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Ruby S.
@rubyji.bsky.social
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❤️‍🩹Hope is a discipline.
💀Capitalism is a death cult.
🍉Solidarity is the antidote to fascism.

Awakening 🙈🤩
Living 🐈🪴🌌
Loving ♾️🏳️‍🌈
Raising a teen 🎮🏹
Durham 🐂🚬 NC, USA

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A good read on the failing politics of sending federal troops to cities to harass brown people for existing and going about their lives as essential parts of our communities. Trump is going to regret fucking around with #NCpol for sure.

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...
2. The politics aren’t working. What makes Charlotte such an interesting new target is that North Carolina is a purple state — home, in fact, to one of the most important Senate races of 2026, as GOP senator Thom Tillis retires — and the politics on the ground are almost certainly going to be terrible for Republicans. Why Charlotte in the first place? The administration doesn’t have a good rationale. My own theory is that they’re targeting Charlotte because it was the target of much right-wing media attention in August when a mentally ill man, with a long criminal record, stabbed and murdered a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, on a public transit bus. (There’s also a sheriff in Charlotte who famously refuses to cooperate with ICE.) Which is to say that in some twisted way, the Trump administration’s crackdown on “illegal alien criminals” has merged with its attack on “out-of-control crime in Blue cities” in a bastardized message where it’s now targeting a city where an actual immigrant was killed by an American. (It goes without saying that, like in many urban areas, crime in Charlotte is actually down significantly year-over-year — homicides alone are down 24 percent this year.) While there’s a certain amount of firing-up-the-base and feeding-the-right-wing-outrage-machine that Bovino’s raids accomplish, overall the immigration raids are motivating Democrats, empowering state leaders who criticize them, and — in North Carolina — even turning faith communities against the GOP. Swing voters and independents hate the raids, which brings us to:
November 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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“It’s not that the genocide is at the top of everyone’s list, but issues like Gaza are proxies for people’s gauge on our moral compass."

Voters want leaders who believe in something other than polls and donors. Democrats should stop quashing actual leaders!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Despite the attacks, and the impact of the war on voters, Rasoul believes it’s his principled stance and focus on affordability, housing and utility costs that have resulted in his re-election “It’s not that the genocide is at the top of everyone’s list, but issues like Gaza are proxies for people’s gauge on our moral compass. Until we have that trusted relationship, it doesn’t matter what we say. People know that when it’s hard, I will speak the truth and fight for the issues that they do deeply care about and that impact their lives,” he said. “We show up at their doors, to their fish fries, at their churches, and to their schools, and they know that I’m ready to work hard for them. “That’s how you win elections.”
November 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
rubyji.bsky.social
At some point we're going to get so tired that we realize we don't have to carry all this bullshit
Photo of a black man wearing a backpack as big as himself. It says "women" on the person and "men who don't want to pay for therapy" on the enormous backpack
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
rubyji.bsky.social
Are raccoons always this nonchalant?
November 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
rubyji.bsky.social
Ralph Wiggum from the Simpsons waves dopily. The test says "SENDING OH-NOS AND ANYWAYS"
November 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
rubyji.bsky.social
A bowl of coziness
Small calico and tortoiseshell cats cuddling together in a fuzzy white bowl
November 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
rubyji.bsky.social
Weekending pretty hard this #caturday
Brown tabby crashed out on a fleece blanket on a red couch Calico and tortoiseshell cats snuggled together on a tan chair with blue & green pillows behind them
November 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
rubyji.bsky.social
This week's adventures. Every day is #caturday en mi casa
Brown tabby stretched out on an orange and red blanket Calico stretched out on top of tortoiseshell The back of a tortoiseshell cat getting into a blanket. An orange tabby has a paw on the blanket A calico cat's face
October 26, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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I just wanted to come clean about my most embarrassing tattoo before it hits the news cycle
rudimentary black line tattoo on white skin of two cats wearing space helmets
October 22, 2025 at 2:51 AM
rubyji.bsky.social
This is the thread that the discourse has been needing! 🙌

⏩ Learn the difference between a rally and a protest. They have different goals and different tactics. ⏪

hoosier.social/@thekitmalon...
Mastodon post from Kit Malone on 10/17/25: Dear normies and the media. Learn the difference between a rally and a protest. I've led both. They have different goals and different tactics.
October 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
rubyji.bsky.social
Tomorrow is a federal holiday so today still counts as #caturday right?
Smol tortoiseshell and calico cats looking calmly at the photographer while snuggled together on top of a basket of blankets Orange and brown tabby cats eat sleeping on their own orange chair with a red coffee table in between them. There's a colorful rug and a warm brown wooden cabinet in the background Calico cat in the photographer's lap with the book "War on Gaza" to the side Smol tortoiseshell and calico cats sleeping on top of a basket of blankets
October 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Hello from my orange boi. He's almost as happy as I am that I'm back from 4 long days away.
Orange cat on a sloth blanket on the photographer's lap. On the distance is a warm committed living room and bookshelves.
October 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
rubyji.bsky.social
Top of the #caturday morning to y'all
A tortoise shell cat curled up on her back showing off of fluffy belly and cute face A calico cat draped on top of a sloth blanket on the photographer's lap A brown tabby with his eyes closed on a sloth blanket on the photographer's lap Brown and orange tabbies from the back looking out an open window at dusk
October 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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"the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the First Amendment."

www.aaup.org/news/court-r...
Court Rules In AAUP V Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment In a landmark ruling, a federal court today ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the First Amendment. The AAUP, the Middle Eastern Studies Association and several AAUP chapters brought the suit with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons (typically because of pro-Palestinian speech).
October 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
rubyji.bsky.social
The view from Portland:

"The nightmare circus has rolled into town. Trump, bloated like a syphilitic walrus, has vomited the National Guard onto Portland... ordered to put down a rebellion that looks more like a craft fair gone sideways."

infosec.exchange/@krypt3ia/11...
PORTLAND — A HOWLING GUTSHOT IN THE AMERICAN DREAM The nightmare circus has rolled into town. Trump, bloated like a syphilitic walrus, has vomited the National Guard onto Portland, a pack of terrified young conscripts in Kevlar, sweating under stadium lights, ordered to put down a rebellion that looks more like a craft fair gone sideways. This is not war, it is theater of the damned. Camouflage-clad children are herded into the Pearl District like extras in a Stanley Kubrick snuff film, barking at skateboarders, tear-gassing vegans, and glaring at street musicians in the name of “law and order.” You can feel the psychic sewage seeping from every Humvee parked outside Powell’s Books, where nervous troopers guard the Poetry section, the shelves of battered Vonnegut, and the dusty aisles of forgotten Ginsberg like they hold the nuclear launch codes. The streets run with tear gas and espresso. The air is thick with the smell of sage, marijuana, and unwashed dreadlocks, a psychedelic soup that twists the mind into knots. Somewhere near the Japanese Garden, I swear I saw Whiskey Pete himself, a National Guard colonel with a flask for a soul, staggering through the cherry blossoms, bellowing about Antifa sleeper cells hiding in the koi pond. They dragged him away in cuffs, muttering, “The noodles are coming, the noodles are coming,” as if his brain had finally dissolved into marinara. This is the great American swan dive into fascist burlesque. Stormtroopers gas baristas, Humvees menace food carts, and commanders hallucinate enemies in every mural, bike lane, and streetcar stop. Above it all, the pumpkin-faced Pharaoh grins from his Florida bunker, a bloated psychic tumor wired directly into the national bloodstream, screaming “LAW AND ORDER” while he marinates in Diet Coke, cheeseburgers, and dementia. Make no mistake, this is not about order. This is the fever-dream paranoia of a dying empire, a last wheeze of control before the whole goddamn circus tent collapses. …
September 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Sisters wrasslin
September 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
rubyji.bsky.social
He's going to tell them all to preserve their precious bodily fluids and then bomb the Soviet Union
Screenshot from Dr. Strangelove showing General Buck Turgidson sitting around a table of Important Men, probably telling them that we must preserve our precious bodily fluids
September 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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That Politico post was so embarrassingly offensive that they took it down. We did that, Bluesky!
Screenshot showing my bluesky reply saying "what autism problem" with a angry goose meme saying "what fcking autism problem?" The post being replied to says "post not found."
September 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
rubyji.bsky.social
What autism problem
Goose screaming "What autism problem, motherfuckers?"
September 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
rubyji.bsky.social
Happy #caturday from Shirley, the obsessive cuddlemonster
Peaceful tortoiseshell kitty with orange eyes Tortoiseshell laying partially on top of calico Tortoiseshell staring at brown tabby who looks relaxed and maybe bored Tortoiseshell looking at me upside down as she sneaky snuggles with orange tabby (who is only allowing this because he's sleeping)
September 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
rubyji.bsky.social
Genocide will be his legacy, forever.
A sculpture of Joe Biden, holding open a trenchcoat to reveal his bombs for sale to a group of hungry children, looking up at him from a environment with rubble
September 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
rubyji.bsky.social
Her sins: using X, and believing that Palestinians are as human as Charlie Kirk
"What was done to Charlie Kirk has been done to countless Palestinian babies, children, girls, boys, women and men not just over the past two years of the ongoing genocide, but decades. And whenever it happened, and it’s on camera and we all saw it, Charlie Kirk came out to say: ‘I love this, I want more of this. The people who did this are great and I love them and they should keep doing it forever.’ As Malcom said, the chickens have come home to roost.”
September 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
rubyji.bsky.social
Welcome to the biscuit factory
September 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
rubyji.bsky.social
My son keeps telling me how weird it is that I'm an abolitionist but I keep playing music by The Police ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Screenshot of the cover of the album Ghost in the Machine by The Police. The image is all black with three masculine faces depicted in red in the style of of an 80s calculator. With the track name indicated "Rehumanize Yourself"
September 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
rubyji.bsky.social
Could you be wrong about Gaza?
Principal Skinner meme He wonders "Could I be wrong about Gaza?" He tells himself "No, it's scholars, governments, NGOs, journalists, students, and the entire UN who have set up a joint global conspiracy to brainwash the entire world into believing a lie while risking US sanctions out of pure anti-semitism, who are wrong."
September 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM