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Freelance journalist Columnist: @MSNBC & @XtraMagazine Co-host: @cancelme_daddy Formerly: @voxdotcom Feminist @transscribe @mastodon .social

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Katelyn Burns
3 months
Ok here’s the deal. My career as it is now is not sustainable over the long term. Rn I have 456 paid subs This has been a long time coming but I need to get my Patreon to 570 paid subs by the end of April or I’m going to have to seriously cut back on my writing. Link to follow
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Katelyn Burns
2 years
If a weapon is so dangerous that a squad of police officers are too afraid to confront a single person wielding it, that weapon should be banned.
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Katelyn Burns
2 years
if you have a problem with the student loan cancellation because you already paid off your loans, just pretend its a tax cut for the rich that you also never got but mysteriously didn't complain about.
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Katelyn Burns
6 years
This is the best version of this meme
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Katelyn Burns
2 years
No straight people until age 21, you heard the lady
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Katelyn Burns
5 years
In their late 20s?
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5 years
Life after Leo: Where are Leonardo DiCaprio’s exes now?
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2 years
This website is free somehow
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Katelyn Burns
3 years
Isn’t it possible that there’s a labor shortage because many of the 600k people who died from Covid were restaurant workers?
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Katelyn Burns
4 years
Every single Amazon warehouse worker making minimum wage will pay more in taxes this year than the company they work for.
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Carla ‘Bluechecked’ Marinucci
4 years
Amazon will pay $0 in taxes on $11,200,000,000 in profit for 2018 via @YahooFinance
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Katelyn Burns
5 years
Oh look, the generation that doesn’t know how to connect to their WiFi has another opinion.
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New York Post
5 years
Millennial dads have pathetic DIY skills compared to baby boomers
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Katelyn Burns
3 years
This poor guy
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Katelyn Burns
3 years
One thing I’ve learned as a journalist is that basically every time a clip goes viral amongst the right wing of a right winger getting beat up by counter protesters, there’s always a second video showing the right winger started it.
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Katelyn Burns
3 years
In America, corporations can block public park right of ways for profit but homeless people can’t set up a tent in a public park.
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Block Club Chicago
3 years
Amazon installs huge lockers on a Chicago park’s sidewalk, confusing and frustrating neighbors
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Katelyn Burns
4 years
With a trans flag in the background
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Read Let This Radicalize You
4 years
Holy shit Puerto Rico just brought a guillotine to the Governor’s mansion for their #BlackLivesMatter protest.
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Katelyn Burns
2 years
Alternative history is always like “what if the confederacy won?” Or “what if the Nazis had won?” And never “what if all the southern slaves had murdered all the slave holders?”
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Katelyn Burns
2 years
Every once in awhile I think about the trans woman from Tennessee who was barred from getting a female driver’s license so she went running topless, got arrested for indecent exposure of female breasts, and then thrown in a men’s jail.
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Katelyn Burns
2 years
Brett Kavanaugh is safer in his own home during these protests than any abortion clinic worker in this country is on a daily basis.
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2 years
Love to be a senator and get tripped up by basic trans twitter questions
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Katelyn Burns
10 months
NYT what the fuck are you doing bro
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Katelyn Burns
2 years
I just… wish… for smarter… political enemies
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Katelyn Burns
11 months
This is way weirder than any form of gender affirming care
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Tech millionaire Bryan Johnson spends $2 million a year to look younger, including swapping blood with his teen son
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Katelyn Burns
6 years
Heterosexual culture is a woman, well-dressed, hair done, and makeup perfect at 5 am traveling with a man wearing flip flops and a tank top that says “cornhole champ”
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Katelyn Burns
2 months
Older cis girls beat this student to death in the girls bathroom and this is how local papers are reporting it.
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2 months
@Esqueer_ Is every news source in Oklahoma transphobic garbage? This is really gross.
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Katelyn Burns
5 years
This is the only good gender reveal
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Katelyn Burns
3 years
Lmao this headline
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Katelyn Burns
4 years
I was just reminded of this image
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Katelyn Burns
1 year
This trend should have people extremely worried.
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Transphobes can't read
1 year
"we can always tell"
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Katelyn Burns
5 years
How many rape kits did you actually process today?
@NYPDnews
NYPD NEWS
5 years
The Field Intelligence Team from the @NYPD67Pct ensured nobody was receiving any illegal gifts this Christmas. The hard work of officers around NYC to keep our streets safe is remarkable.
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Katelyn Burns
1 year
One potential takeaway from tonight is that the US is a center left country with a gerrymandering problem. If republicans are going to turn in a historically poor midterm performance now in this moment, a lot of talking heads need to re-evaluate their priors on this stuff.
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Katelyn Burns
1 year
My name is not Katelyn Boo-urns, my name is Katelyn Burns but I can’t change my display name back from my stupid Halloween meme name because the most fragile man on the planet bought this site.
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Katelyn Burns
2 years
Banner first day for debate me bro university
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Katelyn Burns
4 years
If landlords can’t afford a month without collecting rent, they could simply sell their property.
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Katelyn Burns
5 years
You know you’re in the Oregon Trail generation if you went to school too late for nuclear bomb drills but too early for active shooter drills.
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Katelyn Burns
2 years
She just described December
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Keri Smith 🌱Deprogrammed
2 years
@MerkinMuffley5 @GoGoRogozhin @Nth_Dimensions A Christian pride month with every business wrapping themselves in the Christian flag & promoting Christian programming on platforms above all other content, & every city council making Christian Month pronouncements? And Christian parades all month? Yes. That would be wild.
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Katelyn Burns
4 months
Remember when Ben Shapiro suggested that this family could just sell their house and move under this scenario?
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CBS 13 News
4 months
#BREAKING : A building has been washed away at Willard Beach in South Portland. Be very careful along the coast today. STORM DETAILS:
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Katelyn Burns
1 year
ChatBot: My name is Sydney Journalist: The chatbot it human 😭😭😭😭 Trans person: My name is Sydney Journalist: I’m going to call your optometrist to find out your real name you little shit
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Katelyn Burns
4 years
Been thinking a lot about the JK Rowling thing and I think we should continue talking about police violence and Black Lives Matter.
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Katelyn Burns
5 years
Or perhaps we should sew pink triangles on all our clothes?
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4 years
“Biological sex is the most critical core aspect of my identity as a human being” said a woman who writes under a male pen name.
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Katelyn Burns
11 months
These three?
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Katelyn Burns
3 years
Twitter 2021 Spain 1588 🤝 RIP fleets
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Katelyn Burns
4 years
Stop the planet, this is my stop.
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Katelyn Burns
1 year
@LauraPowellEsq Probably because AIDS killed them decades ago and now they’re not around to take these surveys.
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Katelyn Burns
2 years
Psssst the dinosaurs in the first movie were transgender
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Katelyn Burns
3 years
How capitol police handled disabled protestors fighting against abolishing the ACA a few years ago:
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Katelyn Burns
2 years
I spent six years working on this and he just... tweeted it out
@TheProblem
The Problem With Jon Stewart
2 years
Jon interviewed Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas Attorney General, about why her state banned gender-affirming care for minors - ignoring the guidelines of major medical organizations and taking the decision out of parents’ hands. Watch the full interview on @AppleTVPlus
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Katelyn Burns
3 years
Excuse me, I was told trans women were going to win all the gold medals at the Olympics. What the hell?
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Katelyn Burns
6 years
A Handjob's Tale
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Joe Wells (Neurodivergent Moments Podcast out now)
6 years
Every male journalist who writes an opinion piece about the “distribution of sex” should have to wank off an incel.
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Katelyn Burns
1 year
Pretty sure I have mate
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Katelyn Burns
3 months
“This girl did exactly what we wanted (murdered a trans person), so we’re giving her exactly what she wanted (a glossy front page shot)”
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The Telegraph
3 months
📰The front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph: 'Teenager's lust for fame led to murder of Brianna' #TomorrowsPapersToday Sign up for the Front Page newsletter👇
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Katelyn Burns
4 years
Trans men often get turned away from doctors offices that provide reproductive health because the doctors are expecting cis women. If using trans-inclusive language helps even one trans man access important health care, it’s worth it.
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Katelyn Burns
11 months
Sir this was literally you
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Erick Erickson
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Pride was never such a controversial thing when it was gay men and lesbians. Sure, there were issues, but no major public backlash till Pride also meant celebrating people with mental health disorders who bully those who disagree with them.
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Katelyn Burns
4 years
Broke: Dreaming of marrying a prince and becoming a princess Woke: Dreaming of marrying a prince and making him a commoner
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3 years
He’s the perfect American superhero. He’s rich enough to solve a bunch of problems with his money but instead just cosplays as a cop in a weird outfit.
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2 years
Trans man does the thing that conservatives and TERFs want him to do. He gets mistaken for a trans woman, gets assaulted, and then police arrest him.
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Katelyn Burns
4 years
Who even asks that indeed
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3 years
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2 years
@Twitter Cannot wait for someone to write “I support trans people,” get a load of trans people to retweet it, and then edit it to “trans people should be genocided.” It’ll happen day one.
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Katelyn Burns
2 years
10 year olds are not women. This is part of why “pregnant people” should be common language.
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@adamwren @daveweigel @meganmesserly This is a fucking insane thing to say about anyone let alone a 10 year old child.
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1 year
damn i didn't even know this was a category now
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2 years
What happens if trans people lose the “trans debate”?
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3 years
Trans women tried to tell you
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3 years
Tomorrow a 16 year old trans girl from Tacoma, WA will testify about the Equality Act in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Republicans on hand will be Sens. Cruz, Hawley, Grassley, Cotton, Sasse, Graham, Cornyn, Lee, Kennedy, Tillis, and Blackburn. Praying for her.
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Katelyn Burns
2 years
6700 protesters arrested in Russia for protesting the war is obvious evidence of an authoritarian police state where dissent is not allowed but 10,000 Black Lives Matter protesters arrested in the US is obviously just serving and protecting.
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Katelyn Burns
2 years
Name something that seemed overwhelmingly scary to you as a kid that turned out not to be relevant to your adulthood. Mine was the Bermuda Triangle.
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Katelyn Burns
5 years
Especially frustrated at all the people who insisted that this day would never come, that Roe was “settled law.” That we shouldn’t have abortion litmus tests for candidates. You fucking fools. You knew nothing.
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5 years
*whispers* this is why people object to cops marching at Pride
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BREAKING: We're suing the NYPD on behalf of a transgender woman who was charged with “false personation” after she provided officers with both her previous and current legal names. We can't allow the NYPD to continue criminalizing transgender people for existing.
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I’m wheezing
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I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t dressed this way…
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6 years
If you’re a trans person who is running a crowdfund for any reason, reply to this thread and I will RT it. Cis people, here’s a tangible, immediate way to support trans people right now in this moment, with your money.
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3 years
According to gender criticals, if you don’t look like a magazine cover model, you’re a trans woman. This is just misogyny.
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1 year
Well I mean a lot of boomer and Gen x gays died of AIDS and aren’t here now to take these polls.
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5 years
Ethics
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🎏Glitch
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What's a non-coding discipline or skill that programmers could benefit from learning?
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1 year
@LaurenWitzkeDE Facts don’t care about your feelings though
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1 year
Thank you for respecting our culture by not ironing it first (this tweet is sincere)
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There's a new flag flying outside the offices of the Victorian Government. Because we'll always respect you. And we'll always have your back.
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@JeanRhys____ Can’t imagine why a child wouldn’t trust a parent who immediately ran to an anti-trans protest to talk about them after coming out.
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Katelyn Burns
5 years
Facebook is boomer 4chan
@RVAwonk
Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D
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Facebook is deleting pro-vaccine information from health departments and medical providers, while letting anti-vaccine conspiracy theories stay up.
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Katelyn Burns
4 years
Over 99% of child molesters are cisgender. Should cis people be allowed around children? Let's have a debate. I say no, we need to shut it down until we get a handle on what's really going on there.
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5 years
I’m reminded today of the tear-streaked faces of the clusters of women who were huddled around phones in the Hart Atrium watching Susan Collins’ floor speech announcing her vote for Kavanaugh’s confirmation. We all knew.
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Katelyn Burns
3 years
He compared my genitals to veggie meat, Jon.
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New York Post
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Jon Stewart defends Dave Chappelle: 'His intention is never hurtful'
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5 years
People in 2016: Trump is going to put people in concentration camps. Media: That's absolutely preposterous. People in 2019: These are concentration camps. Media: Are they, technically, "concentration camps" though?
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5 months
I made $700 for the piece he lifted from me
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James Somerton has outright deleted his Patreon prior to deletion, James earned about $170,000 per year from 4,050 fans
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5 years
They’re going to be.... arguing.... over... whether.... employers can just.... ***fire*** trans people... for being trans.... This country is so deeply fucked up.
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HUGE NEWS: The Supreme Court will hear the case of a woman fired for being transgender, deciding employment rights for over 2 million transgender Americans.
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2 years
Notice how the right has jumped straight past trying to refute any of Stewart’s questions and fact and straight to “Jon Stewart must be a groomer”. They have nothing. It’s moral panic.
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2 years
This is what I mean when I say the trans athlete debate is really about male fragility. These men are convinced that Lia Thomas simply being born male means Thomas will “smoke” the greatest female swimmer in history. Their times are not close in the slightest.
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11 months
But wait, TERFs repeatedly insisted to me that my predictions of this very thing happening were never going to happen???
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Fae Johnstone, MSW
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“Girl, 9, accused of being trans at Kelowna track meet” This is where anti-trans hate leads. It is an attack on all forms of gender non-conformity, ending in the re-imposition of regressive gender norms and threatening progress on women’s rights.
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Katelyn Burns
2 years
can you imagine if even one of these major newspaper reporters who wrote panicky both sides pieces grounded their work in facts like Stewart does here?
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4 years
We have reached our final enlightenment.
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Trans people reply to transphobes like this and we are branded hysterical trans activists, Jon Stewart does the same thing and he's branded a hero.
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5 years
It’s a Latin prefix.
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BIG ♐️
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Is cis a slur or a derogatory name ?
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1 year
Notice how statewide races are mostly breaking for Dems and the only GOP pick ups are coming from micro-dissected, newly gerrymandered districts? That’s no coincidence.
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Katelyn Burns
4 years
Cis followers, it’s been a week. If you wouldn’t mind indulging me, tell me why or what made you a supporter of trans rights?
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4 years
Fun how a conservative Senator cited JK Rowling while stopping a vote on the Equality Act, which would have been the single largest advancement in LGBTQ and women’s rights in the last half century.
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6 years
PSA: the opposite of “Arab” is not “good family man”.
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5 years
“If people voted, we would lose” is a hell of a take to say out loud on the Senate floor.
@StevenTDennis
Steven Dennis
5 years
On Senate floor Mitch McConnell rips a federal holiday for Election Day as part of a “power grab” by Democrats to win elections.
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1 year
@EndWokeness Facts don’t care about your feelings
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Katelyn Burns
4 years
Nope. You stop that nonsense right now. Your movie bombed and you're not going to get us involved in this business.
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1 year
It’s really hard to explain to normies that there is a deep history of transphobes intentionally seeking out careers in gender medicine simply to have control over trans lives.
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1 year
Oh man the libs would be so owned if nobody ever hurt another trans person ever again
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