Michele Riv formerly mama_pause 🧵& dead bird app
@rivet-em.bsky.social
I’m a mom, social worker /psychoanalyst, aspiring writer, traveler. Kamala, then Warren Democrat in 2020. Dead bird app refugee. Salty language sometimes. Fk the patriarchy. Ted Lasso is my escape. Also on threads as mama_pause.
No DMs.
No DMs.
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January 25, 2026 at 6:26 AM
If you’re able, please support this verified GoFundMe for Alex Pretti’s family. And if you’re not in a position to donate, sharing it far and wide matters just as much. It’s at $300K and counting.
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Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."
January 25, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
We are begging you.
Show outrage that meets this moment.
Call out Republicans for having the power, but are DOING NOTHING.
Stop calling them “colleagues” or “friends.”
They are enablers in murder, corruption and terror.
This is a “have you no decency?” moment.
We are begging you.
Show outrage that meets this moment.
Call out Republicans for having the power, but are DOING NOTHING.
Stop calling them “colleagues” or “friends.”
They are enablers in murder, corruption and terror.
This is a “have you no decency?” moment.
January 25, 2026 at 1:07 PM
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
We are begging you.
Show outrage that meets this moment.
Call out Republicans for having the power, but are DOING NOTHING.
Stop calling them “colleagues” or “friends.”
They are enablers in murder, corruption and terror.
This is a “have you no decency?” moment.
We are begging you.
Show outrage that meets this moment.
Call out Republicans for having the power, but are DOING NOTHING.
Stop calling them “colleagues” or “friends.”
They are enablers in murder, corruption and terror.
This is a “have you no decency?” moment.
The first reporter to stand up and say “What the fuck is wrong with you?” gets a Pulitzer Prize.
January 20, 2026 at 4:23 AM
The first reporter to stand up and say “What the fuck is wrong with you?” gets a Pulitzer Prize.
On one of my favorite podcasts, @FastPolitics, they reported that Trump was asked when Americans were going to get their $2000 tariffs check that he promised.
His answer: “When did I say that?”
To say the man has lost a few steps is an understatement.
Still waiting for my $5000 DOGE check.
His answer: “When did I say that?”
To say the man has lost a few steps is an understatement.
Still waiting for my $5000 DOGE check.
January 14, 2026 at 1:36 PM
On one of my favorite podcasts, @FastPolitics, they reported that Trump was asked when Americans were going to get their $2000 tariffs check that he promised.
His answer: “When did I say that?”
To say the man has lost a few steps is an understatement.
Still waiting for my $5000 DOGE check.
His answer: “When did I say that?”
To say the man has lost a few steps is an understatement.
Still waiting for my $5000 DOGE check.
This guy is a legend. I will donate.
If he gets canned he will make many years worth of salary on a Go Fund Me before he wins his grievance through the union.
January 14, 2026 at 4:25 AM
This guy is a legend. I will donate.
Still not presidential.
January 14, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Still not presidential.
Wasn’t this prosecuted under the Biden DOJ in 2022? Do you care?
January 13, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Wasn’t this prosecuted under the Biden DOJ in 2022? Do you care?
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Stephen Miller’s cousin 👇🏽
January 9, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Stephen Miller’s cousin 👇🏽
I’ve been thinking about how only 1 of the January 6 rioters who literally beat, tased and traumatized police for THREE HOURS got shot and killed.
Trump Republicans cast Ashli Babbitt as a “patriot,” Renee Good, who tried to drive away, as a “domestic terrorist.”
Trump Republicans cast Ashli Babbitt as a “patriot,” Renee Good, who tried to drive away, as a “domestic terrorist.”
January 9, 2026 at 12:53 PM
I’ve been thinking about how only 1 of the January 6 rioters who literally beat, tased and traumatized police for THREE HOURS got shot and killed.
Trump Republicans cast Ashli Babbitt as a “patriot,” Renee Good, who tried to drive away, as a “domestic terrorist.”
Trump Republicans cast Ashli Babbitt as a “patriot,” Renee Good, who tried to drive away, as a “domestic terrorist.”
I’ve really come around to thinking that primaries that challenge incumbents or presumed front runners are a good thing for democracy.
Maybe if more candidates had challenged Biden and held a 2024 primary earlier, we would’ve been much better off.
Let the best candidate win.
Maybe if more candidates had challenged Biden and held a 2024 primary earlier, we would’ve been much better off.
Let the best candidate win.
December 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I’ve really come around to thinking that primaries that challenge incumbents or presumed front runners are a good thing for democracy.
Maybe if more candidates had challenged Biden and held a 2024 primary earlier, we would’ve been much better off.
Let the best candidate win.
Maybe if more candidates had challenged Biden and held a 2024 primary earlier, we would’ve been much better off.
Let the best candidate win.
“Your daughter doesn’t need 37 dolls.”

—Trump in PA rally yesterday

—Trump in PA rally yesterday
December 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
“Your daughter doesn’t need 37 dolls.”

—Trump in PA rally yesterday

—Trump in PA rally yesterday
@housedemocrats @senatedems @repjeffries @senschumer
Forget fantasies of bipartisanship.
Democrats need to be messaging that Republican majorities in the house & Senate are complicit in ALL of this.
They voted to confirm Hegseth. Kennedy. Noem.
They have abdicated checks and balances.
Forget fantasies of bipartisanship.
Democrats need to be messaging that Republican majorities in the house & Senate are complicit in ALL of this.
They voted to confirm Hegseth. Kennedy. Noem.
They have abdicated checks and balances.
December 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
@housedemocrats @senatedems @repjeffries @senschumer
Forget fantasies of bipartisanship.
Democrats need to be messaging that Republican majorities in the house & Senate are complicit in ALL of this.
They voted to confirm Hegseth. Kennedy. Noem.
They have abdicated checks and balances.
Forget fantasies of bipartisanship.
Democrats need to be messaging that Republican majorities in the house & Senate are complicit in ALL of this.
They voted to confirm Hegseth. Kennedy. Noem.
They have abdicated checks and balances.
MLK’s words could not be truer today as we watch 8 Senators voting to give Republicans exactly what they want with a Susan Collins level of denial that they are going to get some sort of bipartisan deal later.
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
MLK’s words could not be truer today as we watch 8 Senators voting to give Republicans exactly what they want with a Susan Collins level of denial that they are going to get some sort of bipartisan deal later.
It just occurred to me that in two days we’re going to get another hour of 2025.
F U C K.
F U C K.
October 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
It just occurred to me that in two days we’re going to get another hour of 2025.
F U C K.
F U C K.
Not to mention these boats are so far from the US soil, they could easily be intercepted by the Coast Guard to investigate. There was no need to murder them, even if they were drug traffickers. And how many drugs can you carry on a fishing boat?
October 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Not to mention these boats are so far from the US soil, they could easily be intercepted by the Coast Guard to investigate. There was no need to murder them, even if they were drug traffickers. And how many drugs can you carry on a fishing boat?
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a chainsaw. Trump is using a wrecking ball.
That is not his house. That is OUR house.
Talked every day about what Democrats will do to REBUILD the country.
Ask for our vote.
This one hurts the soul.
/end
That is not his house. That is OUR house.
Talked every day about what Democrats will do to REBUILD the country.
Ask for our vote.
This one hurts the soul.
/end
October 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
a chainsaw. Trump is using a wrecking ball.
That is not his house. That is OUR house.
Talked every day about what Democrats will do to REBUILD the country.
Ask for our vote.
This one hurts the soul.
/end
That is not his house. That is OUR house.
Talked every day about what Democrats will do to REBUILD the country.
Ask for our vote.
This one hurts the soul.
/end
@repjeffries @senschumer @aoc @repraskin @repjasmine @reprobertgarcia
Strategy/branding idea:
Set up microphones in view of the demolition of the East Wing. Make sure Americans see that image every day.
Politics is influenced by images now over policy.
It is the perfect metaphor. Elon used ⤵️
Strategy/branding idea:
Set up microphones in view of the demolition of the East Wing. Make sure Americans see that image every day.
Politics is influenced by images now over policy.
It is the perfect metaphor. Elon used ⤵️
October 21, 2025 at 10:29 AM
@repjeffries @senschumer @aoc @repraskin @repjasmine @reprobertgarcia
Strategy/branding idea:
Set up microphones in view of the demolition of the East Wing. Make sure Americans see that image every day.
Politics is influenced by images now over policy.
It is the perfect metaphor. Elon used ⤵️
Strategy/branding idea:
Set up microphones in view of the demolition of the East Wing. Make sure Americans see that image every day.
Politics is influenced by images now over policy.
It is the perfect metaphor. Elon used ⤵️
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Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."
October 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."
😂
PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.
October 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
😂
I just listened to stats from Trump’s polling firm that said that if they take away the ACA subsidies, Republicans are -15%. If they keep the subsidies, they are +4%.
My premiums would go up to probably about $1500 a month.
But, on a purely political level, we should let them hang themselves.
My premiums would go up to probably about $1500 a month.
But, on a purely political level, we should let them hang themselves.
September 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I just listened to stats from Trump’s polling firm that said that if they take away the ACA subsidies, Republicans are -15%. If they keep the subsidies, they are +4%.
My premiums would go up to probably about $1500 a month.
But, on a purely political level, we should let them hang themselves.
My premiums would go up to probably about $1500 a month.
But, on a purely political level, we should let them hang themselves.
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The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.
September 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.
Congratulations, @repjeffries and @senschumer.
You didn’t listen to YOUR base and tried to negotiate with a terrorist.
You allowed him to humiliate and diminish you.
Turn over the reins to AOC and Chris Murphy.
You didn’t listen to YOUR base and tried to negotiate with a terrorist.
You allowed him to humiliate and diminish you.
Turn over the reins to AOC and Chris Murphy.
September 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Congratulations, @repjeffries and @senschumer.
You didn’t listen to YOUR base and tried to negotiate with a terrorist.
You allowed him to humiliate and diminish you.
Turn over the reins to AOC and Chris Murphy.
You didn’t listen to YOUR base and tried to negotiate with a terrorist.
You allowed him to humiliate and diminish you.
Turn over the reins to AOC and Chris Murphy.