Meg
@prayingmantis.bsky.social
Anticapitalist, abolitionist, 🏴, queer. She/her. Chicago. #WearAMask + #BlackLivesMatter + #FreePalestine + #ProtectTransKids + #FuckICE
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Trump's approval ratings are low so... they're going to stop reporting his approval rating.
Can't make this complict shit up any more.
Can't make this complict shit up any more.
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
February 11, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Trump's approval ratings are low so... they're going to stop reporting his approval rating.
Can't make this complict shit up any more.
Can't make this complict shit up any more.
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only 11 days until 5:30pm sunset, Chicago. hang in there
February 11, 2026 at 4:18 AM
only 11 days until 5:30pm sunset, Chicago. hang in there
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I think it should be legal to slap these off someone's face and smash them with a big mallet if you see them recording you without your permission
Social media is awash with videos of men filming themselves approaching women in public spaces and attempting to flirt. In many cases, the videos are filmed and uploaded without the women’s consent. https://cnn.it/4qtIsvB
February 11, 2026 at 1:41 AM
I think it should be legal to slap these off someone's face and smash them with a big mallet if you see them recording you without your permission
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When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
February 10, 2026 at 6:52 PM
When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
Age verification? I used to have to turn one TV knob to U then the other knob to get the larger-number channels.
Age verification? I remember when my area code changed from 312 to 708 when I was a kid in the suburbs.
Age verification?
When I first moved to Chicago’s north side, my area code was 312.
When I first moved to Chicago’s north side, my area code was 312.
February 10, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Age verification? I used to have to turn one TV knob to U then the other knob to get the larger-number channels.
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Yes. Miller knows those people can't all be deported. He knows they will be in camps. We need to understand: many, many people in Trump's circle read about the Nazis, openly admire Hitler, and want to emulate what Hitler did. We have to accept how serious this is - we cannot hide from it.
Dear all saying no worries, Trump can't round up 10M immigrants because their work is needed for the US economy: please, remember that MOST of the camps in Germany from 1938 were "Arbeitslager" - labor camps. Deporting people is hard. But locking people up and making them work, that's been done. 1/
February 10, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Yes. Miller knows those people can't all be deported. He knows they will be in camps. We need to understand: many, many people in Trump's circle read about the Nazis, openly admire Hitler, and want to emulate what Hitler did. We have to accept how serious this is - we cannot hide from it.
I found the documentary Secret Mall Apartment very moving. Recommended if you like Art (especially conceptual), weird artists with vision doing shit for no money, art's power, etc.
February 10, 2026 at 4:58 AM
I found the documentary Secret Mall Apartment very moving. Recommended if you like Art (especially conceptual), weird artists with vision doing shit for no money, art's power, etc.
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 AM
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
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You're laughing? The team that lends their plane for deportation flights and whose owner is best pals with Trump got utterly humiliated in front of a hundred million viewers, and you're laughing?
February 9, 2026 at 3:24 AM
You're laughing? The team that lends their plane for deportation flights and whose owner is best pals with Trump got utterly humiliated in front of a hundred million viewers, and you're laughing?
💯% chance Trump is going to destroy more of the White House or something tomorrow, after that halftime show.
February 9, 2026 at 3:53 AM
💯% chance Trump is going to destroy more of the White House or something tomorrow, after that halftime show.
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I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
Mad Max: Fury Road
Name an anti fascist film
February 9, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Mad Max: Fury Road
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No Kings includes Draft Kings
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
No Kings includes Draft Kings
So much for the everything app where it all happens!
February 9, 2026 at 12:12 AM
So much for the everything app where it all happens!
Really sick of living on a planet that is a playground for like 500 people (0.00000714%) who are destroying it for the rest of us.
February 9, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Really sick of living on a planet that is a playground for like 500 people (0.00000714%) who are destroying it for the rest of us.
This absolutely infuriates me.
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:47 PM
This absolutely infuriates me.
I'm literally crying 😂. God is like this baby & we are all this parent
the baby (17 months) raised both her hands and said “WEADY?” so I said “ready!” and then she slapped me in the face
February 8, 2026 at 11:18 PM
I'm literally crying 😂. God is like this baby & we are all this parent
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I know. The internet isn't necessarily real life and we can be fooled by algorithms.
But.
I am telling y'all
Something is happening and we need to encourage it
But.
I am telling y'all
Something is happening and we need to encourage it
February 8, 2026 at 5:48 PM
I know. The internet isn't necessarily real life and we can be fooled by algorithms.
But.
I am telling y'all
Something is happening and we need to encourage it
But.
I am telling y'all
Something is happening and we need to encourage it
I could never pick one, but what came to mind was "You think I'd speak for you? I don't even know your language."
Name your fav film quote.
February 8, 2026 at 7:28 AM
I could never pick one, but what came to mind was "You think I'd speak for you? I don't even know your language."
If this doesn't make your blood run cold wtf is wrong with you
Protest ICE and they scan your face.
Three days later, your Global Entry and TSA PreCheck are gone.
No charges. No explanation.
Just surveillance → retaliation.
Facial recognition. Watchlists. Revoked privileges.
This isn't security It's Big Brother policing dissent in real time.
Three days later, your Global Entry and TSA PreCheck are gone.
No charges. No explanation.
Just surveillance → retaliation.
Facial recognition. Watchlists. Revoked privileges.
This isn't security It's Big Brother policing dissent in real time.
ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face
Global Entry and Precheck revoked three days after incident, court filing says.
arstechnica.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:15 AM
If this doesn't make your blood run cold wtf is wrong with you
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The radical and unrealistic position of "no concentration camps"
The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"
The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"
February 8, 2026 at 4:58 AM
The radical and unrealistic position of "no concentration camps"
The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"
The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"
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A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation: