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Mandy Keifetz

@besecretandexult.bsky.social
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Inky, impatient, and left of you. I write books which can be purchased or borrowed from libraries. If you'd care to buy one for your weirdest friend, I’d appreciate it. "das Entsetzen über die Reden des Anstreichers" BB

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Rachel Goodman @rachelegoodman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Defiance of court orders by a major chapter of the pro-rule-of-law party: not a good look. Glad this is the last gasp of this leadership.
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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"There’s a lot that our elected leaders can do, much of it through simple legislation."
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yes
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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We had the opportunity to partner with @leavingmaga.org this week. An unexpectedly popular message with motorcyclists! I climb up there every week hoping to embolden people, and I confess I am not thinking of this demographic, but I figure the principle is the same.
"DOUBTS? LEAVINGMAGA.ORG" White letters on black cardboard up over the BQE at sunset early October, 2026
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward
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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What person in the whole wide world is this text message designed to wring money out of? Oh I wasn't going to donate but now that centrist skeletor yelled at me, I totally will.
Screen shot of fundraising text message from James Carville looking like Skeletor and /screaming/ at a person named Mandy who would pay money never to hear a word from james Carville
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Gregor Samosa @lenschiff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's like House of Leaves. You think you understand the dimensions of their repulsiveness, then suddenly it extends in a direction that you forgot existed.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I thought this guy said no fatties and no weirdos.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026
53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.
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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can’t do student loan relief. Can’t mandate vaccines. Can’t help home owners. Can commit human rights abuses.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
KBJ keeps tryna tell us about the deeply perverse way the Court is exercising its equitable powers on the shadow docket the GOP justices wielding equitable jurisdiction are (surprise surprise) actively hostile to the concept of equity, & produce injustice instead ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Abuses
The conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The work is, of course, highly feminized and racialized, and is currently performed within companies by executive assistants. Tech bros are big mad they didn't get to participate in the era of the Mad Men secretary and now think they can get the bot to do it.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/09/2026
Early voting is one of our most important tools for defeating election sabotage. Make your plan and spread the word.
Midterms 2026
EARLY VOTING STARTS
AL: N/A
KY: 10/29
ND: VARIES
AK: 10/19
LA: 10/20
OH: 10/6
AZ: 10/7
ME: 10/5
OK: 10/28
AR: 10/19
MD: 10/22
OR: VARIES
CA: 10/5
MA: 10/17
PA: VARIES
CO: 10/19
MI: 10/24
RI: 10/14
CT: 10/19
MN: 9/18
SC: 10/19
DE: 10/22
MS: N/A
SD: 9/18
DC: 10/26
MO: 10/20
TN: 10/14
FL: 10/24
MT: 10/5
TX: 10/19
GA: 10/13
NE: 10/5
UT: VARIES
HI: 10/20
NV: 10/17
VT: 9/19
ID: VARIES
NH: N/A
VA: 9/18
IL: 9/24
NJ: 10/24
WA: 10/16
IA: 10/14
NM: 10/6
WV: 10/21
IN: 10/6
NY: 10/24
WI: 10/20
KS: VARIES
NC: 10/15
WY: 10/6
*check your local elections office for all voting options*
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When we win the majority, we’ll hold hearings to hold ICE, DHS, Miller, and the rest accountable for these crimes. For now, we’ll keep showing up to court-watch, to connect kids to lawyers, to support litigation, to object.
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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Look, I'm only asking as a novelist. Public activist me is busy with matters most grave. Who wrote what prompt toward what aim to create this image? Did they say change that Shiksa's face? Did they say make the soldiers into droids? Did they say Nazify the font?
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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes @jamestalarico.bsky.social, there /is/ something you could say to get me (non-Texan broke person) to contribute to your campaign" "protect trans kids/ let kids play sports/I deeply regret selling out trans femme Texans and will work to make it up to them"
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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
See, if "Goodreads Listopia Visibility Specialist" were an actual job and not the imaginary title of lead-generation bot, I might kind of want to do that job? Because, like all the other writers, I have no money! I cannot afford a robot publicist for any of my books, old or new. Leave me alone.
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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Timeline cleanse; my partner came home from DSA Choir practice with a bunch of dog toys (I haven’t quite got a handle on that part of the story, but DSA choir practice always seems crazy fun) and the dog fell gladly upon the “Barker’s Bark 90 Woof”
Grievous Hound and its shadow lying on a wood floor in the posture of a passed out drunkard holding a “barker’s bark 90 woof “ stuffie like a bottle
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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
from @andreapitzer.bsky.social today: "There is always a box, and our job is twofold. First, we don’t let anyone get put inside the box. And second, we destroy the box."
