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G.G. Reads 📚 Writes ✍🏾 Edits 📝 @ggwynterwrites.bsky.social · Jun 8

When people say, "You're a writer; you shouldn't talk politics," it's a sign of privilege. I understand why some choose to protect their peace & keep things separate. Insta was that platform for me until Zuck zucked. But to some extent, *all* writing is political, no matter where and how you do it.

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G.G. Reads 📚 Writes ✍🏾 Edits 📝 @ggwynterwrites.bsky.social · 1m

Every now and then I flash this as a reminder to #BlackSky and everyone else who cares. Fox Corp is the parent corp of Tubi. They're making bank off Black folks while calling for our erasure and elimination. Do with that what you will.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 22h

When one person kills, we call it murder – but when corporations decide who lives and who dies – it's capitalism.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h

Brace for the largest-ever spike in health insurance premiums

The GOP's backdoor plan to gut Obamacare: Kill the tax credits.

www.motherjones.com

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concerned2.bsky.social @concerned2.bsky.social · 7h

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G.G. Reads 📚 Writes ✍🏾 Edits 📝 @ggwynterwrites.bsky.social · 22h

This is insane, and I don't use that word lightly.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2d

There are now two Americas when it comes to housing:

In one, people work multiple jobs and still can't afford a home.

In the other, housing isn't a place to live but a portfolio to grow.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

Real estate investors bought one-third of all single-family residential homes sold in the second quarter of 2025.

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 1d

Pam Bondi is going to see in the end that her alliance with Trump is going to cost her everything. All of these loyalists never come out on top when it’s all said and done.🤷🏾‍♀️

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Canuck 🇨🇦🏌️‍♀️ @annthegolfnut.bsky.social · 1d

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word “trumpery” first appeared in English in the mid-15th century with the meaning “worthless nonsense.”.

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G.G. Reads 📚 Writes ✍🏾 Edits 📝 @ggwynterwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Even a busted, bigoted big toe can be right every once in a while.

Plyreen @plyreen.bsky.social · 1d

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with the GOP on Obamacare, calling to avoid premium hikes

Greene said she's "not a fan" of Obamacare but complained that her "own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE" if Congress ignores the issue.

www.nbcnews.com

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G.G. Reads 📚 Writes ✍🏾 Edits 📝 @ggwynterwrites.bsky.social · 1d

How much truth can you handle this morning, because there are no lies here.

Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · 1d

Best 3 minutes you will spend on the internet today.

G.G. Reads 📚 Writes ✍🏾 Edits 📝 @ggwynterwrites.bsky.social · 1d

"There are some people that really don't deserve to be taken care of, and we will take care of them in a different way." - Imagine thinking like this! He means people who didn’t vote for him. He means Black women, and POC, and disabled people, and anyone and everyone who refused to kiss the ring.

EvilBunny Pottymouth Resists The Cultists every day! @mrsquirrel.bsky.social · 1d

White House floats no back pay for some furloughed federal workers despite 2019 law

🚨Sounds like the Diaper Dictator intends to play politics with people's lives... once again! 🤬 - EB

www.npr.org/2025/10/07/g...

White House floats no back pay for some furloughed federal workers despite 2019 law

A new draft White House memo suggests a 2019 law signed by President Trump that guarantees that federal employees get paid after a shutdown ends would not apply to furloughed workers.

www.npr.org

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G.G. Reads 📚 Writes ✍🏾 Edits 📝 @ggwynterwrites.bsky.social · 1d

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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 1d

The perfect Kamala vibe check for those who may need a little truth serum for motivation.

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 1d

Joy Reid asks “Why are conservatives so angry?” 🤔

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

It's so ridiculous that MAGAs believe the GOP line that "Democrats want to give free healthcare to immigrants."

My dudes immigrants aren't getting free healthcare in the United States. American citizens aren't even getting free healthcare. You know who is?

The people lying to you about immigrants.

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G.G. Reads 📚 Writes ✍🏾 Edits 📝 @ggwynterwrites.bsky.social · 1d

This is wild.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 2d

Do not buy my books from Amazon or Down and Out Books directly. I will not get paid. I should get paid, as per my contract, but in an email from D&O I’ve been told ‘no further payments will be issued.’
It absolutely blows it is ending this way, but man, pay your authors what they are owed.

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G.G. Reads 📚 Writes ✍🏾 Edits 📝 @ggwynterwrites.bsky.social · 1d

My premiums might go up by over $800/month next year. I'm not giving up my business on the hopes of getting insurance through a corporation that treats me like shit, and I'm not paying over $1K/month for health insurance only to also have to pay a deductible and co-pays.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

G.G. Reads 📚 Writes ✍🏾 Edits 📝 @ggwynterwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Mayonnaise sandwiches. 😩

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

G.G. Reads 📚 Writes ✍🏾 Edits 📝 @ggwynterwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Or sexual interest. I had no idea. I have misled so many people. 🤣

cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug @hnysuklchocolat.blacksky.app · Apr 2

wait...

purple heart emojis mean horny???

a man with a beard is wearing a black turtleneck

Alt: a man with a beard is wearing a black turtleneck

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G.G. Reads 📚 Writes ✍🏾 Edits 📝 @ggwynterwrites.bsky.social · 2d

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d

There it is

G.G. Reads 📚 Writes ✍🏾 Edits 📝 @ggwynterwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly this emotion!

G.G. Reads 📚 Writes ✍🏾 Edits 📝 @ggwynterwrites.bsky.social · 2d

OMG. "There's an epidemic of lonely men," they say. "Why won't young women date these lonely men?" they ask. Why would anyone want to date men who resort to violence when you tell them you're not interested.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

A MAGA teenager was spurned by a teen girl so he sent pizza to her home to intimidate her. The police ignored it.

Then, he saw she mocked Charlie Kirk so he murdered her and her friend by ramming his truck into them at 70mph while they were riding their bikes.

He's now charged with murder.

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