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Jesstazolam 🌺

@psychwardsiren.bsky.social

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Reader, writer, progressive demsoc, lifelong music-lover and Elder Emo, neurotic geek, and reportedly a little bit witchy ✨️ A² native Still not dead, but it's a process

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Jesstazolam 🌺 @psychwardsiren.bsky.social · Nov 29

PSA:

Viewing a corporate media page through the webpage archive sites:

- archive.is
or
- archive.ph

removes ALL paywalls and advertisements, allowing you to see the entirety of the article unobstructed. Remind corporate media that we will not obey in advance as they have been signaling.

archive.is

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2h

Happy Zohran Day to all who celebrate!!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"Victories remind elites Trump is not some sort of eternal expression of the American volk. The press will have to at least briefly acknowledge MAGA fascism is not inevitable. Institutions that have been acting as if Trump is a rightful king will be confronted with a sweeping rejection of him."

Virginia and New Jersey can show that Trump isn't inevitable

MAGA might be in for an ass-whuppin' on Tuesday.

www.publicnotice.co

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Francesca Fiorentini @franifio.bsky.social · 5d

Leaving this here. jacobin.com/2025/10/plat...

You’re Being Lied to About Graham Platner

We read Graham Platner’s whole Reddit archive. The vilification of the Maine candidate for Senate doesn’t square with what he actually wrote in his posts.

jacobin.com

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Jesstazolam 🌺 @psychwardsiren.bsky.social · 6d

Someone appears to have a very high opinion of themselves that is not at all justifiable

Just a lot of condescension and elitist snark

Jesstazolam 🌺 @psychwardsiren.bsky.social · 6d

Sure wish he'd stop breathing already

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 19d

Uh, being compared to Marjorie Taylor Greene of all people on CNN? Not on my bingo card.

Real talk tho: Keeping our tax dollars here to feed kids, build schools, and provide healthcare instead of sending it abroad to subsidize genocide…should be standard DEMOCRATIC platform.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19d

Women across the US are facing criminal charges for miscarrying—this is what "fetal personhood" looks like.

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Jesstazolam 🌺 @psychwardsiren.bsky.social · 28d

This is a natural progression of the complete disregard and contempt for convention and decorum – and now, the "laws are suggestions" behavior – endorsed and exhibited by the lawless fascists that comprise the GOP

Turns out that the rule of law was entirely built on the honor system, who knew?

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Jesstazolam 🌺 @psychwardsiren.bsky.social · 28d

Real "Hello, fellow radical!" energy

The only reason anyone falls for this poorly-acted charade is that the target audience is "people who watch Fox News"

Jesstazolam 🌺 @psychwardsiren.bsky.social · Oct 4

@washingtonpost.com

What are we even doing here? This kind of laughably repulsive apologetics & pathetic, desperate word-parsing for an event worthy of nothing but ridicule is how this stupid shit gets normalized

Kathleen Parker & the entirety of The Washington Post should be embarrassed & ashamed

Opinion | What Hegseth got right about the military

Put aside the defense secretary’s bravado and focus on his message about muscular armed services.

www.washingtonpost.com

Jesstazolam 🌺 @psychwardsiren.bsky.social · Oct 3

Then one can't really consider Bluesky to be a functional platform on a fundamental level if it is unable to meet one of the most basic criteria

I'm not sure why equal enforcement of TOS is difficult, especially when your users are literally pointing you in the direction of flagrant offenses

Jesstazolam 🌺 @psychwardsiren.bsky.social · Oct 3

My understanding is that this entire embarrassing dispute is about equitable enforcement of terms of service rules; that doesn't really seem *that* difficult to do

Isn't this one of the most very basic aspects of managing a functioning social media platform?

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SaltyBitchables @saltybitchables.bsky.social · Oct 2

Hegseth believes that having sex with an unconscious woman isn’t rape.
“No more anonymous complaints. No more repeat complainants. No more smearing reputations.”-Hegseth to military generals.
He will allow women to be raped in the military.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #Hegseth

www.reuters.com/world/us/pri...

At Princeton, Pete Hegseth's views on feminism and diversity drove tension

Laura Petrillo still remembers a 2002 day on the Princeton campus when she got into a heated argument with Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon.

www.reuters.com

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Jesstazolam 🌺 @psychwardsiren.bsky.social · Oct 1

He's committed acts that would be considered impeachable offenses and borderline treason and/or sedition had anyone else done them under any other regime.

Impeachment is the BARE MINIMUM of what he should face

Jesstazolam 🌺 @psychwardsiren.bsky.social · Oct 1

Rachel Bade has always been partisan in her "reporting"

The fact that she's spouting explicitly right-wing talking points now is pretty unsurprising; all of this from one of the reporters primarily responsible for the "Benghazi" and "but her emails" media hysteria fully tracks

Jesstazolam 🌺 @psychwardsiren.bsky.social · Sep 30

It should be mentioned that the Third Reich expropriated much of the private sector — especially manufacturing and resource extraction — in the run-up to WWII

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Jesstazolam 🌺 @psychwardsiren.bsky.social · Sep 30

The revolting, surreal spectacle this morning ALONE was grounds for impeachment and removal from office

Jesstazolam 🌺 @psychwardsiren.bsky.social · Sep 30

Every day is a stark reminder that the way the world works is waaaay dumber than we were ever led to believe

I am officially convinced that we live in a hyperreal reality TV simulacrum of Reality Classic™️

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I'm Beth @nursejungabel.bsky.social · Sep 29

Basically, we reviewed this and since we consider brown people to be "less than", we decided he should have his full job back. Cruelty is the point.
www.rawstory.com/ice-agent-re...

ICE agent who slammed woman gets his job back days after DHS called it 'unacceptable

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was relieved of duty after a viral video showed him slamming an Ecuadorian woman to the ground as she tried to cling to her husband has been given ...

www.rawstory.com

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Jesstazolam 🌺 @psychwardsiren.bsky.social · Sep 29

So... just a COINTELPRO redux? Fascists truly ARE incapable of creating anything resembling a new idea, aren't they?

Jesstazolam 🌺 @psychwardsiren.bsky.social · Sep 26

The way people speak with one another about "their ChatGPTs" and the way they own them, "train" them, and "speak" with them has led me to conclude that LLM chatbots are, in fact, adult Tamagotchis

You know, if Tamagatchis fed you misinformation and drove you insane

Jesstazolam 🌺 @psychwardsiren.bsky.social · Sep 25

Yarvin has never been much of an actual "intellectual" so much as he has a kind of accessibility that makes his ideas — devoid of merit — understandable & appealing to dull, aggrieved bigots

He's mostly an amalgamation of Evola, a poor reading of Nietzsche, and if Carlyle didn't know how to write

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Jesstazolam 🌺 @psychwardsiren.bsky.social · Sep 25

I remember when the right believed that Pokémon was a tool of Satan and a form of witchcraft; time makes fools of us all, but especially these fucking shameless ghouls

Jesstazolam 🌺 @psychwardsiren.bsky.social · Sep 25

Funny how they never seem to acknowledge exactly WHY "farmers are facing difficult times."

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Jesstazolam 🌺 @psychwardsiren.bsky.social · Sep 25

Then what was the purpose of her comment?