Christy 🦋
mariposa1981.bsky.social
Christy 🦋
@mariposa1981.bsky.social
Mother to two daughters
Teacher
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One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power.

The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever.

But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Normal Times in Dire Times
Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.
frederickjoseph.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
October 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.
June 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Make it stop 😫

If goods are double or triple normal prices due to tariffs, that’s not a tax cut, even if we pay zero income taxes, that’s a huge tax hike. AND OUR TAXES HAVE NOT BEEN LOWERED!!
April 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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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 1:02 AM
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🚨BREAKING: Judge finds flying migrants to El Salvador after orders not to "demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt."

Visit www.democracydocket.com for full details and analysis.
April 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Oh, it was *Zelensky* that started the war? Like when a bully claims their victim started the fight because their face hurt his fist?
April 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
April 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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If Democratic congressional leadership don’t lead an en masse halt to all legislative business after today, I don’t know why they’re worth supporting. What moment could more demand a response of intractable and tedious opposition? Shut it all down, and refuse to budge.
April 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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The government plans to call Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg to the witness stand. The trial is expected to run nearly two months in a federal courtroom in Washington.
The biggest trial in Meta's history starts today. Here's what to know
The government plans to call Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg to the witness stand. The trial is expected to run nearly two months in a federal courtroom in Washington.
www.npr.org
April 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
April 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
April 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.

Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
April 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Just naked corruption out in the open.
axios.com Axios @axios.com · Apr 2
BREAKING: Federal judge dismisses the criminal corruption case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams
Eric Adams' federal corruption case dismissed
The New York City mayor had been scheduled to go to trial this month.
www.axios.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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America has never been subject to this level of authoritarianism, and quite frankly, sheer incompetence.

Out of the ashes, this moment should radicalize us to embark on an era of new reform — of our economy, our democracy, and our commitment to social justice and the law.
March 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'
March 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
We are disappearing college students as a form of terrorism to put fear in others to keep them silent while Trump calls people boycotting Tesla terrorists and threatens sending them to El Salvador slave labor prisons.
We're disappearing college students because their opinions are deemed threats to foreign policy as the Trump Administration is literally sharing classified information and military strikes on an unsecured Signal chat with journalists.
March 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Trump: "Hegseth is doing a great job. He had nothing to do this. How do you bring Hegseth into it? He had nothing to do with it. Look, it's all a witch hunt ... I think Signal could be defective to be honest with you."
March 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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They’re not going to get out of this by playing semantics.

Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.
March 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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As more information is revealed, it is clear that the cover-up is even worse than the crime.

Every single person involved has no business being involved in our government.

At minimum, there should be resignations. And prosecutions.
March 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Does anyone think someone added Goldberg on purpose?
March 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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What you have to understand about Pete Hegseth copying and pasting war plans into Signal is that it almost certainly means he’s got classified documents on his personal UNSECURE devices. Signal isn't on a secure device...are our war plans on his personal devices? @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM