Bluesky isn’t what I hoped it would be. The comments are full of bots, and nobody can see my posts ever since I went after CNN for failing at their job. I’m taking a break.

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Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

You don't deserve to be shamed or punished for choices you made to survive-- physically, emotionally, economically or socially. Abusers & bullies keep us stuck by convincing us we need to "pay" for "choices" that weren't true choices-- but self harm or destruction is not justice.

This is, and always has been, the entire ballgame for Republicans: steal from poor and working people so billionaires can pay less in taxes. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

As a Black liberal woman in Texas: If you’ve never taught, fundraised, organized, or tried to turn the tide in a substantial way in a red state: shut up and take notes from the people who have. A lot of you wouldn’t survive with your souls intact if you lived and worked here.

“U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, acknowledged that the United States can accept the gift…” I think Chuck needs to take another look at that emoluments clause.

Image of library book display labeled: “It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.” Books on display: • On Tyranny • Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century • 1984 • A Handmaids Tale • Diary of Anne Frank • Parable of The Sower • Fahrenheit 451 • Animal Farm • Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm

Media folks going on now about "how Biden fucked us" - no THEY did. They went along with the ruse that "we don't primary an incumbant," blacklisting any other candidate and playing guardian of the establishment status quo. Blaming it all on Biden is a way of trying to sidestep their own complicity.

“I was hungry and you cut my SNAP benefits.” The same politicians who preach Christian values are the ones slashing programs that feed the poor. We may be atheists, but we know compassion beats cruelty — and feeding the hungry beats quoting scripture.

Dark times are truly upon us.

@mango-sauce.bsky.social Of course he did. I guess I know the response letter I’ll get: “Hey, if the president doesn’t have to pay for it, it’s ok!”

Never lose sight of how weird and corrupt it is for the president to have his unelected, unconfirmed oligarch friend—his biggest campaign donor—conduct US foreign policy. No other US president did that, and there’s no reason to think he’s representing the American people rather than himself.

They care now that it's their privacy at stake. Hypocritical bastards.

IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!

“Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics” The free speech party is really the fascist party.

Aw shucks you mean we could have gotten affordable drugs without all the fascism?

What happened before Mayor Baraka’s arrest needs daylight. Did masked ICE agents let him in just so they could arrest and perp walk him to send a message of fear. Because that’s what it looks like. We’re sliding into fascism—and fast. And if we don’t stop it now, we may not get another chance.

Shit.

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

This new Texas law copies anti-Jewish legislation in pre-war Nazi Germany. That legislation consisted of a series of restrictive laws passed in 1933, then the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. This is not an exaggeration.

1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️

Yesterday, GOP leadership told their members *not to speak* during a 14-hour “debate” on their plan to sell off public lands to fund billionaire tax cuts. 🤫 They couldn’t defend it, they just voted for it. That’s not leadership.

“I think this says that they will not tolerate us being active participants in our democracy—they want an autocracy,” Emily Feiner told Mother Jones. Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.

Rep. Nunn’s actions say let them eat cake! That’s why advocates flipped the script for his birthday, rallying against gutting SNAP to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. #Iowa

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Sorry no, it’s just regular garden variety eugenics. Nothing “soft” about it.

#MikeLawler is assaulting social workers now‼️🤬 #FlipNY17Blue

All of this for speaking up against genocide. Fascism is here.

LAST NIGHT AT UCLA - On the one year anniversary of the violent encampment raid, UCLA admin called in riot police to break up students watching The Encampments documentary on campus. These schools are at war with their students. Movies are illegal.

Behavior therapy will not change trans people to cis people for many reasons, least of which is because that’s not how behavior therapy works. I haven’t read the report yet but it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s written by AI.

The gestapo is here.

I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.” I beg to differ. This is curated failure. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

The gestapo is here.

"Trump called on people to vote for hate. And they voted for hate. And now we are living in a fascist authoritarian nightmare. We will not get out of that nightmare by insisting that we need to protect only the best victims."

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Who else AGREES with Pedro?! 🤚

🚨BREAKING | Officials Confirms Raids in Multiple Cities; TAHRIR Coalition Says FBI Agents, Michigan State Police, and Local Officers Targeted Pro-Palestine Organizers

1. Jose Hermosillo is US citizen who was wrongly jailed in an immigration detention facility for 10 days The administration says he "turned himself in" to the Border Patrol and told them he was a Mexican who crossed the border illegally. I interviewed Hermosillo. He says the government is lying.

Even if he has done something criminal, sending him to a torture gulag in El Salvador would still unacceptable and a violation of his rights. No one should ever be sent to a torture gulag or most prisons but that’s a wider conversation most people don’t want to have.