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Mandy Keifetz

@besecretandexult.bsky.social

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Inky, impatient, and left of you. I write books which can be purchased or borrowed from libraries. If you'd care to buy one for your weirdest friend, I’d appreciate it.

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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · May 16

Still a bit swollen because I just had it done. Please make note of font in case they photoshop “antifa” on it in comic sans or whatever

Fresh knuckle tattoo in a small middle aged fist reading “due process” in an old skool font

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h

Credit where credit is due. The Democrats' message that the GOP shut down the government because they want to throw millions of people off healthcare has broken through. Two of my cousins who are NOT AT ALL tuned into national politics told me that this is why the government is shut down.

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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 56m

you rock

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 3h

Read!!!

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control.

I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:

Truth, morality and independence in journalism under the second Trump regime

My full remarks to students and faculty at Grennell College.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h

Exhibit #1 million that you can just DO THINGS. These folks came up with an idea and have now implemented it. We can all do something where we are. I just donated to their efforts.

Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social · Sep 6

We’ve officially launched! Lots of ways to support this new initiative that supports street vendors from 🧊 we keep us safe!

Interest form and flyer below! #BikeChi

forms.gle/dY931Sxzs6V9...

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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 1h

This suuuucks. But know what doesn't suck? Dancing on an overpass with a child's brightly colored umbrella. Checking on your neighbors. Remembering that you don't want a king and getting in the street to say so. www.nokings.org

"NO Kings 10/18" sign, white poly tarp over black weed cloth; over the entrance to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, Brooklynside

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 15h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 12h

Kavanaugh stop

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 14h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 18h

is this press pool so neutered that no one is going to ask any of these people a normal question

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Jane Feldman @jtfdenver.bsky.social · 18h

Adelita Grijalva should fly in with her family and demand to see the Speaker.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 16h

POTUS is detached from reality and democracy.

Constitutional failure.

SCOTUS, The House, The Senate and the Fourth Estate.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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🎃 Patricia L. Maples 🎃 @birdseyemaples.bsky.social · 17h

Just the dumbest MFers on the planet.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 18h

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 16h

Yay! I was that masked man! Thank you for amplifying!

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 20h

Imagine the sadism necessary to be an armed federal agent, under no threat whatsoever, willing to shoot a priest in the head.

ICE is “a portrait of an authoritarian secret police that seems set to model itself on history’s worst fascist enforcers.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 1d

As alarmed as people may be, they aren't alarmed enough. Trump just escalated this crisis from a fight between the federal government and a state, to a situation where one state is deploying armed forces to impose its will on another state. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

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

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 22h

Despite getting whatever anti-trans narrative they wanted out of the Charlie Kirk shooting, the American right is now blaming the Jews instead, because content must be created. It is almost like the "first they came for" thing is not hypothetical!

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 22h

It's the golden rule of grievance politics: you will never be happy. You are a permanent captive to the infinity goalpost.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21h

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 1d

I am old lady and I have not led a sheltered life, yet it astounds me every day anew how many hateful dicks there are. I seem to be unable to take this fact in on a really profound level. Is that a thing? Can you be hardwired to be unable to view the world through its facts, darkly?

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder if history has any lessons about what happens when large concentrations of armed soldiery stop getting paid.

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

Okay so you have the National Guard deployed to several American cities and plan on sending them to more, so is the plan to actually not pay these people and just find out what happens?

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d

US House Speaker Johnson: Some legal analysts don't believe in shutdown backpay.

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 1d

lmao i'd love to see the face of every ICE goon currently working for free when they find out the government doesn't even intend to pay them at all once the shutdown is over

i don't kinkshame as a general rule but i suspect they're not into being findommed by uncle sam

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

I’m. So. Tired.

I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 2d

Remember this: Try

Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2d

I regret to inform you that Nemik's manifesto is the new Tom Holland “Umbrella.” You have to repost every time. It’s just where we are. #ihavefriendseverywhere

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Andor | Karis Nemik’s Manifesto | Disney+

YouTube video by Star Wars

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