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RawrTigerlily
@rawrtigerlily.bsky.social
Progressive living in Georgia, but always Minnesota Nice until you push me.
I have a kid, a husband, and a cat.
Can we make this a better place?

I'm trying.
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Just reupping this on my main page so I can make it my new pin. For everyone who is ready to move past grief & into the rightful anger that will power us to stand against the worst to come in meaningful ways:
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Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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I came for more Mamdani and stayed at the incredible exposition on principles in the middle.

I wish I could write like this.
Today I wrote about Zohran Mamdani's historic win, the energizing power of holding to shared principles of decency, and a taxonomy of the endlessly intertwined relationship between shame and vision. www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...
The Extraordinary Power of Standing For Something
Winning by creating vision in the positive space of shared standards, and expertly negotiating the negative space of shame.
www.the-reframe.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Gifting this article from The Atlantic by a judge appointed by Reagan, who is resigning so he can speak out about how Trump is destroying the rule of law. Must read.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why I Am Resigning
A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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The regime despises poor people, yes. And importantly it does not fear poor people as a political force. It's important to take both of these together to understand what they are doing with SNAP. They do not believe that they will incur lasting political costs for their current actions.
November 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Raked and gathered leaves this morning. Got stung by a hornet. Maybe even the same one I rescued yesterday from inside the house and returned back outside? Wouldn’t that be a crazy mini drama. 🐝
November 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Musk as the ultimate expression of capitalism: a pile of money without a soul.
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
They are really so hungry for the pitchforks…
"These breaks come in addition to the roughly $4 trillion package of tax cuts that President Trump signed into law in July..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks.

So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.

It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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“We *really* wanted to believe every and any possible explanation, and give every benefit of the doubt to the racists but they’re leaving us no pretexts to work with.”
November 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Boy are all these ICE stormtroopers going to be surprised when they learn that murder and kidnapping are also state crimes that can’t be pardoned by the president
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Enshitification
It's the word of the Trump era.
November 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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“We don’t do that here” says this is a community & we all won’t accept this shit

We’re not telling you what to do

We are telling you that bigotry would make you an outsider & maybe you need to go away

We don’t do that here

We do not do that here

Hate is not something WE do so what’s the plan?
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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"Republicans are keeping the government closed, starving kids, and making you miss your Thanksgiving flights because they want your healthcare costs to go through the roof" is actually a pretty effective message for Democrats
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Think of the quote in the photo below as you listen to this young man.
November 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Read this thread. This is what @katmabu.bsky.social was protesting, and why she repeatedly says getting beaten up by ICE outside is nothing compared to the torture and crimes being committed inside Broadview. These thugs must be held to account.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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At a minimum what needs to happen is the DHS needs to be pulled apart by the next Dem admin, ICE smashed to atoms and every single person that worked for it should be made completely unemployable in federal government ever again
I’m sure there are other ideas.
I’m sure some of these won’t work.

But I read the (valid) pardon post as I was getting into the shower, had these 6 ideas by time I came out.

There are a LOT of options out there!

And NOW—not 2026 or 2028—is time to debate them and work them out.
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Yes, please.
“As God is my witness: If we lose the midterms and 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.”

🙏🙏🙏
Holy crap! Please vote!!!
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Generational opportunity here we cannot let Democratic leadership fuck this up.
Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM