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Kristina Makansi | Marie K. Savage

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Kristina Makansi | Marie K. Savage @kbmakansi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sounds pretty treasony to me.
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Kristina Makansi | Marie K. Savage @kbmakansi.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Still practicing my drawing and trying to capture Helen and Mateo, the stars of Book Two of the Pantheon League series, coming this fall. I’m not good enough to draw from scratch, so I use figure drawing prompts or images as inspiration. They’re not quite right, but I’m still having fun! 💅🎨🖌️✍️📚🌶️
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
🔴 rep melanie stansbury did not come to play ♥️✊🏾🇺🇲✊🏻‼️
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Fascism is here. If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. “Left-wing political terrorism” will mean those who oppose the regime — while actual right-wing extremism is allowed to grow and thrive. We are very far off the cliff, folks.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
fake feds are investigating ballots that don’t exist from a made-up city. other than that, totally checks out.
some dope on X named @PaulGoldEagle wrote: “BREAKING: 675 ballots for Spencer Pratt found in a dumpster in San Recto. Federal authorities are on scene.Let the games begin”

and then a community note was added: “No city named San Recto exists in California, making the claim of ballots found there impossible.”
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Kristina Makansi | Marie K. Savage @kbmakansi.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Normally I don’t care about basketball, but as someone who has lived in Texas and New York City, GO KNICKS!!!!!!!
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Kristina Makansi | Marie K. Savage @kbmakansi.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I’ve been thinking a lot about THE SEEDS TRILOGY lately. Readers have compared it to THE HUNGER GAMES, and we agree. A story about love, friendship, and the fight for truth, justice, and liberty for all. And food. It’s also about food. Just seems rather timely about now…
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
To be fair, he really needs daytime rest after being up all night posting fantasy A-I images of himself on "Truth" Social, as all presidents do.
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Kristina Makansi | Marie K. Savage @kbmakansi.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I just hit 84,000 words on book 2 of the Pantheon League series. For me, 84k means I’M GETTING SO CLOSE TO THE END! I figure 3 or 4 more chapters before I have a finished draft! Also it’s summer, so it’s time to RISE UP FOR THE REVOLUTION with some exciting dystopian adventure romance.📚 ♥️
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
How is this farce of a do nothing government still going on? It's as if the system that protects incompetent white men and women in power was built to protect incompetent white men and women to stay in power.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
We are very far off the cliff, folks. @CBS should be avoided entirely. Shame on them.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 22/05/2026
Your 'doom quote' for today: "The more this civilisation refuses to acknowledge the unsustainable foundations of its existence, the more it confirms that its ultimate destiny is to self-annihilate." tsakraklides.com/2024/08/20/i...
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In The Grip of Necrocapitalism (Part 2)
cont’d from Part 1 …Killing the Thing of course suggests the collapse of many, but maybe not all, of the edifices of our civilization it depends upon.  But very few admit this dark…
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 22/05/2026
We're gonna' need a bigger y-axis.
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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Cartoon by @jamesdfmellor.bsky.social
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
SEN. TILLIS, on the new DOJ 'anti-weaponization' fund: “Stupid on stilts.”
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 22/05/2026
Hear how we track transnational far-right networks... This panel recorded at re:publica is now available online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywcp...
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re:publica 26: The Global Far Right: Networks, Narratives, and Power
YouTube video by re:publica
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Bruce Springsteen has no fucks to give. 👏
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bingley567 @bingley567.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
True, but just TRY to get something like this past the GOP.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/05/2026
very good and it zeroes in on a really important dynamic: the way the professionalization of the court and the industry around it serves to insulate the justices from democratic feedback as well as contribute to the idea that the justices are law wizards to whom we *ought* to defer.
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Kristina Makansi | Marie K. Savage @kbmakansi.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Well, this is not okay.
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bill @bill-66.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...
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On Superpower Suicide
And the recovery of justice
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Kristina Makansi | Marie K. Savage @kbmakansi.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
#booksky 📚I saw a post about how authors who want to sell more books should make it clear who the book was written for. So, scroll through and see if one of these books might be for you.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
What would a typical worker earn today if their wages had grown as fast as CEO pay over the past 50 years? Take a guess and watch this video to find out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lPPsrAMtTI
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This Graph Exposes Our Rigged System
What would a typical worker earn today if their wages had grown as fast as CEO pay over the past 50 years? Take a guess
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Pete Buttigieg: “One thing that would make a huge difference is if we selected our president by letting the person who got the most votes actually take the office instead of the National Electoral College”
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KatOtis! @kat-otis.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Gee, thanks "teach the dems a lesson voters." 😡😡😡😡
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
yuppppp
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Chip Pate @wspate.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Absolute truth from Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich. We warned you. You did it anyway. At that one moment, all you had to do was check the right box for a thriving, peaceful and successful life. And now every decent American is under complete, life-threatening assault.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is a Justice Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor appreciation post. Thank you for your just and righteous voices and your fierce defense of our democracy. ❤️
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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Exhibit 1 for his trial for violations of our First Amendment rights.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🔴PAY ATTENTION: The Governor of Louisiana is declaring an emergency to cancel an ongoing election so that his party can rig the rules moving forward. This is not just about redistricting... www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Louisiana governor suspends active election to allow for gerrymander
Early voting was set to begin Saturday in Louisiana’s May 16 primary election, and mail ballots have already been sent out to voters.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Justice Elena Kagan Isn't Mincing Words, About The Voting Rights Act........
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Absolutely! Two can play at this game.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/04/2026
Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ theonion.com/supreme-court-overturn…
Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
“We all need to play by the same set of rules” - @aoc.bsky.social
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/04/2026
Really important story from @wired.com: The Christian Nationalists who want to destroy the American secular state are now making their presence felt www.wired.com/story/govern...
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Government Workers Say They're Getting Inundated With Religion
“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”
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Kristina Makansi | Marie K. Savage @kbmakansi.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Happy Easter to all except those who think the man who gave us the Beatitudes, the Sermon on the Mount, and who healed those who came to him in need wants us dropping bombs on hospitals. On bridges. On innocent children. Wake the f*uck up! You are the very people he preached against.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Tax the rich. 💰💰💰💰
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Patrick Favrel @patleon.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
#StreetArt in #Paris 11th
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Pretty dark
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Today is the one year anniversary of DOGE's raid on the US Institute of Peace. DC Metropolitan police literally broke open doors at the institute's privately-owned building to let Trump officials bully their way in. Read about my lawsuit to retrieve the body camera footage, and what it revealed:
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Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid
Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Joe Kent, director of the national counterterrorism center, resigned today over the war in Iran. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
President Trump,
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
I support the values and the foreign policies that you campaigned on in 2016, 2020, 2024, which astenanted ray out rot ted merica ne presus ersto at the nade i ted the wealth
and prosperity of our nation.
In your first administration, you understood better than any modern President how to decisively apply military power without getting us drawn into never-ending wars. You demonstrated this by killing Qasam Solamani and by defeating ISIS.
Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran. This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to a swift victory. This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women. We cannot make this mistake again.
As a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times and as a Gold Star husband who lost my beloved wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives.
I pray that you will reflect upon what we are doing in Iran, and who we are doing it for. The time for bold action is now. You can reverse course and chart a new path for our nation, or you can allow us to slip further toward decline and chaos. You hold …
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Oh
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Kristina Makansi | Marie K. Savage @kbmakansi.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Serious times. Serious author. Silly husband. Love of my life out with another novel (coming in May) that is an absurdist, satirical critique of American discourse. #booksky 📚
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Kristina Makansi | Marie K. Savage @kbmakansi.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
It’s said that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. In other topics, today is the Ides of March.
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
It’s #FridayReads on Friday the 13th! Let’s share some books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Sharing a nightmare full of murder, revenge, ghosts, and creatures from beyond the reef… www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...
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Kristina Makansi | Marie K. Savage @kbmakansi.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
TODAY IS PUB DAY for NEMESIS IN LOVE! Move the clock forward to when the world's first multi-trillionaire controls everything except a few pockets of resistance and mortals & immortals band together to fight the cruel dictatorship in New America—and find love in the process. #romance #booksky
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the Iranian people are not our enemy
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Hey Arizona, Kris Mayes is our superstar Attorney General. She stands up for consumers, fights corruption, & protects our freedom and our rights. She has sued the current administration several times and has won. Please follow, repost, volunteer, & donate to get Kris re-elected! #Pinks #OneV1
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