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Trying to figure it all out—some of it anyway. Retired Episcopal Priest. Sarcasm is my birthright. Particle physics answers all. In the south, a pineapple means hospitality and “bless your heart” cuts deep. I write — https://dazzling-darkness.ghost.io/

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padremiguel aka Mike 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🍍❤️ @padremiguel.bsky.social · Mar 9

The next installment of A(nother) Dazzling Darkness has been posted.

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By Any Other Name

This is the story behind the name of this blog – A(nother) Dazzling Darkness. This might should have been the first posting but I had to get my personal discovery of Orville Peck out before I could wr...

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Po Murray @pomurray.bsky.social · 13d

@ericswalwell.bsky.social reminding us that Pete Hegseth & Trump have not met the highest “male standard”.

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BumblingBard42 @bumblingbard42.bsky.social · 11d

They want to eliminate queer people.
☠️ This is not a drill
Queer lives being seen causes cognitive dissonance with their base because they might start empathizing with us and stop living in fear, which makes them easy to manipulate.
WE KNOW THIS PATTERN!
WE MUST SPEAK OUT, TOGETHER & IN ONE VOICE🫶🏻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 12d

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Kash Patel fired an agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while appointed to a field office in California last year, according to three people familiar with the matter and a dismissal notice reviewed by MSNBC.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...

Kash Patel fires FBI agent trainee for displaying gay pride flag

The FBI employee was fired on the first day of the government shutdown as President Trump threatened more terminations.

www.msnbc.com

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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 9d

5 ICE mf'ers to throw him on the floor and jump on him, because HE wouldn't "step back".... FFS #StopTheMadness ‼️🤬🤬🤬

Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 10d

10/4/25😳East Garfield, IL🇺🇸🙏

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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 10d

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 8d

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

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Roxine King @roxineking.bsky.social · 7d

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7d

When people are hired, not for their honesty or competency, but for their ability to be snarling trolls on TV for the delight of their immature and unpleasant boss, you get an AG like Pamela Jo Bondi.

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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 7d

Madness.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Nov 24

Trump has tapped Project 2025 leader Russ Vought to lead the Office of Budget & Management. Last year, Vought said his nonprofit seeks a consensus that although we have “religious liberty,” a nation still “has to obey God” & “there is only one true God, Jesus Christ, our Lord.” 1/

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 6d

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 6d

He finally got the election-denying MAGA A.G. he always dreamed of. Bondi was openly partisan, scornful & highly combative, her non-answers dripping with disdain. Very telling when she was asked if she'd seen the photos of her boss "with half-naked young women." PATHETIC
#ProtectingHerPedophilePrez

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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 5d

This Portland Police officer is now my hero! 🔥👊🏼

#StopTheMadness

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5d

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

We take a look at ICE's skyrocketing expansion, the agency's failing standards, and where detention centers are planned for next.

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

www.motherjones.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

Post this everywhere‼️
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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 3d

Felon in chief thanking and his dictator friend Vlad for standing up for him regarding not winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

A dictator and a wannabe dictator talking about deserving the #NobelPeacePrize... 🤷🏼‍♀️

You can't make up this sh1t.

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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 3d

TYVM @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social 🦋
@tiny3876.bsky.social
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@aviatrixt.bsky.social
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#StrongerTogether #MeidasBoosts #resist 👊🏼

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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 3d

'Comedians react to Pam Bondi’s ‘cheat sheet’ during Senate hearing'

Arrogant, Incompetent, Unprofessional, Unprepared, Aggressive, Vulgar, Ridiculous, Lying, Corrupt ...

Do you know what these words have in common?

Pamela Jo Bondi

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Comedians react to Pam Bondi’s ‘cheat sheet’ during Senate hearing

YouTube video by CNN

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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 2d

TYVM @6cats4adomino.bsky.social 🐬
@vmarguerite18.bsky.social
@emerald-metaphor.bsky.social
@rocknb.bsky.social
@danugna.bsky.social
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#StrongerTogether #MeidasBoosts #resist 👊🏼

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 2d

Who was President that day, Pumpkin?????

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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 2d

🤬🤬🤬

#StopTheMadness

Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 2d

Truly disgusting

ICE detained an autistic 5 year old girl in Leominster, Mass

Using this child-a US citizen-as bait to lure her father-who has lived in the country for 20 years-out so they could arrest him

How do these people live with themselves

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AmrWut/

A Leominster family who has lived in the United States for more than 20 years said federal immigration agents held their 5-year-old daughter, who is a US-citizen and autistic, in custody outside their...

TikTok video by The Boston Globe

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Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 11h

Young GOP pups crow 'I love Hitler' in leaked chats, spewing gas chamber jests and slurs against Blacks as 'monkeys' while plotting psychological torture for rivals. #YoungRepublicans

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 11h

Half of America’s Voting Machines Now Owned by a MAGA Oligarch

They told us elections were rigged. Then they cloned stolen voting software. Then they bought the voting machines.
dissentinbloom.substack.com/p/half-of-am...