Meg
@prayingmantis.bsky.social
Anticapitalist, abolitionist, 🏴, queer. She/her. Chicago. #WearAMask + #BlackLivesMatter + #FreePalestine + #ProtectTransKids + #FuckICE
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Folks, Giving Tuesday is around the corner and this is my yearly PSA that while you may be annoyed with nonprofits raising money that day, please be kind especially this year. It's been BRUTAL trying to raise money in 2025.
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Folks, Giving Tuesday is around the corner and this is my yearly PSA that while you may be annoyed with nonprofits raising money that day, please be kind especially this year. It's been BRUTAL trying to raise money in 2025.
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Oh, my god.
Great example of enshittification: Google now wants to use your Gmail to train AI, but if you opt out (Settings->General->Smart Features->Turn off) not only do you lose *spell check*, you also lose all sorting of emails, so everything goes in one giant inbox. I hate it here
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Oh, my god.
How our ICE resistance "was born," but no mention of the Black Panthers or copwatch... OK, liberals.
November 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
How our ICE resistance "was born," but no mention of the Black Panthers or copwatch... OK, liberals.
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Worth reiterating: Zohran Mamdani acknowledged and denounced Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people while standing in the White House on live television right next to the President.
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Worth reiterating: Zohran Mamdani acknowledged and denounced Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people while standing in the White House on live television right next to the President.
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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Best book dedication of 2025 goes to "The Sovereign" by C. L. Clark.
November 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Best book dedication of 2025 goes to "The Sovereign" by C. L. Clark.
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my signal group chat
November 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
my signal group chat
Schumer has ideals (bad ones) & Trump is a deal-making demagogue who tries to align with winners.
Although he is terribly racist, Trump will put that aside for a moment if he thinks it will benefit him.
Although he is terribly racist, Trump will put that aside for a moment if he thinks it will benefit him.
donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Schumer has ideals (bad ones) & Trump is a deal-making demagogue who tries to align with winners.
Although he is terribly racist, Trump will put that aside for a moment if he thinks it will benefit him.
Although he is terribly racist, Trump will put that aside for a moment if he thinks it will benefit him.
Can't believe "The Art of the Deal" president would have people like this in his administration! 🙃
Kristi Noem has… TAKEN… $220 MILLION in DHS funds, awarded under cover of a “National Emergency” to justify its NO BID status, to a hastily formed LLC owned by a her assistant’s husband…
To create a DHS AD CAMPAIGN starring…KRISTI NOEM.
Stolen.
She stole it.
dailyboulder.com/220m-scandal...
To create a DHS AD CAMPAIGN starring…KRISTI NOEM.
Stolen.
She stole it.
dailyboulder.com/220m-scandal...
$220M Scandal: DHS Paid Millions to Ad Company Linked to Kristi Noem, Report Says
It was October 2, the second day of a government shutdown, when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrived at Mount Rushmore, riding horseback in chaps and a cowboy hat. The camera rolled, captur...
dailyboulder.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Can't believe "The Art of the Deal" president would have people like this in his administration! 🙃
Hope is a discipline...
Reject political calvinism in all its forms. Your clinical depression is not praxis
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Hope is a discipline...
Just stepped outside at ORD; 45° in mid-November in Chicago, very normal stuff!
November 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Just stepped outside at ORD; 45° in mid-November in Chicago, very normal stuff!
😂🤣😭👵
November 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
😂🤣😭👵
Harrowing.
‘My husband and daughter went down to the garage in case it flooded. Then I heard a strange noise’ – This is climate breakdown
She was sure that there would be warnings if there was any danger. But then the floods came. This is Toñi García’s story
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November 21, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Harrowing.
🧵As a young activist, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social was pessimistic, & hadn't yet felt the power of community. But, "I didn't want to live in this world unless I was pushing back against what was wrong...I would have told myself that we are each other's best hope." Here with @shaneburley.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
🧵As a young activist, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social was pessimistic, & hadn't yet felt the power of community. But, "I didn't want to live in this world unless I was pushing back against what was wrong...I would have told myself that we are each other's best hope." Here with @shaneburley.bsky.social
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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THESE COLORS DON'T RUN
August 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
THESE COLORS DON'T RUN
Happy International Men's Day, an amazing day because though it's in November, the only day people really care about it is March 8th*.
*International Women's Day
*International Women's Day
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Happy International Men's Day, an amazing day because though it's in November, the only day people really care about it is March 8th*.
*International Women's Day
*International Women's Day
I don't want to be like "Everybody go do this," but... everybody go do this if you aren't already plugged in to activism in some way.
I would like to share something.
A year ago, Trump won and I was furious and scared so I sent a text to a few of local women I knew and asked them to join me at a meeting and invite like-minded women they knew. A few showed up, then a few more. We became a group called The Salon and we meet monthly
A year ago, Trump won and I was furious and scared so I sent a text to a few of local women I knew and asked them to join me at a meeting and invite like-minded women they knew. A few showed up, then a few more. We became a group called The Salon and we meet monthly
November 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I don't want to be like "Everybody go do this," but... everybody go do this if you aren't already plugged in to activism in some way.
🧵"Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in the environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems...
November 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
🧵"Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in the environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems...
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This is SUCH an important thread for white people (men especially) to read and learn to let go of your defensiveness around white privilege because you are not just harming others you are harming yourself with it!!!
One of the most liberating truths I’ve learned, and the one that white folx, particularly white men, still struggle to face, is this:
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
November 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
This is SUCH an important thread for white people (men especially) to read and learn to let go of your defensiveness around white privilege because you are not just harming others you are harming yourself with it!!!
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Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
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I would also add:
Make friends with the local Spanish language churches being targeted and ask them what they need. It may be someone to sit in the back to block the door by arguing with ice until people have time to escape from the front. It may be just walking with them in solidarity.
Make friends with the local Spanish language churches being targeted and ask them what they need. It may be someone to sit in the back to block the door by arguing with ice until people have time to escape from the front. It may be just walking with them in solidarity.
If I can give 3 pieces of unsolicited advice to people facing ICE/CBP:
1) go outside
2) meet your neighbors
3) be loud
They want you to be isolated and afraid so they can work in secret, control the narrative, and act with impunity. They lose power when we see what’s happening and to whom.
1) go outside
2) meet your neighbors
3) be loud
They want you to be isolated and afraid so they can work in secret, control the narrative, and act with impunity. They lose power when we see what’s happening and to whom.
November 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I would also add:
Make friends with the local Spanish language churches being targeted and ask them what they need. It may be someone to sit in the back to block the door by arguing with ice until people have time to escape from the front. It may be just walking with them in solidarity.
Make friends with the local Spanish language churches being targeted and ask them what they need. It may be someone to sit in the back to block the door by arguing with ice until people have time to escape from the front. It may be just walking with them in solidarity.
Somebody tell The Intercept that "child sex" doesn't exist; it is rape. It's child rape.
And if that article was named that because "rape" would be flagged on social media, boy howdy do we live in hell.
And if that article was named that because "rape" would be flagged on social media, boy howdy do we live in hell.
November 18, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Somebody tell The Intercept that "child sex" doesn't exist; it is rape. It's child rape.
And if that article was named that because "rape" would be flagged on social media, boy howdy do we live in hell.
And if that article was named that because "rape" would be flagged on social media, boy howdy do we live in hell.