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Cindy Michels 🇺🇲🇪🇺🇨🇦

@cindymichels.bsky.social

Commercial Airline Captain 😎 #Democrat 💙 #BlueCrew 💙 #BlueResisters 💙 #AntiAIPAC 🧐 #Feminist♀️ #LGBTAlly 🏳️‍🌈 #TransAlly 🏳️‍⚧️ #ProChoice 🤔 #Green ♻️ #3E ✊️ #Gamer 🎮 #GoodTroubleSquadron 🛩️ #NeverNewsom 🖕 American in London 💂 USA & UK politics No DMs (Deleted) 🚫

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Cindy Michels 🇺🇲🇪🇺🇨🇦@cindymichels.bsky.social · 3d ago

Right off to the airport 😎✈️ Please take the time this weekend to click the link below and send an email, it doesn't take a second 🕘 Be a #trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️❤️ See you Monday 👀

Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · 3d ago

Sadiq Khan claims he's a trans ally. But actions speak louder than words – and further lining JK Rowling's pocket helps her fund her transphobic campaigns 🏳️‍⚧️ Take Action now 👇 https://goodlaw.social/3440b9

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 4d ago

It's just accepted as normal that the UK hates trans people and that's ok. It doesn't even register as something to be concerned about when most cis people are talking about the state of the country. Tired.

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 4d ago

On the day he is a main candidate in a very important by-election, Facebook has *suspended* Zack Polanski’s account. This ON ITS OWN should be reason to vote Green in Holborn & St Pancras. This is foreign interference in British democracy. And guess what, the media (and Labour) is silent.

Friends Following Q Zack Polanski Suggested Things in = No friends to show No results found.Al Mode All Images Videos Search the web > Past hour Sorted by relevance News Maps Your search - Zack Polanski suspended from Facebook - did not match any news results. Reset search tools Suggestions: • Make sure that all words are spelled correctly. • Try different keywords. • Try more general keywords. • Try fewer keywords. Results are not personalised United Kingdom
Cindy Michels 🇺🇲🇪🇺🇨🇦@cindymichels.bsky.social · 4d ago

#EatTheBillionaires because they support Fascism and they all have bunkers when that Fascism kills us all 🚨

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 5d ago

The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 5d ago

10 things Burnham doesn’t want you to talk about; 1. Labour’s support for Gaza genocide 2. Climate change 3. Wealth Taxes 4. Transphobic Section 28 5. Rent controls 6. Man City 7. State Pensions in neighboring countries 8. Water nationalisation 9. Mandelson 10. Labour’s support for Trump’s Iran war

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 6d ago

Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history, has died at 84. Hastert admitted in federal court to sexually abusing boys he coached as a high school wrestling coach. A federal judge called him a "serial child molester." He was a registered sex offender.

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Senthorun S. Raj@senthorun.bsky.social · 6d ago

“We are rendered hostile abstractions in a contradictory narrative: Trans people are not real, only our violence is real.” This is a compelling reflection by @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social on how the British press has laundered transphobia in recent years (so much of it is just recycled homophobia).

How the British Media Legitimized J.K. Rowling’s Transphobia

Preserved like frozen eddies in the whirlwind of a moral panic are the words of a national journalist, days after J.K. Rowling publishes her essay on the threat of the trans rights movement. Shona …

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Arienne Childrey@ari4ohio.bsky.social · 6d ago

Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇

Part 1 of an open letter of resignation by Arienne Childrey, stepping down as Vice Chair and member of the Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) Pride Caucus. She states that party leadership treats the caucus as a recruitment and sales team rather than a representative body. She cites an incident where the ODP censored and denied permission for the caucus to post a letter by two trans leaders addressing harmful comments made by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton. The State Party Chair reportedly called the letter an "unwelcome distraction," which Childrey notes demonstrates how little party leadership values the voices and dignity of LGBTQ+ Democrats. Since that decision, every Caucus plan, every potential post, and every path forward has been filtered through a lens of strict compliance and ODP approval. That may very well be the party's rule, but following those rules right now is a dereliction of our duty to the LGBTQ+ community. For me, any rule that silences advocacy for the trans community during this time is an unjust rule, and I see no obligation to follow it. In alignment with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail: “One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” We are living in incredibly dangerous times for the trans community. We are in an era where the GOP has so thoroughly weaponized trans lives that even some formerly self-professing allies within our own party have fallen prey to the rhetoric. Looking at the national trend towards Democratic anti-trans triangulation, as well as our own internal conversations, it is clear to me that this shift is much more than a simple coincidence. We have to speak up—loudly, strongly, and unapologetically—or I fear what our 2028 choices may look like. The ODP would like everyone to believe they are a "big tent" party. However, their successful efforts to silence even the Pride Caucus—even in cases where we are simply begging our candidates not to trade on our lives for perceived electoral advantage—has proven otherwise. The tent hasn't gotten any bigger; it has simply shifted, leaving many trans individuals, progressives, and allies out in the rain. I will continue to advocate, organize, and fight for our community with everything I have. But I can no longer compromise my own moral principles by remaining part of a caucus that appears more interested in party approval than in true, defiant advocacy. Sincerely, Arienne Childrey
Lex McMenamin (they/them)@lexmcmenamin.com · 6d ago

it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSA

Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

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