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Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦

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Geologist/general raconteur, I Full-time RVer. Rvroomwithaview.blogspot.com Any acct. with a female, posed so as not to see her face? Block. 🚫profile? Block. 🚫Causes/begging $$ 🚫 IllumiNUTTY 💯ANTIFAAF I DO NOT buy/donate on social media, capische?

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Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦 @rvroomie.bsky.social · 13h

Our latest!

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The Great Maple Syrup Incident….!

RVing is a sport of many challenges; finding short-term accommodations, not necessarily easy with a rig 63 feet in length; keeping tanks ...

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Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦 @rvroomie.bsky.social · 2h

Fuckin’ A!! 😁😁😁

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

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R.J. Gerber Jr. @fathitler.com · 17h

Don't go crazy, but cut loose any spending you can, and stock up on non-perishable goods.
We're already eyebrows deep in fascism.
There's going to be a serious economic collapse, and armed conflict. We will NOT be voting our way out of this mess.
For the record, I'm sorry it had to be this way.

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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 12h

A respected voice👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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Reᴛᴡᴇᴇᴛ🗽🌊🎶🇺🇸 @realretweet.bsky.social · 13h

#TheMoreYouKnow 🌈✨

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Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦 @rvroomie.bsky.social · 2h

We, too….🩷🩷🩷

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Apothecult @apothecult.bsky.social · 16h

Among other types of art I do @apothecult has been my passion for the past few years and it has been so amazing to grow and evolve as an artist. it's been such a fun time seeing how my terrariums have leveled up 🙂‍↕️

#taxidermy #terrarium #witchyart #darkfantasy #witchyaesthetic #midwestartist

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Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦 @rvroomie.bsky.social · 4h

All I can say is..

Neener neener, neeeeener!!

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 11h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦 @rvroomie.bsky.social · 4h

Jesus jumping Christ on a pogo stick…..🤯🥴🤬🤮

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6h

This is real. This... {deep breaths} I cannot even find the right word... actually said this about this year's richly deserving Nobel Peace Prize winner.

He did everything he could to denigrate her win.

(Screenshot below altered merely to remove an ad.)

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 22h

📌 Canks isn't gonna be happy

This may stop his heart 🤭🤣🐥

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 6h

Happy Birthday Governor Newsom
Keep On Trolling.......

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Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦 @rvroomie.bsky.social · 4h

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · Aug 21

I’m going to make this a video at some point but I’m saying this here and being done because it’s honestly just angering and scaring and frustrating me.

The reason I’ve been so critical of people praising the likes of Gavin Newsom and saying things like, “you may not like him but we need him in the fight,” or applauding his redistricting of California as a tit-for-tat move against GOP redistricting, is that fundamentally they are ignoring the core problem here: this is just justifying a further slide into an authoritarian state.
I want to be clear, because people don’t seem to understand me when I say this—I think Gavin Newsom’s response to the GOP redistricting Texas to disenfranchise Democratic voters and give themselves more representatives, by doing the same in California to disenfranchise GOP voters and give Democrats more representatives, is the correct response within the system. Yes, if Democrats want to win, this is what they have to do. They shouldn’t be playing by rules the GOP clearly ignores. Again, this is the only response that makes sense within the rules of the game.
But the problem with everyday Americans’ response—cheering on Newsom and saying we need to get behind him uncritically—shows how much people empathize with power over themselves. At the end of the day, this is the American system further entrenching and normalizing authoritarian power. Even if Democrats were to win using these tactics in 2028—which is preferable to a GOP win, yes—they will not willingly give up this newly normalized power dynamic. More voters will have been disenfranchised. Long term, we’re left with a system even less democratic, with few—if any—levers within it to push back.

Worse still, so many are cheering on the idea of having strongman leaders like Newsom. People literally make Trump-like memes of him carrying an American flag. This “we need our own strongman to fight Trump and kick him in the balls” is the same cult of personality that entrenches the Trumpian mindset within establishment Democrats who think they’re being progressive, while actually backing further disenfranchisement of middle- and lower-class Americans—people already struggling under late-stage capitalism.
And people like Newsom—or other Democratic leaders establishment liberals rally behind, like Pete Buttigieg—are perfectly willing to throw trans people or the homeless under the bus if it plays well to a mythical centrist base. So while people pat themselves on the back for voting for a gay man or supporting a Democrat like Newsom who “punches Trump where it hurts,” they’re ignoring not only their own further disenfranchisement, but also the additional attacks and harm directed toward even more marginalized groups like trans people and the homeless.
I say all of this because one day people will have to reckon with this reality—that the American system will continue to justify making itself more authoritarian under the logic of, “that’s just how we have to fight the fascists.” That’s the only choice it offers us within its limits. But we do have other options. People are just too scared, or too enmeshed in the political system, to recognize them or admit what needs to be done. We need to fundamentally change how we do politics.

