Intersectional. Canadian, US, UK & global politics; trans, LGBTQ , human rights, economic, social, racial & reproductive justice. See pinned for other places.
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Mercedes Allen retweeted
"The core pitch Sylvestre is making is dangerously disconnected from reality. ...The case Sylvestre made to audiences across Alberta to drum up support for Alberta independence was riddled with distortions, disinformation and conspiracy theories." #ABPoli
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Pierre Versus the Pipeline.
Or, The Man Whose Only Political Instinct Was To Be Anti-Everything.
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"The dynamic becomes self-reinforcing. Fox highlights Piker as a dangerous figure on the left. Democrats respond by condemning him… validating… That condemnation is then fed back into Fox’s coverage… as confirmation of internal Democratic chaos…"
salon.com/2026/05/02/democra…
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* (I should add that I haven't been paying enough attention to Hasan Piker to have an opinion on him at the moment.)
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"A 197-page report released Thursday by the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias said that pro-LGBTQ policies… are anti-Christian…"
lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/doj-…
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"[Heritage Foundation's follow-up document to Project 2025] envisions an America that overturns… Obergefell v. Hodges; denies trans people’s existence and vilifies the 'LGBT agenda'; rejects the no-fault divorce doctrine… uses DEI as a cudgel…"
assignedmedia.org/breaking-n…
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"It's pitched as… gouging the rich to finance discounts for the poor. But in practice, that's not at all how surveillance pricing works. Instead, [it] is most often used to levy a 'desperation premium' on people who have fewer choices & less leverage…"
pluralistic.net/2026/04/30/s…
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Mercedes Allen retweeted
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Remember the whole “Obama isn’t really president because he was born in Kenya”? Now Clay Travis is starting that with a Black Supreme Court justice.
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There is a legitimate argument that Ketanji Brown Jackson’s appointment to the Supreme Court — which President Joe Biden specifically said was directly intended to put a black woman on the Supreme Court — was unconstitutional under federal law.
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"A Fox News poll released this week shows that less than 1% of respondents consider 'wokeness' and transgender issues as the most important issue facing the country, and that a majority also prefer Democrats’ handling of trans issues over Republicans'…"
lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/shoc…
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“The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead, and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation…”
truthout.org/articles/conser…
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"Among the major news outlets we tracked, the Times had by far the most stories mentioning the trans community, and the lowest percentage of stories that quoted a trans person.
"… only 12 of their 60 news stories…"
assignedmedia.org/breaking-n…
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“You’re allowed to use a company’s name to talk about the company, right?… How else are you going to do it…?”
404media.co/sxsw-used-ai-pow…
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"Russia…[designated its] top LGBTQ rights group, as an 'extremist' organization
"… The ruling paves the way for the group’s members to be criminally prosecuted as a threat to the nation, since Russia’s criminal code equates extremism with terrorism…"
lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/russ…
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"And the rule goes even further… explicitly repeals the… provision banning shelters from subjecting trans people 'to intrusive questioning or asking them to provide anatomical information or documentary, physical, or medical evidence'…"
transitics.substack.com/p/tr…
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A recap, but because we need some good news
"Unserious leaders are unsafe. This case highlights a leader’s unserious regard for the rule of law… does not merely result in an abstract infraction… [but rather] causes very real harm to very real people…"
lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/tran…
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"The theory that paying informants to dismantle hate groups somehow contradicts the mission… is 'very stretched…'
"… What the indictment does do… is provide a scaffolding for a broader disinformation campaign…" #SPLC
salon.com/2026/04/25/maga-me…
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And especially those years it was engaged in wars.
"…because it wages war 'the right way' — just seconds after bragging about his reshaping of the military to ensure that officers can carry out 'maximum violence' under his chain of command…"
truthout.org/articles/hegset…
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"Bill 25… is framed by the Smith government in the language of neutrality…
"But Action4Canada… celebrating the evening in Red Deer, uses the phrase SOGI 123 directly and without hesitation. They know exactly what they were thanking her for…"
queergranddad.substack.com/p…
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