WinterBanyan 😷
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Avid reader, published writer, liberal. LGBTQ+ Ally, BLM. MMIW.🏳️🌈🇮🇱🇺🇦🏳️⚧️ Women's rights, Indigenous rights,Transgender rights. Copyrights
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Why trans people are right to be worried about Gavin Newsom’s presidential ambitions
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Gavin Newsom's presidential ambitions should concern trans people
Gavin Newsom has recently suggested he could run for president in 2028 – here's why his track record on LGBTQ+ rights should be a concern.
www.thepinknews.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Why trans people are right to be worried about Gavin Newsom’s presidential ambitions
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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If AI can't distinguish between a Doritos bag and a gun, it can't be trusted to police our communities.
Gun-Toting Police Swarm, Handcuff Young Black Man After AI Mistakes Doritos Bag For a Gun | ACLU
Deploying AI in inappropriate ways can and does get people hurt
www.aclu.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
If AI can't distinguish between a Doritos bag and a gun, it can't be trusted to police our communities.
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Authors’ class action suit against OpenAI moves forward www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Authors’ Class Action Lawsuit Against OpenAI Moves Ahead
A New York judge dismissed an attempt by OpenAI to throw out a class action lawsuit that consolidates suits from a number of authors charging the company with copyright infringement.
www.publishersweekly.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Authors’ class action suit against OpenAI moves forward www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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🇳🇱 Tonight, the Dutch and their center-left party, Democrats 66, have voted against racism and hate, and knocked the far-right, ill-named Party for Freedom out of power.
🇳🇱 This was a blow to fascism, a nod to democracy, and some much-needed light in the darkness ...
🇳🇱 Congrats!
🇳🇱 This was a blow to fascism, a nod to democracy, and some much-needed light in the darkness ...
🇳🇱 Congrats!
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
🇳🇱 Tonight, the Dutch and their center-left party, Democrats 66, have voted against racism and hate, and knocked the far-right, ill-named Party for Freedom out of power.
🇳🇱 This was a blow to fascism, a nod to democracy, and some much-needed light in the darkness ...
🇳🇱 Congrats!
🇳🇱 This was a blow to fascism, a nod to democracy, and some much-needed light in the darkness ...
🇳🇱 Congrats!
Blue state governors rock!
October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Middle East minorities unite! 👏
It's good to see the ethnic minorities in the region, Alawites,Druze,Yazidi, Assyrians and Kurds united together to discuss their future in the Middle East dominated by Sunni and Shia infighting.
www.timesofisrael.com/seeing-israe...
www.timesofisrael.com/seeing-israe...
Seeing Israel as a beacon, regional minorities gather in Tel Aviv to discuss future
Representatives of the Druze, Kurdish, Alawite communities attend conference aimed at forging ties between Israel and historically persecuted Middle Eastern groups
www.timesofisrael.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Middle East minorities unite! 👏
MOTS
Note that the winner retired in 2010. Long before Trump was in the White House.
You will not find a sadder post on the internet today.
October 31, 2025 at 8:18 PM
MOTS
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Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
July 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
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BREAKING: Congress just gave final approval on a budget bill that guts Medicaid, defunds Planned Parenthood, and supercharges funding for ICE.
We the people will bear the brunt of these harmful policies — and we won’t forget who caused this devastation to our health, rights, and dignity.
We the people will bear the brunt of these harmful policies — and we won’t forget who caused this devastation to our health, rights, and dignity.
July 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
BREAKING: Congress just gave final approval on a budget bill that guts Medicaid, defunds Planned Parenthood, and supercharges funding for ICE.
We the people will bear the brunt of these harmful policies — and we won’t forget who caused this devastation to our health, rights, and dignity.
We the people will bear the brunt of these harmful policies — and we won’t forget who caused this devastation to our health, rights, and dignity.
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Abolish ICE
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Abolish ICE
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AOC: They’re giving people crumbs and they are taking away the whole loaf.
July 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Republicans have no shame, no conscience, no soul. AOC is going to have to be our Joan of Arc. And we'd better all stand up and be counted.
July 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Republicans have no shame, no conscience, no soul. AOC is going to have to be our Joan of Arc. And we'd better all stand up and be counted.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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It is imperative!!
📣📣📣CALL YOUR REPS📣📣📣
202-224-3121
WE CAN STILL PUT ON ENOUGH PRESSURE TO KILL THE BILL!
#Pinks
apnews.com/article/sena...
📣📣📣CALL YOUR REPS📣📣📣
202-224-3121
WE CAN STILL PUT ON ENOUGH PRESSURE TO KILL THE BILL!
#Pinks
apnews.com/article/sena...
