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Read daily coverage of anti-trans propaganda in US right wing media on assignedmedia.org

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I'd *still* rather be playing pinball


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Nails Nathan's avatar Nails Nathan @chadstanton.bsky.social
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They’re working hard to make it a reality! Lawsuits and all!

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Max Berger 's avatar Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social
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Here’s why Biden is toast: in this situation, any candidate in Biden’s shoes would do a series of events (interviews, press conferences, town halls, etc) to prove they are up to the task. But, Biden isn’t doing that because he can’t. He’s not capable—and that’s not going to change.

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Eileen Clancy's avatar Eileen Clancy @clancyny.bsky.social
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Do you remember folks were picketing Supreme Court Justices' homes a couple of years ago? They're back! At Justice Roberts' home today.

Short thread with video on Twitter:
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)'s avatar Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone
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can we replace biden with someone who will pack the court. or like. do anything to resist fascism in any way

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈's avatar David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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Reminder from a Pittsburgher who was at one point Mr. Rogers neighbor: “Look for the helpers” was intended to be advice for his usual audience, children. We’re grown ups now. We’re supposed to be the helpers.

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Miles Grant's avatar Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social
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AP story waits until paragraph 16 to mention police & prosecutors are accused of conspiring to protect the cop who's apparently the real killer, until then making him seem like a lone wolf

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Will Oremus's avatar Will Oremus @oremus.bsky.social
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Additional skills: • Confirming that I am not a robot • Entering the temporary code generated in my Authenticator app • Accepting only the necessary cookies, unless I am in a hurry • Acknowledging that I have read and agree to the privacy policy that I have neither read nor agree to

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A.R. Moxon's avatar A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social
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Not the most terrifying thing but perhaps the most infuriating: every single thing we said about these fascist Republican fucks has been proved out and all the people who assured us that what is happening would never happen smoothly pivoted to yes it's happening but it will be fine.

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Assigned Media's avatar Assigned Media @assigned.bsky.social
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You have my complete support.

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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴 's avatar Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴 @knilirabaj.bsky.social
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Number 2. 😮‍💨

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Will Oremus's avatar Will Oremus @oremus.bsky.social
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It's been interesting to see the consensus on this site harden in realtime around the idea that not only is sticking with Biden the obvious correct choice for Dems no matter what other facts might emerge, but that anyone who suggests otherwise is either dishonest, an idiot or a handmaiden of fascism

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Boston Tom Levenson's avatar Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social
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This is... not good news for Donald Trump.

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ryan cooper's avatar ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com
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intimidating and punishing journalists who expose flagrant state corruption, another classic Jim Crow mechanism

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Pookleblinky's avatar Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social
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All the logistical, bureaucratic issues of replacing a candidate, navigating multiple deadlines and such, all these issues would also happen if that candidate just dropped dead at an inopportune time. With candidates this old, for this long, you'd hope someone would have planned for just that.

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Al Kennedy's avatar Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social
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Meeting JK Rowling to discuss trans rights is like meeting a seagull to discuss chips

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Assigned Media's avatar Assigned Media @assigned.bsky.social
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Ultimately the best time to do something was the time when they decided to tell everyone raising the alarm they were over-reacting, and while there's certainly much that can still be done I think a bit of mourning the failures to do more earlier is perfectly in order this week.

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BREAKING: Advocates submit double the amount of signatures needed to put a constitutional right to abortion on the ballot in Arizona.

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Evan Urquhart's avatar Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social
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If Biden hadn't chosen this week to throw trans youth under the bus I'd be feeling a ton of sympathy right now for him, like us, being the target of a relentless NYT smear campaign.

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Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
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"The Abortion Fund of Ohio supported about 100 patients a month in 2022. By 2023, that grew to 360 patients a month, and now they’re averaging more than 500 patient requests every month ― a 400% increase in two years, as executive director Lexis Dotson-Dufault told reporters earlier this month."

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Assigned Media's avatar Assigned Media @assigned.bsky.social
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I haven't read it and I arguably should have for my job. The two main points I've picked up on are a plan to replace massive numbers of nonpartisan civil servants with partisans, one application of which will be to direct the FDA to make both abortion and gender transition illegal at any age.

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Assigned Media's avatar Assigned Media @assigned.bsky.social
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The comfort of knowing their actions won't be adequately covered in the mainstream press is precisely why the far right crazies placed in charge of our judiciary feel empowered to go balls to the wall.

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I hate this court so much and even I am astonished by this case. It writes new provisions into Art 2 of the constitution that were unnecessary to decide the case at hand and that cannot be repealed by legislative action or even undone without a new case of presidential law breaking before the court

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Greg Pak's avatar Greg Pak @gregpak.bsky.social
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You could also call up your US rep and demand they join AOC in this move for impeachment. Can't pass the R House, but they HAVE to use their bully pulpit and rally the public. www.nydailynews.com/2024/07/01/a...

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Evan Urquhart's avatar Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social
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Kamala Harris personality has really grown on me, which of course is a very bad sign for her because other Democrats I liked and imagined I'd enjoy spending time with, whether I liked their politics or not, were Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton.

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Nails Nathan's avatar Nails Nathan @chadstanton.bsky.social
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Link up with and support the people organizing and providing these things in your community now. Support migrants in your community, people without housing in your community, demand and create public spaces, support your library, etc. don’t accept the bare minimum it’s not working.

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Jonathan Dresner's avatar Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social
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There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments

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Erin A. Snider's avatar Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social
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"International pressure on Israel to ensure greater aid provision has had limited effect...Flour from aid agencies has been the only thing standing between many people & starvation. “Here in the north we have eaten animal fodder made of maize & even soya, but now we have flour,” Aboul Hosna said."

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Molly Shah's avatar Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social
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Legitimately so much of what Democrats tell me is some version of “they’re just doing it to SOME people”

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BREAKING: Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, anti-settlement watchdog says.

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Nails Nathan's avatar Nails Nathan @chadstanton.bsky.social
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People have let themselves believe they in particular would be fine as long as they live in the right states, where everyone votes the right way, and practices just the right type of politics.

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Chantal James's avatar Chantal James @chantalalive.bsky.social
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That’s what’s happening right now. The too late part is here. Instead of acting effectively white people are panicking running around like chickens with their heads cut off & being so antiblack they blame us because we don’t do that.

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Daniel Feldman's avatar Daniel Feldman @dfeldman.bsky.social
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.

Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.

The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.

Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.

www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

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❤️🖤 tiffi 🤍💚's avatar ❤️🖤 tiffi 🤍💚 @tranniehathaway.bsky.social
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::blinks:: *that* title with *that* premise? I'm watching you, M. Night 🧐

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Chantal James's avatar Chantal James @chantalalive.bsky.social
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All the big rights the white people are panicking about losing in America, they have zero attention of the huge attacks on Black people. America is in the process of reversing to Jim Crow, the state's very police are getting more & more funded & armed & killing us more. @chadstanton.bsky.social

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Amanda Weaver's avatar Amanda Weaver @amandaweaver.bsky.social
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Your honor, with all due respect, I shot the sheriff but I did not shoot the deputy.

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Chantal James's avatar Chantal James @chantalalive.bsky.social
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If you haven't noticed, Biden's the president, he's still actively suppressing protest & resistance including with armed cops. Our country's also involved in a genocide. Old style racism of segregation is returning for Black people daily. Trump's people have long been a waiting dormant armed group.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki's avatar Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com
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Your honor, with all due respect, I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want

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Gregory the A'ight 's avatar Gregory the A'ight @gregoryaight.bsky.social
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Your honor, with all due respect, Oh...my...Gawd, Becky. Look...at that...butt. it's so...big.

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Evan Urquhart's avatar Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social
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Pondering whether I'll be a dissident or refugee. Plusses and minuses to both: I like the romance of being a dissident, but the risks are mighty risky! I like the life-preserving aspect of fleeing, but I fear the isolation and culture shock of leaving the only place I've ever lived.

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Sock Puppet Pundit's avatar Sock Puppet Pundit @sockpuppetpundit.bsky.social
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Your honor, with all due respect, haters are gonna hate hate hate.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) 's avatar Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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Hey so…we are in the middle of a far right coup and the far right is telling you they are going to continue and if we try to stop them they will resort to open violence.This is cartoonish and people need to push these fascist now. Not tomorrow not next week we need massive protests and direct action

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Bethany Brookshire's avatar Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social
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I am reading Hannah Arendt right now and she makes this point. Over and over. With a freakin hammer. There are a LOT OF PEOPLE in the world very eager to pick a group and blame it for their problems, esp when they don't have a strong grasp of where those problems really come from.

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Mist's avatar Mist @mistuhbull.bsky.social
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Your honor, with all due respect, I get knocked down, but, I get up again.

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Serena (she/her)'s avatar Serena (she/her) @serenawanderer.bsky.social
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Your honor, with all due respect, I’m coming out of my cage and I’m doing just fine.

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Assigned Media's avatar Assigned Media @assigned.bsky.social
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HRC has money and close relationships with major Democratic donors.

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Sydney Bauer's avatar Sydney Bauer @sydneyy.bsky.social
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And people say comedy is dead

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