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Okay good news so it turns out the pure of heart actually can pour grease down the sink

Haven't seen anyone talking about it here, but vocal transfeminist and writer Tara Knight has been sent a threat from the fbi insisting that she stop speaking about "radical gender ideology" and get rid of the past 3 years of her work.

A black trans woman is getting personally threatened by the fbi for being a transfeminist. What the fuck. Hopefully this gets more reach than my usual posts so that people who are able to can support her.

Here’s her latest post about it.

[Transcript: So as you all have likely heard I was forwarded a letter from the FBI informing me that my work and my platform and everything I’ve built over the past three years has to go, um, for propagating what they are calling ‘radical gender ideology’. Um, this comes from Trump Executive order, um basically saying I’m a propagandist for domestic… september eleventh… thing. Um, I would… I— I’ll just say, point blank, short period. I have no intentions of stopping anything. Maybe to my detriment but I’ve never been the smartest one. That’s— all I’m gonna say on this.]

Just as I was writing that transcript she posted this—

[Transcript: So I was told and informed that it’s probably in my best interest to tell all of you where you can find me in the event that I get deleted because having a platform is probably the only thing that will keep… everything okay, if you will. So I will provide the links and ads to my TikTok, my Substack, my Bluesky, the like. You’ll be able to find me there in the event… y’know. Y’know.]

TikTok: @ bundleof.styx

Bluesky: @ bundleofstyxx.bsky.social

Substack: @ bundleofstyxx

^ just putting this here along with the transcripts, please support her if you can

Man made crystals are so cool it’s so sad everyone who likes rocks is out for blood if you post man made crystals. I love you opalite I love you lab created opal I love you bismuth I love you HTA citrine I love you goldstone

Post “fake” crystals hour

Goldstone is one of my favorite stones!

Manmade rocks have their own cool appeal cause humans literally figured out how to put the right ingredients together to get a good looking rock, how is that not cool?

I genuinely think that even secular, non-hippie gemstone enthusiasts have a tendency to fall into the trap of subconsciously believing that a stone is only "real" if it is extracted from the womb of Mother Earth, or what the fuck ever, but I don't know if the blame for that is better placed on background radiation coming from the crystal people who think magic is real, or, like so many other social ills, on the shoulders of the diamond selling and marketing industries

if karl marx was born today he would be a baby. and it would be his birthday

being autistic is so funny because it'll be like, "I have to follow this strict set of rules or else I'll DIE" but at the same time it's like "I can Not follow these stupid made up rules or else I'll DIE" and sometimes it's about the same ones

I am a full grown adult in my late twenties and only recently realized it’s still OK to talk to someone the same day you’ve said goodbye to them. Like if you hang out with a friend and then say goodbye and go home you don’t have to wait until the next day to shoot them a text. Like I genuinely thought it was a social rule that everybody knew and it was a terrible faux-pas to do. And I’d still break it but I’d feel awful

getting my period then remembering that menstruation may remove a small amount of microplastics from the body

I don't know what came over me to create this

he escaped into the real world…..

mean as fuck why is he doing that

I can't stand it.

someone has to do something

maybe when they air the secret stranger things episode they’ll accidentally upload the wrong file from the industry folder of secret tv episodes and it’ll be the lost sherlock episode instead

the follow up here is absolutely fucking vital

The Washington Post published a story so horrifying this weekend that it would stop your breath: “The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.”

What went wrong? The Post continues: “Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far.” The shameful, horrifying errors were uncovered in a massive, three-year review by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Innocence Project. Following revelations published in recent years, the two groups are helping the government with the country’s largest ever post-conviction review of questioned forensic evidence.

Chillingly, as the Post continues, “the cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death.” Of these defendants, 14 have already been executed or died in prison.

The massive review raises questions about the veracity of not just expert hair testimony, but also the bite-mark and other forensic testimony offered as objective, scientific evidence to jurors who, not unreasonably, believed that scientists in white coats knew what they were talking about. As Peter Neufeld, co-founder of the Innocence Project, put it, “The FBI’s three-decade use of microscopic hair analysis to incriminate defendants was a complete disaster.”

This study was launched after the Post reported that flawed forensic hair matches might have led to possibly hundreds of wrongful convictions for rape, murder, and other violent crimes, dating back at least to the 1970s. In 90 percent of the cases reviewed so far, forensic examiners evidently made statements beyond the bounds of proper science. There were no scientifically accepted standards for forensic testing, yet FBI experts routinely and almost unvaryingly testified, according to the Post, “to the near-certainty of ‘matches’ of crime-scene hairs to defendants, backing their claims by citing incomplete or misleading statistics drawn from their case work.”

NACDL executive director Norman Reimer said in an interview with Associations Now that the flaws in the system had been known for years now. “What we were finding was that the examiners … wouldn’t just simply say that there was a microscopic similarity [between the two hairs], but they would go beyond that and say it was a 100 percent match, essentially misleading the jury into concluding that the evidence had a certain value that it didn’t actually have,” Reimer said.

THIS IS ONE OF THE MANY FUCKING REASONS WHY WE SHOULD NEVER EVER HAVE THE DEATH PENALTY

I felt like I had seen this article years ago despite this being a newish post so I checked the article and yup! been out since April 22, 2015. Over a decade old, which, no shade to op old articles are 100% also a good entry point to a topic. So I went to dig up if there are any more recent articles and found this one from 2023. Despite the fact its very clear to anyone doing the research that hair is a very unreliable form of identification, it's still being used to this day in court cases and does in fact have a huge racial component as well due to prejudice against kinky hair types.

I also learned that apparently these tests have been used to falsely accuse parents of doing drugs or excessive drinking in the uk which is definitely not how anything works at all wtf

So yeah, add this to your repertoire of things to bother your government about