Senate Republicans are in a sprint on Trump's big bill after a weekend of setbacks
The Senate will try to sprint ahead on President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts after a weekend of setbacks.
apnews.com
June 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
It is imperative!!
📣📣📣CALL YOUR REPS📣📣📣
202-224-3121
WE CAN STILL PUT ON ENOUGH PRESSURE TO KILL THE BILL!
#Pinks
apnews.com/article/sena...
📣📣📣CALL YOUR REPS📣📣📣
202-224-3121
WE CAN STILL PUT ON ENOUGH PRESSURE TO KILL THE BILL!
#Pinks
apnews.com/article/sena...
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“An Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for 47 years, has no criminal record, and is married to a US citizen was detained by ICE as she gardened outside her New Orleans home.”
ht: @timmiller.bsky.social
www.nola.com/news/politic...
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www.nola.com/news/politic...
Iranian immigrant who has lived in New Orleans nearly 50 years arrested outside Lakeview home
Federal agents arrested an Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for more than four decades outside her Lakeview home Sunday.
www.nola.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:02 AM
“An Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for 47 years, has no criminal record, and is married to a US citizen was detained by ICE as she gardened outside her New Orleans home.”
ht: @timmiller.bsky.social
www.nola.com/news/politic...
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www.nola.com/news/politic...
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This just broke me!
June 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This just broke me!
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Bluesky Sunday sermon
June 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Bluesky Sunday sermon
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She was right then. And she would be right now. We all need to take action, wrest control from those who would keep all of us powerless and fearful. Shirley Chisholm was a force to be reckoned with. We need to find our own inner Shirley! 💙🩵💙🩵
Evergreen words from the great Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the US Congress.
(via Shirley Chisholm Institute)
(via Shirley Chisholm Institute)
June 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
She was right then. And she would be right now. We all need to take action, wrest control from those who would keep all of us powerless and fearful. Shirley Chisholm was a force to be reckoned with. We need to find our own inner Shirley! 💙🩵💙🩵
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Consider donating to Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity. They’ve filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court to try and stop “Alligator Alcatraz” before it opens.
June 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Consider donating to Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity. They’ve filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court to try and stop “Alligator Alcatraz” before it opens.
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28 June 1940 | A German Sinti girl, Erika Laubinger, was born in Leipzig.
In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 5 March 1943.
No. Z-119.
She perished in the camp on 3 April 1943.
In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 5 March 1943.
No. Z-119.
She perished in the camp on 3 April 1943.
June 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
28 June 1940 | A German Sinti girl, Erika Laubinger, was born in Leipzig.
In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 5 March 1943.
No. Z-119.
She perished in the camp on 3 April 1943.
In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 5 March 1943.
No. Z-119.
She perished in the camp on 3 April 1943.
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We’ve talked about “Alligator Alcatraz” before. Here are more details.
Starting the first week of July, when South Florida’s heat index regularly hits 100°F, they plan to detain up to 5,000 people in tents. No A/C. No real shelter. Just suffocating heat, choking humidity, and swarms of mosquitoes.
Starting the first week of July, when South Florida’s heat index regularly hits 100°F, they plan to detain up to 5,000 people in tents. No A/C. No real shelter. Just suffocating heat, choking humidity, and swarms of mosquitoes.
June 28, 2025 at 1:17 AM
We’ve talked about “Alligator Alcatraz” before. Here are more details.
Starting the first week of July, when South Florida’s heat index regularly hits 100°F, they plan to detain up to 5,000 people in tents. No A/C. No real shelter. Just suffocating heat, choking humidity, and swarms of mosquitoes.
Starting the first week of July, when South Florida’s heat index regularly hits 100°F, they plan to detain up to 5,000 people in tents. No A/C. No real shelter. Just suffocating heat, choking humidity, and swarms of mosquitoes.
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I’m choked up seeing this—it’s shameful.
Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood.
We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?
Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood.
We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?
June 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I’m choked up seeing this—it’s shameful.
Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood.
We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?
Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood.
We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?
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This is unprecedented. The AMA and other medical professional societies speak as one on respiratory virus vaccines and in their own way, say the Trump Administration cannot be trusted with your health. www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
An open letter to the American public on respiratory virus vaccines
Read an open letter to the general public from the AMA and medical societies reaffirming support for vaccination to protect against flu, COVID-19, and RSV.
www.ama-assn.org
June 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This is unprecedented. The AMA and other medical professional societies speak as one on respiratory virus vaccines and in their own way, say the Trump Administration cannot be trusted with your health. www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
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Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
June 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
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NEW: A WIRED investigation of 911 calls placed from ICE detention sites across the US show a system inundated by life-threatening crises, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.
By me & @dmehro.bsky.social. Free to read:
By me & @dmehro.bsky.social. Free to read:
'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls
Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...
www.wired.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM