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Gillian Branstetter·Jun 30

I'm so thankful to Becky and her mom for their trust, generosity, and strength in front of the Supreme Court. No matter what the Court says, Becky is a hero for standing up for herself and trans girls like her. Doing what's right, even when the odds are against you, is the definition of courage.

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Gillian Branstetter·Sep 13

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

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Gillian Branstetter·Sep 12

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

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Gillian Branstetter·Aug 27

This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end

This is Ms. Gaines’s intuition as an activist, too: If people accept the premise that transgender women do not belong in women’s sports, then they have conceded that transgender women are not fully, truly women.

As she sees it, more sweeping restrictions of transgender people flow from there, including the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that states can ban gender-affirming care for minors and the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee’s change of its eligibility rules to bar transgender women from competing in Olympic women’s sports.

“The gender ideology movement is a house of cards, and I believe it’s lying on that sports issue,” she said. “This will be the card that makes all of it crumble.”
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Gillian Branstetter·1h

I haven't run since July (rehabing a hip tendon injury with PT) and anyone who knows me knows that means I'm basically falling apart as a human being. It will totally be fine and also feels like a spiritual crisis

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Gillian Branstetter·10h

What the hell, sure

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Gillian Branstetter·Sep 1

Whatever happened to this

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Gillian Branstetter·Sep 1

RIP Wendell Berry

The Wish to Be Generous

Wendell Berry

All that I serve will die, all my delights, the flesh kindled from my flesh, garden and field, the silent lilies standing in the woods, the woods, the hill, the whole earth, all will burn in man's evil, or dwindle in its own age. Let the world bring on me the sleep of darkness without stars, so I may know my little light taken from me into the seed of the beginning and the end, so I may bow to mystery, and take my stand on the earth like a tree in a field, passing without haste or regret toward what will be, my life a patient willing descent into the grass.
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Gillian Branstetter·Aug 31

No one wants to admit it but this is the Pod Save effect

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Gillian Branstetter·Aug 31

After banning them from the military, Pete Hegseth's Defense Department is withholding tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in severance from transgender veterans, some of whom are now homeless or relying on food banks to feed themselves and their families because of it

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Gillian Branstetter·Aug 30

S/o to @mc2x.bsky.social who I believe correctly identified it as by the late anarchist organizer Sidney Solomon (not to be confused with the AbEx painter Syd Solomon) libcom.org/article/sidn...

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Gillian Branstetter·Aug 30

Does anyone want to help me find the artist of this painting I just bought from a sidewalk sale on the Upper West Side? Rear says "Queens Boulevard 14"

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Gillian Branstetter·Aug 29

Core question in this case is whether the administration acted with animus towards trans people when they implemented a Trump order claiming trans people are inherently lacking "integrity," not helped every time Hegseth calls us "trannies" to make himself giggle

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Gillian Branstetter·Aug 26

"Helmets are tools of neoliberalism" I get the idea but like wear a helmet. Please wear a helmet.

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