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Asa West @theredtailwitch.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

My husband just told me that if a man watches My Melody and Kuromi, he’ll be torn apart by the Bacchae

Asa West @theredtailwitch.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Imagine if we elected a literal infant president, and every day NPR reporters had to say, completely straight-faced, "The president said 'goo-goo-ga-ga ba ba ba." And then pundits tried their best to spin it into something meaningful. That's what my morning commute feels like these days.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The fiscal conservatives in the GOP just added $4 trillion to the deficit to give the wealthiest people on earth a tax cut. The pro-family party just took healthcare away from 17 million Americans to give ICE a bigger budget than Brazil’s military. The single most inhumane bill ever passed.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

anyone who had a position of power (in congress, in the party, in the doj) or influence (like op-ed space in a major newspaper or tv spot), and counseled against swift and punitive legal action, got the biggest question of their lives wrong and should never have power or influence again.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/07/2025

the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 02/07/2025

This is utterly vile. Loomer is calling for ethnic cleansing and we need to say so, every single day, and stand in the way of this.

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 15/06/2025

just please remember, whatever the news says about LA after this, that this is *always* how it goes. Everything is extremely calm until the police actively escalate for no reason. It was true during all the BLM protests and it’s true now.

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Shawn Harris @shawnforcongress.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I am proud to be on Bluesky and I need you with me. MTG doesn’t want you to know my name — but I’m Shawn Harris, and I’m running to replace her. We can flip this seat, and we must compete for every single seat up and down the ballot. Help us make noise, build power & send MTG packing. Join us today:

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Let's defeat Marjorie Taylor Greene!

Chip in to support Democrat Shawn Harris for Congress

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 12/06/2025

The oppression of the entire Latino community of Los Angeles right now is difficult to convey. Normally vibrant local retail areas of East LA and SELA look like ghost towns this week. People are afraid to leave their homes. Parents afraid to go to work. It's US citizens too. Anyone with brown skin

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

If the feds’ objective is to “liberate” Los Angeles and California from its democratically elected leadership, then this not a peacekeeping mission but a program of invasion.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 16/05/2025

In the past 48 hours, Israel has killed more than 250 Palestinians. Tweets from Palestinians in Gaza report some of the worst bombings across the Strip since the start of the genocide.

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Asa West @theredtailwitch.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The parallels to anti-trans propaganda are pretty blatant. Take a group that's been gaining visibility and acceptance, ramp up derogatory rhetoric until it's deafening, and then use it to persecute the group. They were never going to stop at just one group. They're coming for all of us.

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Asa West @theredtailwitch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I had so much fun talking to @beescolnick.bsky.social! Thanks for having me!

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Asa West @theredtailwitch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I finally posted on the Patreon account I started a million years ago. I'm making all my Patreon posts free, but there are paid tiers if you're feeling moved to support a writer. This post is about finding a hummingbird nest while the world is falling apart. www.patreon.com/asawest

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Asa West @theredtailwitch.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

"When you're on that bike in your shorts, panting away next to a Republican, you know they're your trustworthy buddy and definitely not a con artist playing you like a fiddle."

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14/03/2025

In a total betrayal of their constituents and our democracy, 10 Democrats just voted with Senate Republicans to give Trump and Musk a blank check to continue their coup. @schumer.senate.gov led Democrats to this total surrender. We need strong leadership, not cowards who cave at any GOP pressure.

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Asa West @theredtailwitch.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Welp, the upside to getting my car stolen yesterday is that I didn't check the news for 24 hours 🥴

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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

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ICE Arrests Pro-Palestinian Activist at Columbia

Mahmoud Khalil, who recently completed a graduate program at Columbia, has legal permanent residency, his lawyer said.

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vera @verchan.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

jj abrams: "omg what if chewbacca finally got the medal that he didn't get in the original movie!" tony gilroy: "German Sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) once said that a government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence--"

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Weiser Books @weiserbooks.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Witch Blood Rising is a celebration of witchcraft and how it has stubbornly kept itself alive in Western culture—and a call to action for all seekers who yearn for a witch’s life. Now available wherever books are sold! @theredtailwitch.bsky.social

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rebecca scolnick @beescolnick.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

i'm so excited to share a truly wonderful conversation with @theredtailwitch.bsky.social later this month on SITS! but first -- HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY TO WITCH BLOOD RISING! xx

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Asa West @theredtailwitch.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

My new book is out TODAY! It's a memoir-in-essays in which I write about my love of witchcraft, folk horror, Loki, the Morrigan, bee priestesses, fiber arts, and so much more. This book is about all the unexpected places where witchcraft lives, and I poured my heart into it.

Cover of Witch Blood Rising: Awaken Your Magic in a Modern World by Asa West. A woman with black hair and antlers stands with her eyes closed under a flock of black birds, with a red moon behind her.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

defy the norm. get even stranger. NO SURRENDER

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 28/02/2025

ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time. S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped *monday.* short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

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Asa West @theredtailwitch.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

A few months ago I read The Light Eaters by @zoeschlanger.bsky.social, and she cites Semiosis by @sueburke.bsky.social, so today I finished reading that one, too. Highly recommend both titles if you like nature writing, SF, and getting your mind blown!

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Asa West @theredtailwitch.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Economic boycott tomorrow! Here's the alt text: illustration of a rabbit with the following text: Economic Boycott / Don't buy stuff Friday Feb 28 / We have power / No Amazon Walmart Target Fast Food Gas / OK Small business / Use cash

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Emotional Support Dad @viddef.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Somebody said "it's not a cabinet, it's a junk drawer" and I wish I could remember who

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Bree Trulove @breetrulove.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Just read a wonderful article by @theredtailwitch.bsky.social about my favorite character in my favorite book "The Last Unicorn." It was a much needed reminder that alongside mortality and regret there can also be new beginnings and hope.❤️ reactormag.com/becoming-mol... #books

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Becoming Molly Grue: How I Found an Unlikely Millennial Icon in The Last Unicorn - Reactor

Older, wiser... but ready for new quests, and new beginnings.

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Luna Station Quarterly @lunastation.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I'm also eligible as a short form editor, and LSQ is eligible as a Semi-Pro zine. Would love to see some of our excellent stories on the ballot!

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Asa West @theredtailwitch.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I've never done this before so I hope I'm not wildly violating etiquette, but I published an SF story last year that I think is pretty good! If you read "Mothering Lessons" in @lunastation.bsky.social issue 060 and you liked it, I'd much appreciate your vote.

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Asa West @theredtailwitch.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Pro tip for book lovers: if you special order a small press title from an indie bookstore, sometimes they'll start stocking it! My local indie has started stocking multiple titles after I ordered them and the bookseller said, "Ooh, that looks interesting..."

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Holly @chupachup.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

@theredtailwitch.bsky.social Thanks, I needed this today.

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

This is going to be presented as the lone Jewish line/position for Jewish security, and those who speak out about it are going to be called antisemitic/self-hating, and free speech will be restricted so as to prevent the speaking out from happening in the first place, and when that happens 1/2

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

It’s the baseline, really— every human being is created in the divine image, is worthy of dignity, love, care— our neighbors as ourselves, the stranger as ourselves. What has been happening in Gaza is a desecration of the Holy Name.

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Asa West @theredtailwitch.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I got an amazing delivery last night! You, too, can have this lil’ book in your home if you preorder it! It’s a memoir in essays about witchcraft, nature, and finding deep meaning in pop culture.

Two books in a cardboard box with bubble wrap. The book is Witch Blood Rising: Awaken Your Magic in a Modern World by Asa West, and the cover shows a young woman with antlers, with ravens and a red moon in the background.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 12/02/2025

Musk killed these people.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The best stories only become more meaningful as you age; for @theredtailwitch.bsky.social, revisiting Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn brought a whole new appreciation of Molly Grue's pain and regret--and her amazing strength. reactormag.com/becoming-mol...

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Becoming Molly Grue: How I Found an Unlikely Millennial Icon in The Last Unicorn - Reactor

Older, wiser... but ready for new quests, and new beginnings.

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This is it. This is the take.

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I'll vote for whoever will come at the republicans like kendrick went for drake. i'm not joking either. give me that energy or shut up. don't email me. don't text me. don't ask me for anything.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/02/2025

They are going to ignore court orders. If they ignore court orders, the social contract is dead and buried, the constitution is no longer in effect. It's a rubicon that cannot be uncrossed.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

LGBTQIA minors make up 40% of the endangered minor runaway population. They are 120% more likely to be unhoused. They are also uniquely at risk for exploitation and trafficking. This is breathtakingly evil.

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Asa West @theredtailwitch.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Can confirm that this movie rocks

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