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Ryssa Chrysalis
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More than middle aged queer. Avid reader and boring parent in flyover land. Kinky. Polyam. Spoonie. Chronically exhausted squirrel.
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theladyred.bsky.social
It takes a particular kind of government to gaslight you about a fire while standing in front of the flames with a gasoline can. Today's White House "ANTIFA roundtable" was a pageant, a reality-TV set piece tuned to the Stephen Miller attention economy, where the goal isn't governance but ...

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It takes a particular kind of government to gaslight you about a fire while standing in front of the flames with a gasoline can. Today's White House "ANTIFA roundtable" was a pageant, a reality-TV set piece tuned to the Stephen Miller attention economy, where the goal isn't governance but spectacle, not law but the performance of "law and order." The cast list featured the usual chorus of aggrieved influencers and political appointees telling one another they are very brave, very persecuted, and very close to uncovering a sprawling left-wing terror hydra funded by NGOs, homeless-services nonprofits, and, naturally, the media. The villain, "ANTIFA," was invoked like a magic spell that makes due process disappear and federal troops appear. "It should be clear to all Americans that we have a very serious left-wing terror threat," Trump intoned, before musing that "the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be jailed." "Everything we are doing is very lawful. What they are doing is not lawful," he declared, even as he entertained a question about suspending habeas corpus to deal with so-called "insurrectionists." Pam Bondi chimed in: "ANTIFA is a domestic left-wing terrorist organization... This is not activism. It's anarchy." And the president nodded along when one participant suggested designating ANTIFA as a foreign terrorist organization: "If you agree, I agree. Let's get it done." The effect was surreal: officials and influencers speaking of neighbors, students, and critics as if they were al-Qaeda cells, while threatening to withhold back pay from federal workers who displease the president, "Most will get back pay... there are some people that really don't deserve to be taken care of", and promising that "whatever perch you sit in, it will be crushed." And then came the question about the No Kings rally. A reporter noted that the city of Austin was preparing to waive about $120,000 in fees so the event could go forward. Trump's response wasn't about democracy, free speech, or even the First Amendment. It was about punishment: "I would love to do something about that. Bring a lawsuit... The best thing you can do is have honest elections because the elections are totally rigged in so many of these places... The biggest thing you can do is have honest elections... You need borders... You need honest media. You need honest elections and you have a great country." And just to drive the point home, he handed the grievance off to his personal lawyers in the room: "If they're waiving a fee... I guarantee they wouldn't waive it if it was... a conservative rally. So maybe you can look into that, Pam. Todd, that sounds like one for Todd." This is the whole game in miniature: the protest is irrelevant, the grievance is the point, and the machinery of government is available to be pointed at whomever Trump thinks has slighted him. Even a city permit fee becomes evidence of treason, a loyalty test for attorneys general, and a justification for unleashing the Justice Department on a rally with the unforgivable audacity to say out loud what the Founders once wrote down: No Kings. Enter the Grim Reaper. If this sounds familiar, it's because we've seen the rehearsal notes. Miller's theory of the moment is simple: saturate the feed with lurid images and language, “insurrection," "terror," "burning cities", until exhausted, low-information voters accept presidential fiat as the only adult in the room. Today's script turned that dial to eleven. Judges who limit executive power were recast as insurgents. Governors and mayors who resist federalized deployments were framed as criminals. The president mused, again, about jailing them, dangled foreign trips for Middle East "peace," and floated the idea of designating an amorphous domestic bogeyman as a foreign terrorist organization, because in this story, adjectives are just handcuffs waiting for a noun. The discussion was a study in inversion. " Everything we are doing is very lawful," the president insists, moments before suggesting the law should not apply to him. "We are following the money," declares a self-styled investigator, moments before admitting the targets are more vibes than entities, no LLCs, no EINs, just masks and menace. A journalist recounts trauma and brain bleeds; the president praises her courage, then pivots to the stock market. Another asks about back pay for workers in a shutdown the administration engineered as a political cudgel; the president says "most" will get paid, except the ones who won't, depending on whether they've displeased him. Habeas corpus even wanders into the chat like a stray cat: should we suspend it? No one says yes, but the thought hangs in the air like tear gas. The real question in the middle of this shutdown isn't just how long it drags on, but what, exactly, we're funding. Do we want our tax dollars underwriting an autocracy, one that treats its own citizens as enemies of the state? If Democrats cave, they won't just be ending a shutdown; they'll be co-signing the transformation of governance into theater and theater into rule. Complicity dressed up as pragmatism. Because that's what this regime offers: governance as content, content as weapon. The goal is to blur every line, between protest and war, local policing and federal occupation, journalism and propaganda, criminal behavior and political identity. It's not about solving problems but staging them, replaying them on loop until outrage itself becomes the currency of power. And if we spend our days arguing over whether Portland is a "bombed-out hellscape," then Trump and his chorus have already won. We've been baited into debating the set design while the script rolls on. The only questions worth asking are about legitimacy and money. Who gets to wield the state's authority, and who keeps writing the checks for the spectacle? Everything else is just background noise in the show they want us to wa…
October 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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thedailyshow.com
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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bebeneuwirth.bsky.social
Haha
reelquinn.bsky.social Quinn Sutherland @reelquinn.bsky.social · Mar 15
“Ecru, Brute?” - Julius Caesar, interior decorator
March 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
ryssachrysalis.bsky.social
"Existence is not grounds for punishment."

The Wicche Glass Tavern, by Seana Kelly.
March 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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middleageriot.bsky.social
FLASHBACK: Five years ago, Donald Trump didn't want to wear a mask because it would smudge his makeup, so the Republican Party helped him kill a million Americans.
March 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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erininthemorning.com
Another Texas bill that has no chance of passing, but its wild what the fringe is putting out there.

Literally makes it "fraud" to be trans.
2 Oliverson H.B. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT A No. A 3817 relating to creating the criminal offense of gender identity fraud. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION A 1. AA Subchapter D, Chapter 32, Penal Code, is amended by adding Section 32.515 to read as follows: Sec. A 32.515. AA GENDER IDENTITY FRAUD. (a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly makes a false or misleading verbal or written statement to a governmental entity or the person ’ s employer by identifying the person ’ s biological sex as the opposite of the biological sex assigned to the person at birth. (b) AA An offense under this section is a state jail felony. SECTION A 2. 89R14268 AJZ-D AA This Act takes effect September 1, 2025
March 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Doing great 👍
February 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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jamellebouie.net
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
The party who has shrieked about “medical freedom” and “informed consent” and “HIPAA” for the last 5 years is literally giving away everyone’s protected health information data and payments to a group of unelected freaks who can’t even pass a background check much less get laid
erosalie.infoepi.com E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · Feb 5
DOGE officials have also sought access to payment and contracting systems across the Department of Health and Human Services, which control hundreds of billions of dollars in payments to health-care providers, and they appear to have gained access to at least some of those systems, the people said.
February 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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scopicengineer.com
I got called 'Chicken Little' by a few people for saying that with U.S. Supreme Court overruling Roe v. Wade that cases that chipped at the Americans with Disabilities Act, Sections 504 and 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 wouldn't be far behind. Now we are here.
annaecook.com Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · Jan 27
Don’t assume this doesn’t affect you. Many of us fail to understand that we have disabilities, that our children do.

The rights of people with disabilities are your rights, workers rights, students rights.

www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/01/27/s...
Supreme Court To Weigh How ADA, 504 Claims Against Schools Should Be Handled
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to take up a case centering on what standard students must meet in order to bring claims of disability discrimination at school.
www.disabilityscoop.com
January 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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nora.zone
if any #illustrators want a project, a really useful thing to have right now would be clear illustrations of the uniforms of different government agencies: ICE vs Border Patrol vs airport security vs TSA. maybe with a "doll" base that is modifiable for locals to modify for their local cops too.
January 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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stschorey.bsky.social
Apply for a free library card that you can use on Libby to access, read, and support queer books:

www.queerliberationlibrary.org
Queer Liberation Library
Queer Liberation Library (QLL) is fighting to build a vibrant, flourishing queer future by connecting LGBTQ+ people with literature, information, and resources that celebrate the unique and empowering...
www.queerliberationlibrary.org
January 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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angryblacklady.blacksky.app
Do not open your door for ICE officials.

Talk to them through your door. Refuse to open it.
leftistlawyer.com Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine @leftistlawyer.com · Jan 18
Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge).

You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*
January 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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kaylan.bsky.social
This energy 💯
“Andrew Myrick, a trader who told starving Dakota to "eat grass or dung" was killed on the first day of the Dakota War of 1862. His head was cut off, and his mouth was stuffed with grass.”
January 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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nomadmatt.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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theladyred.bsky.social
soon we're all going to be pushed to the edge, & we all must decide now - how we will react, what we will choose to do, & how much our souls can take.
soon we're all going to be pushed to the edge, & we all must decide now - how we will react, what we will choose to do, & how much our souls can take. ~~~~ From a friend: “My son’s grandfather was forced to perform the Nazi salute at gun point. He did it because his pregnant wife was waiting for him at home. He did it because when some of his friends had refused, the black shirts had locked them up and thrown away the keys. He did it because he feared for his life. And he regretted it until the day he died. Tell me again it’s not a big deal.”
January 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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parsnip.bsky.social
watching trump have to be informed in real time on camera by billionaire david sacks what's in the executive orders he's signing might be my cue to log off for a while
January 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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noh8campaign.bsky.social
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde urged President Trump during inaugural prayer service to 'have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives.' #NOH8
January 22, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
Omg look at this. Double perfection!
countmystars.bsky.social Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · Jan 21
We’ve all seen the magazine photos of TSwift and her Ragdoll. But have you seen this photo from Glamour of Lupita Nyong’o and her rescue orange? 🧡
Lupita Nyong’o, a beautiful petite Black woman with short curly hair, wearing a two-piece red outfit with an artsy red hat, holding a large orange cat with white paws
January 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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cwebbonline.com
I love this so much!

At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.

This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
January 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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kaelyrhn.kayleighbourquin.com
A series of three screenshots from the film "Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade", from the humorous scene where Indy is telling the bad guys that Marcus Brody is multitalented, only to cut to Brody bumbling his way through a crowd. The following captions are below each panel 1. Showing Indy and his father: "Millennials - Generation Alpha are digital natives. They've grown up already using every technology you had to adapt to." 2. A close up on Indy, his father still in the background: "They know every smartphone, watch 3 screens at once, spend 10 hours a day online. With any luck, they've got the tech skills we need already." 3. Showing Marcus Brody in a crowd of seemingly Middle Eastern people: "Gen Alpha - Does anyone here know what a c drive is? Is itanapp?"
January 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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antireligion.bsky.social
Our country denied us (gays) our relationship rights and incentivized everyone we’ve ever loved to abandon us. They broke our hearts, funded our abusers, and penalized us for fighting back. They allowed jobs and churches to conspire to impoverish, undermine, and discriminate against us for decades. The government repaid nothing for the stolen money, opportunities, protections, and peace we lost over a lifetime. Yet, this same government will jail us if we steal even a dollar from a bank or church tray. This version is a little sharper and more concise while keeping the tone intact.
January 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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orcspiration.bsky.social
YOU MUST MAINTAIN YOUR STRENGTH AND POWER! TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.
January 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM