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DC Cassandra

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I warned you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Cursed to (be a) Know-It-All. DMV latchkey kid not obeying in advance. Irritated optimist against fascism.Poor mans wonk. F bombs galore. RSkeets + rumination Image: #FreeDC banner #USDemocracy #GenX #RiotGrrrl #Momsky #ADHD ❌👑

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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · Jun 16

Love me love my typos 🤷🏻‍♀️

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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 40m

OMGF, that guy? That song? Is that the "At least I know I'm free" song? I thought that was a different guy? Who can tell them apart honestly.

DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 1h

Sorry, who? I legit have no idea who Lee Greenwood is.

Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 2h

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 1h

Nothing and fuck these fascists. Can you imagine the jail solidarity protests? They think they can mess with #Chicago but I think the 4M ppl there and millions more across #IL will get up and get out there if this buffoon tries to disenfranchise them bc make no mistake, that’s what this is.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 1h

As a parent, why does it have to be high income childless people? I just want to tax the hell out of all billionaires, parents included, until there aren’t any anymore b/c one person having that much money is obscene on principle in a society where people die in the streets of illness and exposure.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2h

My most controversial take on this is probably that while I think reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct, I don’t really have any problem with additional taxes on (high income) childless people. Someone gotta pay into the pensions!

DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 1h

agree plus just generally I have zero patience for McCarthyite guilt by association bullshit, we have enough of that going on rn. I have extended familiy who voted MAGA, does that make me somehow responsible for their actions? Nope.

DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 1h

I wish they’d ask him “Do you think the masked men with guns who detained American citizens in Chicago, including separating children from their parents, in the dead of the night without clothing, food or water for hours should be arrested? or is that fine by you and your caucus? "

DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 2h

First one of the more MSM white guys I mean, to be clear :-). And honestly perhaps ONLY, though others have obviously interviewed survivors.

DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 2h

Was thinking about this last night when he took the time to play @aoc.bsky.social full social post on laughing at small men (who may, in fact be tall or short. My motto is ShortKings4Life, except if they are fascist pricks like Miller. Exceptions just prove the rule guys, don’t get mad 😘). A mensch

DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 2h

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com remains my nerdy celebrity crush/model for straight old white guys who know how to call out male insecurity bs + platform women’s voices. I will never forget that he was the first one to just stop and READ the testimony of the #Epstein survivors - to make it about them.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

Free Link

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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 2h

*for nerds lol

DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 2h

May we be America’s Pussy Riot!

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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 2h

a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland is dancing

Alt: a cartoon of alice from the original Disney cartoon film of alice in wonderland, wearing her signature blueish dress and white pinafore doing a quick and very proper small curtsey.

media.tenor.com

DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 2h

Mark your calendars 🍿. I think Comey is gonna clobber them in court b/c whatever else you can say about him (and there are many, many things), he’s like a black belt of competence compared to these clowns.

Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 3h

CNN: The judge presiding over the prosecution of Jim Comey has agreed to Comey’s request to schedule a near term trial. Comey asked for a Jan 12 trial date. The judge went with Jan 5. Comey is counting on the gov’t not being ready for trial. A good bet.

DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 2h

These poor ppl have already suffered brutal state repression and violence against ethnic/religious minorities, including the genocide of the Rohingya muslim community. Ethno-nationalist religious fundamentalists are violent by nature and design, whether Christian, Jewish, Islamic or Buddhist.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 20h

When US citizen Leo Garcia Venegas tried to prove his identity by showing federal agents his REAL ID, they dismissed it as a fake and kept him detained, releasing him only after they bothered to run his Social Security number.

Just a few weeks later, they detained him again:

Mass Deportation Is A Threat To Us All

Aided by the Supreme Court and the insidious "Kavanaugh stop," the administration's chaotic mass deportation operations are sweeping up Americans – including children and U.S. military veterans.

americasvoicecnn.substack.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 5h

10 days until the biggest peaceful protests in modern American history. A No Kings Day event is likely happening near you wherever you are. Please join us to show we won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 4h

I can’t unsee it

DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 4h

the GOP have rewarded themselves for destroying democracy with a paid sabbatical.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h

So the people causing the shutdown are getting paid. The people keeping the country running don’t.

And Speaker Mike Johnson won’t let the House come back to work. So basically they’re on a paid vacation while Americans miss paychecks.

Did I get that right?

DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 4h

The levels…

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 4h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 4h

Did you all know it’s Banned Book Week? As in buy them and read them and set up free banner book little libraries around your schools week! Actions etc here:

bannedbooksweek.org

Banned Books Week | October 5-11, 2025

bannedbooksweek.org

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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 4h

@the17thqueen.bsky.social I meant our band obviously. 🫶

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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 4h

Idk what this is but I support dad groups generally just on principle.

DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 4h

How did everything I love manage to fit into one perfect gif? 🤗🤣

DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 4h

I want “Fuck you, make us!” But that’s just a personal preference.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4h

I kinda want all the Dems to start chanting “no fucking way!” at Repubs every chance they get.