bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I am being held hostage by a convicted felon, a rapist, an abusive malignant narcissist, and his criminals. Trump, Musk, Miller... they have stolen my money, my taxes, to unalive and kidnap my neighbors, to put them in concentration camps and treacherous 3rd-party prisons, 🧵 1/6 100
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026What would it take for the United States to institute a mechanism by which WE THE PEOPLE could RECALL a rogue president and/or administration? (Image webpage dated 2025: www.startpage.com/av/proxy-ima...) 000
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026"The solution [to limiting the damage from the evolving risks of AI]: Draw inspiration from other industries[, like b]iological labs working with deadly pathogens,... all face oversight of their internal operations, not just their external products." view.mail.fortune.com?vawpToken=IF... 001
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Educators, Family-Members, Students, Community Members: I attended this training to learn more about how to help keep our community as safe as possible. The session was informative and engaging. You can sign up for their second session (same content), here: events.zoom.us/eo/AnI3rAcLZ... 000
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Our Warrior Healer has Left on Her Next Journey www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... 031
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 13/07/2026www.dailykos.com/wp-content/u... 000
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/07/2026#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #NOperpetratorRedactions #InvestigateProsecute #JUSTICEforEpsteinSurvivors 000
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/07/2026#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #NOperpetratorRedactions #InvestigateProsecute #JUSTICEforEpsteinSurvivors 000
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/07/2026#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #NOperpetratorRedactions #InvestigateProsecute #JusticeForEpsteinSurvivors 000
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 07/07/2026This is profoundly messed up. If you are a medical professional OR you/someone you love is caught in the "weight is health/life/death/beauty" body image trap, you might consider reading or listening to Kate Manne's "Unshrinking: How to Face Fat Phobia." Research-grounded. Profound. 100
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 06/07/2026"New York City officials announced the first-ever Urban Forest Plan to achieve a 30% tree canopy across the city by 2040..." Quote+link: open.substack.com/pub/chopwood... substack.com/redirect/15c... 030
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Thanks for today's quote, Insight Timer. (insighttimer.com) 020
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 30/06/2026"'To me,' [Trump] said, 'compared to the [Keep You From Voting]* Act, just about everything is a big yawn'" [nuance added by this poster]. - * S̶A̶V̶E̶ ̶A̶c̶t̶ - HCR quoting DJT here: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... 010
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Trump can now fire leaders of "the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Consumer Product Safety Board, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Securities and Exchange Commission, & the Nuclear Safety Board."🧵 110
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 30/06/2026"Greg Sargent of The New Republic countered that 'Trump constantly and explicitly holds up his naked corruption *as a badge of honor* that his supporters are supposed to thrill to (and see benefit for themselves in). He thinks corruption is the highest form of winning.'" Source in comment. 100
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 29/06/2026www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/r... 000
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 23/06/2026How low can Trump's approval rating go? www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... 000
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 19/06/2026"Just this week, Georgia Republicans abruptly backtracked on a plan to take up redistricting because they feared a showdown over Black voting rights would energize voters, making GOP candidates more vulnerable in November." #OurProtestsMatter newsletters.democracydocket.com/georgias-stu... 000
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 18/06/2026"Last Thursday... Over 125 federal agents reportedly showed up at the homes of... [voter registration] employees & volunteers... The agents knocked on doors & demanded to come into their houses to get phones, without warrants. They followed people in their cars, even followed kids to school." From⬇️ 121
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026"The administration... treated those who had been here for years as if they had just arrived, throwing them into detention without a bond hearing." "Judges have ruled against this new interpretation, but having found a way to cheat the system, the administration is simply ignoring them." 000
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026"Warned away from [suspending habaes corpus] because of the outcry it would spark, the administration found a way to cheat the system: it changed longstanding policy concerning immigrants who had been in the U.S. for a long time." 100
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026"Last spring, when the Supreme Court said undocumented immigrants had the right to challenge their deportations, according to Swan and Haberman, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller proposed simply suspending the writ of habeas corpus and throwing them out." 100
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026"[Haberman & Swan] reported in the New York Times today that the Trump administration came much closer to trying to get rid of the writ of habeas corpus... The right of habaes corpus "prevents the government from locking people up arbitrarily" 🧵 Thread source: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... 2115
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Two oldheads #naturephotography #nature #photography #plants #NovaScotia 012
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026"...the UFC fight is tied to Trump’s 80th birthday rather than the nation’s 250th, and is being organized not by the congressional planning body for the 250th, but by UFC." - open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Image source: independentaustralia.net/life/art-dis... 100
