Barb MacDonald
@misssavoy.bsky.social
Proud to be a bleeding heart liberal.
Footie Fan, Movie Geek, Screaming Mom, Person with Cerebral Palsy.
I am also interested in accessibility and universal design. I like to cook and my cakes taste way better than they look.
Footie Fan, Movie Geek, Screaming Mom, Person with Cerebral Palsy.
I am also interested in accessibility and universal design. I like to cook and my cakes taste way better than they look.
New meds are causing the intense dreams. My favorite from last night was visiting a small town to the south of us for a parade and festival. They were all dressed in Halloween costumes. I was surprised but they said they were sick of Christmas and decided to bring Halloween back for a little.
December 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
New meds are causing the intense dreams. My favorite from last night was visiting a small town to the south of us for a parade and festival. They were all dressed in Halloween costumes. I was surprised but they said they were sick of Christmas and decided to bring Halloween back for a little.
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Ok this is genuinely funny
Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Ok this is genuinely funny
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Oh yes, we miss a the time when NYC elites could rape children.
Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/s...
Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/s...
Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Oh yes, we miss a the time when NYC elites could rape children.
Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/s...
Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/s...
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I’ve read a lot of takes on the shutdown cave, but this one is really important
What’s the difference between compromise and capitulation? Compromise trades concessions. Capitulation pays ransom to stop deliberate suffering, and teaches your opponent that coercion works. There are effective responses to coercive bargaining. What we saw was not one of them.
The Compassion Trap: How the Shutdown Weaponized Democratic Values Against Democracy Itself
When Opposition Parties Stop Fighting Because the Cruelty Becomes Unbearable. And Why They Shouldn't.
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I’ve read a lot of takes on the shutdown cave, but this one is really important
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
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Trump is spiraling so badly that he managed to completely botch an interview with…Laura Ingraham 😂
Read how it went off-the-rails and catch up on all the latest news in our latest bulletin: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...
Read how it went off-the-rails and catch up on all the latest news in our latest bulletin: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...
November 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Trump is spiraling so badly that he managed to completely botch an interview with…Laura Ingraham 😂
Read how it went off-the-rails and catch up on all the latest news in our latest bulletin: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...
Read how it went off-the-rails and catch up on all the latest news in our latest bulletin: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...
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Also, the HHS Secretary sold cocaine in college and was a heroin addict for 14 years so it is RICH whenever they go after people for old drug offenses.
Even if you don’t care about people who use drugs - you really should care about other people - they will still just lie that you are a person who uses drugs when they want other people not to care about you
After José's arrest sparked outrage in August, DHS attacked him in a press release, calling him a "criminal illegal alien, not a firefighter." DHS has cited a 12-year-old drug delivery charge while failing to acknowledge the charge was dismissed.
Full @us.theguardian.com interview and story here:
Full @us.theguardian.com interview and story here:
November 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Also, the HHS Secretary sold cocaine in college and was a heroin addict for 14 years so it is RICH whenever they go after people for old drug offenses.
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UPDATE — Here are the at least 11 congressional Democrats, 11 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 6 Democratic Senate candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 AM
UPDATE — Here are the at least 11 congressional Democrats, 11 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 6 Democratic Senate candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:
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#AdvanceBritannia by @alanallport.bsky.social is out today. A definitive account of the Second World War as it was lived, from the battlefields to the ration books.
'There isn't a better history of the Second World War than this' David Edgerton
profilebooks.com/work/advance...
'There isn't a better history of the Second World War than this' David Edgerton
profilebooks.com/work/advance...
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#AdvanceBritannia by @alanallport.bsky.social is out today. A definitive account of the Second World War as it was lived, from the battlefields to the ration books.
'There isn't a better history of the Second World War than this' David Edgerton
profilebooks.com/work/advance...
'There isn't a better history of the Second World War than this' David Edgerton
profilebooks.com/work/advance...
This is why I will never help Republicans.They were ok mocking the disabled. This is why I cheer every FAFO MAGA moment. I won’t donate blood, am not an organ donor anymore & I will only donate to Immigrant/Refugee & LGBTQ charities because I don’t want to risk accidentally helping a Trump voter.
the brutal ableism of Trumpism is an underrated part of its ideology by most pundits. Trump mocking a disabled journalist *invigorated* his voters rather than repelling them, because it made them feel that they were safely on the side of the bully, rather than the victim.
Again: what cruelty animates this action; even if it were legal, why would you do something this inhumane?
November 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This is why I will never help Republicans.They were ok mocking the disabled. This is why I cheer every FAFO MAGA moment. I won’t donate blood, am not an organ donor anymore & I will only donate to Immigrant/Refugee & LGBTQ charities because I don’t want to risk accidentally helping a Trump voter.
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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Exactly this. Especially this in the wake of Mamdani.
Any politician that pivots or pivoted to a campaign of fascism should get the ending to their political career they deserve
Any politician that pivots or pivoted to a campaign of fascism should get the ending to their political career they deserve
i will never vote for Gavin Newsom. i want every other politician to look at how badly Newsom destroyed his own political career by pivoting to fascism & see it as a clear warning that the dignity of marginalized people is not negotiable.
November 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Exactly this. Especially this in the wake of Mamdani.
Any politician that pivots or pivoted to a campaign of fascism should get the ending to their political career they deserve
Any politician that pivots or pivoted to a campaign of fascism should get the ending to their political career they deserve
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Scousers v Windsors: #AdvanceBritannia at #3 in hot new history releases on UK Amazon, just behind Macca.
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/new-relea...
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/new-relea...
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Scousers v Windsors: #AdvanceBritannia at #3 in hot new history releases on UK Amazon, just behind Macca.
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/new-relea...
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/new-relea...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social Medicare freeze beneficiary secretly donates $2.5 million to Trump ballroom popular.info/p/update-med...
UPDATE: Medicare freeze beneficiary secretly donates $2.5 million to Trump ballroom
Earlier this year, Popular Information broke the news that Extremity Care – a company that sells bandages to Medicare for thousands of dollars per square inch – donated $5 million to MAGA Inc., Presid...
popular.info
November 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social Medicare freeze beneficiary secretly donates $2.5 million to Trump ballroom popular.info/p/update-med...
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Essentially it is this, yes.
October 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Essentially it is this, yes.
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Max Hastings: “admirably provocative … there is no silly sensationalism in this book, merely sound storytelling and measured judgments.” First review of #AdvanceBritannia, available Thu 6 November.
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Max Hastings on how Britain didn’t win the war
Alan Allport, in Advance Britannia, shows that Churchill’s hopes of ending the war on British terms were finally dashed — in Italy and in the air — in 1944
www.thetimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Max Hastings: “admirably provocative … there is no silly sensationalism in this book, merely sound storytelling and measured judgments.” First review of #AdvanceBritannia, available Thu 6 November.
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
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There it is: $20 billion for Argentina at the same time they’re taking markets away from our farmers.
But no $ for health insurance for Americans?
But no $ for health insurance for Americans?
October 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
There it is: $20 billion for Argentina at the same time they’re taking markets away from our farmers.
But no $ for health insurance for Americans?
But no $ for health insurance for Americans?
Since when is torture and child abuse “Free Speech”?
Breaking News: The Supreme Court appears set to reject a Colorado law barring therapists from using sexual orientation or gender identity conversion therapy on minors.
Supreme Court Hearing on Colorado's Conversion Therapy Ban: Live Updates
Colorado and over 20 other states have banned the practice aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of young people.
nyti.ms
October 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Since when is torture and child abuse “Free Speech”?
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So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people?
Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!
A thread!
Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!
A thread!
October 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people?
Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!
A thread!
Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!
A thread!
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“There’s a baby!”
Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)
Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)
October 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
“There’s a baby!”
Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)
Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)
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If you allow a government to break the law because of an “emergency”, it will create an emergency to break the law.
October 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
If you allow a government to break the law because of an “emergency”, it will create an emergency to break the law.
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ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
October 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.