Fokiko West (she/her)
@fokikowest.bsky.social
Midlife Crisis for the 2nd time, cynically hopeful 🇺🇲💙GenXer, ally 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️. Trying to be part of the solution 🌍. Life is big. 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
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Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.
December 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.
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This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
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Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
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I found it easier to understand Speake Mike Johnson once I realized he's not just a "flawed Christian."
He is the new Roy Cohn, another duplicitous closet case always eager to advance the agendas of genuinely awful people.
He is the new Roy Cohn, another duplicitous closet case always eager to advance the agendas of genuinely awful people.
October 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I found it easier to understand Speake Mike Johnson once I realized he's not just a "flawed Christian."
He is the new Roy Cohn, another duplicitous closet case always eager to advance the agendas of genuinely awful people.
He is the new Roy Cohn, another duplicitous closet case always eager to advance the agendas of genuinely awful people.
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When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.
October 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.
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this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
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Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money!
October 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money!
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October 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed.
THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!
THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!
October 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed.
THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!
THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!
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Thank you to everyone at the #NO_KINGS rallies for making your voices heard & being part of history.
The massive crowds were joyful, passionate & spectacular!
So were the signs...
The massive crowds were joyful, passionate & spectacular!
So were the signs...
October 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Thank you to everyone at the #NO_KINGS rallies for making your voices heard & being part of history.
The massive crowds were joyful, passionate & spectacular!
So were the signs...
The massive crowds were joyful, passionate & spectacular!
So were the signs...
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October 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over
RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
October 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over
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"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."
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October 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."
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Just bone chilling. And when the imprisonment of critics is combined with his offer to enrich and immunize his loyalists, this is how democracies die fast.
But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.
But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.
October 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Just bone chilling. And when the imprisonment of critics is combined with his offer to enrich and immunize his loyalists, this is how democracies die fast.
But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.
But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.
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Repubs won’t even acknowledge that Dems are trying to keep health insurance premiums from skyrocketing for 20+ million Americans?
They are just going pretend that isn’t happening & keep repeating this “free healthcare for illegals” bs?
What do the 20+ million think about that?
They are just going pretend that isn’t happening & keep repeating this “free healthcare for illegals” bs?
What do the 20+ million think about that?
October 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Repubs won’t even acknowledge that Dems are trying to keep health insurance premiums from skyrocketing for 20+ million Americans?
They are just going pretend that isn’t happening & keep repeating this “free healthcare for illegals” bs?
What do the 20+ million think about that?
They are just going pretend that isn’t happening & keep repeating this “free healthcare for illegals” bs?
What do the 20+ million think about that?
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In the spirit of peaceful political dialogue, I call on Donald Trump to apologize for these past statements.
A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks
Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.
www.theatlantic.com
September 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
In the spirit of peaceful political dialogue, I call on Donald Trump to apologize for these past statements.
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TIP FOR CONSERVATIVES:
If you are bereft over the gun shooting of Charlie Kirk, just pretend he was a kid in an elementary school, and you will forget about the whole thing within a minute.
If you are bereft over the gun shooting of Charlie Kirk, just pretend he was a kid in an elementary school, and you will forget about the whole thing within a minute.
September 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
TIP FOR CONSERVATIVES:
If you are bereft over the gun shooting of Charlie Kirk, just pretend he was a kid in an elementary school, and you will forget about the whole thing within a minute.
If you are bereft over the gun shooting of Charlie Kirk, just pretend he was a kid in an elementary school, and you will forget about the whole thing within a minute.
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President just put out a video listing attacks on Republicans (Charlie Kirk, himself, ICE agents, Steve Scalise), ignoring the much larger list of right-wing attacks on Democrats (Minnesota lawmakers, Pelosi, attack Capitol, etc.), blaming Democrats solely for political violence in US.
September 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
President just put out a video listing attacks on Republicans (Charlie Kirk, himself, ICE agents, Steve Scalise), ignoring the much larger list of right-wing attacks on Democrats (Minnesota lawmakers, Pelosi, attack Capitol, etc.), blaming Democrats solely for political violence in US.
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I'll care as much for him as he does/did for other gun victims
September 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I'll care as much for him as he does/did for other gun victims