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Unionist in higher ed (umasspsu.org), parent. Now available—What the Boss Doesn't Want Us to Know: Discovering Power and Winning Campaigns. https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1768

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No, effeminate boys aren’t being ‘transed’ | Xtra Magazine Hiding my transness nearly killed me. Let’s work to build a world where trans people’s lives aren’t quite so hard

A recent Atlantic column claimed society is allegedly "transing" effeminate boys. For my @xtramagazine.com column this month, I wrote a rebuttal using my own experience as a young, closeted trans girl. xtramagazine.com/power/identi...

09.03.2026 18:52 👍 958 🔁 252 💬 15 📌 19
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Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

You should be able to criticize your government anonymously online.

Full stop.

"Age verification" legislation is just a pretty name for "forced online ID checks," meaning everything you post is associated with your government name

We have to stop this.

theintercept.com/2026/03/05/k...

05.03.2026 18:47 👍 1390 🔁 744 💬 16 📌 12
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The majority of faculty on campus work on semester contracts w/no job security. Even those with tenure can be denied due process. Don’t cut us out of collective bargaining. The higher ed lobbyist agenda is NOT pro-worker! @donscott757.bsky.social @senlouiselucas.bluesky.bot @ssurovell.bsky.social

05.03.2026 13:10 👍 22 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0

Every Democrat planning to run in a primary in 2028 might want to start working on their record of standing for immigrant and trans rights, and against genocide and imperialism. We will be checking your work.

04.03.2026 16:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

04.03.2026 04:49 👍 8327 🔁 2493 💬 98 📌 107

anti-trans Dems ate shit last night

04.03.2026 12:01 👍 8523 🔁 1156 💬 56 📌 177
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A strike on a girls' school in Iran has killed at least 175 people.

Investigative journalist Nilo Tabrizy details what is known so far about the massacre.

04.03.2026 14:34 👍 235 🔁 111 💬 10 📌 9

Kansas invalidated a trans woman's license even though she never changed her gender marker.

It's not about the gender marker. It's about targeting trans people and making their lives unlivable.

03.03.2026 12:50 👍 2089 🔁 820 💬 19 📌 15
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Transgender People, “Gay Conversion,” and “Lesbian Extinction”: What the Data Show A couple days ago (on Christmas, actually), The Telegraph ran a piece with the provocative title: “Lesbians facing ‘extinction’ as…

since The Atlantic is apparently reviving the "a was a feminine gay child, but if I was a kid today they would have 'transed' me" trope, here's an essay I wrote back in 2020 explaining why this is not true & there is no evidence to support it: juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-...

03.03.2026 16:52 👍 757 🔁 272 💬 11 📌 8
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N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care

The New York attorney general's office has ordered NYU Langone to resume gender affirming care for trans youth due to violating New York Human Rights law.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...

Bypass here.

archive.ph/4NboB

03.03.2026 02:13 👍 2114 🔁 520 💬 16 📌 39

Hello! I am a trans journalist looking to speak with trans kids and parents of trans kids across the US who have been impacted by the clinic closures---please get in touch or share!

02.03.2026 18:12 👍 803 🔁 560 💬 7 📌 10
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Ayanna Pressley, who once considered running against Senator Ed Markey, endorses him for reelection - The Boston Globe US Representative Ayanna Pressley called Ed Markey a "friend and a proven champion" in backing his reelection bid against fellow Democrat, US Representative Seth Moulton.

All of your favorite people are backing Ed.

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/02/m...

02.03.2026 18:36 👍 55 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0

“We thought we were living in a politically neutral slave state.”

02.03.2026 16:37 👍 6316 🔁 1306 💬 63 📌 13
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Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III

25.02.2026 16:11 👍 4664 🔁 1601 💬 110 📌 42

Cue MAGA's heads exploding at Alyssa Liu making a heart sign at fans holding a trans pride flag.

24.02.2026 14:57 👍 752 🔁 96 💬 12 📌 0
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Rev. Jesse Jackson built the Rainbow Coalition as a political home rooted in dignity and solidarity. That struggle continues here in New York City, in every fight for housing, justice, and equality.

Today, we lower our flags in his honor — and recommit to the movement he called us to build.

18.02.2026 17:35 👍 1788 🔁 265 💬 20 📌 9
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Tribune for Race and Class - The American Prospect Jesse Jackson, who died today at age 84, advanced perspectives and interests that were effectively democratic socialist.

Great tribute here to Jesse Jackson from Harold Meyerson, who eloquently and forcefully championed America’s multiracial working class during the heyday of neoliberalism.
prospect.org/2026/02/17/t...

17.02.2026 20:32 👍 77 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 0

Rest in power to the civil rights icon Jesse Jackson, who was an inspiration for his great city of Chicago, this nation, and the whole world.

And for my party. Because if Jesse Jackson had not run for president, there would be no @workingfamilies.org.

17.02.2026 20:55 👍 75 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 1

If anyone wants an example of the kind of stuff I wish more Democrats would do when it comes to defending trans rights, look no further than this from @jayapal.house.gov

16.02.2026 21:16 👍 3300 🔁 637 💬 22 📌 9
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Trans rights aren’t tanking the Democrats. Julia Serano responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”

"In other words, there hasn’t been an organic shift in public opinion on trans people but rather a massive astroturfing campaign against us." www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

16.02.2026 03:55 👍 699 🔁 213 💬 6 📌 3
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A foreign policy for the working class is one where states collaborate to discipline capital instead of working with capital to discipline our democracies.

Kitchen table conversation about anti-fascist economics with the one and only @aoc.bsky.social in Berlin.

16.02.2026 21:03 👍 326 🔁 71 💬 8 📌 5

It is obscene that the Healey administration wants to "phase in" regressive corporate tax cuts from the Big Ugly Bill rather than permanently opt out of them as other states have. #mapoli

12.02.2026 15:16 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Evan Greer - "You Will Have to Come Through Us" [Tiny Desk 2026]
Evan Greer - "You Will Have to Come Through Us" [Tiny Desk 2026] YouTube video by Evan Greer

Snuck it in right before the deadline, here's my entry to Tiny Desk 2026: an easy-to-learn protest song that I hope is useful to folks on the ground protecting their neighbors and fighting fascists.

10.02.2026 00:54 👍 71 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0

unions, folks: they're real good

09.02.2026 18:49 👍 1085 🔁 197 💬 6 📌 2

We don't have to believe this will work in order to take it seriously. But "the states control elections & he doesn't have enough goons to make it happen & the Constitution says ______" isn't a plan. 1/6/21 & getting away with it to become POTUS again also were illegal.

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

02.02.2026 18:43 👍 380 🔁 89 💬 13 📌 3
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Lessons from a Life of Power Research: An Interview with Mike Locker - Little Sis A deep-dive interview with the longtime power structure researcher Mike Locker.

"The research gave people a focus. It gave them a target, a place to direct their opposition work and to protest and demonstrate." - longtime power structure researcher Mike Locker

Read the full interview: littlesis.org/news/lessons...

02.02.2026 17:24 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Blizzard Quality Assurance Workers Ratify Video Game Union Contract With Microsoft A strong majority of quality assurance workers at Blizzard’s Albany and Austin locations overwhelmingly voted to ratify a union contract at Microsoft, ensuring lasting protections in the workplace.

Quality assurance testers at Blizzard Albany and Austin offices have reached a groundbreaking contract at Microsoft, marking the third union contract across the company's gaming studios.

Solidarity!

02.02.2026 14:16 👍 145 🔁 59 💬 2 📌 12

Couldn't be prouder of Bad Bunny

02.02.2026 02:48 👍 931 🔁 102 💬 13 📌 2
A downy woodpecker sits on a spruce on a sunny winter day. "Ahh... Febuary" it says. Close up on it correcting "Febrary" then "Febberary..." then finally "Frebrury"

A downy woodpecker sits on a spruce on a sunny winter day. "Ahh... Febuary" it says. Close up on it correcting "Febrary" then "Febberary..." then finally "Frebrury"

Ferbruary #oldknees

01.02.2026 20:15 👍 15228 🔁 4785 💬 102 📌 103