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White Rose Witching

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✨ Gay Hispanic hedge priest in MD 💀 Social justice necromancer 🏳️‍🌈 Working w/ Queer Ancestors ✊ LGBTQ+/disability activist 🌿 Bio-regional Druid

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · Feb 9

Pinning this here so new followers can learn who is behind this account.

I'm Ron (he/him),a gay Cuban-American hedge priest and ordained pagan clergy. My focus is on queer-affirming spirituality and spiritual activism. My practice is a blend of folk Catholicism, Druidry, and witchcraft.
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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 21h

Historians studying this period will have nothing nice to say about the media for their role in sanewashing Trump.

Forward Blue @forwardblue.bsky.social · 21h

The media will excuse this by saying it’s just “Trump being Trump.”

Imagine if Biden called for the arrest of Greg Abbott…

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Profs and Pints @profsandpints.bsky.social · 7d

October 22nd in Baltimore! Details and tickets at www.ticketleap.events/tickets/prof... .

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 21h

Government shutdowns come with real consequences for Americans:

-Limited air traffic safety oversight
-Delayed Social Security applications
-Federal workers aren't paid
-SNAP funding could run out & more.

Meanwhile, Trump continues construction of the White House ballroom...

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 21h

Democrats should be turning Bondi's responses into commercials and digital ads with text/VO making it clear she is clearly behaving as Trump's personal lawyer instead of the AG.

Hell, buy an ad during the Super Bowl.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 1d

I guess this was just a suggestion

Article I
Section 1

All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

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Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 1d

youtube.com/shorts/t60A5... #ProudBlue. MAGA in full meltdown mode over first verse of a Zach Bryan song. Bryan takes aim at ICE who“comes busting down your door”and “kids scared all alone”. He speaks the truth about the “Fading of the Red White and Blue”. Is this a paradigm shift in country music?

Zach Bryan - Bad News [Unreleased] #ZachBryan

YouTube video by Zach Bryan Archive

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 1d

We call them the water drugs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We call them the water drugs. The drugs that come in through water. They're not coming. There are no boats anymore. Frankly, there are no fishing boats. There are no boats out there period, if you want to know the truth. Does anybody go fishing anymore?"

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 1d

*stares at everyone in Trump's Cabinet*

Yeah. Merit.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d

Trump: Merit. Everything now in this country is merit-based. I didn't think I'd ever see it again

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 1d

"Because the recent attacks on Venezuelan vessels and their crews were unauthorized by U.S. law and in violation of binding international law, they were illegal summary executions – murders."

Unlawful Attacks on Venezuelan Vessels | New York City Bar Association

Congress must act promptly, as pending legislation proposes, to make clear to the President and the nation that the President’s threat of similar attacks on Venezuelan vessels (and on Venezuela itself...

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 1d

"Republicans have called for cuts to the government for decades using rhetoric that suggested such cuts would only affect racial minorities and women. Those who voted for such cuts assumed they would not be affected by any of the proposed cuts. Now they are discovering otherwise."

October 6, 2025

If White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is at the head of the administration’s deployment of federal agents against undocumented immigrants, it appears that Office of Management and Budget...

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 1d

The Maryland Commission for LGBTQIA+ Affairs in partnership with UMES are conducting a survey to explore the needs of LGBTQIA+ Marylanders.

The information gathered will help guide policy recommendations and future programs.

Take the survey:

www.surveymonkey.com/r/MDLGBTQIA

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 2d

"“It was a very simple ceremony. Obviously me and him, and an officiant,” the singers recalled of nuptials. “There were just four of us around the pool, around the cactus, the heavy metal cactus. And it was over in an instant. But it was just a beautiful, simple ceremony.”"

Gay Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford reveals he married long-time partner last year - LGBTQ Nation

The rock icon also expressed frustration with persistent homophobia in the U.S.

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 2d

"The second morality clashed with power, they chose power. The second “protecting kids” risked harming Trump, they chose Trump. That tells you everything."

The Mask Is Off: MAGA’s “Pedophile” Crusade Was Always a Lie

The Epstein files prove it was never about protecting kids—it was about defending Trump at all costs.

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 2d

"The Chicago raid was not an anomaly. The massive expansion of immigration enforcement — with tens of billions of new funding, tens of thousands of newly recruited agents, and unrealistic arrest targets — has led to systemic violations of U.S. citizens’ Constitutional rights."

How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens

Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks.

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 2d

"In the spring, the Trump administration abruptly cut $500 million in deliveries from a program that sends U.S.-produced meat, dairy, eggs and produce to food banks and other organizations across the country — about a quarter of the funding the program received in 2024."

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 2d

What was the real message at Quantico?

Janine Davidson (former Undersecretary of the Navy and former Chair of Department of Defense Policy Board) discusses:

The domestic paradigm shift in President Trump's addressing Active Duty military leaders with National Guard Adjunct Generals excluded.

Trump’s Outline of a Domestic War

Former Undersecretary of Navy discusses import of President Trump's remarks to active duty military leaders at Quantico.

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 5d

The Four Horsemen of the Trump Apocalypse Are Here

Trump's version features coercion, corrupt oligarchs, racism, and fear and the destruction of our planet.

www.lincolnsquare.media

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

DOKOUPIL: Republicans says what you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for illegal aliens. I know that's not strictly true--

ELIZABETH WARREN: Excuse me, not strictly true? It is a flat out lie!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

Federal agents reporting to Secretary Noem have spent weeks snatching up families, scaring law-abiding residents, violating due process rights, and even detaining U.S. citizens.

They fail to focus on violent criminals and instead create panic in our communities.

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 5d

Hey y'all! I'll be leading a virtual Queer Ancestor Memorial on Sunday 10/26 from 6-6:45pm ET. This is a free event, but donations are appreciated. I have two dear friends assisting with creating and holding space.

Queer Ancestor Memorial

Join Rev. Ron Padrón for a ceremony of remembrance and thanks honoring our Queer Ancestors.

www.eventbrite.com

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 6d

Rob Wittman spent the night of the shutdown eating steak with his rich donors. Meanwhile, the shutdown he and the GOP caused means soldiers and federal workers in his district will struggle to feed their families. Call his office at (202) 225-4261 and ask why.

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14d

According to the numbers, these are the 26 most vulnerable MAGA House representatives. They've spent more time defending “Dear Leader” than the Constitution, and they can be beat. We're pledging to target them all in the 2026 midterms.

See anybody missing? Let us know here: https://t.co/geQUe7ptY6

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 6d

this is an outstanding thread.

Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 6d

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

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Vivian M. Lumbard @vivian-m-lumbard.bsky.social · 6d

"But he also confessed.

Stephen Miller confessed that when he uses such dehumanizing language he is, “using this language to mark people. To put a target on them. … It is a message [he] is sending to all the crazies and lunatics out there” to go target the people he dehumanizes."

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6d

Stephen Miller Implies He Intended for Trump's Nutjobs to Kill Democrats

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/02/s...

Stephen Miller Implies He Intended for Trump's Nutjobs to Kill Democrats - emptywheel

Stephen Miller just confessed on Fox News that when he uses dehumanizing language -- when he calls Democrats "fascists" or "Marxists" or "radical" -- he intends it as a message to "all the crazies and...

www.emptywheel.net

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