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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 13h

Swing Left has "Reach Races" as one of their fundraising options, if you don't want to go through the DCCC. Most of their other funds focus on swing seats, but they do give the option of funding some longer shots. swingleft.org/funds

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 17h

Love the reverse stockings! Very stylish!

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 18h

That's what I say to the people who say "but I voted last time and the Dems didn't fix everything!" Of course not. We're in a mess it took Republicans half a century to create, and we need to hold power by more than bare majorities for a lot more than one election cycle to get it all fixed.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"No federal property may be named for Donald Trump or any of his cabinet secretaries." "individuals and companies that contributed to Trump's damned-fool ballroom may not receive government contracts."

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yeah, but he WANTED it, and he even wanted it to be public. He wanted to be a martyr to his cause, which is enough reason to drop him into a prison laundry for decades.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If anyone out there is voting in Virginia and hasn't yet, be sure to vote the constitutional amendments. There are three: - reproductive rights - marriage equality - restoring voting rights to felons who have completed their sentences

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Scientists - loss of research funding Teachers - loss of control of the lesson plan Country folks - huge economic disruption City folks - National Guard on the street National Guard - long periods away from home and regular job Old people - threats to retirement Young people - threats to education

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Honestly, pretentious teenagers were writing short stories and plays about this stuff back in the 80s. I was an actor in one, playing a worshipper of the created savior. A bit embarrassing in retrospect, like many teenage pretensions, but at least adult me doesn't believe in Sam Altman.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They don't want constraints to be placed on THEM, but they're happy to place constraints on other people.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Comedian Josh Johnson has a bit about how, of all the laws Trump is breaking, the law of gravity is the most perplexing.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They're always trying to find something that sells like beer to people who don't like beer. Those of us who like beer will never agree that this is valid.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Socialism isn't a thing we all get to define personally.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We can work with the accountant. We can't work with the fascist.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The current survey was limited to young people. The 1983 survey covered all ages. It stands to reason that older people have had time to accumulate more lifetime partners. Not all do, but people who got divorced in the 70s and 80s seemed to get around.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just having a male partner can mean a huge jump in a woman's domestic labor, even before kids. Many a man has argued that the work is unnecessary, that he wouldn't do it for himself alone and that she's doing it as a personal quirk or a kind of hobby. In short, a lot of men occupy the "kid" job.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

1) Do they know what happened to Prometheus? 2) Do they know what white nationalists think of people named Missor Movahed Ghaleh Nouri?

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I recommend it highly as a hobby, but it's hard as hell to make a living in the arts. Don't let them put you on the board, though, because that's as much like regular work as being on any other board.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Improv is more common, but performing arts classes in general are fun for people who are sick of their day jobs. Best to not get big ideas about making an arts career stick, though, because then you risk getting sick of that. And poverty.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Didn't they have gyms in Ancient Greece? Like, the ones ours are named for? Maybe the agricultural laborers didn't need to use them, but there have always been people who didn't do agricultural labor.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What's the baseline for "expected"? If they're counting relative to 2020, of course it's down because more people are planning to vote in person. I voted early in person already, and the place seemed busy for this early in the process.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Also, which people having the agency to do what? I want the agency to use software without AI features and not have my data scraped.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Straight men have dismissed pretty much everything that might make them attractive to women as signs of homosexuality. And they wonder why the birth rate is falling.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Could have been voice to text without proofreading.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've seen a couple of niche uses for the technology that make sense -- none for me personally, but a few for other people who are situated differently. That's not nearly enough to justify the build-out they're doing and the resources they're using. We are not here for the benefit of the technology.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

See, David Brooks and his piece on how Italian delis are intimidating to working class people. Maybe they're a snobby, acquired taste to people named Brooks, but did he think the people working there went to Princeton?

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also, we don't know what will happen if current non-voters get mobilized. Trump mobilized non-voters, and it's possible that the remaining non-voters are just as weird or even weirder. I think we need broad-based civics education on things like due process and how tariffs work.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also, the kid's nearly 5 feet tall. Who picks up kids that big?

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And another group of voters goes home and makes a plan to vote Republicans out.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The last time we were discussing acquaintance rape on campus, it stood out to me how many cases involved sexual practices other than vaginal sex. I'd submit that most women who consent to "sex" without further specifying are consenting to vaginal, not anal or humiliation rituals.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On the other hand, if even Third Way wants significant changes, that bodes well. Although I think we need more than term limits.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The fact that lots of new people are upset now is how we get the numbers to win, so that's all good. I still wonder what's wrong with people that they had to touch the hot stove to learn why you don't want to touch the hot stove, and what we can do to keep them from touching it again, but even so...

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That women in France was actually married to the man who drugged her and invited other men to have a go. Consenting to SOME sex never means consenting to all possible sex, and bringing in a group of other people is definitely not included in most normal sexual consent situations.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm for expanding the power grid and electrical infrastructure if it incorporates carbon-free power and replaces fossil fuels. But if even one kilowatt goes for data centers that support AI and surveillance tech, impale it on a meat hook and leave it to die.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In "the olden days" kids had packs of siblings and cousins and neighbors to run around with. Even day care, when needed, was probably just a different house with some more kids. But modern families and housing patterns don't have that built in, so it has to be done deliberately.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They also don't see kids as people separate from the need to care for them. The fact that kids like other kids and sometimes get bored around adults used to be dealt with by letting them run around the village, but now they need a specific place to go.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But we should fund the ones that do, and people who want to teach history or literature should get substantive training in those fields even if they go to a teacher's college and major in education.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think there's a place for post-secondary vocational training that lower middle class families can afford and that doesn't have to subsidize a full research university. That used to exist in teacher's colleges, some of which have become full universities. They don't ALL need to do that.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was there the night they announced his takeover. It was full, the show was good, and the audience was NOT pleased when the news spread through the crowd at intermission.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wonder who is suffering more in this moment, those of us who saw Trump as he is from the beginning and have been fighting MAGA all along, or those who are just realizing it now. The first group is very, very tired, but in many cases immunized against the worst emotional swings.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Republicans test-ran the trans panic in Virginia in 2021, before they rolled it out nationwide. It worked -- once. By 2025 it had lost its power. Other states may not be there yet, depending on when they've had contested races for governor and senator, but eventually people will tune it out.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He's also responsible for the anti-trans panic and the attacks on libraries.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But not right away. There was open defiance at first, then sneaking (as if we can't smell it), jealously guarding remaining turf, and then finally giving up and smoking outdoors. Over there. And a lot of adults quit outright because it was socially and professionally impossible to keep up.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Zero public resistance because of several decades of fighting about it. Same with marriage equality. Change came slowly at first, then all at once.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And where you do have a structured, clearly delineated task that computers can help with, someone's probably automated it already with simpler tech and at lower cost. People have been working on that for decades. If that's all AI can do, the cost/benefit doesn't work out.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sounds like he's selling medicine with cocaine in it and thinks the problem is getting the formula right.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Even if they survive, they're still rats. Sincere converts are fine, but they've got to leave the Republican Party and its ideology behind if they want to be seen as sincere.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Way back before the dawn of time, I got that kind of advice from older female relatives. It's why I didn't go to family events for over a decade, until after those women died off. That there's a new batch, and that they charge money, is horrifying. At least old-world grandmothers did it for free.

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I really liked being Catholic in the 70s. After Vatican II but before the Reagan-era rightward turn.

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