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Faye Dunaway With A Gun |🏳️‍⚧️|🏳️‍🌈| @electradescending.bsky.social · 17h
And people ignored and dismissed us when they were told how dangerous what first Gavin; and then later Talarico and Acton were doing. All it takes it one domino to fall and trigger other dominos to make transphobia the official line of the Democratic party.
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Len @len.bsky.social · 16h
It doesn't matter what "wins" you think you could deliver by "moderating" on trans issues, or even staying quiet about it. A society that doesn't have the principles or the courage to loudly and ferociously defend trans kids isn't a society even worth saving from itself.
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
there's a lesson here that dems need to learn: you can't just be *a little bit* the party of bigotry. once you welcome the bigots into the tent they will consume you
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Thaddeus is a girl's name 🏳️‍⚧️ @thaddeus.zone · 28/09/2026
you can make your life far more interesting just by tweaking how you describe it: ❌ my shoulder hurt when i woke up this morning ✅ i escaped from the dreamlands, but i came back *wrong*
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
kinda fucks me up to see there are people out there capable of living happy lives, how is that even a thing??
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"we didn't have anything like as many people claiming to have ADHD back in the days when everyone carried around a pack of inhalable stimulant drugs and took between 20 and 40 doses every day"
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The national newspapers have laid off all their foreign reporters, stopped sending people around the country/world, and stopped putting any money into investigations. When their reporters do get important stories now, they save them for their books.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sometimes I feel like I’m one of the only people processing the death of journalism happening in real time. If a description of what is happening appeared in a dystopian novel it wouldn’t be out of place and everyone would know it was the death of the free press.
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
you must be living in a bubble if you haven't heard the biggest hit of '26, a song that spent seventeen weeks as #1 on the Pop charts: "Valencia" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra [checks cue card a 2nd time] we regret the error, Valencia was the #1 song of *1926*
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the last few years have shown us that senate dems are a club of chummy insider elites who couldn't care less about stopping fascism if AOC goes to the senate she's not gonna topple the existing order; she's gonna join it
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
you'll only ever embolden the fascists by sacrificing vulnerable groups to them but even if you could placate the fascists how much of the country are you willing to surrender? 2%? 1%? 0.5%? even a *mere* 0.3% of the US represents >1m people we all stand together or we all fall one by one
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
remember when Joe Biden tried to enact the Equal Rights Amendment via executive order on his last days in the White House? a maneuver he *knew* had zero chance of succeeding? but Biden did it anyway because he wanted to claim he'd been a champion of women's right despite never putting in the work
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
the goober in question
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i love how robust & reliable our global economic order is
the XKCD comic of a precariously balanced stack of blocks but the caption pointing to the stack reads "The entire global economy" and the caption of the thinnest support reads "Iraq's Mad Max truckers" along with a picture of many trucks driving through the desert
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
my goober of a cat has achieved his ultimate form; i'm calling him the goobermensch
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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I gave that man my vote in 2020 and I was happy to do it. in return, he failed me. badly. I won’t forget.
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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I hate him. I will hate him forever. to me, that’s his legacy
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
watching that clip of tammy duckworth and it's staggering how disastrously the democratic senate caucus is misreading the moment
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Frieren is unquestionably the best show i've seen this decade but i kinda think the culture writers at a site like NYT would rather jump in a tank filled with piranhas than put anime on their top 100 list i love my autistic elf mage and her camping adventures with her adopted children
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
there are at least 80 of these shows that i've never seen a single episode of also, this top 100 list is completely invalid since it doesn't include Flight of the Conchords
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
dawg, look at my democratic party. we're all gonna die in the gutter
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it really speaks to the staggering hubris of DC elites that 87 yr old RBG—who had gone through multiple rounds of cancer & was being treated for cancer again in 2020—decided to officiate a maskless wedding during the middle of a global pandemic whaddya know less than three weeks later she was dead
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
hey remember when NPR's supreme court reporter nina totenberg knew that ginsburg was dying but decided not to tell anyone
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
in 2017, a trans reporter was fired at @marketplace.org for writing a blog post abt the need for journalists to resist rising fascism, racism and transphobia. @kairyssdal.bsky.social, the host of the show, said nothing & let his colleague's career be murdered. judge his hr tips accordingingly.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 25/09/2026
Wait you guys are getting job interviews?
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Keira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ok what the hell is going on here. This is also Duckworth's argument with regards to helping Trump "save face." "Make Trump Look Good" cannot possibly be the Democrats' new messaging can it?
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Danny Page @danny.page · 25/09/2026
"turns out we need to have windows that open" - the company with the highest market cap in the world, for some reason
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"billionaires don't know how to toast a pop tart" sounds like something you could dismiss as hyperbole but no, this is literally true; elon musk's biography has a segment about how the man stuck his fingers directly into a hot toaster
A screenshot from Walter Isaacson's 2023 biography on Elon Musk

"In late 2002 Musk arranged a meeting with a tank
manufacturing company in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
He and a handful of engineers arrived the night
before, staying at a Holiday Inn Express. Chris
Thompson and another early employee named
Steve Johnson, seeking to impress Musk, woke
early so they would already be eating at the small
breakfast buffet when the boss arrived.
"Elon comes down, and he walks over to the
breakfast bar and he picks up a package of Pop-
Tarts," Thompson said. "And the funniest thing to
me was the fact that most of us take Pop-Tarts
for granted. He was transfixed. This was like a
scene out of 2001: A Space Odyssey, when the
apes examine the monolith. It was clearly the
most fascinating thing he had seen that morning."
Eventually, Musk realized that Pop-Tarts were best
enjoyed toasted. So he opened a package and put
two of them into the toaster, Thompson said. Only
Musk made the rookie mistake of inserting the
pastries horizontally, rather than vertically. When
they popped back up, he had to stick his fingers
into the toaster to grab his breakfast. This was a
problem, and at about six in the morning Musk
proceeded to scream, at full volume, "Fuck, it
burns! Fuck, it burns!" Two older ladies at the
front desk, nearby, watched in mortified silence."
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Each interlocking system was logical in itself...No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine."
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the GOP has been locking down access to the internet in red states across the country and a lot of liberals have been suckered into supporting it on the lie that it will "protect the children"
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the "no fear, one fear" comic meme

in the first panel a cool guy with sunglasses is wearing a shirt that says "no fear"

in the second panel there is a t-shirt that says "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"

in the third panel the same cool guy in shades is now wearing a shirt that says "one fear"
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i'm insufferable to watch old movies with because i will pause the film thirty times to examine the kitchen appliances or the contents of a refrigerator or the items on a desk i love to look at things like these because it's the details in the environment that makes places feel real
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
as we enter the spooky season i gotta plug my favorite horror movie "The Changeling" (1980)—currently free on tubi—as the best haunted house movie out there plus i love a horror movie where they go to the library to do research. George C. Scott using a microfiche machine! unfurling old maps!
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
having a shoulder cat seems cute & adorable all the way up to the moment when reality rudely reminds you that cats have knives for feet
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
that's right
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
despite his vile voting record Cuellar has long been one of dem leadership's favorites; in 2022 when Cuellar was raided by the FBI for taking foreign bribes & was on the cusp of losing to a progressive primary challenger Pelosi et al pulled out all the stops to drag him to victory by <300 votes
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the 1970s were so bad that they made hero out of a dirty cop name buford pusser
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the best way to honor mitch mcconnell's memory is when alito and/or thomas retire in 2028 that under no circumstances should the democratic senate majority allow trump to appoint a replacement
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is genuinely wild how much Dems have abandoned talking about policy and how quickly they allow right wing cuts to be normalized. There are currently literally millions of Americans in the process of losing their SNAP and Medicaid benefits, and it's not part of a coordinated Dem midterm platform.
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
and this is coming from Illinois's *good* senator garbage like this is why i keep saying the democratic party needs to be gutted & completely rebuilt if we want any chance of defeating the ascendant fascist movement
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm sorry if I sound like I'm going insane, but this is an excerpt from the actual academic writing I do for my actual respectable university as an actual political scientist in training and I'm just not sure if I can fucking take it anymore.
The resulting coarsening of elite conservative discourse is notable. Twenty years ago, it would have been a scandal if a major defense contractor and Republican donor publicly endorsed the retrograde opinions on gender relations offered by “@cumlasagna1.” Yet Elon Musk’s embrace of “@cumlasagna1” did not even make the headlines on December 15, 2025 as the primary political story of the day was President Trump appearing to take credit for inspiring the assassination of Princess Bride director Rob Reiner and Reiner’s wife due to their liberal activism. (The president’s conclusions may have been premature. Reiner’s son-in-law would later be charged with the crime and police state they believe a personal dispute rather than political disagreement was the primary motive.) All of this has clear implications for who gets to be an expert and how expertise gets to be legitimated in conservative national security discourse. Given his agreement with a profane Garfield themed far-right social media account’s stance on the cognitive capabilities of women, it is unlikely that all else being equal, a female spacepower strategist or aerospace engineer would have her suggestions taken as seriously as one of her male counterparts by the influential Republican defense contractor. It also broadens the range of potential policy outcomes, which in turn has
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
up to episode 11 of Revolutionary Girl Utena now, with this week's offering we see the usually plucky Utena looking rather melancholy
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Zoe Tunnell ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I am staring into the middle distance harder than anyone ever has
BY THE EARLY 2020S THERE WAS A PLACE LIKE THIS IN EVERY MAJORcity in the United StatesJust people, without jobs or places to liveWelcome to the 21st century, Doctor.
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
[me doing grocery shopping] i will be a responsible adult and simply not purchase that giant bag of candy [me at midnight, jonesing for frivolous calories] i should murder the person who did the grocery shopping
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
[me when visiting friends/family for a meal] hey don't worry about the dishes i'll happily clean the kitchen [me cleaning up after my own cooking] i would rather burn down this house than wash any of these dishes
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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
we are going to find out some truly horrifying shit in 2026-2028 and we are morally obligated to build a party that will punish them in 2029
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
watched some more Utena & i still really dig this show's aesthetic, especially its use of light and shadow
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
we can all see that Gavin Newsom is a worthless toady who only exists to benefit the ruling class but we ought to keep in mind that the majority of elected dems would far rather be the next Newsom than the next Bernie
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
as a teen following politics during the bush presidency i was convinced GWB was the most evil president this country would ever see & boy it sure sucks to be proven wrong on that count
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