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Sam M the Demifemme
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she/they autistic polyam demiace demifemme. Host of 6 Degrees of Star Wars podcast. Occasional YouTuber. Full time mess. Trying to be a better person. Setbacks may occur.
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Sam M the Demifemme @demisemme.bsky.social · 2d
VERY behind on posting my episodes, but i managed to this one out on time... the closest I could get to a Wizard of Oz degree 1, like I need an excuse to watch this absolute banger with @momentaryhorrors.bsky.social, @kduffy1718.bsky.social, and one of my SOs!

www.buzzsprout.com/1777630/epis...
Ep. 60: Coming of Age is a Wicked Labyrinth (1986) - Six Degrees of Star Wars
Stealing a page out of the book belonging to In Each Retelling, we mark the release of Wicked For Good by doing the closest thing Lucasfilm ever made to The Wizard of Oz -- a coming of age fantas...
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demisemme.bsky.social
VERY behind on posting my episodes, but i managed to this one out on time... the closest I could get to a Wizard of Oz degree 1, like I need an excuse to watch this absolute banger with @momentaryhorrors.bsky.social, @kduffy1718.bsky.social, and one of my SOs!

www.buzzsprout.com/1777630/epis...
Ep. 60: Coming of Age is a Wicked Labyrinth (1986) - Six Degrees of Star Wars
Stealing a page out of the book belonging to In Each Retelling, we mark the release of Wicked For Good by doing the closest thing Lucasfilm ever made to The Wizard of Oz -- a coming of age fantas...
www.buzzsprout.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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queerliblib.bsky.social
It’s Native American Heritage Month!  

We’re celebrating all of the Two Spirit and Indigiqueer people in our community, along with their stories! We put together a couple lists of books focused on Indigenous perspectives that you can check out on Libby!
Frame 1: A blue background with green font that says “Native American Heritage Month” framed by black wavy lines. In a light green box, a line map of Turtle Island. With pink boxed framing them, there are two book covers from the QLL NAHM list: Buffalo is the new Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel and Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead. Frame 2: A blue background with pink font that says “Two Spirit & Indigiqueer” framed by black wavy lines. With pink boxed framing them, there are two book covers from the QLL Two Spirit and Indigiqueer list: This Town Sleeps by Dennis E. Staples and Queer Indigenous Studies edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley, and Brian Joseph Gilley.
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
demisemme.bsky.social
6 Degrees of Star Wars says that it is still Halloween! We're going by Simpsons rules! @elessar42.bsky.social , Shami, and Todd joined me for the original #TreehouseOfHorror!

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Ep. 59: Treehouse of Horrors #1: Quoth the Raven, Feel the Force - Six Degrees of Star Wars
We channel the power of the very first Simpsons Halloween Special, TREEHOUSE OF HORROR, to stave off the onset of a different holiday season for just a little bit longer... Happy Halloween/All Saints'...
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November 2, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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katelynburns.com
For my newsletter, I took a deeper look at the electoral record of WelcomePAC, a centrist group that produced that 352 page document advising Democrats to moderate once again.

Turns out the campaigns they work for aren't winning. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...
Fire The Consultants
The Democratic party must move on from the same old stale, carefully poll-tested politics and get back to solving voters' problems. There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Democra...
www.burnsnotice.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
demisemme.bsky.social
A small thank you to @samreich.bsky.social— because of you, I have the perfect Halloween costume for now until the end of forever.

Signed, another Sam from Massachusetts
Blonde demifemme with hair pulled back in a ponytail wearing glasses, a navy pinstripe suit and a purple dress belt as a necktie over a white lace v neck top Overhead shot of navy pinstripe pants and white sneakers against a carpet of stripes in muted gray, yellow, blue, and green
October 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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letsbesuperheroes.bsky.social
#HappyHalloween, heroes!

Don't miss out on the premiere of the next Let's Be Superheroes tonight at 9:30pm ET, where Jake, @demisemme.bsky.social, and @orangerngrvideos.bsky.social will guide you through Healthcare Horror Stories!

Spread the word and we'll see you there!
youtu.be/UIFjdwgjKTI?...
Healthcare Horror Stories - Let's Be Superheroes!
YouTube video by Let's Be Superheroes!
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October 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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smittermeier.bsky.social
The vibe I bring to the function
Guillermo del Toro at a Frankenstein screening with a mic in hand Subtitles „thank you very much“ „and fuck AI“
October 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
demisemme.bsky.social
Rear Admiral George Cockburn must be having a good time watching this from his seat in hell, thinking back to August 24, 1814.
October 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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dyl057.bsky.social
There is so much catastrophic stupidity in our system of government that is nothing more than made-up nonsense that we could simply stop doing
quoproquid.bsky.social QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · Oct 16
general reminder that government shutdowns (and “essential government employees) were invented largely by accident by the carter administration’s benjamin civiletti and the entire foundational basis of it is just a DoJ legal opinion that could just be changed at any time
For nearly 200 years of the country’s history, this never happened. Everyone just assumed that if Congress didn’t get around to finishing appropriations bills, then agencies would just continue operating as normal until lawmakers got the job done. Then one day in 1980, a presumably well-meaning attorney general, Benjamin Civiletti, invented the government shutdown. He didn’t intend to. Civiletti was just providing legal advice to President Carter on what should happen in the event of a lapse in appropriations at an agency. “I couldn’t have ever imagined these shutdowns would last this long of a time and would be used as a political gambit,” Civiletti told the Washington Post in 2019. He said he was only offering “a purely direct opinion on a fairly narrow subject” that “has been used in ways that were not imagined at the time.” “Our country survived the Civil War, the Great Depression, and World War II, all without anyone ever once shutting down the government,” lawyer and former Agriculture Department official Kenneth Ackerman wrote in 2019. “And no, it’s not that we never had accounting snafus in Washington before 1980. But up until that year, no president or attorney general ever took the crazy position that a gap between agency appropriation bills—the expiring of one coming a few hours or days before enactment of the next—amounted to a doomsday machine for politicians to hurl about Capitol Hill, causing the government to lock its doors.” So how did Civiletti come to offer his opinion? The story starts in the 1970s, when funding lapses started to occur not just due to “accounting snafus,” but because appropriations measures became entangled with legislation on hot-button issues such as abortion and school integration. From fiscal 1977 to fiscal 1980, there were six gaps in federal funding, ranging from 8 to 17 days. Congress was making a practice of not finishing spending bills on time—a habit that would grow dramatically worse in the 21st century. One lawmaker, Rep. Gladys Noon Spellman, D-Md., became curious as to whether periodic lapses in funding ran afoul of an obscure 1884 law called the Antideficiency Act. Spellman asked then-Comptroller General Elmer Staats what he thought. In March 1980, Staats responded that while technically the law prevented agencies from spending money that hadn’t been appropriated by Congress, that didn’t mean lawmakers wanted operations to come to a screeching halt while funding decisions were being sorted out. "We do not believe that the Congress intends that federal agencies be closed during periods of expired appropriations," Staats wrote. Enter Civiletti. Six weeks after Staats’ letter, the attorney general weighed in. The comptroller general was wrong, Civiletti wrote in a letter to President Carter. “It is my opinion that, during periods of ‘lapsed appropriations,’ no funds may be expended except as necessary to bring about the orderly termination of an agency’s functions, and that the obligation or expenditure of funds for any purpose not otherwise authorized by law would be a violation of the Antideficiency Act.” Then Civiletti went further. The Justice Department, he said, intended to enforce the criminal provisions of the act against federal officials who continued running their agencies without funding. That meant fines of up to $5,000 and as much as two years in prison. It didn’t take long after Civiletti issued his opinion for the first shutdown to occur. It involved only the Federal Trade Commission, whose appropriations were allowed to lapse on May 1, 1980, while lawmakers wrangled over an authorization measure for the agency. The shutdown lasted only a day. It quickly became apparent, though, that the broader implications of the Civiletti opinion were rather dire. What if the FBI or the Secret Service ran out of money? Would federal law enforcement agents be required to walk off the job? So in 1981, Civiletti issued a second opinion: Even in the absence of appropriations, he wrote, some government functions could continue, as long as there was “some reasonable and articulable connection between the function to be performed and the safety of human life or the protection of property.” This would morph into the “essential vs. nonessential” employee mis-designation that now reappears every time a shutdown occurs.
October 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social
Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective
dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · Oct 11
Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people
October 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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saribo.bsky.social
Watch live so they're less incentivised to murder these peace activists. Even just putting the stream on in the background is helpful.
24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla
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October 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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ellaorpj.bsky.social
Did you want to write to @gavinnewsom.bsky.social in support of trans rights bills
AB 82
AB 1084
SB 497
SB 418
SB 59
Okay
Governor Gavin Newsom
1021 O Street, Suite 9000
Sacramento, CA 95814
Or call - (916) 445-2841
Or search "contact gov newsom" and fill out the form
September 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
demisemme.bsky.social
To answer your question — most major American news outlets are not reporting on this, with their focus being largely monopolized by the US federal government shutdown.

Which is salt in the egregious wound that these unjust and illicit arrests are.
October 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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dieselbrain.bsky.social
KOSA is now in red alert priority.

Please contact your representatives, dem and gop alike, and demand they oppose KOSA

We need to turn out in numbers against this!
dieselbrain.bsky.social Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Sep 23
#SaveSpeech

Ive updated this infographic with additional bill info, issues, etc

Find your federal and state reps below and make your voices heard!

www.congress.gov/members/find...

www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
September 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
demisemme.bsky.social
Republicans pitch a bad bill designed to harm people and/or make Democrats look weak if it passes, and gives them an excuse to blame Democrats for the #shutdown because they are incapable of self reflection or accountability.

Fixed it for you.
October 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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kellylynnedang.bsky.social
you cannot dismantle oppression in this country without first dismantling racism in this country. you cannot dismantle racism in this country without first dismantling this country's core white supremacy foundation itself.

Black and Native and YOUR liberation are intertwined.
September 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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catvalente.bsky.social
Hey youths

Get the fuck off TikTok because Trump just told you factually they’re gonna fuck the algorithm to turn you all into loyal Hitler Youth.

And you won’t notice til you find out your personal demographic Need Not Apply.
September 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar
September 28, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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dgcomedy.bsky.social
I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.
September 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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pigeon75.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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decolonizemyself.bsky.social
"He didn't deserve it, but he did get what he thought other people deserved. we don't know who did this or why, but there is no doubt it will be weaponised against vulnerable groups in the worst of ways"
September 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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acvalens.net
If you’re here on visa or not yet fully a citizen I would be very careful right now
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 11
“The State Department indicated it would review the legal status of immigrants ‘praising, rationalizing, or making light’ of Charlie Kirk's fatal shooting.”
State Department warns immigrants not to mock Kirk's death
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau posted the warning on Thursday.
www.axios.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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itsdanicarr.bsky.social
Hey, a fun thing to do today is support some awesome trans and non-binary creators! 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
September 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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emyunks.bsky.social
I just found Settings > Privacy > Social Features / Messaging and shut that down
September 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM