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Addled Pixie

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Birds, books, art, movies, podcasts, pit bulls, horror, Swiftie. Independent. End non-violent cannabis-related incarceration. “Journey before destination” she/her 🧡 My Posts: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ulw4uyksqkafwqq5awhqkz44/feed/aaadbiaaamtas

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · Sep 28

I once found a deflated "Get Well Soon" balloon in a graveyard and there's never been anything more representative of the human condition.

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Idle @hatesnicethings.bsky.social · 6h

Cat person? Dog person? It’s all good until you tell me you’re a people person. That’s fucking gross.

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Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 1d

Got really high and realized this is actually about the Democratic Party

Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · Jul 14

In every single episode, the Scooby Doo gang discover a human is behind the mystery, not ghosts or mummies or whatever. Yet they begin each new case believing the villain is a supernatural being. Every time. Not once do they say “maybe it’s an old man like last time”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

*ding ding* We’re seeing rampant lawlessness from the Trump admin @billybinion.bsky.social

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Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 19h

Christ, even MTG has made the calculation that when the music stops, you want to be the one in the chair called "I Was Against Pedophiles."

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h

Breaking: MIT just became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump admin's higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment.

"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14h

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

when i saw marsha fucking blackburn was being honored by journalists i thought i was having a neurological episode

Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com · 1d

June 11: GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill to defund NPR and PBS because of their "left-wing propaganda" and "radical leftist gender ideology."

October 7: The news industry's main trade group gives Blackburn its "Support Journalism Champion Award."

Just shameless.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 16h

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18h

Yes, so embarrassing.

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 1d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

Every single Democrat in Congress should’ve already had a post up by now about the Trump admin approving a Qatari air base inside the US.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 17h

Hegseth: I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho.

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Democrats @democrats.org · 15h

Trump’s building a golf course in Qatar.
He accepted a $400M luxury jet as a gift from Qatar.
His son-in-law got a $1.5B investment from Qatar and other Middle Eastern countries.
His top officials like Kash Patel and Pam Bondi worked for Qatar.

And now this.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 17h

Hegseth: I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 16h

I have an account there - maybe? I opened one years ago, found it unusable, and never retuned. I can’t remember if I deleted it, or if it’s still there, but I’m not going back to the site. I’ll stay here, or leave here, but I’m not going to another social media site. I have this & Insta, that’s it.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

So they’re keeping the House in recess for another week (see his follow up)?

To delay the Epstein Files and, I guess, avoid the No Kings rally on 10/18?

They are in full blown pants pissing panic

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 17h

UNREAL

Democratic Whip Notice: The House GOP Leadership have made the following change to the House Floor schedule:

Members are advised that votes are no longer expected in the House on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.

Pending Senate action on FY26 Funding, Members will receive 48 hours' notice prior to any potential votes in the House. Further information regarding the Floor schedule will be provided as soon as it becomes available.

This is a change from the House GOP Leadership's previously announced schedule.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 17h

Gosh, I must be going to receive a lot of back-pay since so far I’ve not been paid a penny for how many times I’ve shown up.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Ian Fortified with Sexy (but spooky) Vitamins @ianfortey.bsky.social · 18h

Don't ever let anyone tell you you can't write impromptu Hamburglar erotica on the timeline. You can. No one will like it, but you can do it.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 19h

One of the ways you can tell Trump should have won the Nobel Prize is how terrified people seem to be about all the revenge he plans to take

@unusual_whales . 1h
BREAKING: Norway is bracing for Trump's reaction if he does not win Nobel
peace prize, stating that "US president may impose tariffs, demand higher
Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy," per the Guardian:

Norway braces for Trump's reaction if he
does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato
contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst
says

unusual_whales

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 20h

I didn’t know! Thanks for the tip!

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

Just bone chilling. And when the imprisonment of critics is combined with his offer to enrich and immunize his loyalists, this is how democracies die fast.

But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

All to cover up the Epstein files.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 1d

I understand and I love you and want you to know that you matter.