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Jonathan Lenore Kastin

@someofourstars

Poet, teller of tales, weaver of spells (He/they) AB(SOLUTELY) NORMAL 2023. TRANSMOGRIFY! 2023. WE MOSTLY COME OUT AT NIGHT 2024. https://linktr.ee/jonathanlenorekastin

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Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.

We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

05.03.2026 20:45 πŸ‘ 2382 πŸ” 903 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 31

This is exactly right.

Age verification / online ID check legislation literally forces companies to collect MORE data on children (and everyone else) not less.

We desperately need privacy, antitrust, and algorithmic justice legislation.

Not censorship bills like KOSA and expanded surveillance.

06.03.2026 18:49 πŸ‘ 1201 πŸ” 726 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 8

That’s so cool!

05.03.2026 23:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"British female track and field athletes are being asked to cover the cost of their own Β£185 sex tests if they want to compete internationally"

A tax on women courtesy of the Gender Critical.

You know feminism /s πŸ™„

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05.03.2026 22:54 πŸ‘ 1012 πŸ” 384 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 31

Jesse Singal: β€œI don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”

04.03.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 8538 πŸ” 1549 πŸ’¬ 149 πŸ“Œ 52
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Donate to Help a Trans Teacher and Her Wife Escape Florida, organized by Saoirse Emery My partner and I are trying to raise funds to get out of Florida this S… Saoirse Emery needs your support for Help a Trans Teacher and Her Wife Escape Florida

Gofundme here.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-tra...

05.03.2026 02:52 πŸ‘ 275 πŸ” 135 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

05.03.2026 04:43 πŸ‘ 7335 πŸ” 2309 πŸ’¬ 182 πŸ“Œ 50
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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

β€œNo front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

05.03.2026 04:01 πŸ‘ 4214 πŸ” 2113 πŸ’¬ 63 πŸ“Œ 77
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Donate to Help a Trans Teacher and Her Wife Escape Florida, organized by Saoirse Emery My partner and I are trying to raise funds to get out of Florida this S… Saoirse Emery needs your support for Help a Trans Teacher and Her Wife Escape Florida

If you have the means, I would also be grateful for a donation to our escape fund. Our finances have been ravaged by a number of things, so we need your help to get somewhere safe.

gofund.me/91c357379

04.03.2026 21:55 πŸ‘ 94 πŸ” 93 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

Hailey's been stuck at 8 percent of her goal for ages... can we get her to 10 percent TODAY please? <3

04.03.2026 18:07 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The entire anti-trans care grift is built in treating the usual way medicine works as if it's a scandal.

Therapists figure out if a kid is trans the same way they figure out if they're depressed. They ask questions, maybe using a formal scale to quantify how kids compare to similar kids.

04.03.2026 19:55 πŸ‘ 1631 πŸ” 323 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 9
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And if you care about what’s happening in Iran, Palestine, Cuba,Venezuela & your ability to document/call out U.S. Imperialist BS- these bills MATTER bc they will be used to censor all of this info off the internet.

Our Director
@evangreer.bsky.social puts this into perspective πŸ‘‡πŸ½

04.03.2026 17:27 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bad Internet Bills All of the bad internet bills. One website.

‼️We need phones ringing off the hooks about KOSA and other Bad Internet Bills ahead of the House E&C committee hearing this week ‼️

Use our tool to learn more and take action: www.badinternetbills.com

04.03.2026 17:19 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

The Parents over Platforms Act requires app stores to collect age info on every user. You can't verify some users are under 18 without tracking everyone's identity. These aren't child safety bills - they're surveillance infrastructure bills. @eff.org @fightforthefuture.org

04.03.2026 13:21 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸš¨β€ΌοΈAs of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on.

You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com

24.10.2025 17:02 πŸ‘ 2130 πŸ” 2031 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 95

UPDATE

KOSA has been combined with the SCREEN Act to form the new KIDS Act

We have less than 48 hours before this new bill goes to markup d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/H_R_7757_Kid...

Please, contact your reps and say NO to the KIDS Act

04.03.2026 04:53 πŸ‘ 105 πŸ” 152 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Very cool!

03.03.2026 23:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Only just now hearing about this 😑

03.03.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A selfie of Mahmoud in hospital bed, he looks back at the camera, he has an IV on his neck.

A selfie of Mahmoud in hospital bed, he looks back at the camera, he has an IV on his neck.

SOLIDARITY CALL
Lina is raising funds to save her husband’s life. He just had a
difficult surgery for which he is having critical complications.
They need:
Most urgently: Β£225 for medical tests, medicine, and X-ray.
Β£1,500 for a wheelchair.
Β£150 for food, milk, and diapers for their daughters.
Together, we can meet that goal!
chuffed.org/project/omshamm
Your donation, no matter how small, will
make a difference.
Amplify. Share with friends and family.
Pray for them. Keep them in your thoughts

SOLIDARITY CALL Lina is raising funds to save her husband’s life. He just had a difficult surgery for which he is having critical complications. They need: Most urgently: Β£225 for medical tests, medicine, and X-ray. Β£1,500 for a wheelchair. Β£150 for food, milk, and diapers for their daughters. Together, we can meet that goal! chuffed.org/project/omshamm Your donation, no matter how small, will make a difference. Amplify. Share with friends and family. Pray for them. Keep them in your thoughts

🚨Don’t leave Lina and Mahmoud hanging for another day!
Only Β£195 for *URGENT* medical tests and meds.
He’s in intensive care and can’t be treated without this.
Lina is so scared. She’s been begging for this for days, while his condition worsens and prices and fears rise.

chuffed.org/project/omsham

03.03.2026 13:49 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 127 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 22
image of a website pop-up call button from BadInternetBills.com prompting action about age gating and censorship bills with slots to enter phone number and zip code.

image of a website pop-up call button from BadInternetBills.com prompting action about age gating and censorship bills with slots to enter phone number and zip code.

🚨KOSA, app store restrictions and ID checks are expected to be reviewed by House Energy and Commerce Committee this week, bringing us that much closer to a censored Internet under the guise of β€œkids safety"!

We have to keep up the pressure against these bills! www.badinternetbills.com

02.03.2026 23:16 πŸ‘ 537 πŸ” 646 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 12
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She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. β€” Assigned A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

03.03.2026 12:05 πŸ‘ 3594 πŸ” 1638 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 267

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

03.03.2026 12:16 πŸ‘ 6986 πŸ” 3160 πŸ’¬ 71 πŸ“Œ 48
Switch from The Matrix says "Not like this."

Switch from The Matrix says "Not like this."

*Just in the LAST WEEK*:
- Prisons are experimenting on trans prisoners to "cure" them
- Kansas revoked every trans Kansan's driver's license
- Scouts agreed to ban trans kids
- Texas declared all health services stop helping trans kids
- SCOTUS declared it legal to out trans kids to abusive parents

03.03.2026 01:31 πŸ‘ 1212 πŸ” 500 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 38
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Bad Internet Bills All of the bad internet bills. One website.

THREAD: Whenever imperialist governments go to war, they become more authoritarian at home.

That makes censorship bills like KOSA, ID checks, and attacks on Section 230 even more dangerous.

Online protest, documenting war crimes, even news articles could be suppressed.

www.badinternetbills.com

02.03.2026 19:13 πŸ‘ 824 πŸ” 624 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 17
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When Putin needed pretext for creating "The Red Web", Russia's authoritarian system of online censorship that effectively bans LGBTQ speech, he did it through the EXACT same moral panic about social media and kids that liberals and many leftists are spreading today.

02.03.2026 23:20 πŸ‘ 1141 πŸ” 458 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 15

This is exactly what it sounds like: a plan to implement tapering and discontinuation of HRT for any trans person in prison, regardless of how long they've been on it or what surgeries they've had.

This is medical torture, and will kill people.

02.03.2026 01:37 πŸ‘ 252 πŸ” 121 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
Ahmed selfie doing victory sign, behind him destroyed buildings. It is a cold, cloudy day.

Ahmed selfie doing victory sign, behind him destroyed buildings. It is a cold, cloudy day.

Hand-written note reading: Please don't skip. We are still stuck in Gaza amidst death, cold, hunger and no future.

Hand-written note reading: Please don't skip. We are still stuck in Gaza amidst death, cold, hunger and no future.

We need €100 a day to secure our food and medicine during these difficult times in Gaza. πŸ’”πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ

Your donation, no matter how small, gives us a chance to survive another day.

Don't leave us alone in this suffering. πŸ™

Donate now ⬇️
chuffed.org/project/157281

02.03.2026 15:45 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 68 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 9

New Yorkers! Have you contacted your governor today!?!?!?

02.03.2026 17:51 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Woman in hijab and face mask with a young boy, both looking at the camera, the boy with tears on his face.

Woman in hijab and face mask with a young boy, both looking at the camera, the boy with tears on his face.

A split image featuring two photos of a child, overlaid with text expressing grief and loss after a war.

A split image featuring two photos of a child, overlaid with text expressing grief and loss after a war.

Im asingle mother struggling with hunger&fear alone.
With the borders closed & prices skyrocketing,my only child is withering away from starvation before my eyesπŸ’”πŸ˜”
Please,dont let my son Ibrahim face the same fate as his two sisters while the world watches😭
Every €1 saves alifeπŸ™πŸ₯Ί
tinyurl.com/baraaZ2

01.03.2026 21:41 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 112 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 7