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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 7h

"I don't go high when they go low. I get LOUD." Rep Nixon knows The Way™️. The irony of a Nixon having the moral high ground in this moment isn't lost on me.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 7h

No! 😫💔 Bob Ross doesn't deserve to be wrapped in that. He, in fact, has helped us keep PBS around from beyond the grave in the face of this administration's attack on it because PBS was able to sell several of his paintings to collectors who loved his work.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 7h

Don't forget how he paid Drumpf's way into office. Also don't forget him hijacking data from the IRS and maybe/maybe not installing whatever software there he felt like. Also don't forget he was never vetted properly and ran tf away before he could be. Don't forget any of that.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 7h

I'll take your word on that and delete my comment for being wrong. You have my apologies.

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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 12h

The Eugenics Crusade | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS youtu.be/vmRb-0v5xfI?...

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 12h

Take a close look also at McCarthyism and everything that happened in that era. After WW2, we got so drunk on our own arrogance that we thought we could never make that mistake, and we were right on the eve of taking the first steps toward that mistake.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 16h

This is why I'm so loud about @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and @jamestalarico.bsky.social not being the good guys y'all want them to be. #VoteBlueNoMatterWho, but keep your eyes up and remember that they're all politicians in a very corrupt political environment where you don't get success without that.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 16h

me, so why should I gaf?" We still have too many people trying to respond to this like it's business as usual, and my gut is screaming at me that we're done the same way it does when I pass an alley I shouldn't walk down. Idk how much of that is intuition and how much is mental health.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 16h

what it'll take to get us back on track without free and fair elections, all the death we talk about on here as being a problem is going to have to get worse because not enough people have lost someone they care about to all this bs. It seems like that's the culture we live in: "It doesn't impact 🧵

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 16h

That's kind of what I was avoiding acknowledging out loud, but yeah, those two things are it entirely. My worry is that we don't have a people capable of or motivated for revolution. Our founders had an impetus our current culture lacks, and I'm scared that before enough of us are motivated to do 🧵

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 19h

I can't sleep tonight bc I, a #trans woman and #veteran, am worried we're stuck like this. I'm worried that a nation I volunteered to defend won't defend my #rights. I'm worried that the only plan seems to be to rely on a #vote that #MAGA works to rig. I'm worried that this gets worse before better.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 19h

I've known many trauma survivors to have awe-inspiring first response modes without first response training who collapse into themselves in some way when the adrenaline rush expires. I'm one of them.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 20h

I'd rather my #taxes get spent on feeding a kid whose parents could cover it than on paying #ICE to indirectly put that kid on the care of someone who will SA and murder them. If you disagree, you're morally bankrupt. #FeedKids #AbolishICE #8647now #NoTaxationWithoutRepresentation

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 20h

Nothing about Fetterman should elicit surprise or disappointment. He's never really been blue and has always been a centrist at best, if not an active infiltrator at worst.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 20h

I stopped working on his phone campaigns after @jamestalarico.bsky.social threw my community under the bus to Fox. You'll forgive my lack of dedication to fairweather friends. This is how establishment Dems lose the left when trying to pick up the bigot vote.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 20h

Y'all know what I haven't heard yet? What (D)s intend to do when, not if, #MAGA cheats the #midterms. Are they going to bring it before a corrupt and bought #SCotUS? And what's our nuclear option here? To stop paying #taxes? How're we prepared to escalate when the #vote isn't fair?

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 20h

It's flatly unconstitutional for #ICE to terrorize folks this way. When we highlight the cruelty and don't follow up with the thought that it should be unusual, we don't acknowledge that our #Constitution has something to say about #CruelAndUnusual punishment. #AbolishICE #NoICE #8647now

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 20h

Triple count and verify everything. With these approval ratings, the #vote should be 85+% blue. No #BlueWave would be implicit proof at this point that they're cheating and should be sufficient cause for investigation. Go vote if you're unhappy, and #VoteBlueNoMatterWho.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 23h

I'm mixed and got my mom's skin tone and eyes and dad's hair and nose. This is asinine.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 23h

It's only a matter of time before they invalidate the old #passport design and force everyone to get the new one just to scrub #trans folks' identified gender markers.

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Exactly 😤😡

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every time she calls me Mama B, it lifts my heart. She has no clue how she elates me just by her love. I adore my daughter, and it's her birthday today. Happy Birthday, baby girl. May you see many beautiful returns of the day.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Renee Good's widow, Rebecca, and the families of both women are suing the administration on two fronts as they seek justice for Renee and Rebecca.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's true. When we were still headed for something that looked more like lightly socialist democracy, corporations panicked and pinky swore the wealth would trickle down. It didn't. #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #NoBillionaires

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think the update to that Substack post is someone knowing they got busted and trying to backstop their claims after the fact. I have little proof to support that assertion beyond what's been offered here by my favorite media literacy professional, but I'm sticking with it until there's more info.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think I'm just going to spell it that way from now on because this certainly isn't the America I grew up in or volunteered to defend.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm convinced the administration did this on purpose so they can go back later and say it doesn't count because there is no Unites States.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

See what I mean when I say the system is rigged?

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And oil. You forgot the oil. Wait, no you didn't. There's probably no full service lube work happening in there.

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Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester @bluntrochester.senate.gov · 30/09/2026

Finally, a member of this adminsitration that tells the truth.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When a rapist attacks someone, they leave a permanent mental health battle in their wake, so yeah, justice and equity suggest that "ruining a rapist's life" is an appropriate consequence. If rapists don't like that, they can learn to not rape.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In a word, yes. More deeply, that #misogyny is a cultural standard wherein we assume rape survivors are the ones in error for not doing enough to dodge a SA they didn't know was going to happen that day.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bank of Maerica, Game Game, messed up team logo vs inaccurately similar team logo... There's a lot going on here if you know what you're looking for. If you don't, it just looks like USian corporate marketing noise that's easy to miss details in.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Linguistically, her work challenges me because I think I, a hobby linguist for the last two and a half decades, see things in it that are indicators beyond a language barrier that a single author didn't write all those words. Written work has a flow that evokes the writer's voice. Not all hers does.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I love watching artists trade professional affection like this. Thank you both for having this moment in public. A notification elsewhere in the thread brought me back to this, and I needed the day-brightener. Cheers to you both. 💙

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This shady ass administration is going to use that in court to say it's not valid. Remember I said that.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

lied about not being able to kill someone, I'm not sure and would have to go back and rewatch the episode. I'm sure he calculatedly exploited a technicality of speech. I know Data killed several in the name of preserving lives, so the assumption that he's fully incapable of it is wrong on its face.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Perhaps something happened during transport, sir." Not technically a lie, albeit a willful and deceptive understatement. Lots of things happened during transport; chief among them were Data being transported and Chief O'Brien disabling the weapon discharging. If we're contemplating whether Data 🧵

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Jennifer 🦋🐶☕️🦋 @jenelliot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#NOMORE

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It is critical that as many public figures as possible make bold, outright assertions that everyone MAGA in USian government is in the Epstein files as a conspirator or participant. Maybe it'll cause a lawsuit and get the files opened up finally.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"If you watch his work closely, you'll see he's one of the very best." In other words, if you dispute how awesome he is, it's because you're not paying enough attention, not because of anything he might be fkg up. 😒 Absurdity.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They're not getting this done with MAGA in power, and I'd prefer if that was their focus. I really feel like non-MAGA politicians should be exclusively prioritizing that.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh, ffs. Go watch them perform the anthem. It's beautiful. They did a tasteful, respectful, and artistically high-quality performance. Anyone whining about this has an unrelated ax to grind and reserves the right to fk off.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He's not upset. He doesn't have the time. He's so stressed out about keeping his job and paying bills that he takes shortcuts that compromise safety. It's one more side effect at the micro level of what happens when we let companies abuse their labor and continue to patronize them.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[cue Morgan Freeman narration] He did not, in fact, go to war about #H1B visas. After a public feud with Trump spilled out onto social media in mid-2025, he made nice, retreated somewhat from the public eye, and focused on building space penii while still financially contributing to MAGA and Trump.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

With the propaganda machines hard at work in #Wyoming, #Idaho, and #WestVirginia, those approval ratings have gone up, too. We need #progressives in those states to work hard, know who the Drumpf supporters are among them, learn what matters to them, and grab those voters.

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

More evidence of promises with less substance than Swiss cheese from the grifter in chief. More selective outrage from the people who enabled it, participated in it, and celebrated it. More nothing being done about it. #8647now #AmericaLast #SteelMill #steel #Iowa #MAGA #MesabiMetallics #India #H1B

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It remains weird to me watching MTG go after Drumpf in public like that. I get that it's about political strategy and not about morality, so don't misread that as any kind of belief that she's having a redemption arc, but it's still weird. She had her lips around his unit airtight.

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