maraleia
@maraleia.bsky.social
Political junkie, history, pop culture & science fiction geek. Left handed, cisgender, lesbian feminist, social justice activist & educator from Chicago.
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@maraleia.bsky.social
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The BOSS of Virginia politics right here.
Virginia has reached a 10-1 redistricting agreement. This moment reflects commitment to fair representation for communities across the Commonwealth and our nation.
[VIDEO]
[VIDEO]
February 6, 2026 at 12:16 AM
The BOSS of Virginia politics right here.
Mayor Mamdani is so good with kids.
Wait these mini lecterns at Mayor Mamdani’s press conference are so cute.
(Video via Josie Stratman)
(Video via Josie Stratman)
February 6, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Mayor Mamdani is so good with kids.
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Your suspicion was right.
Trump shut down the Kennedy Center out of pure embarrassment after the cancellations.
He’s betting we forget in two years.
In 2023 the Kennedy Center was in the black, pulling in $286M in revenue. And it reopened from a $250M renovation in 2019.
Trump shut down the Kennedy Center out of pure embarrassment after the cancellations.
He’s betting we forget in two years.
In 2023 the Kennedy Center was in the black, pulling in $286M in revenue. And it reopened from a $250M renovation in 2019.
February 5, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Your suspicion was right.
Trump shut down the Kennedy Center out of pure embarrassment after the cancellations.
He’s betting we forget in two years.
In 2023 the Kennedy Center was in the black, pulling in $286M in revenue. And it reopened from a $250M renovation in 2019.
Trump shut down the Kennedy Center out of pure embarrassment after the cancellations.
He’s betting we forget in two years.
In 2023 the Kennedy Center was in the black, pulling in $286M in revenue. And it reopened from a $250M renovation in 2019.
Hey @deanobeidallah.bsky.social you cannot give them one inch on photo ID to vote. Many poor and/or indigenous peoples in America don't have birth certificates.
February 5, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Hey @deanobeidallah.bsky.social you cannot give them one inch on photo ID to vote. Many poor and/or indigenous peoples in America don't have birth certificates.
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Good. "But DHS isn't just ICE, it's also..." nope, wrong. DHS no longer serves any useful functions, the whole thing has been reassigned to repression. FEMA isn't even paying out to states. All DHS does is shooting, teargassing, facial recognition, and administrative warrants. Shut it down.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the White House.
Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democratic demands for ICE
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Secu…
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February 5, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Good. "But DHS isn't just ICE, it's also..." nope, wrong. DHS no longer serves any useful functions, the whole thing has been reassigned to repression. FEMA isn't even paying out to states. All DHS does is shooting, teargassing, facial recognition, and administrative warrants. Shut it down.
This is true. They are saying that it's "unnatural" for two women or two men to raise children.
Same-sex marriage is under attack again. The Christian nationalist right has launched a new campaign, and, unsurprisingly, it’s using children’s safety as a pretext to roll back equality.
The Right Is Coming For Same-Sex Marriage With An Insidious New Campaign
The anti-LGBTQ “Greater Than” campaign is leveraging children to attack the rights of same-sex married couples
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:42 PM
This is true. They are saying that it's "unnatural" for two women or two men to raise children.
Make it fucking stop.
You want your Gateway project funding? Here’s the price. 🤡
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
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February 5, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Make it fucking stop.
This fucking caller Steven (sp?) to your show is a dumbass @deanobeidallah.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 11:32 PM
This fucking caller Steven (sp?) to your show is a dumbass @deanobeidallah.bsky.social
Better option, bring your ballot to your local library in Chicago during early voting days and put it in the drop box there. It goes directly to the board of elections THAT NIGHT.
📬 MAIL IN BALLOT UPDATE:
USPS has changed its postmark rules. If you’re voting by mail for the March 17 election, be sure to mail your completed ballot by March 10 to avoid delays.
USPS has changed its postmark rules. If you’re voting by mail for the March 17 election, be sure to mail your completed ballot by March 10 to avoid delays.
February 5, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Better option, bring your ballot to your local library in Chicago during early voting days and put it in the drop box there. It goes directly to the board of elections THAT NIGHT.
The SAVE ACT will BAN most women from voting. Fucking stop this @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
I wrote this back in May, but the SAVE ACT is back in Congress and still just as dangerously disfranchising. We've seen this before. 🗃️
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February 5, 2026 at 11:17 PM
The SAVE ACT will BAN most women from voting. Fucking stop this @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
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Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
This is the bullshit you helped foment with your anti-trans rhetoric @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social @colinallredtx.bsky.social @kamalaharris.com and others.
Trans people were the proving grounds to normalize the made up term "biological sex"to roll back decades of progress on gender equality. When you get bioessentialist language, suddenly everything from gender roles to marriage becomes an argument about "biology."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Meet the mastermind behind Trump’s definition of "woman"
May Mailman’s anti-trans crusade could threaten gender equality for all.
www.motherjones.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:14 PM
This is the bullshit you helped foment with your anti-trans rhetoric @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social @colinallredtx.bsky.social @kamalaharris.com and others.
The MAGA GOP HAS to lose power NOW.
