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Maggie ❌👑

@magg1es.bsky.social

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Unapologetically political with occasional dog appreciation posts 🏳️‍🌈silence is violence 🏳️‍⚧️ 🤘Being kind is punk rock🤘

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Maggie ❌👑 @magg1es.bsky.social · 17h

You guys. This may be game over. A GOP company just took over Dominion Voting Systems, one of the biggest election equipment providers. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots | CNN Politics

Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately.

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Leigh Harrison Helberg @leighhelberg.bsky.social · 3d

While 750,000 federal workers go unpaid and moms lose WIC, Trump’s out cheating at golf—on our dime. Families are rationing formula while he’s working on his handicap.

The only thing he’s leading in is hypocrisy. ⛳️

#TrumpsHealthCareShutdown

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𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭 🩷 @jastuart68.bsky.social · 3d

Democrats are rejecting a 7-week “band-aid” that delays the fight, because waiting means 20M face higher premiums ＆15M could lose Medicaid.

Better to fight now than abandon families later.
#TrumpsHealthCareShutdown

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strea3m.bsky.social @strea3m.bsky.social · 3d

WH: Republican
Senate control: Republican
House control: Republican

#TrumpsShutdown is by the Republicans, bc they want to:
- keep their cuts to healthcare for millions so the rich can get more tax cuts
- continue covering up the Epstein files

They keep lying, but this is a Republican shutdown.

Inept Republican Senate Majority Leader Demands Democrats Reopen Government He Controls

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) demanded that Democrats reopen the federal government that he and his party control.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

Trump shut down the government to block the vote on the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

A shutdown won’t save him. The truth is coming either way.
#TrumpsHealthcareShutdown

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WatchYourRepsSC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 3d

Trump’s Shutdown: The Only Thing He Leads Is the Golf Cart Parade
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Trump’s Shutdown: The Only Thing He Leads Is the Golf Cart Parade

American workers go without pay and Trump is working hard - on his golf swing...

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Maggie ❌👑 @magg1es.bsky.social · 3d

The Republican party is more concerned with appeasing Trump's ego than with serving the American people. #TrumpsHealthCareShutdown is a clear demonstration of their priorities: self-interest over the public good.

Maggie ❌👑 @magg1es.bsky.social · 9d

bigger issues than those classified documents cases right now! I know it’s hard, but you’ve gotta stop licking boots at least long enough to come up for air and see what’s going on. Get it together guys.

Maggie ❌👑 @magg1es.bsky.social · 9d

Continuing the maga argument, apparently classified doc charges are trumped up and useless when it comes to Trump, but a huge shocking scandal when it comes to Biden’s charges. The cognitive dissonance is just ridiculous to watch. And also, why are we dragging up old talking points? We have much

Maggie ❌👑 @magg1es.bsky.social · 9d

If only Trump could do something to avoid the government shutdown 😉

Thank you Seth!
#ACloserLook #DonaldTrumpsShutdown

Maggie ❌👑 @magg1es.bsky.social · 9d

laws and they didn’t charge him immediately? Pull the other one 🙄🙄

Maggie ❌👑 @magg1es.bsky.social · 9d

Tonight in arguments with maga, one of them tried to convince me the Hur report had solid evidence that Biden had “accepted foreign cash from foreign governments.” You really want to convince me that the most vindictive, retaliatory government we’ve ever seen has solid evidence on Biden breaking

Maggie ❌👑 @magg1es.bsky.social · 13d

Does anyone remember this? I certainly do.
Hold Trump accountable for a shutdown.
Those are his words😉
#TrumpsGovernmentShutdown

Maggie ❌👑 @magg1es.bsky.social · Aug 30

He found something suspicious in his dinner tonight, so now he’s not speaking to me bc I tried to ☠️ him. Meanwhile, I’m over here like ??? Do you know how much effort I put into keeping you alive?? Why would I ☠️ you???

Maggie ❌👑 @magg1es.bsky.social · Aug 29

TikTok showed me a Fox News ad today, and I reported it as offensive hate speech 😏😏

Maggie ❌👑 @magg1es.bsky.social · Aug 29

Wouldn’t that be great?? Let them live with their own consequences. It would blow a huge hole in every city budget, and then they’d all be squawking about the loss of services.

Maggie ❌👑 @magg1es.bsky.social · Aug 29

township property tax but have easy access to all those city amenities paid for by, you guessed it, property taxes. Meanwhile I’m over here paying twice as much in property taxes for half as much land.

Maggie ❌👑 @magg1es.bsky.social · Aug 29

extracurricular activities at schools, and landlords will lower rent! Wow! What a marvelous collection of fairytales! And the best part is, the people trying to do away with property taxes all live in houses they bought 40 years ago, in townships right outside cities so they get to pay the lower

Maggie ❌👑 @magg1es.bsky.social · Aug 29

My state has a ballot measure collecting signatures right now to do away with property taxes, and it has absolutely proven to me that every child got left behind. In reading their FAQs, I learned (/s) a consumption tax is more fair and equitable, businesses will have more money to support

Maggie ❌👑 @magg1es.bsky.social · Aug 25

“AI is coming for our jobs!” Listen, google gemini can’t even figure out why it didn’t send me the scheduled notifications every day, I’m not worried about it taking my job 😒

Maggie ❌👑 @magg1es.bsky.social · Aug 22

to coffee on us!”, with a link we had to follow to enter our info to get the gift card. Every. Single. One. Of us marked that email as spam and deleted it 🤣 Our manager had to make an announcement that the gift card email was real after nobody redeemed the cards.

Maggie ❌👑 @magg1es.bsky.social · Aug 22

Because fake corporate phishing test emails are never not funny, let me tell you about my favorite phishing email story ever. A vendor my company worked closely with sent my entire team a virtual gift card with a very vague note along the lines of “thanks so much for your hard work. Treat yourself

Maggie ❌👑 @magg1es.bsky.social · Aug 22

So she spent the next 10 minutes coaching me on what to say so I don’t have to deal with insufferable, self-righteous men. I come from a long line of strong women, and my grandma reminded me of that tonight 💪

Maggie ❌👑 @magg1es.bsky.social · Aug 22

About it again. Well, my grandma and I were talking, and she told me it had been weighing on her and she didn’t like that I hadn’t pushed back on the creep and had to listen to him.

Maggie ❌👑 @magg1es.bsky.social · Aug 22

get the guy to leave me alone and not cause more problems. I got them out of there and told my finance about it, who tried to call him but the guy never answered and never called back(shocker, I know). So I moved on (after leaving a review so everyone else knew what to expect!) and didn’t think