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Math and tech nerd, sometimes software engineer, amateur artist and writer, pet mom, democratic socialist, trans lady. Please donate if you like my posts and like me and my peeps to be indoors, thanks <3. $malicemoppet

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cyberpunkwitch @cyberpunkwitch.bsky.social · 12d

I've got bottom surgery coming up (Halloween!) and need to save up for recovery expenses
Cashapp as always is $malicemoppet
I am pretty much couch surfing right now, I have social support / people but could use cash for supplies (stuff like wet wipes, gauze etc) and bills thank you.

cyberpunkwitch @cyberpunkwitch.bsky.social · 1h

youtube.com/shorts/jTPRD...

ICE CAUGHT Killing A “Legal” Dog

YouTube video by Really American

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
U.S. Code
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

cyberpunkwitch @cyberpunkwitch.bsky.social · 3h

youtu.be/Cwy_gezCbPg

fellas the group chat done got leaked

YouTube video by Vaush

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Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · Feb 13

TOMORROW BELONGS TO US

2 panel meme. Top panel:
Guy in a military outfit including a gas mask riding on the front of a motorized something or other, a tank perhaps, with a long gun barrel sticking out. He's looking at the camera, turned around from the direction of travel. Overlaid text reads, "hey friend listen, I know the world is scary right now but"

Bottom panel:
It's a zoom in on the eyes in the gas mask. The original meme says, "it's about to get much worse" or something like that. This version is subverted where that text is removed and "the future is unknowable and will be determined by how hard we fight now for a loving world" is inserted.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 11h

And the craziest part is this was needless. Congress would've passed a military pay bill with near unanimous support! Congressional Ds have been begging Rs to bring a bill to pay the military to the floor! But Johnson refuses to gavel in because he doesn't want an Epstein vote.

Johnson wearing a jacket that's photoshopped to say "this has nothing to do with epstein"

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 11h

That is profoundly illegal. You may not spend money on a purpose without funding. The constitution expressly forbids it, as does the ADA.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 11h

When money is appropriated, it's also authorized to be used only for certain activities. So if you give $50 million to the Department of Transportation to build bridges, it couldn't use that money to build airports instead.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 11h

Military pay is appropriated one year at a time, with a one-year period of availability. The fiscal year ended on September 30th, and we did not pass new appropriations bills (the government is shut down), so there's no money available to pay the troops (or to do lots of things).

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 11h

Most money has what's called a period of availability. You can go about obligating it only during that period. While it's illegal to not use it all (that's the illegal impoundments Trump has been doing all year), after that period of availability ends, you can't use it anymore.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 11h

Under the Constitution and under the ADA, it is illegal to spend money without funding for that purpose. The president may not spend money to do something unless there's actually money to carry it out and that action is expressly allowed.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C7-1/ALDE_00001095/

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 11h

The mechanism through which Trump is paying the troops is the most blatant large Antideficiency Act (ADA) violation in US history. It's also clearly willful. No one has been charged under the ADA before, but violations carry a two-year jail term. The statute of limitations is five years.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 11h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

On the Charlie Kirk show, Vought said federal firings could hit “north of 10,000” during the shutdown.

Companies lay people off to survive. This is different. He sounded like he’s enjoying the chance to fast-track his agenda. This isn’t about saving money, it’s about sabotaging the government.

cyberpunkwitch @cyberpunkwitch.bsky.social · 8h

conversationalist.org/2022/01/27/t...

The ‘uterus collector’: the surgeon who performed coerced hysterectomies on detained migrant women

The forced sterilizations are in line with the U.S.’s long, sordid, racist history of eugenics.

conversationalist.org

cyberpunkwitch @cyberpunkwitch.bsky.social · 12h

Robby Roadsteamer has been arrested illegally for exercising his free speech rights. The 'emergency' on which all of these supposed fascist authoritarian bullshit is based has zero evidence. It is based entirely on lies.

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

PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 12h

the way out has always been the way through

posting since 1994, not stopping until probably several months past actual death

Micah @rincewind.run · 14h

social media will always make everyone go insane except a few people who are built different

everyone thinks they’re one of those

(we, of course, are)

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 13h

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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

PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵

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clownfishlogic.bsky.social @clownfishlogic.bsky.social · 12h

One might think there is intent for world domination

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 12h

For my newsletter, I wrote about the disturbing tendency of US Republicans to have more solidarity with foreign conservatives than with their own American neighbors. www.burnsnotice.com/gopers-have-...

GOPers Have More Solidarity with Foreign Conservatives than other Americans

For Republicans and their international counterparts, the advancement of their ideology takes precedence over their own neighbors. A news item that caught my eye this week was President Donald Trump ...

www.burnsnotice.com

cyberpunkwitch @cyberpunkwitch.bsky.social · 12h

Recovery supplies obtained (not from donations, nobody on blusky has spare cash in this economy, de nada, but a friend randomly bought me stuff; I'm incredibly grateful to her, I owe her after i get better).

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Kill The Computer @killthecomputer.com · 12h

NSPM-7: An Authoritarian Nightmare Ft. Ken Klippenstein | Kill The Computer

NSPM-7: An Authoritarian Nightmare Ft. Ken Klippenstein | Kill The Computer

YouTube video by Kill The Computer

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12h

USAF B-52 bombers are flying in and out of the airspace near Venezuela.

This is one in a screenshot I took, but there were two others in another screenshot I saw on X:

Screenshot of Flight Radar data showing BUNNY01 flight path just north of Venezuela

BUNNY01
B52
United States - Air Force
BAD
SHREVEPORT
N/A
NOT AVAILABLE
Departed 09:38 ago
Arriving in N/A
Boeing B-52H Stratofortress
Valentin A.
BAROMETRIC ALT.
24,900 ft
GROUND SPEED
416 kts
REG 61-0010

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

The Supreme Court simultaneously holds that:
*it is impossible for them to do anything about blatant gerrymandering
*they are entitled to dismantle, bit by bit, the landmark civil rights law of the last century
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Upend Key Provision of Voting Rights Act

www.nytimes.com

cyberpunkwitch @cyberpunkwitch.bsky.social · 12h

It seems as though the supreme court is getting ready to strip the voting rights of various portions of the population in order to force fascist wins next election.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

The Supreme Court simultaneously holds that:
*it is impossible for them to do anything about blatant gerrymandering
*they are entitled to dismantle, bit by bit, the landmark civil rights law of the last century
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Upend Key Provision of Voting Rights Act

www.nytimes.com