Gillian Branstetter
@gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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In general I'm wary of any attempt to absolve the US from ruining our own global hegemony thank you very much
Caræsten 🇵🇸@cara.city · 6h agoeveryone is making pretty bold anecdotal claims about the Yandex DC going out resulting in less right wing content, but all the actual data I’ve seen has been saying it hasn’t moved the needle at all. I would be very skeptical of these claims; they will almost certainly turn out to be totally false.
Seems like New York is a wetter city than I was led to believe
Tell Governor Newsom to spare hundreds of lives and grant universal clemency now.
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Roughly 1 in 4 people on death row nationwide are in California. On the heels of Tennessee's horrifying second botched execution in less than 6 months, Governor Newsom has an historic opportunity to help move the country away from capital punishment.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom ramped up talks after a botched execution in Tennessee.
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How fast will this come to a public school near you
Remarkable how consistently the Trump administration has adopted the aesthetics of mass shooters, from their schizophrenic social media aesthetic to livestreamed executions to masked men with long guns roaming our streets with impunity. Nihilist violent extremism as statecraft
The death penalty on its own is morally indefensible; Turning it into a public spectacle is an abomination
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3d agoBREAKING: The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
All the more depressing when you remember the largest bar on this graph is only one tenth of campus sexual assault (90% of campus sexual assault goes unreported altogether)
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 5d agoOf more than 1,200 reports of sexual misconduct from 2018 to 2024, seven people were expelled or dismissed from Cornell. Fourteen were suspended.
Trying to find this sleeveless shirt worn by one of the bullies in She's All That
Trump-appointed head of DOJ's civil rights office wondering why the most powerful women in Washington are primarily on the left when the current vogue in right wing politics is debating the merits of the 19th Amendment
Met a woman in Park Slope today selling dozens of portraits of her friends she painted during a challenge with another artist where each painted one portrait a day for 300 days
The Republican position is that trans people's sex cannot be changed by hormones and surgery but their own sex is threatened by everything from chemicals in the water to workplace sexual harassment policies
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoMinnesota Republican House candidate William Beck says frogs are "changing sexes" because of chemicals in the water
I love living in a country where a politician can sign a law banning the health care I need to live and be greeted as a hero of comity and good sense
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 2w agoUtah Gov. Spencer Cox has emerged as a prominent voice calling on Americans to step back from the political hostility gripping the country. The Republican governor is expanding on that message in a new book. https://to.pbs.org/3VmTJnx
Just left Lawrence, Kansas where I regrettably did not get to sample the local cuisine
It's very difficult (and very thankless) to tell people not to panic when everything is in fact very awful, but panic is never a good organizing model, persuasion tactic, or personal outlook. It's good for content creation in an algorithmic feed but that's kind of it.
Katherine Alejandra Cross@quinnae.com · 2w agoRecently, I did a wonderful interview with the indefatigable @emilystjams.bsky.social about trans people's online information environment and why there are very strong incentives to spread panic. It was a wide-ranging discussion that I think is more relevant than ever.
This young woman, just 21, has already been driven out of the state. Another guy in this story has young kids who only know him as Dad and can no longer take his son to the men’s room. Sensitive reporting (as always) by @caseyparks.bsky.social
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2w agoIn February, the Kansas state legislature passed a law that required all driver’s licenses to reflect sex at birth. Roughly 1,700 intersex and transgender Kansans received a letter saying to get new licenses, including Dakota West. Now, she’s suing. https://wapo.st/3VaB9yX
In February, the Kansas state legislature passed a law that required all driver’s licenses to reflect sex at birth. Roughly 1,700 intersex and transgender Kansans received a letter saying to get new licenses, including Dakota West. Now, she’s suing. https://wapo.st/3VaB9yX
This law has subjected trans people in Kansas to: - Losing their ability to drive and go about their daily lives - Being forced to disclose they're trans every time they show ID - Risking harassment or violating the law when deciding which bathroom to use We're fighting back.
We're in court today challenging the anti-trans Kansas law that bans trans people from bathrooms that align with their gender on government property, invalidates driver's licenses with updated gender markers, and lets people sue anyone they suspect of violating the law for damages up to $1,000.
Lost in the discourse about where Dems are is the fact Republicans know the anti-trans ads aren't helping them but, as Terry here openly admits, hurting trans people is all they have left. They'd use their dying breath to ruin one more trans kid's life.
Oriana González@oriana.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: Some Dems are adopting anti-trans rhetoric in their campaigns While Republicans learn they can’t rely on it to win like they did in 2024 Inside how each party is navigating trans issues in 2026 — in ways they never have before w/ @alexroarty.bsky.social www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/re...
Satan turning a big knob on the flames of hell to see how the crowd reacts
ashley (birthday month) 🕸️@clearlyashley.bsky.social · 2w agopresented without comment
Does the beef tallow differ on the quality of the beef? I'm unfamiliar
Mark Histed@markhisted.org · 2w agoOh
BREAKING: The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow essential health care to be withheld from transgender people in federal prisons. Denying medically-necessary care to any incarcerated person is cruel and unusual punishment — period.
think all straight people who discoursed at great and punishing length about a western mass lesbian bar should have to give equal airtime to this. it’s your own community this time!
regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸@ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 2w ago“This is not a dark chapter in Cornell’s history, it’s a morbid pattern” Editorial Board at The Cornell Sun absolutely fucking your shit UP www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
