@sandymacdonald.bsky.social
Writer, theatre-appreciator https://newyorknotebook.substack.com
A man was thrown in jail for FIVE WEEKS for posting a meme about Donald Trump
04.11.2025 20:39 — 👍 21 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
**** Are the Bennet Girls OK?
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Nearly 8 in 10 Americans agree that spending by wealthy donors and corporations in our elections gives rise to corruption — including majorities of Republican and independent voters.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
We must overturn Citizens United.
But here’s the most uncomfortable truth of all: the parasites that have taken over so much of our country—pantsuited girlboss advertising executives, Skittle-haired they/them activists, soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks, Adderall-addicted dog mom diversity consultants, nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyers, obese George Soros–funded police abolitionist district attorneys, hipster trust fund socialists—are some of the least impressive people in the history of the world. The Uniparty would never have achieved what it has in this country without a great degree of rottenness, of decadence, of torpor, of complacency already
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data.
Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”
As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.
I’m actually somewhat obsessed by empathy for his dentist, or anyone who has to tend to his person
02.11.2025 15:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wow. Andrew Cuomo's racist closing message of NYC mayoral race is "Diversity can be a weakness." That is straight up MAGA BS. This guy is awful! youtu.be/qOmNH8ewK84?...
01.11.2025 14:55 — 👍 169 🔁 63 💬 25 📌 14I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
31.10.2025 08:19 — 👍 17286 🔁 7006 💬 719 📌 1225We’re hiring interns! The application deadline for our Spring–Summer internship is November 25. Pay is $20/hour, 35 hours a week, with the option to enroll in health insurance. Apply here: buff.ly/buLv8c6
01.11.2025 20:00 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0It’s tough being a thwarted humanitarian
01.11.2025 06:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Took advantage" is an obscene euphemism for "raped."
And the evidence that he did rape girls is in the fact that Republicans would rather shut down Congress than have us see that evidence.
What can we do as New Yorkers 🗽 to be ready when more ICE raids come? Join the Hands Off NYC coalition to learn more. www.handsoffnyc.com #fkICE #handsoff #fightback #donotcomply #showup #standup @indivisible.org @bkindivisible.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social
30.10.2025 00:29 — 👍 50 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 1Democrats tried to pass a standalone bill today to just make sure kids could eat during this shutdown by funding SNAP and WIC
The bill had to pass unanimously, if one person voted no, it wouldn’t pass.
John Thune said no. A Republican.
ONE MAN blocked WIC & SNAP funding for over 40 million people
The Starbucks alternative
31.10.2025 03:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Jan. 6 insurrectionists bloodied and bludgeoned police officers. Calling them “a mob of rioters” is just stating a fact — but at Trump’s DOJ, that’ll get you fired.
Another reminder that we're not headed towards authoritarianism. We're already there.
** Romy and Michele The Musical
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** Liberation (Broadway) The revolution will be upgraded (but muted)
29.10.2025 19:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0To all those “Let them go without food for a month, maybe they’ll get a job” people: Most SNAP recipients have jobs. Exploitative jobs that keep them living just below the poverty line. — Should they starve to death? And then what?
27.10.2025 20:29 — 👍 6917 🔁 1952 💬 352 📌 114
This was done to the White House, a federal property, by a man who wanted protesters who spray painted a wall arrested for "destruction of federal property."
27.10.2025 00:28 — 👍 7123 🔁 2457 💬 190 📌 63Trump is executing people on the high seas by deeming them "enemy combatants" without any proof.
He's also called his political opponents — immigrants, Democrats, protesters — the "enemy within."
Put it together: How close is Trump to ordering attacks on them, too?
ICE agents are complaining that every time they go out wearing masks in unmarked cars with no uniforms or identification as law enforcement to abduct people, protesters keep dumping pounds of glitter on them so that everyone can tell they're ICE for days afterwards.
27.10.2025 01:08 — 👍 1729 🔁 460 💬 15 📌 77
Two Navy crashes, a $130M “mystery donation” with #Epstein fingerprints, and Trump fist-pumping through Tokyo in a gold tie. Meanwhile, Jack Smith’s still outpacing the dimmest of the dullest, literally, the man runs triathlons. #uspolitics
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I miss the Times that would reliably infuriate my right-wing father
26.10.2025 22:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump wants to use the Navy to build $10B worth of migrant detention camps.
Let me get this straight: we "can't afford" to invest in public programs that make housing or healthcare more affordable — but we have endless funds to detain migrants and enrich defense contractors?
Correction: It’s not “getting,” it’s recouping money you earned
26.10.2025 09:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tish James launched an online portal for New Yorkers to submit photos and videos of ICE activity.
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No worries: he will raze any greenery that survives
25.10.2025 23:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
