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Morticia Frump-Addams (She/Her)

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Punk rock goth metal geek mom & wife wanting sanity to return to our timeline. Religion is based on ancient mythology pissing contests. ❤️ Esoterica, Drag Race, Doctor Who, Horror, Sci-Fi, Marvel, DC, Toons 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌊🇺🇸🌈🐶🔬 No DMs or tagging me in multi-tag posts.

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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 4h
With the $11 billion merger of Paramount-Skydance with Warner Bros. Discovery, just five corporations now control 90% of the U.S. media landscape. Ali Velshi explains why mega media mergers pose a threat to democracy.
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
(1/5) Pentagon leadership has said that by the end of this month, Palantir's Maven artificial intelligence system will become a line item with stable, long-term funding in the defense budget (a "program of record"). #News #Palantir #AI
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 19h
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 18h
Fighting to the right in the age of disasters? We’re going to need our own chainsaws… Astra Taylor dropping some wisdom on TrueAnon. @astra.bsky.social
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 18h
Dr Norma Bowe, 69, is a nurse and grandmother who was working at her mobile medical clinic outside Delaney Hall immigration center in New Jersey when protests broke out there in May. An ICE officer flung her to the ground while she was still wearing her stethoscope. 🧵
Dr. Norma Bowe at Reformed Church of Highland Park, the sponsor of her mobile clinic
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 18h
Jon unpacks AI’s promise of a better future, from the fate of our jobs to an "age of abundance"
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Truthout @truthout.org · 18h
Drinking water prices spiked by 62% between 2015 and 2025 — faster than inflation, grocery prices and median household income.
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Water Bills Surged More Than Other Costs in US Homes Over a Decade
A new analysis finds the price of water increased faster than inflation, grocery prices, and median household income.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 20h
🚨 “We’ve got a president who’s no stranger to the Epstein files leading a Gestapo campaign to round up our most vulnerable population of children," said founder of group protesting new ICE facility for unaccompanied children set to open at a Louisiana airport. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Shout out to the heroes in Maine who do NOT sit quietly when the man who is taking away their rights walks into a brewery. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him.
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 02/10/2026
TOMORROW at 1pm ET, MS NOW’s YouTube channel will livestream “Power to the People” featuring Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, and many more! This is LIVE only so watch TOGETHER one time only at ms.now/powertothepeople. Hit “Notify Me” so you don’t miss the show!
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MS NOW LIVE EXCLUSIVE: "POWER TO THE PEOPLE" with Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Tom Morello and more!
MS NOW is the EXCLUSIVE streamer for “Power To The People” - a cele...
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In response to the mad, boorish, wanna-be king, repeated, public displays of affection for the Kennedy Center have erupted.
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Undaunted Arts in D.C.
🚨32 Days to the Midterms🚨
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good to be reminded of the young people who helped bring communism in central Europe to a peaceful end. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Americans Can Stop Trump’s Unconstitutional Coup at Any Stage
Trump's ambassador reportedly threatened to overthrow Greece's elected government, as the Justice Department criminally investigates Jack Smith.
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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today before Senate.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Things that Senator Eric Schmitt always confuses: Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Atlanta Hawks. A John Deer Tractor vs. A Dear John Letter. Washington State vs. Washington DC. Gorrillas vs. Guerrillas. Duke University’s Blue Devils vs. Arizona State University’s Sun Devils.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Expand the Supreme Court www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...
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Supreme Court Lets Trump Continue Third-Country Deportations For Now
The decision allows the administration to continue removing immigrants to countries they’re not from and have never been to.
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Fawksey Moron - PNW Guy 🦋 @fawkseymoron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I used to give this billboard the finger whenever I passed, finally it’s worthy of appreciation
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🧵 ICE is about to open a new facility for unaccompanied kids in Alexandria, Louisiana -- inside an airport to speed deportations. ICE plans to pack kids into planes, fly them into risk of trafficking. CEO of the new ICE facility contractor says kids are 'voluntarily departing.' I call bullshit.
🧵 ICE is about to open a new facility for unaccompanied kids in Alexandria, Louisiana -- inside an airport to speed deportations. 

ICE plans to pack kids into planes, fly them into risk of trafficking.

CEO of the new ICE facility contractor says kids are 'voluntarily departing.'

I call bullshit.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
SCOOP: Top researchers at Columbia, Stanford, and others thought they were elected to elite scientific societies alongside Nobel laureates. The catch? The organizations are a sham. I spent the last month diving deep into a massive academic scam spanning continents, for @nature.com
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Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers
A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 24/09/2026
We endorse this excellent comment piece by @labourlewis.bsky.social on the glaring integrity gap in Tom Watson’s Palantir appointment. (And not just b/c it links to our reporting. 🙏) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis
When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1. The Senate "permitting reform" bill will (likely) be released this week. 2. It is a data center & energy development bill, not a climate bill. 3. It will erode bedrock environmental safeguards—in particular the Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act.
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Terry J. Harris @trryjhrrs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is really well done. Multiply this by the thousands of families broken up by this administration's policies, with each paragraph here making perfectly clear that there's no purpose here, no benefit to these United States of America whatsoever.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
UPDATE: British Columbia’s attorney general is seeking Criminal Code changes to strengthen accountability for artificial intelligence companies in response to @markfollman.bsky.social investigation.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I must say that I went with an Nvidia card instead of an AMD when I bought my gaming rig a couple of years ago. If I can ever afford another one (big "if" at this point), I will certainly go with an AMD, BASED SOLELY on the complete odiousness of Jensen Huang. He is for sure one of the bad guys.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
MURRAY: The Trump admin falsely labeled birth control as abortion. Do you agree that an IUD is an abortifacient? OVERTON: If confirmed, I'll be fully briefed M: That's not an answer. The prospect of an FDA commissioner who doesn't know that birth control isn't an abortion is deeply alarming O: 😊
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Morticia Frump-Addams (She/Her) @morticia-frump.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I really hate the orange pigshit (I wish people would stop using the T-name). He & his Group Of Pedos in Congress, Dogshits Of Jerkoffs, and his "Supreme" Court 🍑holes are doing fascist shitty things every day. Que Sera Sera. Vote like our lives depend on it, even if Leon fixes the election results.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 23/09/2026
Coward shit Newsom vetoed “a bill that would have extended California’s abortion shield laws and expanded legal protections for gender-affirming care”
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A California bill sought to shore up Newsom’s abortion access plan. He vetoed it
One of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s most reliable allies, abortion rights advocacy groups, are issuing a rebuke after he vetoed a bill that would have extended California’s abortion shield laws.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Turns out "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" is actually slightly less scary than "I'm a rich pervert who wants everyone to die".
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@deadder.bsky.social 😢😢😢
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Chris Washington @cwashington.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I just had a good laugh at this. Not The Aristocrats, but a related joke.
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The Aristocrats [2005]: Robin Williams / Drew Carey
YouTube video by WierdTransitions
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 22/09/2026
gavin newsom you will NOT be president. you will fade into obscurity. you will be cursed to always have a rock in your shoe. your bed will never be truly cozy. your pasta will never be al dente.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
(🚨) PROOF EXCLUSIVE: A Dozen Ways Trump Is Rigging the Midterms This isn’t a listicle. It’s an exhaustive, sourced report on the most under-attack election cycle in American history. Whatever the result in November—and we should all vote for the one we want—Trump *has* criminally rigged the system.
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PROOF EXCLUSIVE: A Dozen Ways Trump Is Rigging the Midterms
Everyone should vote. Democrats may do well. But neither of those facts alters the reality of what the 2026 midterms are: a rigged event under assault by a fascist, his regime, and his foreign allies.
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⚡⚡MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE⚡⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
*Frothing at the mouth with excitement* HEY GUESS WHAT, YOU DON'T HAVE ONE BRAIN, YOU HAVE TWO! med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
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Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Judges are targets in the United States, a backsliding and damaged democracy, because they have repeatedly stood up for democratic notions of justice. We are in a fight for the soul of the judiciary and the future of what law will mean while Trump retains power.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Read more and subscribe for more analysis at Lucid.substack.com
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Lucid | Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Substack
A newsletter for big-picture thinking about autocracy and threats to democracy around the world. Click to read Lucid, by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscriber...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pete Hegseth's obsession with dead and wounded has led him to manipulate the KIA and wounded numbers and to fail to report deaths in the Iran War. The Telegraph already reported how the spouses of war dead were being told that they wouldn't get war death benefits. This is positively perverse.
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean honestly… i know we keep saying this, but the absolute brimstone the media would be bringing if this were a Democratic Party administration in charge of this… Clearly pays to buy up the news media!
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
CHRIST ALMIGHTY
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I fear that people might be getting sick of hearing my views on the world. So this time, an open thread for econ faculty to grade this submission on the meaning of a trade deficit.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We need to start aggressively shunning anyone even remotely associated with private equity firms bc they are RUINING EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE AND I AM TIRED
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 15/09/2026
Women who have tackled home repairs and renovations share hard-earned tips and tools that helped them
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Hard truths about solo homeownership – and the tools that made these women DIY pros
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Tomorrow's the big day. Celebrate democracy by helping us get your eligible friends and neighbors registered for their next trip to the ballot box! Go to www.vote.org and visit handsoffourvote.net to learn more about how to make sure the will of the people prevails in November. #handsoffourvote
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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since people are noticing what Trump is trying to do with the Census, here’s what I wrote a couple of weeks ago when he first proposed it www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The Trump Plan to Cook the Census Books
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There isn't much to say about the McClatchy layoffs that hasn't already been said. But I will add that this is why I remain suspicious of all the news organizations pushing to vertical videos and "bite-sized" content and blah blah. Owners of legacy media aren't all that interested in journalism.
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