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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · Aug 27

Do not follow / speak to me if you believe that the victims of major violent events (including fascist movements taking power) deserve what happens to them.

If you believe this, log off social media and get help immediately.

We now return you to the regular pinned post

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · Oct 11

I’m transgender;
I made a lot of Nazis & transphobes very angry by getting them kicked off Reddit;
I know too much about hate groups on 2015-2022 Reddit;
I am learning to read sheet music, play a keyboard, build synth patches, and I enjoy folk music & October Project.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 1h

Lee Atwater policy GOP

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2h

"It's not disenfranchising Black people, it's disenfranchising Democrats (who in this state are mostly Black), which is totally legal" is an argument you actually do see a lot in the biz

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 3h

Mooppan: The Louisiana map doesn’t discriminate Black voters because GOP lawmakers would have done the same thing if every Black voter had been a white Democrat instead of a Black Democrat.

Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 1h

"some recent developments" Did the SiegHeiling white south Afrikaner unban more child porn peddlers, or -

Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 1h

Many people think the Southern US saying "Well, Bless your Heart" is a statement of concern or empathy, too; it doesn't mean it actually is

Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 1h

Amanda Marcotte's statements are proof that the Reagan-era GOP policy of Lee Atwater succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2h

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis, & then, yes, stuff like this happens:

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

Someone should let her know that she is currently the chair of the (normally) powerful Senate Appropriations Committee and do a lot more than weakly protest this shit.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2h

Sen. Susan Collins says the White House should try to get their proposed spending cuts into appropriations bills.

“This end run is not helpful,” she says.

Collins adds that it “would be helpful” to reopening the govt if WH and OMB’s Russ Vought stop the rescissions.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 2h

the thing about AI is that if we had a function US government research apparatus, we would be funding AI research because it's a legitimately important area of study and lacks clear profit centers

the funding of corporate AI via hype is pretty weird honestly.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 3h

Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 3h

Sebastian @seabass.bsky.social · 3h

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 3h

We could feed, clothe, and house so many human beings.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4h

OpenAI has pledged to spend $1 trillion in the next five years.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 3h

Your fingernails glance and tap across the subtly burnished grain of the bag, the rich blue colour almost glowing in the sunlight streaming through the front windows. Every bit of brass sparkles. No presentation box in sight. The red-coded price tag means it’s half-off the $27.99 listing, today.

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 23h

Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski on Sunday went on a QAnon-affiliated show, where the host praised Rumble for "help[ing] keep us alive" after YouTube's October 2020 QAnon crackdown. Pavlovski told the host that the show using Rumble "means the world to us because we're not here without you."

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🌹Weegie 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 22h

The quiet part is no longer quiet.
Trump is a fascist and FOX is a fascist organization.

Social media post:
Fox News @FoxNews
Anti-Trump graffiti spree a sign of
emerging alt-left, liberal activist.

Picture of a brick building's corner
with "NO FASCIST USA" spray painted on it

André Davis @AndreJDavis82
That graffiti doesn't even mention
Trump. It's interesting that you
are willing to admit the Fascism
though.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h

"republican staffers are all literal nazis" is less of a groupchat thing and more of a posting on main thing at this point

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 13h

And if they do pick you out / up, remember:

I invoke my fifth amendment right; I want MY lawyer. And then BE SILENT

Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 13h

Also, reminder:

The US legal/justice system, on the prosecutorial end, literally works on a model of “Find the geographically closest member of the most scapegoat demographic to the incident and file charges, railroad style”.

Do not let them find you being the geographically most proximal.

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 13h

trolls on reddit five hours ago “how can u be so sure this isnt a leftist hoax”

Meanwhile:

Samhain Goldstein @goldstein.bsky.social · 13h

Wu Tang is for the Children
@WUTangKids
Here is @MikeJohnson
taking selfies with Bobby Walker….the one that texted "rape is epic" in the Young Republicans group chat

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 13h

They talk a great line about “fighting” and “resistance“ and then they go back to work and vote for Trump‘s nominees, and I’m sick of it.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 14h

The Republican Party & Fox News

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 15h

This is Mike "I need an accountability partner to make sure I'm not looking at pornography" Johnson. He is existentially threatened by the existence of naked people, and especially naked people in public who aren't being forcibly clothed and prosecuted for pornographing upon his visual cortex

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 16h

This does have international ramifications too, as far-right parties abroad can claim that the term is not “extremist” because the U.S. government also uses it.

Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.bsky.social · 16h

Just the Department of Homeland Security, using a term hijacked and popularised by the extreme-right Identitarian Movement.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 18h

If you can, skip everywhere you go at the protest. Moonwalk. Silly walk. Anything but your usual gorilla-arms-swinging gait, because the surveillance tech picks people out by their gaits, now.

The point here is that they should not have any reason to believe that YOU were ever there. Just SOMEONE.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 18h

Pay cash. Put your ID and credit cards in an Altoids tin - RF blocking. Do you have to wear glasses? Stow them for the duration if possible. The clothing you wear to the protest? Don't wear it to the park or a date or to work or to play tennis.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 18h

The point of in-person protests it to tell the government and society that N number of people disagree with Y government policy/action.
It is not to hand a fascist government a pretext for sending you to the South Sudan "on accident"

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 18h

Nobody you haven't met needs to know your face, your clothing, your scars or tattoos, when you go to protest.

Wear long pants, long sleeves, leave jewelry and anything with a wifi, cellular, or Bluetooth at home. Change your height if possible. Don't leave behind gum or anything you drink from.

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 18h

It is up to each of us to get the truth past peoples' normalcy biases

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 20h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 18h

In addition to opening up their ability to "negotiate" with dozens of independent governments instead of one United government.

Cartels - especially Mexican narcocartels - operate under a credo of "chaos is a ladder".