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Based on numbers shared by Robert Reich: If every month we gained 0.2% in wage growth, that would give us 𝟮.𝟰% 𝘄𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵 for the year. 3.8% price increases - 2.4% wage growth ________________________ 1.4 % less money to buy what you and me need Image source: share.google/l4weMBRVVSg2... 000
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026"While they ultimately did not implement the larger plan, officials did move 6,100 mostly Latino immigrants into [the Death Masterfile]." Image source: theweek.com/cartoons/edi... 000
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026"In January 2024, then-candidate Trump convinced Republicans to abandon a strong bipartisan border bill to fix immigration issues because he wanted to keep the issue of immigration open as a way to win in 2024." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... 000
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026"Republicans blocked a Democratic proposal to bar William Pulte... from serving as the director of national intelligence... with the evident plan that he will weaponize intelligence against the president’s political opponents." - open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... 042
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026"Republicans BLOCKED a Democratic proposal to bar the use of federal funds or private donations for Trump’s ballroom unless Congress explicitly approved" [emphasis added]. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Image source: www.cartoonstock.com/directory/t/... 000
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026"Republicans blocked Democratic proposals to stop Trump from establishing the $1.776 billion slush fund...and to prevent any such fund from giving payouts to people convicted of assaulting law enforcement officers during the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... 031
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026"[This means] those agencies are funded through the rest of Trump’s term. Even if Democrats take control of Congress after the midterms, the funding will be in place, preventing Democrats from using funding to demand reforms." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Image credit in alt text. 000
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026"According to Dominik Lett of the... Cato Institute, those numbers were seven times ICE’s previous annual budget & four times the typical annual budget of CBP, and were designed to last through Sep.t 30, 2029." 2025 image from www.facebook.com/100064351732... 010
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026"...the budget reconciliation measure the Republicans passed in July of last year—the one they call the One Big Beautiful Bill... provided an astonishing $191 billion to fund the Department of Homeland Security, with about $75 billion for ICE & $65 billion for CBP..." 🧵 2019 image link in alt text. 162
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026On Friday, "Senate Republicans passed a measure to provide about $70 billion in [ICE] and [CBP]... without meeting any of the demands... to reform ICE and Border Patrol in the wake of that led to the deaths of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti." - open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... 133
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026"...Friday morning, Sen. Republicans passed a measure to provide about $70 billion in additional funding to [ICE] and Customs and Border Protection (CBP)..." - open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Image *from last June* shows increases in ICE arrests. Source: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 001
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 07/06/2026iceoutofnj.com?link_id=3&ca... #ICEoutOfNJ 000
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 07/06/2026From: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... 000
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Just because we can doesn't mean we should. #AI - #Humanity #Earth #PeopleNeedToBeUseful #PeopleOverProfits #BewareTheBillionaires #BewareTheTechBros #BewareCorporationsMasqeradingAsPersons Image source: theweek.com/political-sa... 001
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 31/05/2026🗽🇺🇸 🎶 Save the Date! Sunday, June 14, 7:30 ET In person (NYC) or streaming! "Rise Up, Sing Out! A Concert for the First Amendment." ⭐️ Rufus Wainwright ⭐️ Bette Midler ⭐️ Patti Smith ⭐️ Sasha Allen ⭐️Joy Reid ⭐️ Jane Fonda ⭐️ With More to Come! riseupsingout.com 6245145
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Heather Cox Richardson (HCR), May 29, 2026: "Today the United States Postal Service has proposed that it will send mail-in ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government." *Illustration, from 2023, NOT posted by HCR* open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... 100
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Thank you @damienmarieathope.bsky.social for posting this- 110
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Hi there! #nature #photography #naturephotography #macrophotography #grasshopper #eastcoastinsects #bugs 040
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 11/05/2026"Palestinian photographer Saher Alghorra won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography for his documentation of the toll of Israel’s attacks in Gaza." Thank you for sharing, @chopwoodcarrywater.bsky.social @chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.skystack.xyz substack.com/redirect/0d2... 010
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 10/05/2026@phoebeb.bsky.social, thank you for this one. 110
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 10/05/2026@bill-66.bsky.social, thanks for sharing this. 000
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Thanks for this one, @chimpvsdog.bsky.social 030
bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 07/05/2026𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀: Melania is a complicit beneficiary of a cruel, corrupt, criminal family. Being a model or female escort is a job. People need to work. - 𝗢𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻: Exploiting MT's work history demeans other workers, and makes the posters seem like ignorant jerks. #MelaniaIsComplicit #RespectWorkers 100