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Patti Nelson 🏳️‍⚧️

@patnelson63.bsky.social
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Resident of San Jose, CA. Happily married. Retired. BA in English from UC Berkeley. Lived in Malaysia for most of the 90s. Lutheran, Democrat and MtF trans (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ 💙 💜

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Tim Cook licking one last boot on his last day at Apple.
A screenshot of Apple Maps labeling Lake Ontario as “Lake America.”
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/09/2026
Apple maps has now changed Lake Ontario to "Lake America." Another company run by spineless cowards bending the knee to a demented rapist.
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Thomas Brackett “Czar” Reed @czarreed.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Concepts like “trans people are people, trans people have rights.” That can deprive a school of funding. I want these Dems who support this policy to explain why they believe this is consistent with being a Democrat.
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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
R’s attack D’s on trans because it’s a fearmongering tactic - fear of the other, & it works regardless of how it’s “messaged” by Dems. Voters aren’t hearing those messages ‘cause the RW propaganda machine dominates. We can’t “‘message” out of it because it’s a bandwidth problem not a content problem
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 15/05/2026
Major news! A state court in Kansas has just blocked the states gender affirming care ban! Nobody is at our desk right now so we can’t draft up a story but you all deserve to know this incredible news. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...
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Patti Nelson 🏳️‍⚧️ @patnelson63.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I’m both a Dad and a woman. I see no contradiction.
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Alex Miller @notamiller.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The left was already choked by X’s algo before people started to leave, I don’t think it makes a material difference that people decided to go elsewhere.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026
this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
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David Nir @davidnir.com · 30/04/2026
Absolutely extraordinary. The Democrats conceded *nothing* and got everything they demanded. They said no ICE/CBP funding, and that's precisely what happened. In other words, they did not cave. At all. But the GOP did—completely.
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ᑕᕼᗴᖇYᒪ @cheryl2877.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Plain and simple … I absolutely agree 🎯🎯🎯 Anyone else? 💙 💙 💙
I'm gonna be honest, if both the Pope and the King of England are telling you to get your shit
together...you need to get your shit together.
NED.THE.PUP
THE RESISTANCE
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Jon-Christopher Bua @jcbua.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
BREAKING Trump Will Not Be Happy www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Virginia passes redistricting measure that could help Democrats retake the House
The referendum creates as many as four Democratic-leaning districts in Virginia ahead of the midterm elections.
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Ted Lieu @tedlieu.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Thank you to the voters of Virginia for choosing to hold trump and Republicans accountable. trump and Republicans chose to start mid-decade redistricting. Democrats chose to win it. November is coming.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The Associated Press is reporting that the Virginia Redistricting Referendum has passed! Virginians land yet another blow to Donald Trump’s attempts to maintain power over Congress. One winner: Virginia State Senator & dedicated poster L. Louise Lucas, who spearheaded the “10-1!” push
Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas:

“You all started it, and we f—ing finished it”
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LeCaffeinated @thetirednurse.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
10 children were shot today in Shreveport, LA and 8 of them died. The police chief just doesn’t know how something like this could ever happen. But I think he knows exactly how something like this could happen and it has to do with the > 393 million guns in this country w/ very little regulation.
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Jamie Carter @jctheresistance.demcast.com · 27/03/2026
The final No Kings map just dropped and it is ELECTRIC. 3,267 blue dots blazing across the globe. See you in the streets! LFG! 👑🚫 nokings.org #WeSayNoKings
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/03/2026
No kings means we don’t bow. Not to ego, not to power, not to fear. You answer to us, or you’re done. #WeSayNoKings
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 19/03/2026
“Mueller's investigation dogged ​much of ​Trump's first term. ⁠He ultimately concluded there was no evidence of a criminal conspiracy between Trump's campaign ​and Russia.” That’s most assuredly not what the Mueller investigation concluded.
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Shady Vance in North Carolina: He seems to be clueless or deliberately devious re the Big Ugly Bill. He says: "The One Big Beautiful Bill is chock full of good things for this district and state.” In actuality, it will cause 450K North Carolinians to lose healthcare coverage.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
While Republican politicians around the country are helping TPUSA set up student groups in public schools, the guy who hosted TPUSA’s alternative halftime show and who frequently appeared with Charlie Kirk on his podcast is repping McCarthyism 2.0.
Jack Posobiec • C
@JackPosobiec
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I stand by everything I have said about McCarthy
He was right and the only thing he did wrong was not go far enough
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A small, influential group of right-wingers say their role model, Joseph McCarthy, didn't go far enough, @AliBreland reports: theatlantic.com/politics/
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Thinking ahead and anticipating the consequences of your actions is woke and DEI.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/03/2026
If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Me a year ago: "Musk may be a happy hatchet man thinking he is reshaping the government. But for Trump he is a useful tool to help allow Trump to restaff it." WaPo today: "A year after Elon Musk and his DOGE allies purged 100k's of federal employees, the Trump administration is ramping up hiring."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Like clockwork.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 04/03/2026
Fetterman just voted with every Senate Republican (except Rand Paul) to block legislation aimed at halting Trump's disastrous war of choice with Iran. @fetterman.senate.gov and his GOP colleagues now share ownership of Trump’s stupid, unpopular, unjustified and already tragic war — and the fallout.
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Senate GOP gives Trump free hand in Iran as war powers vote fails
Republicans rejected a resolution to curb Trump’s ability to unilaterally take military action, even as questions linger about the scope and goals of the escalating conflict.
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Tim Steller @timsteller.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports. tucson.com/news/local/b...
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Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says
An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 02/03/2026
Exclusive: The Justice Department plans to abandon its defense of President Trump’s executive orders that targeted several high-profile law firms.
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Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions
The Justice Department is expected to drop its appeals of four trial-court rulings that struck down the president’s actions against Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.
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@GangstaGranny @gangstamimi.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Appreciated!! Very well done & I concur!! 😫😠🤬 I find this meme SO SPOT ON, & TOO FUNNY!! Poor ole Satan!! 😈🤣🤣
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Lavender Zombie Kat @lavenderzombie.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Colon cancer is quickly becoming the #1 killer of people under 50. One contributing factor is red meat, especially processed meat. This is literally insane.
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Catincognito skeeting since 07/3/2023 @catincognito.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Killing in the name of
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
UPDATE: Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal says that "ICE used a phony missing persons bulletin for a 5 year old girl," to lie and get into a Columbia residential building and detain a student. "It is unconfirmed at this time whether they impersonated an officer to do so," he adds.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/02/2026
We need to be really clear that this kind of incident is going to make it harder for communities to find missing children in legitimate scenarios This puts kids in more danger than they were already in because of ICE
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Yes, he's rambling incoherently, but let's not overlook the fact that he looks and sounds like absolute dogshit.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Got some instant pho that includes this mysterious bit of advertising
A label saying made with Korea technology
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BossmangBill @bossmangbill.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
He was speaking too clearly, without the slurring. I gotta admit I laughed when he said Chuck Schumer can’t even make a chesseburger. That’s when I knew for sure it wasn’t him. Trump has no sense of humor.
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Hangincurve @hangincurve.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
It was clearly an impersonation
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
trump and the gop is still trafficking kids, it just exists inside a different wrapper now...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/02/2026
I’ll just be blocking all the “You’d better be nice to me or I’m not gonna vote” people. The privilege necessary to hold your vote hostage is astounding, and I don’t have time for it.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/02/2026
New Jersey has proposed the F.U.C.K.I.C.E Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
this is called "LLM as judge" in AI evals land. Totally legit and not problematic at all :)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2026
Biden would’ve been instantly impeached in a bipartisan vote if he put his face on the freakin’ Department of Justice building
Picture via a CNN reporter of a banner with Trump’s face going up on outside of DOJ building
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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Unless and until Congress removes him, there is no federal budget. Congressmembers can negotiate for their priorties all they want; their desires are meaningless. If he can do this, he can, for example, fund ICE endlessly even if we convince Congress to withhold appropriations.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Congress why?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/02/2026
BREAKING: SECVA Doug Collins has CANCELLED his effort to STRIP Veterans of their benefits thanks to MASSIVE backlash from We the People. WELL DONE and STAY LOUD!
Tweet from Doug Collins: Effective immediately, VA is halting enforcement of the interim final rule, Evaluative Rating: Impact of Medication.

VA issued the rule to clarify existing policy and protect Veterans’ benefits in the wake of an ongoing court action. But many interpreted the rule as something that could result in adverse consequences.

While VA does not agree with the way this rule has been characterized, the department always takes Veterans’ concerns seriously. To alleviate these concerns, VA will continue to collect public comments regarding the rule, but it will not be enforced at any time in the future.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/02/2026
What do you call a government that violently kidnaps a lawful immigrant off the streets & holds him in filthy, inhumane conditions for weeks with no charges or legal representation?
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Host: "Anger over Pretti's death and the killing of Renee Good has catalyzed state lawmakers to take matters into their own hands. A new bill introduced today would allow US citizens to sue ICE agents if their constitutional rights are violated."
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Victoria aka Blaze @burrddoh.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Snort more cocaine off toilet seats & stfu, both of you fucking losers, goddamn 💀
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a woman is laughing with a #youngertv watermark on the bottom
Alt: a woman is laughing with a #youngertv watermark on the bottom
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