maria_from_ga
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maria_from_ga
@mariafromga.bsky.social
· Dec 19
welcome to Bluesky. we have rules here:
1) this dream isn't feeling sweet
2) we're reeling through the midnight streets
3) and I've never felt more alone
4) it feels so scary getting old
1) this dream isn't feeling sweet
2) we're reeling through the midnight streets
3) and I've never felt more alone
4) it feels so scary getting old
Welcome to Bluesky. We have rules here:
1) Is it worth it?
2) Let me work it
3) I put my thang down, flip it and reverse it
4) Ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gnaht ym tup i
5) Ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gnaht ym tup i
1) Is it worth it?
2) Let me work it
3) I put my thang down, flip it and reverse it
4) Ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gnaht ym tup i
5) Ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gnaht ym tup i
These rules allow us to talk so good, to make it so divine, such that you wish social media would be like this all the time
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.
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I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
Really interested if pollsters could starting polling the AAPI community specifically so we can see their swings bc we know they shifted right in 2024, in NYC swung massively left bc of Zohran in 2025, but it is still a question mark how much they swung overall throughout the US in 2025
Here's a comparison that shows the shift between 2024 President and Prop 50, and the White % of each 100K district in California... Pretty clear correlation that shows something that also happened in NJ and VA. Dems had huge gains with minorities in 2025, similar to 2020 levels.
December 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Really interested if pollsters could starting polling the AAPI community specifically so we can see their swings bc we know they shifted right in 2024, in NYC swung massively left bc of Zohran in 2025, but it is still a question mark how much they swung overall throughout the US in 2025
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Really feels like April 2025 to August 2025 was the beginning of the end for Trump's approval ratings:
-Abrego Garcia
-Sending troops into Los Angeles
-Passing a massively unpopular tax and spending bill
-Sending the guard into DC
-Epstein
-Abrego Garcia
-Sending troops into Los Angeles
-Passing a massively unpopular tax and spending bill
-Sending the guard into DC
-Epstein
December 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Really feels like April 2025 to August 2025 was the beginning of the end for Trump's approval ratings:
-Abrego Garcia
-Sending troops into Los Angeles
-Passing a massively unpopular tax and spending bill
-Sending the guard into DC
-Epstein
-Abrego Garcia
-Sending troops into Los Angeles
-Passing a massively unpopular tax and spending bill
-Sending the guard into DC
-Epstein
And you know if/when a NIMBY councilor has a similar conflict, no action will be done….
"oh so you work for an advocacy organization doing X, so clearly you're just doing X as a councillor at the behest of your employer" is an insane interpretation of what will be, 99% of the time, the person doing both the council vote and the advocacy for the same reason
In Santa Monica, the FPPC has disqualified pro-housing Councilmember Jesse Zwick from all future housing votes. They said that because he works for a housing non-profit, he’s “conflicted” and must recuse.
Pretty absurd. The NIMBY deep state strikes again.
www.smdp.com/state-regula...
Pretty absurd. The NIMBY deep state strikes again.
www.smdp.com/state-regula...
December 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
And you know if/when a NIMBY councilor has a similar conflict, no action will be done….
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especially in the dark hours we need to remember that we are going to win
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
especially in the dark hours we need to remember that we are going to win
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You're upset that there robots are driving cars in San Francisco. I understand completely. I'm upset there are non-robots driving cars in San Francisco.
December 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
You're upset that there robots are driving cars in San Francisco. I understand completely. I'm upset there are non-robots driving cars in San Francisco.
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Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...
December 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...
We have known since Charlottesville that even tho Gen Z and young millennials are broadly progressives, the conservatives in those gens are increasingly right-wing white supremacists…..then ppl forgot about this until the 2024 election
Southern Poverty Law Center has reported on this for a decade!
Southern Poverty Law Center has reported on this for a decade!
December 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
We have known since Charlottesville that even tho Gen Z and young millennials are broadly progressives, the conservatives in those gens are increasingly right-wing white supremacists…..then ppl forgot about this until the 2024 election
Southern Poverty Law Center has reported on this for a decade!
Southern Poverty Law Center has reported on this for a decade!
Saying Lamar has injury concerns compared to taller/heavier QBs Joe Burrow and Justin Herbert…..we raised concerns about Trevor durability literally in September.
Even Mahomes, another QB taller/heavier, tore his ACL. We know you reach a critical line where bad OL play exposes you to harm
Even Mahomes, another QB taller/heavier, tore his ACL. We know you reach a critical line where bad OL play exposes you to harm
December 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Saying Lamar has injury concerns compared to taller/heavier QBs Joe Burrow and Justin Herbert…..we raised concerns about Trevor durability literally in September.
Even Mahomes, another QB taller/heavier, tore his ACL. We know you reach a critical line where bad OL play exposes you to harm
Even Mahomes, another QB taller/heavier, tore his ACL. We know you reach a critical line where bad OL play exposes you to harm
Doubt it’s this low but even hitting sub 30s in a poll is wild…..it’s barely been a year (and seeing his support among Latinos/Hispanics crater in *multiple* polls now is fascinating)
I wonder what his approval trends among Asians has looked like
I wonder what his approval trends among Asians has looked like
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Doubt it’s this low but even hitting sub 30s in a poll is wild…..it’s barely been a year (and seeing his support among Latinos/Hispanics crater in *multiple* polls now is fascinating)
I wonder what his approval trends among Asians has looked like
I wonder what his approval trends among Asians has looked like
Very cool ppl can just get on here and pretend the last decade in energy policy hasn’t happened
Battery storage advancement and green investment has changed the game- “keep in the ground” is a strategy that is more efficient and better for a future economy!!!
Battery storage advancement and green investment has changed the game- “keep in the ground” is a strategy that is more efficient and better for a future economy!!!
December 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Very cool ppl can just get on here and pretend the last decade in energy policy hasn’t happened
Battery storage advancement and green investment has changed the game- “keep in the ground” is a strategy that is more efficient and better for a future economy!!!
Battery storage advancement and green investment has changed the game- “keep in the ground” is a strategy that is more efficient and better for a future economy!!!
Lowkey I think it was fine until the very end lmao
December 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Lowkey I think it was fine until the very end lmao
Wrong- God is showing he still shines his light by opening new paths to American innovation
December 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Wrong- God is showing he still shines his light by opening new paths to American innovation
The end-around for this is Medicare 4 Kids!!! Put all babies on Medicare for life- it’s popular and get you the same end goal
That or Medicare 4 America (like M4A but keeps private insurance, so a supercharged public option)
That or Medicare 4 America (like M4A but keeps private insurance, so a supercharged public option)
December 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The end-around for this is Medicare 4 Kids!!! Put all babies on Medicare for life- it’s popular and get you the same end goal
That or Medicare 4 America (like M4A but keeps private insurance, so a supercharged public option)
That or Medicare 4 America (like M4A but keeps private insurance, so a supercharged public option)
Hilarious that Lak’s model said Crockett is a strong electoral overperformer and he has immediately backpedal to justify how it is wrong actually 🤷🏾♀️
We’ve allowed the stats guys to talk too much for too long. Not everything in politics is reducible to a an electoral number, man
when we said “defer electoral strategy to the actual politicians running for actual offices” we meant “after calculating wins above replacement somehow”
December 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Hilarious that Lak’s model said Crockett is a strong electoral overperformer and he has immediately backpedal to justify how it is wrong actually 🤷🏾♀️
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And the air is noticeably cleaner! Literally we can all breathe better thanks to the law!
I refuse to shut up about this: NYC started charging $9 to bring a car into our most transit-rich zone, the haters & trolls predicted doom, but traffic evaporated instantly and here’s Times Square tonite (even after the holiday tourists have left). For a better future, build transit & price driving!
December 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
And the air is noticeably cleaner! Literally we can all breathe better thanks to the law!
Forget being wrong about “how public opinion would respond to immigration in 2025”; do these ppl not remember pre-2020 when immigration was on a 15-year upswing
Or the two most high performing candidates w/ Latinos (Obama) did so after *moving left on immigration*!!!
Or the two most high performing candidates w/ Latinos (Obama) did so after *moving left on immigration*!!!
December 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Forget being wrong about “how public opinion would respond to immigration in 2025”; do these ppl not remember pre-2020 when immigration was on a 15-year upswing
Or the two most high performing candidates w/ Latinos (Obama) did so after *moving left on immigration*!!!
Or the two most high performing candidates w/ Latinos (Obama) did so after *moving left on immigration*!!!
Can anyone explain how we are supposed to feel about the economy rn bc early this week, I saw economists freaking out about the job reports and CPI and now I see economists saying “it’s fine actually”
December 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Can anyone explain how we are supposed to feel about the economy rn bc early this week, I saw economists freaking out about the job reports and CPI and now I see economists saying “it’s fine actually”
It shouldn’t be surprising but is still disconcerting how many ppl of the left* don’t have a solid base of universal principles from which their beliefs spring from bc that is how you can easily avoid selective morality….and yet (ie “Globalize the Intifada” vs “Zionism” discourse)
but fwiw I more or less agree with the addendum below so long as the argument is that it's a two way street, which is true but is not something most Americans are willing to acknowledge in the first place
I think this is true but it also goes both ways. No Muslim majority country cut ties with Russia, the 'Axis of Resistance' didn't once vote against Russia in the UN, and Iranian weapons have been deployed against Europe now for years
December 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It shouldn’t be surprising but is still disconcerting how many ppl of the left* don’t have a solid base of universal principles from which their beliefs spring from bc that is how you can easily avoid selective morality….and yet (ie “Globalize the Intifada” vs “Zionism” discourse)
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I was frankly a lot more comfortable with the idea that the CCP would have my data than these people
TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.
TikTok U.S. Sale to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium
Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I was frankly a lot more comfortable with the idea that the CCP would have my data than these people
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Breaking: A jury has found a Wisconsin judge guilty of obstruction for helping an immigrant evade federal agents.
Jury finds a Wisconsin judge guilty of obstruction for helping an immigrant evade federal agents
A jury has found a Wisconsin judge guilty of obstruction for helping a Mexican immigrant dodge federal authorities.
bit.ly
December 19, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Breaking: A jury has found a Wisconsin judge guilty of obstruction for helping an immigrant evade federal agents.
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Just to recap:
The TikTok ban? Bad.
The SCOTUS ruling upholding the TikTok ban? Also bad.
Trump choosing not to enforce the ban? More bad.
The Trump-backed mostly-US consortium taking over US Tiktok? You guessed it...bad.
The TikTok ban? Bad.
The SCOTUS ruling upholding the TikTok ban? Also bad.
Trump choosing not to enforce the ban? More bad.
The Trump-backed mostly-US consortium taking over US Tiktok? You guessed it...bad.
December 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Just to recap:
The TikTok ban? Bad.
The SCOTUS ruling upholding the TikTok ban? Also bad.
Trump choosing not to enforce the ban? More bad.
The Trump-backed mostly-US consortium taking over US Tiktok? You guessed it...bad.
The TikTok ban? Bad.
The SCOTUS ruling upholding the TikTok ban? Also bad.
Trump choosing not to enforce the ban? More bad.
The Trump-backed mostly-US consortium taking over US Tiktok? You guessed it...bad.