Samantha Bartram @samebartram.bsky.social · 13hIt is HERE! And I am COZY and READY to READ my very first @josie.zone BOOK! 121
Samantha Bartram @samebartram.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Also FB search fucking suuuuuucks now - like its worse than ever. Whole aite is barely functional. Get the fuck off that platform! 110
Samantha Bartram @samebartram.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I've been on this shit for decades. Local biz/govts/etc should NEVER have made their main web presence a Facebook page. I know building and maintaining site can be expensive, but, it'd be worth it! Some folks dont have FB accounts & cant even access when their town council meeting is anyway, for eg! 100
Samantha Bartram @samebartram.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Growing up in central Ohio I remember fighting with my parents about wearing a coat because I didn't want to cover up my cool costume! I'd leave the house with the coat, swearing I'd wear it, then ditch it at a friends house or in a bush or something to retrieve later first chance I got 😈 010
Reposted by Samantha BartramKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 01/10/2026The Atlantic is easily one of the worst publications out there today. They are hopelessly addicted to publishing morons. 1118735
Samantha Bartram @samebartram.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I was thinking recently of the nursery rhyme, Rub-a-dub-dub, w similar incredulity. What were they doing in the tub together? Thats a big ass tub to fit three grown men! Now they're all out to sea?! Who will make the bread, cut the meat, and dip the candles?! How did this situation come to pass?? 020
Reposted by Samantha Bartramceej @ceej.online · 24/09/2026impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat 9678371311
Reposted by Samantha BartramPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I was just pointing out a couple of days on here that this is the LOWEST HANGING FRUIT of low hanging fruit for Democrats to promise if they take control of Congress. RAISE THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE from $7.25. It has not risen since 2009. It's criminal. 101079271
Reposted by Samantha Bartramsarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026george: i'm doing it, jerry, i'm gonna fight the seether jerry: the seether? george: the seether, jerry! jerry: you can't fight that! george: i'm fighting the seether! 13513
Reposted by Samantha BartramJoshua Morrison @joshuamorrisonphotography.com · 24/09/2026In all this Flock camera talk - I've noticed someone is being awfully quiet, so - it was time to call the Mayor forward. medium.com/@the_levee/s... And now, I'm going to finish a story about the last 11 months of my life ahead of the city council meeting on Monday.static.klipy.comSmokey And The Bandit SmileALT: Smokey And The Bandit Smile 011
Reposted by Samantha Bartramdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 23/09/2026there was a vibe shift and it still pertains: Everything Fucking Sucks and Is Too Fucking Expensive and Violent and I'm Fucking Terrified of the Future and the Assholes in Charge Do Not Give a Single Shit So Fuck Them 131433146
Reposted by Samantha BartramOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026all this dumb, terrible shit is happening. and nobody does anything about it. they dont even SAY anything about it. 57512
Reposted by Samantha BartramOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A big part of my disappointment with Democrats comes from over 25 years of writing about politics and media. I have seen how a gang of idiots on the right has dominated discourse and whipped the media to be their poodle. The unwillingness of Democrats to try is literally the worst thing. 615423
Reposted by Samantha BartramOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Democrats are well positioned to inherit power thanks to disgust with Trump, but ultimately none of this is about what Dems did in response to Trump. They mostly capitulated and are benefiting from being the other party in a two party system, I don’t have any positive expectations for them. 732116384
Samantha Bartram @samebartram.bsky.social · 22/09/2026David, please talk w Amy about her position on trans rights & cooperation w ICE. I was excited for her candidacy until she said that nonsense re: "boys" in girls' sports & local cops working with ICE. You've had good positions in the past - please, both of you stand up for trans & immigrant Ohioans! 010
Reposted by Samantha Bartramspooky cannoli @boner.ink · 22/09/2026my brain is actually 3 organs, it's called my dick and 2 balls 210417
Reposted by Samantha BartramCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026If you are so extraordinarily stupid that you fall for a standard Republican trans panic ruse, I cannot trust you to represent me in office. This is like media literacy 101. Your colleagues are going to run circles around you. Dupe you into anything. I'd be safer running and representing myself. 12120576
Reposted by Samantha BartramGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 21/09/2026This is the ideal right-wing American voter. You may not like it, but this is what peak Republican-base thinking looks like. 19514
Reposted by Samantha BartramNight of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is exactly the thing. Trans rights are worth defending because trans people are worth defending and, also, simultaneously, at the same time, the very basic statistical truth is that the overwhelming majority of people harmed by mandated & enforced gender norms are not going to be trans. 210423
Reposted by Samantha BartramButtadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Tilly Norwood, like Bryan Johnston and the glasses eugenics couple, are just fronts for PR firms that specialize in filling inches on slow news days 1519
Reposted by Samantha Bartram🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026"I voted with Republicans to keep trasngender ideology out of our schools." - Ohio Democrat Marcy Kaptur in an ad she released yesterday. Fucking gross.thebuckeyeflame.comDemocratic U.S. Representative Mary Kaptur releases two anti-transgender ads ahead of Ohio primaries‘I voted with Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of our schools' 3037967
Reposted by Samantha BartramJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 18/09/2026Like, fuck these people. The party has to reject them if it ever wants turnout. 227035
Reposted by Samantha BartramNome @nome.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I do not understand the folks furious at trans people for responding in anguish when the party that they've been told would protect them treats their existence as negotiable. I do not understand thinking trans folks have political power and responsibility where candidates have none. 161798451
Reposted by Samantha BartramSevonaut @sevonaut.northsky.social · 18/09/2026The part of vote shaming or scapegoating of the left or trans people by mainline white liberals that really bothers me is that I am certain they wouldn’t feel so emboldened if they didn’t view our lives and concerns as frivolous and socially acceptable to dismiss. 38916
Reposted by Samantha BartramAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026Cis lib: no, no, no. You don't get it. You have to vote for the transphobic Democrat because otherwise bad policies would affect ME and not just you. 673162706
Reposted by Samantha BartramJoshua Morrison @joshuamorrisonphotography.com · 14/09/2026Mount Vernon Ohio City Council will consider letting the city’s Flock Safety camera contract expire without renewal. The meeting begins tonight at 7:30 at City Hall, 236 S. Main St. medium.com/@the_levee/f... 121
Samantha Bartram @samebartram.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Hell yeah! I dont think it's a stretch to say the townsfolk have your reporting to thank for bringing this to the fore 🫡 thank you for your work!!! 110
Reposted by Samantha BartramBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026(concerned reporter voice, talking to candidate) What is your message to stupid jerks who will never vote for you 213615579
Reposted by Samantha BartramPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/06/2024There is a specific type of demoralizing fascism where people lose rights they had, in their lifetime, fought to get recognized. Not *just* losing rights, but seeing decades of hard effort dissolve. Reconstruction, Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute, Dobbs, the coming overturning of Obergefell, etc 51070325
Reposted by Samantha BartramPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/06/2024This kind of erosion does way, way more damage, deliberately. It's very hard to fight the same fight twice, to convince young people there even *was* once a fight. It's soul-wrecking to have progress torn down and pissed on, intentionally. 148375
Reposted by Samantha BartramPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/06/2024It's one thing to fight for decades and win your freedom. It's another to watch it instantly torn away a decade or two later, and then be asked "just do it over again, c'mon don't be a doomer, it worked once so" 750091
Reposted by Samantha Bartrammattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 13/09/2026ok and here’s what i can tell *you*: backing someone while they capitulate on our civil rights, regardless of any messaging witchcraft, will teach them the lesson that they can keep doing it without consequence. 1602
Reposted by Samantha Bartrammattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 13/09/2026we just did that with markey but its gotta work both ways man. this is our fucking lives. they are trying to kill us, and in many ways already are. why would i give a single fucking inch on this. 01042
Samantha Bartram @samebartram.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Like if you're a D politician or solid D voter and you dont want left leaning voters to primary you or withhold their votes because of the cowardly fuck shit you're saying about "fairness in sports" you could simply not say those things! Just support trans folks and talk about how you support them! 010
Samantha Bartram @samebartram.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If you're running for office and you say you support trans folks, THEN SUPPORT THEM AND FIGHT FOR THEM. The time to talk about how you'd really use your power is NOW! Do not waste everyones time hedging! Be the people's champion, and talk like youre gonna be that!!! 010
Samantha Bartram @samebartram.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If a candidate is willing to throw trans people under the bus to gain a few percentage points in the polls, even if really really in their deepest truest hearts they super swear they care about trans folks - well, the former belies the latter. 111
Samantha Bartram @samebartram.bsky.social · 13/09/2026...rather than the beliefs that they were paid to espouse and for which their financial supporters expect a big ROI, is stupid and wrong. 100
Samantha Bartram @samebartram.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Anyway. My point is, advocating for candidates to lie about their true intent in order to secure office, and trusting that their "real" progressive beliefs will materialize after they've been sworn in... 100
Samantha Bartram @samebartram.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Smarter folks than I have said this before, but why would Ohio's republican voters be swayed by Acton's wishy-washy bullshit when vivek is right there vowing to end care for trans youths?! Republican-lite ain't gonna get it, and youd think she'd know that, especially given that shes running in OHIO. 100
Samantha Bartram @samebartram.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Then, she went on to say a bunch of fuck shit about "fairness in sports" and how its important for ohio cops to work with ICE. And now I'm like, maybe I won't vote at all, because what is this bullshit?! 100
Samantha Bartram @samebartram.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I live in Ohio. Believe me, I understand the stakes of a Ramaswamy winning the governorship, for example. At first, I was cautiously excited for Amy Acton's campaign. I thought she was good during the pandemic and had the potential to be a great candidate. 100
Samantha Bartram @samebartram.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I want to be clear - I do not give a FUCK where you are running or against whom. State your principles with your whole chest, BELIEVE in them and FIGHT for them or gtfo. 100
Samantha Bartram @samebartram.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If you want my vote you better demonstrate to me that you will fight for trans rights, for Palestinian rights, for black and brown folks, for homeless folks, for the most repressed among us. 100
Samantha Bartram @samebartram.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If you want my vote, you better clearly, and repeatedly, say that you support trans folks, full stop. You better say you trust, believe, and support care for trans kids and adults, and you better not hedge with any mealy mouthed bullshit about "boys in girls sports." 100
