Louise Mathias
@mojaveforever.bsky.social
Author of three books of poems including What if the Invader is Beautiful (Four Way Books 2024). Small business owner. Amateur naturalist. Lover of the open road.
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Authoritarians govern through fear, not legislation. The simple fear of what they would do in certain situations can push even the opposition to capitulate. That’s success for them.
We lose when we fold due to a hypothetical. We win when we challenge the REALITY that is hurting working people.
We lose when we fold due to a hypothetical. We win when we challenge the REALITY that is hurting working people.
March 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Authoritarians govern through fear, not legislation. The simple fear of what they would do in certain situations can push even the opposition to capitulate. That’s success for them.
We lose when we fold due to a hypothetical. We win when we challenge the REALITY that is hurting working people.
We lose when we fold due to a hypothetical. We win when we challenge the REALITY that is hurting working people.
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BREAKING: In response to our lawsuit, the National Endowment for the Arts will no longer force grant applicants to certify that they won't promote "gender ideology."
This is a big step toward defeating the NEA's unconstitutional censorship.
This is a big step toward defeating the NEA's unconstitutional censorship.
March 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
BREAKING: In response to our lawsuit, the National Endowment for the Arts will no longer force grant applicants to certify that they won't promote "gender ideology."
This is a big step toward defeating the NEA's unconstitutional censorship.
This is a big step toward defeating the NEA's unconstitutional censorship.
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No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.
February 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.
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I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.
February 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.
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There was a President in the Oval Office today. His name is Zelensky. He had to fend off two impotent barking dogs sent by Putin. They are named Trump and Vance.
February 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
There was a President in the Oval Office today. His name is Zelensky. He had to fend off two impotent barking dogs sent by Putin. They are named Trump and Vance.
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Thanks to @joshtpm.bsky.social for posting a link to this piece this weekend -- absolutely worth reading:
www.hidesertstar.com/deserttrail/...
www.hidesertstar.com/deserttrail/...
Jay Obernolte preaches deficit reduction, supports Musk in raucous Yucca Valley town hall
YUCCA VALLEY — Congressman Jay Obernolte spoke to a crowd that erupted in boos and chants like “No King” Saturday morning in the community center.
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February 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Thanks to @joshtpm.bsky.social for posting a link to this piece this weekend -- absolutely worth reading:
www.hidesertstar.com/deserttrail/...
www.hidesertstar.com/deserttrail/...
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J.D. Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy is being pulled from the shelves at at least one Department of Defense school for being “potentially related to gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology topics.”
Book ban boomerang: VP Vance’s book is caught up in military school “ideology” checks.
In maybe the most high profile example of the “leopards ate my face” phenomenon, Vice-President-In-Name-Only J. David Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy is being pulled from the shelves at at least one D…
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February 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
J.D. Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy is being pulled from the shelves at at least one Department of Defense school for being “potentially related to gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology topics.”
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“We cannot be made to be afraid of these f**king people. I know these people. They are cowards" - Tim Miller
February 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“We cannot be made to be afraid of these f**king people. I know these people. They are cowards" - Tim Miller
For #smallpoemsunday, one by me from my latest What if the Invader is Beautiful 🍄💀and First Love by the always amazing Christine Garren
February 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
For #smallpoemsunday, one by me from my latest What if the Invader is Beautiful 🍄💀and First Love by the always amazing Christine Garren
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CALIFORNIA: Rep. @JayObernolte (R) becomes the latest to hear from the people 🇺🇸 🔥
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGZ0d7B...
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGZ0d7B...
February 23, 2025 at 5:27 AM
CALIFORNIA: Rep. @JayObernolte (R) becomes the latest to hear from the people 🇺🇸 🔥
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGZ0d7B...
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGZ0d7B...
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This x10000000000
“In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.”
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...
“In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.”
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...
They Are a Minority
Get your mind right.
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February 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This x10000000000
“In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.”
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...
“In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.”
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...
Spent some lovely time in the old growth forests of Mendocino County last week. A good reminder that all living beings are deeply connected, dependent on each other, intertwined. As Auden said, we must love one another or die.
February 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Spent some lovely time in the old growth forests of Mendocino County last week. A good reminder that all living beings are deeply connected, dependent on each other, intertwined. As Auden said, we must love one another or die.
