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M. A. Gaylor

@mamagaylor.bsky.social
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We already have televised executions: videos of ICE murdering people, missile strikes on small boat sailors in international waters. State sanctioned executions, each creating/sustaining a permission structure for the next, pushback ineffective. It’s not just boundary testing. It’s normalization.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hate that I effing called this. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
advocate.com
Pete Hegseth announces the U.S. military will conduct a public execution in Texas
The Pentagon plans to livestream a firing squad execution, bringing Hegseth’s public performance of toughness to the administration of death.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“This doesn’t concern you, Freya. Say anything and you’re next.”
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Natalie’s broken skull and remains will be found next to a printer.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I‘m betting there are discussions being held now about whether to broadcast this execution, live or taped. This is exactly the type of muscle bloody Trump and Hegseth like to flex. With Trump taking bids for pay-per-view rights.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Query whether the use of a 3rd party AI application also impacts/waives reporter privilege wrt to confidential sources.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Well, shortly before I posted, I was listening to Harper Valley PTA; shortly before that I was replying to a post of yours. Perhaps a transoceanic meeting of the vibes?
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Novel as song - Ode to Billie Joe m.youtube.com/watch?v=WoMF...
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Ode to Billie Joe - Tallahatchie bridge
YouTube video by chakrabortyisinhere
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I wonder how “knee to nose” represents operational security in this person’s mind. Can only those able to maintain a knee to nose position until the cat’s out of the bag know? Must those who know keep their knee to their nose until the denouement, making it difficult to tell others? Which knee?
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
”Sunset In A Squirrel Eye” is the title of a poem that desperately needs to be written.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The question for centrists/moderates is always “Civility and ’getting things done’ in the pursuit of what, exactly?” The third way is a shaded path, the revanchist cliff on its immediate right obscured by a band of narrow, but dense undergrowth. There is only one problem that needs solving.
Screenshot of a paragraph from the article discussed in the reskeeted thread, with all but the first sentence highlighted, reading: “ From this perspective, the ‘both sides’ frame falls apart. The problem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country's citizens. The only way to re- oppress most of a country is to use anti-democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not anger-it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.”
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
His murder was a radicalizing event for me. I’m no one, but what I can do, I try to do.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When righteous elders die, new ones must step up to take their places. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Argentinian citizenship certainly had the Nazis lining up. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Names of 12,000 Nazis in Argentina revealed in newly discovered document
Researchers think many of those listed had Swiss bank accounts holding monies from Jewish victims
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
washingtonspectator.org/its-the-powe...
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It’s the Power, Stupid:<br />Dancing in the Dark, Part 4 | Washington Spectator
The enlargement of unchecked presidential power, with impunity and partly for personal profit, is the strategic objective of the Trump Presidency.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SCOTUS said the president was immune, they didn’t say anyone else was.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Who wore it better?
Screen shot from the movie “Best In Show” showing Gerry Fleck’s two left feetPicture of Trump from mid thigh down standing awkwardly as if he has two right feet.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You had me at “Ricardo Montalban shirtless“
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Did Trump sell out Lithuania, Latvia, Poland or Ukraine as part of the deal?
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Would that there were Dem strategists who employed tactics like that …
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Man proposes, God disposes …
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Woo hoo! @moderation.bsky.app removed the ”Adult Content” from these posts!
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I posted 2 artworks showing nude bodies (Aprhodite from Peter Paul Rubens Judgement of Paris [Prado], Michelangelo’s David). @moderation.bsky.app labeled both as “Adult Content,” requiring a click through to view them. I appealed, but … Who does @bsky.app think needs protecting from classic art?
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes, we all know who he was talking about when he said “our kids, our grandkids, our country.”
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Photo of Michelangelo’s sculpture of David
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So says Peter Paul Rubens and all who hold with him!
Venus painted by Peter Paul Rubens in his 1639 The Judgement of Paris
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Words to vote by.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I guess any conflict issue was resolved since G&D are representing the press in this matter. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It would be if they had a spine. I don’t see how they could have grown one recently given that they hired a bunch of Trump’s lawyers away from Sullivan this spring. Which may also raise a conflicts issue representing the press here.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeah, my first thought was “For whom?”
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2/2 deserve? And all-politicians-are-maniacal-and-abusive excuses don’t cut it. Even if true, it’s likely largely because vote-blue-no-matter-who cultists normalize it, minimize it, rationalize it as being the price we all have to pay for a Dem majority. Demand better. Be better.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1/2 Last I knew, homophobia and ableism aren’t among the stages of grief. I’m old enough to remember when Fetterman’s bad behavior was blamed on his stroke and Platner’s on his PTSD. How much cover do politicians whose fitness for office is objectively questionable … www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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Mary Peltola’s Campaign in Alaska Senate Race Is Rocked by Tumult, With Angry Outbursts and Slurs (Gift Article)
Democrats hope that Mary Peltola can flip a Republican Senate seat in Alaska. Former aides describe a campaign and congressional office marked by chaos.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I scanned this too quickly and read it as ”have zombie ties,” and thought “Okay, I would never buy this tie for someone, but aren‘t you being a little harsh?” as I focused in for a closer look.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I fault my high school guidance office for not informing me this job existed and robbing me of the career of my dreams.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hey @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social You need this tie!
Screenshot of the linked post showing a navy ties embroidered with different poses of a man’s head with an orange cat on top of him.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sadly, so is the truth about you.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Dear Mother, It took some time, but it seems I have a new home. They are good to me here, I have already eaten 3 times my bodyweight. The affection afforded me is as lush as my new sofa. My adopted ginger brother remains aloof, but will no doubt warm up with time. Weep not, Now Ken Burns”
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What the Universal Cat Distribution taketh away, the Universal Cat Distribution system returns.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I didn’t realize Christopher Walken’s parents were Belgian scientists. Last I knew, they owned a bakery in Astoria …
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yay for Donnie!
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🧵 All this and a bag of 🍟 From last year, but sadly, the only thing that’s changed is the date.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not really, just a retired lawyer who had incarcerated clients.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
$50
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Cool I'll put it on my shelf next to my volume of Milošević poems about civil rights icons
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Also, let me know if I can help with making up any difference, too.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Done just now through jpay. Fingers crossed Mr. Fuller is taken care of!
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Same here.
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What are your thoughts about the language in the opinion “unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the District Court’s preliminary injunction” vs the applicable standard “unlikely to succeed on the merits of the underlying claim”?
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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What are your thoughts about the language in the opinion “unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the District Court’s preliminary injunction” vs the applicable standard “unlikely to succeed on the merits of the underlying claim”?
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