Tabby
@tightrope-tabby.bsky.social
Recovering snob, snark enthusiast, once and future writer. In my offline life, I run a small farm and listen to multiple audiobooks a week. She/her
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But we're going to have a beautiful police state and it'll be very brutal. And you'll be free, perhaps more free than ever before
January 10, 2026 at 1:32 PM
But we're going to have a beautiful police state and it'll be very brutal. And you'll be free, perhaps more free than ever before
Award winning levels of tone deaf. This is good messaging if it’s 2016, hell maybe even 2024. But it’s 2026, and people are being kidnapped and shot on the streets by masked state-sanctioned thugs directed by a megalomaniac misogynist party of racism and greed hellbent on conquering the continent.
America used to be a country where if you worked hard, you could get ahead.
That promise has faded.
Now is the time to make our economy work for working people. Everyone deserves a shot at the American Dream.
That promise has faded.
Now is the time to make our economy work for working people. Everyone deserves a shot at the American Dream.
January 10, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Award winning levels of tone deaf. This is good messaging if it’s 2016, hell maybe even 2024. But it’s 2026, and people are being kidnapped and shot on the streets by masked state-sanctioned thugs directed by a megalomaniac misogynist party of racism and greed hellbent on conquering the continent.
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I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."
January 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM
I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."
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The everyday courage of normal people is breathtaking
January 10, 2026 at 12:24 AM
The everyday courage of normal people is breathtaking
There are times when I appreciate Liz Warren as my senator, but oh my god, 20 posts about *affordability* the very week when ICE explicitly demonstrates that it will murder citizens in broad daylight? Like, really? That’s what we’re going with? Are we in an SNL skit about reading the room?
January 10, 2026 at 5:13 AM
There are times when I appreciate Liz Warren as my senator, but oh my god, 20 posts about *affordability* the very week when ICE explicitly demonstrates that it will murder citizens in broad daylight? Like, really? That’s what we’re going with? Are we in an SNL skit about reading the room?
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in what world is knocking on everyone’s door and getting in everyone’s business to inquire on whether or not there might be some undocumented people around conservative,personal liberty, small government, and freedom and all the right wing BS they talk about
January 8, 2026 at 8:25 PM
in what world is knocking on everyone’s door and getting in everyone’s business to inquire on whether or not there might be some undocumented people around conservative,personal liberty, small government, and freedom and all the right wing BS they talk about
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Conservatives who complain about liberal/leftist family/friends cutting ties with them need to understand that a lot of us bent over backwards excusing and rationalizing their bullshit, gave them plenty of chances to be human
January 10, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Conservatives who complain about liberal/leftist family/friends cutting ties with them need to understand that a lot of us bent over backwards excusing and rationalizing their bullshit, gave them plenty of chances to be human
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they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
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"They were doing their jobs"
It's a bad job... Fuck that job
It's a bad job... Fuck that job
January 8, 2026 at 2:32 PM
"They were doing their jobs"
It's a bad job... Fuck that job
It's a bad job... Fuck that job
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she’s lying, obviously. we can see the video with our own eyes. but it’s so interesting that they’re suddenly so willing to believe a car is a deadly weapon when they ignored the 100 documented instances of right wingers hitting protesters with their cars in 2020.
Noem: "People need to stop using their vehicles as weapons ... it's clear that it's being coordinated. People are being trained"
January 7, 2026 at 11:55 PM
she’s lying, obviously. we can see the video with our own eyes. but it’s so interesting that they’re suddenly so willing to believe a car is a deadly weapon when they ignored the 100 documented instances of right wingers hitting protesters with their cars in 2020.
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The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.
January 7, 2026 at 10:12 PM
The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.
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Evergreen:
The first thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.
The first thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.
Black folk will tell you: The 1st thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.🤷🏿♂️
They lie because there's upside in it for them, and no downside.
No matter how many times they get caught lying, newspapers will print their next lie as the gospel truth.🤡
And people stop caring before truth hits
They lie because there's upside in it for them, and no downside.
No matter how many times they get caught lying, newspapers will print their next lie as the gospel truth.🤡
And people stop caring before truth hits
ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....
January 7, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Evergreen:
The first thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.
The first thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.
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We should all sit with this ICE murder. Any one of us could be executed by ICE, and our government wouldn’t bat an eye. Instead they’d just lie about us to the world.
January 7, 2026 at 9:39 PM
We should all sit with this ICE murder. Any one of us could be executed by ICE, and our government wouldn’t bat an eye. Instead they’d just lie about us to the world.
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important message to all bluesky users
January 7, 2026 at 7:53 PM
important message to all bluesky users
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nobody good is applauding a woman being deliberately murdered by the state
January 7, 2026 at 9:10 PM
nobody good is applauding a woman being deliberately murdered by the state
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We are seeing why video is so important.
The government lies even about things we can see. Imagine how ridiculous their lies are about things that aren’t on tape.
The government lies even about things we can see. Imagine how ridiculous their lies are about things that aren’t on tape.
January 7, 2026 at 8:49 PM
We are seeing why video is so important.
The government lies even about things we can see. Imagine how ridiculous their lies are about things that aren’t on tape.
The government lies even about things we can see. Imagine how ridiculous their lies are about things that aren’t on tape.
Old enough to remember when the right wing pretended to be willing to die on the hill of protecting the first amendment.
I'm old enough to remember when the right wing pretended to care about academic freedom
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
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January 7, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Old enough to remember when the right wing pretended to be willing to die on the hill of protecting the first amendment.
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My sincere and heartfelt thanks for everyone listening to the noxious president’s speech (and posting about it) so that I don’t have to. Thank you for your service.
January 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
My sincere and heartfelt thanks for everyone listening to the noxious president’s speech (and posting about it) so that I don’t have to. Thank you for your service.
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
The phrase “American Justice” specifically sending me into a deranged bitter cackle this morning. A perverse oxymoron as much now as ever.
January 3, 2026 at 1:56 PM
The phrase “American Justice” specifically sending me into a deranged bitter cackle this morning. A perverse oxymoron as much now as ever.
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"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
January 3, 2026 at 1:24 PM
"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
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It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 3, 2026 at 12:19 PM
It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
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It’s uncannily smooth, bearing no traces of the texture and friction of thought.
January 2, 2026 at 9:34 PM
It’s uncannily smooth, bearing no traces of the texture and friction of thought.
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[wakes up] “I’m sorry, what”
January 3, 2026 at 12:36 PM
[wakes up] “I’m sorry, what”