Monstrous Maureen
@millennialmaureen.bsky.social
Feminist, queer-supporting, USian in unceded Piscataway land. Smrt fašizmu
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Let's not go crazy & think that just because he has nice things to say about Mamdani while Mamdani is in the room means that it's going to last past his next dose of naptime propaganda. Still some fine entertainment
Alhamdulillah truly
*TRUMP: WE'LL BE HELPING MAMDANI
*TRUMP: WE'LL BE HELPING MAMDANI
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Let's not go crazy & think that just because he has nice things to say about Mamdani while Mamdani is in the room means that it's going to last past his next dose of naptime propaganda. Still some fine entertainment
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At a recent gathering of Rogers Park volunteers, we heard from a neighbor who choked up telling us about their dad turning around and going home when he heard whistles up the street. "One of you may have saved his life that day." It all matters, it really does.
One thing that is tough about rapid response/patrols, besides constantly being threatened by armed secret police, is that for the most part they see the defeats. There are exceptions, but you’ll never know how many people were saved by slowing feds down, whistles, community alerts, etc.
November 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
At a recent gathering of Rogers Park volunteers, we heard from a neighbor who choked up telling us about their dad turning around and going home when he heard whistles up the street. "One of you may have saved his life that day." It all matters, it really does.
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Trump has the lowest approval ratings of his career, he looks like a wet burnt potato, his base is in civil war, and he’s gushing over Zohran because he’s in steep cognitive decline and forgot MAGA has made him boogeyman #1.
The crash out is every bit as good as I’d dreamed.
The crash out is every bit as good as I’d dreamed.
Trump keeps praising Mamdani, despite conservative reporters trying to bait him into attacks.
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Trump has the lowest approval ratings of his career, he looks like a wet burnt potato, his base is in civil war, and he’s gushing over Zohran because he’s in steep cognitive decline and forgot MAGA has made him boogeyman #1.
The crash out is every bit as good as I’d dreamed.
The crash out is every bit as good as I’d dreamed.
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everyone correctly noting that any time you put Trump in a room with someone charismatic he becomes extremely complimentary until someone reminds him he hates that person, take a bow
he’ll be posting unhinged shit about Zohran again by tomorrow
he’ll be posting unhinged shit about Zohran again by tomorrow
Trump on Mamdani: "I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
everyone correctly noting that any time you put Trump in a room with someone charismatic he becomes extremely complimentary until someone reminds him he hates that person, take a bow
he’ll be posting unhinged shit about Zohran again by tomorrow
he’ll be posting unhinged shit about Zohran again by tomorrow
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If you start by saying how many people you are going to arrest, the entire operation should be enjoined. That’s not how anything should work.
Border agents are set to target communities in southeast Mississippi and Louisiana in a major immigration crackdown called "Swamp Sweep.”
Federal agents aim to arrest 5,000 people during the operation.
buff.ly/ISpXE0l
Federal agents aim to arrest 5,000 people during the operation.
buff.ly/ISpXE0l
Border Agents Target Mississippi Communities in ‘Swamp Sweep’
Border agents are set to conduct a major immigration crackdown called "Swamp Sweep,” targeting immigrants in southeast Mississippi and Louisiana.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
If you start by saying how many people you are going to arrest, the entire operation should be enjoined. That’s not how anything should work.
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So apparently Google just started scanning your emails with its Gemini AI and if you opt out of this, you lose your (vital to me) categorization of emails as important/promo/etc. I’m kind of stunned at this. After all these years, how do I switch to a new email provider?
November 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
So apparently Google just started scanning your emails with its Gemini AI and if you opt out of this, you lose your (vital to me) categorization of emails as important/promo/etc. I’m kind of stunned at this. After all these years, how do I switch to a new email provider?
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Man won a narrow plurality of the vote, and immediately and very predictably started plummeting, and so many people and institutions who had no real need to go that far, even on the most cynical and cowardly of self-serving rationales, decided to chain themselves to the deck of a sinking ship.
we gotta keep hammering over and over again just how fucking unpopular this guy is with every institution and every person in a position of power
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Man won a narrow plurality of the vote, and immediately and very predictably started plummeting, and so many people and institutions who had no real need to go that far, even on the most cynical and cowardly of self-serving rationales, decided to chain themselves to the deck of a sinking ship.
