sooty_mosquito
@sootymosquito.bsky.social
he/him // BLM // free Palestine // ACAB // hack the planet //
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If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.
September 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.
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Medicaid expansion leads to increased access to health care for people of color and people with disabilities, preserves rural community hospitals, and ensures marginalized communities have access to the health resources they need.
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July 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Medicaid expansion leads to increased access to health care for people of color and people with disabilities, preserves rural community hospitals, and ensures marginalized communities have access to the health resources they need.
Learn more: www.splcenter.org/re...
Learn more: www.splcenter.org/re...
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No, say it louder. It's absolute bullshit how Across the Spider-Verse made over $300 million in profit, yet neither Marvel nor Sony could be bothered to defray the hospital bills of the man who co-created Miguel O'Hara. Instead they left his wife and family scrambling to afford to live.
feels kind of obscene to say this now, but Peter David probably could've spent a few more years with his loved ones had he received just a little help from an industry he earned millions of dollars for
May 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
No, say it louder. It's absolute bullshit how Across the Spider-Verse made over $300 million in profit, yet neither Marvel nor Sony could be bothered to defray the hospital bills of the man who co-created Miguel O'Hara. Instead they left his wife and family scrambling to afford to live.
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BWP (both stores!) is just an amazing example of what comics mean to communities. Love Katie and Andrea and the whole crew so much.
New #SupportYourLocalComicShop!
We spoke with Katie Pryde, the owner of the Eisner-winning Comic Shop, @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social, in Portland Oregon! We discuss how she & her team achieve their "Comics for Everyone" motto.
Don't miss this essential comics retailer discussion🔗🧵⬇️
We spoke with Katie Pryde, the owner of the Eisner-winning Comic Shop, @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social, in Portland Oregon! We discuss how she & her team achieve their "Comics for Everyone" motto.
Don't miss this essential comics retailer discussion🔗🧵⬇️
April 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
BWP (both stores!) is just an amazing example of what comics mean to communities. Love Katie and Andrea and the whole crew so much.
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So, this guy obviously doesn't have MS13 on his knuckles. What an absurd claim! But as a tattoo historian, I can say: even if he did, it's all absolutely no evidence that he's affiliated with the gang anyway. Tattooing a Nike logo on you doesn't mean you make shoes.
Trump just posted a photo of himself holding up a piece of paper claiming to show tattoos on Kilmar Abrego Garcia that are related to MS-13. The paper he’s holding up has been digitally altered to add the characters MS-13.
The claim comes from neo-Nazis on X who say the tattoos cover up “MS-13.”
The claim comes from neo-Nazis on X who say the tattoos cover up “MS-13.”
April 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
So, this guy obviously doesn't have MS13 on his knuckles. What an absurd claim! But as a tattoo historian, I can say: even if he did, it's all absolutely no evidence that he's affiliated with the gang anyway. Tattooing a Nike logo on you doesn't mean you make shoes.
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this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness
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Hard to overstate how lawless and also just fundamentally *untrustworthy* this country is, any promise we ever made anyone about anything turns out to have been fake www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
I.R.S. Agrees to Share Migrants’ Tax Information with ICE
The agreement is a major departure from the Internal Revenue Service’s efforts to gain the trust of migrants and encourage them to file their taxes.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Hard to overstate how lawless and also just fundamentally *untrustworthy* this country is, any promise we ever made anyone about anything turns out to have been fake www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
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Don't worry, everyone. Chuck Schumer is on the case and he's *pretty* sure he can get everyone aisle seats on the flight to El Salvador.
Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador
March 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Don't worry, everyone. Chuck Schumer is on the case and he's *pretty* sure he can get everyone aisle seats on the flight to El Salvador.
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I was told we're under assault by foreign gangs and fentanyl imports, and yet the FBI's top priority appears to be the state-law crime of vandalism, but not vandalism in general, just vandalism of a single company.
If state and local cops can't handle this, why do we spend such much on them? 🤔
If state and local cops can't handle this, why do we spend such much on them? 🤔
FBI Investigating Tesla Vandalism as GOP Decries Terrorism
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it’s investigating “a number” of incidents where Tesla Inc. charging stations and dealerships have been damaged, including fires last night in Las Vegas and Ka...
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March 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I was told we're under assault by foreign gangs and fentanyl imports, and yet the FBI's top priority appears to be the state-law crime of vandalism, but not vandalism in general, just vandalism of a single company.
If state and local cops can't handle this, why do we spend such much on them? 🤔
If state and local cops can't handle this, why do we spend such much on them? 🤔
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Being so patriotic you're willing to die for a country that is actively hostile towards your existence is pretty patriotic
INCREDIBLE Ruling!
Judge Reyes just ruled that transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Trumps trans military ban - which states trans people are inherently dishonorable - as unconstitutional and motivated by animus.
Trans military members may continue to serve.
Judge Reyes just ruled that transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Trumps trans military ban - which states trans people are inherently dishonorable - as unconstitutional and motivated by animus.
Trans military members may continue to serve.
March 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Being so patriotic you're willing to die for a country that is actively hostile towards your existence is pretty patriotic
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The President has ignored Congressional appropriations, closed Congressionally-created agencies, and is grabbing people off the street without any judicial process and sending them to a foreign labor camp while boasting that he won't follow a court order telling him to stop.
I think we're there.
I think we're there.
WATCH: Schumer says "our democracy will be at stake" if Trump disobeys the Supreme Court—but "we're not there yet."
March 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The President has ignored Congressional appropriations, closed Congressionally-created agencies, and is grabbing people off the street without any judicial process and sending them to a foreign labor camp while boasting that he won't follow a court order telling him to stop.
I think we're there.
I think we're there.
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Rex is 100% correct. The destruction caused by the Sackler's Perdue Pharma over-saturation of OxyContin across our nation has a direct result leading to fentanyl use/abuse/death.
When sick/addicted people can't access their "legal" prescribed opioid, they seek something else - ANYTHING ELSE
When sick/addicted people can't access their "legal" prescribed opioid, they seek something else - ANYTHING ELSE
I spent 14 years in opioid hell. Many friends and acquaintances have lost their lives.
It’s a result of American drug company Purdue Pharma/OxyContin.
Anyone trying to blame fentanyl, Mexico, China, or Canada for America’s overdose deaths and opioid drug addiction are full of shit. Full stop.
It’s a result of American drug company Purdue Pharma/OxyContin.
Anyone trying to blame fentanyl, Mexico, China, or Canada for America’s overdose deaths and opioid drug addiction are full of shit. Full stop.
Pam Bondi waves around a package of (what she says are fake) drugs
March 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Rex is 100% correct. The destruction caused by the Sackler's Perdue Pharma over-saturation of OxyContin across our nation has a direct result leading to fentanyl use/abuse/death.
When sick/addicted people can't access their "legal" prescribed opioid, they seek something else - ANYTHING ELSE
When sick/addicted people can't access their "legal" prescribed opioid, they seek something else - ANYTHING ELSE
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It’s impossible to state how spineless, ineffectual, and dumb Schumer is as leader. Just reprehensible. AOC should announce she’s primarying him right now and she’d have enough donations by tomorrow for the rest of her career.
Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, said he would vote for a Republican-written bill to keep federal funding flowing past a midnight Friday deadline, making a forceful case for why Democrats could not allow a shutdown that many of them have demanded. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
March 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
It’s impossible to state how spineless, ineffectual, and dumb Schumer is as leader. Just reprehensible. AOC should announce she’s primarying him right now and she’d have enough donations by tomorrow for the rest of her career.
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some helpful reminders:
-not all jews support israel
-criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic
-being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas
-arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment
-violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad
-not all jews support israel
-criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic
-being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas
-arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment
-violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad
March 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
some helpful reminders:
-not all jews support israel
-criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic
-being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas
-arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment
-violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad
-not all jews support israel
-criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic
-being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas
-arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment
-violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad
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Palestinian spirit is unbeatable
WATCH | Palestinians prepare for a large iftar, in Rafah, southern Gaza.
March 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Palestinian spirit is unbeatable
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it’s so funny to be like “we don’t need diverse spies”
The CIA has moved to dismiss an unspecified number of officers who were working on recruiting and diversity issues, according to former officials, in what would be one of the largest mass firings in the agency’s history.
The C.I.A. Is Planning Its Largest Mass Firing in Nearly 50 Years
The possible purge of officers working on recruiting and diversity comes as the agency moves to comply with the spirit of an executive order banning efforts to diversify the federal work force.
www.nytimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
it’s so funny to be like “we don’t need diverse spies”
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People, do not throw dog turds on those things
Throw birdseed!
the birds will apply large volumes of caustic offal
Throw birdseed!
the birds will apply large volumes of caustic offal
Seen in Brooklyn this AM: an egged cybertruck with a bag of dogshit and also unbagged dogshit
February 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
People, do not throw dog turds on those things
Throw birdseed!
the birds will apply large volumes of caustic offal
Throw birdseed!
the birds will apply large volumes of caustic offal
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I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
February 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
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And that's exactly why you need a third party or a replacement or whatever you want to call it. Democrats are full of boomer ex-Republicans who don't want to be MAGAs but who also hate progress. The youth, the left, real progressives won't vote for this.
A plurality of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents — 45% — said they want their party to become more moderate, according to Gallup polling conducted following Trump’s inauguration.
Democrats want a more moderate party, new Gallup survey finds
Forty-five percent of Democrats want a more moderate party, a Gallup survey conducted after Trump’s inauguration found, pointing to growing dissatisfaction among Democratic Americans.
www.semafor.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
And that's exactly why you need a third party or a replacement or whatever you want to call it. Democrats are full of boomer ex-Republicans who don't want to be MAGAs but who also hate progress. The youth, the left, real progressives won't vote for this.
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Protest at Stonewall tomorrow.
You can’t spell Stonewall without the T.
You can’t spell Stonewall without the T.
February 14, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Protest at Stonewall tomorrow.
You can’t spell Stonewall without the T.
You can’t spell Stonewall without the T.
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I’m not sure what the AP style book for “fuck you, make me” is, but if they bow to the right wing language police here, the AP might as well close up shop
"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office."
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AP statement on Oval Office access | The Associated Press
The Associated Press issued this statement on Tuesday from Executive Editor Julie Pace: As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs
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February 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I’m not sure what the AP style book for “fuck you, make me” is, but if they bow to the right wing language police here, the AP might as well close up shop