AJ Mirabelle
@ajmirabelle.bsky.social
Dogs, politics, social issues. Good in small doses. LGBTQIA & BLM ally. There will be cussing. Blocks malicious ignorance.
Colorado blue. Don't have words big enough to express how much I loathe what's coming & the people who've enabled it.
Colorado blue. Don't have words big enough to express how much I loathe what's coming & the people who've enabled it.
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AJ Mirabelle
@ajmirabelle.bsky.social
· Feb 6
Gonna keep saying this over & over bc people need to soak this into their core...
Live your values.
Where you spend your money,
What you watch on TV,
What you wear,
Who you celebrate.
It's the greatest power you'll have for the foreseeable future.
Live your values, so you can live with yourself.
Live your values.
Where you spend your money,
What you watch on TV,
What you wear,
Who you celebrate.
It's the greatest power you'll have for the foreseeable future.
Live your values, so you can live with yourself.
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Holy shit
The DOJ ordered US Marshals to the house of the pardon attorney who refused to sign off on a pardon to give Mel Gibson back his guns. Big law firms told her they supported her but did not want to be seen representing her.
This is the use of government-sponsored fear to silence dissent.
This is the use of government-sponsored fear to silence dissent.
November 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Holy shit
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Help Slate track the "Medicare isn't government" meme. share.google/uriimE9xT7eM...
Help Slate track the "Medicare isn't government" meme.
"Keep your government hands off my Medicare." It was funny the first two or three times this angry citizen's cry against health reform got...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Help Slate track the "Medicare isn't government" meme. share.google/uriimE9xT7eM...
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According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
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The worst honeypot since that Madison Cawthorn lady from St. Petersburg.
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The worst honeypot since that Madison Cawthorn lady from St. Petersburg.
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Vance is an A+ student of Trump's dog whistling. And he's especially expert in what Ian Haney López calls "racial theater," where he uses racist provocations to label his critics "the real bigots."
His key Senate ad from 2022 was pretty much nothing but this.
His key Senate ad from 2022 was pretty much nothing but this.
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Vance is an A+ student of Trump's dog whistling. And he's especially expert in what Ian Haney López calls "racial theater," where he uses racist provocations to label his critics "the real bigots."
His key Senate ad from 2022 was pretty much nothing but this.
His key Senate ad from 2022 was pretty much nothing but this.
I haven't heard bs like this since the Reagan years. I mean Repubs always believed this crap but as far as just blurting out the total bigotry bs, I dont think its been this obnoxious 40 years.
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I haven't heard bs like this since the Reagan years. I mean Repubs always believed this crap but as far as just blurting out the total bigotry bs, I dont think its been this obnoxious 40 years.
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Ok. To all of you who think those eight did a public service, bless your hearts. To the rest, my heart is with you. Good night.
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Ok. To all of you who think those eight did a public service, bless your hearts. To the rest, my heart is with you. Good night.
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The pardons are primarily symbolic: No one on the list has been charged with federal crimes, and Trump can't pardon those facing state charges in GA, AZ, NV and WI.
But it's another effort by Trump to recast the history of his bid to seize a second term in 2020. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
But it's another effort by Trump to recast the history of his bid to seize a second term in 2020. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The pardons are primarily symbolic: No one on the list has been charged with federal crimes, and Trump can't pardon those facing state charges in GA, AZ, NV and WI.
But it's another effort by Trump to recast the history of his bid to seize a second term in 2020. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
But it's another effort by Trump to recast the history of his bid to seize a second term in 2020. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Schumer: the most powerful and simultaneously the most disappointing Democrat in D.C.
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Schumer: the most powerful and simultaneously the most disappointing Democrat in D.C.
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Shaheen is retiring. Hassan, 67, is the other Senator from NH. King, 81, from Maine, is an independent who usually caucuses with Dems.
So, three Senators, two of which are so old as to be/should be retiring, from the whitest states in the country are defying the House...for what exactly?
So, three Senators, two of which are so old as to be/should be retiring, from the whitest states in the country are defying the House...for what exactly?
"More than enough" Senate Democratic Caucus members to pass shutdown deal led by Shaheen, King and Hassan, source familiar with deal says
- CR through Jan. 30
- ACA bill vote on bill of Dems' choosing in December
- Minibus has RIF reversals and "protections" against them in future
- CR through Jan. 30
- ACA bill vote on bill of Dems' choosing in December
- Minibus has RIF reversals and "protections" against them in future
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Shaheen is retiring. Hassan, 67, is the other Senator from NH. King, 81, from Maine, is an independent who usually caucuses with Dems.
So, three Senators, two of which are so old as to be/should be retiring, from the whitest states in the country are defying the House...for what exactly?
So, three Senators, two of which are so old as to be/should be retiring, from the whitest states in the country are defying the House...for what exactly?
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Fighting hard on a Sunday to take food from the poor, but you know, very strongly Christian.
November 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Fighting hard on a Sunday to take food from the poor, but you know, very strongly Christian.
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So having created the problem, they now want to pretend they give a damn about solving it by making sure millions go without any access to affordable healthcare at all. Between Medicaid cuts and refusal to extend enhances subsidies, they're killing Americans. Or starving them. Pick your poison.
November 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
So having created the problem, they now want to pretend they give a damn about solving it by making sure millions go without any access to affordable healthcare at all. Between Medicaid cuts and refusal to extend enhances subsidies, they're killing Americans. Or starving them. Pick your poison.
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Hot 🔥! Dead accurate too. Thank you @joycecaroloates.bsky.social!!!!!
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Hot 🔥! Dead accurate too. Thank you @joycecaroloates.bsky.social!!!!!
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The corporate media runs Democrats in Disarray stories, because it's the easiest route.
Those stories don't get the GOP mad. Those stories channel executives' worries about socialism & taxes. Those stories are tried and true products.
Who cares if there's no merit to them? Just run them again!
Those stories don't get the GOP mad. Those stories channel executives' worries about socialism & taxes. Those stories are tried and true products.
Who cares if there's no merit to them? Just run them again!
After a week in which Dems exceeded expectations in elections, Trump's popularity continues to tank, the GOP largely abandoned the task of governing (just as Thanksgiving travel approaches), I'm a bit surprised to see many more stories highlighting weakness in the Dem than in the GOP coalition.
This NYT framing is ludicrously overstated. Sure, there are primaries. But if anything, the results showed a lot of Dems that there's a way to unify the factions around anti-Trump and affordability politics (as I try to argue in the piece/thread below).
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The corporate media runs Democrats in Disarray stories, because it's the easiest route.
Those stories don't get the GOP mad. Those stories channel executives' worries about socialism & taxes. Those stories are tried and true products.
Who cares if there's no merit to them? Just run them again!
Those stories don't get the GOP mad. Those stories channel executives' worries about socialism & taxes. Those stories are tried and true products.
Who cares if there's no merit to them? Just run them again!
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theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you
November 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you
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It's impossible to build any more housing in America, but luckily we have the politically easy and physically effortless alternative of just removing a third of the population.
This clown is the GOP chair in Tarrant County, Texas, the third largest county in the state.
This clown is the GOP chair in Tarrant County, Texas, the third largest county in the state.
November 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It's impossible to build any more housing in America, but luckily we have the politically easy and physically effortless alternative of just removing a third of the population.
This clown is the GOP chair in Tarrant County, Texas, the third largest county in the state.
This clown is the GOP chair in Tarrant County, Texas, the third largest county in the state.
Dude who's never missed a meal in his life sure is stoked to keep people from eating.
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Dude who's never missed a meal in his life sure is stoked to keep people from eating.
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Astonishing how hard this administration is working to keep people hungry.
It's clear they are trying maximize public suffering, in hopes of getting people to blame Dems for that suffering. But it's transparently the White House working overtime to keep the suffering going!
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It's clear they are trying maximize public suffering, in hopes of getting people to blame Dems for that suffering. But it's transparently the White House working overtime to keep the suffering going!
bsky.app/profile/cram...
Yikes. USDA sent threatening letter to states telling them that if they sent out EBT money —which many states did during the window when a lower court said SNAP funds had to be released—they have to take it back (?)
Trying to sort out what this means and if states even can claw back the funds
Trying to sort out what this means and if states even can claw back the funds
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Astonishing how hard this administration is working to keep people hungry.
It's clear they are trying maximize public suffering, in hopes of getting people to blame Dems for that suffering. But it's transparently the White House working overtime to keep the suffering going!
bsky.app/profile/cram...
It's clear they are trying maximize public suffering, in hopes of getting people to blame Dems for that suffering. But it's transparently the White House working overtime to keep the suffering going!
bsky.app/profile/cram...
A hot cup of coffee on a cold fall morning is such a lovely pleasure.
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A hot cup of coffee on a cold fall morning is such a lovely pleasure.
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The Axios boys are giddy about the Ds offer, interpreting it as a big climb down. I'm not sure that interpretation is right. But this is an important moment to make clear to @schumer.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social et al, that anything less than this offer needs to be rejected out of hand.
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The Axios boys are giddy about the Ds offer, interpreting it as a big climb down. I'm not sure that interpretation is right. But this is an important moment to make clear to @schumer.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social et al, that anything less than this offer needs to be rejected out of hand.
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Threatening the American economy and thinking he comes out of this all still rich. Sounds like the kind of thing politicians should make a point of saying will never fucking happen.
November 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Threatening the American economy and thinking he comes out of this all still rich. Sounds like the kind of thing politicians should make a point of saying will never fucking happen.
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Breaking: A federal appeals court just denied a last-minute bid by the Trump admin to temporarily halt some SNAP funding during the shutdown.
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Breaking: A federal appeals court just denied a last-minute bid by the Trump admin to temporarily halt some SNAP funding during the shutdown.
But the guy who dismantled it got almost a trillion dollar buyout today?
Hard to believe the world thinks American greed is a problem 🤔 s/
Hard to believe the world thinks American greed is a problem 🤔 s/
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 AM
But the guy who dismantled it got almost a trillion dollar buyout today?
Hard to believe the world thinks American greed is a problem 🤔 s/
Hard to believe the world thinks American greed is a problem 🤔 s/
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Trump’s whole leap into politics was based on a racist lie and the media couldn’t have been more cooperative in helping him spread it. Not that they’ve ever shown any regret.
Mockler: Who started this new era of divisive politics? Was it Obama? Was it Biden? It was definitely trump. Trump's claim to fame in the political arena was saying that Obama's birth certificate was fake.
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Trump’s whole leap into politics was based on a racist lie and the media couldn’t have been more cooperative in helping him spread it. Not that they’ve ever shown any regret.