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Maggie Vail

@magicbeans.bsky.social

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Label manager of Bikini Kill Records, bass player of Hurry Up. Honk if you like dogs. PNW'er currently exiled in East Tennessee.

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · Nov 13

I believe deeply in the radical and transformative power of music.

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 5h

A thing I told my horrified sister when she asked how long baseball games are on our way to our grandma’s 80th bday at, then, Safeco Field.

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 5h

Theoretically the game can last FOREVER.

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 5h

this video is AI generated. the reporter has three arms and people in the background phase in and out of each other, and it comes from an AI sharing account

be cautious with what you share these days, friends

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 6h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 6h

Let the kids know where the holiday presents are coming from this year.

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 6h

Watching Hard Boiled and Tony Leung is a BABY.

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 6h

Deep cut

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 15h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 8h

This project is an excellent community of very thoughtful, intentional people doing the important work of trying to keep track of the onslaught. You can help too: unbreaking.org/how-to-help/

How to help — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

unbreaking.org

Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 8h

I jumped straight into the immigration page and hoo boy have I learned a lot. I thought I was paying pretty close attention to things but I still missed so much.

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 8h

I have started volunteering with this excellent group of people who are working on documenting all the ways in which things are breaking right now.

Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 14h

The clear story in Immigration this week is the escalation of—and pushback against—the Trump administration’s militarized raids and warrantless stops in Democrat-run major cities. We’ve updated our timeline with a lot of events in this zone:

unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

Immigration — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

unbreaking.org

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 8h

I do not regret to say that I have, once again, made laziji. This time I don’t have to share it.

Picture of sichuan Chinese dish called laziji. Pieces of dark chicken meat and skin are coated in corn starch and deep fried with sichuan peppers, peppercorns, green onions, ginger, garlic, jalapeño, and pickled mustard stems.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 11h

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · Sep 1

It rules that politics now is just a collection of decaying sundowned freaks being marionette’d by their Gen-X staffers

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 10h

Went to the bakery, took a nap, cuddled a dog. A+

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 11h

I took the afternoon off, highly recommend it if you can swing it.

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 11h

lmao called it

National Guard deployed to the Bass Pro pyramid

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 11h

They really just want to kill people.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 16h

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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grannyvalkyrie.bsky.social @grannyvalkyrie.bsky.social · 17h

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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 17h

A PHOTO OF THE PORTLAND FROG WITH THE WORDS: NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES. (BUT SOME WEAR TINY BLUE
ONES AND ARE ALSO FROGS.)

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 19h

it really fucking should be.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20h

nobel peace prize goes to Trump’s little extrajudical murder supporting friend

What a pack of fucking loser weirdos that panel is

Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 20h

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 1d

time to get a frog suit

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 1d

I grew up with a parent that worked in corrections, I once lived on a prison island. the darkness of the american prison system is not unknown to me but the level of craven greed here is just stomach turning. just the worst people profiting on human misery.