VFPunk
@vfpunk.bsky.social
Anxiety-ridden GenX'er. Edible enthusiast. Cat-daddy. I wear many hats and NONE are red or endorse a fat orange fascist garbage heap.
If anything, Donald Trump has proven just how EASY it would have been for Dems to make things BETTER for everyone. After all, since Republicans just don't see the Constitution as anything more than toilet paper, we could have just forced BETTER things through, legality and law be DAMNED.
August 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
If anything, Donald Trump has proven just how EASY it would have been for Dems to make things BETTER for everyone. After all, since Republicans just don't see the Constitution as anything more than toilet paper, we could have just forced BETTER things through, legality and law be DAMNED.
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This is my favorite picture of Stonewall.
They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.
Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.
I think about it a lot in moments like this.
They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.
Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.
I think about it a lot in moments like this.
January 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This is my favorite picture of Stonewall.
They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.
Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.
I think about it a lot in moments like this.
They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.
Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.
I think about it a lot in moments like this.
Okay so, we've tried putting stupid, mean, and hateful people in charge of everything...can we please try having smart, kind and helpful people in charge instead?
Asking for a collapsing nation.
Asking for a collapsing nation.
January 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Okay so, we've tried putting stupid, mean, and hateful people in charge of everything...can we please try having smart, kind and helpful people in charge instead?
Asking for a collapsing nation.
Asking for a collapsing nation.
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Important point from @brianbeutler.bsky.social: If Dems hold their fire on Trump's nominees, it will reduce pressure on GOP Senators, who should be getting absolutely hammered with pressure to draw a line against such insanely unfit and unqualified choices:
www.offmessage.net/p/trump-musk...
www.offmessage.net/p/trump-musk...
There's Nothing Exciting Or Constructive About This
The middle path between real opposition and appeasement leads nowhere.
www.offmessage.net
November 20, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Important point from @brianbeutler.bsky.social: If Dems hold their fire on Trump's nominees, it will reduce pressure on GOP Senators, who should be getting absolutely hammered with pressure to draw a line against such insanely unfit and unqualified choices:
www.offmessage.net/p/trump-musk...
www.offmessage.net/p/trump-musk...
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Echo chambers are a problem where only your own opinion gets parroted back at you. Echo chambers are NOT places where you push out bigots. That’s simply called creating a safe and respectful environment where people CAN freely talk about their diverse ideas & perspectives safely. BLOCK the trolls.
November 20, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Echo chambers are a problem where only your own opinion gets parroted back at you. Echo chambers are NOT places where you push out bigots. That’s simply called creating a safe and respectful environment where people CAN freely talk about their diverse ideas & perspectives safely. BLOCK the trolls.
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In the last 12 months there were 36 victims of violent acts against trans people
The youngest was only 14 years old
7 in 10 victims were people of color
And 4 in 10 victims were cruelly misgendered by police and media after their deaths
Please remember these people whose only wanted to be themselves
The youngest was only 14 years old
7 in 10 victims were people of color
And 4 in 10 victims were cruelly misgendered by police and media after their deaths
Please remember these people whose only wanted to be themselves
Today is #TDoR
We honour the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence.
We honour the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence.
November 20, 2024 at 2:21 PM
In the last 12 months there were 36 victims of violent acts against trans people
The youngest was only 14 years old
7 in 10 victims were people of color
And 4 in 10 victims were cruelly misgendered by police and media after their deaths
Please remember these people whose only wanted to be themselves
The youngest was only 14 years old
7 in 10 victims were people of color
And 4 in 10 victims were cruelly misgendered by police and media after their deaths
Please remember these people whose only wanted to be themselves
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I could not give less of a shit what new tacky Trump-branded product Trump is selling now. None of it matters. It literally does. not. matter.
My God, people. Have we learned NOTHING about not focusing on the dumb, temporary stunts meant to distract us from the real evil he's inflicting?
My God, people. Have we learned NOTHING about not focusing on the dumb, temporary stunts meant to distract us from the real evil he's inflicting?
November 20, 2024 at 7:31 PM
I could not give less of a shit what new tacky Trump-branded product Trump is selling now. None of it matters. It literally does. not. matter.
My God, people. Have we learned NOTHING about not focusing on the dumb, temporary stunts meant to distract us from the real evil he's inflicting?
My God, people. Have we learned NOTHING about not focusing on the dumb, temporary stunts meant to distract us from the real evil he's inflicting?
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“Some members shared information on “safe states” and cities…and some Haitians have suggested that fellow Haitians flee now, even before Trump is inaugurated next year. Some shared tips on how to emigrate from the United States, potentially to Canada…”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
November 19, 2024 at 2:05 PM
“Some members shared information on “safe states” and cities…and some Haitians have suggested that fellow Haitians flee now, even before Trump is inaugurated next year. Some shared tips on how to emigrate from the United States, potentially to Canada…”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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hell yeah
Today, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez proposed a new task for to look at electoral reforms which could break up the two party system in Congress, expand the number of House districts, and move the House to a form of proportional representation.
It's a very, very good idea.
It's a very, very good idea.
Blue Dogs Propose New Task Force to Look at ‘Winner-Take-All’ Election System
The bipartisan task force would investigate structural reforms like multimember districts and adding more House members in an effort to address growing polarization and distrust of Congress.
www.notus.org
November 19, 2024 at 3:25 PM
hell yeah
He's a Trumper, if he weren't breaking the law as if it didn't apply to him, he wouldn't be there.
November 16, 2024 at 12:07 PM
He's a Trumper, if he weren't breaking the law as if it didn't apply to him, he wouldn't be there.
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I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 12:43 AM
I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
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Speaker of the House is actively involved in an effort to cover up allegations (and potential evidence) that the nominee for Attorney General was involved in sex trafficking
Speaker Johnson says he’s going request Ethics Committee not release Gaetz report | CNN Politics
House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Friday that he does not think the House Ethics Committee report on allegations related to Matt Gaetz should be released and is “going to strongly request that the Et...
www.cnn.com
November 15, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Speaker of the House is actively involved in an effort to cover up allegations (and potential evidence) that the nominee for Attorney General was involved in sex trafficking
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Trans people's lives and rights can't be neatly sliced up into siloed debates about when/where/how we can get health care or be recognized for who we are any more than women's humanity can be neatly divided between their bodily autonomy or their role in public life. We are either equal or we are not
November 15, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Trans people's lives and rights can't be neatly sliced up into siloed debates about when/where/how we can get health care or be recognized for who we are any more than women's humanity can be neatly divided between their bodily autonomy or their role in public life. We are either equal or we are not
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Redundant InfoWars employees will be laid off with a humane 25-gram cocktail of Brain Force and pentobarbital.
November 14, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Redundant InfoWars employees will be laid off with a humane 25-gram cocktail of Brain Force and pentobarbital.
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Avi Rachlin, a white supremacist, used the N-word during a racist rant during a Michigan Senate committee hearing on a proposed gun ban at the state Capitol
www.freep.com/story/news/p...
www.freep.com/story/news/p...
November 15, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Avi Rachlin, a white supremacist, used the N-word during a racist rant during a Michigan Senate committee hearing on a proposed gun ban at the state Capitol
www.freep.com/story/news/p...
www.freep.com/story/news/p...
Is there ANY hope left at all? Any reason to go on? Trump is literally going to kill the world....its ecosystems, its environments, the endangered populations of animals and people...it's fucked.
November 12, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Is there ANY hope left at all? Any reason to go on? Trump is literally going to kill the world....its ecosystems, its environments, the endangered populations of animals and people...it's fucked.
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I try to remember that whenever we talk about how much of a fucked up horror show the world is, what we mean is that the world is full of good people being wronged and beauty being destroyed, that we risk losing all of it—not a denial of the good in the world but its affirmation.
December 25, 2023 at 4:28 PM
I try to remember that whenever we talk about how much of a fucked up horror show the world is, what we mean is that the world is full of good people being wronged and beauty being destroyed, that we risk losing all of it—not a denial of the good in the world but its affirmation.
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joe biden has 2 months to do something so terrible the SC has no choice but to revoke presidential immunity
November 10, 2024 at 10:09 PM
joe biden has 2 months to do something so terrible the SC has no choice but to revoke presidential immunity
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The conservative personalities openly celebrating their ability to rape women without consequences is a pretty dismal sign of what’s to come
November 8, 2024 at 2:55 AM
The conservative personalities openly celebrating their ability to rape women without consequences is a pretty dismal sign of what’s to come
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Valuable resources for you to fortify yourself with against these trying times inevitable in our near future.
To LGBTQ+ people & Allies: I compiled a bibliography of sources for people who argue "there's no proof of the Supreme Court's threat to marriage equality." I'll be continuing to add to it. Feel free to use it:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Obergefell v Hodges Overturn Concerns - Bibliography
BIBLIOGRAPHY – Concerns About Supreme Court Reversing Obergefell v. Hodges References Beran, L. (2024, October 31). Why Marriage Equality is Back on the Ballot. The Nation. New York, New York, United...
docs.google.com
November 8, 2024 at 5:03 AM
Valuable resources for you to fortify yourself with against these trying times inevitable in our near future.
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We've come to believe an unhealthy lie about social media: that you need to tolerate and embrace behaviors that were they to happen in real life would lead to someone getting the shit punched out of them.
"It's online! It's different!"
The only difference is you can't lay hands on a motherfucker.
"It's online! It's different!"
The only difference is you can't lay hands on a motherfucker.
November 7, 2024 at 1:25 PM
We've come to believe an unhealthy lie about social media: that you need to tolerate and embrace behaviors that were they to happen in real life would lead to someone getting the shit punched out of them.
"It's online! It's different!"
The only difference is you can't lay hands on a motherfucker.
"It's online! It's different!"
The only difference is you can't lay hands on a motherfucker.
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I can do all things through spite, which fuels me
Off to bed. May we all rise to the challenge of persevering through pure spite.
November 7, 2024 at 5:37 PM
I can do all things through spite, which fuels me