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we gotta keep hammering over and over again just how fucking unpopular this guy is with every institution and every person in a position of power
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
we gotta keep hammering over and over again just how fucking unpopular this guy is with every institution and every person in a position of power
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
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Follow Friday for @diplomatofnight.com, imo.
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Follow Friday for @diplomatofnight.com, imo.
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For daring to throw off the Russian yoke and be a free democracy, we have decided to reward Ukraine with a stab in the back
*US THREATENS TO CUT INTEL, WEAPONS SUPPLY TO UKRAINE: REUTERS
November 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
For daring to throw off the Russian yoke and be a free democracy, we have decided to reward Ukraine with a stab in the back
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I have had people ask me why I don't post about Sudan only to learn they don't know who the RSF are or who Hemedti is or anything like that lol
The people who say "why this obsession with Palestine? why don't you post about Sudan?" never post about Sudan themselves.
What they mean is "it's fine you don't care about Sudan. You should be similarly indifferent to Palestine"
(of course, many people do post about both and other crises)
What they mean is "it's fine you don't care about Sudan. You should be similarly indifferent to Palestine"
(of course, many people do post about both and other crises)
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I have had people ask me why I don't post about Sudan only to learn they don't know who the RSF are or who Hemedti is or anything like that lol
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This is the main thing I keep saying. I don’t presume to know whether AI is bad at EVERYTHING but the main thing it can’t do is what the powers that be in education want it to do and the reason I keep saying it is you don’t need any studies
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This is the main thing I keep saying. I don’t presume to know whether AI is bad at EVERYTHING but the main thing it can’t do is what the powers that be in education want it to do and the reason I keep saying it is you don’t need any studies
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I missed this Trump admin memo when it came out, but it’s a doozy: tossing our First Amendment to explicitly permit supervisors to instruct subordinayes to accept Jesus & even what church to attend & how to pray. Latest from @chrisrodda.bsky.social: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Military section chief tells subordinates he’s authorized by Trump to force his Christianity on them
Of all the many heinous, vindictive, and flat out unconstitutional things that this administration has done thus far to transform our once great country into a Christian nationalist oligarchy, it is o...
www.dailykos.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I missed this Trump admin memo when it came out, but it’s a doozy: tossing our First Amendment to explicitly permit supervisors to instruct subordinayes to accept Jesus & even what church to attend & how to pray. Latest from @chrisrodda.bsky.social: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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The "liver, fava beans and a nice chianti" line in Silence Of The Lambs is a little joke for psychiatrists in the audience - those foods cannot be consumed with the meds (monoamine oxidase inhibitors) that Lecter is supposed to be taking.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The "liver, fava beans and a nice chianti" line in Silence Of The Lambs is a little joke for psychiatrists in the audience - those foods cannot be consumed with the meds (monoamine oxidase inhibitors) that Lecter is supposed to be taking.
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Perhaps rather than demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars, the senators could simply apologize to the nation for violating their oaths of office and lending rhetorical support to criminal conspiracies to overturn a free and fair election.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The Law Allowing Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches is Worse Than You Thought
The controversial new measure paves the way for a big payday for senators—and undercuts reasonable debate about how the Justice Department should investigate Congress.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Perhaps rather than demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars, the senators could simply apologize to the nation for violating their oaths of office and lending rhetorical support to criminal conspiracies to overturn a free and fair election.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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We updated the @propublica.org DOGE roster with 5 more names: projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
projects.propublica.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
We updated the @propublica.org DOGE roster with 5 more names: projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...
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specifically, if I see one more article that doesn’t seem to grasp that Ukrainian FPV drone pilots are almost always on the frontline, in *extreme* danger, and are very regularly killed because their controller signals are easily detectable via electronic warfare methods
begging defense analysts to stop writing stuff that assumes that operating a MQ-9 Reaper and operating a $400 FPV drone is pretty much the same thing and works about the same way
November 21, 2025 at 4:55 AM
specifically, if I see one more article that doesn’t seem to grasp that Ukrainian FPV drone pilots are almost always on the frontline, in *extreme* danger, and are very regularly killed because their controller signals are easily detectable via electronic warfare methods
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Good to see some backtracking on one of these anyway apnews.com/article/coas...
