Shaz Amataz
@shaznraz.bsky.social
Pro-science, pro-choice, pro-equality.
Queer. Lesbian/gay. She/her/they.
Trans rights are human rights.
I love: PWHL, MNHL, Lego, history, satire, memes, and the Oxford comma.
Music is life.
Eppur si muove!
Queer. Lesbian/gay. She/her/they.
Trans rights are human rights.
I love: PWHL, MNHL, Lego, history, satire, memes, and the Oxford comma.
Music is life.
Eppur si muove!
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Shaz Amataz
@shaznraz.bsky.social
· Nov 24
How To Avoid Being Targeted By Antifa:
1) Don't be a fascist.
This has been a public service announcement.
1) Don't be a fascist.
This has been a public service announcement.
This
Be careful who you dehumanize and what permission structures you create for bigotry. Because social media isn't a silo, and judges and attorneys read and internalize what people say.
It's impossible to dehumanize anyone without dehumanizing all of us.
It's impossible to dehumanize anyone without dehumanizing all of us.
December 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
This
Man, wtf
Liam Neeson lent his voice to a new anti-vax doc glorifying RFK Jr.’s rise at HHS— a stunning reversal for a UNICEF ambassador who once called vaccines “a remarkable human success story.” His publicist now insists he’s still pro-vaccine.
www.accountabilityjournalism.org/trump-admini...
www.accountabilityjournalism.org/trump-admini...
Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary — AJI
Liam Neeson lent his voice to a new anti-vax doc glorifying RFK Jr.’s rise at HHS— a stunning reversal for a UNICEF ambassador who once called vaccines “a remarkable human success story.” His publicis...
www.accountabilityjournalism.org
December 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Man, wtf
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Wealth inequality, which centrism has no answer for, is the single greatest threat to democracy today.
Consider the sheer concentration of wealth in the hands of a handful of billionaires—men with eugenicist and anti-democratic views.
If we don’t aggressively take that on, we’re doomed.
Consider the sheer concentration of wealth in the hands of a handful of billionaires—men with eugenicist and anti-democratic views.
If we don’t aggressively take that on, we’re doomed.
November 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Wealth inequality, which centrism has no answer for, is the single greatest threat to democracy today.
Consider the sheer concentration of wealth in the hands of a handful of billionaires—men with eugenicist and anti-democratic views.
If we don’t aggressively take that on, we’re doomed.
Consider the sheer concentration of wealth in the hands of a handful of billionaires—men with eugenicist and anti-democratic views.
If we don’t aggressively take that on, we’re doomed.
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There is no “centrist” solution to MAGA.
November 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
There is no “centrist” solution to MAGA.
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kids need human rights
November 19, 2025 at 4:39 AM
kids need human rights
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
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CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
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journalism when the govt wants to scan your retinas: “children, some as young as 25, are using encryption (classified as a munition by US export agencies) to evade common sense safety monitoring”
journalism when the govt is raping children: “the minor woman interacted with the esteemed senator”
journalism when the govt is raping children: “the minor woman interacted with the esteemed senator”
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
journalism when the govt wants to scan your retinas: “children, some as young as 25, are using encryption (classified as a munition by US export agencies) to evade common sense safety monitoring”
journalism when the govt is raping children: “the minor woman interacted with the esteemed senator”
journalism when the govt is raping children: “the minor woman interacted with the esteemed senator”
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I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
This is a good read
November 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This is a good read
Not sure what stage of grief liberals are at but I think they're getting close to realizing that the Democrats are a centre-right party at best.
They benefit from this ruinous cycle that keeps them healthy and wealthy while the poorest people get poorer and sicker.
It can't be reformed.
They benefit from this ruinous cycle that keeps them healthy and wealthy while the poorest people get poorer and sicker.
It can't be reformed.
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Not sure what stage of grief liberals are at but I think they're getting close to realizing that the Democrats are a centre-right party at best.
They benefit from this ruinous cycle that keeps them healthy and wealthy while the poorest people get poorer and sicker.
It can't be reformed.
They benefit from this ruinous cycle that keeps them healthy and wealthy while the poorest people get poorer and sicker.
It can't be reformed.
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Our politicians did more to regulate Prince and Twisted Sister songs than glacier melting chatbots that promote suicide
We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Our politicians did more to regulate Prince and Twisted Sister songs than glacier melting chatbots that promote suicide
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my wife: we have to wear what we died in for eternity!?
st. peter: that’s right
me: [from the back end of our horse costume] what’d he say
st. peter: that’s right
me: [from the back end of our horse costume] what’d he say
March 20, 2024 at 6:02 PM
my wife: we have to wear what we died in for eternity!?
st. peter: that’s right
me: [from the back end of our horse costume] what’d he say
st. peter: that’s right
me: [from the back end of our horse costume] what’d he say
When the poor shall have nothing left to eat
The U.S. spends over $180 billion on cops and incarceration every year. The annual SNAP budget is $100 billion.
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
October 30, 2025 at 2:48 AM
When the poor shall have nothing left to eat
Whoever scouted thus Yesavage kid for the Blue Jays needs a really large bonus
October 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Whoever scouted thus Yesavage kid for the Blue Jays needs a really large bonus
Post-pandemic and pre-WWII 1932 sounds a lot like now
No actress ever lost her s**t quite so well as Barbara Stanwyck. Here, in Shopworn (1932), she refuses to take a pay-off for not marrying rich boy Regis Toomey, even though the consequence will be six months in the "State Home for the Regeneration of Women."
October 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Post-pandemic and pre-WWII 1932 sounds a lot like now
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Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.
The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.
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A teacher from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.
Bib big victory.
Congratulations Andrew Brant. You are also a rock star.
Bib big victory.
Congratulations Andrew Brant. You are also a rock star.
October 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
A teacher from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.
Bib big victory.
Congratulations Andrew Brant. You are also a rock star.
Bib big victory.
Congratulations Andrew Brant. You are also a rock star.
![A night-time picture of three demonstrators from Portland dressed in green inflatable frog costumes. The caption at the top reads "Exodus 8:26" and the caption at the bottom reads "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs ... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."
(Not pictured: me saying FUCK ICE.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yiw7g3ppqqn6vxxysxlte643/bafkreia37tl3t7rebobrf7dpcvnmxttebraauxdz6roefhvzl5rd3gw7vm@jpeg)
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To be clear, saying you're going to "avoid politics" is an INCREDIBLY political statement, especially in an age of fascism.
October 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
To be clear, saying you're going to "avoid politics" is an INCREDIBLY political statement, especially in an age of fascism.