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White Rose Witching

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✨ Gay Hispanic hedge priest in MD 💀 Social justice necromancer 🏳️‍🌈 Working w/ Queer Ancestors ✊ LGBTQ+/disability activist 🌿 Bio-regional Druid

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · Feb 9

Pinning this here so new followers can learn who is behind this account.

I'm Ron (he/him),a gay Cuban-American hedge priest and ordained pagan clergy. My focus is on queer-affirming spirituality and spiritual activism. My practice is a blend of folk Catholicism, Druidry, and witchcraft.
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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 13h

"[...] and weaponize the coercive powers of the state in order to use the vast machinery that is the U.S. government to impose a reactionary order on American society.""
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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 13h

"[...]and curtailing the parts that he thinks are aiding “the Left” and its “subversive” aims. That’s what he means when he is talking about “dismantling the administrative state” – while simultaneously attempting to mobilize[...]"
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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 13h

"His end goal is not, as The Daily claims, to “shrink the federal government”, he is not merely “deeply driven by fiscal austerity and cutting budgets.” He is less concerned about the actual size of government and more about cutting[...]"
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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 13h

""A vast conspiracy. Enemies everywhere. Un-American forces have overtaken “every last institution” and especially the state. Radical countermeasures are urgently needed. That is also the starting point for everything Vought does."
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We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 13h

"In many cases, those folding have had ample resources to resist Trump’s shakedowns but haven’t been brave enough to do so. They are, in a word, chickenshit.

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When you’re chickenshit, you capitulate to avoid the mere possibility of discomfort, let alone something resembling real risk."

Lower Than Cowards

The surrender of America’s elites

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 13h

"The actual threat to people in cities like Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago comes from the Trump administration, as it attempts to turn the military and federal law enforcement into the president’s personal enforcers."

Trump Is Waging War on an American City

The real threat to people in Chicago (and Los Angeles and Portland) is our maniacal president.

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 13h

"The department’s actions and policies reflect a disdain for public schools and a desire to dismantle that system in favor of a range of other options — private, Christian and virtual schools or homeschooling."

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 13h

One of the things I am committing the rest of my time on this earthly realm to is ensuring that Roberts and the Court he presides over is rightfully remembered as one of the darkest stains on American history.

Is John Roberts the Worst Chief Justice in History? | First Draft with Susan Demas & Author Lisa Graves

John Roberts’ carefully crafted “umpire” persona has masked a radical remaking of American democracy.

www.lincolnsquare.media

White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 14h

"[T]he three underlying trends I’ve just outlined — the consolidation of media into a handful of outlets, the increasing control of the media by the ultra-rich, and the growing primacy of shareholder interests — have made it far easier for Trump and his lackeys to do their dirty work."

Why has the media become so vulnerable to Trump, and what can we do about it?

Even after Disney's reversal on Jimmy Kimmel, the vulnerability remains — unless we change the rules.

robertreich.substack.com

White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 14h

"There is no insurrection.

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The only issue is whether the Supreme Court will allow the president to say that there is an insurrection, and then use his own patently false proclamation to justify flooding American cities with soldiers to “fight crime.”"

Trump is the insurrection

And the Supreme Court's conservatives are his shock troops.

www.publicnotice.co

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 14h

On of my state reps shared this FAQ to help folks impacted by the shut down.

Impact of a Government Shutdown

I know this government shutdown brings uncertainty for all of us. Whether you're a federal employee, a member of our military, or someone who relies on critical programs to help put food on the table or keep a roof over your family's head, a government shutdown is never easy.

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 14h

Every Democrat nominee for any federal position needs to be going hard on SCOTUS reform.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 14h

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 14h

"This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021.

The man who attempted a violent coup—who fomented an actual insurrection—will invent a fantasy insurrection to justify overturning the rule of law and deploying the U.S. military against civilians."

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 1d

Historians studying this period will have nothing nice to say about the media for their role in sanewashing Trump.

Forward Blue @forwardblue.bsky.social · 1d

The media will excuse this by saying it’s just “Trump being Trump.”

Imagine if Biden called for the arrest of Greg Abbott…

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Profs and Pints @profsandpints.bsky.social · 8d

October 22nd in Baltimore! Details and tickets at www.ticketleap.events/tickets/prof... .

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 1d

Government shutdowns come with real consequences for Americans:

-Limited air traffic safety oversight
-Delayed Social Security applications
-Federal workers aren't paid
-SNAP funding could run out & more.

Meanwhile, Trump continues construction of the White House ballroom...

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats should be turning Bondi's responses into commercials and digital ads with text/VO making it clear she is clearly behaving as Trump's personal lawyer instead of the AG.

Hell, buy an ad during the Super Bowl.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 2d

I guess this was just a suggestion

Article I
Section 1

All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

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Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 2d

youtube.com/shorts/t60A5... #ProudBlue. MAGA in full meltdown mode over first verse of a Zach Bryan song. Bryan takes aim at ICE who“comes busting down your door”and “kids scared all alone”. He speaks the truth about the “Fading of the Red White and Blue”. Is this a paradigm shift in country music?

Zach Bryan - Bad News [Unreleased] #ZachBryan

YouTube video by Zach Bryan Archive

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 2d

We call them the water drugs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We call them the water drugs. The drugs that come in through water. They're not coming. There are no boats anymore. Frankly, there are no fishing boats. There are no boats out there period, if you want to know the truth. Does anybody go fishing anymore?"

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 2d

*stares at everyone in Trump's Cabinet*

Yeah. Merit.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d

Trump: Merit. Everything now in this country is merit-based. I didn't think I'd ever see it again

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 2d

"Because the recent attacks on Venezuelan vessels and their crews were unauthorized by U.S. law and in violation of binding international law, they were illegal summary executions – murders."

Unlawful Attacks on Venezuelan Vessels | New York City Bar Association

Congress must act promptly, as pending legislation proposes, to make clear to the President and the nation that the President’s threat of similar attacks on Venezuelan vessels (and on Venezuela itself...

www.nycbar.org

White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 2d

"Republicans have called for cuts to the government for decades using rhetoric that suggested such cuts would only affect racial minorities and women. Those who voted for such cuts assumed they would not be affected by any of the proposed cuts. Now they are discovering otherwise."

October 6, 2025

If White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is at the head of the administration’s deployment of federal agents against undocumented immigrants, it appears that Office of Management and Budget...

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