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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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I am DONE being NICE to people who refer to trans folks with slurs EVEN if they didn't mean it. The GLAAD media resource guide exists. USE IT. glaad.org/reference/tr...
Glossary of Terms: Transgender | GLAAD
For additional tips on creating stories about transgender people, please see In Focus: Transgender People If you are seeking information about how to create transgender and nonbinary characters for fi...
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This was Bad Bunny giving the Grammy to his younger self.
February 9, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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Costa gets into it with this thread. It details how the Trump admin ended a Biden admin $1 billion program designed to give Puerto Rico energy independence with rooftop solar.
Remember that under the first Trump administration, Puerto Rico had to suffer through the longest power blackout in U.S. history bsky.app/profile/cost...
During his Administration, Hurricane Maria knocked out power to 1.5 million people in Puerto Rico and it didn’t get restored for ABOUT A YEAR! It was the largest blackout in U.S. history. This should be line one of any hurricane recovery political coverage. www.vox.com/identities/2...
February 10, 2026 at 5:05 AM
Fuck these fascists.
February 10, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Fuck this. We cannot let Melissa win the primary in IL-7.
Just learned that AIPAC has now jumped into a fourth open seat House race in Illinois, backing Melissa Conyears Ervin with what has been described as a $2.8 million buy (around $500k a week).
This is straight up AIPAC, not a shell PAC, through United Democracy Project.
February 10, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Fucking evil shit. This affects so many people that I know. I hate these cretins.
The Trump administration plans to rescind $600 million in public health funds from four states led by Democrats because it finds the grants “inconsistent with agency priorities,” according to documents reviewed by the NYT

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...
Trump Administration to Cut $600 Million in Health Funding From Four States
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:07 AM
@sky.skymarchini.net I'm hoping that ground beef goes on sale here in Chicago soon because I only have 4 pounds of it in my freezer. I like to have like 8 or 9 in reserve.
February 10, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Now I get why they give away powerade for free when you buy coca cola pop drinks.
gatorade is owned by pepsico but it's the coca cola of the sports drink market. powerade in turn is owned by coca cola, but it's unquestionably the pepsi of sports drinks. this should be plainly obvious to all
February 9, 2026 at 10:13 PM
This is what the SAVE Act will help foment. Stop this shit NOW @schumer.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @whipkclark.bsky.social
The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”

The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
They're Coming for Our Daughters
The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures
jessica.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:07 PM
This is horrifying.
The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”

The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
They're Coming for Our Daughters
The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures
jessica.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:05 PM
I don't give a shit. Harry Potter content should not exist anymore.
ign.com IGN @ign.com · 16h
HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter TV series will include a look at the home life of Draco Malfoy. https://bit.ly/4kAw5ML
February 9, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Dictator shit.
Here's the rest:
February 9, 2026 at 9:24 PM
I hate these lying criminal mobster fuckers to my very core.
The White House just sent a "Don't Panic" email. That'll do it
February 9, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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Me: Is America the world's most misogynist country?

France: tiens ma bière
February 9, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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Administration is just rounding up people showing us what the administration is doing.
February 9, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Stop this fucking shit @kenmartin.bsky.social
NEW: The “centrist” Abundance think tank pushing Democrats toward deregulation is run by a registered corporate lobbyist for OpenAI, Larry Ellison’s Oracle, and a crypto think tank.
February 9, 2026 at 8:03 PM
This makes my brain hurt.
this was normal once
February 9, 2026 at 7:55 PM
This is worse than Nazi Germany and Japanese-American internment here in the USA.
Detention Reports has been updated to include a national map of all active ICE detention facilities that link to individual facility reports. Learn about this new feature and other new features at my latest post: austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-best-s...
February 9, 2026 at 7:51 PM
The winter is finally grating on me.
February 9, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Their clothes are way too expensive and boring.
Outdoor sportswear pioneer Eddie Bauer again files for bankruptcy

The operator of roughly 180 Eddie Bauer stores across the U.S. and Canada has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, blaming declining sales and a litany of other industry headwinds

abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...
Outdoor sportswear pioneer Eddie Bauer again files for bankruptcy
The operator of roughly 180 Eddie Bauer stores across the U.S. and Canada has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, blaming declining sales and a litany of other industry headwinds
abcnews.go.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Cult behavior.
Rep. Brian Babin thanked God for "getting us a new president" in Trump, who has saved this nation from "apostasy, blasphemy, taking our children down the path of homosexuality and perversion."
February 9, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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Brandi Carlile's accompaniment for "America the Beautiful" before the game last night was SistaStrings. The duo, Chauntee and Monique Ross, played another American anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," on the Library's Stradivarius instruments in 2024.
Here's a clip of that impromptu performance. ⬇️
February 9, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Of course. Bannon is still a fucking criminal.
JUST IN: DOJ is trying to help Steve Bannon erase his conviction for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee. Motion has no career prosecutor on it, just signed by US Attorney Pirro. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 9, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.
February 9, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Get the fuck off of TikTok.
February 9, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Wake the fuck up everyone.
Remember that @mikestabile.bsky.social myself, & many SWs, discussed the harm of age verification laws as written, and how they harm SWs, users, and undermine internet freedoms. This is all an effort to do large scale government surveillance.
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
February 9, 2026 at 6:59 PM