Mercedes Allen

Intersectional. Canadian, US, UK & global politics; trans, LGBTQ+, human rights, economic, social, racial & reproductive justice. See pinned for other places.

[Mercedes Allen @Mercedes_Allen]

I'll be posting very little here because this app strangles this account to about 5 interactions a week from 3 people who look for me. Find me on bsky, masto and FB.

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

You can't make this up.

The richest man in the world is criticizing MacKenzie Scott for giving billions to charities.

Imagine looking at organizations feeding families, expanding education, supporting public health, helping LGBTQ+ youth, and strengthening communities... and deciding that's the problem. 🤯

No, Elon. You're the problem with your greed and wealth hoarding.
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[Mercedes Allen @Mercedes_Allen]

That headline again, 'Wait times in Alberta to grow exponentially starting this fall.'

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[Mercedes Allen @Mercedes_Allen]

Only Donald Trump could make Iran's religious fundamentalist regime look good by comparison. But he did more than that.

He taught Iran how to defeat America.

[Richard Warnica @richardwarnica]

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[Mimi Williams (she/her) @MimiProbably]

"The core pitch Sylvestre is making is dangerously disconnected from reality. ...The case Sylvestre made to audiences across Alberta to drum up support for Alberta independence was riddled with distortions, disinformation and conspiracy theories." #ABPoli
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[Mercedes Allen @Mercedes_Allen]

Pierre Versus the Pipeline.

Or, The Man Whose Only Political Instinct Was To Be Anti-Everything.

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[Mercedes Allen @Mercedes_Allen]

* (I should add that I haven't been paying enough attention to Hasan Piker to have an opinion on him at the moment.)

[Mercedes Allen @Mercedes_Allen]

"The dynamic becomes self-reinforcing. Fox highlights Piker as a dangerous figure on the left. Democrats respond by condemning him… validating… That condemnation is then fed back into Fox’s coverage… as confirmation of internal Democratic chaos…"

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[Mercedes Allen @Mercedes_Allen]

"A 197-page report released Thursday by the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias said that pro-LGBTQ+ policies… are anti-Christian…"

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[Mercedes Allen @Mercedes_Allen]

"[Heritage Foundation's follow-up document to Project 2025] envisions an America that overturns… Obergefell v. Hodges; denies trans people’s existence and vilifies the 'LGBT agenda'; rejects the no-fault divorce doctrine… uses DEI as a cudgel…"

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[Mercedes Allen @Mercedes_Allen]

"It's pitched as… gouging the rich to finance discounts for the poor. But in practice, that's not at all how surveillance pricing works. Instead, [it] is most often used to levy a 'desperation premium' on people who have fewer choices & less leverage…"

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[Phil Williams @PhilNvestigates]

Remember the whole “Obama isn’t really president because he was born in Kenya”? Now Clay Travis is starting that with a Black Supreme Court justice.

[Mercedes Allen @Mercedes_Allen]

"A Fox News poll released this week shows that less than 1% of respondents consider 'wokeness' and transgender issues as the most important issue facing the country, and that a majority also prefer Democrats’ handling of trans issues over Republicans'…"

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[Mercedes Allen @Mercedes_Allen]

“The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead, and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation…”

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[Mercedes Allen @Mercedes_Allen]

"Among the major news outlets we tracked, the Times had by far the most stories mentioning the trans community, and the lowest percentage of stories that quoted a trans person.

"… only 12 of their 60 news stories…"

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[Mercedes Allen @Mercedes_Allen]

“You’re allowed to use a company’s name to talk about the company, right?… How else are you going to do it…?”

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[Mercedes Allen @Mercedes_Allen]

"Russia…[designated its] top LGBTQ+ rights group, as an 'extremist' organization

"… The ruling paves the way for the group’s members to be criminally prosecuted as a threat to the nation, since Russia’s criminal code equates extremism with terrorism…"

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[Mercedes Allen @Mercedes_Allen]

"And the rule goes even further… explicitly repeals the… provision banning shelters from subjecting trans people 'to intrusive questioning or asking them to provide anatomical information or documentary, physical, or medical evidence'…"

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[Mercedes Allen @Mercedes_Allen]

A recap, but because we need some good news

"Unserious leaders are unsafe. This case highlights a leader’s unserious regard for the rule of law… does not merely result in an abstract infraction… [but rather] causes very real harm to very real people…"

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