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@madmads33.bsky.social

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I write screenplays and other things 👩‍💻 LA🌴 ADHD🙃 Autistic 😐 Queer. Tired. She/her 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Cats and politics. 2024 Humanitas New Voices Fellow 🎡🎢🎠

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Mads @madmads33.bsky.social · Jan 23

I was radicalized by The Monkees

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Mads @madmads33.bsky.social · 16h

Mike Johnson must be giving Covenant Eyes a lotta business these days.

Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 18h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

Mads @madmads33.bsky.social · 20h

Hahahahahahha YUP!

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22h

So like this is funnier and more offensive than anything anyone else said about Kirk that got them fired

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Mads @madmads33.bsky.social · 22h

Did beach season just end? Where TF has his jabroni been?

Mads @madmads33.bsky.social · 22h

And I can’t stop laughing

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

The master race everybody

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Mads @madmads33.bsky.social · 23h

Why do they all look like Peter Griffin

Mads @madmads33.bsky.social · 23h

Meanwhile @sallyjenx.bsky.social
“This is excellent”

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

Way to speak truth to power, Bari
www.thefp.com/p/donald-tru...

Mads @madmads33.bsky.social · 23h

Sally, I brought some treats for you from your girl BARI.

So much truth. YOU STAND BY THIS SALLY! This is your girl!

Mads @madmads33.bsky.social · 23h

You’re a latchkey generation raising screen kids… but it’s cool. We millennials can’t even afford kids or screens to babysit them.

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Mads @madmads33.bsky.social · 1d

John Buckout murdered his family is white plains and then walked to the Tavern in Terrytown were the authorities found him drinking.

Legend says if you drive buckout road at night and flash your brights… a horde of albino zombies will come attack you.
(The story really fell apart over the years)

Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d

What’s the best ghost story from your hometown?

Mads @madmads33.bsky.social · 1d

Pontypool and Lake Mungo are two of my personal favorite horror movies! You have exceptional taste 🤓

Mads @madmads33.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson is the twig holding together the Epstein dam…

Only a matter of time before he breaks

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

instead they get grandmas, and priests, and inflatable frogs, and ordinary decent people rising up and saying "this is vile, this is unamerican, these are secret police"

they get kristi noem in a staring contest with a guy in a chicken suit

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Mads @madmads33.bsky.social · 1d

Keep it weird team!

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 1d

This sums up so much of social media right now

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Mads @madmads33.bsky.social · 1d

You’d think she’d know the history she’ll mentioning but apparently not.

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Mads @madmads33.bsky.social · 2d

Right!? Also they sell new stock as well as donations? I find Halloween decorations that match the ones at CVS.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Mads @madmads33.bsky.social · 2d

@sallyjenx.bsky.social come get your trash please

Mads @madmads33.bsky.social · 2d

They’re also almost always men! Women don’t get to method act or else we’d get labeled “difficult to work with”

Mads @madmads33.bsky.social · 2d

Great! Maybe you can learn some history now! Yellow Journalism sally, check it out!

Mads @madmads33.bsky.social · 2d

How’s it feel to have an opinion that’s absolutely worthless since you’ve lost all credibility?

Mads @madmads33.bsky.social · 2d

Sally’s licking the burner at this point