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From Republic to Relic: The Prophecy of America’s Slow Death

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 10d

Fanfic, a writing prompt, a real life prediction‽‽ I leave it for you to decide

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America won’t collapse in war but dissolve by paperwork, prayer, and shrugs. The 2051 “prophecy” doesn't feel like fiction so much as our trajectory, already unfolding.

The Feminine Principle as Operating System: What We Build When We Stop Imitating Men

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 11d

This is not romanticization. It’s an archaeological fact obscured by centuries of Hero’s Journey propaganda. The first tools were baskets, slings, nets, and pouches, technologies of relation rather than domination. They made community possible.

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The feminine is not fragile — it’s infrastructural. When we stop imitating men, we remember that power’s highest form is care that coheres, not control that conquers.

The Price of Partnership: How America Learned to Lease Its Sovereignty

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 11d

Goodbye sovereignty...

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Qatar’s new air facility in Idaho isn’t “interoperability,” it’s the sale of American sovereignty, one square foot at a time.

The Physics of Holding: Dignity as Infrastructure

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 11d

Fascism collapses into certainty: all heat, no heart, all blade, no basket. It promises to eliminate ambiguity by eliminating the ambiguous. It offers the seductive clarity of categories: pure/impure, strong/weak, us/them. But certainty is not strength.

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The opposite of fascism isn’t liberalism, it’s holding. Dignity, care, and coherence are not emotions but engineering. Love is a load-bearing structure.

Profiles in Progress: Ghazala Hashmi (Lt. Governor) Virginia

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 11d

Profiles in Progress: Ghazala Hashmi

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State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi aims to be Virginia’s first Muslim Lt. Governor, delivering tie-breaking power and bold leadership on education, health, and rights.

Epistemic War Report: California Politics – Temperament Trap in Katie Porter Coverage

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 11d

Clock the pattern...

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Field-grade SECSV analysis that tracks how meaning was manufactured, laundered, and enforced, with countermeasures assigned and ready to deploy.

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 14d

100% It's going to take time and distance, before I can even consider this entire situation with ANY equanimity-and SOME will never be forgotten let alone forgiven.

Arrogant Esquire @arrogantade.blacksky.app · 14d

It’s going to be a long period of time before I no longer harbor animosity for you dumb motherfuckers who allowed this to happen.

Installing a Trust Operating System for American Policing: Unions, Leadership, and the End of Blue-by-Default

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 16d

Installing a Trust Operating System for American Policing: Unions, Leadership, and the End of Blue-by-Default
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Rebuild policing as a trust product. Install a Trust OS, rewrite union rules for safe value, and put evidence on cadence. No artifact, no action. Sunlight or nothing.

EWR—Part 2: Saturation. Flood The Zone, Sow Confusion.

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 20d

This is what it really means - Welcome to saturation.

#5thGenWarfare #EpistemicWar #FuckDonaldTrump #FuckTrump

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Saturation is pressure, not proof. Learn to see burst windows, copy-paste campaigns, and turn down the volume without tuning out reality.

EWR — Part 1: Welcome To The Battlespace. Why Your Feeds Feel Hostile.

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 21d

EWR—Part 1: Welcome To The Battlespace. Why Your Feeds Feel Hostile. This is not a culture war sermon. This is not a scold. This is not a permission slip to call everyone a bot. The point is to lower your heart rate while raising your standards.

#5thGenWarfare

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Your attention is a supply line. Meet SECSV, the playbook behind the chaos, and learn a calm way to map, measure, and defend what you value.

Ezra sold ambiance where Coates named harm. That is not balance. It is a polite refusal of Black experience dressed as moderation. Hold the line. Not the vibe.

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 22d

@ezraklein.bsky.social

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 22d

Goddammit Ezra: You are good at scaffolding conversations. Great. Build a scaffold around the truth, not around your comfort. When a Black writer tells you love can get you shot, do not reach for a scented generality.

@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social

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Goddammit Ezra

Why NSPM-7 Is a Blueprint for Weaponized Governance

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 22d

Why NSPM-7 Is a Blueprint for Weaponized Governance
If your government can label librarians and legal observers a “network,” your bank becomes the censor, and your spreadsheet becomes probable cause. That is not security. That is TYRANNY.

