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Anna Banana

@aqnaqn.bsky.social
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Software engineer, activist, sewist, model, ex con. Transgender, easy on the eyes, hard on the conscience, pain in the butt. [she/cô/elle/ella]

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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"The [City of Austin] council adopted the 2026-27 [budget], with Mayor Kirk Watson and Council Member Marc Duchen opposed." Duchen has some balls citing "many Austinites are struggling financially" as the excuse. His District 10 is the most affluent ATX district. www.statesman.com/news/local/a...
statesman.com
Austin’s $6.6B budget raises taxes, fees after split council vote
Austin's $6.6 billion spending plan will cost the average homeowner about $400 more per year. It passed 9-2 with Mayor Kirk Watson voting in opposition due to affordability concerns.
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Talarico lands endorsement from lawyer who defended Paxton in impeachment, securities fraud cases. 🎉 www.texastribune.org/2026/06/08/t...
texastribune.org
Paxton's defense attorney endorses Talarico for Senate
Dan Cogdell, who represented Paxton for nearly a decade in two high-profile cases, said his former client “has lost sight of his core mission.”
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Blaming a three-time U.S. Olympian, and sabotage, for the peeling paint and algae in the Reflecting Pool is the weakest "the dog ate my homework" sh1t ever! www.google.com/search?q=ref... Photo: algae green is the Pantone Color of The Year 2026, named "American Flag Blue", color code #658a2a.
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
TFG was going to drain the swamp. Now they're making a new one. I'm not referring to the Reflecting Pool. I'm referring to awarding the $16M no-bid contract to do a half-ass job to a GOP donor. #TheMostCorruptPresidentEver www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
nytimes.com
Firm Tied to Trump Donor Got No-Bid Contract to Clean Reflecting Pool
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The Loser In Chief is desperately weaseling his way out of being blamed for the no-bid contract pool painting by pulling 💩 straight out of his 🫏 . Whatta maroon. But, what's even more pathetic? The even bigger loser MAGAts trying to defend him. www.espn.com/olympics/sto...
espn.com
Ex-Olympian arrested for allegedly vandalizing Reflecting Pool
Former Olympic canoe racer David Hearn was among those arrested for allegedly vandalizing the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C.
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Nothing says "We're just ordinary folks" like buying an $1.4B island via shady and opaque financing deals when gas price is pushing $5. www.google.com/search?q=iva...
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
"[Ukraine president] Zelenskyy ‘hereby decrees’ Moscow can hold Victory Day parade." 😂 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
theguardian.com
Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy ‘hereby decrees’ Moscow can hold Victory Day parade
Ukraine president says ‘Red Square shall be excluded’ from any attacks, while Kyiv, Moscow and Trump proclaim three-day ceasefire. What we know on day 1,536
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
There can only be one reason for TFG's chicken-and-waffle foreign policy: his cronies, or even he himself, are getting rich off of his waffling. Martha Stewart went to jail for much less. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/r... #MakeAmericaGreedyAgain
cnbc.com
Regulators are reportedly zeroing in on suspicious trades ahead of market-moving Trump post
The information sought includes so-called Tag 50 identifiers, which can be used to determine who was behind the trades.
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Whatever comes of the Iran war, one thing is for sure: Russia and China now prob has a much better idea of the U.S. war machine's capabilities. It remains to be seen whether it was a bad idea to open the kimono of U.S. war techonologies.
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Olena Smaha, a Ukrainian who competes in luge, wore a message on her glove to express support for Mr. Heraskevych, another Ukrainian luger, who was banned from competition for wearing a helmet paying tribute to young Ukrainian athletes killed in the Russian invasion. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/w...
Olena Smaha, a Ukrainian who competes in luge, wore a message on her glove to express support for Mr. Heraskevych, another Ukrainian luger, who was banned from competition for wearing a helmet paying tribute to young Ukrainian athletes killed in the Russian invasion.
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Austin peeps: From meetup.com ResistAustin: "There will be an "Ice Out" rally at the state capitol tomorrow [Fri 1/30] at 5:30 pm. A number of progressive groups are taking part. Please consider coming down to see and be seen, speak and be heard." www.meetup.com/resistaustin...
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Meetup | Find Local Groups, Events, and Activities Near You
Find Meetup events, join groups, or start your own. Make new friends and connect with like-minded people. Meet people near you who share your interests.
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Police officers are trained not to walk or be in front of cars. So are children. Jonathan Ross? Dunno... www.google.com/search?q=are... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...
nytimes.com
Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Fuck you very much, ICE. ✊ What's your plan when this is over? TFG has immunity; the SCoTUS said so. You? Not so much. Good luck. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PUO...
youtube.com
ICE, F**K You - A Protest Song for Minneapolis
YouTube video by scaredketchup
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Democrat Taylor Rehmet, a union leader, machinist and Air Force veteran, nearly pulled off an outright win, taking 47.6% to 36% of his GOP opponent in Texas Senate 9. This is a huge chance to flip the district, taking away the GOP's super majority in the Texas Senate!!!! www.taylorfortx.com
taylorfortx.com
Taylor Rehmet | Texas SD 9
Taylor Rehmet is a union president, Veteran, and working-class Texan running for State Senate District 9 to fight for public schools, affordable housing, and real results for everyday people.
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Tomorrow is the anniversary of TFG's second inauguration. 🤬 In Austin, come join the Free America Walkout, tomorrow Tues 1/20 2pm, City Hall. Free America Walkout: freeameri.ca 800 actions planned in the U.S. alone! Austin Free America Walkout: action.womensmarch.com/events/your-...
action.womensmarch.com
Austin Free America Walkout
One year into Trump’s second regime, we face an escalating fascist threat: raids on our communities, troops occupying our cities, attacks on immigrants, families torn apart, mass surveillance, and ter...
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Physician: "Can I go check a pulse?" ICE: "No! Back up! Now!" Physician: "I'm a physician." ICE: "I don't care." Yeah, I didn't think so, you dickweed. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
nytimes.com
Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Join me at Austin Free America Walkout action.womensmarch.com/events/your-...
action.womensmarch.com
Austin Free America Walkout
One year into Trump’s second regime, we face an escalating fascist threat: raids on our communities, troops occupying our cities, attacks on immigrants, families torn apart, mass surveillance, and ter...
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Just another distraction from the Epstein files! Prosecute the war criminal and pedophile Tr卐mp now!
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
@indivisible1431.org Central Texas folks: c'mon out and Resist Fascism every Sunday in January! Plan is to slow down after January, then pick up the pace a couple of months before the 2026 midterm elections. Come on out; it's a good time!
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Paxton launches a complaint form for people to upload photos of trans folks using "the wrong restroom". 😂 💩
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Hey Ken Paxton, are you REALLY actually trying to run for the U.S. Senate? 🤪 www.kut.org/crime-justic...
kut.org
Trump uses mortgage fraud to target Democrats. A Texas Republican is using it against Ken Paxton.
The Trump administration has aggressively investigated the president’s adversaries for mortgage fraud. But it’s unclear whether the federal housing agency will probe allegations against the Texas atto...
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F13K... "There are only three Kings in America: Gail, Stephen, and Burger."
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The Worst Photo Of All "Time" | GOP To Blame For Airport Chaos | No Kings Protests Return
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Bring flowers to the rally. Walk up to a National Guard person. Hold out the flower as if giving it to them. Have a friend take a photo. Post on social media. www.kut.org/politics/202...
kut.org
Abbott orders the Texas National Guard to Austin ahead of ‘No Kings’ protest
The governor called the planned protest an “antifa-linked demonstration.” Nearly 100 events will take place over the weekend throughout the Lone Star State.
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Happy "Day of The Original Illegal Immigrant"! 🎉 🤔 💩
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
This feels familiar... _SOMEBODY_ is following this playbook this right now, at two orders of magnitude more, but I can't quite put my fingers on who... 🤔
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
RFK Jr. highly recommend this government-backed cure-all remedy. It doesn't say so in the ad, but it was what killed the worm in his brain. (Though, apparently, it also killed a lot of his brain.) youtu.be/OpbldvKr2uc?...
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=... 😮 🤔 www.justice.gov/ag/media/139... If the DoJ, the FBI, et al, are actually this inept about keeping secrets, we might as well collectively bend over and ask the Russians and the Chinese to please use lube 'cause our pants would already be down around our ankles. 🤬
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
If voting doesn't change anything, why are the haters in charge right now? 🤔
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Start off your long holiday weekend right at the Drag Variety Show fundraiser for the Colors of Pride Gathering, Thu 7/3 9pm - 12am at the Electric Gravy Mumbai Bar and Canteen, 1050 East 11th Street #100 Austin, TX 78702! 🎉 🤗 💜 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Get yer tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/copg-drag-...
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Are there any references for this claim? There are quotes allegedly from the company but no indication whether they're in a press release, or from a company spokesperson, etc. There will not be a whiter hot hatred for TFG than mine, but I am not inclined to believe anything in this story.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 16/06/2025
Instant Pot Brands plans to offer a “45/47 Collaboration” featuring various products branded with those numbers and Trump’s signature “Make America Great Again” tagline.
semafor.com
Home-goods companies prepare new Trump-linked products
From bedsheets to appliances, a number of businesses are finding that MAGA has commercial appeal.
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I have not seen this anti-Elon sticker on a Te$la before. 😁
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The military must have been trolling Generalissimo Bone Spur by playing CCR's "Fortunate Son" and having the soldiers marching out of step instead of with the discipline of the Russian and North Korean parades. 🤔 I would have, if a pathetic draft dodger called me "loser" and "sucker". 🤪
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Who would need a NY Times story to know that Mus卐 is on drugs?!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBEo... This ain't no Asperger's Syndrome. It's the ketamine, Ecstasy, and mushroom speaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
youtube.com
Full Elon Musk interview at CPAC 2025 amid Trump, DOGE impacting federal workers and more
YouTube video by Austin American-Statesman
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Austin Queer peeps: no 2025 Queer Bomb (late change by venue) 😢. BUT! There will be a picnic/sign making party at the Capitol, 6/7, 11 am - 2 pm, South Lawn! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ And who says you can't dress like you're going to Queer Bomb? I know I am! 👙 👠 www.instagram.com/p/DKOlDq3gNKf/
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This Administration is the most radical lunatic lawless Administration ever. Guess what? "...nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know." (TFG, Aug 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/u...)
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Word has it that on June 14, day of TFG's bday and the military parade in DC, The Resistance is planning a "Kick Out The Clowns" action. It has also been pointed out that clown make-up is a great way to defeat facial recognition. Just don't also wear any easily recognizable garments! 🙃
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I can't wait to hear how some people explain this away as not "the most corrupt Administration ever". And also whether they were previously outraged by Hunter Biden's shenanigans. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/b...
nytimes.com
The Trumps Get Richer
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
A proposed bill. in the Texas House aims to mandate that there are only two sexes. The bill's language works equally well in a bill mandating that there are only two races, Whites, and Non-whites. We've see this movie before. capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/T...
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Texas' SB240 mandates use of bathroom according to "biological sex", and housing trans inmates according to their biological sex. The Senators' wives, mistresses, daughters, aunts, nieces, grandmothers will share restrooms and detention facilities with one of these folks:
A composite pic of hairy, bearded, muscular transgender men.
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Come join our tribe! 💜 🤗 ✊ www.reddit.com/r/50501/
reddit.com
50501
50 PROTESTS - 50 STATES - 1 MOVEMENT Next Day of Action: 5/1/2025 https://discord.gg/50501
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
In your opinion, what does it mean when a person is classified as having "male sex" or "female sex"? 💩 🤔 Pic for the algorithm.
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I heard somewhere that many in Tr卐mp's inner circle shorted a lot of stocks recently. 🤔 💩
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Do the haters realize that they have done more for trans visibility than everyTrans Visibility Day since the very beginning?!! 🎉 😂
Sticker with "TRANS AF", from the National Center for Transgender Equality Action Fund
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Coming, Saturday 4/19: make new signs, get or recharge batteries for your bullhorns, keep an eye on the weather. www.instagram.com/50501movemen...
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We the American People on Instagram: "TODAY WE MOBILIZED OVER 3 MILLION PEOPLE ACROSS THE NATION!!! This movement has entered the next chapter: the people will mobilize again, and again, until we mak...
26K likes, 517 comments - 50501movement on April 5, 2025: "TODAY WE MOBILIZED OVER 3 MILLION PEOPLE ACROSS THE NATION!!! This movement has entered the next chapter: the people will mobilize again, an...
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 02/04/2025
WATCH: Sen. Cory Booker has broken the record for the longest U.S. Senate speech. Booker's marathon speech breaks the previous record — Sen. Strom Thurmond's filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 that stretched for 24 hours and 18 minutes.
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Loved "Amaging!"? Did not get enjoy "Amaging!"? You will love "Amaging 2!" Come hear stories from queer folks of a certain age (never mind what age! 🙃 ) who have done things and know things! Rush to buy tickets 'cause we sold out the last time, on Superbowl Sunday!!!
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
One look at photos of the participants in this call and I immediately saw that this was the result of DEI. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
White House security leak: who’s who in the Signal group chat
Defense secretary, US vice-president and senior Trump advisers wrote openly about the strikes on Yemen
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
youtu.be/HSnhxO8mIjk?... The same question should be asked of presidents: what do you do when you start having a rogue president? youtu.be/HSnhxO8mIjk?... The problem is not rogue judges, "...perhaps the real problem is that we have a rogue administration."
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PBS News Hour full episode, March 19, 2025
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Anna Banana @aqnaqn.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Have you heard the story of how I came out at work? If you have, wanna hear it again? Come to "The Rage of Aquarius", an astrology themed variety show Saturday April 5, 2025 7pm!
Flyer announcing "The Rage of Aquarius, An ASStrology Variety Show", at the Museum of Human Achievement 3600 Lyons Road, doors 7pm show 8pm.
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