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Chantal

@talmonster.bsky.social
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Hey so…anyone seen the official White House website recently? www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The national guard is invading our cities, the federal government has declared war on trans people and anyone who isn’t MAGA…and the Democratic Party just sent me an email asking for money so they can raise the taxes on billionaires. Way to seize the moment, yall.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
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WIRED @wired.com · 15/07/2025
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
wired.com
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Are you even an elder millennial parent if you don’t give your infant a faux hawk?
Cutest baby with faux hawk hairstyle smiles in his sleep
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Hiddenherstory @hiddenherstory.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey refused to approve thalidomide in the US, saving thousands of babies from devastating birth defects. Her success despite gender bias-she was initially hired at the FDA partly because her first name "Frances" was mistaken for "Francis" #WomenInSTEM tiny.cc/x14j001
tiny.cc
How One Determined FDA Scientist Saved American Children From a Birth Defect Catastrophe
Dr. Frances Kelsey resisted intense industry pressure to approve thalidomide; the drug was the cause of severe birth defects in over 10,000 infants in other countries.
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Yall, there’s gonna be a storm named after me this year. This is a big deal for the little girl who couldn’t ever find her name on any of those personalized pins/toothbrushes/bracelets/keychains they sold at the mall.
A graphic of 2025 hurricane season names. There are 21 names, but Chantal is on there and that’s the most important part.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
"Incidentally, the president’s sudden push for the tourist destination of Alcatraz to once again become a maximum-security prison complex came just hours after a South Florida PBS station aired the 1979 classic film Escape from Alcatraz. The president spent the past weekend... in Palm Beach."
independent.co.uk
Trump announced Alcatraz reopening hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired on PBS
The 1979 film starring Clint Eastwood about the daring 1962 escape attempt aired on the local PBS channel just six hours before the president made his demand that the prison be reopened
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I really thought this was SNL
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
2AM is a real bitch of a time when you have a newborn. Do I try to sleep? Nah, better just lay here in the dark and wait for the next dinosaur screech that summons me to the milk and poop mines.
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Sitting in my doctor’s office wondering if I can reschedule my c-section for any day BESIDES April 2nd.
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Ok I’m getting really annoyed at all the websites that force you to subscribe or have an account to get the news. I don’t post on FB much, but I am always on the lookout for articles/information that my normie/conservative extended family can digest easily. 🧵
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I feel like we need to form a League of Relatively Normal People, and our agenda should be things like: --Canada's cool, leave them be --Lot of smart people at universities, that's a plus --We're scared of getting cancer, so let's research it --Fewer floods and wildfires would be nice
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The GOP pitch is "short term pain for long term pain." This is exactly how QAnon worked - things will be very ugly and bloody for a while, but it has to happen to usher in the golden age of wealth and freedom. The GOP is running the QAnon playbook for the entire economy.
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This is not an original take, but what dirt do you think they have on @schumer.senate.gov ?
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
media.tenor.com
a man in a black hoodie is standing with his arms crossed in front of a picture .
Alt: David from Schitt’s Creek in a black hoodie is standing with his arms crossed . Looking very unimpressed and annoyed that you asked.
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A thread about hippos to cleanse the palette.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Immigrants, trans people, palestinian rights activists, eventually it’s going to be your turn when the regime decides you are an enemy
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I am having a baby soon and I swear if I have to drag my newly post partum butt & incredibly vulnerable newborn to a Social Security field office to make them a Legal American Human while there is fucking bird flu and measles and MAGAs running wild…my wrath will be limitless and all consuming.
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This thread is for important science
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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I know we all kinda knew that the Dems were just Rs with (slightly) better social skills, but the mask is really coming off as far as anyone believing there is any real Opposition party in this country. “Sorry bout the fascism, it’s your fault for not voting hard enough.”
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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
democrats all had 4.5 GPAs and took briefcases to class but we really need some bathroom smoker energy rn
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
who are the brave souls tonight
a soldier on fire (labeled "live skeeter") is protecting a sleeping child (labeled "my eyeballs") from flying weapons (labeled "joint address")
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
My mom (and a lot of her white middle class boomer age friends) STILL firmly believe that this is all political theater and nothing is going to actually change. Because it hasn’t effected them yet, and so anything they hear about other people being effected must be an overreaction or hysterics.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Someone in my local FB group just posted a video of someone keying their Tesla in a parking lot. Apparently it records video of that kind of thing. I just thought everyone should know for no reason at all.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 01/03/2025
No wonder I had an anxiety disorder - I spent the last 10 years seeing this coming and feeling like I couldn’t do enough to stop it. I say “had” because I’m 100% anxiety free now. Maybe it’s the perverse relief of the horrible thing finally happening - seeing the enemy’s face clearly.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
'Did you even say thank you?'
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I left an abusive relationship decades ago, but the second Vance started talking about how Z should be grateful I felt my body shut down. It was like I was 16 in that locked car again. Trying everything I could to get out of the situation but knowing exactly how it was going to go. Fuck that noise.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This was harder than I thought because things that would seem hilariously outrageous a few months ago are now in the “too true” category. Went with a classic and uploaded a copy of the CDCs pre-RFK vaccine schedule
A screen cap of the Dept of Education Snitch site with a fillable text box and a prompt that reads: 

 “the discriminatory practice taking place:
450 Word Limit”

The answer that has been typed in says:

