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Meg Standish

@smushmeg.bsky.social

Writer, baker, retired techie, odd bird. Citizen of the California Republic.

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Trump targets Democrat-led cities and increases ICE raids to deport more migrants Trump directed ICE to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally, specifically from Democratic-run cities such as New York and Chicago.

Guys, I think we hurt his feelings on Saturday. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

16.06.2025 14:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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See why our Fox-viewing friends and relatives seriously believe "half the country" support their hero? The Fox version plays fake cheers, and never turns the camera around to show the audience. Then compare to NPR showing what actually happened.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

16.06.2025 00:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 104    ๐Ÿ” 56    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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True story bro.

09.06.2025 00:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33149    ๐Ÿ” 9626    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 620    ๐Ÿ“Œ 390
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Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? (Gift Article) Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nationโ€™s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.

This should be a much, much bigger story.

And once again I tell you:

Their singular mission is to decimate everyone but them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

22.03.2025 12:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 795    ๐Ÿ” 467    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 35    ๐Ÿ“Œ 57
Project 2025 Tracker Track the progress on Project 2025

This is a fantastic resource. They've already pushed through 100 of their goals, but there's 200 more to fight.

16.03.2025 14:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

9. When Newsom platforms Charlie Kirk, he isnโ€™t fostering a โ€œdiscussionโ€ on transgender people, he is recalibrating his political stance to make targeting transgender people seem palatable, shamefully selling that shift to his base as a strategic necessity off the back of a hate-influencer.

06.03.2025 16:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1788    ๐Ÿ” 301    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 20
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CA Gov Gavin Newsom "Completely Aligns" With Charlie Kirk On Trans Issues In Podcast The California Governor, in the launch of his new podcast, announced that he completely aligned with far-right, ant-LGBTQ+ influencer Charlie Kirk on sports, and agreed on prisons and youth care.

1. This morning, California Governor said he was in "complete alignment" with anti-LGBTQ+ hate-influencer Charlie Kirk of TPUSA on transgender sports.

He also conceded on trans inmates and gender affirming care for youth.

It's so much worse than being reported.

Subscribe to support my journalism.

06.03.2025 16:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5952    ๐Ÿ” 1878    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 370    ๐Ÿ“Œ 918
We're not done yet | 18F

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

01.03.2025 22:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 93522    ๐Ÿ” 31187    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3208    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1413
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Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasnโ€™t Zelensky Itโ€™s time to say it plainly. Americaโ€™s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.

โ€œItโ€™s time to say it plainly. Americaโ€™s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

โ€œA president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasnโ€™t Zelensky.โ€

@kyivindependent.com

28.02.2025 22:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 67948    ๐Ÿ” 19310    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1274    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1045

I poked around, and I don't think so, unfortunately.

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Donโ€™t Feed the Billionairs! How to Break the Overconsumption Habit Before It Breaks You

open.substack.com/pub/ladylibe...

28.02.2025 15:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Picture of Guillotine Dangle Earrings, Popular Now tag, 5.8k 5 star reviews.

Picture of Guillotine Dangle Earrings, Popular Now tag, 5.8k 5 star reviews.

Meanwhile, on Etsy:

27.02.2025 05:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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TAKE ACTION:
Working Families Party workingfamilies.org
Move On front.moveon.org
Indivisible indivisible.org
Mobilize www.mobilize.us
Demcast demcast.com/team/
5 Calls app 5calls.org/all/
Call your senator(s) 202-224-3121

23.02.2025 22:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Itโ€™s time for Americans to withhold their taxes | Judith Levine The point is not to deprive the government of funds. Itโ€™s to expose the regimeโ€™s criminality

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

20.02.2025 22:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

17.02.2025 14:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 82272    ๐Ÿ” 20367    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2299    ๐Ÿ“Œ 929
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this is the sort of thing you post when youโ€™re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

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The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the way every American citizen registers to vote.

Theyโ€™re distracting us so they can pass the voter suppression law, requiring an in person passport or birth certificate.

www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

03.02.2025 13:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I guess the good news here is that they seem to still expect people will be given the option to vote against them (as of today, anyway).

03.02.2025 13:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Acting on Trump's order, federal officials opened up two California dams The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just opened up two California dams. A spokesperson says the flows are 'controlled' and being coordinated with local officials.

For a photo op & a bragging media post, Trump minions at the USACoE have thrown away millions of gals of #water farmers were relying on for later this year. This water will not be captured, will not be useful for cities or farms or firefighting. It is now lost.

www.latimes.com/environment/...

01.02.2025 01:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6846    ๐Ÿ” 3411    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 351    ๐Ÿ“Œ 449

Zoe illustrated the cover of my first book, Nature Obscura!!

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Fight Your Health Insurance Denial -- Use AI to Generate Your Health Insurance Appeal Fight Health Insurance is a generative AI tool to help you fight your health insurance denial. Just take a picture of your denial and it will generate an appeal for you to submit as the first part of ...

After an amazing 3.5 years at Netflix itโ€™s time for me to move on. Starting ~late next week Iโ€™ll be working full time on Fight Health Insurance ( www.fighthealthinsurance.com ) ๐Ÿ˜Š Itโ€™s exciting and scary to take a leap like this, and if you know folks we should be talking to get in touch :)

21.01.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 70    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Nazikeule im Dritten Reich | Browser Ballett
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We Are on Our Own From Marc | Our institutions are not going to save us. Only we can do that.

Roll up your sleeves, friends. Nobody is coming to save us but us.

18.01.2025 15:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congratulations! Eventually, you get to play games again _with_ your kid, which is an absolute joy.

17.01.2025 15:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Trump's coronation happening on MLK Jr. Day is obscene.

17.01.2025 15:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tell your Senators: Oppose Trump's selection of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense Contact Congress today!

Hegseth's confirmation hearings are underway. Email your senators while you can.

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Republicans move to repeal law that saves older Americans billions in health care costs Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry is cosponsoring a bill to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

This is ... This is mustache-twirling cartoon villain shit. This will repeal the $35 cap on insulin.
pennsylvaniaindependent.com/politics/rep...

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