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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 5d

If there's one thing I'm sure that lower income and working class Americans have right now, it's an extra $12000 dollars to buy an electric car from a techno-fascist.

Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 5d

There's a lot that's not in this piece. wrote it on the plane, to process, basically.

There's things left out, like how it feels to use the bathroom in an American airport, which always feels like it's only a matter of time before something incredibly loud and horrible happens.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 5d

I'm trans. I fly. I fly a lot. It sucks. It's starting to suck a lot more.

This is what it's like to fly for one trans person, and what it's been like for me for a while. I wonder what it's like for you? I wonder when my next detainment will be. I wonder what surprises lie in store for you and me.

Notes on Flying While Trans in MAGA America

The decline of empires is a helluva drug, isn't it?

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 6d

THIS.

Get your heads out of the sand, folks.

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 6d

the epstein files aren’t dropping & this isn’t a distraction from them.

this is a fascist setting up the field to eliminate every point of friction that might impede an attempt to seize absolute power.

quippy posts about epstein are delaying your realization of, & motivation to fight, that fact.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 7d

Magical.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 7d

I think you won, Beltalowda.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 7d

"I confess! It's me, I'm the girlfriend of Antifa."

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 7d

Noem: "You wouldn't know her, she goes to a different school."

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 8d

Republicans will always be united under one banner, their overwhelming public humiliation fetish.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 8d

Or the legions of cisgender men who are all on Testosterone Replacement Therapy, now, but who pretend that it's not Gender Affirming Care, because insecurity is a helluva drug.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 8d

If you're still not sure about what's going down, I'd, like, really appreciate it if you acknowledged that transgender Americans are in the process of witnessing our own genocide, and act accordingly, okay?

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8d

In a press release, Texas Attorney General calls "transgenderism" a "corrupted ideology" that is "a cancer on our culture."

This is openly genocidal rhetoric about trans people from a sitting AG.

A press release dated October 7, 2025, with the headline: “Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Undercover Operations to Infiltrate and Uproot Leftist Terror Cells in Texas After Increased Political Violence.” The statement claims rising left-wing violence, referencing the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and outlines Paxton’s directive for undercover investigations. A highlighted quote from Paxton reads: “Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people.” The text further accuses the radical Left of fostering political violence, referencing incidents involving Antifa-like groups and a supposed assassin tied to transgender movements. It also notes that President Trump designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, with Paxton vowing sweeping investigations into radical leftist groups.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 12d

Post a cartoon character you most relate to.

The Marvelous, Magnificent, Mad Madam Mim!

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 12d

Newsom has one job, being termed out of his office in California and positioning himself to be the next Republican President of the United States.

He's already made it clear that he's willing to sit down with and have a cordial conversation with a fucking fascist, what more do you need to know?

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 12d

Please, take it from a Californian born and bred: you cannot trust Gavin Newsom. I don’t care if he has Good Posters working for him; he’ll sell vulnerable people down the river without blinking an eye.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 12d

On the other hand, seeing who does and doesn't have a Ring let's me know who has already chosen the losing side and wants to take me down with them.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 13d

He's a 63 year-old man going on about how the virginity of actresses is one of his priorities.

Someone check his hard drive, immediately.

Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 14d

It doesn't matter what's said. It doesn't matter what the new policy is. That all could be a memo/email/Zoom. That's all secondary.

What matters is the demonstration of dominance and the power disparity between two incompetent jackasses and the nation's career military officers.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 14d

Okay, y'all....

This political theatre had two functions:

1. To demonstrate that when Hesgeth says "Jump," these folks jump.

2. To generate imagery of two losers in bad suits telling ALL of the career military officers "how it's gonna be."

Does no one understand dominance politics?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14d

Republican Senator Tillis said the Hegseth cringe fest was costly and counterproductive and could’ve been a zoom call (or an email)

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14d

US culture doesn't reward people for 'having been right' about anything. In fact, this rarely matters. If you are powerful, it hardly matters whether you are wrong. Power rules everything around us.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 14d

Hey, hey, hey, don't forget the Dark Haired Girl(s)!

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 14d

If the epistemology involved were colonial, yes, but it's an Indigenous epistemology, which doesn't treat even colonizers as "illegal," that is relevant, here.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 14d

Because there's no convincing some folks that ethics even exist, I just keep a long list of names of people I will never work with or hang out with again, you know?

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 18d

Malort has entered the chat.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 18d

They can't take it with them....

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 18d

Imagine putting on riot gear to go protect yourself from donuts on string.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 18d

Hugggs.

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