Coast Guard reverses course on policy to call swastikas and nooses 'potentially divisive'
The U.S. Coast Guard has released a new, firmer policy addressing the display of hate symbols like swastikas and nooses just hours after it was publicly revealed that it made plans to describe them as...
apnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Good to see some backtracking on one of these anyway apnews.com/article/coas...
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The opposite of the Moms for Liberty wave should get more attention
In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards
In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards
The party recruited and invested in school board races to oust Republicans. It worked.
dlvr.it
November 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The opposite of the Moms for Liberty wave should get more attention
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PSA: we are called The Flytrap, as in a venus flytrap, the carnivorous PLANT. not FlyTrap. JUST THE FLYTRAP!!!!
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
PSA: we are called The Flytrap, as in a venus flytrap, the carnivorous PLANT. not FlyTrap. JUST THE FLYTRAP!!!!
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Thank you so much to everyone who's shared & donated for your generosity. The fundraiser's at 84% to Archita's goal and support has slowed a lot. She'd be most grateful if people keep sharing & giving so she can reach her goal & get some security in this terrible time.
Fellow Calcuttan writer/editor Archita Mittra is in desperate need of financial help. She recently lost her father, her home was damaged in the recent rains, & her mother's in hospital. They don't have insurance, & she's a freelancer. I can vouch for her. Please share widely & donate:
Donate to Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives, organized by tehseen baweja
Hey Everyone! My name is Tehseen and I publish an online magazine called T… tehseen baweja needs your support for Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives
www.gofundme.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Thank you so much to everyone who's shared & donated for your generosity. The fundraiser's at 84% to Archita's goal and support has slowed a lot. She'd be most grateful if people keep sharing & giving so she can reach her goal & get some security in this terrible time.
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Straight men are the unsung proponents of disordered eating RIGHT BEHIND white women.
Protein pushing. “Bulking up.” Diets that are 99.9% meat and nothing else.
Not to mention leaning on purging disorder (excessive exercising).
Oh, I have been WAITING to talk about it.
Protein pushing. “Bulking up.” Diets that are 99.9% meat and nothing else.
Not to mention leaning on purging disorder (excessive exercising).
Oh, I have been WAITING to talk about it.
Jeff Goldblum starting the same disordered eating shit pushed by the director for Wicked, so it's DEFINITELY reaching straight men too 😬
November 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Straight men are the unsung proponents of disordered eating RIGHT BEHIND white women.
Protein pushing. “Bulking up.” Diets that are 99.9% meat and nothing else.
Not to mention leaning on purging disorder (excessive exercising).
Oh, I have been WAITING to talk about it.
Protein pushing. “Bulking up.” Diets that are 99.9% meat and nothing else.
Not to mention leaning on purging disorder (excessive exercising).
Oh, I have been WAITING to talk about it.
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My Transition Co-chair Lina Khan and First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan joined Starbucks workers on the picket line today because making NYC affordable means an end to unfair labor practices and a living wage for our workers. We are their partners in the fight to live in this city with dignity.
November 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
My Transition Co-chair Lina Khan and First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan joined Starbucks workers on the picket line today because making NYC affordable means an end to unfair labor practices and a living wage for our workers. We are their partners in the fight to live in this city with dignity.
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I don’t know if a president vowing to send the military after has political opponents meets the legal threshold for treason, but it comes a hell of a lot closer than saying that if so ordered, the military should refuse.
November 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I don’t know if a president vowing to send the military after has political opponents meets the legal threshold for treason, but it comes a hell of a lot closer than saying that if so ordered, the military should refuse.
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Camden is an underfunded school in North Minneapolis, and they weren’t able to put on a fall play this year due to lack of funding. Camden Drama Club is a very important space for queer kids who don’t have a lot of safe spaces in their lives, and they need to raise funds to continue. Can you help?
Today is Give to the Max day, & did u know MPS does not fund the arts, like theater. Camden Drama Club exists due to generous donations from ppl like u, and we have a $7,000 need to cover in order to continue to provide the best award-winning high school theater: www.givemn.org/organization...
November 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Camden is an underfunded school in North Minneapolis, and they weren’t able to put on a fall play this year due to lack of funding. Camden Drama Club is a very important space for queer kids who don’t have a lot of safe spaces in their lives, and they need to raise funds to continue. Can you help?