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👻 Spooky Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ. @activateamymode.bsky.social · 13d

"When we fight, we win."

Post from National Organization for Women (NOW)

We don't need a hero. We need millions of people who show up. Hold the door. Speak out.

No capes. No glory. Just us, not backing down. This is how we win.

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👻 Spooky Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ. @activateamymode.bsky.social · 5h

I get you

👻 Spooky Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ. @activateamymode.bsky.social · 5h

All the best people. 😒

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

👻 Spooky Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ. @activateamymode.bsky.social · 5h

It is bloodthirst.

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 14h

Coward's quote-dunk because I do not want THIS poster telling me why I'm wrong but I just think this is NOT the way to talk about this. We should not be tossing around "civil war" as a thing that's on the table. It does not look like cold and sober realism, it looks like bloodthirst.

we are trying to win a civil war before it breaks out (by immiserating people)

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👻 Spooky Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ. @activateamymode.bsky.social · 5h

But they are also for our own good.

👻 Spooky Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ. @activateamymode.bsky.social · 5h

Representative government for me, but not for thee. 🙄

👻 Spooky Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ. @activateamymode.bsky.social · 5h

I thought she was just making stuff up to talk about on the podcast, but I can see that easily.

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👻 Spooky Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ. @activateamymode.bsky.social · 6h

What the actual fuck?

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Dr. Michael D. L. Johnson @copperbae.bsky.social · 7h

I do biomedical research to help people. When people come in this space making things up, it makes it harder for people not in the field to trust the extensive studies that we do and distinguish fact from fiction. Baseless claims reduce future cures. Willful ignorance drives us backwards.

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👻 Spooky Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ. @activateamymode.bsky.social · 6h

OMG I have this EXACT sewing kit! My mom had that thing my entire life and now it's mine! I didn't think anyone else had that mustard yellow thing. 😍

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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 6h

Unreliable is extremely polite.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

NYT: Judge Perry said the Trump administration’s version of events was “simply unreliable” and that deploying troops anywhere in the state would “only add fuel to the fire.”

@nytimes.com #Chicago
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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👻 Spooky Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ. @activateamymode.bsky.social · 6h

Looks like fraud to me.

👻 Spooky Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ. @activateamymode.bsky.social · 7h

Babies aren't inside the womb at all. A FETUS is never ever in the placenta.

He's also actively spreading Russian misinformation. Good god this man is a willful idiot.

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 11h

I knew fascism would suck, but I underestimated how fucking stupid it would be.

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 8h

We are on the offensive for the first time this year, we're winning against this admin & people are acting like we're at the cusp of the Civil War crossed with the Enabling Act crossed with the Years of Lead. I am begging people to get a fucking grip.

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CalmKitty @calmkitty.bsky.social · 11h

Imagine being Bernie fucking Sanders and saying this.

The utter goddamned lack of self awareness and refusal to reflect is, quite frankly, Trump-like.

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Mrs. deWinter @mrsdewinter.bsky.social · 8h

You don't even know what you're talking about. It's not "Article 25," but the 25th Amendment, and it is not invoked by Congressmembers, but Cabinet members. But God forbid you #DoSomething dipshits bother to learn basic civics.

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, I wrote up this explainer and think everyone should just turn this off. Since the right-wing idiots on this site of weaponized it, too many innocuous posts are locked behind "rude" warnings. It's pointless now. So just turn it off:
bsky.app/profile/spry...

SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · Sep 8

Reminder that everyone can turn off the "Rude" nonsense that is being grossly abused.

Go to Settings->Moderation, scroll down and click "Advanced", scroll down and turn off the "Rude" blocker:

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👻 Spooky Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ. @activateamymode.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks.

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Feral Maui Hermit @mauigreg.bsky.social · 6d

I'm not a biblical scholar, but I think "Don't take the Lord's name in vain" is less about yelling "Jesus effing Christ!" when you stub your toe, and more about calling yourself a "Christian" while starving the hungry, denying medicine to the sick, and being violently hostile to immigrants.

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👻 Spooky Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ. @activateamymode.bsky.social · 17h

And yet another of our wallpaper paste cousins misses the point and doubles down on the racism and ignorance.

Ugh.

ALL those comments and she still refuses to hear it. 😒

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · Aug 29

it's less "AI drives people to kill themselves" and more that "tech companies do it, and are indifferent about it". and, bleakly, some journalists seem determined to convince you that the focal point of this story is a high point of engineering rather than a low point of humanity

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👻 Spooky Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ. @activateamymode.bsky.social · 17h

They've been claiming to have "ideas on the table" since Ted Kennedy was young. Puuuuuhlease.

👻 Spooky Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ. @activateamymode.bsky.social · 17h

👀 I hadn't heard that in all these years.

👻 Spooky Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ. @activateamymode.bsky.social · 17h

He and the GOP could also support giving our military families more money, better VA benefits, lowering prices across the board, enacting laws Dems have been talking about for medical debt, care about the high charges of the medical industry, and keep the ACA subsidies.

But he won't.