I’m keeping my account but getting off the site. I got suppressed which was 🤷‍♀️, but since then I’ve gotten one new follower every day. No engagement, just one suspicious looking account adding me every day. I must have done something right. When you get targeted by absolute freaks.
Bluesky isn’t what I hoped it would be. The comments are full of bots, and nobody can see my posts ever since I went after CNN for failing at their job. I’m taking a break.
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Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309
You don't deserve to be shamed or punished for choices you made to survive-- physically, emotionally, economically or socially. Abusers & bullies keep us stuck by convincing us we need to "pay" for "choices" that weren't true choices-- but self harm or destruction is not justice.
This is, and always has been, the entire ballgame for Republicans: steal from poor and working people so billionaires can pay less in taxes. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
As a Black liberal woman in Texas:
If you’ve never taught, fundraised, organized, or tried to turn the tide in a substantial way in a red state: shut up and take notes from the people who have. A lot of you wouldn’t survive with your souls intact if you lived and worked here.
If he leaves office 🙄
@iabacon.bsky.social @mango-sauce.bsky.social
“U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, acknowledged that the United States can accept the gift…”
I think Chuck needs to take another look at that emoluments clause.
Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
Media folks going on now about "how Biden fucked us" - no THEY did. They went along with the ruse that "we don't primary an incumbant," blacklisting any other candidate and playing guardian of the establishment status quo. Blaming it all on Biden is a way of trying to sidestep their own complicity.
“I was hungry and you cut my SNAP benefits.”
The same politicians who preach Christian values are the ones slashing programs that feed the poor.
We may be atheists, but we know compassion beats cruelty — and feeding the hungry beats quoting scripture.
Dark times are truly upon us.
@mango-sauce.bsky.social Of course he did.
I guess I know the response letter I’ll get:
“Hey, if the president doesn’t have to pay for it, it’s ok!”
Unbelievable. Imagine if Obama was offered a free plane. Grassley would have been doing backflips over it.
Never lose sight of how weird and corrupt it is for the president to have his unelected, unconfirmed oligarch friend—his biggest campaign donor—conduct US foreign policy.
No other US president did that, and there’s no reason to think he’s representing the American people rather than himself.
They care now that it's their privacy at stake. Hypocritical bastards.
IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
“Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics”
The free speech party is really the fascist party.
Aw shucks you mean we could have gotten affordable drugs without all the fascism?
What happened before Mayor Baraka’s arrest needs daylight.
Did masked ICE agents let him in just so they could arrest and perp walk him to send a message of fear. Because that’s what it looks like.
We’re sliding into fascism—and fast. And if we don’t stop it now, we may not get another chance.
Shit.
I have tomatoes and peppers planted. My son is growing a stevia plant this year
Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.
This new Texas law copies anti-Jewish legislation in pre-war Nazi Germany. That legislation consisted of a series of restrictive laws passed in 1933, then the Nuremberg Laws of 1935.
This is not an exaggeration.
Lately I haven’t spent much time here because I’m pretty sure I’m shadow banned. Most of what I say goes straight to the void. But I see you and I appreciate your posts.
1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️
