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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 11/10/2026

I’m almost ready to share what I’ve been working on. Stay tuned.

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 09/10/2026

Live streaming a firing squad? The devolution will be televised.

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 04/10/2026

How convenient that an American president who has long expressed interest in withdrawing U.S. forces from Europe now has an excuse to do exactly that.

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 03/10/2026

“Execution survivor.” Words you never want to see together in a headline.

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 01/10/2026

There’s a lot going on in the world, but right now it’s a perfect fall evening in the PNW—courtesy of “Eternité” by Croquet Club and Mother Nature.

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 05/09/2026

Mountain’s out, as we’re required to say in the PNW. (But really, why wouldn’t you?)

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 24/08/2026

Aaaand scene. 🎭 apnews.com/article/trum...

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 09/06/2026

In 1996, I ran for office as a gay Republican. It did not go as expected. I just posted a story that I told at The Moth about what I discovered in that race here: youtu.be/NXpO0Pfh3to

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 23/02/2026

My husband knows I’ve been feeling a little down thanks to our Pacific Northwest winter—not to mention the steady rise of fascism in America. So he made this chicken pot pie and it’s just what the seasonal-affective-disorder doctor ordered. That said, I remain very concerned about the fascism. 🥺

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 14/10/2025

Undeclared martial law in three screenshots. P.S. We’ve already gotten used to it. 🥺

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 11/10/2025

As I’d worried, Republicans let Democrats filibuster their own budget bill on purpose… setting them up to take the blame for everything that followed, including the layoffs Republicans already had planned. Not everyone will believe the GOP’s narrative here. But the optics are clear.

Screenshot of a HuffPost article titled, “Republicans Allow Democrats To Filibuster GOP’s Own Funding Bill As Shutdown Nears.” The subheadline reads, “Senate Republicans made the move to shift blame to Democrats if the government shuts down.” Below the headline is a photo of the U.S. Capitol dome. The first paragraph begins, “In a highly unusual move, Senate Republicans voted Thursday to let Democrats block their own short-term government funding bill — a maneuver widely seen as an effort to blame Democrats for an impending shutdown.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/shutdown-filibuster-republicans_n_68e9013be4b0972b775995fa

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 06/10/2025

MAGA Brownshirts showing up at Portland’s ICE protest last night chanting about Kirk’s death marks a significant but predictable turn in the scripted Project 2025 meta-narrative—one that I’m afraid will play out in Blue cities across America in the weeks and months ahead.

Screenshot of live updates from the Citizen app taken at 10:21 pm PT on 2025/10/5 showing escalating protests in Portland outside the Department of Homeland Security and ICE offices. The top update reports ICE agents on a roof firing six pepper rounds toward protesters after some crossed the property line. Another update describes multiple protest groups clashing—one shouting anti-Antifa slogans, another chanting “I am Charlie” and “Whose streets? Our streets!” The image footer reads “via Citizen app.”
https://go.citizen.com/ZnOYTD6KeXb

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 27/09/2025

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

Red-and-black graphic of the White House with bold white text mimicking Trump’s infamous “grab them” quote. It reads: “I’m automatically attracted to blue cities. I just start occupying them. I just send in the National Guard. I don’t even declare martial law. And when you’re a president, they let you do it. You can do anything.”

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 22/09/2025

Could there be a more fitting image of religion in America today than a man carry the burden of the cross on wheels? At least I now understand why they’re called “holy rollers”.

A man in a navy suit walks across a stadium floor while carrying a large wooden cross on wheels. The stadium is packed with people and banners for the Arizona Cardinals football team and an American flag hang overhead. A large screen shows a singer performing, and a giant poster of Charlie Kirk is displayed in the background.

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 22/09/2025

The moment in the group message thread when you forgot “The Rapture” is playing at the music festival. Anyways, everyone meet up at the chicken tomorrow! 🐓

A text message exchange. First message (gray bubble with the sender’s name redacted): “Headed to the chicken to collect people for the rapture.” Second message (green bubble): “The rapture is not until Tuesday!” A blue “HA HA” reaction appears above the green message.

