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Tsalite
@tsalite.bsky.social
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She/they. Formerly Exhausted Potato of Twitter. Lover of books, games, snacks, and naps. Pro-choice, pro- LGBTQIA+, pro-science. Atheist druid with witchy tendencies.
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Tsalite @tsalite.bsky.social · Nov 13
For anyone who's looking for a good place to start taking action, you can get free online training for how to intervene as a bystander when you witness harassment. One such group that offers is this Right to Be, which offers multiple Zoom training sessions each month:

righttobe.org
Home Page - Right To Be
Right To Be is empowering everyone to create a world without harassment and filled with humanity.
righttobe.org
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motherjones.com
No, it doesn’t kill women or cause divorce.
The many problems with the FDA’s big menopause announcement
No, it doesn't kill women or cause divorce.
www.motherjones.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
tsalite.bsky.social
Peekaboo.
A grey squirrel's head pokes out of the end of a black downspout extender.
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
tsalite.bsky.social
Talking myself out of a panic attack because everything is terrible and I feel crushed by the weight of helplessness and people who want people like me to suffer....

Everything's totally fine.
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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grist.org
How government shutdowns give polluters a free pass.

Though the current political showdown is nearing an end, new research shows that government shutdowns leave polluting legacies.

grist.org/politics/how...

#Pollution #EPA #Corporations
How government shutdowns give polluters a free pass
Though the current political showdown is nearing an end, new research shows that government shutdowns leave polluting legacies.
grist.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
😳
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
tsalite.bsky.social
It is cold and windy and pretending to snow, so naturally I'm baking a pink heart-shaped cake in a pink heart-shaped pan.
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
tsalite.bsky.social
I sure wish more people would wake up and see which party earnestly and repeatedly advocates for suffering.
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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jezebeldotcom.bsky.social
Barf Bag: I'm sure it was just the booing...
www.jezebel.com/trump-got-bo...
Trump Got Booed So Hard He Forgot His Name
Barf bag: I'm sure it was just the booing...
www.jezebel.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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akarra.bsky.social
It’s so cool how senate dems can’t get healthcare for the poorest and have no desire to fight, while the president pardons people who wanted to kill them
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 6d
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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shaggy-and-scooby.bsky.social
These people need to go! Fucking traitors!
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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tyrotcm.bsky.social
Get mad. Don't let the GOP OR the DNC off the hook.
ravensnpennies.com Christopher R. Rice - The Raven Maniac @ravensnpennies.com · 6d
Anger is a wrathful beast. A fire burning everything in its path to ashes. But anger wedded to purpose is just passion. Passion has lifted the wretched from the gutters, toppled empires, and brought even great men to their knees. I am so fucking angry at everything right now. People are STARVING.
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
I hate that people are fighting to keep their $500 a month healthcare premiums from going to $2000+ a month.

$500 a month is more than most people can afford and healthcare should be a basic human right.

I hope we can use this as an opportunity to fight for Universal Healthcare. It’s time!
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
BERNIE: “This senate is about to make a horrific situation even worse… health insurance premiums will double/triple/quadruple… some will pay 50% of their income… 15 million will lose insurance… 50,000 will die unnecessarily…”

#MedicareForAllNOW
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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infinitescream.bsky.social
AAHHHHH
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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drjackbrown.bsky.social
James Watson was an extreme misogynist and racist who stole Rosalind Franklin’s DNA research. Full Stop.
November 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
the fury i feel is indescribable.
timdickinson.bsky.social Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 8d
They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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witchywomin.bsky.social
www.rosalindfranklin.edu/about/
We can all learn about her!
November 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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theatlantic.com
Tulsi Gabbard wants to transfer significant counterintelligence authority away from the FBI—and to her office, Shane Harris and Quinta Jurecic report:
Tulsi Gabbard’s Quest to Bring the ‘Deep State’ Under Her Control
A memo circulating within the federal government lays out her office’s reasoning for wanting to transfer counterintelligence work away from the FBI.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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newsguy.bsky.social
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, reports Reuters. www.reuters.com/investigation...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 AM
tsalite.bsky.social
My child made a wish on tonight's full moon for a very snowy winter, so... apologies in advance.
November 6, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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neurodivergentrebel.substack.com
An interracial gay couple who turned a once-fallow patch of rural Virginia into one of the state’s most celebrated small farms awoke Wednesday to find what they described as an unmistakable act of hate: bags of medical waste, including soiled bedsheets, used gloves, and human feces,…
Virginia farm owned by the 'Gardening Gays' was vandalized with medical waste and human feces
November 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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angryblacklady.blacksky.app
Black people announce it’s still fuck Target.
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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wtafc.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
tsalite.bsky.social
In case you're wondering how I'm feeling today, I just wrote part of a song that I'm calling Fuck Your Blue Balls.

#4b
#smashthepatriarchy
November 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM