mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️

It turns out punishing coup plotters actually is an effective deterrent!

The reason it’s like this is because republicans latched onto it as a way to make fun of democrats and instead of standing up for us the party had collectively dragged their feet or actively resisted helping us. Talarico is running partially in a platform that would ban the care I saw in Texas.

A part of this not mentioned is that Texas used to let kids transition. I volunteered at a camp for trans kids in Houston when I was in college (pre transition I know I know how did I not know I was trans). Guess where part of that camp was? Texas Children’s. That’s how much we lost

Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

its insane how not many people are talking about how republicans with the help of several moderate democrats are building out the largest abusive medical conversion therapy operation in modern american history

the contrast between seeing US democrats fall over themselves to embrace idiot transphobia all year and tonight seeing footage of the president embracing my (trans) congresswoman, Erika Hilton, at the election night party

Dems bringing out the ol' "Sure a lot of us are Nazis but they are ALL Nazis" strategy to win the midterms:

"A militant nationwide uprising did in fact occur. The progressive wing of the counter-insurgency seeks the denial and disarticulation of this event." -Idris Robinson

max of course thinks that improving material conditions for queer people in the US means building weapons to kill people in the global south

Lula, for what it's worth, is not remotely above criticism-- he is his country's equivalent of a DSA candidate; he isn't Mao; he will not institute socialism. The miracle I mean is simply having elected anyone other than the puppet the fascist bourgeois monopolist clique in Washington and Mar-A-Lago

I agree but would go even further--no votes for *any* anti-trans Democrat, and zero support outside of the ballot (volunteering, donations, social media, etc) for any Democrats anywhere who haven't condemned the move to the far-right.

Amy fucking Acton LITERALLY refused to meet with trans Ohioans about her transphobic ads a couple of months ago, and members of the progress caucus resigned because of it. Stop telling me these people are interested in "working with us"

We are relieved to see that another Bolsonaro will not take power in Brazil. But only grassroots action can address the deeper issues at play. “If Bolsonaro wins, they kill us—if Lula wins, they let us die.” crimethinc.com/2026/09/29/i...

How it feels right now

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

lol the endorsements page is 404'd now, I wonder how many endorsements he lost in the last 24 hours.

Here is a thread of anti-trans campaign ads by transphobic democrats. You may wanna archive this thread somewhere else before the Bluesky moderators find my post and nuke my account, again. 🧵 1. Marcy Kaptur (D), congresswoman (OH-09)

What really sucks about Amy Acton is that trans women have empathy for her after Vivek Ramaswamy got her estranged mother to call her a liar in an ad. But when we express concerns that she may not be safe for trans people due to her actions and statements, we're treated like crazy people.

Macron government banned protests. Tried to shut down social media. Mobilized the armed Police. Fascist thugs mobilized their militias to support the police. And yet they came out to the streets to protest. This is what 'resistance' looks like.

I keep seeing cis liberals say Josh Turek's Republican opponent is worse on trans rights What, exactly, is worse for trans people than a federal ban on healthcare we need to live? Do cis liberals think "being allowed to serve in the military" is a higher priority for us?

Perfect example of how liberal "queer" nonprofits are used as propaganda by capitalists to justify our own oppression

And liberals wonder why Marxists say it always comes down to revolution in the end

"there is no democratic party" is just the lib version of "there is no Qanon" lol

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Liberals sometimes wonder how it is that people can vote for Trump knowing what a bigot he is. Sounds like a lot of them have found out.

There are some people who claim "oh, Dems in blue states will never shift towards enacting anti-trans policy" Meanwhile Colorado is literally enacting a medical detransition protocol for trans youth on medicaid.

Not if you're trans.

>when someone torches Hitler's crib

BOY WOULD WE LIKE TO

If you donated to Josh Turek without realizing he was running on a federally funded trans healthcare coverage ban, you can request a refund of your donation here: help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/art...

70% of Bsky convos

Pro-HRT funding ban Democrat Josh Turek is endorsed by a ton of big names, and even a local @indivisible.org chapter (Dubuque County). Pete Buttigieg is not surprising at all turek4iowa.com/endorsements/

As the gentry try to normalize transphobia in every avenue of life, a common talking point they love to share is the alleged high 'detransition' and 'regret' rates among trans people. These allegedly high rates are completely false, and based on bunk science. 🧵

bro promised to propose a bill meant to deprive trans people of healthcare and then posts shit like this, lol. Democrats have decided to go to war against trans people, and we are going to fight back.

Josh Turek is more or less saying "there are no trans people in iowa"

Disappointing to see a fellow trans writer outright lie about me and be incredibly insulting over a milquetoast take on Dems. If I recall when we spoke, I was trying to be kind and also I’ve never argued that SP isn’t transphobic. I literally have vids & posts going back YEARS saying that. Just… wow

wonder if @mcbride.house.gov is going to condemn her party supporting genocidal freaks into office who want trans people forcibly detransitioned by the government. I guess she doesn't have to worry about that ever impacting her, with all the money she has 🤷🏾‍♀️

Every Democrat who doesn't condemn this man is complicit, they are allowing their "big tent" to include genocidal freaks who want to exterminate parts of their "tent"