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Trashcat Bandit

@acmeie.bsky.social

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Really into public libraries and making quality education affordable & accessible. Also, dogs. Currently reading: “There is No Place For Us: Working and Homeless in America” by Brian Goldstone Resistance is patriotic. ❌👑 These colors don’t run 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸

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Trashcat Bandit @acmeie.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is what Flooding The Zone looks like.

STAY
FOCUSED
ON
EPSTEIN

Stop giving that one guy attention. He said AND I QUOTE: “It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment.”

Let’s honor him the way he’d want. Epstein.

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Formica Dinette @formicadinette.bsky.social · 7d

"Compassion fatigue" sounds like weaponized therapy speak when you're using it to describe your general attitude about people living in tents on the sidewalk.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 11d

Abortion has already been banned for 3 years in Louisiana.

This was just a “fuck you” to the poor and to women in our majority female state.

ladydelnumber1.bsky.social @ladydelnumber1.bsky.social · 11d

Planned Parenthood shuts down all operations in Louisiana after 40 years www.kplctv.com/2025/09/30/p...

Planned Parenthood shuts down all operations in Louisiana after 40 years

Planned Parenthood has closed its two Louisiana clinics in Baton Rouge and New Orleans after 40 years, citing relentless political pressure.

www.kplctv.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11d

Good morning.

The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.

Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 11d

Donald Trump SHUT DOWN the government last night.

Why? Because he and Republicans in Congress would rather shut down the whole government than lower your health care costs.

It’s shameful.

www.youtube.com/shorts/TvQQ8...

Trump SHUT DOWN the government last night.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

www.youtube.com

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 11d

This is not a fight about tax credits.

This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin.

We have the chance to protect the health care of millions of Americans. We need to take it.

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Trashcat Bandit @acmeie.bsky.social · 11d

There. Fixed it.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 11d

Tip of the cap to photojournalist Andrew Harnik, who was at Quantico yesterday and really did Pete Hegseth justice

Photograph of Pete hegseth. His mouth is open in a scream and his his hands are balled together and fists of rage.

The photo caption reads: defense secretary Pete hegseth speaks to senior military leaders and Marine corps base Quantico and Virginia on September 30th. (Andrew Harnik /pool/reuters)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/30/hegseth-1990s-military-tailhook/

Photograph of Pete hegseth. His hands are raised in front of his face and held open palms. Very close together. His mouth is half open in a kind of evil grin.

The photo caption reads: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Sept. 30 in Virginia. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/30/hegseth-1990s-military-tailhook/

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 11d

When leaders blur legal definitions and change public-facing names before Congress acts, it sends a signal.

They’re not just rebranding, but testing how far they can bend the system.

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Trashcat Bandit @acmeie.bsky.social · 11d

Well. Certainly seeing this interaction in a new light.

davidm79.bsky.social @davidm79.bsky.social · 11d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gplp...

Ted Cruz kisses his daughter... it doesn't go well - BBC Newsnight

YouTube video by BBC Newsnight

www.youtube.com

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Mina Bo Bina Banana Fana Fo Fina @molotovmina.bsky.social · 13d

It’s not that we don’t know how serious this is. We do. We are terrified and angry and fighting.
We are laughing at these chuckle fucks cause it takes away their power.

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Nunsense & Shenunigans @annaleehq.bsky.social · 13d

We are celebrating that he got away

We all can empathize with him for the terror he felt

Laughing at 🧊’s failure isn’t a bad thing
None of our laughter is at the food delivery guy’s expense
We are all rooting for him 💯

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13d

Can't we just get healthcare

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14d

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14d

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens.

Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

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Trashcat Bandit @acmeie.bsky.social · 14d

Ok I hear you and mostly agree but “any evidence you provide can’t compete with my life’s experience” is sort of the whole problem.

Yes, facts should matter more than feelings. Now, there’s not much for facts re: virtues of white Christian nationalists, but facts > feelings.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15d

It’s funny because it isn’t 😕 🇺🇸

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TheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 16d

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur

Pic of the day

#photography

The tall red mountains of Zion national Park

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16d

ICE has erected a gate to keep protesters out. They are blocking a public street, despite the Broadview Fire Department ordering ICE to tear it down.

Join us at 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM. Tell Broadview to tear this fence down.

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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 16d

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 24d

Even Supreme Court Justice Alito must agree

The Trump administration's censorship of Jimmy Kimmel violates the Constitution

In Matal v. Tam, 582 US 218 (2017) he wrote

"[T]he proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express 'the thought that we hate'"

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Sahara Stevens ❤️🇺🇸 @sahara-stevens.bsky.social · 25d

You gotta love @crockett.house.gov

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Trashcat Bandit @acmeie.bsky.social · 25d

One thing that really breaks my heart: in every introduction I have with people who have complex or “foreign” names, they immediately begin to try making it easier or dumbing it down.

All these people who have worked so hard to learn English and we can’t be bothered to try to learn their names.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 27d

I have to always remember the Average American doesnt read books to learn so they have no idea whats happening

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Trashcat Bandit @acmeie.bsky.social · Sep 11

I’m so sorry my comment appeared to be about all Albertans rather than just the subset. Every Canadian I’ve ever met and every time I’ve visited, people have been so warm and kind.

I’m just shocked that anyone could look at the state of the US and nod approvingly. I know those people exist but wow.

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Trashcat Bandit @acmeie.bsky.social · Sep 11

Omg I was def only referring to the “some” Albertans that are looking at our hellscape and going “yeah, seems good.”

I can super relate to the anxiety about being all lumped together. This was 100% a “some people” comment.

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