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Maggie Vail

@magicbeans.bsky.social

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Label manager of Bikini Kill Records, bass player of Hurry Up. Honk if you like dogs. PNW'er currently exiled in East Tennessee.

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · Nov 13

I believe deeply in the radical and transformative power of music.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 12h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 12h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

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Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 2h

it really fucking should be.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

nobel peace prize goes to Trump’s little extrajudical murder supporting friend

What a pack of fucking loser weirdos that panel is

Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 3h

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 11h

time to get a frog suit

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 12h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 14h

I grew up with a parent that worked in corrections, I once lived on a prison island. the darkness of the american prison system is not unknown to me but the level of craven greed here is just stomach turning. just the worst people profiting on human misery.

Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 14h

my god. the more I am reading about just how much private prisons are profiting from ICE the more I want to stab myself in the eyeballs.

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 15h

lyrics challenge part 2. who's the worst?

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 15h

no one I know!

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 16h

these people are stealing from you and laughing at you

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16h

None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 16h

family is out of town for a pokemon tournament and instead of like ordering takeout & relaxing I have elaborate solo meals planned for every night. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but
the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 16h

ahhhhhhhhhhh

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 18h

the best part about having a dog with a mid october bday is the halloween themed toys I get to buy him every year.

Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 18h

It took me nearly a month to feel ok after having my gallbladder removed earlier this year! Yeah I was home that night but it was not easy.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22h

Everyone is lying except the people we know lie to us multiple times per day

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Kristi Noem: "I was in Portland and met with the governor and mayor and chief of police and superintendent of the highway patrol. They are all lying and disingenuous and dishonest people. Because as soon as you leave the room, then they make the exact opposite response."

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 1d

Roll Ups by Fuzz

These were jeans that had patterns printed on the inside so you only saw them when you rolled them up. I have had the commercial stuck in my head since I was a kid but no one else seems to remember.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 1d

2. What is an obscure thing from your childhood that no one else seems to remember?

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

You can talk (and should) about all the issues with poor white people voting against their own interests without reveling in glee when poor people in general are harmed.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 1d

Argh, fully! Type-oh.

Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 1d

Went to my first show since losing hearing, again, in March and am very pleased to say that I was able to full submerse myself for a bit in it. I didn’t think that could happen again.

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 1d

He said this deliberately because he is a Nazi and he wants you to know he's a Nazi who you can't touch. He also wants other Nazis to know they can be open about the fact they are Nazis too.

This isn't an oversight, a fumble or an opportunity for a "heh, well actually, dummy" zinger.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

lmao this rules

CalyxWorks @calyxworks.com · 1d

Portland Protest Frog replaces the stag on the Old Town "Portland Oregon" sign ... which now reads "Little Beirut"

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 1d

I say representative, representative, representative with each word getting louder but also more punctuated until I'm yelling REP RE SEN TA TIVE.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Good lord.

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