group, you don't get my vote. period.
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If any of the allegations are true, Nuzzi covering for RFK Jr. directly played a role in the gutting of America's public health infrastructure, the defenestrating of the CDC and the promotion of the lie that vaccines causing autism.
If the Nuzzi blast radius doesn't impact both the new editor of VF and the NYT profiler, then something wrong. Holy shit.
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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I can only read the first para because I don't have an Irish Times subscription but it is safe to say that Olwen Fouéré is not only a huge Irish talent but also a great and courageous person.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Actor declines degree from University of Galway over contract link to Israeli tech institute
Olwen Fouéré calls on university to ‘sever all ties with Technion and the Israeli regime’
www.irishtimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Collective, racist punishment.
It didn’t even take 6 hours.
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Since this year of all years I think skipping the big stores and shopping small businesses is a great thing, I asked my discord community to give me links to their shops!

view.flodesk.com/emails/69274...

Please link to your own shops in the replies, and show us some pics of your favorite items!
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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This is a very sweet (if very Christian-centric) trans-led mutual aid project that connects anonymous gift givers with unhoused or in-foster care trans kids.

www.transanta.com/about
About — Transanta
www.transanta.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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“Santa is secular”

Santa:
Saint Nick was based on Nicholas, bishop of Bari, an early Christian saint who gave gifts to people in secret, usually as a way to have done a good deed. The name Santa clause is a bastardization of Sinterklaas, a Germanic form of Saint Nick. It’s very Christian.
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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This story is infuriating. The bloodthirst so many in this country have is horrifying. And to know Chris Duncan was finally exonerated was deeply moving and brought tear to my eyes.
After 30 years in prison and 25 years on Louisiana's death row, Chris Duncan walked out of Angola today a free man.

"I'm cruising down a highway," he texted me. "Most glaring emotion is shock."
November 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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fuck you

the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased

i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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"we used AI to test voice lines but there isn't any in the final game" okay but you could have just recorded a coworker or something. You have voices. Why is everything so disappointing
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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I don't know what — or really, if anything — in Lizza's account is true, because I don't trust him as far as I can throw him. If *any* of it is true, the fact that we are only hearing about it now, after the fact, to drive subscriptions to his paywalled private newsletter, is frankly vile!
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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While there are often some ethical issues with making free PDFs of paywalled content, in this case it seems entirely justifiable, given the author, the subject, and the journalistic imperative to provide the widest possible audience for the verb "Michael Wolffed"

gofile.io/d/Ap4v35
November 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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it's pretty galling to invite a pathological liar on your show and allow him to slander a fellow female journalist completely unchecked—and then publish it. jacqueline sweet is a damn good reporter who published a lot of major stories about santos. this sucks.
George Santos denies being a loyalist, denies being sycophantic, denies even liking the framing of the question, and yet can’t put his finger on why Trump freed him of all of the people begging for a commutation.
November 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Catholic sisters are all about doing the thing, not talking about the thing.
In the US, Catholic sisters return Wisconsin land to Ojibwe tribe in a historic first. The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration have transferred a lakefront property to the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa for the same $30,000 they paid in 1966.
buff.ly/iXOhxHj
#ShareGoodNewsToo
For the first time, Catholic sisters return land to a Tribal nation
"This return represents more than the restoration of land — it is the restoration of balance, dignity, and our sacred connection to the places our ancestors once walked."
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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New: If you're queer, you know that the holidays can be rough. Maybe you have a bad relationship with your family and holidays carry painful memories. I spoke to LGBTQ+ Texans across the state about how they find community this time of year: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Where can LGBTQ+ Texans go for Thanksgiving when home is off-limits?
"I just couldn't deal with knowing that I have people that have nowhere to go."
www.chron.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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One woman said her father called in June to say he was going to be paroled after serving 20 years for car theft.

Then in September, she got another call: He was instead being transferred to await deportation.

It was the last time she heard from him.

With @veritenews.org
Louisiana Made It Nearly Impossible to Get Parole. Now It’s Releasing Prisoners to Deport Them.
Gov. Jeff Landry eliminated parole for prisoners arrested after Aug. 1, 2024, and tightened eligibility rules for those already in prison. Then he set all of that aside for one group: undocumented imm...
www.propublica.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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SCOOP—In August, nearly 200 current/former FEMA staffers published the Katrina Declaration, a whistleblower letter detailing all the dangers posed by current leadership.

All current employees were put on indefinite leave, and now I've learned one has been fired in violation of federal protections:
FEMA employee terminated for signing whistleblower letter
It appears to be a major violation of federal whistleblower protections and constitutional rights.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Gonna second this, working in hospice.
This is my yearly PSA that, no matter how old you are, you should have a basic health directive and will. The forms are free online in California. The number of senior citizens in my neighborhood with no directives and no plan who are already a little off the rails is staggering. A short rant 1/
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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What if we threw every person involved in private equity into the ocean:

aftermath.site/splash-damage-...
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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The last governor of West Virginia was Jim Justice, who's now a senator, and is on the hook to pay $5 million in back taxes but is somehow avoiding jail for tax evasion.

The governor before that was Joe Manchin, do I need to say more?

As a class, WV governors are bottom of the barrel in all ways.
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
TAPS SCREEN

For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.

It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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“It looked different in the 60s than it did during slavery, and it looks different now… but that’s because of the rights that have been secured via legislation and court victories.”
The Voting Rights Act Is Still Working To Stop Racist Laws. The Supreme Court Might Not Care.
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Thank you @Teamsters for walking the walk and backing our national ULP strike. THIS is what solidarity looks like ✊
🚨 MAJOR BREAKING!! 🚨

In a previously unreleased memo, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien throws the FULL WEIGHT of his union behind striking Starbucks workers.

Teamsters drivers have already refused to make hundreds of deliveries to Starbucks stores where baristas are striking.

#NoContractNoCoffee
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Like the nightmare of what our DOJ has become needed to get any worse, now we've got the most corrupt "religion" in the country in the mix? (Yeah, I said most corrupt and I'll fight you about it.)
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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My cell phone is shut off still and I’m too broke to fix it.

My Internet gets shut off later today too.

I’m in “ a bad spot “

Please send tips
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM