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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 1h

This election is looming like a golem with unknown intentions. Everyone I talk to is haunted.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 1h

Also what they've been doing to labor - of all demographics - since the Clinton administration.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, exactly. And what an impoverished consciousness they would create.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 4h

"Yammer yammer, sister," as Richard T. Jones once said to Amy on Judging Amy.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 4h

The rhetorical question headlines are as galling from you as from the NY Times.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 4h

A lot of good-faith liberals and law professors have the luxury of framing this question as a theoretical exercise. Those of us dangling from the precipice of democracy by our fingernails view the matter quite differently.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 4h

Institutions responding with legal loopholes instead of alarm tells us all we need to know about these institutions.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 4h

I consider myself naturalized into the America of John Brown, Dr. Angela Davis, Dolores Huerta, and Harvey Milk. Don't test my patriotism.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 4h

Ted Chiang has argued that the most likely outcome of creating robots with consciousness will be the infliction of pain on those beings, since inflicting pain on labor is inherent to late stage capitalism. Somehow that sits differently for me than this.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 4h

Outsourcing the labor of democracy is just another service my whytes provide.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 5h

As a naturalized, documented shit-stirrer, this line of thinking truly chills my heart.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 16h

I was in high school when I, Claudius came out. My crush on Sian Phillips has yet to dissipate.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Genius ad from the man who with our help can win Mississippi.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

With respect, I gave you my email. If that would allow me to read a single post in full, I would gladly consider subscribing. But taking my email and not letting me finish one post is a bit bait & switch. I fully support journalists making real money, but I don't just cough up my email for anyone.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I missed that, but it tracks.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

He played the hero re gay marriage once upon a time. Some people feel nostalgia - not me, not for second for this feckless tech bro wanna-be.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Socially liberal" is a meaningless term, and doubly so for anyone with political power. Being nice to queer people doesn't stop us from being replaced with AI; lip service to Black equality doesn't prevent Tesla factories from being charnel houses of racist abuse.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In 1977, I sat in my high school library furtively highlighting in yellow marker every queer sex scene in The Persian Boy. Is it that edition?

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I stayed partly because you were there; till you weren't!

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Old, but their designated successors - the Gavins & Petes - will eagerly reproduce reactionary centrism. Here's hoping we displace them with candidates whose mission is not to win back white men, and who see possibility - not threat - in the millions of potential voters who are POC & progressives.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

They pretty look like that already. They certainly bear zero resemblance to an opposition party.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I wish we could count on Dem leadership to follow suit, when in fact we know they will not. They would much rather lose elections than threaten their children's and grandchildren's privilege.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Throw Ilan a few bucks to signal solidarity. She needs to know we have her back, especially since Dem leadership will likely stay silent. secure.actblue.com/donate/ilhan...

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

As a fellow naturalized citizen, I send love and solidarity. As a child of Holocaust survivors, I see this grotesque attack on you as proof that the gov't has fully devolved into authoritarianism. Be well, my sister. May your family, friends, and supporters see you through.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

And she's like .5% of the piece of shit the men are. But these lizard women are making a choice, and they get no pass.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

So pissed that Ziggy is a Zionist.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

(But old compared to who!?)

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think he means Newsom's ex 😂

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Try being queer since the late 1970s. Need your experience centered? How about this nice used copy of Well of Loneliness to read while you watch The Children's Hour?

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm a QA fanatic just waiting to unleash on an employee-owned operation.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Our AI assistant will guide you through the process of opening this bag of ki -- oh sorry, did it just explode all over your floor and under the baseboards? I can offer you a discount on this Dirt Devil(c) made in a North Korean slave labor camp."

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Also, your friend forgives you and is looking out for you every day.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Seriously. Tape doesn't tape. Pyrex doesn't Pyrex. They don't even bother doing perforation right any more. I feel like a cranky old lady, only this time it's rapacious monopoly capitalism making sure we know we're garbage in its eyes.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The thing dad used to say to them all the time.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Good thing our tin is like a decade old.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The cover is fantastic. I miss those unhinged graphics.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

NYTimes ran this way low in their feed, with a totally anodyne headline & subhed. Meanwhile @us.theguardian.com ran it up top w/headline citing UN "possible torture" claim, plus 3 add'l stories exploring the atrocity.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They're not enabling lawlessness and violence out of loyalty to an abstract concept. They're doing it to preserve the power of the white male super-elite to which they belong.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A problem for certain demographics. Because straight men (not all; not you if you're one) tell us who they are all the time, and the survival of their wives and kids depends on hearing the opposite of what they're saying. So yeah, the white supremacist patriarchy chickens are coming home to roost.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And it's such bullshit. Yes it's SC, but it's not a fucking GOP primary. You are alienating progressives, while scoring zero points with the average Dem voter, whose litmus test is probably not "how hard can you hate on the most vulnerable among us."

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Gotta love the French for rushing to the barricades every time.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Gavin grew up wealth-adjacent in Northern CA, and suffers from an incurable craving for the approval of tech and finance bros. He gestures toward liberalism to stoke the JFK nostalgia he evokes in some, but will always side with power.

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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Most likely had a cis het father, so either they were controlled or neglected. Either way they long for attention and praise from power.

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