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October 14, 2025 The government shutdown, which started on October 1, is entering its third week.

I love this. Furries for democracy!
“protesters have deprived [ICE] of photo opportunities by dressing in animal costumes. ICE agents staring down a giant frog and Mr. Potato Head don’t look very dominant.”
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-14...

Those are all great movies for sure!

Republicans Push FBI To Designate Trans Advocacy As Violent Extremism. Inside The Project 2025 Organization's Proposal. On Thursday evening, news emerged that individuals within and outside of Trump administration were pushing to cast trans activists as domestic terrorists. Then, Project 2025 dropped its proposal.

Dennis:
Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system!
[MP&tHG]

Republicans Push FBI To Designate Trans Advocacy As Violent Extremism. Inside The Project 2025 Organization's Proposal.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/republican...

Jimmy Kimmel Wasn’t the Biggest Corporate Media Capitulation to Trump This Week The mainstream media is up in arms about Trump’s attack on Jimmy Kimmel’s free speech rights — but barely made a peep about Mahmoud Khalil.

Most of the alternative media I’m subscribed to didn’t bring up Khalil either.

Jimmy Kimmel Wasn’t the Biggest Corporate Media Capitulation to Trump This Week theintercept.com/2025/09/19/j...

And don’t forget Victor, Victoria

Michigan GOP Proposes Bill Banning Porn and Depictions of Trans People The law would force internet providers to implement “mandatory filtering technology.”

See Twelfth Night, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and As You Like It before they’re banned.
H.B. 4938 would ban content involving “imitating, depicting, or representing [oneself as] the other biological sex by means of a combination of attire, cosmetology, or prosthetics.”
www.them.us/story/michig...

What’s cool is what you and I say it is!

Good to know they exist here! <3

same here

I wish they’d hurry up!

Investigating claims Charlie Kirk shooting suspect's roommate is trans The roommate — whom the suspect called "my love" – reportedly had no prior knowledge of the shooting and was cooperating, based on court filings.

“This person has not come forward publicly, so their gender identity remains unknown. There was no evidence to confirm or deny their transgender identity aside from [Tyler’s] mother's comments.”
Investigating claims Charlie Kirk shooting suspect's roommate is trans www.snopes.com/news/2025/09...

The New Yorker is trying to convince me that Bluesky has become annoying and everyone’s back on Xitter. True or false?

I never got the hang of Twitter. I have similar problems with Bluesky. I don’t need a social site to deliver me more links. I want conversation. Is conversation dead? Where is it?

Trader Joe's Donates '100%' of Unsold Products Every Day, Gave Away 98 Million Pounds Last Year The food donations are part of Trader Joe’s Neighborhood Shares Program

I didn’t know this. Cool.
people.com/trader-joe-s...

Meet the New Conservative Cancel Culture, This Time With Government Informers Professors who speak wrongthink in class are being summarily fired.

prospect.org/education/20...

Matthew Dowd's firing begins flood of people facing consequences for their comments on Kirk's death Former MSNBC analyst Matthew Dowd opened a floodgate of people who faced consequences for statements in the media — social or otherwise — in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassinat...

apnews.com/article/dowd...

Laughter Can Be A Political Martial Art Otpor’s Mischief Against Milošević: A Blueprint for Anti-Authoritarian Resistance

Laughter Can Be A Political Martial Art
open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...

ABC News Writes Trump's Chicago Invasion Press Release For Him Thirty-four paragraphs of violence porn, one mention of plummeting crime rates. This is how authoritarian moves get normalized.

ABC News Writes Trump's Chicago Invasion Press Release For Him open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

On Not Surrendering in Advance (Or At Any Point Thereafter) There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not ...

You can guess what will happen, but don’t ignore the error bars.
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/on-not-surre...

The Right Is So Desperate to Prove 'Go Woke, Go Broke' That They're Inventing 'Woke' Controversies Out of Thin Air From Cracker Barrel to Sydney Sweeney's jeans: How right-wing influencers manufacture controversies, then cite them as proof that "wokeness" destroys companies.

The Sydney Sweeney thing was invented too, the post says.

The Right Is So Desperate to Prove 'Go Woke, Go Broke' That They're Inventing 'Woke' Controversies Out of Thin Air www.readtpa.com/p/the-right-...

Gender Census 2025 Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.

“A malware detector had blacklisted my site, [and] was incorrectly preventing people from accessing the survey at survey.gendercensus.com.

“That link will still work for most of you, but some of you might need to use this backup URL: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/GenderCens...

Title: Gender Census 2025. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

I just cannot get used to the phrase “underage women.” (A noprize to anyone who guesses correctly where I keep encountering it.)

California Rejects Trump's Demands To Enact Full Trans Sports And Bathroom Bans The State Superintendent of Education responded to Trump's Title IX complaints against trans participation in sports with a rejection of its demands.

“In recent years, calls for sports bans have expanded to encompass an increasingly absurd range of activities. Darts, disc golf, fishing, billiards, beauty pageants, competitive hot dog eating, and even chess have all come under scrutiny.”
open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...

No Kings's event, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Grr. I wanna sign into my secondary google account. It asks for my password and and asks for my verification email and makes me put in in a code sent to it. THEN it wants my cell phone number, which it doesn’t have. I don’t want to give it to them. My other account works without my phone no.!

Media Did Their Best to Scare Voters Away From Zohran Mamdani Zohran Mamdani's victory exposes the out-of-touchness of establishment media outlets that twisted like pretzels to scare voters away.

Not only that but the polls vastly underrated his chances. fair.org/home/media-d...

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.

However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

The Corporate Democrat’s Biggest Nightmare He’s on the way to becoming mayor of New York City

Mainstream media and corporate Democrats are going to try to knock Mamdani down. I want a party that stands for what I hear about his platform.

robertreich.substack.com/p/the-corpor...

Undaunted Finally, someone enforces the rules

Senate Parliamentarian is declaring portions of the Big Bad Bill can’t be passed in the Senate by majority vote.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Here are the 128 House Democrats who voted to table (kill) the Rep. Al Green D-TX impeachment resolution against President Trump over the Iran attacks.