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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
When I was a teenager, I knew people who are openly transgender and still was all "Oh well it can't happen for reals because _chromosomes_", & despite AP Biology, wasn't properly taught s*x development. If only someone had set me correct on biology back then!!!
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
DECADES! OF! DENIAL! AND! REPRESSION!
INTERNALISED! TRANSPHOBIA!
Literally the lies that were enabled by Creationist / Protestant / Catholic politics that made it impossible to properly teach biology, evolution, and s*x development!
There's a reason the Matrix-as-Trans-Allegory resonates with me
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances!!!!
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
TRUMP IS LITERALLY TELLING THE ENTIRE WORLD THAT OUR WORD IN OUR TREATIES IS UNRELIABLE
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Paul Crider 🥥 (@paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com):
Was the Discovery Institute "Intelligent Design" (lol) strategy the first deployment of the kind of raw shamelessness that pervades the modern right? Like it's no accident that Chris Rufo got his start there. I suppose climate denialism happened about the same time.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Tobacco, asbestos, anthropogenic climate change, and tetraethyllead. There was an episode of the new Cosmos series that accessibly dived into Claire Patterson's campaign to get TEL banned, and Kehoe's politicisation / DOW Corporation's gaslamping
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The episode is up on YT - in segments. - youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
There I was, minding my own business, when suddenly Mr. Musk extended his arm diagonally upward, palm facing down while speaking at an inauguration event for Mr. Trump, a gesture that resembled a salute used in Nazi Germany and fascist Italy.
Amber K Ⓥ (@a32k.bsky.social):
Some people will do absolutely any amount of mental gymnastics necessary to avoid recognizing it for what it really was.
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Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com):
1. Happening now, the United States Senate is considering S9, a bill that would ban transgender people from playing sports of their gender identity from chess to darts and everything in between.
It could result in genital exams and more.
I'm covering live.
Watch:
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com):
Senator Durbin just railed agianst the bill, and how it could be used to target cisgender athletes and accuse them of being trans.
Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com):
The senators I am personally watching: Slotkin, Warner, Shaheen, Peters, Warnock, Ossoff, Fetterman, Kaine, Baldwin
Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com):
Currently there is a short break. It is open floor time and senators are speaking about whatever they would like - but some are talking about the sports ban which we will see a vote on likely sometime around 6.
Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com):
One good sign: Durbin is the Senate Dem Whip, so him saying this might indicate they are whipping a unified bloc.
Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com):
Tammy Baldwin: This is a decision for sports leagues at the local level. They have to thoughtfully craft policies best for all players, not blanket mandates with unintended consequences. I trust our states, leagues, localities to make these decisions.
Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com):
Baldwin: "This bill sends a message that certain kids are not welcome in little league. That some kids are not welcome in their school at all. What a heartbreaking message to a child. No American should be demonized and picked on so that politicians can win elections."
Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com):
Tubberville: "we have women's teams in some states that are all boys, all transgender boys"
Lol... What?
Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com):
Tubberville alludes to Imane Khelif in the Olympics.
Khelif is a cisgender woman, has never transitioned genders.
Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com):
This vote is for Lidna McMahon, this is not the trans vote, just so y'all know.
Trans sports vote will come after.
Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com):
God the Senate is slow. How do you congressional reporters do it?
Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com):
They are now voting on cloture on the trans sports ban!
Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com):
Fetterman a N.
frede-is-aspec+♾️ (@frede-is-aspec.bsky.social):
Yes, I'm so happy my emails to Fetterman worked!
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Bless you
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
FYI @hrc.org sent out a text message at ~1300 Eastern today to its subscribers to prompt them to contact their Senators to vote NO on this bill. Thank you Human Rights Campaign
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
There are two items on that list which are humanitarian and soft power concerns (Malaria, Polio) and two which are "We just ushered in Armageddon" concerns (TB, Ebola / Marburg)
Malaria and Polio are nominally genetically stable. TB and Ebola are not.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
TB isn't genetically unstable the way Bird Flu is; its situation is that globally, it is at the stage that bacterial illnesses get in a single host ehen the host takes some, but not all, the antibiotics - everything that survives is the most resistant to the antibiotics. Evolution.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The significant problem though is that MAGA health theory is not different from business management theory - they approach infectious disease management as a thing to reach a market equilibrium with, pushing costs to corners, instead of as a public benefit
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Removing @elenaparent.bsky.social from the Transphobic blocklist
bsky.app/profile/soma...
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
@hedgehogsafety.bsky.social - relevant to the maintenance of the VBB blocklist
bsky.app/profile/soma...
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Lilah Sturges (@lilahsturges.com):
This makes me sad for him more
than anything. What a bizarre and childish thing to brag about. It's like that subreddit of people who have never broken a bone… but he actually thinks it says something positive about him.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It's downright antisocial
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Sage 🏳️⚧️ (@trans.bsky.social):
…you didn't realize the account named "
@trans.bsky.social" with a trans flag in the name was trans?
isobel (@isobel.top):
if only there were any signs whatsoever
Six is stuck in a lamp. (@thesix.bsky.social):
My gods. Sage has been a cluster of green circles this whole time!
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The Reflectivity of Cat's Eyes as Coded Transgender Semiotics, a Review of the Literature
Six is stuck in a lamp. (@thesix.bsky.social):
Transpetum lucidum.
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social):
Just remembering that all three branches of our government (questionably!) declared TikTok to be such a major threat to our national security, that it must be banned (going against all sorts of historical 1st Amendment precedent).
Then Trump came into office and said "eh, that law doesn't apply."
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"The First Amendment, or the TikTok Ban?"
"… yes"
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PJ Harvey Dent (@bsakat.bsky.social):
I've been practicing my boomer baby talk (customer service) voice to make calls to legislators, and I deserve a goddarned medal for not starting every call, "Listen here, motherlover".
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 (@katymontgomerie.com):
Someone pointed out the other day that JK Rowling might be really loud, rich and famous, but she's literally contributed nothing to "Gender Critical" ideology. Some of them are trying to make new arguments or come up with slogans and stuff. All she does is post D-tier Mumsnet arguments from 2018
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
She might do under a pen name, to avoid defamation liability
Guess we'll only learn that if she slips up & gets sued
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Holy f—
The rule exists to prevent criminals and terrorists from having incentive to blackmail US citizens & businesses into laundering their cash
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
They're doing this specifically because of the Panama Papers, and how extensively those exposed the money laundering of Putin (and other wealthy, corrupt politicians)
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/r/dallas is a discussion forum with 4 mods, down from 7 mods 5 years ago, and an unacceptable long running policy and practice that can be expressed as "Moderating here comes after job, commute, cooking, family, sleep, holidays, exercise, naps, and blowing our noses".
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