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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

White Supremacist Evangelical Nationalists have found a new messiah and have started the Church of Kirk. As Kirkians, they adhere to the teachings and sayings of Charlie Kirk, because, you know, the sayings and teachings of Jesus are too woke.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The United States is in a crisis of performative masculinity driven by vanity instead of vision, grievance instead of gratitude, and retribution instead of rehabilitation.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

There will be a new day we can call Independence Day, but today is not that day. #NoKings

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Codes of ethics: If a profession develops a code of ethics, the governing authorities of that profession should abide that code of ethics. I’m tired of seeing professions and institutions pay lip-service to codes of ethics, holding the powerless accountable while giving leadership a pass.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

When I check Bluesky, all I see are posts by people who have platforms. I have to scroll a lot to find posts from people I actually know. When I post, it feels like shouting into the ether. Not very social.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

So, since Jeff Bezos caved to Trump and will not be showing tariff impact on Amazon prices, might there be a case for taxation without representation? I mean, why be so secretive?

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Pope Francis was a man of humility, unlike so many leaders, both religious and political. We need more like him.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Sharing classified information on a Signal chat with an unvetted reporter in the group is just another day at the office. But a transgender service member is a threat to national security, no matter their top secret clearance, and their years of dedicated, professional service.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

How I feel about Republicans: Do not ask me to build a bridge to you after you burned it down toward me After you have taken my ability to stand equal before the law After you have taken my rights to pursue happiness 1/4

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I bet Elon Musk has spent more on gender affirming care than I have.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Are you getting them, too? Emails and texts soliciting money to support democratic candidates and/or Democratic organizations say,”We need to save our democracy!” just like the deluge of messages we received last year. But too many Democrats are not working like they really believe those messages.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Boycott Tesla, Defund Starlink, Cancel SpaceX contracts, Fire Elon Musk (who is unelected, unvetted, unconfirmed, uncaring, and unAmerican) These are measures the Democratic Party should be pushing. Defang the Muskrat!!

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

This happened, today! It’s nice to get an affirmation like this, especially nowadays.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

In Trump world, a Ukrainian “good faith effort toward peace negotiations” is total capitulation to Putin’s Russia. The United States and Russia are now working together the way the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany did when partitioning Poland in 1939.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Why isn’t this guy properly dress for a visit to the White House?

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

How does the devil dress? He wears a suit and tie with an American flag pin on the lapel.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Our current leadership is full of men who are afraid of defeat, who will not strive on their own merits, who are trying to orchestrate a permanent victory through despotic means. They lack courage and conviction, using power to bludgeon the truth and baffle the facts.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Elon Musk, JD Vance, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz: all men who are obviously insecure in their masculinity. As a trans woman who once had a flight into hypermasculinity, I know how over-compensating men behave, how they perform their lives. They may not be closeted LGBTQ, but they are predictable.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

When I see an ad about Jesus, “He gets us,” I am suspicious because I know the creators of that movement do not get Jesus. 1/6

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Sometimes I wonder if I had fallen into a temporal distortion, like an alternative history in a Phillip K. Dick novel.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Remember when FOTUS said he’d be a dictator for a day on day 1? Well, we know dictators NEVER cede power willingly. FOTUS: Day 17… still behaving like a dictator.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

ELON MUSK IS BREACHING THE PAYMENT SYSTEM FOR THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. HE IS STEALING OUR MONEY, EFFECTIVELY MAKING HIMSELF THE GOVERNING KING. TRUMP IS HIS PUPPET.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Hey MAGA, you turned the United States into the unequivocal villain in world affairs. Take that bitter spoonful of exceptionalism. No sugar. And I hope it rots in your guts.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Ours is no caravan of despair. — Rumi

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/01/2025

1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them. It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests. I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights. Find the EO here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Trump is seeing what he can get away with, this time with more fervor than his first administration. Democrats and freedom loving people must oppose every step of the Trump agenda like they really believe the rhetoric that Trump is an existential threat to Democracy.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Lately, I’m having a hard time concentrating. Nothing like an existential threat to perk up the hyper vigilance. It’s going to be a long 4+ years.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The MAGA response to Bishop Budde and the executive orders issue by Trump tell me they are neither Christian nor patriotic. They are something insidious, the betrayers in our midst, antithetical to freedom and humanity.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” Being someone who has been declared illegal for merely existing, I have no choice but to resist. This makes me a criminal for the first time in my life.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This week has demonstrated how the people could pick Barabbas (Trump) over Jesus (Bishop Budde).

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

So far, Oklahoma is proposing 20 anti-trans bills in the State Legislature. A lot of them focusing on the official erasure of trans people, prohibiting documents, the use of pronouns, preferred names, and another drag ban.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Trump and his cohort do not understand grace and mercy. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s words are antithetical to their world view, which D.H. Lawrence summed up quite well in 1923. “The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Merrick Garland had to live up to one major expectation: hold Trump accountable. So, why did it take so long for him to launch pertinent investigations into the January 6th insurrection? What a milquetoast legacy!

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Rachel Maddow referred to Elon Musk’s salute as a “Roman Salute.” She has surrendered some of her integrity. No more MSNBC for me.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Laura Ingraham gave this salute in 2016. Elon Musk today. People cannot contain themselves when it comes to their beloved orange man.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr Day I’m thinking about the words, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." I do believe this, but today it’s a matter of faith, which, after all, addresses things believed despite the lack of evidence. 1/2

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I don’t post on TikTok very often, a few of my poems over the last year. I just made a short video declaring my resistance to Trump 2.0. The algorithm immediately sent me to Facebook when I posted it. It seems the shutdown last night retooled the algorithm for Zuck, Musk, and company. WTF!!!

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I’m seeing reports that TikTok is coming back. So, how convenient. Looks like Trump is in bed with China. How long before he and Xi Jinping fall in love with each other? 1/2

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Does anyone remember the so-called Arab Spring in 2011, the remarkable series of revolutions that began in Tunisia and swept through much of the Arab world? The civil war in Syria that only recently ended with the ouster of dictator Assad started in 2011. 1/12

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Tech bros are fascist like 12 year olds who lost a bid for class president. They want to exact their revenge for being unpopular.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

My resistance is existence. I am not going back to the closet. They may take away my gender marker, but that reflects their confusion, not mine. I know who I am. I will continue to be authentically me as I have done for nearly 25 years.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I don’t understand how the oligarchs can reduce employment via automation while, at the same time, dismantle the socioeconomic safety net. Who will buy their products? It’s a disaster in the making. Billionaires are not job creators. They are job destroyers.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I wish the United States could have been like South Korea. They know what to do with an impeach president.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

One reason I moved to Bluesky was to avoid the trolls and bots so pervasive elsewhere, most of whom had obviously made up names. I delete comments and block accounts that are platforms for abuse. Disagreement is a part of healthy debate, but abuse cannot be tolerated.

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

It seems Anita Bryant’s most enduring legacy is her hate campaign and a pie in the face. May JK Rowling have a similar fate. Maybe there’s a pie with her name on it?

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I came out as trans 25 years ago. Over the years, I have seen a lot of progress toward understanding and accepting that gender identity is not a binary. However, it is painful to watch the vitriolic rhetoric against us coming from MAGA, Trump, and Musk. 1/5

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Oklahoma City and its police department have discriminated against people with behavioral health disabilities, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday after …

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I feel the same way. All the pre-election angst followed by the post election malaise. WTF? Democratic leadership is lacking as we slip into the abyss, probably because they’re focusing on their own golden parachutes rather than the welfare of our country. What a wasted legacy!

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Paula Sophia Schonauer @paulasophia.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Tomorrow, we’re on the ride of 2025. I don’t think I have ever dreaded an upcoming year more than I am now. Generally, my attitude is f’em. I will seek and find joy however I can, finding my own liberation.

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