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Mai まい
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Illustrator. Designer. Liberal Lurker. (She/Her)
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This is personal. My maternal grandparents and great grandparents were all sent to internment camps. My great grandfather didn't make it out of the camps alive while my other relatives, having lost their homes in California, were forced to start over in Hawaii.
Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.

The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.

History is repeating. Pay attention.
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ICE never left L.A. The military did but they aren't the ones terrorizing the city. Please don't ignore L.A.
ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.

The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
Engagement on our updates re: ICE kidnappings/fed siege of Los Angeles is significantly lower on Bluesky compared to Twitter. Do ppl on here not care about LA anymore? Are feeds being taken over by liberal commentators? What's going on?

Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.

That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.

Wow.
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Derpy and Sussie from K-Pop Demon Hunters are ready to fly! At Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade ~

#KPopDemonHunters #MacysParade #FPN #FunkoPOPNews #Derpy #Sussie
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne.

So ProPublica did.

Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:

www.propublica.org/article/bird...
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Good morning! The MILLION POSTCARD PROTEST will be held @ the beginning of December. Send homemade postcards to DC three days in a row to send a big message in big PILES of mail. Read this 🧵 for full details, and please REPOST. 🩵🩵🩵

Dec 2: To GOP Senate
Dec 3: To KLeav
Dec 4: To Mike Johnson

1/7
November 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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I'm a voiceover actor, you've heard me on your TV, radio or the web over the 36 years of my career. My bread-and-butter work used to be narrating training films and corporate videos, used to be at least 1/3 of my income. MOST of that work is now AI. My agents are dying, fellow talent are struggling.
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?

Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:

-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Auctioneer: “Chinese 19th century cricket cage”

Me: “…you know what? all right, sure, I guess putting a cricket in there is how you made it vibrate before batteries”
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Follow The 2 Rogers Rule:
If neither Steve nor Fred would do it, you shouldn't either.
Protect your team. Be a good neighbor. Punch a Nazi. All are great examples of World Kindness Day.
November 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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We started Indivisible in 2016 because a future Trump appointee was talking about the WWII Japanese internment camps as a model for immigrants at the same time that Schumer was talking about finding common ground with Trump.
This concentration camp was opened at Fort Bliss, the site of a former Japanese internment camp.

It also cost over $1B in private contracts to build in a place meant to hold 1000 people. So, basically it’s a fascist grift.
shorturl.at/qhuSc
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Trying to decide whether to use my invisible tariff check from Trump or my invisible cost saving rebate check from DOGE to fill the tank of my car with a 500-year loan with invisible $2/gallon gas . . .
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Let me return to the feel good moment of the night.
Trump and Hegseth booed mercilessly for 2 minutes straight tonight by Washington Commanders fans.
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Cull the Democratic Party. Systematically chip away all the weak, corporate centrists and corrupt, gutless elected officials who refuse to fight and instead suck at the teat of the oligarchy.
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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What is happening, Marge? Either this is the most epic Trojan horse troll game of all time and she will unveil herself as an alien who wants to eat us or she got visited by three spirits overnight recently.
Greene: "I will praise Nancy Pelosi. She had an incredible career for her party. I served under her speakership in my first term in Congress and I'm very impressed at her ability to get things done. I wish we could get things done for our party like Nancy Pelosi was able to deliver for her party."
November 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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"Don't get too excited, because-" Nah, how about you shut the fuck up. All the way up.

Let people have a crumb of joy, you miserable fucks, my GOD.

I promise, you can go back to posting "We're so fucked" and then not doing anything to stop it thrice daily tomorrow.
November 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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we needed all of this. it’s why i rail on doomers and tell them doing that shit is literal voter suppression. defeatism begets defeatism. momentum fucking matters to keep people engaged.
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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I can’t believe they called prop 50 the moment polls closed. That tells you something. Most of these races were called within 45 minutes. It’s a BLOWOUT, y’all. THAT is what we call a MANDATE.
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.

Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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There is a distinct possibility that some people are too stupid to participate in a democracy
November 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.

The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.

"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM