ICYMI: The nation of Niger has become the first nation in the world to criminalise asexuality as part of a wider crackdown on the LGBTQIA+ community
Why Niger explicitly criminalising asexuality is significant to everyone, regardless of identity
To understand Nigers asexuality criminalisation, we should see this law as part of a bigger – and growing – global trend among conservatives about 'traditional families'
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Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. 💚 The places we love and fight to protect are Indigenous homelands long before they became national parks. Those connections are still very much alive.
ICE agents deployed pepper spray, pepper balls, and smoke canisters in Salem, Oregon, exposing children and elderly residents to chemical agents. Witnesses also reported agents ramming vehicles near Lancaster Drive and Sunnyview Road on October 10. The footage demands scrutiny.
TW: DV The staggering numbers of missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW) is a national travesty. Native women deserve safety. Native women deserve visibility. Native women deserve justice. Learn more: niwrc.org/mmiwr-awareness
PSA, Colorado voters: Elon Musk’s America PAC has been sending misleading texts saying, “Your ballot request is in,” and asking voters to confirm where and when to return it. The messages have prompted confused residents to contact county election offices.
4 reasons the Trump administration is attacking science. 🧵 This is still one of the most common questions I hear from people - but why!? Isn't science good for everyone?! So, here is my current thinking on why...
I've been saying this for years! They've got to be ongoing, and they've got be disrupt lives. A planned weekend day per month with cutesie signs keeping in parks and on sidewalks won't change a thing
The Mouthy Renegade Writer@mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 3d agoI’ve been saying this for a couple of years now. The French get it. Several other countries have done it in the past few years. So why don’t we?🤔
I’ve been saying this for a couple of years now. The French get it. Several other countries have done it in the past few years. So why don’t we?🤔
The Trump admin announced that winter oil and gas exploration in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve will be exempt from environmental reviews. That includes seismic surveys, building temporary roads, and drilling exploration wells. Our public lands keep paying the price…
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Certain species of Gobies can switch back and forth depending upon prevailing circumstances, and the Mangrove Killifish is fully hermaphrodite, possessing the ability to self-fertilise throughout their entire lives. Over 500 species of fish display some kind of hermaphroditism.
QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 3d ago"In an unpredictable world, this flexibility can mean the difference between extinction and survival."
All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.
Paul Marvin@paulmarvin.bsky.social · 3d ago
Yesterday afternoon, ICE agents — who did not present a warrant, and who appear to have been disguised as construction workers — fired 7 shots into a car with a 5-year-old child, hitting Oscar Belgal in the neck.
South African judge Navi Pilay won the Nobel Peace Prize for her long career seeking accountability for authoritarian regimes. The Nobel Committee understands there is no peace without justice.
Banned Books Week is almost over! The Trump administration had at least 596 books removed from schools serving military families. Don’t forget to get out there and read some of the books they tried to keep off the shelves. Happy Banned Books Week!
Thailand made history with its first national pageant for trans men and masculine-presenting women. Tom Thailand announced a 100,000-baht prize, a trophy and over 1 million baht in vouchers for the winner. Khru Me took the crown. Repost this queer milestone.
Let's make this easy. If you voted for him once, I'm not interested in your opinion on anything. If you voted for him 3 times, stay the fuck away from me.
Resistors report arrests and injuries, including being pushed into barbed wire. CBP confirmed that all four cottonwoods marked for removal there are now gone. Centuries of life destroyed for two parallel walls cutting through the borderlands. We’re heartbroken and we’re angry!
For more than 70 days, resistors took turns sitting in the branches of the “Grandmother” cottonwood in Lochiel, Arizona, trying to save it and the habitat around it. This morning, Border Patrol raided their camp, removed the tree sitter, and contractors knocked it down.
A lot of what’s happening doesn’t seem to be spreading anymore by mainstream media. A tree that stood for an estimated 150–250 years was destroyed today to make way for Trump’s border wall.
NY governor says Cornell rape accuser was 'failed' by people obligated to protect her
NY governor says Cornell rape accuser was 'failed' by people obligated to protect her
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says the woman who accused members of a Cornell University fraternity of gang rape was “failed” by people obligated to protect her, including police and the county prosecuto...
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From Oliver Kornetzke: Zionists be like, “THIS IS AI!!” because admitting what’s right in front of them would require a fucking conscience.