“Don't look now, but there are several known sex offenders in the big White House in D.C. and my kid's school is telling the kids that he's in charge of the country?! INDOCTRINATION AT ITS FINEST!”
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Hey everyone -- Moms of Liberty and Dept of Education launched a snitch line portal today to rat out teachers and anyone promoting anything DEI. FLOOD THE PORTAL Spam the hell out of it. Pass it on! It works! enddei.ed.gov
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I truly hate living in the area where I live. It’s beautiful, and full of cool history, and small town aesthetics that I enjoy…but the people…oh the people. How am I supposed to raise two white male children to be good, kind, people in a place where they are going to be surrounded by this?
A Facebook post from a local county group. There is a sign in front of a McDonald’s that says “estamos contratando”. The poster gives the following caption:

“Uh...
Seriously?
In Kingston just now. I can't even press one to know what that even says. I'd hate to miss out on a special deal or something.
Maybe I'll pay them in pesos at the drive through.”
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Time to cleanse the feed.
A white and brown fluffy cat with blue eyes lounges in the bathroom sink
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/02/2025
women requested that they no longer be raped and American men decided to burn down the planet
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Just poshmark asking if I want to participate in their cucking Squid Game
A notification from Poshmark (a resale app) that says “Chantal, get paid to watch! View a Posh Show today and you might just win cash.”
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
helluva thread from the hellsite about the comically bad “savings” doge claims to have found (sorry for the weirdly sized screenshots, I had to squeeze everything into only 4 of them)
from @electricfutures

After several delays, @DOGE has finally posted its purported savings. Why did it take so long to create a simple webpage with a
1000-row table? Who knows! Let's dig in.
Headline number: $55B saved. They list the savings per nixed contract. This should be easy to verify then.

It's Monday. @DOGE is the laziest, most overpaid bunch of incompetent, unelected bureaucrats we've ever seen.

The first thing I did is add up the "saved" column for all canceled contracts and real estate. The numbers are $16.5B and $O.14B, respectively. Odd...
Since almost all of the purported savings come from contracts, we'll focus on that.
The single biggest ticket item is a DHS contract listed as saving $8 billion. Wow, that's a huge contract!
Actually no, it's $8 million. They must have tried to automate scraping the FPDS form and failed.
That means we're down to $8.5B in savings.
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The next 3 biggest ticket items are all
USAID contracts listed as $655M each, so $2B total. Wow, pretty big.
Wait, these are IDVs, not contracts. $655M is the entire set-aside, being triple counted.
In the first 5 years, only $73M was awarded, and only 2 years remain.
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So we're down to $6.5B in savings, and an alarming trend emerges: @DOGE does not seem to understand how the government contracts they are canceling work. The savings they are claiming are not annual savings, but rather hypothetical savings if we spent every unobligated penny.
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And more importantly, they are just getting it *wrong*, with alarming consistency.
These numbers are erroneous. This "select group of geniuses" has not double checked even the LARGEST items accounting for the bulk of their claimed savings. This is a sad, pathetic farce

Here's the next biggest item: an IT services contract for the Social Security
Administration worth $1B. That's a lot of savings!
Well, again, this contract spanned 6 years. 80% has already been spent. Ah well, more like $240M in savings spread over the next 3 years. $80M/year.In 2023, this contract funded 1000 FTEs working $100/hr. Did we need 1000 SWEs working on SSA infrastructure? Probably not - these could be valid savings (disclaimer: no idea what they actually did).
But worth noting that these cuts will impact many private sector jobs as well.


And if anyone is curious, there are currently 17 lines that say "SEE FPDS" rather than the savings amount, I guess because their automated scraping failed. I did it manually and it took roughly ~10 minutes. But that's too much to ask of super geniuses working 120 hours/week!
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Scene: my living room after a 10 minute fight about Trumps foreign policy. A thread. Mom: *dripping in sarcasm*well I guess you think the U.S. is just the BAD guy then. Me: we ARE the bad guys in this instance. This is all very BAD.
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
There are PDF downloads available on the CDC website right now. Download them and save them before they’re gone! www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp...
cdc.gov
Immunization Schedules
Make sure your patients stay up to date on recommended vaccines using these schedules.
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
With RFK Jr on his way to confirmation, im thinking I need to find a full list of vaccinations that are currently the recommendations/requirements. I have a 3 year old and I’m due with another in less than 2 months. They’re going to have to live through this bullshit.
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Remember not too long ago, when the president of South Korea tried to do a coup and their leaders physically climbed walls to stop him…and then he was arrested and put in jail for trying to do a coup. Just thinking about that for no reason at all.
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I was working at a mental health hospital in a rural area of a blood red state. I checked the Covid dashboards every day and watched as it was doing what every global pandemic had ever done. Then Trump would say “it’ll be 0 cases by April” and everyone would just…believe him? And do nothing?
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I’m not watching the game, but someone is definitely keeping a tally of the number of times they cut to Trump vs the number of times they cut to Taylor Swift, right? That is the only score I care about and I hope she wins in a landslide.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/02/2025
The Musk/Trump junta is exploiting an utterly deadly loophole in the American system: Courts may rule against evil white men, but evil white men have figured out that no one is, thus far, willing to *lay hands* on them to enforce those orders. We must end this loophole now.
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Chantal @talmonster.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I bet we could get a sign up sheet going for people to take shifts at the microphone while other people bring snacks.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 08/02/2025
I'm remembering a bunch of us crazy childish leftists noting after January 6th that an attempted coup going unpunished was an engraved invitation to try again
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