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✨️The Worst Martha✨️

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💫Too old and barren to be a Handmaid, and I don't know how to do Martha Things. I'm fracked ✨️ 🦋 Proud snowflake, feral GenXer, Spoonie, mother of Parts, plants and a pup. Lover of dogs, art, and dystopian fiction. Fuck Fascism and Patriarchy 🦋

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✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · Aug 5

Here's an idea: How about we, as a culture, stop normalizing and finding it funny when an old white man feigns helplessness about his attraction to teens/young women. How about we, as a culture, say NO, we no longer accept this gross behavior bullshit from bygone generations when abuse was ok.

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · Aug 5

Newly unearthed video shows Trump bragging about hiring a “beautiful” 17- or 18-year-old girl just for her looks:

“See, now if she worked on my plane, that’s like a death wish for me, right? That’s like an alcoholic,” said Trump.

What a creep!

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✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 2h

Our president is fucking insane.

✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 2h

It's wild how we just decided as a culture that the threat doesn't exist, but if it does, oh well! That's for other people to worry about. No one thinks it can happen to them, until it does.

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✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 4h

The time has come to push back, not with violence or hate, but with the unstoppable power of love, courage, and collective truth-telling".

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✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 4h

our democracy, our future, and a future for our kids. Across the country and the world, people are organizing under the banner "No Kings," standing against the rise of authoritarianism, corporate capture, and government overreach that treats people like pawns instead of sovereign beings. ...

✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 4h

...sit by and hope that someone else will rise up to make things right, when the quiet longing for peace must become a roar for justice.

October 18 is that moment.

This isn’t just another protest - it’s a call to reclaim our humanity, our democracy, our future, and a future for our kids...

✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 4h

"There comes a moment in every generation when silence becomes a form of consent, when silence becomes violence and when we're morally complicit if we do nothing while human rights are being violated and democracy is being destroyed. We've more than hit that moment, when we can no longer...

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✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 13h

a man is holding a lantern in front of a sign that says " caution gaslighting in progress "

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✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 13h

The "kids". These are grown ass MEN.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 18h

The “Young Republican” group chat leaked to Politico had these white supremacist master race types on it. Peter Giunta, Bobby Walker, William Hendrix and Samuel Douglass. These are not “college kids.” These are grown up fascists.

✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 13h

I fucking love Portland. 💗

✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 13h

Beautiful, thank you! Now I feel even more strongly about buying it. 💗

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✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you so much, it's on my calendar to purchase next week. Does anyone happen to know where the proceeds of the book will go now that Virginia is no longer with us?

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✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine being that triggered by a protest.

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✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 16h

a poster with a snake and the words " what could possibly " on it

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✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 16h

✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 17h

This this this

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Jeff Mac @jeffmacishere.bsky.social · 18h

I’m worried if I admit I think Nazis are fucking shit, I’ll alienate all the moderate, centrist Nazis.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 18h

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✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 19h

Oh, no. No no no no.

I agree, string em' up.

✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 20h

Swear. Her. In.

Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 21h

@cnn.com @msnbc.com @abc7.bsky.social
@cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @npr.org @maddow.msnbc.com @meidastouch.com

✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 20h

a man is holding a lantern in front of a sign that says " caution gaslighting in progress "

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✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 20h

I'd rather know, too. But it's fucking horrifying.

✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 1d

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jen rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 1d

IF YOU PAY ATTENTION TO ANYTHING TODAY it should be the supreme court. they're hearing a case today that will decide if they *gut the federal law that blocks racial discrimination in voting.* i know that doesn't sound like real life but it is.

✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. That much money and power makes people insane. See: this.

✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 1d

Yep!

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

GOV. WALZ: "The biggest myth is that this guy understands business. He's an absolute abject failure at business — the irony is calling Democrats socialists when I am begging for free markets here to allow capitalism to work. Trump’s the one with government interference." (From @atrupar.com )

✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 1d

WHOA.

"...Telegram chats — spanning more than seven months of messages among Young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont. The chat offers an unfiltered look at how a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening"

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.