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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

lilac @villainous.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

If your legal name is different than what’s on your birth certificate, you WILL NOT BE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE. Married and took your spouse’s surname? Can’t vote if your legal name differs from what’s on your birth certificate, unless you have a passport! And you have to do everything *in person.*

americanprogress.org

The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens

The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the way every American citizen registers to vote.

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lilac @villainous.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

hilarious that MAGA types complain about trans and gay people “destroying” traditional families when I’m pretty sure it was actually the several decades of Republican hate-broadcasts via talk radio and propaganda “news” networks that did that

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lilac @villainous.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I aspire to be this petty and at least 1% as talented I loved the halftime show 😻

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/02/2025

the “administrative state” in practice is a lot of very hard working, practically anonymous people doing the thankless work of making this country run and a drug-addled dipshit is slandering them in order to steal our money for himself

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

What if there were a coup, the US government fell to a drug-addled oligarch who seized control of our money, secrets, and levers of power, and Corporate media did not report on it?

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lilac @villainous.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Most MAGA/fascists/whatever you want to call them are actually—at their core—soft, whiny, little piss babies. Outside of the militants who actually train for violence, they’re sniveling cowards when confronted. They’re pathetic and fueled by fear.

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lilac @villainous.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

this is just the beginning of what his ego and ignorance are gonna do to this country

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lilac @villainous.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

an absolute fucking moron, folks. “Leader” of the “free” world. 🙄

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/01/2025

This is my favorite picture of Stonewall. They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+. Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them. I think about it a lot in moments like this.

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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/01/2025

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 27/01/2025

Hey, while we're talking about erasing history: In 1949 the US military held its first Aeriel Gunnery Competition, later known as "Top Gun." The best of the best competed in dogfighting and other skills. The team that won, was the 332nd: The Tuskegee airmen. So they refused to announce a winner🤡

James Harvey III, Tuskegee airman, leader of the team that won the US military's first aerial gunnery competition for combat aviators. AKA, Top Gun. James Harvey is a handsome Black man in WW2 uniform with an indomitableble look of calm confidence.

Tom Cruise in an aviation suit and Rayban aviator sunglasses from Top Gun.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

No foreign power has ever posed as massive and immediate a threat to the United States as the current administration.

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lilac @villainous.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

they don’t actually care if Trump lives to see a third term—they just want to change the 22nd Amendment so that their next ghoulish freak can have an unlimited reign

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Gotta be honest, I did expect big institutions from universities to big tech to bend the knee to the new overlord of the US. I did not expect them to do so this quickly. Harvard firing the entire Slavery Remembrance Program. Rutgers canceling HBCU event. Amazon adopting a White supremacist policy.

Harvard fires the entire staff of the Slavery Remembrance Program, the unit of its $100 million initiative tasked with identifying the direct descendants of those enslaved by Harvard affiliates

HBCU conf at Rutgers cancelled following Trump's EO

Amazon removing 'equity for Black people' and 'LGTQ+ rights' from its policies

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lilac @villainous.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

🎶H-O-T-D-O-G-S ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS🎶 (don’t cross picket lines, though!)

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lilac @villainous.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Any time I have a ~discussion~ with a MAGAt they always call me fat and ugly within three replies and comment about my hair color making me stupid or something. Like today I got called fat and hard to look at lmao On that note, I got my hair done today 💁‍♀️

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lilac @villainous.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The United States Air Force has sent out a memo regarding the immediate dissolution of their *volunteer* Women’s groups that focus on policies that benefit not just women, but men and children.

Official Air Force memorandum

Subject: Implementation of Executive Orders “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,” 20 January 2025; and “Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions,” 20 January 2025

The memorandum reads: In compliance with the subject Executive Orders, this memorandum directs disestablishment of all Departments of the Air Force Barrier Analysis Working Groups (DAFBAWGs) effective immediately.

DAFBAWG Champions shall ensure cessation of all DAFBAWG activities, including outward facing media. Outward facing media must be updated to remove official sponsorship and to include the following disclaimer: “The views expressed are my own and do not constitute endorsement by the Department of Defense, Department of the Air Force, or the U. S. Government.

My lead for this effort is the acting Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), SAF/MR.

