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This Woman Votes

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Mother, grandmother, motorcyclist, traveler, bread baker, photographer, AuDHD, menopausal rage, feminist, obsessed with Trust.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 2d

The Algorithm Will See You Now: How AI Is Trained to Dismiss Women -- Women are more likely to be misdiagnosed. More likely to be prescribed psychiatric drugs for physical symptoms. More likely to wait longer for pain relief. Less likely to be believed.

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The Algorithm Will See You Now: How AI Is Trained to Dismiss Women

When AI inherits medicine’s blind spots, women’s health becomes data collateral, dismissed, delayed, and “managed well” into systemic invisibility.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 2d

The Frequency of Freedom: The Revolution of Depth
Feminine power doesn’t extend itself outward; it deepens inward until others feel it too.

Patriarchal power measures itself in distance; how far it can project force, influence, or visibility.
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The Frequency of Freedom: The Revolution of Depth

Feminine freedom doesn’t expand; it deepens. Resonance replaces control, coherence replaces fear. The revolution of depth hums beneath everything.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 13d

Care is not charity; it’s infrastructure. The feminine economy measures coherence, not profit, the physics of holding as the operating system of civilization.

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Care Economies as Infrastructure: The Operating System of Civilization

Care is not charity; it’s infrastructure. The feminine economy measures coherence, not profit — the physics of holding as the operating system of civilization.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 13d

Fanfic, a writing prompt, a real life prediction‽‽ I leave it for you to decide

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From Republic to Relic: The Prophecy of America’s Slow Death

America won’t collapse in war but dissolve by paperwork, prayer, and shrugs. The 2051 “prophecy” doesn't feel like fiction so much as our trajectory, already unfolding.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 14d

This is not romanticization. It’s an archaeological fact obscured by centuries of Hero’s Journey propaganda. The first tools were baskets, slings, nets, and pouches, technologies of relation rather than domination. They made community possible.

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The Feminine Principle as Operating System: What We Build When We Stop Imitating Men

The feminine is not fragile — it’s infrastructural. When we stop imitating men, we remember that power’s highest form is care that coheres, not control that conquers.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 14d

Goodbye sovereignty...

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The Price of Partnership: How America Learned to Lease Its Sovereignty

Qatar’s new air facility in Idaho isn’t “interoperability,” it’s the sale of American sovereignty, one square foot at a time.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 14d

Fascism collapses into certainty: all heat, no heart, all blade, no basket. It promises to eliminate ambiguity by eliminating the ambiguous. It offers the seductive clarity of categories: pure/impure, strong/weak, us/them. But certainty is not strength.

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The Physics of Holding: Dignity as Infrastructure

The opposite of fascism isn’t liberalism, it’s holding. Dignity, care, and coherence are not emotions but engineering. Love is a load-bearing structure.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 14d

Profiles in Progress: Ghazala Hashmi

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Profiles in Progress: Ghazala Hashmi (Lt. Governor) Virginia

State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi aims to be Virginia’s first Muslim Lt. Governor, delivering tie-breaking power and bold leadership on education, health, and rights.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 14d

Clock the pattern...

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Epistemic War Report: California Politics – Temperament Trap in Katie Porter Coverage

Field-grade SECSV analysis that tracks how meaning was manufactured, laundered, and enforced, with countermeasures assigned and ready to deploy.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 17d

100% It's going to take time and distance, before I can even consider this entire situation with ANY equanimity-and SOME will never be forgotten let alone forgiven.

Arrogant Esquire @arrogantade.blacksky.app · 17d

It’s going to be a long period of time before I no longer harbor animosity for you dumb motherfuckers who allowed this to happen.

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 19d

Installing a Trust Operating System for American Policing: Unions, Leadership, and the End of Blue-by-Default
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Installing a Trust Operating System for American Policing: Unions, Leadership, and the End of Blue-by-Default

Rebuild policing as a trust product. Install a Trust OS, rewrite union rules for safe value, and put evidence on cadence. No artifact, no action. Sunlight or nothing.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 23d

This is what it really means - Welcome to saturation.

#5thGenWarfare #EpistemicWar #FuckDonaldTrump #FuckTrump

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EWR—Part 2: Saturation. Flood The Zone, Sow Confusion.

Saturation is pressure, not proof. Learn to see burst windows, copy-paste campaigns, and turn down the volume without tuning out reality.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 24d

EWR—Part 1: Welcome To The Battlespace. Why Your Feeds Feel Hostile. This is not a culture war sermon. This is not a scold. This is not a permission slip to call everyone a bot. The point is to lower your heart rate while raising your standards.

