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PhoenixWomanMN

@phoenixwomanmn.bsky.social

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Been online since forever. I've lived long enough to see people lie about several events I've lived through.

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PhoenixWomanMN @phoenixwomanmn.bsky.social · 26d

By April 2026, the economy will be so cooked that Jerome Powell could reduce interest rates to negative numbers and it still wouldn't help.

And it will be their fault for letting Trump do it.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 26d

Three House Republicans just flipped their votes after having their arms twisted by GOP leadership, passing the measure which will surrender their power to block Trump’s tariffs. Final vote:

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PhoenixWomanMN @phoenixwomanmn.bsky.social · 10m

Yup. Just fricking horrific, not to mention horrifically wrong:

nationalpost.com/opinion/matt...

Matt Stoller: Who's afraid of J.D. Vance? Wall Street and Big Tech are, with good reason

Donald Trump's populist running mate is pro-working-class, anti-monopolistic and not afraid to rock the citadels of power

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PhoenixWomanMN @phoenixwomanmn.bsky.social · 6h

He's got an account here as well.

PhoenixWomanMN @phoenixwomanmn.bsky.social · 6h

In public, maybe. On the Townhouse email list, this has been him for the past 20 years.

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

Oh honey what is you doing

Antitrust fetishist Matt Stoller picking a fight with Derek dieworkwear

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 14h

I'm not a parent/teacher but I anecdotally see they're casually comfortable with sexual diversity particularly in a way my younger queer self 30 years ago would've found not just astounding but impossible. MAGA keeps thinking if they scream "WE'RE THE COOL ONES NOW!" they can reverse that & sorry no

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 21h

There are many other ways in which the kids are not all right. Widespread concerns about reading comprehension are valid and threaten democracy in other ways. But in terms of being broadly accepting of racial and sexual diversity, the game's over, and the libs won. 2/2

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 21h

I need to write about this, but I've been telling people that one reason I still feel somewhat optimistic about the future is that, as a high school teacher, I get a good ground-floor view of just how cooked these monsters are. In terms of preventing cultural changes, they've already lost. 1/

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 22h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 9h

Chicago is doing everything it can to protect Chicagoans.

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kbromberg.bsky.social @kbromberg.bsky.social · 9h

That message is just ribbeting!

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C @ccb4fo4.bsky.social · 9h

The Obama HOPE poster, except it’s a frog and it says HOP

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 9h

Narrative matters in political warfare. We are winning this. MAGA are reduced to begging each other to be scared of the dancing frog.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 13h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 9h

Humor is important. Maybe most powerful way to resist these thugs

But also important is stuff like what happened today in the Rogers Park n’hood of Chicago & Evanston: People rushed to Catholic Churches & stood outside during Spanish mass. 1 church ICE tried to grab people. Community prevented it

Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 9h

Narrative matters in political warfare. We are winning this. MAGA are reduced to begging each other to be scared of the dancing frog.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 13h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 8h

That guy didn’t sound like a meathead. He didn’t sound like he wanted to be there. My guess is he’s FBI or ATF or US Marshal & hates doing this shit.

Maybe eventually he’ll be a source for a reporter to tell us what’s actually going on behind the masks.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 8h

“Why don’t you take off your mask?

“Because I don’t want COVID”

HAHAHAHAHAFUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKK YOU you lying piece of shit.

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 9h

One continuous scene of two separate run-ins with ICE from an alley in Rogers Park this morning, from three entirely different POVs.

1. www.instagram.com/reel/DPt0Roi...

2. bsky.app/profile/roya...

3. bsky.app/profile/juri...

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 14h

But don’t spread cynicism. Cynicism is maybe our greatest enemy

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 15h

At least 5 of the Democrats running for that Congressional seat—including a school board member, a mayor, & 2 state senators—have been on the neighborhood streets doing rapid response, and/or have been assaulted by ICE at Broadview

Uninformed cynicism is a toxin. Please don’t spread it.

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 18h

If you are buying silly costumes and whistles to help stop our country from sliding into fascism: congratulations on doing more than our elected Democratic congresspeople!

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 18h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

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ArchPundit @archpundit.bsky.social · 8h

Bovino was hurt on October 3rd and it was represented to the court that he was on 2 weeks bedrest due to a groin injury and yet was at CNN on October 7th. They are lying to keep Bovino out of court

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PhoenixWomanMN @phoenixwomanmn.bsky.social · 7h

Iron deficiency? His skin is awfully pale under the spray-on bronzer.

It could also be for inflammatory bowel disease.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 8h

Those monthly 3-4 day absences & those IV bruises on his right hand, plus all these comments about his immortality…I’m wonder if he’s go leukemia or something like that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 7h

That’s a key to the determined resistance to ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago; it’s a racial plurality neighborhood (about a third white, about a third Latino, remaining third Black & Asian), & the non-Latinos have banded together to protect their neighbors from Kavanaugh sweeps.

Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 8h

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

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thou_dog ✡ @thou-dog.bsky.social · 9h

At worst, it's a cute cat. At best, who knows, it might work.

An image of a green-eyed tabby cat captioned "Every time you repost this image, a trans girl gets hormone treatment and a transphobe dies"

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 22h

The WHO has verified the elimination of both measles & rubella in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows 2 decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional surveillance, and high routine vaccine coverage. buff.ly/EpFb7HK
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Rubella elimination verified in Japan, and measles and rubella elimination verified in Pacific island countries and areas

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that the 21 Pacific island countries and areas that are part of the WHO Western Pacific Region have collectively been verified as having eliminated…

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 13h

lol liars, every one. Chicago cops threatened to quit if Brandon Johnson was elected mayor. Police union leader LITERALLY threatened "blood in the streets," saying between 800 to 1,000 would walk.

Guess what never happened.

And even if they'd made good on that threat... OK??? BYE????

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 15h

(Miller, not Garcia)

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