Sally Jo Tate
@sjtate.bsky.social
Liberal. Feminist. Humanist. Detroitish. Thought we were better, but still not ready to give up. She/her.
*Hey- DON'T DM me if you don't know me, why would you even???*
*Hey- DON'T DM me if you don't know me, why would you even???*
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Worth remembering…
October 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Worth remembering…
Well, some days, performative is all my old, privileged middle class ass has to offer. I hope it was helpful in some small way, cause I'd have rather stayed home and drank wine.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Well, some days, performative is all my old, privileged middle class ass has to offer. I hope it was helpful in some small way, cause I'd have rather stayed home and drank wine.
It's been a minute. Please enjoy some of my favorite signs from the No Kings in Ferndale today as an apology until next time...
October 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
It's been a minute. Please enjoy some of my favorite signs from the No Kings in Ferndale today as an apology until next time...
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Good morning and happy Friday to everyone. So far in Trump’s economy, the standard of living has improved only for Ghislaine Maxwell and the Jan. 6 insurrectionists.
August 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Good morning and happy Friday to everyone. So far in Trump’s economy, the standard of living has improved only for Ghislaine Maxwell and the Jan. 6 insurrectionists.
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Well done, Alaska.
August 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Well done, Alaska.
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This warms my dead, tired heart. Thank you for stepping up, Alaska and representing the best of the American People.
August 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
This warms my dead, tired heart. Thank you for stepping up, Alaska and representing the best of the American People.
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Me: guys we gotta save public broadcasting from Trump
Public Broadcasting: that Trump guy is on a roll go off king
Public Broadcasting: that Trump guy is on a roll go off king
President Trump would rather be talking about his "One Big Beautiful Bill" and other recent wins, but the controversy over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein documents is proving to be a distraction.
Trump's been on a win streak. The Epstein controversy could distract from it
President Trump would rather be talking about his "One Big Beautiful Bill" and other recent wins, but the controversy over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein documents is proving to be a distraction.
n.pr
July 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Me: guys we gotta save public broadcasting from Trump
Public Broadcasting: that Trump guy is on a roll go off king
Public Broadcasting: that Trump guy is on a roll go off king
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🚨🚨🚨
IT GETS WORSE 😳
"Kristi Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began, multiple sources told CNN."
Story: www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...
IT GETS WORSE 😳
"Kristi Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began, multiple sources told CNN."
Story: www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...
July 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
🚨🚨🚨
IT GETS WORSE 😳
"Kristi Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began, multiple sources told CNN."
Story: www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...
IT GETS WORSE 😳
"Kristi Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began, multiple sources told CNN."
Story: www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...
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Amazing how the anti-war “America First” crowd vanishes when their guy starts dropping the bombs.
June 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Amazing how the anti-war “America First” crowd vanishes when their guy starts dropping the bombs.
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"Charlatans and cranks"...that tracks 🔽
'Greg Mankiw, a conservative who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under George W. Bush, famously referred in his widely-used introductory economics textbook to the purveyors of this idea as “charlatans and cranks.”'
'Greg Mankiw, a conservative who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under George W. Bush, famously referred in his widely-used introductory economics textbook to the purveyors of this idea as “charlatans and cranks.”'
New in PN: Republicans are trying to sell a bizarre fantasy on the economy
"As they craft a radical budget bill, they're making claims as absurd as anything Trump offers, all adding up to a fantasy of the future so improbable that to examine it for a moment is to understand how ridiculous it is."
"As they craft a radical budget bill, they're making claims as absurd as anything Trump offers, all adding up to a fantasy of the future so improbable that to examine it for a moment is to understand how ridiculous it is."
Republicans are trying to sell a bizarre fantasy on the economy
Would you believe we're on the cusp of a miraculous eruption of prosperity unlike anything Americans have experienced before?
www.publicnotice.co
June 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"Charlatans and cranks"...that tracks 🔽
'Greg Mankiw, a conservative who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under George W. Bush, famously referred in his widely-used introductory economics textbook to the purveyors of this idea as “charlatans and cranks.”'
'Greg Mankiw, a conservative who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under George W. Bush, famously referred in his widely-used introductory economics textbook to the purveyors of this idea as “charlatans and cranks.”'
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As someone who spent a lot of her young life in a church pew, I feel like religion (Christianity, specifically) really set us up for this. Great thread, well worth a read...
Some people deny reality because they’re confused.
Some deny it because they’re scared.
Some because they’re angry.
But then there’s something deeper, something more organised.
Something I call disordered denial.
Some deny it because they’re scared.
Some because they’re angry.
But then there’s something deeper, something more organised.
Something I call disordered denial.
May 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
As someone who spent a lot of her young life in a church pew, I feel like religion (Christianity, specifically) really set us up for this. Great thread, well worth a read...
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I don't know who Jake Tapper thinks is buying his book.
I can't see any of us paying for it and MAGA don't read.
I can't see any of us paying for it and MAGA don't read.
May 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I don't know who Jake Tapper thinks is buying his book.
I can't see any of us paying for it and MAGA don't read.
I can't see any of us paying for it and MAGA don't read.
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Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"
May 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"
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I will never forget that the week Qatar decided to bribe the president of the United States with a plane, CNN decided to focus on the age and health of an ex-president.
Shame.
Shame.
May 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I will never forget that the week Qatar decided to bribe the president of the United States with a plane, CNN decided to focus on the age and health of an ex-president.
Shame.
Shame.
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WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree?
TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.
WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?
TRUMP: I don't know
TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.
WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?
TRUMP: I don't know
May 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree?
TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.
WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?
TRUMP: I don't know
TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.
WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?
TRUMP: I don't know
Huh. I guess I kind of agree that we did have our chance, and we sure did lose big. Of course, I'm thinking of the whole damned country, so I guess context really is everything.
Trump on what he says to people who say he's taking the country in an authoritarian direction: "I won the election ... they had their chance at the election, and they lost big."
May 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Huh. I guess I kind of agree that we did have our chance, and we sure did lose big. Of course, I'm thinking of the whole damned country, so I guess context really is everything.
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Trump’s golfing, Musk’s city-state, nuclear threats, drone warfare, and a MAGA Pope AI selfie, just another week in America’s decline into surreal #authoritarian spectacle. #ukraine #putin #elonmusk
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
The Gospel According to Golf: 100 Days of Trump, Tyranny, and Techno-Feudalism
From FEMA-funded fairways to Elon Musk’s privatized launchpad city, America’s second act under Trump is equal parts satire and catastrophe
open.substack.com
May 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Trump’s golfing, Musk’s city-state, nuclear threats, drone warfare, and a MAGA Pope AI selfie, just another week in America’s decline into surreal #authoritarian spectacle. #ukraine #putin #elonmusk
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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So let me get this straight:
A Wisconsin county judge who allowed an undocumented immigrant to leave by a side door is arrested by the FBI
Meanwhile
Sec of Defense Hegseth, who has breached national security at least three (3) times that we know of, is still in office
A Wisconsin county judge who allowed an undocumented immigrant to leave by a side door is arrested by the FBI
Meanwhile
Sec of Defense Hegseth, who has breached national security at least three (3) times that we know of, is still in office
April 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
So let me get this straight:
A Wisconsin county judge who allowed an undocumented immigrant to leave by a side door is arrested by the FBI
Meanwhile
Sec of Defense Hegseth, who has breached national security at least three (3) times that we know of, is still in office
A Wisconsin county judge who allowed an undocumented immigrant to leave by a side door is arrested by the FBI
Meanwhile
Sec of Defense Hegseth, who has breached national security at least three (3) times that we know of, is still in office
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No shit. Get going
April 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
No shit. Get going
Seems more and more likely he was, tho...
In 1862, a Union soldier found cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a field of clover. The paper was a copy of Confederate Gen. Lee's invasion orders. The Southern sloppiness helped the Union stop Lee at Antietam.
It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth.
It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth.
April 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Seems more and more likely he was, tho...