@weeporklyman.bsky.social
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Trans Rights | Fuck Fascism
Largely incoherent, technically technical, technically professional
Trans Rights | Fuck Fascism
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why tf the IRS out there
On Friday August 22, Park Police, IRS Criminal Investigation, and Metro transit police were stopping passengers exiting the Rhode Island Ave Brentwood WMATA stop in Washington, DC around 6:45pm. A small group of protesters showed up, and the police left shortly after.
Federal Agents at Rhode Island Ave Metro 8/22/25
YouTube video by Amanda Moore
youtu.be
August 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
why tf the IRS out there
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no. five times more, at least. and make sure they are terrified of letting anyone, including their relatives, buy them anything.
the most antipopularist and simultaneously best policy position to hold: we need to pay our legislators, all of them, like three times their current salaries or they will get the money somewhere else
It's deliberate. State legislatures are often designed to enfranchise only the wealthiest and most powerful in a given state.
Oregon has a similar problem; our state legislator pay is dirt, so you usually get someone cowed by big money or otherwise privileged somehow
Oregon has a similar problem; our state legislator pay is dirt, so you usually get someone cowed by big money or otherwise privileged somehow
August 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
no. five times more, at least. and make sure they are terrified of letting anyone, including their relatives, buy them anything.
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tbh, I think being in congress should pay 2 million a year. senate should pay 3ish.
the most antipopularist and simultaneously best policy position to hold: we need to pay our legislators, all of them, like three times their current salaries or they will get the money somewhere else
It's deliberate. State legislatures are often designed to enfranchise only the wealthiest and most powerful in a given state.
Oregon has a similar problem; our state legislator pay is dirt, so you usually get someone cowed by big money or otherwise privileged somehow
Oregon has a similar problem; our state legislator pay is dirt, so you usually get someone cowed by big money or otherwise privileged somehow
August 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
tbh, I think being in congress should pay 2 million a year. senate should pay 3ish.
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the most antipopularist and simultaneously best policy position to hold: we need to pay our legislators, all of them, like three times their current salaries or they will get the money somewhere else
It's deliberate. State legislatures are often designed to enfranchise only the wealthiest and most powerful in a given state.
Oregon has a similar problem; our state legislator pay is dirt, so you usually get someone cowed by big money or otherwise privileged somehow
Oregon has a similar problem; our state legislator pay is dirt, so you usually get someone cowed by big money or otherwise privileged somehow
August 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
the most antipopularist and simultaneously best policy position to hold: we need to pay our legislators, all of them, like three times their current salaries or they will get the money somewhere else
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New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.”
Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.
Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.
August 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.”
Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.
Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.
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DC guards were not likely going to be violent towards DC residents (like CA guards were reluctant to harm LA residents). So they are bringing in kids from the red states for what now looks like a de facto occupation which could get even uglier …
WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina, Ohio also sending National Guard troops to DC in further escalation of federal intervention in Dem city.
August 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
DC guards were not likely going to be violent towards DC residents (like CA guards were reluctant to harm LA residents). So they are bringing in kids from the red states for what now looks like a de facto occupation which could get even uglier …
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I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
August 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
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Masked secret police opening gunfire on civilians who asked for the identification because there is no way to know anymore if you’re dealing with an organized cartel or federal agents.
Video shows the family fleeing after masked and unidentified men attempted to detain them and firing three gun shots at the passenger side door behind where the son was sitting.
lataco.com/agents-shoot...
By @afroxander.bsky.social
Video via @ic4ij.bsky.social
lataco.com/agents-shoot...
By @afroxander.bsky.social
Video via @ic4ij.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Masked secret police opening gunfire on civilians who asked for the identification because there is no way to know anymore if you’re dealing with an organized cartel or federal agents.
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Asbestos as a metaphor for where I suspect we might be going with LLM tools: rapid push to shove it into everything as a "modern solution," then an eventual "oh shit" walkback.
August 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Asbestos as a metaphor for where I suspect we might be going with LLM tools: rapid push to shove it into everything as a "modern solution," then an eventual "oh shit" walkback.
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'A plurality said they believed crime rates in U.S. cities have “increased a lot” (37%) or “increased a little” (18%) since 2020.'
Or, put another way: More than half the U.S. population believes the opposite of the truth. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Or, put another way: More than half the U.S. population believes the opposite of the truth. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Do Americans back Trump’s takeover of DC police? Here’s what a new poll found
Trump announced he would federalize the capital’s police department under the Home Rule Act, a 1973 law that grants the president emergency police control for a 30-day period.
www.miamiherald.com
August 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
'A plurality said they believed crime rates in U.S. cities have “increased a lot” (37%) or “increased a little” (18%) since 2020.'
Or, put another way: More than half the U.S. population believes the opposite of the truth. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Or, put another way: More than half the U.S. population believes the opposite of the truth. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
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Gavin Newsom can eat my entire asshole, sorry if you think he should be president because he hired a funny epic bacon social media manager last week
August 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Gavin Newsom can eat my entire asshole, sorry if you think he should be president because he hired a funny epic bacon social media manager last week
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oh, so israel’s setting up actual concentration camps now
August 17, 2025 at 9:53 AM
oh, so israel’s setting up actual concentration camps now
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As DC was taken over by Trump’s secret police, where were congressional Democrats? They weren’t in DC and some weren’t even in the US.
Instead of fighting back against the authoritarian takeover here at home, 22 House “Democrats” were being spoon-fed lies about Gaza on a trip paid for by AIPAC.
Instead of fighting back against the authoritarian takeover here at home, 22 House “Democrats” were being spoon-fed lies about Gaza on a trip paid for by AIPAC.
August 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
As DC was taken over by Trump’s secret police, where were congressional Democrats? They weren’t in DC and some weren’t even in the US.
Instead of fighting back against the authoritarian takeover here at home, 22 House “Democrats” were being spoon-fed lies about Gaza on a trip paid for by AIPAC.
Instead of fighting back against the authoritarian takeover here at home, 22 House “Democrats” were being spoon-fed lies about Gaza on a trip paid for by AIPAC.
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A useful WaPo map of where Trump Storm Troops are actually operating in DC.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.
August 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A useful WaPo map of where Trump Storm Troops are actually operating in DC.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.
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And let me be clear -- I wish on JK Rowling everything that she wishes upon trans people.
August 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
And let me be clear -- I wish on JK Rowling everything that she wishes upon trans people.
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Creating a "national police force" was for decades a right-wing bogeyman, the feared unconstitutional federal usurpation of states' rights, the very thing "support your *local* police" and fetishizing elected sheriffs was all about.
August 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Creating a "national police force" was for decades a right-wing bogeyman, the feared unconstitutional federal usurpation of states' rights, the very thing "support your *local* police" and fetishizing elected sheriffs was all about.
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federally armed occupation of american cities, as the founders intended
WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina, Ohio also sending National Guard troops to DC in further escalation of federal intervention in Dem city.
August 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
federally armed occupation of american cities, as the founders intended
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I find I am normally in the 'no need to panic' camp, but this development is extremely, robustly bad, especially if the administration, as it has suggested, intends to violate the 30-day statutory limit for this intervention in DC.
WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina, Ohio also sending National Guard troops to DC in further escalation of federal intervention in Dem city.
August 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I find I am normally in the 'no need to panic' camp, but this development is extremely, robustly bad, especially if the administration, as it has suggested, intends to violate the 30-day statutory limit for this intervention in DC.
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Remember that time a cis guy crashed out for two weeks saying slurs at trans people and threatening to sexually assault women before the mods acted?
Pretty wild that they suspended Jessie Gender for "I wish ill on JK Rowling," isn't it? I wonder what distinguishes her from the cis man? 🤔
Pretty wild that they suspended Jessie Gender for "I wish ill on JK Rowling," isn't it? I wonder what distinguishes her from the cis man? 🤔
August 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Remember that time a cis guy crashed out for two weeks saying slurs at trans people and threatening to sexually assault women before the mods acted?
Pretty wild that they suspended Jessie Gender for "I wish ill on JK Rowling," isn't it? I wonder what distinguishes her from the cis man? 🤔
Pretty wild that they suspended Jessie Gender for "I wish ill on JK Rowling," isn't it? I wonder what distinguishes her from the cis man? 🤔
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extremely noticeable that I have seen exactly zero black DC residents asked to write about how they feel about Trump's occupation and/or DC's crime.
August 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
extremely noticeable that I have seen exactly zero black DC residents asked to write about how they feel about Trump's occupation and/or DC's crime.
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The idea that Kristol is still worse than centrist Dems for supporting the Iraq War is ahistorical.
The centrist wing of the Dems supported it too.
The centrist wing of the Dems supported it too.
August 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The idea that Kristol is still worse than centrist Dems for supporting the Iraq War is ahistorical.
The centrist wing of the Dems supported it too.
The centrist wing of the Dems supported it too.
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This from @lizsaila.bsky.social is one of the most important projects I’ve ever seen. Looking at the data you can visualize the various intersecting strategies as various groups disseminate legislation templates. With a complicit news media, they manufactured the political will for where we are now.
I came across that today while working on tracing the legislative language used to describe gender identity and sex.
The propaganda term "biological sex" explodes in 2015 through ADF model bills on bathrooms & sports.
Prior to that it's mostly "sex at birth"
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
The propaganda term "biological sex" explodes in 2015 through ADF model bills on bathrooms & sports.
Prior to that it's mostly "sex at birth"
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Trans Exclusionary Sex Definitions
docs.google.com
August 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This from @lizsaila.bsky.social is one of the most important projects I’ve ever seen. Looking at the data you can visualize the various intersecting strategies as various groups disseminate legislation templates. With a complicit news media, they manufactured the political will for where we are now.
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"Republicans are a death cult" isn't hyperbole, it's a statement of fact. Why would anyone want to know *less* about our Earth? Because knowing about changes to our climate, storms, land, water, and air saves lives and makes lives better, and they hate that, they want death and destruction.
NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency
NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.
arstechnica.com
August 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"Republicans are a death cult" isn't hyperbole, it's a statement of fact. Why would anyone want to know *less* about our Earth? Because knowing about changes to our climate, storms, land, water, and air saves lives and makes lives better, and they hate that, they want death and destruction.
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Making plans to be in the park this weekend?
Many green spaces in DC are federal property and are now places where you are at higher risk of interactions with law enforcement.
Be smart and be safe this weekend, y’all.
Many green spaces in DC are federal property and are now places where you are at higher risk of interactions with law enforcement.
Be smart and be safe this weekend, y’all.
August 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Making plans to be in the park this weekend?
Many green spaces in DC are federal property and are now places where you are at higher risk of interactions with law enforcement.
Be smart and be safe this weekend, y’all.
Many green spaces in DC are federal property and are now places where you are at higher risk of interactions with law enforcement.
Be smart and be safe this weekend, y’all.
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I also wish ill on JK Rowling and if you want to suspend me for that I guess so be it
it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
August 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I also wish ill on JK Rowling and if you want to suspend me for that I guess so be it