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I've got to say, the guy who accidentally became the Director of the FBI does 100% look like the guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI in a mid-2000s comedy about a guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI
February 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I've got to say, the guy who accidentally became the Director of the FBI does 100% look like the guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI in a mid-2000s comedy about a guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI
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I’m on my way to the Treasury Dept to demand answers. Billionaire-in-Chief Elon Musk has been given illegal access to Americans’ private info, including Social Security numbers.
Zero people voted for Elon to run our government. This is about oversight and transparency.
Zero people voted for Elon to run our government. This is about oversight and transparency.
February 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I’m on my way to the Treasury Dept to demand answers. Billionaire-in-Chief Elon Musk has been given illegal access to Americans’ private info, including Social Security numbers.
Zero people voted for Elon to run our government. This is about oversight and transparency.
Zero people voted for Elon to run our government. This is about oversight and transparency.
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We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social
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We're going to be outside Treasury tomorrow at 5 PM to ask Elon Musk what he's doing with our money. SHARE AND JOIN US:
www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...
www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...
We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon! · MoveOn
**Rally at the Treasury building to stop Elon Musk’s billionaire takeover.** Nobody elected Elon! We need everyone to fight this hostile takeover at every level—that includes Democrats in Congress, wh...
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February 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
We're going to be outside Treasury tomorrow at 5 PM to ask Elon Musk what he's doing with our money. SHARE AND JOIN US:
www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...
www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...
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2025 has been my least favorite decade so far.
January 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
2025 has been my least favorite decade so far.
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can't stop thinking about this little (vast) poem
January 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
can't stop thinking about this little (vast) poem
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Quick, let’s all lock arms before Monday. Think “nothing can separate us” these next 4 years. Also lock arms with beauty, poetry, birds, seeds, soil, wilderness, dreaming, kindness, & your favorite banned books. It’s important. Don’t forget.
January 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Quick, let’s all lock arms before Monday. Think “nothing can separate us” these next 4 years. Also lock arms with beauty, poetry, birds, seeds, soil, wilderness, dreaming, kindness, & your favorite banned books. It’s important. Don’t forget.
RIP Michael Burkard. Such a poet.
December 24, 2024 at 8:57 PM
RIP Michael Burkard. Such a poet.
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"Until men engage earnestly and honestly with the pervasiveness of sexual assault and the aspects of the culture that celebrate and normalise it, not enough will change. The criminal justice system cannot change culture and consciousness; that happens elsewhere."
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Gisèle Pelicot has rewritten her story – and electrified women all over the world. But what about men? | Rebecca Solnit
This was an extraordinary response to unimaginable crimes. Yet true change will only come when men engage with the culture that led us here, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit
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December 19, 2024 at 5:27 PM
"Until men engage earnestly and honestly with the pervasiveness of sexual assault and the aspects of the culture that celebrate and normalise it, not enough will change. The criminal justice system cannot change culture and consciousness; that happens elsewhere."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Good news! Today US Fish & Wildlife finally proposed to protect monarchs 🦋 under the Endangered Species Act as “threatened,” after years of advocacy, scientific reports, petitions (& lawsuits!) from @Centerforbiodiv.bsky.social et al. These pollinators have already declined by 90%.
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December 11, 2024 at 5:41 AM
Good news! Today US Fish & Wildlife finally proposed to protect monarchs 🦋 under the Endangered Species Act as “threatened,” after years of advocacy, scientific reports, petitions (& lawsuits!) from @Centerforbiodiv.bsky.social et al. These pollinators have already declined by 90%.
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“He’s not a lunatic. He’s not someone wholly inappropriate for the job. But I fear the way his extractive agenda will play out in public lands.”
~ Our Great Basin Director @bitterwaterblue.bsky.social on Trump's pick of Doug Burgum for secretary of the interior. ⬇️
~ Our Great Basin Director @bitterwaterblue.bsky.social on Trump's pick of Doug Burgum for secretary of the interior. ⬇️
Doug Burgum could soon be driving Trump’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ promises on public lands
Conservationists fear an expansion of drilling with North Dakota governor Trump’s pick for secretary of the interior and White House ‘energy czar’
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December 5, 2024 at 10:00 PM
“He’s not a lunatic. He’s not someone wholly inappropriate for the job. But I fear the way his extractive agenda will play out in public lands.”
~ Our Great Basin Director @bitterwaterblue.bsky.social on Trump's pick of Doug Burgum for secretary of the interior. ⬇️
~ Our Great Basin Director @bitterwaterblue.bsky.social on Trump's pick of Doug Burgum for secretary of the interior. ⬇️