traumapossum.bsky.social
@traumapossum.bsky.social
Oddball, stress baker, sometime writer and artist, fond of trees, books, and compassion.
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Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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This is so spot on
February 14, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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My father was from a town near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Fuck Reagan and Newsom too.

He really needs to stop cosplaying as a Dem and go be with his crew.
A man whose 1980 Presidential campaign included a big speech on “State’s Rights” in Philadelphia, Mississippi. The man whose campaigns branded Black women as “welfare queens.”

Gavin Newsom can eat a dick.
Governor Newsom proclaims Ronald Reagan Day
February 14, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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It's exactly this. Musk never gets called on the fact that he's been 10 years out from a moon colony for the last 16 years; Republicans never get called on anything; why wouldn't CEOs start testing out this new accountability-free zone and just say whatever's convenient to manipulate the moment?
I work in procurement and our vendors have been rolling out AI systems and... it has been a disaster. The AI gets everything wrong and I have to navigate a labyrinthian telephone menu to get to a human to fix it.

This has big "We'll colonize the moon in 10 years!" Musk energy.
February 14, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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Worth noting: literally any US born politician could get some of that Mamdani glow by siding with people over billionaires every single time.

Just love your neighbors more than money and fight for them relentlessly!

(And have years of coalition building and great communication skills, etc.)
If Mamdani was native born he would be the 2028 front runner right now, practicality be damned
February 14, 2026 at 4:49 PM
That second paragraph.
For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years.

The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.
February 14, 2026 at 2:27 PM
I mean....
You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
February 13, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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REP. @aoc.bsky.social : “Our relationships with our allies are strained. Dems are shocked at Trump’s destruction of our relationship with our EU allies… conditioning aid to Israel is appropriate. We have enabled a genocide. Enforcement of our own laws is appropriate.”
February 13, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Jesus wept. Just....WTAF.
Not only did they murder hundreds of thousands of people. They also stole the money.
there's fierce competition, but this is one of the most stomach-turning things I've read in some time
February 13, 2026 at 4:34 PM
If you haven't read "Orwell's Roses" I recommend it highly. I also feel like the beauty of roses being corrupted by horrible labor conditions and waste is a pretty apt metaphor for what we are experiencing right now. I'm lucky to have a farmer's market where I can buy flowers direct from growers.
Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.
‘Workers get the thorns’: the moral ugliness of rose factories | Rebecca Solnit
A rose is beautiful but a greenhouse with thousands upon thousands of roses, a place producing millions a year, is not
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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Epstein survivor Haley Robson: I’m so tired of having this administration just completely dismiss us. They’re supposed to be the party of, you know, family values and protecting children. And I just feel like if that’s the party you are, it seems like Thomas Massie is the only one showing up for it.
February 12, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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Please send this jaw-dropping exchange to every MAGA who still thinks the DOJ isn’t blatantly protecting Trump and his cabal of wealthy pedophiles.
Goldman: "Will the survivors and victims who are here please stand up one more time. By show of hands, how many of you or your loved ones actually have met with the DOJ? None ... How many of you were ignored by the DOJ? All of them." (Bondi responds by smearing Goldman.)
February 11, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Aw man. This movie meant sooo much to me and I loved Bud Cort in it.
RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.
February 11, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.

BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned

NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?
February 11, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening
February 4, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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got not just flag and football but also pro wrestling in the national divorce, damn, our attorney deserves a bigger cut
Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event
February 5, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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This hit so fucking hard today.
January 26, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
January 25, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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i think about this picture of fred shuttlesworth looking at his bombed out house every day because it is in my classroom and so i see it five times a week. tired and defiant.

a face that says well, on we go
January 25, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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A reminder that The Trace has been tracking shootings connected to Trump's immigration crackdowns — Renee Good and Alex Pretti, unfortunately, are not alone: www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...
How Many People Have Been Shot in ICE Raids?
The Trace is tracking gun incidents connected to Trump’s immigration crackdown. Know of one? Please be in touch.
www.thetrace.org
January 25, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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He was an ICU nurse at the Veterans' Administration who gave so much for actual veterans with actual problems, and he was executed in the street by LEO LARPers who have given nothing to this country but pain and chaos.
“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”
January 25, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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💯 Every. Fucking. Word.
January 22, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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Amount of blood US has expended defending Greenland: zero. Amount of blood Denmark has expended defending the US: 43 Danish soldiers gave their lives in Afghanistan, responding to a US appeal under article 5 of NATO. Ogles has no idea about any of this, because he's an incompetent buffoon.
Ogles: "It's important that we have a stake in Greenland, that they are quite frankly a protectorate of the US. They've been in relationship with Denmark - that needs to end. We've spilled more blood protecting Greenland than the Danes... we are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere"
January 7, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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This is possibly the most brutal review I've ever read. I'm not one for negativity, but there is a point at which negativity becomes so incandescent for such good reason that it manages to uplift rather than depress. "Wow," you say, dazzled at the human capacity for righteous verbal violence.
December 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM