Megan Traverso
@megantraverso.bsky.social
New to Bluesky 👋 I’m a pumpkin carver, crocheter, book lover, and highly opinionated millennial mom up in the PNW.
Also, kids > guns, love is love, trans people exist and matter, racism and sexism is real and rampant, immigrants belong.
Also, kids > guns, love is love, trans people exist and matter, racism and sexism is real and rampant, immigrants belong.
✨Self portrait✨ Anxiety from Inside Out 2.
Fun fact: I filmed the whole process of this quick little carve, but the 🎃 and I were out of frame for 95% of it 🤪 🤷♀️
#halloween #pumpkin #pumpkincarving #insideout #insideout2 #disney #disneyhalloween #disneyfanart #pixar #handmade
Fun fact: I filmed the whole process of this quick little carve, but the 🎃 and I were out of frame for 95% of it 🤪 🤷♀️
#halloween #pumpkin #pumpkincarving #insideout #insideout2 #disney #disneyhalloween #disneyfanart #pixar #handmade
October 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
✨Self portrait✨ Anxiety from Inside Out 2.
Fun fact: I filmed the whole process of this quick little carve, but the 🎃 and I were out of frame for 95% of it 🤪 🤷♀️
#halloween #pumpkin #pumpkincarving #insideout #insideout2 #disney #disneyhalloween #disneyfanart #pixar #handmade
Fun fact: I filmed the whole process of this quick little carve, but the 🎃 and I were out of frame for 95% of it 🤪 🤷♀️
#halloween #pumpkin #pumpkincarving #insideout #insideout2 #disney #disneyhalloween #disneyfanart #pixar #handmade
Wanted to share my Princess Donut and Mongo pumpkin carving 📚🎃
#pumpkincarver #mattdinniman #dungeoncrawlercarl
#pumpkincarver #mattdinniman #dungeoncrawlercarl
September 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Wanted to share my Princess Donut and Mongo pumpkin carving 📚🎃
#pumpkincarver #mattdinniman #dungeoncrawlercarl
#pumpkincarver #mattdinniman #dungeoncrawlercarl
I probably didn’t need a reference photo after how many of his updates I’ve watched 😂
I have like 5 followers, so I carve whateverrrr.
@aaronparnas.bsky.social #pumpkincarving #breakingnews
I have like 5 followers, so I carve whateverrrr.
@aaronparnas.bsky.social #pumpkincarving #breakingnews
September 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I probably didn’t need a reference photo after how many of his updates I’ve watched 😂
I have like 5 followers, so I carve whateverrrr.
@aaronparnas.bsky.social #pumpkincarving #breakingnews
I have like 5 followers, so I carve whateverrrr.
@aaronparnas.bsky.social #pumpkincarving #breakingnews
My hand-carved foam pumpkin of Shoshanna Dreyfus from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds. I adore this fascism-fighting heroine and her quiet simmering rage. #pumpkincarving #fuckfascists
September 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
My hand-carved foam pumpkin of Shoshanna Dreyfus from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds. I adore this fascism-fighting heroine and her quiet simmering rage. #pumpkincarving #fuckfascists
Pumpkin carver here 👋Gearing up for Halloween season, so though I’d share some of my previous work
July 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Pumpkin carver here 👋Gearing up for Halloween season, so though I’d share some of my previous work
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Um, what??
@wadol.bsky.social sharing driver data in this way with #ICE is supposed to be prohibited under Keep WA Working
The DOL did this under the 1st Trump admin, and this time around there's even more at stake. There needs to be accountability.
www.king5.com/article/news...
@wadol.bsky.social sharing driver data in this way with #ICE is supposed to be prohibited under Keep WA Working
The DOL did this under the 1st Trump admin, and this time around there's even more at stake. There needs to be accountability.
www.king5.com/article/news...
Exclusive: A Washington state agency is sharing drivers' private data with ICE
The KING 5 Investigators find Washington's Department of Licensing has been sharing driver's license data with federal immigration agents, sparking privacy concerns.
www.king5.com
July 12, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Um, what??
@wadol.bsky.social sharing driver data in this way with #ICE is supposed to be prohibited under Keep WA Working
The DOL did this under the 1st Trump admin, and this time around there's even more at stake. There needs to be accountability.
www.king5.com/article/news...
@wadol.bsky.social sharing driver data in this way with #ICE is supposed to be prohibited under Keep WA Working
The DOL did this under the 1st Trump admin, and this time around there's even more at stake. There needs to be accountability.
www.king5.com/article/news...
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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ showcases Trump’s surreal brand of stylized cruelty | Moira Donegan
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ showcases Trump’s surreal brand of stylized cruelty | Moira Donegan
Immigrants are living in brutal conditions at the Florida detention camp, built on a sense of scripted unreality
www.theguardian.com
July 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ showcases Trump’s surreal brand of stylized cruelty | Moira Donegan
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I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump
Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Telling the Truth About the Supreme Court
The task of interpreting the law is inherently “political.” But no justice has been this comfortable saying so in public.
ballsandstrikes.org
July 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump
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“I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness.” - Cory Booker .........put that in stone out front of our museums and libraries.
April 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness.” - Cory Booker .........put that in stone out front of our museums and libraries.
Incredible piece open.substack.com/pub/frederic...
America’s Last Best Thing
On Trump's National Park Layoffs and the Erosion of America’s Public Land
open.substack.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Incredible piece open.substack.com/pub/frederic...
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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
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The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse.
Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
February 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse.
Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
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so i don’t know if susan collins knows this but she belongs to a body that has the constitutionally designated power to tell HHS to stop making these cuts because they do not have the authority to unilaterally refuse to spend congressional appropriations.
Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins slams the Trump admin’s NIH cuts as “poorly conceived” and says she has called RFK to “to express my strong opposition to these arbitrary cuts in funding for vital research.” She says he promised to “re-examine this initiative” if confirmed as HHS secretary.
February 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
so i don’t know if susan collins knows this but she belongs to a body that has the constitutionally designated power to tell HHS to stop making these cuts because they do not have the authority to unilaterally refuse to spend congressional appropriations.
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My instinct is to make the case that USAID is extremely good, actually. But I feel like it’s more important to say, “What is happening is antagonistic to the foundational document of the nation.”
February 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
My instinct is to make the case that USAID is extremely good, actually. But I feel like it’s more important to say, “What is happening is antagonistic to the foundational document of the nation.”
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is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?
February 2, 2025 at 6:36 AM
is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?
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Some people voted for trump.
Some people voted for Kamala.
Some people voted 3rd party.
But I guarantee you that NOBODY voted for a fucking billionaire to be raiding our Social Security.
What the fuck is THIS bullshit?
Some people voted for Kamala.
Some people voted 3rd party.
But I guarantee you that NOBODY voted for a fucking billionaire to be raiding our Social Security.
What the fuck is THIS bullshit?
February 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Some people voted for trump.
Some people voted for Kamala.
Some people voted 3rd party.
But I guarantee you that NOBODY voted for a fucking billionaire to be raiding our Social Security.
What the fuck is THIS bullshit?
Some people voted for Kamala.
Some people voted 3rd party.
But I guarantee you that NOBODY voted for a fucking billionaire to be raiding our Social Security.
What the fuck is THIS bullshit?
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Here is something you can do right now
January 30, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Here is something you can do right now
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Getting my kids going young. In no world will I raise future voters who don’t understand basic civics.
#schoolhouserock
#schoolhouserock
January 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Getting my kids going young. In no world will I raise future voters who don’t understand basic civics.
#schoolhouserock
#schoolhouserock
I finally got to give my little one her Spidey doll 🕸️ I forgot to attach the ears, so I’ll have to sneak those on at some point
#crochet #amigurumi 🧶
#crochet #amigurumi 🧶
January 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I finally got to give my little one her Spidey doll 🕸️ I forgot to attach the ears, so I’ll have to sneak those on at some point
#crochet #amigurumi 🧶
#crochet #amigurumi 🧶
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I’ll never get over that all of this was avoidable and our kids could’ve had a better future had voters just made the obviously rational choice in November. It’s water under the bridge now. But what the fuck, people.
January 25, 2025 at 5:36 AM
I’ll never get over that all of this was avoidable and our kids could’ve had a better future had voters just made the obviously rational choice in November. It’s water under the bridge now. But what the fuck, people.
January 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Just days after Trump returned to the White House, Instagram is censoring abortion content. This is what Aid Access' account looks like right now - posts about how to get abortion medication has been blurred out.
January 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Just days after Trump returned to the White House, Instagram is censoring abortion content. This is what Aid Access' account looks like right now - posts about how to get abortion medication has been blurred out.
Hit him where it hurts
The television ratings for Donald Trump's second inauguration dropped 27% from Joe Biden's in 2021 and were nearly 20% lower than Trump's first swearing-in in 2017.
Trump’s Inauguration Ratings Down Bigly From Biden’s
The television ratings for President Donald Trump's second inauguration are in, and they dropped 27% from President Joe Biden's in 2021 and were nearly 20% lower than Trump's first swearing-in in 2017...
www.mediaite.com
January 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Hit him where it hurts