Signed, Gary A. Ashworth, Acting

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This memo has led to the dissolution of the Dept of the Air Force Women’s Initiative Team as well as (so far) Reach Athena (air mobility command) and Dagger Athena (air force special operations command) women’s groups which are staffed by all volunteers and serve to improve policies and regulations which often benefit both men and women but are still considered DEI adjacent

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lilac @villainous.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

but wait, I thought it’s just “autism” and he was “giving his heart”? I took this screenshot myself, you can still see it on his account.

A screenshot of Elon Musk’s Twitter post that reads, “Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations!

Some people will Goebbels anything down!

Stop Gőring your enemies!

His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler!

Bet you did nazi that coming 😂”

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 23/01/2025

These people are literally pro-cancer.

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lilac @villainous.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Being inundated with AI images and video constantly has made my struggles with derealization measurably worse and I’d like to extend a hearty “fuck you” to the advertisers using it 🖕

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Nick Martin @nick-martin.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Elon Musk: - Welcomed neo-Nazis to X - Replies to neo-Nazis on X - Reposts neo-Nazis on X - Funds neo-Nazis through X - Engages with racist memes on X - Posts racist, anti-trans and other bigoted rhetoric on X - Performed three Nazi salutes on stage while the world was watching This isn't hard.

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lilac @villainous.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Hmm weird, gas prices seem to have gone UP around $0.30 in my area since Trump won the election and I’m not seeing any MAGA complaints blaming him. Strange.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

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onion person @junlper.beer · 20/01/2025

it’s insane to me whenever trump wins they always go “time to unite ❤️ no more hate” while they spend the entire campaign and already the second trump presidency dividing everyone. we need to hate rightwingers more

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lilac @villainous.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Barbershopper list for you to only read shit from barberdorks if that's a thing you're into for some reason lol (all users in the list will also be in my Starter Pack(s) for easy mass-following) bsky.app/profile/did:...

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lilac @villainous.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

If you are a barbershopper not in my Barbershop Starter Pack yet but would like to be, please respond here and I’ll add you Also tag other accounts who should be in the pack as well! I may reach the account limit soon but that will just mean I make v2 lol

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onion person @junlper.beer · 16/01/2025

david lynch had an insane aura

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lilac @villainous.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

David Lynch died and I’m sad about it.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

This set of highly relevant facts will get no traction at all.

Cybertruck driver left behind rant praising Trump and Musk, slamming Democrats

The Green Beret who shot himself seconds before the Tesla Cybertruck he rented went up in a fiery explosion outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Day referred to the event as "a wake up call' and effort to rid himself of the "burden" of the lives he took in combat. He also advocated a Jan. 6-like takeover of federal buildings and the ouster of Democrats from government and the military.
"Try peaceful means first, but be prepared to fight to get the Dems out of the fed government and military by any means necessary,"' he wrote. "They all must go and a hard reset must occur for our country to avoid collapse."

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Shouting out my cousin Luigi on the news

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.

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lilac @villainous.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I’m already sick and exhausted by the Trump administration and it hasn’t even fucking started yet

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Important lessons from old books: "Victorian novels chronicle the terrible grief of losing children. Depicting the cruelty of diseases largely unfamiliar today, they also warn against being lulled into thinking that child deaths can never be inevitable again." theconversation.com/infectious-d...

theconversation.com

Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today

Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.

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Cody @codyjohnston.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Here's our new episode about that thing that happened. You know the thing. youtu.be/Z8R4XeNcHu8?...

youtu.be

Is Everyone Stupid? An Election Investigation – SOME MORE NEWS

YouTube video by Some More News

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lilac @villainous.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

tbh we could use more unrepentant capitalists entering the “find out” stage, after the amount of fucking around they’ve done for decades rest in piss, Brian Thompson!

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lilac @villainous.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

transphobes certainly spend an inordinate amount of their time obsessing over the genitalia of strangers tbh

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

As bad as Twitter is, it’s ridiculous to ignore the fact that the rest of social media has been extremely toxic to journalism. Facebook trashed the industry; YouTube certainly hasn’t helped; Substack actively gave money to numbskulls. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

nbcnews.com

Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'

Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.

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lilac @villainous.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Watching the dog show with the fam 🖤 Why do they make poodles look like that 😹 🐩

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