Ann Medlock
@annmedlock.bsky.social
Writer, provocateur, US PNW transplant (from NYC), founder of the Giraffe Heroes Project, where we tell the stories of people who stick their necks out to make the world a better place. www.giraffe.org www.annmedlock.com
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Sundog, a memecoin by crypto billionaire Justin Sun, just posted a meme depicting its mascot controlling the White House. Sun has spent (or will shortly spend) a total of $213 million on Trump-connected crypto projects.
![Tweet screenshot: SunDog @SUNDOG_TRX You never truly know who’s pulling the strings… 🤫 [AI-generated image of a corgi dog with a collar depicting the Tron logo, paws raised above the White House, with strings attached to the paws like a marionette] 2:30 AM Jul 24, 2025](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:exrxvyu6bpoym6mbnctke5tn/bafkreigsccsb3rboe3qjtuuicshmrhyho65cwntbj4syjn5y2gkil5m45a@jpeg)
July 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Sundog, a memecoin by crypto billionaire Justin Sun, just posted a meme depicting its mascot controlling the White House. Sun has spent (or will shortly spend) a total of $213 million on Trump-connected crypto projects.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
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A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”
July 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”
When tacos get serious-- this is an insane show of force from the feds, total overkill in sending agents from SIX federal entities, aided by city police, many of the agents armed as if they're in a war, to arrest people at a taco truck. Good on Minneapolis citizens for RESISTING.
I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE.
Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it.
Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.
Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it.
Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.
June 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
When tacos get serious-- this is an insane show of force from the feds, total overkill in sending agents from SIX federal entities, aided by city police, many of the agents armed as if they're in a war, to arrest people at a taco truck. Good on Minneapolis citizens for RESISTING.
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"Now is the time for all good men [sic] to come to the aid of their country."
Do your job, Senators and Representatives.
Honor, duty, country—
not party, not fear of losing your damn job.
If you don't honor your oath of office, you don't deserve the office.
Do your job, Senators and Representatives.
Honor, duty, country—
not party, not fear of losing your damn job.
If you don't honor your oath of office, you don't deserve the office.
June 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"Now is the time for all good men [sic] to come to the aid of their country."
Do your job, Senators and Representatives.
Honor, duty, country—
not party, not fear of losing your damn job.
If you don't honor your oath of office, you don't deserve the office.
Do your job, Senators and Representatives.
Honor, duty, country—
not party, not fear of losing your damn job.
If you don't honor your oath of office, you don't deserve the office.
The voice of a poet, giving you powerful images for the way ahead...
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In a Time of Woe
I want to thank my students and friends for their deep care and honesty in asking, again and again, “What are we to do now?” Out of these conversations, I was able to gather this in-depth set of refle...
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April 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The voice of a poet, giving you powerful images for the way ahead...
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I'm in.
Hello 👋 to all our new Bluesky followers & fellow #resisters.
Here is a list of General Strike US resources to help introduce you to who we are, what we’re doing, and how you can get involved.
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Here is a list of General Strike US resources to help introduce you to who we are, what we’re doing, and how you can get involved.
👇 STRIKE CARD👇
Commit to going on strike w/ us or sign in solidarity: generalstrikeus.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I'm in.
Chainsawing into your life...
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The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired Yesterday
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency terminated thousands of experienced public health professionals in an April Fools’ Day massacre. We’re all about to pay the ...
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April 2, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Chainsawing into your life...
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I love that he closed with "our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor," words that have always moved me. The Founders put it all on the line and so must we all, now. Booker rose to speak, and rose to the urgency of the moment.
April 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I love that he closed with "our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor," words that have always moved me. The Founders put it all on the line and so must we all, now. Booker rose to speak, and rose to the urgency of the moment.
I have given away so many copies of this book, hoping people will give it the time it deserves. Here it is in just 10 powerful minutes.
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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March 31, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I have given away so many copies of this book, hoping people will give it the time it deserves. Here it is in just 10 powerful minutes.
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When you're old enough to have witnessed "history"....
March 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
When you're old enough to have witnessed "history"....
I hadn't thought of that. That's beyond bizarre.
the chair of the joint chiefs is also the statutory military advisor to the president. so some of this stuff is actually more than just unusual.
The Atlantic also shared screen grabs showing the people in the group. Notably, Adm. Christopher Grady, the acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was not included. It is highly unusual for the Pentagon's highest ranking officer to not be included in a military operation.
March 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I hadn't thought of that. That's beyond bizarre.
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So true. And then there's creating a few thousand recently fired nat sec and nat sec adjacent civil servants who weren't just fired but basically had a bucket of shit poured over their heads. Cld they be aggrieved? Maybe? So every vector of penetration is basically in smorgasbord mode.
March 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
So true. And then there's creating a few thousand recently fired nat sec and nat sec adjacent civil servants who weren't just fired but basically had a bucket of shit poured over their heads. Cld they be aggrieved? Maybe? So every vector of penetration is basically in smorgasbord mode.
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In addition to everything else that is wrong with this, why aren't these men wearing uniforms? They're dressed like they just came from the skateboard park and half seem to be concealing their faces. These are terror tactics, meant to inspire a penumbra of fear beyond those directly victimized.
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
In addition to everything else that is wrong with this, why aren't these men wearing uniforms? They're dressed like they just came from the skateboard park and half seem to be concealing their faces. These are terror tactics, meant to inspire a penumbra of fear beyond those directly victimized.
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This is a guy in panic mode, and trying to falsely cry "hoax" when NSC has already confirmed it is a desperate, stupid move that seems guaranteed to backfire.
Reporter: Can you share how your information about war plans was shared with a journalist?
Hegseth: So you are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes
Hegseth: So you are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes
March 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is a guy in panic mode, and trying to falsely cry "hoax" when NSC has already confirmed it is a desperate, stupid move that seems guaranteed to backfire.
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Bernie and AOC draw huge crowds in Arizona.
March 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Bernie and AOC draw huge crowds in Arizona.
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Balaji Srinivasan suggests giving Elon Musk “control of a huge swath of land surrounding Starbase, Texas” & designate that land as “a military base or … similar, so that [Musk] can fence it off & determine at his sole discretion who can enter.” Then replicate in other states w/ other Tech Bros. 1/
March 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Balaji Srinivasan suggests giving Elon Musk “control of a huge swath of land surrounding Starbase, Texas” & designate that land as “a military base or … similar, so that [Musk] can fence it off & determine at his sole discretion who can enter.” Then replicate in other states w/ other Tech Bros. 1/
Trivia break—If you've ever baked bread or read up on how to, you've probably read about "crumb," which is the density of various types of breads, how big the air spaces are. Well, I think we found the all-time winner for air spaces. How's this for crumb?
March 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Trivia break—If you've ever baked bread or read up on how to, you've probably read about "crumb," which is the density of various types of breads, how big the air spaces are. Well, I think we found the all-time winner for air spaces. How's this for crumb?
3. Too many people who believe in government of, by, and for the people are letting the radical right set the rules.
March 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
3. Too many people who believe in government of, by, and for the people are letting the radical right set the rules.
2. Following up your action with a huge wave of accurate information about what's really happened would be your next right thing to do. Yes, that information will be denied by many and you will be hit with MAGAmenschen lies. So what?
March 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
2. Following up your action with a huge wave of accurate information about what's really happened would be your next right thing to do. Yes, that information will be denied by many and you will be hit with MAGAmenschen lies. So what?
1. Choosing what moves to make on the basis of what DT and his MAGAmenschen might say about what you do is madness.
They will lie, distort, and blame everyone but themselves, always, in every instance, no matter what you choose to do.
So you might as well do the next right thing, yes?
They will lie, distort, and blame everyone but themselves, always, in every instance, no matter what you choose to do.
So you might as well do the next right thing, yes?
March 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
1. Choosing what moves to make on the basis of what DT and his MAGAmenschen might say about what you do is madness.
They will lie, distort, and blame everyone but themselves, always, in every instance, no matter what you choose to do.
So you might as well do the next right thing, yes?
They will lie, distort, and blame everyone but themselves, always, in every instance, no matter what you choose to do.
So you might as well do the next right thing, yes?
It wasn't even close. 62/38 I shall now spend the afternoon organizing a closet here, a place where I CAN stop chaos and make something work well.
March 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
It wasn't even close. 62/38 I shall now spend the afternoon organizing a closet here, a place where I CAN stop chaos and make something work well.
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CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.