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There is always a box
And authoritarians will put everyone they can inside it.
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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump to rename Dealey Plaza "Trump Plaza"; Dallas Mayor Thrilled.
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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 23/09/2026
I adore that this man has such Bugs Bunny energy and also seems relentlessly competent and principled.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...
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MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go
The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
dsausa.org/join
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
105pm: Peru’s Fujimori becomes the first woman to speak
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
António Guterres is listening with his hand on his face. I hope he has a spa day planned for January 2.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 22/09/2026
Anyway here's to a 2027 Congress building the book of grudges www.youtube.com/shorts/Mwt58...
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How Can Congress Better Use Its Power To Protect Democracy Now, 2026, and 2029?
YouTube video by Liberal Currents
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
imagine if the WH press corp had banded together 18 fucking months ago
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“A special rapporteur for the UN human rights council has concluded that there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that the United States attacks on boats allegedly carrying drugs in the Pacific and Caribbean “constituted crimes against humanity.”
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US strikes on alleged drug boats may constitute ‘crimes against humanity’, UN expert says
Dozens of US attacks on boats in the Pacific and Caribbean have killed more than 230 people since September 2025
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’d highly recommend that nobody download this app. At best, it’s unfiltered propaganda. At worst, it’s spyware.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I want to believe this happened because it's all over now but the crying and I am going to act as if that's so. www.foxnews.com/media/white-...
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White House TV pool to suspend coverage of Trump events
FOX News Media, ABC News, CBS News, CNN and NBC News agreed to suspend pooled White House coverage after Trump's attempted ban on CNN reporting.
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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If we live through the next 43 days, I need people to stop using "breaking news" to mean "please send me money for my square, centrist bullshit."
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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Election threats? We’re not panicking, we’re preparing. This Weekend of Action, we reached out to neighbors across BK - in Bay Ridge, downtown, Grand Army Plaza, the Parade Grounds - to spread the word about how we can protect our votes together. Join us! @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @indivisible.org
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 17/09/2026
went to my first (chicago) DSA meeting tonight, it was genuinely so great. join DSA, its worth it
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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I think tonight we got the most honks in a year and a half of weekly banner drops!
TRUMP'S WAR IS MAKING YOU POOR. White letters on black cardboard with an orange toupee over the T is Trump. Up over the bQE 9/16/26
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
seeing all these artists sacrifice money for what they believe in is really quite moving.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Anyway, we are NOT throwing our trans siblings under the bus for ANY reason. NO. You can kick rocks.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026
I just saw someone admonishing someone trans to shut up about trans rights because there are concentration camps in the US, and you know who I see overwhelmingly and disproportionately on the front lines standing up against concentration camps? Trans people.
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Racist nationalism doesn’t scare capital half as much as mild socialism. (See also, oh, fucking everywhere.)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm serious when I say I've lost track of all the recent revelations of literal Nazis working in high-level positions in Republican congressional campaigns and I would very much appreciate a journalist who took the time to detail as many of them as can fit into an article.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
But it doesn't matter how verifiable the math results are, nor how diligently the media repeats the anthropomorphized descriptions of the cybercrimes and breathless repetitions of existential risk narratives >>
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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Why these freaks worship this necrotic moron? Do I have to have lived through this whole fucking wasted decade of my one wild and precious life and never get to find out why?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump: "I want to thank the chair of the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation. She's a respected woman all over. She's got great genetics, I have to tell you. Great genetics. Great blood. I'm a big blood person. I believe in blood."
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fun fact: in our polling of battleground states, about 60% of voters said it is a “top” or “high” priority for Congress to investigate and hold Musk accountable. Lean into it Dems. He’s a cartoon villain - treat him like one.
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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"The Transformers do not endorse the views of the President" okay, great, yeah, it's very normal that you had to say that. This is an ordinary world where things make sense. It's normal that I'd wake up to an official statement from cartoon robots denouncing the man who has the nuclear codes.
Image from Hasbro's Instagram: Optimus Prime is a beloved character who represents humility, leadership, compassion and justice. Hasbro is aware of the recent posts using his likeness.
These posts were done without permission and do not represent the Transformers brand or Hasbro.
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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I can't wait to read this!
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🚨VoteSafe.org IS Elon Musk—and He's Trying To Capture Your Sensitive Voter Data 🚨 EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO VOTE IS AT Vote.org
VOTESAFE.ORG IS ELON MUSK - HE IS TRYING TO CAPTURE YOUR SENSITIVE VOTER DATA
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