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 20/09/2025

Me: “How’s the battery life?” Apple: “Oh, it’s the same.”

Meme with caption “Meet our thinnest phone ever!!” followed by “The phone:”. The image shows a bright orange iPhone with an exaggeratedly bulky rectangular camera block sticking out from the top, making the phone look thin but absurdly awkward.

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 15/09/2025

I have a feeling Vance won’t be telling Kirk’s viewers to “stand back and stand by.”

Screenshot of a post on X by JD Vance (@JDVance). The post reads: “Tomorrow, I will have the honor of hosting the Charlie Kirk Show. Please join me as I pay tribute to my friend. 12:00PM ET.” The URL for Kirk’s show has been redacted.

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 06/09/2025

The fishermen’s families are probably still unaware of their fates. Meanwhile, the soldiers who did this have been back home, sitting at IHOPs and at Chili’s beside diners unaware of their crimes. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ewi...

Screenshot of a Facebook post by historian Heather Cox Richardson. The excerpted essay text reads: “In the New York Times, they reported that in early 2019, Trump okayed a Navy SEAL mission to plant an electronic device in North Korea. The plan went awry when their activity near the shore attracted a civilian fishing boat with two or three men diving for shellfish. The SEALs killed the men on the boat, punctured their lungs with knives so the bodies would sink, abandoned the mission, and returned to base.”

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CNpgYThce/

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 04/09/2025

Toy soldiers, in more ways than one.

A meme showing four classic green plastic army men toys, but instead of holding guns, they are holding lawn tools: a lawnmower, a rake, a broom, and a push sweeper. They stand on a green base in front of a fence and bushes. The caption above reads: “With Christmas only a short time away, toymakers are working hard to commemorate the Battle of DC.”

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 04/09/2025

With the man behind JD Vance talking about the “Antichrist” and Trump deploying Project 2025 troops to Blue cities across America, today’s a good day to remember Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Overnight, a modern middle-class society fell under the thumb (and gun) of a militant theocracy.

Collage of 1970s Iran showing young women and men in modern, Western-style clothing—miniskirts, flared pants, blouses, and jackets—socializing in public spaces. They sit on benches, picnic near cars, walk city streets, and gather outside university buildings. The images reflect an urban, middle-class culture of fashion, freedom, and optimism just before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 26/08/2025

With Trump deploying Project 2025 troops to Blue cities across America, today’s a good day to remember Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Overnight, a modern middle-class society fell under the thumb (and gun) of a militant theocracy. Almost fifty years later, they’re still under it.

Collage of photos from 1970s Iran showing young women and men in modern, Western-style clothing—miniskirts, flared pants, blouses, and jackets—socializing in public spaces. They sit on benches, picnic near cars, walk city streets, and gather outside university buildings. The images reflect an urban, middle-class culture of fashion, freedom, and optimism just before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 15/08/2025

Bought a set of great microfiber towels off Amazon in 2022 to wipe my dog’s paws, so I bought the exact same ones as a replacement. An old towel (left) is 30g. A new one (right) is 23g. The worst part is 20k 4-star reviews hide tons of 1-star reviews about how thin they’ve become. #Enshittification

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 14/08/2025

A deep dive by Wired into the whites-only “utopia” in Arkansas I was mentioning. www.wired.com/story/whites...

Screenshot of a WIRED article titled “Inside the ‘Whites Only’ Community in Arkansas” under the “EXTREME” section. Subheading reads: “Members have espoused racist and antisemitic views and repeatedly praised Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. They’ve raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, and their movement is growing.” By David Gilbert, dated 08.12.25 at 09:08 AM.

https://www.wired.com/story/whites-only-community-arkansas/

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 10/08/2025

In a world of Dean Cain’s, be a George Takei.

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 09/08/2025

In this case, the farmer, Ian Chandler, has been speaking truth to power since at least 2017. I doubt he voted for Trump. Still, your bet was a safe one—given how many MAGA farmers are now crying crocodile tears. www.oregonlive.com/politics/201...

Screenshot from the April 13, 2017 OregonLive article titled “Greg Walden holds town halls in Hood River, The Dalles, John Day.” The excerpt quotes Ian Chandler, a fruit industry worker, speaking at a town hall in The Dalles. Chandler tells Representative Greg Walden that the Republican position on immigration is unfair to immigrants and is causing a damaging labor shortage for local growers. He adds, “Republicans are issuing a lot of negative rhetoric about immigrants. Kids are hearing a lot of terrible things about their parents and their people. Immigrant labor is 99 percent of our labor.”

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2017/04/greg_walden_holds_town_halls_i.html

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 08/08/2025

Judicial deference to the executive branch will be the death of democracy. 🪦 Trump’s and the Heritage Foundation’s weaponization of the Alien Enemies Act as laid out in Project 2025 is the perfect crime.

Screenshot of a CBS News article headlined “Appeals court tosses judge’s contempt order in case over Venezuelans sent to El Salvador,” by Melissa Quinn and Jacob Rosen, updated August 8, 2025, at 12:01 PM EDT. Below the headline is an image from CBS Evening News Plus showing anchor John Dickerson seated at the news desk, with a background graphic featuring the U.S. Department of Justice seal and the words “Deportation Battle.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/appeals-court-contempt-order-venezuelans-el-salvador/

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 08/08/2025

I never understood why some locals call this place “Vantucky”… until the cemetery chicken alert that ended with, “Please describe to claim.” Portlandia’s got nothing on Vancouver, WA! 🐓

Screenshot of a smartphone Ring Neighborhood Alert notification. It reads: “Neighborhood Alert near Vancouver – Found chicken in old city cemetery. Safe with me and my hens. Please describe to claim.”

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 29/07/2025

Two seemingly unrelated posts back-to-back in my X feed: •One about a whites-only community in Arkansas. •The other about a Christian nationalist “network state” in Tennessee buying up thousands of acres and installing loyalists in local offices to take control. Coincidence or trend?

A post on X from Dr. Allison Wiltz (@queenie4rmnola) reads:

“The whites-only community in Arkansas was formed by the Return to the Land (RTTL) movement. They’re calling this community their ‘flagship,’ indicating they plan to replicate their efforts throughout the country. This is an effort to reinstate Jim Crow.”

Posted July 28, 2025, at 6:38 AM. 74K views.
https://x.com/queenie4rmnola/status/1949826878216228938

A post on X from Gil Duran (@gilduran76) reads:

“‘Fundamentally un-American.’

A group of VC-backed Christian nationalists seeks a theocratic haven in Tennessee. Political control, religious purity tests, talk of US collapse — and they’re buying up land.

This isn’t a drill. It’s the Network State.”

Below the tweet is a photo of six white men in suits smiling at a formal event. The caption on the photo reads: “Meet the out-of-state investors funding a Christian nationalist community.”

Posted July 28, 2025, at 5:58 PM. 37K views.

https://x.com/gilduran76/status/1949998021686530556?

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 25/07/2025

The Christofascists who now control our government believe in separation of state from church, not church from state.

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 25/07/2025

If I were Zan, that’s probably how I’d use my Wonder Twin power.

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 23/07/2025

Well, it’s about time… and a little too late. ⏳

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 22/07/2025

Democratic Party leaders told us in the ’90s and 2000s that decades of losing federal, state, and local elections would change once old racist voters died off. But waiting for a voting demographic to die isn’t a political strategy. It’s cowardice. And all it cost America was everything.

A meme featuring three young white men, each shown in a separate close-up image from what appears to be a live audience or debate setting. They are all mid-speech or reacting with facial expressions ranging from smug to emotionally intense. Below the images is a block of text in light pink on a black background that reads:
“We had hoped for years that racism and bigotry would die out with an older generation but Mehdi Hasan on ‘Surrounded’ shows how futile that hope was as these hateful young men and women gleefully parrot what their parents and grandparents have drilled into them.”

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 22/07/2025

MLK’s daughter tweeting “Now release the Epstein files”—because the President cynically used her father’s assassination to distract from Trump’s ties to a global sex trafficking operation—tells you how upside-down our world is. It’s not that she said it. It’s that she had to.

Screenshot of a tweet from Bernice King on X (@BerniceKing), posted on July 21, 2025. The tweet reads: “Now, do the Epstein files.” Below the text is a black-and-white photo of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leaning back in a chair, looking directly at the camera with a weary, unimpressed expression.

https://x.com/berniceking/status/1947431656228303032

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 22/07/2025

I retired last Friday—10 years early and not quite at my savings goal. Because life is short. And America is running out of time. I want to spend what’s left doing what I came here to do. This is either the best or worst decision I’ve ever made. But it’s mine. And it’s now.

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 21/07/2025

America is finally waking up to what some have long understood: The best place to hide a conspiracy is inside another conspiracy. And this one was so big, it got Trump elected—twice. That’s how massive it had to be to justify the effort to bury it. Who—or what—is powerful enough to pull this off?

A tweet from Mario (@PawlowskiMario) posted at 9:02 AM on July 20, 2025, reads:
“My Sunday noon POV: JD Vance is preparing to take over the presidency. MAGA will collapse. JD Vance isn’t true MAGA, he belongs to Thiel and Musk.
The Epstein list is real, and many people will end up in prison.
P.S. The Obama scandal was a hoax by Trump to deflect from Epstein-gate.”
The tweet has 336K views.

https://x.com/pawlowskimario/status/1946963945681478102?s=46

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 20/07/2025

To paraphrase Mean Girls: Stop trying to make another season of The Acolyte happen. P.S. Ignore the clickbait headline. It’s about a forthcoming e-book sequel.

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 19/07/2025

This is why the Internet was created.

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 16/07/2025

I’m not usually a meme guy, but… 🏆

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 15/07/2025

A stern warning! Thank god a Democrat is finally ready to really pull out all the stops.

Screenshot of a political text message from phone number +1 (202) 836-7443. The message reads:
“President Obama just issued a STERN WARNING for every American! Trump is on the verge of becoming a TRUE dictator!
MSNBC NEWS: Barack Obama warns the U.S. is ‘dangerously close’ to slipping into autocracy under Trump
We need 150,000 Democrats to answer President Obama’s call and join our fight against Trump!”
At the top left, a blue badge shows “181” unread messages.

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 13/07/2025

Pretty sure the Kodak Fotomat booth was the American version of a TARDIS in the 1970s. I mean, how else did they fit a whole photo lab in there—and still have room for the nice lady inside?

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 13/07/2025

How on Earth can a story like this—SpaceX investing in xAI—be spun as anything but an accounting trick to inflate xAI’s valuation? It’s a shell game that’s out of this world. 🚀

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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross.me · 12/07/2025

Here’s an excerpt of the article that I read earlier. www.cnn.com/2025/07/12/u...

An excerpt of a CNN article that reads:

Property owners challenging FEMA’s map designations hire engineers to conduct detailed studies to show where they believe the 100-year flood plain should actually be drawn. That is a “pretty arduous process” that can lead to more accurate maps while making it easier for future construction, said Chris Steubing, executive director of the Texas Floodplain Management Association, an industry group that represents floodplain managers.

Pralle, who reviewed the amendments for AP, noted that some of the exempted properties were within 2 feet (0.6 meters) of FEMA’s flood plain by the camp’s revised calculations, which she said left almost no margin for error. She said her research shows that FEMA approves about 90% of map amendment requests, and the process may favor the wealthy and well-connected.

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