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Mandy Keifetz

@besecretandexult.bsky.social

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Inky, impatient, and left of you. I write books which can be purchased or borrowed from libraries. If you'd care to buy one for your weirdest friend, I’d appreciate it.

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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · May 16

Still a bit swollen because I just had it done. Please make note of font in case they photoshop “antifa” on it in comic sans or whatever

Fresh knuckle tattoo in a small middle aged fist reading “due process” in an old skool font

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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 4m

All of this is true and also: you can take action right now.

The State of the Republic is Grim - Lawyers, Guns & Money

If you’re on Bluesky and follow me, you’ve probably seen that I’m writing threads that really should be the basis for posts at LGM. You’ve also likely gotten a bead on where I am these days. Here’s a ...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23m

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 1d

Stencils for community art build tomorrow : “melt ice” “liberty 4 all” “Unite” against my unmopped floor

Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 1d

It's really funny and sweet to be called upon in my dotage for the skillset of my youth: zinefolding, wheatpasting, sign defacing, stickering, puppets, satire. Not much is funny and sweet these days, but to me, this is.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

Just waiting on today's baggie delivery.

Piles of folded ICE whistle zines and a box of orange whistles

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 1d

I was given to understand that the president's son getting a job with a company doing business before the government was an impeachable offense

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 2d

"Because, frankly, with a population that's 84% white, greater Boise needs more brown people to kidnap. I looked at those statistics, and at the emptying coffers of the kings's personal fortune and said, damn it, we are warriors. We can do better."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Aaaand that didn't last long. Protesters and prayer group have made their way across 25th for some chanting.

Lots more CCSO, ISP and Broadview PD arriving now.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

It's like... you know how much I owe you. YOU TELL ME. Fucks sake

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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 2d

This is especially ludicrous.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bartiromo attacks Mamdani for pointing out that tourists aren't traveling to the US as much because Trump is brutalizing people: "You just heard that. He wants illegals and internationalists to come here, particularly ahead of the World Cup."

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 2d

can’t believe the guy funding the war managed to end the war. how’d he do it? what’s his secret?

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 2d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 2d

Like 97% of why i don't give a shit if he wins it is Kissinger's '73 win, so like, it kind of makes sense? That's what dynamite and squares reward.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Q: What is Trump’s plan for antifa?

A: He will create the organization, and then destroy it.

What To Know About NSPM-7

On Sept. 25, President Trump issued a directive called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 in which “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity” were described as “common threads...

theonion.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

idk how many people there are who will throw down for jim comey, but there's a helluva lot of people who will throw down for tish james

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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible reporting! Thank you!

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Perry is back on the bench.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

As we wait for Judge April Perry to rule, here's my full story from this morning's extraordinary hearing, for @wttw.bsky.social:

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 2d

The presumption of regularity is dead, at least before serious district court judges. That's what happens when you constantly send half-qualified "lawyers" from the DOJ to lie in court

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Perry: Four (4) federal judges have issued rulings in the past two (2) days in separate cases that cast significant doubt on federal officials' "credibility and assessment of what is happening on the streets of Chicago."

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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 3d

This suuuucks. But know what doesn't suck? Dancing on an overpass with a child's brightly colored umbrella. Checking on your neighbors. Remembering that you don't want a king and getting in the street to say so. www.nokings.org

"NO Kings 10/18" sign, white poly tarp over black weed cloth; over the entrance to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, Brooklynside

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone who’s ever tried to get three leftists to agree on where to go for dinner could tell you that antifa isn’t a real organization.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 3d

I would vote without question for anyone with the fucking stones to do this while refusing to 1) throw trans people under the bus and 2) fund Israel's genocide

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 3d

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

Credit where credit is due. The Democrats' message that the GOP shut down the government because they want to throw millions of people off healthcare has broken through. Two of my cousins who are NOT AT ALL tuned into national politics told me that this is why the government is shut down.

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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 3d

you rock

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 3d

Read!!!

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d

New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control.

I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:

Truth, morality and independence in journalism under the second Trump regime

My full remarks to students and faculty at Grennell College.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

Exhibit #1 million that you can just DO THINGS. These folks came up with an idea and have now implemented it. We can all do something where we are. I just donated to their efforts.

Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social · Sep 6

We’ve officially launched! Lots of ways to support this new initiative that supports street vendors from 🧊 we keep us safe!

Interest form and flyer below! #BikeChi

forms.gle/dY931Sxzs6V9...

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