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Guinan

@madmaudlin.bsky.social

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PNW weirdo, Blacksmith, Printmaker, Woodworker, Servant of the Childlike Empress, real Cassandra vibes, feisty, old but the vibes check out Fuck AI Eis qui nos subiciant feliciter saginamus 🏳️‍⚧️Fix Your Hearts or Die🏳️‍⚧️ 🌈Semper Fidelis Tyranasaurus🪓🥸

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Guinan @madmaudlin.bsky.social · Sep 8

It’s time for Bluesky to break containment

Print this out and put it up everywhere in your town

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11h

The Senate has just passed the military NDAA containing 2 anti-trans provisions: a surgery ban using federal funds (dependents too), and a sports ban on military academy spaces.

This will be the STARTING point for negotiations with the House, which has even worse provisions.

Only 20 Dems opposed.

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 19h

In case you're wondering whether the Tr•mp is serious about persecuting people for the things they think and write about, consider the case of Mark Bray, a historian who writes about the origins and evolution of antifascism 🗃️

#Tyranny
#edusky
#signalboost

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Guinan @madmaudlin.bsky.social · 11h

Also- the deals aren’t actually deals

There’s a whole study that proves they manipulate prices to create deals- at the msrp for items- with virtually no savings for the customer

They’re evil- and they’re lying to you

GeeRaffa @geeraffa.bsky.social · 1d

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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 12h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h

DOJ prosecutors in Virginia under Erik Seibert didn't believe they gathered enough evidence to charge Letitia James.

So Trump pressured Seibert to resign and replaced him with a loyalist (and former personal attorney) who would.

Even Nixon made efforts to hide his corruption.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12h

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 12h

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 11h

The Senate has defeated a plan from Democrats to block President Trump's use of National Guard troops in various cities - if local officials oppose their deployment from other states.

Civil war enablers.

Photo of senate chambers with senators voting.

YEA 47 NAY 50

Van Hollen Amendment to
S. 2296, the National Defense Authorization Bill

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Guinan @madmaudlin.bsky.social · 11h

ag.ny.gov/press-releas...

Attorney General Letitia James Issues Statement on Donald Trump’s Weaponization of the Department of Justice

NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today issued the following statement after she was indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s office of the Eastern

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Guinan @madmaudlin.bsky.social · 11h

www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

Murphy: Trump's Authoritarian Takeover Isn't Coming. It's Here. | U.S. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate to lay out President Trump’s ongoing five-part plan to convert...

www.murphy.senate.gov

Guinan @madmaudlin.bsky.social · 11h

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump and White House used footage from Florida to show ‘chaos’ in Chicago: Report

The footage shows palm trees in the background, which are not commonly found in Chicago

www.independent.co.uk

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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 1d

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Guinan @madmaudlin.bsky.social · 11h

They’re going for the fix

abcnews.go.com/US/dominion-...

Dominion Voting Systems sold to company run by former Republican election official

Dominion Voting Systems, which sued Fox over its reporting on the 2020 election, has been sold to a seemingly new election company run by a former GOP election official.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 1d

Stephen Miller is a corrupt loser with a microphone and a Napoleon complex. He’s also basically running the government.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: The Republican Party’s top mapmaker testified in federal court Wednesday that while he’s been instructed in the past to preserve minority congressional districts protected by the Voting Rights Act, he received no such direction when drawing Texas’ new gerrymander this summer.

Top GOP Mapmaker Describes a Texas Gerrymander Ordered Up By Washington

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 17h

A Techno-feudalist AI circle jerk masquerading as an economy

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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 14h

It is no coincidence that Trump is indicting AG Tish James, someone who he considers a political enemy because she held him accountable to the law in New York. Once again he is playing wannabe dictator and going after anyone who doesn’t bend the knee to him. Disgraceful.

New York Attorney General Letitia James charged in fraud case after pressure campaign by Trump

New York Attorney General Letitia James was charged Thursday as part of a mortgage fraud investigation aggressively pushed by the Trump administration.

apnews.com

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Neil Miles (but spooky) @miles-online.co.uk · 1d

Perfect. No notes

Post from Paul F. Tompkins - "I think if the Fantastic Four were real we would mostly find them disgusting" - above which is a post featuring that horrifying picture of the four young Tories from The Times

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Cowards

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Deranged Trump Lawyer Pam Bondi Says Americans Who Oppose Fascism Will Be Treated Exactly Like Foreign Narcoterrorists—Meaning That Summary Execution Via Domestic Military Strike Is on the Table

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "I also did a cognitive exam. Which is always very risky because if I didn't do well, you'd be the first to be blaring it and I had a perfect score. And one of the doctors said he's almost never seen a perfect score. I had a perfect score. That made me well good ... not the easiest test."

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JonBowzerBauman.bsky.social @jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social · 15h

Time for America to get serious & plan general strikes, boycotts, & millions on top of millions of people PEACEFULLY in the streets to confront The Dictator’s madness.

Got to step it up.

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

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.”

Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

Rutgers TPUSA officers slam petition to shut down chapter, ‘Blatantly defamatory’

Alexander Di Filippo accuses Turning Point USA of inciting violence against Antifa handbook author Mark Bray.

www.foxnews.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20h

With SCOTUS set to legalize conversion therapy, I think it's important for states to get around this decision by implementing new legislation applying private rights of action to practitioners of conversion therapy by their victims with large damages and long statutes of limitations.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19h

Or at least responsible!!!!!

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 19h

oh we're literally just doing Bush era stuff now huh

Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 19h

No, WaPo, we are not doing a repeat of creating social pressure for gay people to get straight married, and no, it's not, "redefining what it means to be in a relationship."

Also, could that kiss in the thumbnail be any more awkward?

He’s gay. She’s straight. They’re happily married.

Meet the couples who are redefining what it means to be in a relationship, including those in gay-straight and same-sex platonic marriages.

www.washingtonpost.com

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