Just Me
@justmestacieb.bsky.social
Former federal official. STEM PhD. Cat mom. C-ncer survivor. Aspiring author.
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Just Me
@justmestacieb.bsky.social
· Apr 5
"The people don't like to be conquered, sir, and so they will not be."
The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck
The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck
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A reminder that when Christian Nationalists in the Republican Party lecture you about the importance of "religious freedom," they are not talking about YOUR religion or YOUR freedom. They are talking about THEIR freedom to impose THEIR religion on you.
November 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A reminder that when Christian Nationalists in the Republican Party lecture you about the importance of "religious freedom," they are not talking about YOUR religion or YOUR freedom. They are talking about THEIR freedom to impose THEIR religion on you.
He shouldn't be able to go anywhere without being quacked at.
OMG! I just got off the plane in Asheville and RFK Jr. Was boarding and someone passed by him and said “quack”
November 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
He shouldn't be able to go anywhere without being quacked at.
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New: We analyzed prison rules and sanctions, and gathered accounts from incarcerated people, to reveal how DOCs use disciplinary policies to punish people for menstruating. www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/11...
Menstruation as misconduct: How prisons punish people for having their periods
Our analysis of prison rules and sanctions across all fifty states and the federal system — as well as accounts of incarcerated people — reveal ...
www.prisonpolicy.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
New: We analyzed prison rules and sanctions, and gathered accounts from incarcerated people, to reveal how DOCs use disciplinary policies to punish people for menstruating. www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/11...
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Went to repost this and then depressingly saw it was from 8 months ago. This is still true, and I am now convinced it will remain true until there are successful primary challenges nationwide to the "roll over and play dead" Dems.
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Went to repost this and then depressingly saw it was from 8 months ago. This is still true, and I am now convinced it will remain true until there are successful primary challenges nationwide to the "roll over and play dead" Dems.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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I went to bed in a cold rage. I woke up in cold indifference. Why worry about "Kings" or "Tyrants" or losing the vote. We voted to not get fucked over and we got fucked over anyway. We were as betrayed as any Republican voter who is only now realizing they were lied to. We have ALL been lied to.
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I went to bed in a cold rage. I woke up in cold indifference. Why worry about "Kings" or "Tyrants" or losing the vote. We voted to not get fucked over and we got fucked over anyway. We were as betrayed as any Republican voter who is only now realizing they were lied to. We have ALL been lied to.
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After their resounding victory in Tuesday’s elections, the Democrats had no choice but to surrender.
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
After their resounding victory in Tuesday’s elections, the Democrats had no choice but to surrender.
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Calling the Democrats “cowards” suggests that they're scared to do what's right when they show no fervent interest in being an opposition. They're largely colluders, not cowards. Many want their base to think they're cowards to maintain investment in the idea that they can be pushed to do better.
February 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Calling the Democrats “cowards” suggests that they're scared to do what's right when they show no fervent interest in being an opposition. They're largely colluders, not cowards. Many want their base to think they're cowards to maintain investment in the idea that they can be pushed to do better.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
One wonders. Was the HF offended by the mention of the mistreatment of black soldiers in WWII or the idea that black men were capable of doing anything heroic at all? 😒
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
One wonders. Was the HF offended by the mention of the mistreatment of black soldiers in WWII or the idea that black men were capable of doing anything heroic at all? 😒
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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Key elections are happening tomorrow. Make your plan to vote now→ IWillVote.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Key elections are happening tomorrow. Make your plan to vote now→ IWillVote.com
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It’s okay to be glad that restaurants are doing stuff like this AND absolutely furious about the utter failure of the United States government.
November 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It’s okay to be glad that restaurants are doing stuff like this AND absolutely furious about the utter failure of the United States government.
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You would be kicked out of any writer’s room in existence if you had the villains celebrating a Great Gatsby-themed party while taking away food benefits from millions of poor people.
November 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
You would be kicked out of any writer’s room in existence if you had the villains celebrating a Great Gatsby-themed party while taking away food benefits from millions of poor people.
Because of course he is 🤮
"And as millions face the prospect of starving, the president is obsessed over the fun minutiae of party-planning... Trump has spoken to senior administration officials about the idea of putting his name or image (like a bust) in the ballroom." - @swin24.bsky.social
Trump to the Poor: Let Them Eat Ballroom
Millions of Americans are about to lose food aid from the government, but the man in charge is focused on his ‘MAGA-Saddam,’ multi-million-dollar White House ballroom.
zeteo.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Because of course he is 🤮
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Because we don’t lie to the American people!
October 28, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Because we don’t lie to the American people!
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1. Reagan’s speech is real
2. It’s public domain
3. Americans pay the cost of the added 10% tariffs, not Canadians
4. Trump keeps lying because he thinks you’re all too stupid to fact check
5. The average family will pay an extra $4900 this year because his tariffs
2. It’s public domain
3. Americans pay the cost of the added 10% tariffs, not Canadians
4. Trump keeps lying because he thinks you’re all too stupid to fact check
5. The average family will pay an extra $4900 this year because his tariffs
October 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
1. Reagan’s speech is real
2. It’s public domain
3. Americans pay the cost of the added 10% tariffs, not Canadians
4. Trump keeps lying because he thinks you’re all too stupid to fact check
5. The average family will pay an extra $4900 this year because his tariffs
2. It’s public domain
3. Americans pay the cost of the added 10% tariffs, not Canadians
4. Trump keeps lying because he thinks you’re all too stupid to fact check
5. The average family will pay an extra $4900 this year because his tariffs
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I’ve been writing for a long time about contested and evolving meaning of economic terms like “free enterprise,” and I’m struck that pollsters can ask people whether they have a “positive or negative” image of “capitalism“ or “socialism,” without defining the terms.
news.gallup.com/poll/694835/...
news.gallup.com/poll/694835/...
Image of Capitalism Slips to 54% in U.S.
Fifty-four percent of Americans, down from 60% in 2021, have a positive opinion of capitalism, while a steady 39% view socialism positively.
news.gallup.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I’ve been writing for a long time about contested and evolving meaning of economic terms like “free enterprise,” and I’m struck that pollsters can ask people whether they have a “positive or negative” image of “capitalism“ or “socialism,” without defining the terms.
news.gallup.com/poll/694835/...
news.gallup.com/poll/694835/...
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It hasn't gotten as much traction on here because it's not as dramatic, but the fight against the Everglades detention center is ongoing, and hasn't ever stopped.
‘Sunday church in the Everglades.’ Faith movement grows at Alligator Alcatraz protests
They’re out there, deep in the Florida Everglades every Sunday evening — rain or shine — holding signs, singing songs and praying.
www.miamiherald.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
It hasn't gotten as much traction on here because it's not as dramatic, but the fight against the Everglades detention center is ongoing, and hasn't ever stopped.
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A president who can tear down 1/3 of the White House can tear down the entire White House. A president who can steal $230M from the treasury can steal $1T from the Treasury. We have both legalized and tolerated Trump’s crimes, so they will only get bigger.
October 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
A president who can tear down 1/3 of the White House can tear down the entire White House. A president who can steal $230M from the treasury can steal $1T from the Treasury. We have both legalized and tolerated Trump’s crimes, so they will only get bigger.
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instead of getting billionaires to donate to the military when they feel like it, why don't we just have these motherfuckers pay taxes?
October 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
instead of getting billionaires to donate to the military when they feel like it, why don't we just have these motherfuckers pay taxes?
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Vance holds the simultaneous beliefs that pregnant girls are adults, but GOP men working as staffers, some reaching middle age with full beards and children of their own, are “kids.”
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Men Will be Boys. Girls Will be Women.
The group chat
open.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Vance holds the simultaneous beliefs that pregnant girls are adults, but GOP men working as staffers, some reaching middle age with full beards and children of their own, are “kids.”
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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"The piece is the modern-day equivalent of sixteenth-century Scottish preacher John Knox’s celebrated polemic, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women."
www.thebulwark.com/p/right-gran...
www.thebulwark.com/p/right-gran...
The Right’s New Grand Unified Theory: Blame Women for Everything
Helen Andrews’s latest screed is short on rational facts, long on mushy feelings of misogyny.
www.thebulwark.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"The piece is the modern-day equivalent of sixteenth-century Scottish preacher John Knox’s celebrated polemic, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women."
www.thebulwark.com/p/right-gran...
www.thebulwark.com/p/right-gran...