S.M. Ashley
@smashley617.bsky.social
Bookish bisexual. Smut lover. Unapologetic liberal. Theater nerd. Toddler mom.
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Jon, a local Marine veteran, is sounding the alarm on one of Trump’s dangerous new executive orders. Listen to what Jon has to say, and please spread the word.
May 1, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Jon, a local Marine veteran, is sounding the alarm on one of Trump’s dangerous new executive orders. Listen to what Jon has to say, and please spread the word.
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We've read your comments about the eugenics undertones in Trump and RFK Jr.’s rhetoric. As public health experts, we share your concerns. Let’s take a moment to break this down. 🧵
April 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
We've read your comments about the eugenics undertones in Trump and RFK Jr.’s rhetoric. As public health experts, we share your concerns. Let’s take a moment to break this down. 🧵
Long read, but more informative than any economics class I was required to take in high school.
Taxes pay for nothing.
The idea of paying "your fair share" is a lie, and the sooner we stop telling ourselves it, the faster we can actually get to a tax policy that makes sense for everyone.
open.substack.com
April 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Long read, but more informative than any economics class I was required to take in high school.
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This wouldn’t be happening if movie adaptations of Annie hadn’t insisted on cutting the banger that is We’d Like To Thank You Herbert Hoover 😒
April 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This wouldn’t be happening if movie adaptations of Annie hadn’t insisted on cutting the banger that is We’d Like To Thank You Herbert Hoover 😒
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AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.
March 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.
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Please share. Canada needs the world to know about this!!
March 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Please share. Canada needs the world to know about this!!
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America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
March 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
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If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen?
We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.
We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.
March 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen?
We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.
We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.
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“Illegal immigrant” was their first success.
Now comes
“Illegal boycott”
“Illegal protest”
“Illegal votes”
“Illegal posts”
Until the “illegal” is you. #3E
Now comes
“Illegal boycott”
“Illegal protest”
“Illegal votes”
“Illegal posts”
Until the “illegal” is you. #3E
March 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“Illegal immigrant” was their first success.
Now comes
“Illegal boycott”
“Illegal protest”
“Illegal votes”
“Illegal posts”
Until the “illegal” is you. #3E
Now comes
“Illegal boycott”
“Illegal protest”
“Illegal votes”
“Illegal posts”
Until the “illegal” is you. #3E
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There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security.
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Elon Musk says he wants to “eliminate” programs like Social Security and Medicare: “Entitlements... That’s the big one to eliminate”
March 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security.
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
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We have to talk about the absolutely insane CR the GOP has proposed.
This bill formally abdicates Congressional authority over the budget and allows the Executive to sequester funds for any reason or no reason at all.
This bill formally abdicates Congressional authority over the budget and allows the Executive to sequester funds for any reason or no reason at all.
appropriations.house.gov
March 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
We have to talk about the absolutely insane CR the GOP has proposed.
This bill formally abdicates Congressional authority over the budget and allows the Executive to sequester funds for any reason or no reason at all.
This bill formally abdicates Congressional authority over the budget and allows the Executive to sequester funds for any reason or no reason at all.
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COLBERT, on Rep. Al Green’s removal:
“Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine."
@latenightercom.bsky.social
“Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine."
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March 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
COLBERT, on Rep. Al Green’s removal:
“Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine."
@latenightercom.bsky.social
“Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine."
@latenightercom.bsky.social
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March 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The relevant fact about Nazis is that they rather famously did not *start out* committing genocide and starting wars, but it *was* the natural endpoint of their stated goals.
Elon Musk says that as long as you aren't "committing genocide and starting wars" you are "not a Nazi"
www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-te...
www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-te...
March 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The relevant fact about Nazis is that they rather famously did not *start out* committing genocide and starting wars, but it *was* the natural endpoint of their stated goals.
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A German woman, Jessica Bröscheis, is being held hostage and tortured by the US at Otay Mesa Detention Center. She was illegally detained upon entry while possessing valid paperwork and a return ticket. Trump's ICE troopers claim she "planned to work", however has no proof.
Do not travel to the US.
Do not travel to the US.
March 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
A German woman, Jessica Bröscheis, is being held hostage and tortured by the US at Otay Mesa Detention Center. She was illegally detained upon entry while possessing valid paperwork and a return ticket. Trump's ICE troopers claim she "planned to work", however has no proof.
Do not travel to the US.
Do not travel to the US.
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The Capitol Police arrested a group of peaceful protesters who demonstrated today in the Cannon House Office Building against the Trump’s decision to freeze foreign aid and lay off thousands of USAID workers. The president has made his message clear: disagree with them, and they will come after you.
February 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The Capitol Police arrested a group of peaceful protesters who demonstrated today in the Cannon House Office Building against the Trump’s decision to freeze foreign aid and lay off thousands of USAID workers. The president has made his message clear: disagree with them, and they will come after you.
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This is a full purge of every single LGBTQ employee at the NSA. Rufo is falsely mischaracterizing a LGBTQ employee resource group as a "sex chat" to create pretext to fire every single member in it.
This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.
This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.
February 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This is a full purge of every single LGBTQ employee at the NSA. Rufo is falsely mischaracterizing a LGBTQ employee resource group as a "sex chat" to create pretext to fire every single member in it.
This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.
This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.
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The forced-birth party wants to defund nearly 40% of the births in Missouri…
February 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The forced-birth party wants to defund nearly 40% of the births in Missouri…
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The more you know…
February 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The more you know…
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.@amandamarcotte.bsky.social with a searing portrait of the DOGE bros dismembering the US government. www.salon.com/2025/02/24/w...
What Musk's war on federal workers owes to Gamergate, the long-ago troll tantrum
Culture war for the stupid era kicked off with video gamers mad at ladies who have sex
www.salon.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
.@amandamarcotte.bsky.social with a searing portrait of the DOGE bros dismembering the US government. www.salon.com/2025/02/24/w...
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Strong letter from Rep. Gerry Connolly (ranking Dem on House Oversight Committee) to acting OPM Director Chuck Ezell re: 5 bullets email.
Calls it “illegal, reckless, and yet another example of the cruel and arbitrary chaos Mr. Musk” has inflicted. Says he must clarify non-response≠resignation.
Calls it “illegal, reckless, and yet another example of the cruel and arbitrary chaos Mr. Musk” has inflicted. Says he must clarify non-response≠resignation.
February 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Strong letter from Rep. Gerry Connolly (ranking Dem on House Oversight Committee) to acting OPM Director Chuck Ezell re: 5 bullets email.
Calls it “illegal, reckless, and yet another example of the cruel and arbitrary chaos Mr. Musk” has inflicted. Says he must clarify non-response≠resignation.
Calls it “illegal, reckless, and yet another example of the cruel and arbitrary chaos Mr. Musk” has inflicted. Says he must clarify non-response≠resignation.
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Consider... tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people are losing their government jobs. Jobs that may have taken up to a year to secure. They bought homes, cars, started families.
No income now to make payments or feed babies.
How does that help our economy?
No income now to make payments or feed babies.
How does that help our economy?
February 22, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Consider... tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people are losing their government jobs. Jobs that may have taken up to a year to secure. They bought homes, cars, started families.
No income now to make payments or feed babies.
How does that help our economy?
No income now to make payments or feed babies.
How does that help our economy?
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A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.
February 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.
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I too must concur with Greg.
February 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I too must concur with Greg.