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Chronic Moxie

@maggieboxey.bsky.social

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Author of The 3 Things, Speaker https://linktr.ee/maggieboxey 🦋living with disabling ♿️ Chronic Illness🦋 #mecfs Sober 🍑Rural GA Progressive🍑 🇺🇸⚓️veteran 🧶🎨📚👩🏻‍💻📝

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Chronic Moxie @maggieboxey.bsky.social · Apr 15

My talk is now available to watch! Please watch, share, comment- all the things <3 #mecfs #millionsmissing #chronicillness #momsky #disabledsky

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I Am One of the Millions Missing | Maggie Boxey | TEDxOjai

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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

🤞 @ericswalwell.bsky.social

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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 2d

Must be all of the Superman movies that give them a false sense of security.
#ElbowsUpAmerica

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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mindnut.bsky.social @mindnut.bsky.social · 1d

GOP simultaneously arguing the previous admin overreached while claiming the current one has unlimited power.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Chronic Moxie @maggieboxey.bsky.social · 1d

Morning Maggie!

Love,
Maggie

Chronic Moxie @maggieboxey.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller froze because he said the quiet part out loud.

Plenary power
•
A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations. It is derived from the Latin term plenus, 'full'.
Source: Wikipedia

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2d

What will it take for regular people to understand that if they refuse to stand up against fascism they will not be spared? Fascism is a serial killer with no restrictions on who it targets.

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Chronic Moxie @maggieboxey.bsky.social · 2d

One of the most frustrating things in 2025 is how nobody in this administration will take responsibility for anything. Destruction, violence, blame, finger pointing, gaslighting, projection, and propaganda on a huge loop in EVERY lever of government.

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Chronic Moxie @maggieboxey.bsky.social · 7d

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From the television community on Reddit: Trump Contradicts Himself on Shutdown Blame, Declares "War" on U.S. Cities: A Closer Look | Late Night with Seth Meyers

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Chronic Moxie @maggieboxey.bsky.social · 8d

I love candy corn
but only in October.

Chronic Moxie @maggieboxey.bsky.social · 13d

That’s me in the corner, that’s me in the spotlight…

Chronic Moxie @maggieboxey.bsky.social · 17d

🥹vs🥊

Image shows a split panel with Kirby. Left side text: “me advocating for myself” shows Kirby looking timid and uncertain. Right side text: “me advocating for others” shows Kirby looking fierce and determined, peeking through a door. Background is light blue with a repeating pattern of pink pajamas. The handle @maggieboxey is written in pink.

Chronic Moxie @maggieboxey.bsky.social · 18d

I want to thank those of you who lurk on X and Truth to bring us unhinged screenshots, but please take care of yourselves.

Chronic Moxie @maggieboxey.bsky.social · 20d

See yall Monday 🫶🦋

Alt text: Illustration of a pink smartphone with a watercolor butterfly on the screen. The text around the butterfly reads “It’s okay to take a break.” The handle “@maggieboxey” appears at the bottom of the screen.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 22d

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 23d

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

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Chronic Moxie @maggieboxey.bsky.social · 23d

OMG a bird

Two-panel meme. Top panel shows a sad, wrinkled cartoon face with the caption: “The world is a cruel and unjust place. There is no harmony in the universe. The only constant is suffering.” Bottom panel shows a simple cartoon face looking delighted with rosy cheeks, saying: “OMG a bird,” next to a photo of a small bird.

Chronic Moxie @maggieboxey.bsky.social · 24d

Same, much needed these days

Chronic Moxie @maggieboxey.bsky.social · 24d

Definitely!

Chronic Moxie @maggieboxey.bsky.social · 24d

This one is jumping to the top of my tbr pile 📚

SEPARATION of
Church
and
HATE
A SANE PERSON'S GUIDE TO TAKING BACK THE BIBLE FROM FUNDAMENTALISTS, FASCISTS, AND FLOCK-FLEECING FRAUDS
JOHN FUGELSANG

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Chronic Moxie @maggieboxey.bsky.social · 25d

If only there was an entire land with a very specific road to guide those in search of something they had inside themselves all along… if only

Chronic Moxie @maggieboxey.bsky.social · 26d

Would you be willing to share the name of the OP on Facebook? I'd love to share there as well

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 27d

I'm seeing some people post this and not realize this is PART of the radicalization. Building an audience from reasonable sounding videos and converting them into the pipeline. Weiss is doing this now as I get The Free Press ads about things like "low tech parenting" and workout fads.

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 27d

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.

I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,

enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.

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