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Mangusta Deford

@shadowblind.bsky.social
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Divorced mother. Louisiana swamp witch. Mostly well adjusted Human. Misplaced New Orleanian. She/Her. If I don’t know you do not try to message me.

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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Image shows a side by side of Louisiana State Univeristy’s football flag with the Tigers logo on a helmet, next to an image of student and survivor Kendall Francis.

LSU student Kendall Francis is speaking out.

The university's own Title IX office ruled that a football player had r*ped her.

He appealed. LSU reduced his suspension to probation, saying he just made "an error in judgment." He's free to return to campus, class and his team.

Kendall has to take her classes online now.

No criminal charges have been filed.

From Cornell to LSU, shielding r*pists is an institutional epidemic.
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Buffalo Temple of Music, Sports, and Whatever @sethfromthe716.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eric Schmitt is going to lose his shit when they tell him about the Chicago Blackhawks, Seattle Seahawks, Miami RedHawks, or the Kansas Jayhawks.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Earth’s organisms will not reproduce if the environment is not conducive. All of our physical, emotional, mental, and social environments are polluted. What is it conservatives like to say before telling people to have more babies than they can afford? Oh yeah, “Don’t breed em if you can’t feed em.”
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
threads.com
Climate Defiance (@climatedefiance) on Threads
Big Tech just held a Climate Week panel to greenwash AI data centers. So we and @xr_nyc ended it. The panel was called "Unlocking the Grid: an AI solution to the AI problem", i.e., these tHoUgHt LeAd...
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wilber Garces Perez, the Venezuelan man and Door Dash delivery driver shot in the back by ICE in Austin, TX, still has the bullet in his back while he is detained. And a judge has stated his deportation until he can get a court hearing. Looks like it’s slated for 9/30.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Texas administration and legislature is panicking. They know their policies are dangerous, and they’re trying to deflect. All the support and listening won’t do a damned thing if you need an abortion to live in a state whose doctors are afraid of going to jail for saving their patients.
Image is a Facebook ad post from the Texas Department of State Health Services. The image shows a pregnant, unsmiling woman sitting on a couch, rubbing her belly. A man sits next to her, concerned, supportive, and rubs her belly with her.

Text reads:

Support starts with listening when she says something doesn't feel right. Help her get care... See more

LISTEN LIKE HER LIFE
DEPENDS ON IT.

Know the urgent maternal warning signs.

HEAR®

HEAR HER CONCERNS

TEXAS

TEXAS
Health and Human
Texas Department of State
Health Services

Know the urgent maternal warning signs.

Learn more
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Another day in AmeriKKKa.
kut.org
Man injured in shooting by ICE officer in North Austin
The shooting happened Sunday afternoon near Anderson Square and U.S. 183. The man's lawyer says he has been released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I don’t have sympathy for people who are willfully ignorant enough to continuously align and vote against their own self-interest. But I hope this is eye-opening for those who’ve been questioning that alignment. If nothing else, my wish is at least some of these cultists will wake the fuck up.
chron.com
Texas GOP photo sparks ugly backlash days after Bo French post
"You couldn't find a single Texan at the entire convention to get in the photo?"
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In France it’s blasphemous. In the US, it’s just Tuesday. I’m reminded of Bill Hicks. “Jesus is back! … AND HE’S PISSED OFF!!”
Image shows a statue of Jesus in the crucifixion pose without the cross, holding two Uzi submachine guns, painted completely red. The statue appears to be hung up in front of a window with a grated cover.

The text reads

BLASPHEMOUS STATUE OF CHRIST WITH UZIS APPEARS
IN FRANCE

Post made by Life Site
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I was 12 on 9/11. It was one of the most memorable and shaping events that I’ve witnessed in my life. It was my generation’s Pearl Harbor. The two and half decades that followed showed how the rubble of this attack became the foundation of lies to continue attacking the Middle East. Never forget.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
James Talarico’s second interview banned by the FCC.
youtu.be
Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Texas lawmakers cannot make informed maternal health policy without fully examining why pregnant and postpartum Texans are dying,” ———————— TX GOP: “Don’t worry your pretty lil heads about silly things like maternal death rates— LOOK BEHIND YOU! A trans Muslim immigrant is taking your cookie!”
news.rice.edu
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EverydayOptimist @thestampcollector.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It’s been 12 hours and not a single Democrat In Congress has called for Trump to be arrested for his attempt to buy votes last night Pathetic
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
(Image is a tweet, now called posts, on X, formerly known as Twitter)

Amina
@fawnn404

i honestly think the most colonised sentence in political language is "nothing can be done." because something is already being done every single day to reproduce the world you're being told cannot be changed.

Robobobatron 
@robobobatron 

im not sure its "colonised" because what you are describing is empire and its maintenance. i think its useful to understand that where you stand might already be empire.

Amina 

a colonised mind is one that has learned to experience empire's reality as reality tout court, rather than something historically constructed, violently maintained, and therefore capable of being unmade. the material reproduction of empire requires ideological reproduction, too.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Right wing propaganda and the slow corporatization of education in this country has been so effective, Repugnican civilians are still blaming immigrants, still surprised Trump is fucking them over, and still more concerned with being labeled a Democrat than the actual events harming them right now.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
As Americans, we can be embarrassed by as many as 6 ridiculous things before breakfast.
A Twitter post (Twitter prefers to be called X) from user RaidioMars shared a link from Polymarket. It reads:

Raideo 
@RaideoMars

Im so fucking embarrassed by my country.
Like what do you mean you voted against (checks notes) maps being more geographically accurate???????

Polymarket • Sep 4

JUST IN: 

UN votes 164-1 to ditch the Mercator projection in favor of the "Equal Earth" map, with the U.S. casting the lone vote against.

11:09 AM • Sep 6, 2026 • 434.3K Views

(The Mercator projection inaccurately portrays the United States as larger and Africa as smaller than their more exact cartographical dimensions used in the Equal Earth map.)
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🐆 😮 (I read this article on archivebuttons.com, try it if you hit a paywall.)
theatlantic.com
The Jews Who Voted for Hitler
What happened when members of a minority community cast its lot with a political leader who despised them
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Image background is of Hane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton in the 1980 film 9 to 5.

Text reads:

TUC
Trades Union Congress C @The_TUC

Reminder that Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 is a film about three women taking over an office and introducing free childcare, paid vacation, and flexible hours, resulting in a 20% increase in productivity.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Voters with Trump-gret need to stop saying they were fooled. You were not. He said he would implement tariffs. He said he would roll back regulation. He said he did not care about you, just your vote.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I absolutely love that Rafael Cruz is running for president in 2028. Run, Raffy, run, or just waddle.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s still fuck 🧊, but I’ll definitely take some shadenfreude and leopards eating some well-deserving faces. They are never going to learn, are they?
Image shows a headline from the Washington Post at the top that long-time, right-wing provocateur, and gay British citizen, Milo Yiannopoulos is being deported by ICE. was arrested at the New Orleans International Airport and is currently being held in a Louisiana facility awaiting deportation. DHS responded that Yiannopoulos had entered the US legally in 2019 and overstayed his visa as well as missed his immigration hearings.

A grainy image of Yiannopoulos’ mugshot is below the headline, and a tweet from the previous summer is pasted on his forehead:

“MILO @Nero • 08 Jun 25

California needs ICE checkpoints at supermarket entrances, gas stations, strip malls, intersections and government buildings, with on the spot deportation for anyone who can't prove they are in the US legally.”

At the bottom of the image reads the text:

Milo’s Mugshot
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Best we can do is let you pump in a bathroom stall during your lunch break, take it or leave it.”
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
American Farmers: Trump lied, HELP!!! Consumers: Didn’t you vote for him? AF: I voted for $12 billion and deregulation! C: He’s lied a lot, though. Tarrifs, foreign wars, groceries, healthcare. This seems like a natural consequence. AF: Now I will NEVER vote against the GOP because you’re so mean! 😤
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Another headline from Captain Obvious of the No Shit, Sherlock Gazette. One of the comments under this news post said “This is just being responsible.” Go tell that to the pro-natalists and fetal-fetishists who are fear-mongering with stats of the falling birth rate.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
They took the wrong 80-year-old. Twice in a row. God fucking damnit.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
As much as I don’t think we should continue littering outer space and the moon, I’d be much less concerned with The Muskrat playing Chairface Chippendale if he paid his fair share of taxes. Sure dude, you can pretend to be a scientist, right after you give up some of that dragon hoard.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Which industry felt more threatened by THC in Texas, so they had to buy Dan Patrick and Greg Abbott? The flailing alcohol industry or the very expensive private prison (i.e. forced prisoner labor) industry? Either way, Republicans are damn near giving this race to Talarico. Stupid move.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
When You Meet a Member of the Ku Klux Klan

Robert L. Poston (1921)

When you meet a member of the Ku Klux Klan, 
Walk right up and hit him like a natural man;
Take no thought of babies he may have at home, Sympathy's defamed when used upon his dome.
Hit him in the mouth and push his face right in,
Knock him down a flight of stairs and pick him up again.
Get your distance from him and then take a running start, Hit him, brother, hit him, and please hit the scroundrel hard.
Pour some water on him, bring him back to life once more Think of how he did your folks in the days of long ago;
Make a prayer to heaven for the strength to do the job, Kick him in the stomach, he, a low, unworthy snob.
Call your wife and baby out to see you have some fun, 
Sic your bulldog on him for to see the rascal run.
Head him off before he gets ten paces from your door, Take a bat of sturdy oak and knock him down once more.
This time you may leave him where he wallows in the sand, A spent and humble member of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Navigating the American healthcare industrial complex is a waking nightmare. “bUt iN CaNaDa yOu hAvE tO wAiT!!!1!1”
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This McConnell bullshit is the perfect opportunity for establishment Dems to actually push back, it’d be astonishing to watch Beshear and Jeffries fumble this hard if they hadn’t been moving more and more center-right as fascism continues to molder democracy beneath our very feet.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Image shows a split of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and former New York Congressional candidate Melanie D’Arrigo. 

Text is of their respective quotes.

Pete Hegseth: “If you kill Americans: We will HUNT YOU DOWN without apology and without hesitation - AND WE WILL KILL YOU.”

Melanie D’Arrigo: “68,000 Americans die each year because they can’t access healthcare.”
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
No, I won’t be accepting half-assed apologies for voting for Trump and Republicans. Not when we’ve been begging you to watch something other than FOXNews for the last 30 years. You weren’t fooled. Some have said you’ll vote Republican again. Apology without changed behavior is manipulation.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Not Dems patting themselves on the back for cutting SOME funding to Israel’s regime. Jfc, we’re on the worst fucking timeline.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Something that gives me hope is that someday, someday soon, all the dinosaurs that are holding us back as a species will die the fuck off. The damage they’ve done is able to be healed if we want it badly enough. I have to hold onto this hope for my kid’s future.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Another day, another shooting of an innocent person by ICE. May these murderers never know sleep, peace, or joy.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Tots and pears. 🪦
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Well this is totally normal and not alarming at all.
A post from Threads, unknown poster

The IDF has DETAINED Representative Ro
Khanna and held him at GUNPOINT.
Khanna was visiting the West Bank and was
BLOCKED by the IDF. He was then detained for unknown reasons.
Khanna has supported legislation to unveil the Epstein Files.

Image shows Representative Khanna speaking at a podium with several microphones.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
“Money can’t buy happiness!” And I can’t pay my exorbitant rent in smiles, Kevin!
From Threads

Simon Williams 

@simonwilliamsofficial

We CANNOT even afford hobbies.
We CANNOT afford to go out with friends.
We CANNOT afford to exist anywhere outside our homes.
They then call it a mental health crisis.
It's not. It's an affordability crisis.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
My parents were well-meaning people. They would not consider themselves racist. They were kind to their/our Black neighbors, classmates, and coworkers. But they were not great at having uncomfortable conversations around race. I intend to break that silence with my child.
Threads post from portia.noir•

White parents and guardians, come here.
Talk to your children about Nolan Xavier Wells. And when you do, make sure to speak to WHY it's not safe for a Black person to be the only Black person in a group of white people.
Explain the history of violence against Black people.
Explain the history of dehumanizing Black people.
Explain the history of Black people being murdered simply for existing.
Don't stop the talk with "it's a tragedy."
Explain WHY it is a tragedy with specifics.
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
What’s really disappointing is this day could have been a great celebration. At least a day to reflect on where we are and where we can go. Instead we get to watch Midas of Shit do what he does, his remaining sycophants do mental gymnastics, & white supremacists march lockstep on the capitol.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
‘MURRICA! 🇺🇸🎆🗽
Image shows a still from Richard Linklater’s 1993 film “Dazed and Confused”, set on the last day of school in 1976. A teacher stands at the front of her history class as it dismisses for the summer with the last school bell.

She says:

"THIS SUMMER WHEN YOU'RE BEING INUNDATED WITH ALL THIS AMERICAN BICENTENNIAL FOURTH OF JULY BROUHAHA, DON'T FORGET WHAT YOU'RE CELEBRATING, AND THAT'S THE FACT THAT A BUNCH OF SLAVE-OWNING, ARISTOCRATIC WHITE MALES DIDN'T WANT TO PAY THEIR TAXES."

- Ms Ginny Stroud
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
So Cecil Turtle has been hospitalized for nearly a month, and the public is just hearing about it? Between keeping this so hush and Dems getting ousted by socialists, I think the establishment might be getting a little nervous.
nbcnews.com
Paramedics responded to a ‘cardiac arrest’ at Mitch McConnell’s home on day of hospitalization
McConnell’s office hasn’t disclosed why the former Senate majority leader was hospitalized on June 14.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
You know what the US needs? Horrible Histories. I know they had a couple of skits for us, but our kids need to know the shitty parts of history in a digestible way. Pun intended.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
This seems like it should be a sign.
Image shows “rapper” Vanilla Ice with his hands up in exasperation while talking to a concerned woman holding a phone to his left. Various crew are standing in the background. 

(from Stereogum)

NEWS

TRUMP'S '90S MUSIC FEST, REDUCED TO JUST VANILLA ICE, GETS RAINED OUT
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
No one is doing more for Mamdani’s PR than Republicans clutching their pearls and grasping at straws. Maybe establishment Dems who refuse to stop moving center. Meanwhile New Yorkers are looking at affordable housing and groceries, more teachers, and taxing out-of-state billionaires.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
PSA: Check your passport expiration date before you end up with one of these!
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
(From The Intercept)
Image shows a very tall building in the background and a fluttering flag in the foreground. The altered flag has the Stars and Stripes of the United States in only red and white, as well as Luigi Mangione’s face.

Text reads:

POLICE DOCUMENT SHOWS COPS FREAKING OUT ABOUT LUIGI MANGIONE INSPIRING A CLASS WAR

Cops warned CEOs that "challenges faced by the middle and lower classes" might spur attacks on corporate executives.
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