Mumbling Sage In Wisconsin
@mumblingsage.bsky.social
Writer. Editor.
* Romance * Erotica * Queer Fiction * Poetry *
Recovering doomscroller. Incurable optimist with hopefully-curable burnout.
She/her.
* Romance * Erotica * Queer Fiction * Poetry *
Recovering doomscroller. Incurable optimist with hopefully-curable burnout.
She/her.
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Btw, I was at the detention center and because detainees were getting released there into sub-zero weather without coats, there is a group of protestors now that waits with warm cars
January 28, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Btw, I was at the detention center and because detainees were getting released there into sub-zero weather without coats, there is a group of protestors now that waits with warm cars
I've got a Facebook and an Instagram because that's where readers are, but I am not relying on them.
Alternatives: Pillowfort is small right now with a delightfully random jumble of a userbase. I suspect many will like their policies on NSFW (allowed, just tag it!) and AI (not allowed).
Alternatives: Pillowfort is small right now with a delightfully random jumble of a userbase. I suspect many will like their policies on NSFW (allowed, just tag it!) and AI (not allowed).
Owned by right wing billionaire fascist supporters and/or welcoming to fascists:
X
Instagram
Facebook
Threads
WhatsApp
TikTok
Substack
Plan your exit strategies if you haven't already.
X
Threads
TikTok
Substack
Plan your exit strategies if you haven't already.
January 28, 2026 at 2:10 PM
I've got a Facebook and an Instagram because that's where readers are, but I am not relying on them.
Alternatives: Pillowfort is small right now with a delightfully random jumble of a userbase. I suspect many will like their policies on NSFW (allowed, just tag it!) and AI (not allowed).
Alternatives: Pillowfort is small right now with a delightfully random jumble of a userbase. I suspect many will like their policies on NSFW (allowed, just tag it!) and AI (not allowed).
The mood of the morning is having this come up in my playlist, getting to the Truman speech (I swear it makes sense in context) and getting weepy.
Thomas Bergersen - We Are One Beautiful People
YouTube video by Two Steps From Hell
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 2:03 PM
The mood of the morning is having this come up in my playlist, getting to the Truman speech (I swear it makes sense in context) and getting weepy.
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)
Perry: Abolish ICE? How about DHS altogether.
"We have models for how to structure federal immigration oversight that doesn't rely on an unaccountable masked secret police force running rampant in our streets," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)
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Requests for a gay romance queuing up in an automated public library system because of endorsements by a socialist as a leisure-time activity.
Somebody hook Mamdani up with NASA, because we are *this* close to fully automated luxury gay space communism.
Somebody hook Mamdani up with NASA, because we are *this* close to fully automated luxury gay space communism.
"The number of downloads...surged by 529% after Mr. Mamdani’s news conference"
"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"
"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"
A win!
"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"
"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"
A win!
gifting this article because it made me laugh, which is hard to do in this context. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/n...
January 27, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Requests for a gay romance queuing up in an automated public library system because of endorsements by a socialist as a leisure-time activity.
Somebody hook Mamdani up with NASA, because we are *this* close to fully automated luxury gay space communism.
Somebody hook Mamdani up with NASA, because we are *this* close to fully automated luxury gay space communism.
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"The number of downloads...surged by 529% after Mr. Mamdani’s news conference"
"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"
"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"
A win!
"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"
"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"
A win!
gifting this article because it made me laugh, which is hard to do in this context. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/n...
After Mamdani Nods to ‘Heated Rivalry,’ Library E-Book Downloads Surge
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:28 AM
"The number of downloads...surged by 529% after Mr. Mamdani’s news conference"
"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"
"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"
A win!
"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"
"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"
A win!
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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🧵
I started learning Alex Pretti's name and how good he was on the *same day* he was killed. This country only mobilizes like this for white people. And as long as that stays true, then we aren't actually changing anything about what's happening. It'll happen again.
January 26, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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Dear MassiveCock subreddit: Thank you for standing up for…uh…thank you for your position on…er…thank you for plowing straight into the issue…um…Aw hell, thanks for doing the right thing.
I talked to one of the r/MassiveCock posters who decided to bring anti-ICE conversations to the subreddit.
"... Nothing in life should feel ‘normal’ when these sorts of things are happening in our country. Even porn and sex," he said.
Gift link (obviously): tinyurl.com/mr3nua5k
"... Nothing in life should feel ‘normal’ when these sorts of things are happening in our country. Even porn and sex," he said.
Gift link (obviously): tinyurl.com/mr3nua5k
January 26, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Dear MassiveCock subreddit: Thank you for standing up for…uh…thank you for your position on…er…thank you for plowing straight into the issue…um…Aw hell, thanks for doing the right thing.
Perennial post, TBH
Like I'm sorry that these events all read like a didactic feminist novel but that's not my fault
January 26, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Perennial post, TBH
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This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding.
Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.
Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.
January 26, 2026 at 4:01 AM
This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding.
Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.
Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.
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amazing
Mamdani Tells NYC Residents to Stay Home and Read ‘Heated Rivalry’ Amid Snow Storm
The New York Public Library is offering residents with a library card the chance to download Rachel Reid’s queer hockey romance series without a wait.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:27 AM
amazing
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these right wing clowns continuing to express absolute shock over the organizing of the left also reflects a deeply sexist ignorance of the fact that EXPERIENCED, INCREDIBLY EFFICIENT AND HARDWORKING VOLUNTEERS, PRIMARILY WOMEN, RUN THE FUCKING SHOW WITH ALMOST EVERYTHING GOOD IN THIS COUNTRY
I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.
January 26, 2026 at 12:44 AM
these right wing clowns continuing to express absolute shock over the organizing of the left also reflects a deeply sexist ignorance of the fact that EXPERIENCED, INCREDIBLY EFFICIENT AND HARDWORKING VOLUNTEERS, PRIMARILY WOMEN, RUN THE FUCKING SHOW WITH ALMOST EVERYTHING GOOD IN THIS COUNTRY
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We're at the stage of political polarization where "planning things" is now women-coded, apparently.
Lot of conservative dudes out there telling on themselves by being astounded by a level of ”logistics” that the average mom has to manage every fucking day
January 26, 2026 at 1:12 AM
We're at the stage of political polarization where "planning things" is now women-coded, apparently.
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We've covered the old money grifter astroturf angle but also so many of these guys so thoroughly fetishize rugged individualism well past the point of reason that they can't conceive of a community that anticipates its own needs.
I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.
January 25, 2026 at 9:48 PM
We've covered the old money grifter astroturf angle but also so many of these guys so thoroughly fetishize rugged individualism well past the point of reason that they can't conceive of a community that anticipates its own needs.
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This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 5:20 PM
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
On Saturday the 17th, I started my erotic-romance author newsletter with an "ICE is not welcome in the Midwest" message. I worried I might be swerving out of my lane, but this thread reassures me it's timely.
man the stuff i am seeing on IG from
the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different
the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different
January 25, 2026 at 8:13 PM
On Saturday the 17th, I started my erotic-romance author newsletter with an "ICE is not welcome in the Midwest" message. I worried I might be swerving out of my lane, but this thread reassures me it's timely.
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this is so true, and im pulling it out next time people start up about male loneliness
Feels like every club, class, or social event that isn't a gig is either aimed at parents and kids, or attracts only women, middle-aged, or retired people. Where are the younger men. What are they plotting.
January 25, 2026 at 10:17 AM
this is so true, and im pulling it out next time people start up about male loneliness
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It’s why, despite ICE being easier to say, “Abolish and prosecute DHS” is the position to hold.
Repeal the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
I just want to make it clear that it was *Border Patrol* agents who murdered Alex Pretti, and those fuckers murder people regularly here along the border.
Renee Good´s murderer is also a former Border Patrol agent (currently ICE).
Disband ALL the paramilitary groups and prosecute every member.
Renee Good´s murderer is also a former Border Patrol agent (currently ICE).
Disband ALL the paramilitary groups and prosecute every member.
January 25, 2026 at 4:15 AM
It’s why, despite ICE being easier to say, “Abolish and prosecute DHS” is the position to hold.
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I just want to make it clear that it was *Border Patrol* agents who murdered Alex Pretti, and those fuckers murder people regularly here along the border.
Renee Good´s murderer is also a former Border Patrol agent (currently ICE).
Disband ALL the paramilitary groups and prosecute every member.
Renee Good´s murderer is also a former Border Patrol agent (currently ICE).
Disband ALL the paramilitary groups and prosecute every member.
January 25, 2026 at 3:28 AM
I just want to make it clear that it was *Border Patrol* agents who murdered Alex Pretti, and those fuckers murder people regularly here along the border.
Renee Good´s murderer is also a former Border Patrol agent (currently ICE).
Disband ALL the paramilitary groups and prosecute every member.
Renee Good´s murderer is also a former Border Patrol agent (currently ICE).
Disband ALL the paramilitary groups and prosecute every member.
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BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.
January 25, 2026 at 2:32 AM
BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.
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Really want the academics and think tanks to start churning out pdfs on what tribunals and truth and reconciliation commissions look like. Political leaders are absolutely not going to come up with this on their own.
Would happily take time to help write and edit any of that, too.
Would happily take time to help write and edit any of that, too.
January 25, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Really want the academics and think tanks to start churning out pdfs on what tribunals and truth and reconciliation commissions look like. Political leaders are absolutely not going to come up with this on their own.
Would happily take time to help write and edit any of that, too.
Would happily take time to help write and edit any of that, too.
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Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.
January 25, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.