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Mistress Matisse

@mistressmatisse.bsky.social

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Perverse prolific profane political pansexual polyamorous dominatrix and writer, Seattle. Sex work is work. Queer. Cannabis. Vaxxed. Gen X, she/her. Not here to “build my brand”

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · Feb 21

Hello Bluesky

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 5h

Oh it’s going to be a national day of mourning

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 6h

Oh you can do quite a bit with just those two things

Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 7h

I know this feeling

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 15h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Chipmunk Whisperer 🌴🥥🏝️ @chipmunkwhisperer.bsky.social · 1d

Pastor David Black, First Presbyterian Church, being pepper-sprayed outside ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois.

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 9h

I kinda love this

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 11h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 10h

An undeclared civil war

Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 10h

💛💛💛 God save Dolly 💛💛💛

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 11h

DON’T SCARE US LIKE THIS, FREIDA www.wsmv.com/2025/10/08/i...

‘I didn’t mean to scare anyone’: Dolly Parton’s sister says after asking for prayers

Dolly postponed her first Las Vegas residency in more than 30 years late last month, saying she was dealing with health challenges.

www.wsmv.com

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DivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Newly obtained bodycam footage from the May 24 bust-up in Cal Anderson shows a Seattle police sergeant beating a protester on the ground

Apparently, the sergeant also fabricated probable cause for the arrest.

Read & subscribe: www.divestspd.com/p/new-may-24...

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 18h

Rep. Josh Schriver, the Republican currently pushing to ban porn in Michigan, used his email to register for account on the adult site Fling, the “world’s best casual personals for adult dating, sex, and swingers.”

Mr. "The Mouth and Anus Are Not Sex Organs" may have some explaining to do.

Michigan Republican pushing pornography ban linked to porn site, records show - Detroit Metro Times

A Republican state lawmaker leading a campaign to ban pornography in Michigan appears to have had an account on a pornographic hook-up website that promised users they could “find sex” and “get laid t...

www.metrotimes.com

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 17h

Supreme Court on banning gender-affirming care for trans youth: Sure, that's fine, no constitutional violation.

Supreme Court on banning so-called conversion therapy for gay youth: No, can't have that, grave constitutional violation.

Here, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets to the bottom of it:

Excerpt of Supreme Court transcript in Chiles v. Salazar:

JUSTICE JACKSON: No, but here's what
I mean, right? In Skrmetti, we had a state
that wanted to prohibit certain medical
treatment, gender-affirming care, being given
to minors in the form of medication.
And we said that was okay. And I
understand there are particulars with respect
to how the -- the arguments, the constitutional
arguments, worked, but the state can prohibit
that.

Here, we have a state that wants to
prohibit gender-related medical treatment in
the form of talk therapy, but we now have the
First Amendment that is inhibiting the state's
ability to do that.

And I'm just, from a very, very broad
perspective, concerned about making sure that
we have equivalence with respect to these
things.

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 17h

Oh Tuberville is an honest idiot

Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, didn’t he go to school at Oxford or something? so his whole country boy persona is bs

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 20h

Foghorn Leghorn here ain’t quite as stupid as he tries to seem. He sees which way the wind is blowing

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 23h

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 23h

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 1d

Right? This is a tragedy waiting to happen

Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, I try to weigh in where I have some expertise

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 1d

It’s nice to know that Washington state has at least done something about this

Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 1d

These are just the facts

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yep definitely another issue

Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 1d

(“She’s not TECHNICALLY hogtied”. Yeah, close enough and I’ve seen other pics of ice tying people that way)

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 1d

This is hazardous - being hogtied like this makes it difficult to breathe, because all your weight and pressure is on your chest, and it’s hard to expand your lungs. I’ve seen people pass out from being hogtied, and without QUICK intervention, bad things happen. Positional asphyxia is real.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is hog tying protesters in Portland and removing them on Dollies.

This is dangerous and could cause serious injury.

The Department of Homeland Security thinks it’s a joke.

They’ve shared this video with the tagline “Refuse to Walk? We’ll give you a ride”.

Stay strong Portland.

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 1d

So they say healthy young men playing video games are getting tons of money from Medicare, but people who have health insurance that they’re paying for don’t KNOW they have it? O-kay

Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 1d

lol HEAVEN is one piece of real estate this creature will never see