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White Rose Witching

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✨ Gay Hispanic hedge priest in MD 💀 Social justice necromancer 🏳️‍🌈 Working w/ Queer Ancestors ✊ LGBTQ+/disability activist 🌿 Bio-regional Druid

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · Feb 9

Pinning this here so new followers can learn who is behind this account.

I'm Ron (he/him),a gay Cuban-American hedge priest and ordained pagan clergy. My focus is on queer-affirming spirituality and spiritual activism. My practice is a blend of folk Catholicism, Druidry, and witchcraft.
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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 9h

Just a reminder that John Roberts, when he invented the idea of presidential immunity, shielded Trump from consequences even if he uses the powers of the office "for an improper purpose."

Our own systems will not hold this criminal regime accountable. We need international action.

White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 9h

Let's also not forget that this is likely illegal as he doesn't have money to pay for this. He says he solicited private donations but that still doesn't allow him to just spend that wherever he pleases. It all has to go through Congress which functionally doesn't exist anymore.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

This is a desecration and an abomination. First he posts an AI video of himself wearing a crown dumping shit on the heads of Americans, then he starts tearing down part of the White House for his Mar-a-Lago style ballroom.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10h

People we're saying that he should just build an Oval Office in Mar A Lago and laughed at me when I said that the reality was he was gonna wreck the White House and turn it into Mar A Lago if they ever let him back in there

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 10h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 10h

Just to remind everyone, this ballroom is going to be as big as the rest of the fucking White House.

I truly mean it, when this is all over, the ballroom should be converted to a public museum about the threat of fascism.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 10h

This is insane.

“It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of," Trump said in July. “It’s my favorite. It’s my favorite place. I love it.”

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

www.washingtonpost.com

White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 10h

Hey y'all! Just a reminder about this upcoming Virtual Queer Ancestor Memorial on Sunday 10/26 from 6-6:45pm ET. This is a free event, but donations are appreciated. I have two dear friends assisting with creating and holding space.

Queer Ancestor Memorial

Join Rev. Ron Padrón for a ceremony of remembrance and thanks honoring our Queer Ancestors.

www.eventbrite.com

White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 10h

We need to pressure mainstream media to stop running to rural White American when they want to get the opinions of "real America" and instead embrace the multicultural pluralism that defines our modern democracy.
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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 10h

This is a great essay, especially the part about No Kings helping to push back against the idea that a "real American" is a conservative White Christian.
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America As No-Longer-Democracy and Not-Yet-Dictatorship

Where does the country stand after the largest day of protest in U.S. history? Putting “No Kings” in perspective

democracyamericana.com

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 11h

Fox News star Laura Ingraham spent years railing against the purported corruption caused by Hunter Biden's business interests. Now she’s going into business with Donald Trump Jr.

Star Fox host Laura Ingraham is now in business with the president’s son

www.mediamatters.org

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 11h

No one thinks about queer stuff more than folks who hate us. Just leave us the fuck alone.

Mikie Sherrill @mikiesherrill.bsky.social · 11h

It's 2025 and The Jack Campaign opposes same-sex marriage.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11h

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 12h

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

futurism.com/future-socie...

It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It

He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

futurism.com

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 11h

This is one of my favorite parts of @anamariecox.bsky.social's dispatch from New Braunfels, TX—home to Chip Roy and America's most dangerous waterpark—on No Kings Day

newrepublic.com/article/2019...

One older gentleman held a simple sign: “I am anti-fascist,” handwritten in large letters and “Not Antifa” in parentheses at the bottom. Another gracious senior told me, “I don’t even know what antifa is.” His wife added, “We don’t belong to any organization. We’re just against what they’re doing. We’re anti-fascist.”

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 11h

"Most of the spending was on guns and armor, but there have also been significant purchases of chemical weapons and “guided missile warheads and explosive components.”"

Now why would ICE needed fucking guided missiles unless its to be MAGAs private army?

ICE boosts weapons spending 700%

popular.info

White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 12h

I've decided to refer to the AI artists being created by folks like Spotify, WB, etc. as "scabmunculi" because they are 1) artificial lifeforms and 2) fucking scabs.

White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 13h

I highly recommend giving this a listen and familiarizing yourself with this conservative Catholic influence network.

When Faith Becomes Fascism: The Shadow Network in American Politics | Gareth Gore Joins Sam Osterhout

Pope Leo is moving to mortally wound Opus Dei: Will it matter?

open.substack.com

White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 13h

"Such rallies “bring together multigenerational groups and the playfulness can help create enthusiasm for big tent politics against the monoculture of fascism,” Corrigan writes. “The frogs (and unicorns and dinosaurs) will be defining ideographs of this period of struggle.”"
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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 13h

"Corrigan notes, too, that yesterday “every single rally (including in the small towns) was bigger than the surrounding police force available. That kind of image event is VERY IMPORTANT if you’re…demonstrating social coherence AGAINST a fascist government and its makeshift gestapo.”"
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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 13h

"They build larger communities by creating new images that bring together recognizable images from the past in new ways, helping more people see themselves in such an opposition. The community and good feelings those gatherings develop help carry opposition through hard moments."
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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 13h

"Scholar of social movements Lisa Corrigan noted that large, fun marches full of art and music expand connections and make people more willing to take risks against growing state power."
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October 19, 2025

All last week, Republican leaders tried to portray the No Kings protests scheduled for Saturday, October 18, as “Hate America” rallies.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 13h

Bring back antitrust enforcement. Amazon should no be this big or have this much power.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 17h

Huge swathes of the internet were taken offline on Monday after an outage at an Amazon Web Services data center in Virginia that hosts millions of apps and websites.

Major Outage Plunges Internet Into Chaos

Over 500 major apps and websites went offline after an error at an Amazon data center.

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 14h

Y'all remember that Seal Team 6 MAGA guy who kept saying his Christian Nationalist harem was gonna be filled with liberal twinks? Like it was some kind of alpha flex?

Wild.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 2d

And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 1d

Listen, I despise Trump and the whole MAGA thing. But even I held out hope that this Gaza ceasefire would hold.

It collapsing is not a win against Trump. It is a continuation of a horrific genocide.

White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, y'all!

Life can take you in some very unexpected places, which is what makes it exciting. A new article just dropped in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art that discusses the work me and my friends are doing around punk spirituality, zines, and liberation.

Punk Spirituality: Harnessing Holy Anger with the ALTAR PUNK Zine

ALTAR PUNK first began, John-Marx recalls, while they were doing dishes.

whitehotmagazine.com

White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 3d

This is a good explainer of how Trump is not in charge:

robertreich.substack.com/p/the-power-...

White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 3d

"Vought has consolidated power to an extent that insiders say they feel like “he is the commander in chief.”"

Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President

From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...