#5thGenWarfare

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EWR — Part 1: Welcome To The Battlespace. Why Your Feeds Feel Hostile.

Your attention is a supply line. Meet SECSV, the playbook behind the chaos, and learn a calm way to map, measure, and defend what you value.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 25d

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 26d

Goddammit Ezra: You are good at scaffolding conversations. Great. Build a scaffold around the truth, not around your comfort. When a Black writer tells you love can get you shot, do not reach for a scented generality.

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Ezra sold ambiance where Coates named harm. That is not balance. It is a polite refusal of Black experience dressed as moderation. Hold the line. Not the vibe.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 26d

Why NSPM-7 Is a Blueprint for Weaponized Governance
If your government can label librarians and legal observers a “network,” your bank becomes the censor, and your spreadsheet becomes probable cause. That is not security. That is TYRANNY.

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Why NSPM-7 Is a Blueprint for Weaponized Governance

NSPM-7 turns post-9/11 tools on domestic dissent. It targets networks, donors, and NGOs via JTTFs, Treasury, and IRS. Prepare governance receipts, get legal counsel, and fight.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 26d

Thank you!!

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 26d

Goddammit Ezra: You are good at scaffolding conversations. Great. Build a scaffold around the truth, not around your comfort. When a Black writer tells you love can get you shot, do not reach for a scented generality.

@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social

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Ezra sold ambiance where Coates named harm. That is not balance. It is a polite refusal of Black experience dressed as moderation. Hold the line. Not the vibe.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 26d

What I hear him saying is FUCK Americans and their needy needs... excellent Christian values, Mike.

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Mike Johnson: "The WIC program, the nutrition program -- women, infants, and children -- that program won't be funded. FEMA won't be funded."

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 26d

The Dashboard Prison: How Metrics Became Our Reality
The dashboard is not the world. It is a fence. Tear it down, count what matters, and make the map answer to the territory.

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The Dashboard Prison: How Metrics Became Our Reality

The dashboard is not the world. It is a fence. Tear it down, count what matters, and make the map answer to the territory.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 26d

The Trust Envelope And The Return Of Legitimacy
Legitimacy is built, not begged. Dashboards can track it. Only duty can hold it.

#TrustEnvelope #Legitimacy #ALSM #DutyOfCare #Boundaries #CivicContract #Stakeholders #TVM #Leadership #DesignForTrust

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The Trust Envelope And The Return Of Legitimacy

Legitimacy is built, not begged. The Trust Envelope lights five invariants and ALSM checks the signal. Dashboards can track it. Only duty can hold it.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 26d

Profiles in Progress - Submit your candidates today!! I am compiling a complete list. If you have a candidate that you like, please drop their name in the comments, and I will add them to the list.

#profilesinprogress #thiswomanvotes #mandateforprogress

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Profiles in Progress

Launching Profiles in Progress, a receipts-first series on declared progressives who can govern. Submit candidates, fact-check me, and then take one concrete action.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 26d

Profile in Progress: Zohran Mamdani,

I am doing profiles of each candidate - please submit your recommendations.

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Profile in Progress: Zohran Mamdani,

Movement left meets municipal math: Mamdani leads by about 20, offering free buses, rent relief, and climate enforcement with receipts and a field army to match.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 26d

The epistemic enclosure didn’t build itself, and it won’t dismantle itself through corporate goodwill or regulatory enlightenment. It survives on polite audiences and quarterly applause while real costs bleed offstage.

#fucktrump #fightfacism #comeatmebro

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Break The Fence: A Reader’s Playbook To End The Enclosure

Your lever is procurement, policy, and proof. Workers, buyers, reporters, regulators, investors. Pull together, bind money to duty, and the fence breaks.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 26d

I know I said I was going to file a “War Report” this weekend, but I changed my mind. Here’s the real dispatch from the so-called war zone: I fell in love.

#portland #pdx #americanwarzone #fucktrump

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A Love Report from Portland: Against the War Zone Lie

Portland isn’t a war zone. It’s a city that chooses people over theater, building exits from suffering with receipts, bridges, and relentless, ordinary kindness.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · Sep 24

Poverty and homelessness are morally neutral. Survival is a moral imperative. Anyone selling you the bootstrap gospel while people die from exposure is peddling cruelty wrapped in a patriotic gift bag.

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Housing is Cheaper Than Cruelty: An American Reckoning

I “camped” by choice. They “camp” to survive. Homelessness is math, not morals. Build housing, fund care, stop the theatrical crackdowns. Receipts included.

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