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@beatrix.bsky.social

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she/her. trans and proud of it. software engineer. functional programmer. #jj-vcs, #elixir, #rustlang pragmatist big on civic tech and social democracy has takes about too many subjects product of Somerville and Lexington, MA

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boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · Jan 29

don't let your sadness become despair and don't let your righteous anger become interpersonal nastiness, I've been seeing both a lot lately and we're going to need to avoid these if we want to have any hope of building a future for America rooted in love and justice instead of cruelty and cynicism.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 9h

my paternal great grandparents got off a boat in Newark and were americans from the moment they touched american soil. my only objection to that pattern is that i think we should send a plane to pick up anyone who declares themselves an american.

Disgraziato @primaryschool.bsky.social · 9h

blood-and-soil nativism repels me on a cellular level

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11h

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 11h

me beginning a eulogy: good morning, everyone. thank you for coming out and showing the bereaved how much you loved the dearly departed. now, as many of you already know, i eliminated 85% of microplastics from my ejaculate.

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 17h

[kool keith voice] i eliminated 85% of microplastics from my ejaculate

a tweet from bryan johnson (the smooth technology man who will live forever) that opens with the phrase "I eliminated 85% of microplastics from my ejaculate."

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E = mily² @emily.news · 13h

my most toxic trait is I install every single software update I see instantly

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boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 11h

real

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

sorry, man, but this is breathtakingly, shockingly corrupt in every fucking way it can be, and an open and shut and uncomplicated case for impeachment. he didn’t even pay for these lawyers, his donors did, for fuck’s sake.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

ask every republican in congress whether they think the treasury should pay donald trump almost a quarter billion dollars while federal workers are in their third week of not getting paid

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 21h

Where I'm sitting, we have Hasan against with Pod Save America and The Bulwark guys in the support column. I don't think the coalitions here are that straightforward

Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 1d

It's because they're terrified to admit fault, and hate libs and can't admit the libs were right.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

The Democratic primary in this race will be held fully eight months from now in June 2026, there are nine active Democratic candidates, and there could be more! Even the filing deadline is still months away (March 15, I believe). I don’t get the PSA crew adopting a bunker mentality this early.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19h

the dmeocrats order me to take off my totenkopf & i tattoo the Sonnenrad over it. everyone in the electorate groans at my shit

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 1d

Yard sign generator version of the screenshot post in the quoted post.

IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE:
DONALD TRUMP IS THE ANTICHRIST
ABOLISH ICE
UNLIMITED WEAPONS TO UKRAINE
FREE PALESTINE
BILLIONAIRES SHOULDN'T EXIST

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 17h

This administration is really generous with the visual metaphors

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 18h

You guys, the person exercising the powers of the presidency is constitutionally disqualified from holding the office and he’s having the White House bulldozed. This is true and it’s happening, right? I’m not dreaming this?

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 16h

I'm beyond desperate for the decision-makers in the Democratic Party to

1) actually recognize that this is happening, and
2) commit to punishing every single person who donated in this manner or in any other way paid to play with this administration.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's ballroom donors include:

-Google, whose CEO thanked Trump for "resolution" of an antitrust case
-Palantir, which has lucrative contracts with ICE
-Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman, who would profit from Trump's regulatory rollbacks for private equity

Pay-to-play.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 14h

it's worth pointing out that he doesn't really plan to contribute "his own money." he plans to steal money from the treasury and then use it to build something Congress didn't approve.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18h

This little item by Luke Broadwater on the abrupt, wholly unannounced destruction of a major component of the White House complex is a microcosm of the dysfunctional relationship the press has with this mendacious administration. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 15h

The Epstein Ballroom it is

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 15h

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

one of the interesting thing i have seen in the platner discourse is a refusal to confront a thing on its own terms. to his pundit supporters, platner isn’t a novice candidate with perhaps questionable judgment to be evaluated on his ability to win, but a symbol to wield against rivals

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boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 19h

fucking rad, man. love it.

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Xe @xeiaso.net · 2d

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

"You cannot be explaining your Nazi tattoo and defeat a multi-term incumbent."

Let’s keep this simple. This is not about whether Platner is an irredeemable person, or whether he can be forgiven. This is not about whether people were wrong to find him an intruging candidate in his initial appearances — I agree that he was. It’s about who will be the Democratic candidate in a critical Senate in Maine, and “got a Nazi tattoo and still has it” is transparently disqualifying. You cannot be explaining your Nazi tattoo and defeat a multi-term incumbent who has consistently punched above her party’s weight in the state. His allies are not doing him any favors if they allow him to believe otherwise, and if you don’t like Mills you need to find someone else to challenge her.

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marcy and the banshees🦇 @beneprism.rip · 2d

And at this point he hasn't even expressed contrition! He's said "nobody ever said it was a Nazi tattoo before now" and said it was ridiculous to think he might be a Nazi, but he's not even admitting it is what it is, much less taking action to address it. Very unsettling

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

this also drives me insane, this idea that it is the most normal thing in the world for a young (white) man to have a nazi curious phase. it isn’t!

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 1d

American national security - even (especially?) when Ds have power - will maintain a critical vulnerability as long as criminals like David Petraeus are invited to polite panel discussions about the intelligence community.

Elite impunity is a cancer and the people on this panel are all responsible.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

my more fully-fledged opinion is that the endorsement or lack thereof matters less than the wrong-rocking that's been done to mamdani for three and a half months now

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

I think once Mamdani is formally the winner of this race people will be more willing to admit it, but the truth is that the real issue isn't the lack of endorsement from Schumer and Jeffries, it's that Schumers, Jeffries, and everyone else has made racially charged unfulfillable demands of Mamdani.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

I do think however it is also simultaneously true that Mamdani has managed to acquire the support of the bulk of the Democratic establishment. This was done in spite of, though, the endemic Islamophobia and racial animosity towards nonwhite politicians sympathetic to Palestinians.

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boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 2d

yeah that's about where I come down