ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

Phonebank for abortion rights which are at stake in Wisconsin Supreme Court Election
#WISupremeCourt #JudgeJanet Protasiewicz https://thedemlabs.org/2023/03/28/phonebank-for-protasiewicz-to-protect-abortion-rights-in-wisconsin-supreme-court-election/

If my kids have to do gun shooting drills & practice where to hide in case a shooter comes into their school with an assault rifle to shoot them, your white kids can handle learning about what your ancestors & their ancestors did to black people in our country til 60 years ago.

i spent years thinking that i wasn't "really" trans

i "wanted to be" a girl

i hated "being" a boy

i fantasized about magic or science that could change my body

but somehow i still thought i wasn't "really" trans

bc i didn't say it

(scared)

and didn't transition

(super scared)

but i was ALWAYS trans

even before i said it

even before i transitioned

even before i knew the word

there's no legal amount of pride merch you have to own before you're 'really' trans

you are trans enough

@cwnidog @bigheadtales @Lowie

Oof, didn't expect the potential closure of the @TexasObserver to be one of the first things I'm posting about! Many of you have probably seen by now that our board voted quite suddenly a couple days ago to close the publication and lay everyone off. The staff is holding an emergency fundraiser to convince the board otherwise! We have raised $150k in less than 24 hours, and are hopeful. More details here: https://texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver/110101912371078713

Hey -- boost this one for reach, huh? I'm looking at potentially hiring a contract game designer to help me with some innovation projects over the next year at PlayStation's Future Forward Concepting team. If that sounds like something you'd be interested in, lets chat.

@TonyStark A child leaving home for school in the morning might not return home alive, owing to too many guns being too easily accessible to too many people who would use the guns to shoot at school children and school staff and first responders.

How about my parental rights to have my kid come home alive, Republicans, if you care so much about parental rights?

New report shows Elon Musk making millions by enabling spread of "groomer" lie about #LGBTQ+ people. If he's been around in the Middle Ages, he'd have monetized the blood libel against Jews. https://counterhate.com/blog/twitter-makes-millions-as-anti-lgbtq-grooming-narrative-jumps-119-under-elon-musk/

Good morning, Fediverse! We'll be getting fresh content up on our website this afternoon! Thank you so much to everyone—so many folks are sharing about our fundraiser and giving so generously, we are all incredibly moved. 🤠

Please keep sharing our fundraiser, which will either cover magazine expenses or go directly to severence for laid off TXO staff. https://www.gofundme.com/f/laid-off-texas-observer-journalists-and-staff

A lot of people are asking about long term plans for the publication. ... (🧵 1/?)

#SaveTXO #journalism #nonprofit

@TonyStark Turns out "The Council for National Policy" is another one of these Reagan-era "socialism for conservatives" organizations.

They take in unfathomable amounts of rich peoples' money and use it to create safe, reality-challenged spaces where Republicans can share their imagined grievances.

An Illinois Catholic school teacher & Boy Scout leader has pleaded guilty to grooming multiple children.

#NoDragQueensDetected

Former Rockford teacher, scout leader enters plea deal in sex case https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/crime/2023/03/27/former-rockford-teacher-scout-leader-enters-plea-deal-in-sex-case/70052959007/

@EvyM Yep. Reagan pandered to the religious right, started the GOP trend of agency/department heads that were openly hostile to the stated mission of said agency/department, vilified and victimized poverty and people of color and LGBTQ people (AIDS), entrenched trickle down economics while spending like a drunken sailor on the arms race, and turned the rubes against representative self-government. Short list. #RonaldReagan