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RawrTigerlily

@rawrtigerlily.bsky.social

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Progressive living in Georgia, but always Minnesota Nice until you push me. I have a kid, a husband, and a cat. Can we make this a better place? I'm trying.

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · Nov 15

Just reupping this on my main page so I can make it my new pin. For everyone who is ready to move past grief & into the rightful anger that will power us to stand against the worst to come in meaningful ways:

RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · Nov 15

Hey Molls. Here are a couple of things I read recently, which you may find helpful. I don't think there's an easy playbook of "just do this," but a toolkit of principles:

wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-t...

10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won

The key to taking effective action if Trump wins is to avoid perpetuating his goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.

wagingnonviolence.org

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 9h

Man, what a privilege to live with multiple roommates, when families in the 50's and 60's in New York were buying a duplex or triplex on one income.

RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 11h

Is anyone asking why the fuck we have people driving 1000 miles just to harass immigrants? Like, mileage? Overtime? Travel pay? This is ridiculous.

RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 11h

I let my son and his friends rearrange all the furniture in our living room and dining room for his birthday party to be a nerf gun showdown one year... maybe when he was around 10. I run into kids who were at that party every once in awhile and they still bring it up 15+ years later.

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 12h

Oh well. No one else needs Mitch McConnell feebly tripping down the halls of Congress, except Mitch McConnell. He could fuck off any time & it couldn't possibly harm the country any more than he already has.

RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 12h

"That didn't happen.

And if it did, it wasn't that bad.

And if it was, that's not a big deal.

And if it is, that's not my fault.

And if it was, I didn't mean it.

And if I did...

You deserved it."

The evolution of their narrative lies is like clockwork for these people.

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 12h

I've been saying for a long time that MAGA is just narcissism operating as a political party. They are driven by the same internal insecurity and they resort to all the same coping mechanisms and manipulations.

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 16h

Did they get a better intern to plan this seat of the pants military parade? Otherwise it seems like this really will be the ultimate exercise in pissing off our unpaid military AND most people in California.

RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 16h

Something, something false prophets and idols…

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 16h

“Mark Zuckerberg wore a Guns N’ Roses shirt once, does that make him violent and the gay?!”

RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 17h

I remember my jaw hitting the floor a few weeks into the pandemic, when the Governor of Georgia commented during a press conference that he just learned asymptomatic carriers is a thing. Our college educated officials are mostly science illiterate, can’t expect better from people who got a GED.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go,

…but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18h

The first Jim Crow was enacted under the auspices that racism is a necessity and a great and natural moral good.

The second one is being enacted under the auspices that racism doesn’t exist if you claim you don’t see it and anyone who questions your motives about that is oppressing you.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19h

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 17h

The military isn’t getting paid right now, and Trump wants them to do a military parade? Hahahaha. If half the military didn’t hate him before, they certainly will after this.

TallyAnnaE ☮️🌊 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💙🦋 @tallyannae.bsky.social · 17h

I thought I was reading The Onion but no.
Surely this isn't true?
www.meidasplus.com/p/exclusive-...

EXCLUSIVE: Trump May Launch Missiles from Warships into California this Friday and Saturday as Part of “Vanity Parade”

Sources tell MeidasTouch the White House will shut down portions of the I-5 for Vice President JD Vance’s Marine Corps spectacle during No Kings Protests, triggering chaos, gridlock, and outrage.

www.meidasplus.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 17h

It’s an overpriced death trap of a MAGA hat. Self labelling for everyone else’s benefit.

RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 17h

Some guy had his parked in the fire lane here outside a salon shortly after the Tesla protests popped off for like close to two hours. If you are worried your car might be vandalized you park in the least obvious place, not where every person in the shopping center has to go around it.

RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 17h

It’s not wrong of you. These people had the choice to buy pretty much any mid to luxury car sold in the US and they bought the really shitty one from a Nazi, either because they are clueless narcissists who need attention, or they are narcissists who also like everything the “truck” stands for.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a real question for the roberts majority is what in their view distinguishes jim crow disenfranchisement from majority-minority districts? a related question is what in their view made the typical jim crow law — which was facially neutral — unconstitutional?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 1d

That's certainly why the current court's conservatives operate as though the Constitution was set in stone in 1787, and all the amendments are just some silly optional stuff that never should have been added. :P

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, good news everyone! Rich, white guys have decided racism is over, so now we can just go back to the business as usual of the last 300 years... where it was totally fair and normal that entire classes of people were intentionally excluded from rights & representation.

RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone else getting reminded of when Roberts was all like, "Relax guys, you still have section 2 of the VRA in Allen vs. Milligan." And now they seem ready to say, "Sike! Just kidding!" 🙄

RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 1d

I guess it was only a matter of time
before the post truth world came and ate all the numbers too.

RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 1d

Good. You like to think facing backlash in your friends circle would actually give these people some clue as to whether or not or their shitty opinions are as popular as they imagine they will be.