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@rafaelesteban04.bsky.social

Baseball fan. Biology degree’d. (he/him)

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Guillotine Kulldorff

01.12.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🀣

A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🀣

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:

21.11.2025 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 45741    πŸ” 7204    πŸ’¬ 825    πŸ“Œ 324
A flowchart: On top, a large oval is labeled β€œShould I defend the New York Times on social media?” below it is a single arrow pointing to a box labeled β€œNo.”

A flowchart: On top, a large oval is labeled β€œShould I defend the New York Times on social media?” below it is a single arrow pointing to a box labeled β€œNo.”

I made you a flowchart:

www.todayintabs.com/p/no-one-tru...

14.11.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3676    πŸ” 516    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 16

If she'd been married and lied about being single or if she'd been a convicted abuser and lied about that she would not be going to jail.

People lie all the time before sex, during sex and after sex.

If you're trans, that's a crime.

10.10.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 380    πŸ” 92    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 11
Screenshot of a PinkNews article headline reading β€œ17-year-old trans girl’s suicide over NHS wait times was preventable, coroner rules.” The article is dated October 9 and written by Amelia Hansford. The PinkNews logo appears at the top in pink and black.

Screenshot of a PinkNews article headline reading β€œ17-year-old trans girl’s suicide over NHS wait times was preventable, coroner rules.” The article is dated October 9 and written by Amelia Hansford. The PinkNews logo appears at the top in pink and black.

Remember all of the ghouls who denied this was happening and did everything they could to make the problem worse from JK Rowling to Wes Streeting. The NHS who did a stitch up report to hide the growing number of suicides from trans youth on the waitlists. They should never be forgiven.

09.10.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2587    πŸ” 716    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 25

It’s not a shock collar, dumbass.

Idiots of the Internet got me defending streamers. πŸ˜‚

08.10.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE says I cause assaults on ICE by reciting facts about ICE’s recent shooting but refuses to link to the thread. Only posting a picture. ICE lies and ICE hides. You can read the facts for yourselves

04.10.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 7055    πŸ” 1859    πŸ’¬ 229    πŸ“Œ 158

The word β€œautism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further.

Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.

23.09.2025 02:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2308    πŸ” 644    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 16
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Ezra Klein Accidentally Shows How the Media Brought Us Trump The prominent liberal pundit made up a fake version of Charlie Kirk to praise, laundering his reputation the way a lot of mainstream media launders MAGA

Ezra Klein went beyond opposing political violence to extol Charlie Kirk for doing politics "exactly the right way," making up a fictional version of Kirk to praise.

That distortion, with its indulgence of bad faith, is a perfect illustration of the larger media failure that helps Trump.

My latest

17.09.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1705    πŸ” 412    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 48

I've read Ken Klippenstein blog and the Heritage Foundation paper with the insane proposal to designate trans criminals as terrorists and i've seen the comments made by Trump officials and yes it is all bad.

But they are NOT proposing to label all trans people as terrorists.

19.09.2025 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 943    πŸ” 166    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 27
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Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over β€˜Gender Ideology’

Multiple Deans, a professor, and now a university president have all lost their jobs simply because a professor acknowledged trans people exist in a course about young adult literature.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

19.09.2025 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 871    πŸ” 243    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 15
Alt text: Two-page letter on official U.S. House of Representatives letterhead, dated September 15, 2025, from Congressman Clay Higgins (Louisiana, 3rd District) to major tech executives, including Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Elon Musk (X), Neal Mohan (YouTube), Shou Zi Chew (TikTok), Jay Graber (Bluesky), and Devin Nunes (Trump Media & Technology Group).

Page 1:
The letter opens by thanking the executives for their service and offering condolences. It references the "graphic, televised murder of a heroic Christian leader, Mr. Charlie Kirk," urging the companies to take responsibility by removing posts that allegedly celebrated Kirk’s death. It demands that authors of such posts be banned and new pages they create also prohibited. It frames celebration of Kirk’s murder as unacceptable in a free society, and states that Congressman Higgins has initiated a Congressional effort to enforce this.

Alt text: Two-page letter on official U.S. House of Representatives letterhead, dated September 15, 2025, from Congressman Clay Higgins (Louisiana, 3rd District) to major tech executives, including Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Elon Musk (X), Neal Mohan (YouTube), Shou Zi Chew (TikTok), Jay Graber (Bluesky), and Devin Nunes (Trump Media & Technology Group). Page 1: The letter opens by thanking the executives for their service and offering condolences. It references the "graphic, televised murder of a heroic Christian leader, Mr. Charlie Kirk," urging the companies to take responsibility by removing posts that allegedly celebrated Kirk’s death. It demands that authors of such posts be banned and new pages they create also prohibited. It frames celebration of Kirk’s murder as unacceptable in a free society, and states that Congressman Higgins has initiated a Congressional effort to enforce this.

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The letter continues, stating that shielding offenders will not be protected under Section 230. Higgins emphasizes his role as Chair of the Federal Law Enforcement subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, with authority over federal regulatory law enforcement. He frames the restriction of harmful public statements not as oppression, but as protection of free speech and societal standards. The letter closes with a demand for a formal response within one business week, signed "Clay Higgins, Member of Congress," and CCs Donald J. Trump (President of the United States) and Pam Bondi (Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice).

Page 2: The letter continues, stating that shielding offenders will not be protected under Section 230. Higgins emphasizes his role as Chair of the Federal Law Enforcement subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, with authority over federal regulatory law enforcement. He frames the restriction of harmful public statements not as oppression, but as protection of free speech and societal standards. The letter closes with a demand for a formal response within one business week, signed "Clay Higgins, Member of Congress," and CCs Donald J. Trump (President of the United States) and Pam Bondi (Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice).

Clay Higgins sent a letter to Bluesky and other social media sites threatening investigations if they don't censor speech critical of Charlie Kirk.

They don't even know who Jay is because they addressed her as "gentleman."

clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/u...

17.09.2025 02:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4051    πŸ” 1167    πŸ’¬ 374    πŸ“Œ 336

Honestly people who believed the initial @wsj.com lies about the bullets just failed a basic media literacy test.
The WSJ is just printing white wing press releases and if you don’t know that by now I don’t know what to tell you.

11.09.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 6503    πŸ” 1333    πŸ’¬ 136    πŸ“Œ 47

Yes, let’s fluff up the life of a guy that was pro-school shootings, pro-mass deportation, anti-Black, pro-genocide, etc.

11.09.2025 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I suspect some of these reactions come from a place of class consciousness. Didn't matter if he would've said ugly things if Dingell had been assassinated. He was part of the same ruling class as her. His death is a reminder that they're all vulnerable.

10.09.2025 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 315    πŸ” 67    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 0

It is entirely possible to be respectful about the death of a person you disagreed with without β€œhonoring” him by vowing to continue his disagreeable, hateful β€œwork.”

10.09.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2929    πŸ” 444    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 13

rightwing media ecosystem operates by stoking hatred and anger and divisions every single day, they want people to constantly be afraid and want people to hate eachother, everything we are seeing is a result of the destablization the right has profited off of

10.09.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 10492    πŸ” 1954    πŸ’¬ 79    πŸ“Œ 34

Charlie Kirk called me a β€˜lunatic’ and a β€˜prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.

Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.

We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

10.09.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 39152    πŸ” 6108    πŸ’¬ 2435    πŸ“Œ 465

Agreed. Political violence is very American. Always has been since its inception. Groups on the marginalized ends of society will feel political violence the most.

10.09.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

/6 Also: if a Left-wing activist even remotely as strident as Charlie Kirk had been assassinated, Charlie Kirk would have smirked and applauded, as would have many of the people who are going to be loudest about Charlie Kirk. Don’t buy the hypocrisy.

10.09.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3666    πŸ” 557    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 20

I'm honestly terrified of what the right will use this as justification for. They're itching to engage in violence against their enemies and this will give them the excuse to do so. This is why political violence is never acceptable. It just descends into uncontrollable chaos and more violence.

10.09.2025 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1974    πŸ” 291    πŸ’¬ 133    πŸ“Œ 34

IMHO Charlie Kirk and people like him are politically violent, but from the administrative/media side. They don’t have to commit acts of violence when they run on vitriol for LGBTQ people, PoC, women, etc. The people that listen to them do it for them. Poli violence is inevitable in this case.

10.09.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thoughts and prayers to Charlie Kirk's family. What else can you say when the main young political influencer for the Trump admin. and conservative movement dies at the hand of gun violence? The USA needs reasonable gun control or political violence will only get worse.

10.09.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The right wing needs to stop capitulating to radical gun advocates. Reasonable gun control can prevent political violence. Charlie Kirk became a victim of the very thing that his camp blindly defends.

10.09.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

But if you get your news and interactions with the real world primarily online you can delude yourself into thinking that America, particularly NYC, is 1930s Germany for Jewish people, when it is clearly not.

09.09.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s honestly crazy how one in the western world can say β€œI’m a Zionist” and live a normal life. But say that you’re ISIS and the world will literally bomb you from the sky, despite both groups being the same thing: radical religious fundamentalist groups engaged in supremacist warfare.

09.09.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of three tweets from Mary Margaret Olohan.

First tweet: β€œI’m told that a senior DOJ official said, discussing the matter: β€˜We’re not playing semantics with words like dysphoria. We’re talking about trannies, and we don’t think they should have guns.’” This is a quote-tweet of her earlier post.

Second tweet: β€œBREAKING: The Justice Department is deliberating banning guns for transgenders as part of a range of options blocking mentally unstable individuals from committing acts of violence, @realDailyWire has learned. Story to come.”

Third tweet: β€œ β€˜Individuals within the DOJ are reviewing ways to ensure that mentally ill individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are unable to obtain firearms while they are unstable and unwell,’ one source inside the Justice Department tells me.” Attached is a photo of a woman speaking at a podium. The image caption reads: β€œBREAKING: Trump DOJ Deliberates Over Gun Ban For Transgenders” with β€œFrom dailywire.com” below.

Screenshot of three tweets from Mary Margaret Olohan. First tweet: β€œI’m told that a senior DOJ official said, discussing the matter: β€˜We’re not playing semantics with words like dysphoria. We’re talking about trannies, and we don’t think they should have guns.’” This is a quote-tweet of her earlier post. Second tweet: β€œBREAKING: The Justice Department is deliberating banning guns for transgenders as part of a range of options blocking mentally unstable individuals from committing acts of violence, @realDailyWire has learned. Story to come.” Third tweet: β€œ β€˜Individuals within the DOJ are reviewing ways to ensure that mentally ill individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are unable to obtain firearms while they are unstable and unwell,’ one source inside the Justice Department tells me.” Attached is a photo of a woman speaking at a podium. The image caption reads: β€œBREAKING: Trump DOJ Deliberates Over Gun Ban For Transgenders” with β€œFrom dailywire.com” below.

DOJ is openly stating that "trannies shouldn't have guns."

The Trump administration is moving to strip trans people of their 2nd amendment rights. Nothing good ever comes out of an authoritarian regime stripping a minority group of owning guns.

04.09.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4271    πŸ” 1552    πŸ’¬ 369    πŸ“Œ 443

BTW, NYT covering Glinner and not covering Gordon Guyatt's comments about evidence based medicine not being a basis for bans is journalistic malpractice.

03.09.2025 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 227    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

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