@kropadope428.bsky.social
Elder millennial, independent minded but not with the reflexive contrarians, any pronouns used with respect are good. Reject white identity. Queer descendent of immigrants 🇱🇹🇮🇪🇮🇹🇫🇷
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In county folklore, the Queen of Owls reigns from dusk to dawn. In each of her feathers, a map of wisdom. On each of her talons, three drops of blood to cure or curse. Her carved avatars are everywhere. Each one providing her with intelligence. From pew to pub, she peers upon us all. – Dr. M.Benn
January 20, 2026 at 5:55 PM
In county folklore, the Queen of Owls reigns from dusk to dawn. In each of her feathers, a map of wisdom. On each of her talons, three drops of blood to cure or curse. Her carved avatars are everywhere. Each one providing her with intelligence. From pew to pub, she peers upon us all. – Dr. M.Benn
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Still remember black voters being blamed for Prop 8 passage bcs if x% had voted differently it would not have passed. I seem to remember it being debunked bcs that same % was true for Asians, whites, Latinos, etc. if they had voted differently. But it was black Californians (conservative!) blamed.
January 20, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Still remember black voters being blamed for Prop 8 passage bcs if x% had voted differently it would not have passed. I seem to remember it being debunked bcs that same % was true for Asians, whites, Latinos, etc. if they had voted differently. But it was black Californians (conservative!) blamed.
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I want to highlight the Black voter number here because I’ve lived through decades of efforts to engineer and/or assert an antagonistic relationship, when, for the most part, Black people are more supportive of immigration than others.
*Another* new YouGov / Economist poll shows continuing mounting support for abolishing ICE:
45% support abolishing ICE
45% oppose abolishing ICE
Black voters in favor 60-20
Moderates in favor 45-41
Independents in favor 44-34
12% of Trump voters support abolishing ICE as well
45% support abolishing ICE
45% oppose abolishing ICE
Black voters in favor 60-20
Moderates in favor 45-41
Independents in favor 44-34
12% of Trump voters support abolishing ICE as well
January 20, 2026 at 4:20 PM
I want to highlight the Black voter number here because I’ve lived through decades of efforts to engineer and/or assert an antagonistic relationship, when, for the most part, Black people are more supportive of immigration than others.
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i personally think “don’t fund the gestapo” is a relatively small ask in the face of an illegal violent occupation of a US city that has killed at least one citizen and terrorized countless more. any elected who cannot clear even that modest bar is dead to me
January 20, 2026 at 12:18 PM
i personally think “don’t fund the gestapo” is a relatively small ask in the face of an illegal violent occupation of a US city that has killed at least one citizen and terrorized countless more. any elected who cannot clear even that modest bar is dead to me
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There's a very large set of Democrats committed to the notion that no one actually cares about Palestine and it was invented as an issue last year to hurt Biden and Harris.
It's been on my radar my whole adult life
These people are ghouls
It's been on my radar my whole adult life
These people are ghouls
You're really bad at reading, I guess? Besides posts about the ongoing ICE ethnic cleansing, this repost is about Gaza & Trump
January 20, 2026 at 5:52 PM
There's a very large set of Democrats committed to the notion that no one actually cares about Palestine and it was invented as an issue last year to hurt Biden and Harris.
It's been on my radar my whole adult life
These people are ghouls
It's been on my radar my whole adult life
These people are ghouls
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did anyone else have that one teacher that could pull this move and instantly shut up the annoying classmate
January 20, 2026 at 1:48 PM
did anyone else have that one teacher that could pull this move and instantly shut up the annoying classmate
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Am millennial, can confirm. I have clawed my way to a very precarious form of "stability" and it has been fucking hellish
I think the experience of being a millenial or younger, is that every time you find your footing, and think you’re finally doing well, everything (housing, healthcare, economy, world stability etc) gets infinitely harder, worse and out of reach.
This is what I get for looking at SF home prices. 💀
This is what I get for looking at SF home prices. 💀
January 20, 2026 at 4:18 AM
Am millennial, can confirm. I have clawed my way to a very precarious form of "stability" and it has been fucking hellish
You fail to take well-meaning people seriously and make policy around a serious interpretation of their views, you leave a subset of them open to grifters.
Wellness has traditionally been a liberal thing. Crunchy granola folks out in California.
That’s why its alignment with Trumpism—especially at the height of the pandemic—was so devastating. It allowed the far-right to make inroads in previously impervious communities.
That’s why its alignment with Trumpism—especially at the height of the pandemic—was so devastating. It allowed the far-right to make inroads in previously impervious communities.
January 20, 2026 at 2:49 PM
You fail to take well-meaning people seriously and make policy around a serious interpretation of their views, you leave a subset of them open to grifters.
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This is a painting of my daughter from 2012, rowing on the Charles River in Boston, Mass.
#ColorADay #PinkMon #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCloseUp #ArtYear #Watercolor #ArtistsOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin #Boston #Rowing
#ColorADay #PinkMon #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCloseUp #ArtYear #Watercolor #ArtistsOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin #Boston #Rowing
January 19, 2026 at 3:21 PM
This is a painting of my daughter from 2012, rowing on the Charles River in Boston, Mass.
#ColorADay #PinkMon #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCloseUp #ArtYear #Watercolor #ArtistsOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin #Boston #Rowing
#ColorADay #PinkMon #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCloseUp #ArtYear #Watercolor #ArtistsOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin #Boston #Rowing
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Here. Pass it out as needed.
January 19, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Here. Pass it out as needed.
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👇🏼!!!!
the rest of the world deferred to us not because they needed to but because it was easy, all to great benefit of us, and we destroyed that to get out of having to watch one hour diversity training videos once a year
January 19, 2026 at 6:56 PM
👇🏼!!!!
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The Star of the North ✴️
January 19, 2026 at 6:50 PM
The Star of the North ✴️
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The absolute accuracy of this.
January 18, 2026 at 10:23 PM
The absolute accuracy of this.
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Even with this clarity their political imagination remains trapped. They fight for minor concessions as if Trump personally snapped his fingers and suddenly conjured this violence into existence. As if the repression, surveillance & state terror weren’t foundational to this country long before him.
January 16, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Even with this clarity their political imagination remains trapped. They fight for minor concessions as if Trump personally snapped his fingers and suddenly conjured this violence into existence. As if the repression, surveillance & state terror weren’t foundational to this country long before him.
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January 19, 2026 at 1:21 AM
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🚨”If everyone who came before me had just complied and complied and complied, then I probably would have entered this theater, any theater, through a colored section. Every good thing you have in your life is a product of someone else’s struggle.” ~ Josh Johnson
Message: Do Not Comply
Message: Do Not Comply
January 20, 2026 at 2:28 AM
🚨”If everyone who came before me had just complied and complied and complied, then I probably would have entered this theater, any theater, through a colored section. Every good thing you have in your life is a product of someone else’s struggle.” ~ Josh Johnson
Message: Do Not Comply
Message: Do Not Comply
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I would think a person wildly thirsty for a Nobel Peace Prize might consider doing less killing.
January 9, 2026 at 4:28 AM
I would think a person wildly thirsty for a Nobel Peace Prize might consider doing less killing.
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Frederick Cuming (British, 1930 - 2022). Winter Sun (oil painting).
January 19, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Frederick Cuming (British, 1930 - 2022). Winter Sun (oil painting).
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Watch out: the guy who bombed Iran, kidnapped a foreign leader, and is currently invading a city in his own country is going to stop being so peaceful
January 20, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Watch out: the guy who bombed Iran, kidnapped a foreign leader, and is currently invading a city in his own country is going to stop being so peaceful
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“The truth always lies somewhere in the middle” has to be one of my least favorite phrases. Sometimes, one side is actually truthful and one side is actually malicious and lying!
January 19, 2026 at 8:34 PM
“The truth always lies somewhere in the middle” has to be one of my least favorite phrases. Sometimes, one side is actually truthful and one side is actually malicious and lying!
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Someday corporations and technology companies will pretend they were always against this
January 19, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Someday corporations and technology companies will pretend they were always against this