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Mara Alis Butler
@madmachine76.bsky.social
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Geeky Hoosier Transbian 👩🏻 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 Licensed Social Worker/Star Wars Fangirl/Roller Derby Queen-in-Training 🛼💚🤍🖤 https://linktr.ee/MaraAlis Switch Code: SW-6905-9738-2481
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Mara Alis Butler @madmachine76.bsky.social · Nov 16
Protip for people “X-iting”Twitter: You can use this free Google Chrome app to identify matching accounts here and automatically follow them here. Note: Matches are not always 100% precise but it does a good enough job to help build up your account here!
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Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store
Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky.
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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 2h
It's election day!!!

NYC: find your poll site, vote, and GOTV for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social - for a NYC we can all afford:
vote.nyc/page/find-yo...

PM me if you need help finding your polling site.

זֶה הַיּוֹם עָשָׂה ה' נָגִילָה וְנִשְׂמְחָה בוֹ!
This is the day, let's vote, GOTV, and then rejoice 🙏
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Vote Save America @votesaveamerica.crooked.com · 2h
Polling hours for New Jersey!
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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 1h
Today is a good day to repost this!

So proud that I was the first pulpit rabbi to have @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social attend a Shabbat service during this campaign 💞

This was in February, when he was polling at 4%! We couldn't even have him speak (though I personally wanted...), but he joined us!!!
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Super Fighting Transbian Robot, Roll-chan @trans-roll-chan.bsky.social · 14h
Passing this from a friend of a friend
I had an awful incident during the surgery and they are currently paralyzed (her irl friend messaged my friend about it), requiring an emerency operation that also is not free. Again, spread it around if you can't donate

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Mara Alis Butler @madmachine76.bsky.social · 5h
Happy Anniversary! 🥳
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17h
Teen Vogue eliminated all their Black and trans staff today.

It's resegregation in real time.
leximcmenamin.com Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 18h
today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.

Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19h
Aileen Cannon is to the judicial profession what Typhoid Mary was to the cooking profession.
A federal appeals court said that there had been “undue delay” by Judge Aileen Cannon in reaching a decision about whether or not to release the second volume of a report by Jack Smith, the former special counsel, on President Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago, a case that was dropped after Trump returned to office. The ruling, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in response to a lawsuit by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columba University, gives Judge Cannon 60 days to “fully resolve” pending motions that could trigger the release of the report.
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Mara Alis Butler @madmachine76.bsky.social · 20h
a cartoon drawing of spongebob flexing his arm
ALT: a cartoon drawing of spongebob flexing his arm
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d
Brett Kavanaugh's behavior during today's second oral arguments has been incredibly obnoxious and rude. He is so eager to kill a service member's lawsuit against a negligent government contractor that he keeps interrupting other justices, raising his voice, and getting emotional. Weird and erratic.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 22h
BORTAC terrorizing random suburbs is just so fucked
adamisacson.com Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 23h
The photos in this Chicago Tribune piece… It's a quiet middle-class inner suburb, but these guys look like they're in Fallujah circa 2006.

The uniforms indicate Border Patrol and its BORTAC "special operations" unit.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...
Caption: Border Patrol agents detain painter Krzysztof Klim while verifying his identification on Oct. 31, 2025, next to Halloween decorations outside a house in Chicago’s Edison Park neighborhood. Klim, originally from Poland and now a U.S. citizen, was briefly detained and then released. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune) U.S. Border Patrol agents watch the street while others question and detain a man they found painting a house in Chicago’s Edison Park neighborhood on Oct. 31, 2025, during immigration enforcement operations. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 23h
The Trump's regime's message:
If you don't let us deny health care to millions, we'll take food out of poor people's mouths and cancel your flight to visit your family for Thanksgiving.
In other words, we demand the right to hurt people.
Trump official threatens to ground all flights before Thanksgiving in shutdown standoff
Transportation chief Sean Duffy threatened to ground all U.S. flights amid the ongoing shutdown, warning "we'll shut the whole airspace down." As the stalemate drags into the second month, it's adding...
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CultureSlate @cultureslate.bsky.social · 3d
A Forty-Year Retrospective of #FrightNight

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CultureSlate @cultureslate.bsky.social · 2d
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CultureSlate @cultureslate.bsky.social · 1d
#RockstarGames Accused Of Union Busting

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Mara Alis Butler @madmachine76.bsky.social · 23h
Anhendonia=Lack of feeling/emotion?
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d
A federal judge determined that yet another Trump-appointed DOJ official has been serving unlawfully.The third such finding underscores the threat the administration poses to the erosion of the Senate’s oversight role.
https://bit.ly/47CMRom
Another Trump-Appointed U.S. Attorney Found to be Serving Unlawfully, Federal Judge Rules
Read more here.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d
can someone make a supercut of johnson saying he doesn't know anything
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d
Raju: Last week, you were very critical of Biden, you said he didn’t even know who was pardoning. On 60 minutes, Trump admitted not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire guilty of money laundering. Is that also concerning?

Johnson: I don’t know anything about it.
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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 1d
I know I’m asking a lot lately, and I wouldn’t if I didn’t have another choice (I literally applied for SNAP benefits in order to help ease the load, and then three days later the government shut down), so if you have anything you can spare, you’d be helping me out more than you can know.
maegodhavemercy.com Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 11d
Hi Folks - we’re still digging out of our rent hole, and need to get another partial payment over to our landlord ASAP. You’ve all been incredibly generous helping us recently, and I don’t know what else to do but ask.

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Go to paypal.me/maegodhavemercy and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d
Yes, Trump’s cruelty IS staggering.
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Mara Alis Butler @madmachine76.bsky.social · 2d
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d
“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”

We didn't. Read the story that he wanted dropped:
“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
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Kylie Woyote @kylora2112.bsky.social · 2d
It's that time again!
A photo of Cher with the words Turn back time one hour tonight, don't forget to Cher with your friends!
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Mara Alis Butler @madmachine76.bsky.social · 2d
“I know him but I don’t DRUG LORD know him!” - Head of State
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d
WHAT DO YOU THINK WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU???!!!
Alt text: A post on X by Brianna Wu reads: “Trans sisters. I’m pretty sure I was wrong. I am sorry. I genuinely thought that as a trans woman, if I ceded some points with the gender critical crowd we could have a healthier conversation and arrive at better public policy. The problem is, they are getting crazier and more extreme. If you admit ‘trans women don’t belong in women’s sports,’ they agree, but call you a man the whole time. If you admit, ‘I understand I am a biological man, but this is how I want to live my life and talking about me like this is degrading,’ they scream about free speech. If you admit that hurtful language is part of free speech but you don’t have to associate with people that degrade you, they act like the victim and call you a man and then say you should be thrown in an insane asylum. It’s like this on everything. They are incapable of looking for a middle ground on bathrooms. They want maximalist policies on everything. They’d throw a fully transitioned, fully passing trans woman in male prison genpop and laugh as she got aids from being raped. I want a middle ground on so many of these policies. BUT THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM IS THEY DO NOT. They enjoy degrading us, it’s fun for them. So, sisters. I genuinely don’t know what to do. I think many of our most extreme ideas are bad. But theirs are worse. So if I have to pick, I choose us. I wish there were a political vehicle for compromise and medical safeguarding. But that just simply does not exist.” The post timestamp reads 6:52 AM, Nov 1, 2025, with 39.6K views.
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Mara Alis Butler @madmachine76.bsky.social · 3d
Absolutely love that movie. Event Horizon is another good sci-fi horror movie. 🎥
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