Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita
@blooshky.bsky.social
Easily irritated, but not yet convinced that humans will manage to wipe ourselves out completely. He/him, but yo' gurl is okay too.
John Sayles for President.
Avatar is a piece of artwork called "Evolution of Charles" by Francis and Laurence Minoza.
John Sayles for President.
Avatar is a piece of artwork called "Evolution of Charles" by Francis and Laurence Minoza.
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People don’t understand that stripping the guardrails of regulation and oversight doesn’t just apply to like better business bureau type shit but also like on a practical level when I get into an elevator I expect that it has passed a safety inspection & that type of security will be gone soon
December 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
People don’t understand that stripping the guardrails of regulation and oversight doesn’t just apply to like better business bureau type shit but also like on a practical level when I get into an elevator I expect that it has passed a safety inspection & that type of security will be gone soon
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Contrary to what some liberal critics say, John Roberts has kept his pledge to only call balls and strikes. He never promised that the strike zone would be the same for Democrats and Republicans.
December 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Contrary to what some liberal critics say, John Roberts has kept his pledge to only call balls and strikes. He never promised that the strike zone would be the same for Democrats and Republicans.
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I think another thing is they don't want a protest movement they can't control, and like you noted, they haven't/won't put in the work to build a mass politics for their own political formation (to the extent that's even possible, given their ideological druthers).
December 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I think another thing is they don't want a protest movement they can't control, and like you noted, they haven't/won't put in the work to build a mass politics for their own political formation (to the extent that's even possible, given their ideological druthers).
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Not understanding that power vacuums are going to be filled by *someone* seems like yet another way the Dems in general refuse to understand power, and its uses. In contrast with the Republicans, who understand very well how to acquire and use power, even if they use it for Bad Things.
December 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Not understanding that power vacuums are going to be filled by *someone* seems like yet another way the Dems in general refuse to understand power, and its uses. In contrast with the Republicans, who understand very well how to acquire and use power, even if they use it for Bad Things.
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It is funny that Van Hollen is actually in a one on one beef with a senior leader of the Jewish American institutional political community and it receives maybe 1/100th the coverage of Zohran Mamdani not condemning something he *didn't say*.
December 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
It is funny that Van Hollen is actually in a one on one beef with a senior leader of the Jewish American institutional political community and it receives maybe 1/100th the coverage of Zohran Mamdani not condemning something he *didn't say*.
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Fusion centers were created post-9/11 to target terror but, as this points out, instead target us.
As repeatedly happened—bc terrorism is vanishingly rare, and law enforcement isn’t going to just let tools sit unused.
Like 99% of Patriot Act “sneak and peek” warrants have not been in terror cases.
As repeatedly happened—bc terrorism is vanishingly rare, and law enforcement isn’t going to just let tools sit unused.
Like 99% of Patriot Act “sneak and peek” warrants have not been in terror cases.
“You may have never heard of a Fusion Center, but a Fusion Center has likely heard about you.”
The state surveillance centers feeding info to the federal government | Opinion
State fusion centers, including two in Sacramento, collect and share mass surveillance data with federal agencies, risking civil liberties.
www.sacbee.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Fusion centers were created post-9/11 to target terror but, as this points out, instead target us.
As repeatedly happened—bc terrorism is vanishingly rare, and law enforcement isn’t going to just let tools sit unused.
Like 99% of Patriot Act “sneak and peek” warrants have not been in terror cases.
As repeatedly happened—bc terrorism is vanishingly rare, and law enforcement isn’t going to just let tools sit unused.
Like 99% of Patriot Act “sneak and peek” warrants have not been in terror cases.
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since we're doing USPS discourse again, a reminder of what Dems should be saying
"the USPS is a miracle. it's in the constitution. for the price of a single stamp you can send a letter across the country, from Hawaii to Maine. Trump is trying to take that away from you. He's attacking Christmas cards and wedding invitations. It's un-American and it has to stop."
December 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
since we're doing USPS discourse again, a reminder of what Dems should be saying
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"Netflix promises to"
yeah you can stop there
yeah you can stop there
December 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"Netflix promises to"
yeah you can stop there
yeah you can stop there
If Holsey doesn't end up testifying, and soon, you can forget about any accountability at all for the boat m*rd*rs. And it won't be long before it escalates, because now they have a bunch of people lined up who WILL "just follow" illegal orders.
Call your electeds, if you think it'll help
Call your electeds, if you think it'll help
December 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
If Holsey doesn't end up testifying, and soon, you can forget about any accountability at all for the boat m*rd*rs. And it won't be long before it escalates, because now they have a bunch of people lined up who WILL "just follow" illegal orders.
Call your electeds, if you think it'll help
Call your electeds, if you think it'll help
Guilty
we were too busy dooming about the scorpion and frog to see the beauty and joy of the raccoon and alligator
Uhhhh
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Guilty
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Are Democratic voters asking the party what their Project 2026 plan is if they win the House? What's the written plan and the timeline? What's the first thing a Dem House would do in jan 2027?
December 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Are Democratic voters asking the party what their Project 2026 plan is if they win the House? What's the written plan and the timeline? What's the first thing a Dem House would do in jan 2027?
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The last few years have made crystal clear how much of our politics is driven by moral luck — people who are self identified liberals or Democrats only because of life circumstances, not because they actually have a principled belief structure. Many are just as reactionary as the right.
December 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The last few years have made crystal clear how much of our politics is driven by moral luck — people who are self identified liberals or Democrats only because of life circumstances, not because they actually have a principled belief structure. Many are just as reactionary as the right.
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They're trying to get people acclimated to extrajudicial killings so they can start doing it closer and closer to where you live.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
They're trying to get people acclimated to extrajudicial killings so they can start doing it closer and closer to where you live.
Honestly find it hilarious that Bluesky is probably going to hide this because of the n word.
Juice or no juice this place isn't nearly as woke as y'all like to pretend it is. Bluesky is mostly just early Twitter, but set in a different era, with more politically sophisticated users.
Juice or no juice this place isn't nearly as woke as y'all like to pretend it is. Bluesky is mostly just early Twitter, but set in a different era, with more politically sophisticated users.
December 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Honestly find it hilarious that Bluesky is probably going to hide this because of the n word.
Juice or no juice this place isn't nearly as woke as y'all like to pretend it is. Bluesky is mostly just early Twitter, but set in a different era, with more politically sophisticated users.
Juice or no juice this place isn't nearly as woke as y'all like to pretend it is. Bluesky is mostly just early Twitter, but set in a different era, with more politically sophisticated users.
Yep. Though it's empty now mostly because we've been ruled by monsters for so long that most of us have been trained into a state of learned helplessness
Purity tests are why food and drug safety used to be pretty decent, and why r*pst *azis in the government used to be considered embarrassing
Purity tests are why food and drug safety used to be pretty decent, and why r*pst *azis in the government used to be considered embarrassing
"Purity test" is an empty signifier. If you think it's a purity test to ask that you not be massively corrupt, oppose genocide, and don't vote for the opposition parties' deeply unqualified cabinet appointments, that says more about you than the people supposedly purity testing you.
Exactly. It's disingenuous to call it a purity test to say "You shouldn't be beholden to right-wing billionaires pushing right-wing policies and right-wing candidates."
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
December 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Yep. Though it's empty now mostly because we've been ruled by monsters for so long that most of us have been trained into a state of learned helplessness
Purity tests are why food and drug safety used to be pretty decent, and why r*pst *azis in the government used to be considered embarrassing
Purity tests are why food and drug safety used to be pretty decent, and why r*pst *azis in the government used to be considered embarrassing
Lot cheaper than Amazon prime
Just saying
Just saying
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Lot cheaper than Amazon prime
Just saying
Just saying
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things
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It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
Good article well worth reading, but we already know the floor is 27% aka the "Keyes Constant"
(Internet joke. But it does seem like approval bottoms out around there.)
(Internet joke. But it does seem like approval bottoms out around there.)
New piece with lots of data and charts: How low could Trump’s approval rating realistically go? Affordability is his big problem, but how big is that problem? Are we talking an approval floor of 35%? 30%? Worse?
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/how-the-fl...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/how-the-fl...
December 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Good article well worth reading, but we already know the floor is 27% aka the "Keyes Constant"
(Internet joke. But it does seem like approval bottoms out around there.)
(Internet joke. But it does seem like approval bottoms out around there.)
@propublica.org oh come the f* on
I'm over here trying to figure out if I'll be able to send money next year (which has always seemed like a great investment before) and y'all pull something like this?
This is just stupid. Stop it
I'm over here trying to figure out if I'll be able to send money next year (which has always seemed like a great investment before) and y'all pull something like this?
This is just stupid. Stop it
It's simple — @propublica.org workers should not be replaced by artificial intelligence. Our contract proposal specifically says that generative artificial intelligence ("GAI") should not be used to replace employees. Management struck out this entire section in their response to our proposal.
December 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
@propublica.org oh come the f* on
I'm over here trying to figure out if I'll be able to send money next year (which has always seemed like a great investment before) and y'all pull something like this?
This is just stupid. Stop it
I'm over here trying to figure out if I'll be able to send money next year (which has always seemed like a great investment before) and y'all pull something like this?
This is just stupid. Stop it
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On what comes after Trump: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
December 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
On what comes after Trump: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
If it looks like, swims like, and quacks like a duck, there's no way to know what it is
Just kidding. And yeah, if you're an ornithologist you'll probably want to be more precise. But for normal everyday purposes it's totally reasonable to say "oh look, it's a duck"
Just kidding. And yeah, if you're an ornithologist you'll probably want to be more precise. But for normal everyday purposes it's totally reasonable to say "oh look, it's a duck"
One of the most brutal lessons of the last year is just how unbelievably complacent and racist a bunch of the commentary class is when it comes to anything involving the kidnapping, brutalization, and murder of non-whites. It’s the only way I am able to understand this stuff anymore.
December 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
If it looks like, swims like, and quacks like a duck, there's no way to know what it is
Just kidding. And yeah, if you're an ornithologist you'll probably want to be more precise. But for normal everyday purposes it's totally reasonable to say "oh look, it's a duck"
Just kidding. And yeah, if you're an ornithologist you'll probably want to be more precise. But for normal everyday purposes it's totally reasonable to say "oh look, it's a duck"