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AOC: If you are an LGBTQ kid or family, we cannot throw you under the bus in order to win an election. In this house, we stand together
March 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
AOC: If you are an LGBTQ kid or family, we cannot throw you under the bus in order to win an election. In this house, we stand together
An absolute must-watch primer on authoritarianism and dictatorships from WIRED.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6f...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6f...
History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
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March 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
An absolute must-watch primer on authoritarianism and dictatorships from WIRED.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6f...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6f...
Amazing speech rebuking classic conservatives who are weaponizing religion to hurt people. Targeting trans people using the same tired rhetoric used against black people, immigrants, gay people. How is that not anti-social behavior? Society needs to reject their intolerance wherever you see it.
March 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Amazing speech rebuking classic conservatives who are weaponizing religion to hurt people. Targeting trans people using the same tired rhetoric used against black people, immigrants, gay people. How is that not anti-social behavior? Society needs to reject their intolerance wherever you see it.
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1. Reports this week revealed that DHS has rescinded guidance banning surveillance based on someone's gender identity or sexual orientation.
We have confirmed those reports.
The latest from S. Baum, who goes over steps you can take to protect yourself.
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We have confirmed those reports.
The latest from S. Baum, who goes over steps you can take to protect yourself.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
DHS Now Allows for Surveillance based on Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity
If you or your loved ones are part of the LGBTQ community, there are steps you should take to protect yourself.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
1. Reports this week revealed that DHS has rescinded guidance banning surveillance based on someone's gender identity or sexual orientation.
We have confirmed those reports.
The latest from S. Baum, who goes over steps you can take to protect yourself.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
We have confirmed those reports.
The latest from S. Baum, who goes over steps you can take to protect yourself.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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There seem to be a few explanations for this--MeToo, Andrew Tate, anti-trans politics, Dobbs, etc. Perhaps even the "feminizing" effects of the pandemic
February 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
There seem to be a few explanations for this--MeToo, Andrew Tate, anti-trans politics, Dobbs, etc. Perhaps even the "feminizing" effects of the pandemic
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1. Despite Republican attacks in recent years, America is queerer than ever before.
LGBTQ+ identification has risen to 9.3% in the last Gallup Poll, a huge jump from 7.6% last year.
I cover the latest numbers in my story.
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LGBTQ+ identification has risen to 9.3% in the last Gallup Poll, a huge jump from 7.6% last year.
I cover the latest numbers in my story.
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Despite Republican Attacks, Americans Are Queerer Than Ever In Latest Poll
According to a Gallup Poll released on Thursday, more Americans identify as LGBTQ+ than ever before, despite heavy attacks from right-wing politicians.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
1. Despite Republican attacks in recent years, America is queerer than ever before.
LGBTQ+ identification has risen to 9.3% in the last Gallup Poll, a huge jump from 7.6% last year.
I cover the latest numbers in my story.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
LGBTQ+ identification has risen to 9.3% in the last Gallup Poll, a huge jump from 7.6% last year.
I cover the latest numbers in my story.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
February 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
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Yesterday’s live is now on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?featur...
February 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Yesterday’s live is now on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?featur...
And here I was about to go to ProtonMail. It's a shame it's now politically compromised. Possibly also technically compromised as it uses Google Play for Android services. You had good marketing for years, ProtonMail.
The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media.
Proton Mail Says It’s “Politically Neutral” While Praising Republican Party
The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media.
interc.pt
January 29, 2025 at 6:44 AM
And here I was about to go to ProtonMail. It's a shame it's now politically compromised. Possibly also technically compromised as it uses Google Play for Android services. You had good marketing for years, ProtonMail.
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Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI
Amazon
Boeing
Brown-Forman
Caterpillar
Ford
Harley-Davidson
John Deere
Lowe’s
Molson Coors
McDonald’s
Meta
Nissan
Stanley Black & Decker
Target
Tractor Supply
Toyota
Walmart
Support who supports you ✨✊
Amazon
Boeing
Brown-Forman
Caterpillar
Ford
Harley-Davidson
John Deere
Lowe’s
Molson Coors
McDonald’s
Meta
Nissan
Stanley Black & Decker
Target
Tractor Supply
Toyota
Walmart
Support who supports you ✨✊
January 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI
Amazon
Boeing
Brown-Forman
Caterpillar
Ford
Harley-Davidson
John Deere
Lowe’s
Molson Coors
McDonald’s
Meta
Nissan
Stanley Black & Decker
Target
Tractor Supply
Toyota
Walmart
Support who supports you ✨✊
Amazon
Boeing
Brown-Forman
Caterpillar
Ford
Harley-Davidson
John Deere
Lowe’s
Molson Coors
McDonald’s
Meta
Nissan
Stanley Black & Decker
Target
Tractor Supply
Toyota
Walmart
Support who supports you ✨✊
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This is your mission. We take our power back now at the local and state level. Stop waiting for a national hero. It’s you. Get to work.
January 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This is your mission. We take our power back now at the local and state level. Stop waiting for a national hero. It’s you. Get to work.
'Dykes of Courage' is now my new band name.
"Courage breeds creative self‐affirmation; cowardice breeds destructive self-abnegation. Courage faces fear and thereby masters it; cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. So we must constantly build dykes of courage to ward off the flood of fear." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
Now Is the Time for Courage
From Marc | I started Democracy Docket to be fearlessly independent and unapologetically pro-democracy.
www.democracydocket.com
January 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
'Dykes of Courage' is now my new band name.
wlop's Geralt and Ciri is still one of my favorite desktop images every holiday season.
www.deviantart.com/wlop/art/Fat...
www.deviantart.com/wlop/art/Fat...
Father by wlop on DeviantArt
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December 28, 2024 at 10:29 AM
wlop's Geralt and Ciri is still one of my favorite desktop images every holiday season.
www.deviantart.com/wlop/art/Fat...
www.deviantart.com/wlop/art/Fat...
I do love that an entire alien species based on toxic masculinity was also like 'you fought alongside me, I don't care who or what you are, we are allies'.
Like, transgender people fighting for abortion rights aren't getting that level of support back from ciswomen, wtf.
Like, transgender people fighting for abortion rights aren't getting that level of support back from ciswomen, wtf.
December 23, 2024 at 9:32 AM
I do love that an entire alien species based on toxic masculinity was also like 'you fought alongside me, I don't care who or what you are, we are allies'.
Like, transgender people fighting for abortion rights aren't getting that level of support back from ciswomen, wtf.
Like, transgender people fighting for abortion rights aren't getting that level of support back from ciswomen, wtf.
Not only is age a barrier to entry, but so is the cost. There's a reason most have to be independently wealthy just to get into politics. Politics also being a money-making scheme is a conflict of interest.
I wrote about how Congress has turned into a senior center.
How many AOCs are never elected because 80-year-olds refuse to step down?
How many young lawmakers don’t acquire leadership roles — and miss out on years of experience — because seniority is prized above anything else?
How many AOCs are never elected because 80-year-olds refuse to step down?
How many young lawmakers don’t acquire leadership roles — and miss out on years of experience — because seniority is prized above anything else?
Congress Has Become a Waiting Room for Heaven
Who says our senior leaders have to be senior citizens?
keithedwards.substack.com
December 23, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Not only is age a barrier to entry, but so is the cost. There's a reason most have to be independently wealthy just to get into politics. Politics also being a money-making scheme is a conflict of interest.
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Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
December 18, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
Hadn't heard this quote before, but now love it. Apparently traced back to Ed Greenwood of D&D fame.
quoteinvestigator.com/2022/03/24/e...
quoteinvestigator.com/2022/03/24/e...
December 18, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Hadn't heard this quote before, but now love it. Apparently traced back to Ed Greenwood of D&D fame.
quoteinvestigator.com/2022/03/24/e...
quoteinvestigator.com/2022/03/24/e...
I gave it a shot thinking it'd be a Thai Black Mirror, even had some horror-like feints...but aside from one episode of BM, it ultimately gave me something Black Mirror never did: faith in humanity.
Watched an interesting series on Netflix called Tomorrow+I the first episode
Black Sheep
‘An astronaut’s death sends her husband on a desperate mission to revive her using experimental cloning technology, only to unearth her deepest secret’.
I’ll be interested to know what people made of this.
Black Sheep
‘An astronaut’s death sends her husband on a desperate mission to revive her using experimental cloning technology, only to unearth her deepest secret’.
I’ll be interested to know what people made of this.
Tomorrow and I | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
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December 17, 2024 at 10:04 AM
I gave it a shot thinking it'd be a Thai Black Mirror, even had some horror-like feints...but aside from one episode of BM, it ultimately gave me something Black Mirror never did: faith in humanity.
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If women & pregnant ppl are being forced to carry life threatening, dead fetuses to term, mandatory vasectomies should absofuckinlutely be a thing. 100% of pregnancies, therefore abortions, are caused by penises, so either learn how to keep it in your pants Biff, or snip snip bruh✨
November 27, 2024 at 8:45 PM
If women & pregnant ppl are being forced to carry life threatening, dead fetuses to term, mandatory vasectomies should absofuckinlutely be a thing. 100% of pregnancies, therefore abortions, are caused by penises, so either learn how to keep it in your pants Biff, or snip snip bruh✨
To be fair, we've all been in a place where we want to leave a job due to an incoming boss. Also to be fair, most of us haven't been in a GODDAMN key position of law and order and one of the guardrails of democracy. Most trans people have more guts than this guy in standing up to evil.
Breaking: FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign before the President-elect, who vowed to replace him, takes office, leaving the American public continuing to wait for a single goddamned public official to stand up to Trump.
December 11, 2024 at 9:10 PM
To be fair, we've all been in a place where we want to leave a job due to an incoming boss. Also to be fair, most of us haven't been in a GODDAMN key position of law and order and one of the guardrails of democracy. Most trans people have more guts than this guy in standing up to evil.
Today I Learned!
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December 11, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Today I Learned!
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Infuriating when you see the parallels between the old witch hunts and what conservatives are doing to the transgender community today. (Yes, I know vilifying marginalized communities is what they do. Skip to middle for the pertinent, but it's a great vid overall.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbPH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbPH...
Historian Answers Witchcraft Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Infuriating when you see the parallels between the old witch hunts and what conservatives are doing to the transgender community today. (Yes, I know vilifying marginalized communities is what they do. Skip to middle for the pertinent, but it's a great vid overall.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbPH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbPH...
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If you're cis, one thing I'd like to impart with regards to trans people is that you are being lied to on an almost unfathomable scale, from billionaires like Musk, to religious fundamentalist groups, to print and broadcast media, to entire governments, they're committed to spreading malinformation.
Literally this.
If you are a cis person, even if you are an expert in some field that affects trans people, and you *think* you know some facts about trans people, I can almost guarantee you believe some things that are insanely wrong.
If you are a cis person, even if you are an expert in some field that affects trans people, and you *think* you know some facts about trans people, I can almost guarantee you believe some things that are insanely wrong.
It blows my mind every day. I think a lot of it also has to do with preconceived notions almost everyone has from all the myths they've heard their entire life about trans people. They think they already know everything, so why listen
December 6, 2024 at 4:03 PM
If you're cis, one thing I'd like to impart with regards to trans people is that you are being lied to on an almost unfathomable scale, from billionaires like Musk, to religious fundamentalist groups, to print and broadcast media, to entire governments, they're committed to spreading malinformation.
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
March 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Democratic leadership has some serious bystander effect problems. "If only someone will do something!" Yo, you're government. You're literally in charge right now. Having to pre-pardon people to protect them is a testament to your failure to do something NOW.
here's today's post: 'Dark Brandon: “maybe I’ll become a pardon factory”' — firewalls against fuckery need to be constructed now.
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Dark Brandon: “maybe I’ll become a pardon factory”
firewalls against fuckery need to be constructed now
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December 5, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Democratic leadership has some serious bystander effect problems. "If only someone will do something!" Yo, you're government. You're literally in charge right now. Having to pre-pardon people to protect them is a testament to your failure to do something NOW.