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Tams the Elder
@tamstheelder.bsky.social
Mom. Recovering career public servant. News junkie. Wiccan Crone. Animal lover & hound mom/foster mom. Sadly allergic to cats. Parkinson’s warrior.
Social media neophyte. NO: DMs, porn, crypto/investments/donations.
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The American gestapo.
June 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A little humor always helps. This one has a second level joke that caught me off guard.
This is how the world sees Trump:
A childish idiot!🤭

Disastrous that such a person has come to power!😳😫
June 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A little more about the new executive order.

I find it particularly offensive on the same day the Supremes upheld Tennessee’s ban on all transgender treatment for minors. They did not just privatize transgender treatment, they banned it entirely.
June 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Truly insane decision: the National Suicide hotline has ceased working with the Trevor Project or offer LGBTQ+ oriented suicide support.

Please “post it on:” Trans Lifeline US number is 1-877-565-8860!
This is beyond cruel, especially for young folks who are going through it. Cutting off LGBTQ+ youth from specialized suicide prevention help is a death sentence disguised as bureaucracy.

Shame on every official who signed off on this. You’re not protecting children, you’re abandoning them.
June 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Amen!!!
June 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

The U S marines have detained a USC on US soil. Can somebody please wake me up, bc this is terrifying nightmare.
BREAKING: Marines Detain First American Citizen in Los Angeles
Marines detain American citizen in Los Angeles, Israel and Iran continue to launch significant strikes, another U.S. citizen detained for looking like an undocumented immigrant, and more.
open.substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
substack.com/@robinmagnot....

I am loving me some Pope Leo.
Robin Magnot on Substack
substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
He is incontinent and has graduated from an adult diaper; he now wears a catheter. He cheats at golf (and pretty much everything else).
June 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Reposted by Tams the Elder
At some point in the past, wolves started hanging out around humans to get food scraps...and then they ended up like this. 🤣
April 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Oh, I really want this sign…..
June 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Unfortunately, this info is becoming more & more essential as the forces of intolerance become louder & more prevalent. Please repost and stand with all LBGTQ+ individuals.
June 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I hadn’t heard this MLK quote previously. As always , he managed to perfectly capture one of the realities of our lives.
June 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Wow. I think s/he may be my intellectual soul mate. 😊
Words matter.
June 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Linguistic precision.
June 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Just when you think it cannot get any worse. . .
June 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
open.substack.com/pub/dworkin/...

Great post on several issues, but what stuck out to me is that one of the (WalMart) Waltons just took out a full page ad in the N Y Times promoting the protests with the hashtag “No Kings.”
Protests Erupt Over Trump's Abuse Of Power and More Great News
Impeachment support spreads, Newsom’s powerful speech, and more
open.substack.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
@kegelee.bsky.social I understand your position. You have already accused myself & others on Substack as being pro-Nazi b/c the Atlantic informally says is a tiny fraction of accounts ( looks like less than one one-thousandth of a percent) which were traced to far right accounts mostly on Telegram.
June 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I may have posted this earlier, but it is worth reminding ourselves of these ways to resist tyranny.
You have to see this.

PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtu.be
May 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
What he said. 👇🏻
Maga avoids the truth as if it were a vaccine. However whether they accept it or not ,this is the truth.
May 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Now MTG is trying to get 45/47 to pardon George Floyd’s killer. Of course he’ll frame it as a demonstration of his support for law enforcement. We know better!
Today May 15th is Peace Officers Memorial Day. Statements like this are inflammatory, disrespectful and flat out lies. Not only did you betray law enforcement, but you sided with people who attacked us. You don't support law enforcement, you are are a criminal.
May 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Exactly what I thought when I read it. Giving medical advice is the gig.
RFK says we shouldn’t take medical advice from him?

Thanks, Captain Obvious, but also why are you the Secretary of HEALTH and Human Services if we can’t trust you with medical advice?
May 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
My friend Libraryanna pointed out that Floyd’s killer was convicted of state crimes, so he cannot be pardoned by Trump. I think he pled guilty to federal charges after the state jury convinced but I doubt the federal charges carry life.
Except he was also convicted under state law. He can’t pardon state crimes. Walz isn’t going to.
May 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
ICE just left a boy on the sidewalk when they arrested his parent off the street! What is going to be enough of an outrage to waken the American people? ICE agents seem to be above the law, ethical or moral principles, or even just a tiny dab of empathy.
May 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Amen, brother. Amen.

Same problem the Supremes created w/ Citizens United. Clear the way for dark money in political campaigns &
next thing you know the world’s richest man is openly pouring tens of millions into the campaign of DJT. Who could have foreseen that? 🙄
It’s really rich that the Supreme Court ruled that Trump could literally do anything he wanted and never face consequences and now they’re running around crying about how the rule of law is in danger.

Feckless, pathetic motherfuckers.
May 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM