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"more often than not, trans guys are literally just some guy" https://www.them.us/story/gio-tiktok-trans-addison-rae-times-like-these-video-new-york-city-line-cook

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Published: June 12, 2025 15:36

Quitting my lucrative job as an international fentanyl smuggler to pursue my true passion, vacuuming the hallways of a Holiday Inn Express [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 12, 2025 14:57

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Published: June 12, 2025 13:21

SCOTUS opinions at 10 a.m.

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Published: June 12, 2025 12:58

I'm just naturally going to gravitate towards the places where I receive the fewest rape threats and I really haven't thought about it much beyond that [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 11, 2025 22:40

SCOTUS opinions tomorrow at 10 a.m. Eastern https://youtu.be/l9Jo14I81Dg?si=UrFleqQWFDbOhcw6

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Published: June 11, 2025 21:50

DC recently did something like this with Swann Street, originally named for Thomas Swann (19th century governor of Maryland) and now named for William Dorsey Swann (19th century drag queen) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 11, 2025 20:45

Cop City goes national [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 11, 2025 18:05

I think what astonishes me most here is that Dems right now aren't like Trump during January 6, who told the mob to go home so they went home. The people setting Waymos on fire aren't going to turn to each other and say "you guys Chris Murphy said we're…

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Published: June 11, 2025 17:17

I am going to weep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v75f5W6LgLM [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 11, 2025 15:06

I just think anyone upset at the sight of a Mexican flag is clearly upset at the sight of Mexican people and are thus not rational political actors who should get to draw the lines of our discourse…

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Published: June 10, 2025 22:56

I think he hates immigrants and love state violence and probably hasn't thought very much about it beyond that [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 10, 2025 21:20

Something I've been thinking a lot about recently is how powerful abusers don't really need to convince you of any one lie but rather just flood the zone with bullshit to render it "complex" enough that nobody feels confident enough to intervene on behalf…

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Published: June 10, 2025 20:20

They're just really concerned about women's sports you guys [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 10, 2025 19:01

You can hear the laughter from France now [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 10, 2025 14:03

Even if the people thinking this way were right then why are they asking themselves how to become more fascist instead of asking what factors might lead the median voter to endorse fascism and working on those. Their response is all supply without…

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Published: June 10, 2025 12:35

This is why we don't have universal paid leave

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Published: June 9, 2025 23:55

"Irresponsible" is actually an interesting phrasing for it since he openly rejects the very idea of public health and thus any responsibility for managing it. They want to defund research, withdraw the vaccines, cut off Medicaid--then blame *you* when you…

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Published: June 9, 2025 23:23

It is a BURDEN

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Published: June 9, 2025 20:59

Efficiency is when you make the troops homeless *before* they're veterans [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 9, 2025 20:10

My only weapon is my pen and the frame of mind I'm in [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 9, 2025 18:17

And they're cutting Medicaid to pay for it [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 9, 2025 17:36

For the past two years some of the largest voices on Twitter, including some elected Republicans, have been playing a fun game called "post a photo of any trans person minding their own business and see how quickly we can ruin their entire life" [contains…

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Published: June 9, 2025 14:10

Why burn the bridge between these stories when you can help people understand that Trump hopes you blame immigrants for your problems while he actively fights to make your life worse [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 9, 2025 13:08

Getting Butlerian

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Published: June 9, 2025 12:12

He's been pretty explicit about this! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 9, 2025 12:00

I think that's just how cops are and we're more likely to hear about it when it happens to a reporter [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 9, 2025 11:54

My Bluesky take is that I miss when it was invite only

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Published: June 8, 2025 22:24

Some questions answer themselves [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 8, 2025 22:03

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Published: June 8, 2025 20:32

I love him

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Published: June 8, 2025 20:10

Trump's birthday parade next week is genuinely a very good opportunity to point at the artillery rolling down PA Avenue and say "that's why health care expenses are the leading cause of bankruptcy"

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Published: June 8, 2025 19:39

Is this abundance [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 8, 2025 18:58

I know there's been a concentrated effort to make us forget it but I really do think it's a mistake to assume this is not the same country we saw in the streets in 2020

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Published: June 8, 2025 12:15

What do these people have to hide and why [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 8, 2025 01:14

Fun thing about following a protest online now is I can check Twitter and have zero idea which photos are real, which are from past protests, which are staged, and which are generated on command by a bullshit machine that every user has immediate access to

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Published: June 7, 2025 20:49

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Published: June 7, 2025 18:44

If you're endlessly critiquing power but abuse of power comes at no surprise then who's flying this plane

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Published: June 7, 2025 17:03

I think a lot about self-defense guides for trans women which note we cannot cry out for help like other women because we are likely to be accused of being the instigator in a situation where we are in fact the victim [contains quote post or other…

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Published: June 7, 2025 16:16

Its fine if you disagree with me about trans women competing in women's sports but don't get mad if I ask what you know about women's sports that Simone Biles, Dawn Staley, Sue Bird, Megan Rapino, and Brianna Turner don't

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Published: June 7, 2025 15:16

Listening to Addison Rae, picking out and outfit for pride

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Published: June 7, 2025 12:48

This is so vile and pathetic [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 7, 2025 01:34

Musk is deeply unpopular and widely-hated! What do you imagine the benefit is here? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 7, 2025 01:02

Woah [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 6, 2025 22:58

Slogan is "technically its ephebophilia" [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 6, 2025 18:19

No it's not I'm rewiring the heuristics of biological sex right now see ha ha ha [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 6, 2025 17:22

"Some officials worry that a sprawling data collection system could expose or endanger people with sensitive health needs, like gender care, reproductive health care or disabilities." [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 6, 2025 16:23

The NYT has faced intense (and hard earned) pressure internally and externally over its coverage of trans kids and they likely know they'll face even more blame if SCOTUS rules against trans care in Skrmetti, and I think the podcast and more should be seen…

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Published: June 6, 2025 16:00

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Published: June 6, 2025 14:55

I've been thinking about this answer nonstop since I saw it yesterday because it's such a perfect example of what good political communication is. He simultaneously answered the question and inverts its logic in a way that's persuasive and unimpeachable. …

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Published: June 6, 2025 13:32

In general any history of trans medicine needs to start from the fact that, for most of its history, psychiatry believed gender conformity was itself a measure of health. This fueled a long history of institutionalization and medical violence against…

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Published: June 6, 2025 13:26

NPR once did a fantastic podcast series about transgender youth called "All The Only Ones." Each episode profiles one young trans person living today and one from the past. This episode features an interview with a Johns Hopkins doctor who treated trans…

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Published: June 6, 2025 13:04

Sure but if you aren't fighting for people's attention by, say, taking advantage of a giant public display of chaos and incompetency, then no one is going to hear your measured discussion about health insurance [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: June 6, 2025 12:13

When I smoked I loved the Camel Menthol Crushes that had both mentholated tobacco and the menthol pellet in the filter. It was like freebasing an Altoid [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 5, 2025 23:51

Petty and cruel [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 5, 2025 21:11

Fine but do they have to do it where kids can see it [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 5, 2025 21:01

Ok Ryan Murphy can direct this one but then that's it

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Published: June 5, 2025 19:52

Elon apparently

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Published: June 5, 2025 19:20

Oh we are all going to die [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 5, 2025 18:58

Trump and Musk are so politically aligned on the far-right they can only attack each other from the left. "Vote down the tax cuts" vs "defund his military contracts." We're two business days away from Musk interviewing single moms on X Spaces and Trump…

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Published: June 5, 2025 18:47

I'm listening [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 5, 2025 18:02

👍 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 5, 2025 18:02

Hey does anyone have a spare Nintendo Switch 2 I can use

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Published: June 5, 2025 17:53

RIP Josie Carter who led the resistance against a group of Navy sailors who attempted to start a brawl against the queer patrons of the Black Nite. "We do not run from a fight. We do not run from anything." [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 5, 2025 15:16

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Published: June 5, 2025 14:56

The takeaway here is either "financial precarity prevents people from being civically engaged and thus income inequality is a threat to democracy" or "protests are dumb"

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Published: June 5, 2025 14:31

"In many ways, I find this tradition beautiful. In other ways, it makes me yearn to be an ant with no concept of identity beyond 'locate sandwich.'" [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 5, 2025 14:23

If you want to know how I'm doing someone asked me in a meeting yesterday "gillian how's your nervous system"

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Published: June 5, 2025 12:47

SCOTUS opinions at 10 a.m. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 4, 2025 23:55

SCOTUS opinions out at 10 a.m. ET tomorrow

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Published: June 4, 2025 21:09

I'm not a political scientist but if you're advice to the Democratic Party is pushing out unions, immigrants, and queers then I think there's already a party for that

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Published: June 4, 2025 20:04

Here's that story if anyone's interested in it https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/06/15/abortion-transgender-christian-doctors/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 4, 2025 14:36

RIP Edmund White--from his excellent 1979 call for solidarity between gays and "drags" (transvestites and transsexuals) "By placing drags in a respected position within the movement, gays will have elevated and defended what straight society most…

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Published: June 4, 2025 13:46

Oh my favorite--"everyone's being ideological but me" [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 3, 2025 20:15

Every one of us is lucky to live in a world with trans kids https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-03/enduring-as-a-trans-athlete

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Published: June 3, 2025 18:53

If you go to that FBI/trans care tweet half the replies are people begging them to stop school shooters instead of targeting trans kids and the other half are people begging them to release the Epstein tapes instead of targeting trans kids and idk…

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Published: June 3, 2025 18:00

Yes and trans people are not of one mind and our experiences are as varied by race/class/status as any other group. A reporter or outlet desperate to confirm their priors about "trans activists" can just grant validity to any trans person that agrees with…

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Published: June 3, 2025 17:55

A good rubric for any given piece of media about "transgender issues" is asking yourself how well the author answered the question "What about the trans people?" It seems so stupidly obvious but you'll quickly notice how discourse ostensibly about us…

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Published: June 3, 2025 17:33

"Having a loved one in prison or jail is estimated to cost families across the country nearly $350 billion each year — about four times the amount the federal government estimates it costs taxpayers annually to operate the nation's prisons and jails."…

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Published: June 3, 2025 16:18

They/them strikes back [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 3, 2025 13:43

“People are scared they're going to lose their kids. You don’t have to legislate it if you scare people so much that they self-police.” A sobering report from Human Rights Watch on the impact of bans on gender-affirming care at the center of a pending…

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Published: June 3, 2025 13:23

Noticing [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 3, 2025 13:07

Revisiting this and thinking of the claim that trans people are "blackmailing" cis people by pointing to our high suicide rate [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 3, 2025 11:35

Denying a trans person a sex change but offering them therapy instead is like denying a pregnant person an abortion but offering them therapy instead [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 2, 2025 23:05

One reason I have little tolerance for doomerism and fear-mongering (especially from queer people in bright blue enclaves) is that some of the best, most creative queer organizers I've ever met were those in rural Idaho…

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Published: June 2, 2025 21:16

Yeah

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Published: June 2, 2025 17:57

Listen the same people telling you that AI is going to destroy the planet and democracy and our minds said the same thing about social media and ok yeah I see the problem here

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Published: June 2, 2025 17:14

For years I was assured that "deplatforming works" and yet I've seen very little reckoning with the fact that deplatforming did not, in the long run, work

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Published: June 2, 2025 15:16

So actually--Elon bought Twitter, Don't Say Gay/"groomer" panic, Dobbs simultaneously giving Rs a need to find a new scapegoat and solidifying patriarchal norms more broadly [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 2, 2025 15:00

Ok so what happened in 2022

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Published: June 2, 2025 14:05

Catching up 1. Billy Budd (age 13), unless you mean explicitly queer at which point The Color Purple (age 16) 2. Nevada (my home state) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 2, 2025 13:39

These families are emptying their life savings and leaving the only home they've ever known just ensure their trans kid can get the care they need. Now ask yourself--would you even think about doing this for health care that was anything less than…

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Published: June 2, 2025 12:43

Family Research Council in 2017 vs. Nancy Mace yesterday

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