Reposted by Victoria OlsonAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/02/2026A reminder that the New England Patriots plane is flown by Omni air who contracts with ICE to fly people in chains to Africa and Asia several times per week. Go Seahawks. 778238697246
Reposted by Victoria OlsonRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Artist De Strandharker, a Dutch creator known for large-scale beach rake drawings, give remarkable tribute to the victims of Trump's ICE (Renée Good and Alex Pretti) 🫶 601593841
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 14/11/2025😆 it's almost like Orangeface is worried folks will find out more about the un-aliving incident of his bestie behind bars 000
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 10/10/2025I'm attending Maine Dems's event, “Belfast Canvass Kick-Off With Attorney General Aaron Frey!” - sign up now to join in!mobilize.usBelfast Canvass Kick-Off With Attorney General Aaron Frey! · Maine DemsIn November, Mainers will face Question 1, a critical referendum that will dismantle our popular absentee voting program — a cornerstone of accessible elections in our state. Join fellow Maine Democr... 011
Reposted by Victoria OlsonMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2025New from me — There’s been a lot of ink spilled since Charlie Kirk's murder about the "right" way to honor his death. Getting liberals fired from their jobs and forcing devoted civil servants to resign in disgust couldn’t be a more fitting tribute to his life.thehandbasket.coTop FEMA official resigns after staffers ousted for negative Charlie Kirk commentsEmployees have been warned their social media posts could impact employment. 432906698
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Considering the collapse of all things, I am honoring my ancestors with some tossing out of stuff. Conflict: keep all the cool analog printed materials in case modern digital communications technologies cease? Also, need some quills? I got lots. #SwedishDeathCleaning #ApocalypseProblems 010
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Dear USofA, We are so dam determined to retire our wobbly weeble Senator Collins, who is too "concerned" to show up for ANYTHING we need up in here. This man could win! So I'm attending Graham for Maine's event, “Graham in Belfast! Town Hall at The American Legion” - sign up now to join me!mobilize.usGraham in Belfast! Town Hall at The American Legion · Graham for MaineBELFAST: I'm coming to you. We'll be at The American Legion from 6:00pm-7:00pm on Wednesday, Oct. 8th. I hope you'll come and check out this movement we're building to defeat Susan Collins and her mul... 020
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Kash Patel has Resting Squirrel Face. Furtive, frantic, guilty AF. Just got the assignment of being a Squirrel, NO IDEA what the gig is. Like every single muhfuggin Squirrel ever. Fight me. 000
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 11/09/2025It's almost as if the USofA has a particularly pernicious auto-immune disorder. Destruction from within. Structures built for protection turning on the purported protectees. Good luck to us. Here's a flower for hope. 010
Reposted by Victoria OlsonAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2025Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell." 12654736911828
Reposted by Victoria OlsonGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/08/2025My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again. 846246886687
Reposted by Victoria OlsonMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/08/2025Meiselas: Stop both-sidesing it, media. Stop trying to sow division within the Democratic Party when we literally have military invasions into American cities, aided and abetted by red state governors, who, again, are the takers who wouldn't exist without the blue states 460181765470
Reposted by Victoria OlsonAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion 6983465210921
Reposted by Victoria OlsonAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/08/2025On this day in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Organic Act, officially creating the National Park Service to protect and preserve America’s natural wonders and historic treasures “for the enjoyment of this and future generations.” 149120562579
Reposted by Victoria OlsonUSDemocracy @usdemocracy.bsky.social · 23/08/2025🚨This is an emergency. 🚨 It’s clear that Trump will stop at nothing to rig American elections. What we’re seeing is a multi-pronged assault on our freedom to vote and on our democracy. #WeveHadEnough #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory 33831
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Agent Orange is such a magafoggin LOSER. But - when a clown has a flamethrower, watch where they're aiming it. #supportNicolleWallaceopen.substack.comNEWS: Trump threatens MSNBC's Nicolle WallaceThe press retaliation gets weird and personal. 010
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 22/08/2025For the record, I am having dissonance around beauty/art/life-affirming humanities right now. Part of me is full on jittery twitching rage all hunkered down in the bunker counting out the minutes til oblivion+fighting off deepest dark night of the soul ... the other just wants to party play love ... 000
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Errybody knows that public libraries rock the free world. So, naturally, they're now targeted for dismantling via active measures (funding cuts) and also neglect. Do something if you can. www.ala.org/advocacy/sho...ala.orgShow Up for Our LibrariesJoin us and Show Up #ForOurLibraries. 010
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 11/08/2025substack.com/@sanderson15... Some required reading.substack.comSteve Anderson (@sanderson1581)Thiel is not the problem. He’s a symptom. One face on the hydra. Treating him as the apex predator distracts from the larger reality: We are not dealing with a single actor, but with a networked syste... 010
Reposted by Victoria Olsondemsrock.bsky.social @demsrock.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Good reading for the Fourth of July. 01310
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Putin's war on the dollar is proceeding apace 010
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Required viewing by every man woman and child. TO THE BARRICADES!!! 011
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 19/06/2025We made a table. Here are views of its front and back. 020
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Poppies in bloom. Still I can't forget ... once upon a time, local media coverage was robust all throughout the land. We had a shared reality - up was up and down was down. Political gravity was a fact. Now we're through the looking glass. 000
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Still-ish Life with rain on the deck and blueberries cage and apple tree and turkey. 010
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Eventually I will craft a tarot deck of solved wordles 000
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Ppl plz I beseech you to Be Impeccable With Your Word (props to Don Miguel Ruiz) which means accuracy and precision in language. THERE IS NO "most powerful man in the world." NO. There is, however, an occupant of an extraordinarily powerful OFFICE. POTUS is a powerful POSITION, not an individual. 000
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 04/06/2025around with them you do not mess #pridemonth 020
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Sumptuous virtual feast of sweet spicy schadenfreude this evening with @whitehouse.senate.gov on the chumped drumph vs Leonard Leo ragefest LOL played by Kochs #darkmoneyscotus @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com 011
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 16/05/2025make sure to receive your daily dose of CUTENESS 030
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 16/05/2025US down-ballot races in 2025 deserve close attentionbrookings.eduUS down-ballot races in 2025 deserve close attentionNumerous down-ballot races in the 2025 election cycle are likely to face threats of subversion and misinformation. 020
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 13/05/2025When the nightmare gets too absurd and/or frightening, the dreamer awakes. You woke yet? Yeah, you are. It's clear. Okay let's get to work ppl. 040
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Oh lil Marco substack.com/@beverlystei... 030
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 09/05/2025c'mon admit it you were missing lead paint and waiting for it to make a comeback 020
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 09/05/2025srsly what could go wrong spoiler alert ALL of it 020
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 09/05/2025I'm attending The Media and Democracy Project's event, “The power of editorial cartoonists for democracy. A conversation w/Ann Telnaes.mobilize.usThe power of editorial cartoonists for democracy. A conversation w/Ann Telnaes · The Media and Democracy ProjectAnn Telnaes is a Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist and vocal advocate for press freedom. We will discuss with her the role and power of editorial cartoonists in democracies - and how we can suppor... 010
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 09/05/2025@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com thank you for your Tokyo Rose treatment of "donneltrump" night after night. Your prolific use of real and accurate descriptive words such as "stupid" and "lie" helps me hold onto a shred af sanity. 😊 010
Reposted by Victoria OlsonAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/05/2025It's tough to refer to someone as a criminal if you've given them no due process to determine whether they're a criminal. Like if you get arrested and get a trial and are convicted of 34 felony counts. That's due process. You can call that guy a criminal. 439311838306
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 07/05/2025About got dam time!!! #democracy #antiauthoritarian #democracywins 000
Reposted by Victoria OlsonMaria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Happy World Press Freedom Day! #HoldTheLine #ReclaimOurRights @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @rappler.com.web.brid.gy 28639
Reposted by Victoria OlsonTrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 02/05/2025We keep hearing so much about 2026, but too many of us forget that we have elections to win in 2025. @normeisen.bsky.social and @samararangel.bsky.social have put together a must-read, in-depth piece on the elections this year that require our attention the most. www.brookings.edu/articles/us-...brookings.eduUS down-ballot races in 2025 deserve close attentionNumerous down-ballot races in the 2025 election cycle are likely to face threats of subversion and misinformation. 24019
Victoria Olson @thischortlecoil.bsky.social · 29/04/2025FOIA your datafacebook.com559K views · 18K reactions | Rep. Jamie Raskin: "Here's something every American can do and ought to do: Get your FOIA request in" to DOGE. Congressman Raskin explains how he's fighting back against E...Rep. Jamie Raskin: "Here's something every American can do and ought to do: Get your FOIA request in" to DOGE. Congressman Raskin explains how he's... 020