5. Results from the 2026 Census Test are not expected to be used to redistribute political representation. Instead, the test is designed to inform preparations for the next once-a-decade head count in 2030, which include a report on the planned question topics that is due to Congress in 2027
A major census test faces cutbacks — with postal workers tapped to help count
The Trump administration has shrunk the number of locations for this year's field test of the 2030 census and has added plans to test replacing temporary census workers with U.S. Postal Service staff.
www.npr.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:44 PM
The MAGA GOP HAS to lose power NOW.
This is absolutely fucking illegal.
My latest @npr.org story: The Trump administration is proposing to include a U.S. citizenship question in this year's field test of the #2030Census in Huntsville, Ala., and Spartanburg, S.C., as Republicans push to alter the counts behind voting maps
Trump officials propose testing a citizenship question amid a push to alter the census
The Trump administration proposes to include a question about U.S. citizenship status in this year's field test of the 2030 census, as Republicans push to alter the counts behind voting maps.
www.npr.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:43 PM
This is absolutely fucking illegal.
I need someone who knows Delia Ramirez personally to ask her why she is being an obstinate asshole about this?
I still don't see your names on this list @ramirez.house.gov @repschneider.bsky.social What the fuck is wrong with both of you? I want answers NOW. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/996/cosponsors?q={"cosponsor-state"%3A"Illinois"}
www.congress.gov
February 5, 2026 at 8:40 PM
I need someone who knows Delia Ramirez personally to ask her why she is being an obstinate asshole about this?
I still don't see your names on this list @ramirez.house.gov @repschneider.bsky.social What the fuck is wrong with both of you? I want answers NOW. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/996/cosponsors?q={"cosponsor-state"%3A"Illinois"}
www.congress.gov
February 5, 2026 at 8:38 PM
I still don't see your names on this list @ramirez.house.gov @repschneider.bsky.social What the fuck is wrong with both of you? I want answers NOW. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/996/cosponsors?q={"cosponsor-state"%3A"Illinois"}
And elected Democrats have done nothing to stop this horror from continuing.
the most damaging moral panics currently are directed at immigrants and trans people.
the "Haitians are eating your pets" moral panic; the "they're forcing kids to be trans" moral panic.
moral panic is the signature style of the right. 1
the "Haitians are eating your pets" moral panic; the "they're forcing kids to be trans" moral panic.
moral panic is the signature style of the right. 1
The Satanic Day Care Panic, QAnon, and Pizzagate were moral panics. They relied on distorted, exaggerated, and misconstrued interpretations of the underlying facts. What Epstein did is real. It is not a "moral panic" to call for investigation and punishment of those who participated in his crimes.
February 5, 2026 at 8:35 PM
And elected Democrats have done nothing to stop this horror from continuing.
Parents who don't vaccinate their children are vile pieces of garbage. The only exceptions to this rule is if a child's other health conditions make vaccination impossible.
Children in South Carolina are developing rare brain swelling complications after measles outbreak trib.al/YRnKgEt
Children in South Carolina are developing rare brain swelling after measles outbreak
The majority of the Southeast state’s 876 cases have been in unvaccinated children
trib.al
February 5, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Parents who don't vaccinate their children are vile pieces of garbage. The only exceptions to this rule is if a child's other health conditions make vaccination impossible.
All I want to do is sleep right now.
February 5, 2026 at 8:24 PM
All I want to do is sleep right now.
21st century Earth has been a complete clusterfuck in every way imaginable.
February 5, 2026 at 8:07 PM
21st century Earth has been a complete clusterfuck in every way imaginable.
This horror show will continue until we ban these fucks from holding public office.
Ladies and gentlemen, the party of small government!
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A bill to require schools to promote marriage before having kids has divided Indiana
Advocates of the “success sequence” say a simple formula staves off poverty for nearly everyone. Critics disagree.
www.nbcnews.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:20 PM
This horror show will continue until we ban these fucks from holding public office.
THIS
the biden border bill and choosing to run on a “border patrol endorsed” piece of legislation should go down as not only cowardly and backward thinking but one of the worst strategic political decisions by democrats in recent memory, everyone involved should be out of politics forever
New Quinnipiac poll:
63% of voters disapprove of ICE
60% want ICE out of Minneapolis
58% want Kristi Noem removed from office
63% of voters disapprove of ICE
60% want ICE out of Minneapolis
58% want Kristi Noem removed from office
February 5, 2026 at 4:18 PM
THIS
The RED SCARE of the early 1950s fucked this country up so much.
February 5, 2026 at 4:10 PM
The RED SCARE of the early 1950s fucked this country up so much.
FYI everyone under the age of 18 is a CHILD.
The Right has spent years trying to push a return to child labor and attacking age of consent laws. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they’re exposing us to mountains of the most horrendous stuff imaginable while also normalizing it.
So much of what’s happening is the destruction of childhood.
So much of what’s happening is the destruction of childhood.
February 5, 2026 at 4:05 PM
FYI everyone under the age of 18 is a CHILD.
This right here is why I cannot stand Dems in Congress now. This National Prayer Breakfast should not exist in a functioning democracy. What the hell is wrong with you @jonathanjackson.house.gov
Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-Il), Democratic co-host for the National Prayer Breakfast
February 5, 2026 at 3:56 PM
This right here is why I cannot stand Dems in Congress now. This National Prayer Breakfast should not exist in a functioning democracy. What the hell is wrong with you @jonathanjackson.house.gov