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MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 1d

My mum is 76, staunchly Catholic, and until Trump, progressive yet very conservative.

Now she protests.
She volunteers.
She organizes.

She went to the No Kings rally near her.

Donald Trump is radicalizing my mum into communism more effectively than every leftist group in America ever could've.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

My mom texted me with a picture of her at one of the No Kings protests. Her first protest ever. The normies have awakened.

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MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 1d

This is your daily reminder that Facebook collects more data on you then any government will ever legally be allowed to

Any government today can legally purchase that data without a warrant

This applies to every company now.

Reposted by MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25

alice! 🍉 @tinysquash.bsky.social · 5d

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MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 16d

god this just works hey

MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 16d

the fucking around part of capitalism that began in the 1860s is over.

the finding out has begun

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MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 20d

Just because they're on your side politically doesn't mean they won't follow orders when given

Keep this in mind if you have progressive friends in law enforcement

MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 20d

"this comes from the attorney general's office"

"I'm going to arrest the mayor"

"If you have body cams, turn them off now"

I think he noticed the body cam

I think he was so unequivocal for a reason

He knew what he would do was immoral and illegal

He left a record

He still followed orders

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20d

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.

I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.

Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

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MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 20d

Democrats have set the bar so low that even saying the right things is lauded as progressive regardless of any follow-through

Is there actually grow a backbone there might be a slim chance of hope but don't bet your life on it

Micah @rincewind.run · 20d

I'll put this marker down now: if we go into a shutdown and Dems actually hold the line and don't immediately cave, their poll numbers will go up

90% of the reason their numbers are so low with non-Rs is they've managed exactly zero concrete opposition so far

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 20d

"Dems will get blamed for a shutdown" as opposed to what, all the friendly coverage and positive credit they'd get for caving yet again? This whole premise is built on a delusion about what the alternative is. There's no cowering in the corner and being so inoffensive they won't still attack you.

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MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 20d

Its really cool the last three American presidents have the same energy as a childrens toy with dying batteries

MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 22d

This should be everyone's bug out moment.

Once they start detaining journos it's all over.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 22d

NEW — Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents outside the Broadview immigration facility earlier this evening.

A collection of Chicago newsrooms is calling for his immediate release.

thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...

Chicago journalist detained while covering protest outside Broadview immigration facility • The TRiiBE

Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents earlier this evening.

thetriibe.com

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MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 22d

I miss the world where my online friends weren't living under the threat of genocide

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MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 23d

1980s dystopian scifi: The sky was the color of tv static

Reality in 2025:

Hey r/Samsung, there's an an offensive ad from Jetstar's new gen alpha marketing team on my fridge.

It's been there for the last 6 weeks all hours of the day and night.

it just says "BUY A FLIGHT OR KILL YOURSELF" help.

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MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 24d

America gives tax breaks who have everything

Australia gives subsidy and tax breaks for artists

MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 27d

its a feedback loop, all because a bunch of armchair academics refuse to listen to the experiences of our community

this sucks man, i hate it here

MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 27d

All of the statistics people use to justify their bigotry are statistics THEY FUCKING CAUSED

I've been 'you go girl, I support you but I don't date trannies' more times than I can count all because they had a bad experience with one of the above mentioned stereotypes

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MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 27d

instead no, society prefers to be a pervert and demand to know WHAT IN PANTS HUH before they treat you like shit

its been a bizzare experience to go on a date with a woman who's transphobia is off the chain and walk back to my car feeling like I just S+ tiered a Kojima game.

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MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 27d

like yo man

you really declaring transgender a terrorism

the hell man
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i literally
want to
just live
boring ass life
as a gender
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why.

the fuck.

do.

you.

care.

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MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 27d

the number of trans people who are spicy plus the number of us who go through crippling trauma and massive social network loss all at the same time?

yeah no wonder our community has a higher percentage of this condition.

another one on the board. cool. i hate this.

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MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 27d

it presents as the push pull yo yo partner who's mood ping pongs from high to low on a whim dragging everyone around with it

yet the reason they're like that because they're spicy in just the right way with an supportive environment...

...then severe trauma...

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MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 27d

nah yeah there's literally a community stereotype of the person who's like this, leaving a trail of broken people and relationships in their wake

i always assumed it was because of a lot of pain but i had no idea there was a chronic condition. like, BPD is radically self destructive

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MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 27d

I don't know anyone with trauma who hasn't experienced most if not all of these, but BPD is on a completely different level and I had no idea.

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MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 27d

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MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 27d

in VR Chat, I struck up a conversation with a psychiatrist (this fvucking game) and he mentioned how trans people have a way higher rate of BPD than cis people

I think "cool another thing our community suffers as a result of bigotry lmao" but then I looked up what BPD is out of curiosity...

...oh

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MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 27d

I'm sorry but now you have major publications around the world calling the United States a failing democracy

Publications that are naturally built to be pro-america, which means the needle is already far further along.

Its over

CNN @cnn.com · 28d

Some political scientists see a pattern that suggests American democracy is being undermined in real time. The stakes are massive for the US economy and the business world: https://cnn.it/3KdhjNU

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MamaCoffeeCat 🐈🚈 🌴 FurDU'25 @mamacoffeecat.bsky.social · 28d

"you have to get private in Australia though" I would prefer to pay the medicare levy surcharge than support a policy that's fundamentally anti-Australian.

risk becoming America is the risk of the axe
levy the tax, I dont care

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