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NSPM-7 turns post-9/11 tools on domestic dissent. It targets networks, donors, and NGOs via JTTFs, Treasury, and IRS. Prepare governance receipts, get legal counsel, and fight.

Ezra sold ambiance where Coates named harm. That is not balance. It is a polite refusal of Black experience dressed as moderation. Hold the line. Not the vibe.

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you!!

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 22d

Goddammit Ezra: You are good at scaffolding conversations. Great. Build a scaffold around the truth, not around your comfort. When a Black writer tells you love can get you shot, do not reach for a scented generality.

@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social

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Goddammit Ezra

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 23d

What I hear him saying is FUCK Americans and their needy needs... excellent Christian values, Mike.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23d

Mike Johnson: "The WIC program, the nutrition program -- women, infants, and children -- that program won't be funded. FEMA won't be funded."

The Dashboard Prison: How Metrics Became Our Reality

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 23d

The Dashboard Prison: How Metrics Became Our Reality
The dashboard is not the world. It is a fence. Tear it down, count what matters, and make the map answer to the territory.

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The dashboard is not the world. It is a fence. Tear it down, count what matters, and make the map answer to the territory.

The Trust Envelope And The Return Of Legitimacy

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 23d

The Trust Envelope And The Return Of Legitimacy
Legitimacy is built, not begged. Dashboards can track it. Only duty can hold it.

#TrustEnvelope #Legitimacy #ALSM #DutyOfCare #Boundaries #CivicContract #Stakeholders #TVM #Leadership #DesignForTrust

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Legitimacy is built, not begged. The Trust Envelope lights five invariants and ALSM checks the signal. Dashboards can track it. Only duty can hold it.

Launching Profiles in Progress, a receipts-first series on declared progressives who can govern. Submit candidates, fact-check me, and then take one concrete action.

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 23d

Profiles in Progress - Submit your candidates today!! I am compiling a complete list. If you have a candidate that you like, please drop their name in the comments, and I will add them to the list.

#profilesinprogress #thiswomanvotes #mandateforprogress

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Profiles in Progress

Profile in Progress: Zohran Mamdani,

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 23d

Profile in Progress: Zohran Mamdani,

I am doing profiles of each candidate - please submit your recommendations.

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Movement left meets municipal math: Mamdani leads by about 20, offering free buses, rent relief, and climate enforcement with receipts and a field army to match.

Break The Fence: A Reader’s Playbook To End The Enclosure

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 23d

The epistemic enclosure didn’t build itself, and it won’t dismantle itself through corporate goodwill or regulatory enlightenment. It survives on polite audiences and quarterly applause while real costs bleed offstage.

#fucktrump #fightfacism #comeatmebro

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Your lever is procurement, policy, and proof. Workers, buyers, reporters, regulators, investors. Pull together, bind money to duty, and the fence breaks.

A Love Report from Portland: Against the War Zone Lie

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 23d

I know I said I was going to file a “War Report” this weekend, but I changed my mind. Here’s the real dispatch from the so-called war zone: I fell in love.

#portland #pdx #americanwarzone #fucktrump

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Portland isn’t a war zone. It’s a city that chooses people over theater, building exits from suffering with receipts, bridges, and relentless, ordinary kindness.

Housing is Cheaper Than Cruelty: An American Reckoning

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 29d

Poverty and homelessness are morally neutral. Survival is a moral imperative. Anyone selling you the bootstrap gospel while people die from exposure is peddling cruelty wrapped in a patriotic gift bag.

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I “camped” by choice. They “camp” to survive. Homelessness is math, not morals. Build housing, fund care, stop the theatrical crackdowns. Receipts included.

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This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 29d

The Theater Of Authority: Trump’s UN Performance Is Not Policy, It’s Epistemic Sabotage

Trump’s UN act weaponized spectacle over substance. Here’s the receipt book: what was true, what was fiction, and how democracies counter dominance theater.

This Woman Votes @thiswomanvotes.bsky.social · 29d

Trump used the UN’s global stage to sell the same product he always sells: self-mythology, institutional vandalism, and grievance economics. He mixed one real military action with a blizzard of exaggerations, misframes, and numerology. The goal was to establish dominance, not engage in diplomacy.