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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social

We are not a distraction we are real people facing real existential threats

jun 18, 2025, 4:44 pm • 5,927 1,220

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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social

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jun 18, 2025, 6:42 pm • 8 0 • view
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Ecoprairiepainter @ecoprairiepainter.bsky.social

Actually, they are slowly trying to kill us all. They believe population is the problem. It is, but only partially. We can save the planet without mass genocide.

jun 18, 2025, 7:10 pm • 1 0 • view
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Finvaara @finvaara.bsky.social

You're only saying that because you're a real person facing real existential threats. If this situation were a trivial distraction, you'd be singing a different tune.

jun 18, 2025, 5:03 pm • 5 0 • view
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Fintago @fintago.bsky.social

No amount of privilege will protect someone from finding themselves in the cross hairs eventually. So anyone thrown under the bus for political convenience is simply a delayed cyanide pill. Even if ignoring all of that, my morality does not live on the whime of political winds.

jun 18, 2025, 6:53 pm • 1 0 • view
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Idontknowuhh @izaiahh.bsky.social

everyone is saying everything is a distraction. libs are saying war with iran is a distraction from the elon beef

jun 18, 2025, 6:09 pm • 7 0 • view
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Lorenradis @lorenradis.bsky.social

I want Schumer gone. Christ.

jun 18, 2025, 6:19 pm • 5 0 • view
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misbruiker.bsky.social @misbruiker.bsky.social

To Trump we are distractions. Merely more impediments in his way.

jun 18, 2025, 6:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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George Balbona @gbalbona.bsky.social

Song of the Day 6/19/25 Civil War Let’s make this abundantly clear: WE DON’T WANT NO CIVIL WAR!!! FUCK Trump Regime/ ICE/ MAGA /Christian Nationalists/ Fascists/ GOP/ Putin who are doing all they can to start a war so Trump can declare Martial Law!!! NO KINGS!!END ICE!! youtu.be/OXAcZ_IPK5c?...

jun 18, 2025, 5:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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Riham @rihamfamily3.bsky.social

Hello dear, I have been very tired in order to convey the image of our situation in Gaza, especially to my children. The matter is getting worse. I do not know what to do. If you can support me, my family, and my sister’s family, we are all in a heartbreaking situation. gofund.me/ab625b31

jun 18, 2025, 5:01 pm • 1 0 • view
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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.bsky.social

Who is this week's transphobe dipshit?

jun 18, 2025, 5:20 pm • 3 0 • view
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social

in this very specific context, chuck schumer, but "distraction" is a common enough refrain that it's worth refuting loudly and frequently regardless

jun 18, 2025, 5:21 pm • 17 0 • view
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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.bsky.social

ughhhhh..... Yeah I agree.... I wish we didn't had to keep saying it every few weeks at this point. But also holy shit I cannot believe that dipshit hasn't been sacked out of the dem's leadership already.

jun 18, 2025, 5:23 pm • 4 0 • view
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Jose Pere @josepere.bsky.social

Sad but true!

jun 18, 2025, 6:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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Bethany @goopygum.bsky.social

Trans people are a basis in bodily autonomy, restrictions to our rights will be restrictions to everyone's rights eventually

jun 18, 2025, 5:09 pm • 34 2 • view
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Colleen English Ross @cenglishross.bsky.social

Bodily autonomy is a basic fundamental right.

jun 18, 2025, 5:19 pm • 15 0 • view
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Colleen English Ross @cenglishross.bsky.social

They already stripped bodily autonomy from people who can gestate a fetus and seeking to take the right to vote away from people who have changed their names (SAVE Act).

jun 18, 2025, 5:18 pm • 6 0 • view
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Pamela Cooper @pcoop1960.bsky.social

Yes a constitutional crisis of the most corrupt, crazy president in American history. He’s got to go ‼️Impeach, Convict, Remove ‼️

jun 18, 2025, 7:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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Trans Gurismo @nataliereed84.bsky.social

Except for me. I’m just here to keep you all from getting any work done.

jun 18, 2025, 4:45 pm • 27 0 • view
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social

you can be both natalie

jun 18, 2025, 4:46 pm • 14 0 • view
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social

distraction AND main event

jun 18, 2025, 4:49 pm • 18 0 • view
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social

upon consideration, I think this is best labeled “ICP praxis”

jun 18, 2025, 4:50 pm • 19 0 • view
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Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social

Trying to figure out if you mean Insane Clown Posse or some other ICP--and then, whether you mean the band or the current government administration.

jun 18, 2025, 4:51 pm • 8 0 • view
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Ard Collider @ardaniel.bsky.social

The Dark Carnival is the sideshow and the attraction, definitonally! ;)

jun 18, 2025, 4:53 pm • 7 0 • view
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Trans Gurismo @nataliereed84.bsky.social

oh shit we juggalo posting in here

jun 18, 2025, 4:53 pm • 9 0 • view
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social

Yes and the band, respectively

jun 18, 2025, 4:52 pm • 4 0 • view
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Rosalie907💙🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇦🌈🦋 @rosalie907.bsky.social

jun 18, 2025, 5:46 pm • 2 0 • view
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T @terry-157.bsky.social

Yes most of us understand this. The dumb ones will not know the difference.

jun 18, 2025, 5:32 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social

Or rather: the fact that our lives are trivialized to the point that our eradication is used and interpreted as a distraction is a problem in and of itself

jun 18, 2025, 4:45 pm • 275 42 • view
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Shane M. Bailey @shanembailey.com

How could he not know how offensive that comment was?

jun 18, 2025, 4:46 pm • 2 0 • view
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social

Bc he or whoever does his comma doesn’t quite see trans people as people

jun 18, 2025, 4:46 pm • 12 0 • view
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social

*comms

jun 18, 2025, 4:50 pm • 6 0 • view
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Vivian Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social

Really would be great if the people we're supposed to be counting on to fight this would see us as real people who matter

jun 18, 2025, 4:50 pm • 59 6 • view
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Peg Lev @catgang4.bsky.social

You won't get any argument here. Anything this administration doesn't understand, doesn't Want to understand, and/or hate, it's "woke" even if it's contrary to their own interests. I'm so sorry this is happening.

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Liquidthex @liquidthex.com

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jun 18, 2025, 7:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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🏳️‍⚧️ Perfidious Josephine Riesman @josie.zone

and those real existential threats are also — they're not gonna believe this — not a distraction

jun 18, 2025, 5:36 pm • 22 1 • view
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Amelia @amelia-ch.bsky.social

jun 18, 2025, 7:05 pm • 3 0 • view