I’m not saying you need to pick up a gun and start a revolution against the American state. But I am saying you need to stop focusing solely on electoral politics or trying to pass laws within this system to get what you need. Build up your communities. Find ways to provide food, educational resources, childcare, and other essentials locally. Organize for community defense. Join a union or a collective. These are tangible actions, better uses of your time than canvassing for a political campaign, asking people to vote, or arguing with Republicans online.
The path we’re on—pouring our energy into stanning Newsom or treating electoral politics as the only way to “win”—is deeply dangerous. It limits our imagination and leads us further into authoritarianism. And eventually, we will have to face that fact—whether it’s in 2028, 2032, or 2036. No matter what, we will have to confront that fundamental problem. The reason I’m so adamant about recognizing it now is that the longer we wait, the more people will be hurt.
As a trans person, I’m already on the chopping block—discarded by both sides of the same system of power. I see how people like me face a very real chance of being imprisoned, killed, or worse before society wakes up to this problem. And I’m not the only one. To paraphrase the poem: “They came for the trans people, and I did nothing, for I was not trans.”
What scares me most is that when I try to explain all of this, I am the one vilified. Trans people like me are told—not just by Republicans who openly hate us, but by Democrats—that we need to shut up and get behind “our guy” with “our guy” always being politicians who are more willing to publicly sit down with the likes of Charlie Kirk than to platform or even talk to a trans person. That’s how the system fuels resentment and dehumanization of marginalized people like me—because I’m unwilling to comply. I become the problem, the issue, the person to ostracize, the one accused of helping the fascists.

At the end of the day, I’m not here to say Gavin Newsom is wrong to redistrict in response to Trump and the GOP. That is how Democrats can and should win power, and within the system, it’s what they should be doing. That’s not my criticism. My point isn’t to Newsom—it’s to you. Because while redistricting may be a short-term solution, it doesn’t solve the deeper problem. It delays it. It accelerates it. And you will eventually have to face it.
I would much rather we face it clear-eyed now. Because doing so not only gives me, as a trans person, a greater chance of survival, but it also means that if you recognize the problem now, I’m still here with you—still able to fight alongside you. Because as the poem warns, one day they will come for you. And by then, there may not be anyone left beside you to fight.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22h

For years, it has been a cliché to call his various awful behaviors and decisions “shocking, but not surprising.” Can we still feel shock? We need to.

Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/insidious-...

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Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦 @rvroomie.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t think you are…..☹️

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 9h

Forget optimism; here’s operational toughness. READ this before you go to sleep. Hard times are coming...read this before they arrive. Every paragraph is a weapon for your mindset. You'll thank me later. 👇

www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦 @rvroomie.bsky.social · 8h

Damn.. you mean to tell me.. every guy that’s been nice to me.. wanted to schtoink me? 😏

Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦 @rvroomie.bsky.social · 8h

You fucking liar.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13h

OH. MY. GOD. 🫠

Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦 @rvroomie.bsky.social · 8h

Welcome to AmeriKKKa.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10h

Welcome to America, where peaceful protesters get tear-gassed and thrown to the ground like ragdolls.

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STEPHEN JAMES @stephen5150.bsky.social · 9h

NEW STARTER PACK 10/10/25

VETTED ACCOUNTS. MOST FOLLOW BACK. MANY ARE BOOSTERS OR CREATE STARTER PACKS.

WE ALL KNOW CODE BLUE MEANS AN EMERGENCY. OUR DEMOCRACY IS EXPERIENCING A CODE BLUE.

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Carrie @carebear620.bsky.social · 1d

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Maggie Reed @mermaidmamamaggie.bsky.social · 8h

Mike Johnson is upset we have the right to protest.

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Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦 @rvroomie.bsky.social · 8h

The Project 2025 Pogrom proceeds….

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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