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Donna of Queens

@thedonster.bsky.social
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Pathologically optimistic. Tendency to fall down rabbit holes. Loves travel, tarot, and tidying. Certified spiritual awakening/crisis coach NYC but perpetually plotting escape.

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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 17h
You wonder why the birth rate is down?
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 9h
It's called 'discernment,' and it comes from basic human decency and intelligence.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 19h
WARNING: The Ellison family is about to own CBS News AND CNN. A judge just cleared the deal. Closing: days away. When one family controls what tens of millions watch, democracy loses a watchdog. Independent media isn't a luxury. It's your last line of defense.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 12m
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A. Lee Martinez @aleemartinez.bsky.social · 1h
I don’t tend to follow my release numbers after a book comes out. It’ll just drive you crazy. But Unbearable keeps coming out high on Arthurian Fantasy subcategory on Amazon. So I’ll take a win while I can.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 7h
If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else
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Donna of Queens @thedonster.bsky.social · 3h
Hey #tarot community, I'd appreciate it so much if anyone would share how they'd read this. I know what I think but you know how hard it can be to read for ourselves. Question: what's the truth about me (left column)? What's the truth about him (right column)? What's the dynamic btw us (middle)?
Left column: Hierophant, Knight of Swords, 6 of Pentacles
Right column: King of Wands, Page of Pentacles, 9 of Cups
Center: Two of Swords
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h
Please, for the love of God, can the media stop calling random cranks who write fan fiction about their personal heroes in the past "historians."
Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon aide turned Watergate historian and revisionist, recently gave a two-hour presentation at Justice Department headquarters that laid out his theory that the deep state took Nixon down. The title of his 78-page slide deck: “Watergate As Lawfare.”
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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 9h
A brown and black bunny sits on a pale floor, nibbling a green leaf.
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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 7h
NOTE: these positions are now CENTER in the US...
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Ukrainian Nadia 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 @ukrainiannadia.bsky.social · 10h
Y'all, I paid $17 for 2 lbs of strawberries yesterday. We have a two-professional-income family, and I probably would have passed on them if strawberry shortcake hadn't been the requested birthday treat. We ALL need our fresh fruits and vegetables. This is NOT sustainable.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 6h
There’s a behavioral dog rescue in NC called STAB that does absolutely hilarious dog bios. After posting “Two Mommy Tommy”, a dog looking for lesbians because he despises men, men have been bombarding their FB page and escalated to doxxing and threats to family. Men: validating Tommy forever
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 19h
I’ve been a media witness to two federal executions. One was Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The other, a week later, was a drug kingpin named Juan Raul Garza. My conclusion after watching both men die: The death penalty should not exist. Period. It fixes nothing, and it erodes our souls.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 6h
Want to learn about the history of our city?  Well you’re in luck. This month, we’re hosting a massive scavenger hunt across the city — all about the history of organizing in NYC. Sign up at organize.nyc.gov and come see the city through the eyes of the people who built it.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 6h
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorney says Christa Pike is still alive a day after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her by lethal injection.
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 7h
Last month, I had an industrial A/C unit installed, because the summers have been getting brutal enough that I wasn't sleeping and the cats were suffering. It is also a heater. I have just turned it on for the first time, and I don't think I HAVE this many cats. Where are they coming from?
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Bob Ballentine @raballentine.bsky.social · 13h
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 6h
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New Yorkers who lost their SNAP benefits because of the federal government's expanded work requirements can reapply starting today, October 1.

To find out whether you're eligible to get your benefits back or qualify for an exemption, call 718-SNAP-NOW (718-762-7669), visit nyc.gov/ACCESSHRA, or use the ACCESS HRA app.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 7h
“If your concern for women disappears the moment accountability becomes socially inconvenient, then protection was never the principle to begin with. Performance was.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 7h
BREAKING: judge dismisses case against reflecting pool defendant Davey Hearn WITH PREJUDICE- meaning the DoJ can’t ever bring charges against him in this matter. www.ms.now/deadline-whi...
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Judge permanently dismisses David Hearn Reflecting Pool indictment
The Trump Justice Department sought a temporary dismissal. Hearn wanted his charges tossed for good.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 7h
Interesting look at the Death of the American Dinner Party. I love to entertain and used to host lots of dinner parties and now rarely do. This posits various reasons why. (Apple News link: apple.news/AlncGFyzZTfG... . Why don’t links automagically go to Apple News if you are a subscriber?)
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Rachael @raen.eurosky.social · 7h
We have no electricity in our grid. I might need that on a T-shirt, along with
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Trump Mistakenly Says ‘Islamic Republic of Japan,’ Meaning Iran, Shot 111 Missiles at U.S. Aircraft Carrier
Donald Trump appeared to confuse Iran and Japan at the 2026 NATO summit, telling reporters that “the Islamic Republic of Japan” shot at a U.S. air carrier. The president, 80, appearing to be referring...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 8h
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The Rent Guidelines Board’s rent freeze for one- and two-year leases goes into effect today! 

If you’re in a rent-stabilized apartment, any lease renewal starting today must remain at the same rent that it was last year.

Contact 311 and ask for the Tenant Helpline to find out whether your building is covered and your rights as a tenant.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 7h
Shout out to the heroes in Maine who do NOT sit quietly when the man who is taking away their rights walks into a brewery. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him.
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 9h
The family of Renee Good, the Minneapolis woman who was fatally shot by a federal immigration enforcement agent near her home in January, filed two federal lawsuits Thursday alleging wrongful death, among other contentions.
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Live: Renee Good’s family files lawsuits over fatal shooting by ICE agent
Renee Good was fatally shot on Jan. 7 in south Minneapolis by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 9h
NYC's new modular toilets are nice—but you need a smartphone to operate them. "I'm 88. I don't know how to text. I have a flip phone," one woman who tried to use one told us. "I don't do all that texting. I just want to go to the bathroom." hellgatenyc.com/we-test-peed...
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We Test-Peed NYC's New Modular, App-Activated Public Toilets
The 17 new Throne Labs spread across the city are spiffy, but they require you to have a smartphone or a special card.
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SubRosa )✿( Magick (chat to book a reading) @subrosamagick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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SubRosa )✿( Magick (chat to book a reading) @subrosamagick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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SubRosa )✿( Magick (chat to book a reading) @subrosamagick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner think the way to negotiate with these barbarians is to offer them business deals.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/09/2026
I think it's pretty neat that one of the legit breakout indie success stories this year is a game about painstakingly designing and sewing opulent ballgowns store.steampowered.com/app/4019220/...
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Dressmaker on Steam
Become a dressmaker! Choose fabric, cut out patterns, and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) townsfolk in this cozy crafting game inspired by real dressmaking.
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Bo_oooo_Ø_____o_👻 @notiapetus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've said it before, I'll say it again: Prosecute the ones who pulled the trigger. Prosecute the ones who gave the orders. Prosecute those who cover for the above. ABOLISH ICE
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James Who Lives in Queens @jamesfromqueensny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So here is what you do: Call Hegseth’s office and bitch them out at 703-692-7100. I just did. I was not coherent. Sounded stupid. But I also sounded, I hope, deeply concerned about what this idiot is doing to our military. Yelled for two minutes. And the person listened and was very respectful.
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 21h
If we’re all going to have to make choices like this eventually, and we all will, each of us should hope to one day find out we have this kind of moral clarity.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 20h
It’s getting harder to shake the feeling the USA isn’t being set up for something awful by an adversary who understood how cheap it was to hire Donald Trump & a drunk sex pest from Fox News to destroy our military.
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 14h
A bewitching banquet 🩸 Happy October!
2019 illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a witches' banquet scene. Three witches and a large demon are enjoying an Autumnal feast, and on the floor beneath the table goblins and tentacles spill out from under the tablecloth. A black cat reaches up toward a tentacle and bats fly overhead.
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Alan D Alien @alan-d-alien.bsky.social · 14h
"Trump was rescued multiple times from multiple bankruptcies by boatloads of Russian cash laundered through his real estate in the 1980s and 1990s When Trump became President, it was time to pay the piper and Trump gave Putin everything he wanted, Unger writes"
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How Russia began 'grooming' Donald Trump 40 years ago
American Kompromat How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery by Craig Unger is out January 26.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16h
This is who owns this plane — Jordache Jeans founder Joe Nakash and his real estate partner Eli Gindi. Rich people lease their private jets to charter companies in exchange for a huge tax break, courtesy of Trump 1.0. gillianbrockell.com/more-maga-bi...
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More MAGA billionaires linked to private jet used for ICE flight to African prison
A Gulfstream jet that appears to be co-owned by Joe Nakash and Eli Gindi flew four migrants to a prison in Eswatini.
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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 18h
Christa Pike, who was supposed to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years, is still alive after the state tried and failed to execute her on Wednesday. TDOC officials refused to comment after the state’s second failed execution this year. nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/30/c...
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Christa Pike survives botched lethal injection attempt - Nashville Banner
Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike for a 1995 murder, but the lethal injection failed. Pike survives and was moved to a medical facility.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 17h
a righteous act
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Donna of Queens @thedonster.bsky.social · 13h
Well, then, mission accomplished by the President openly allied with a hostile foreign nation.
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Donna of Queens @thedonster.bsky.social · 19h
I mean, this is just common sense. #witchsky
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 22h
Italy really went off with focaccia. Like yeah just fuckin put olive oil right on the bread. Their minds.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 21h
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