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✨Bland Potato ✨

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Bland, starchy, and radical af Freedom and justice for ALL ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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✨Bland Potato ✨ @blandpotato.bsky.social · Feb 7

“Equality feels like oppression when you’re used to privilege”

-Some dude on Reddit

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 10h

Miss Major is an incalculable loss for the trans community and a reminder that our movement is always led by Black trans women. Always.

May we all prove to be worthy students of her example.

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 14h

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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✨Bland Potato ✨ @blandpotato.bsky.social · 9m

Kudos to the The Times but they have made it clear they are NOT depicted to pursuing the public’s interest and we have the receipts to prove it

The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 16h

The Pentagon is restricting press access, and the NYT raises a serious First Amendment concern. The SecDef’s response? A wave emoji. It’s a childish mockery of accountability. But dodging scrutiny with memes is how authoritarians treat a free press.

✨Bland Potato ✨ @blandpotato.bsky.social · 12m

Your pain is my pain
Your struggle is my struggle

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 1h

Congrats to all the people who have postured as intelligent and morally righteous for years but decided that they couldn’t take a stand against genocide or decided to justify and cheer on the massacre of a people for whatever reason. Now they can go back to playing the intellectual in peace.

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✨Bland Potato ✨ @blandpotato.bsky.social · 13m

Fuckin dope 👌🏼

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 1h

Cong. Dems voted to ban Tik Tok because AIPAC wanted them to.

It had NOTHING to do with China & everything to do with the images out of Gaza being shared across the world.

I can never forgive the Dems who thought it was better to let MAGA control our speech, like it controls everything else.

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✨Bland Potato ✨ @blandpotato.bsky.social · 20m

Freedom is a constant struggle

✨Bland Potato ✨ @blandpotato.bsky.social · 23m

Grab him by the mangina

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2h

It is TIME. ☑️

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6h

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

• New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, "want to ... repeal the Affordable Care Act and elim nate protections for preexisting conditions." It's unclear what Trump would do, since he hasn't released a plan to replace the ACA. He said he would do so, if "we can come up With something that's better."

Schumer, meanwhile, was wrong to
say, as he did on the Senate floor April 28, that the bill goes "back to the day when insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."

perorats and Republicans have made
competing claims on whether the latest version of the GOP health care bill maintains protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. President Trump has said, "Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it." Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has said that
"insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."
Neither of those comments quite gets it right. The latest version offers lesser protections than the Affordable Care Act, but it doesn't allow insurers to deny coverage to someone with a health

Who's right? Like everything else in health care, it's complicated.

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✨Bland Potato ✨ @blandpotato.bsky.social · 10h

I mean you did say you grab women by the pussy and you still, unfortunately, have a career 🙄

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 12h

Trump on PM Meloni:

We have a woman, a young woman who’s… I’m not allowed to say it…she’s a beautiful young woman. If you use the word ‘beautiful’ in the US about a woman, that’s the end of your political career, but I’ll take my chances

✨Bland Potato ✨ @blandpotato.bsky.social · 10h

What are you guys going to spend your protest money on?

I’m thinking about an army of inflatable frogs

Thanks for making my dreams a reality, Soros

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Sean Duffy says the No Kings protests this Saturday are “really frustrating” because they are all paid Antifa people.

✨Bland Potato ✨ @blandpotato.bsky.social · 10h

You cannot justify this

And fuck you if you try

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

“Total destruction”

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✨Bland Potato ✨ @blandpotato.bsky.social · 10h

Looking forward to the day when we’re no longer “governed” by Fox News

Dennis K Jr @dkjrhi.bsky.social · 11h

“This is, simply put, bullshit.” - @chrisgeidner.bsky.social

www.lawdork.com/p/barrett-tu...

Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings

Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

www.lawdork.com

✨Bland Potato ✨ @blandpotato.bsky.social · 10h

Is this AI 😭 I’m so uncomfortable 🤢

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 1d

Chile’s Indigenous Rapa Nui Want Their Stolen Moai Back.
www.fairobserver.com/culture/chil...

Chile’s Indigenous Rapa Nui Wants Its Stolen Moai Back

Rapa Nui natives are demanding the return of Hoa Hakananai'a, a venerated statue taken by the British from their island in 1868.

www.fairobserver.com

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✨Bland Potato ✨ @blandpotato.bsky.social · 11h

“You’re overreacting”

I’d be rich if I had a nickel for every time someone told me that back when it mattered the most

Marcy Gall @marcygall.bsky.social · 21h

Sadly true

✨Bland Potato ✨ @blandpotato.bsky.social · 11h

“ANTIFA STRIPS DOWN”

😭goddamnit, Comrades, I missed the invite

✨Bland Potato ✨ @blandpotato.bsky.social · 11h

There’s no fixing this

I don’t want to go back to what we had

I want reform

I want the idealized “American Dream” to become a reality for EVERYONE

✨Bland Potato ✨ @blandpotato.bsky.social · 11h

Despicable

Puberty blockers have been around for decades

They were originally used to prevent children from experiencing puberty too early

The ONLY con discovered through many studies is that is can cause reduced bone density…

TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14h

Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth.

I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.

Alt text:
Statement from Fenway Health explaining that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, they can no longer provide medical gender-affirming care such as hormones and puberty blockers to patients under 19, but all other services for patients of all ages will continue unchanged.

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SNAFU @redrams84.bsky.social · 11h

Soon even saying “Palestinian” will be outlawed. They couldn’t kill them all, so now they will demand the world deny their existence.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 12h

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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✨Bland Potato ✨ @blandpotato.bsky.social · 11h

Fucking disgusting

Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · 11h

Unfortunately, Zionist, Israel billionaire-controlled CNN has forced Christiane Amanpour to apologize for telling the truth, continuing their ongoing campaign of making sure unique voices are denied the ability to appear and replaced with quid pro quo Trump/Netanyahu sycophants like Scott Jennings.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 11h

This concentration of wealth has progressed with every US presidency. And then people ask

“How did we get here?”

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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✨Bland Potato ✨ @blandpotato.bsky.social · 11h

I’m staying away from terms like “un-American” because I don’t know what it means to be American

Especially at this time

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 22h

It's #IndigenousPeoplesDay!

Fellow settlers, if you have a little extra, today is a great day to give to Native Mutual Aid and/or one of my favorite organizations, Native American Rights Fund.

narf.org

Home - Native American Rights Fund

narf.org

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