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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛
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According to my mayor, loser with a nasty cat blanket.

Artist, lawyer, cat rescuer, zinester. Disabled punk lesbian. She/her. Postcrosser. Locked Tomb fan.
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blushandmumble.bsky.social
It’s November so inktober is over and I’m back to messing around with whatever. Pen and crayon in a sketchbook.
A pen and crayon drawing of a squat and rounded toy unicorn, think gummy bear proportions. She is yellow with a blue mane, laying on her side and casting a shadow from an overhead light.
November 9, 2025 at 5:45 AM
blushandmumble.bsky.social
Yesterday’s watercolor is predictably the shoe from an angle I have not previously explored. Watercolor and pen on mysterious paper I probably inherited. #watercolor
A red high heel seen from the top. The shoe is outlined in rings of blue and purple.
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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yanquigohome.bsky.social
not willing to get a little gay with it is so suspicious to me even more now
archai.bsky.social Archai @archai.bsky.social · 6d
This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.
Photo of NBC’s exit poll data (from my work laptop, lol) showing Mamdani splitting the straight vote equally with Cuomo, but taking the LGBTQ+ vote by more than 5:1. Even though the LGBTQ+ slice is only 14% of the population, they were a LANDSLIDE in his favor.
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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xlix.me
A bridge is a question between two certainties.
PHOTO by Anas Jawed. A lone person crosses a gently arched bridge that spans a dark, still body of water, wrapped in dense fog. Bare trees frame the scene on either side, their forms fading softly into the mist. The atmosphere is hushed and dreamlike, with the bridge seeming to float in a world suspended between land and sky.
November 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
blushandmumble.bsky.social
Whatever you do today, it's a good day as long as you don't rank Jacob Frey.
November 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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amandamarcotte.bsky.social
The Democratic establishment's ugly reaction to Zohran Mamdani reveals an unpleasant truth.

They would rather lose elections than change.

The addiction to rich donors and consultants is killing the party. But Mamdani shows a path out. An analysis.

www.salon.com/2025/11/03/z...
Zohran Mamdani knows how to win
Not just in New York — Mamdani's campaign shows how to inspire voters nationwide
www.salon.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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babadookspinoza.bsky.social
*yelling at the firing squad before me* My tax dollars pay your salaries!
November 2, 2025 at 2:14 AM
blushandmumble.bsky.social
Daniel Abraham Follow @abraham.bsky.social If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net October 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM Everybody can reply 667 reposts 74 quotes 1.8K likes 10 saves
November 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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stephanieburgis.bsky.social
Literal perfection. ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
We Have AI Now
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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October 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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museum.of.emilyk.art
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.
October 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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harmscommitted.com
"[R]eproductive punishment."

"The aging reproductive body, especially in the form of menstruation, menopause, and post-surgical healing, is not protected within carceral institutions."

"Reproductive aging in this context is not simply biological. It is political."
#USA #Healthcare #Incarceration
The Furnace: Climate, Confinement, and the Cost of Reproductive Aging Behind Bars – Scalawag
The aging reproductive body, especially in the form of menstruation and menopause, is not protected within carceral institutions.
scalawagmagazine.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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bobbylewis.bsky.social
coming off of an article about french towns tilting less toward fascism if the tour de france comes through, one thing reads especially clear from this: in all human interaction, people want to feel important. sometimes that stems the tide of monsters. other times, monsters use that to play you.
gravelinfluencer.bsky.social Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Sep 18
Yesterday Fresh Air did an interview with Robert Draper, who has covered Charlie Kirk. And this section on Draper's relationship with Kirk said a lot to me about modern access journalism, and the soft coverage we've seen in the wake of Kirk's death.
GROSS: After you profiled Kirk, and I think that was published back in February, you stayed in touch with him. And I think you were texting each other the day before he was killed. DRAPER: That's correct. I'll tell you also, Terry, that the story, as you say, was published in February of this year. But I would say for a full year prior to that, Kirk and I had been getting to know each other, and he would often reach out to me. And I thought this was an interesting aspect to Kirk, that he would reach out to me just to run things by me. Not asking so much for my opinion - because, as a journalist, I couldn't give it - but just as a reality check, he'd say, I'm hearing from the right that this particular viewpoint is prevalent from the left. Am I just living in a bubble, or is that true? GROSS: How would you respond to that? DRAPER: Well, sometimes I would say, you know, I think what you're hearing you're hearing from the right-wing media ecosystem, and it's not supported by reality as I understand it. And he would take that and be grateful for it. There was also a time I reached out to him, I remember, to say, I'd like to talk to you off the record about the religious context in which so many people in the MAGA community are viewing Donald Trump. Can you explain to me how they see him as this sort of flawed vessel, like King David or something? And he was very fluent in describing that to me. And so we had that kind of back-and-forth well predating the publication of the story, and continued to since then. I had dinner with him in D.C. once, I think, a couple of months before he was killed, and I remember he brought security with him. They sat at the bar. And he seemed very casual about it, which is not to say that he was utterly unconcerned. But it was essentially the cost of doing business, that that was just the world that we were in. I was texting with him the day before the assassination because I wanted to come to Arizona and have dinner with him and his wife to catch up on various things. But also, there's a major magazine project that I'm beginning. And I wanted Kirk's thoughts about it, but not on the phone and not in writing. It just required a face-to-face. And he wrote back saying, absolutely. We would love to have you over for dinner. Just pick a date in September. And I think I sent, a few hours later, the text, how about September 23? And obviously, I never heard back.
October 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
blushandmumble.bsky.social
Why is TRYING to relax the worst, least-relaxing thing ever?
October 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM
blushandmumble.bsky.social
No inktober for the 17th, I was very busy having a migraine and wasn’t up for it. Today’s inktober is a watercolor of the shoe with this little set of glittery watercolors that G picked me up from Temu. It’s my inktober and I’ll watercolor if I want. #inktober #inktober2025
Watercolor painting of a red high heeled shoe in shimmery colors.
October 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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uhactually.bsky.social
Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”
October 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
blushandmumble.bsky.social
Wearing a mask is a million times more fun than living with long covid, I promise.
melissagiragrant.com Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 27d
I would rather get a daily push notification from whoever it is you think is the most annoying person making you feel the worst about not masking than ever having to deal with long Covid, which I’m still recovering from.
October 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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otsumamiboy.bsky.social
If there are still people in your social circles who derided you for calling these people Nazis when it was already glaringly obvious (decades ago) drop them with prejudice. Especially if you are marginalized in any way.

They are the same people who will give you up to them.
October 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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elmcitytree.blacksky.app
White people’s insistence that other white people—especially the ones exhibiting morally questionable behavior—deserve the benefit of the doubt is going to kill us all.
October 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
blushandmumble.bsky.social
Day 13, more shoe. I got excited about drawing it on its side and then placed it badly on the paper and didn’t have tin for the shadow, oh well. J. Herbin watercolor ink in violet pensée. #inktober #inktober2025
A high heeled shoe on its side, from the heel end, in shades of purple.
October 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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renjender.bsky.social
And they are perpetually being recorded doing these things and nothing fucking happens to them.
October 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
blushandmumble.bsky.social
Inktober day twelve and we’re back to the shoe! What a shoe, I’m fascinated and you’re all stuck looking at whatever fascinates me at any given time. J. Herbin watercolor ink in rouge opera on watercolor paper. #inktober #inktober2025
View of a high heeled shoe all in shades of red from the top.
October 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
blushandmumble.bsky.social
And this one catches me up to yesterday, which is as good as it gets until I make today’s art. The prompt was “starfish”, this gal is a chocolate chip starfish. Daler-Rowney ink in autumn gold and volcano red, Sennelier pre-filled black brush pen, and a Uniball. #inktober #inktober2025
Ink drawing of a chocolate chip starfish. It’s a five legged starfish in a pale orange with a reddish center that looks like it’s got chocolate chips around the center and down her arms, they’re probably teeth or similar.
October 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
blushandmumble.bsky.social
Inktober! I had a stupid phone issue for a few days so I’m behind on posting but it is resolved now so here we go. This is Daler-Rowney ink in… antelope, I think. I wanted to see if I could shade it like I was using watercolor. #inktober #inktober2025
A teacup and saucer in shades of brown.
October 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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ciara2001.bsky.social
You'd have thought lying about your evidence should be a major red flag

(from here archive.ph/2025.10.06-1...)
US supreme court Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth
October 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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cwnewser.bsky.social
The Veterans Affairs Department press secretary directed me to Doug Collins’s comments that “if veterans want to attempt to change their sex, they can do so on their own dime.”

These trans vets are trying to do that by getting referrals to non-government doctors.

www.advocate.com/news/va-doct...
Veterans Affairs doctors banned from writing surgery referrals to private providers for trans vets
“Stripping that basic medical function away is not about cost or bureaucracy, it’s about punishment,” executive director of Minority Veterans of America Lindsay Church told The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM