@xelamercedes.bsky.social
Writer/pianist. INTP. Old enough to have fucked up, learned my lesson, and then made the same mistake again. I long to read Tramp's obit. On Substack I write at "Everything and Nothing at All". Slava Ukraini.
Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.
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Appreciation to substack.com/@itsjustmeli... for her report on the Washington DC march. The Refuse Fascism issue is disturbing but we should be prepared for some problems. #resistance is complicated work and the U.S. is made up of all sorts of people.
24.11.2025 02:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That aspect of her strategy struck me, too. Including her explicitly asking them to look at her. In a thousand years, tech advances will never outstrip the power and mystery of the human gaze.
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🏥🚨🏥 Healthcare workers: Patient’s rights are being violated. A lot of people are adverse to standing up to “authority,” but we have codes of ethics - each of our professions do. Rise up! 1/2
23.11.2025 23:43 — 👍 1727 🔁 808 💬 70 📌 41Who knew you could purchase anything in America for 17 cents? (My keyboard doesn't even have the symbol for "cents"...)
24.11.2025 02:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just thinking about how these images will read 25 years from today...75 years from today...
24.11.2025 02:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0According to KKKaroline Leavitt, this is a love fest. Just people saying "respectful" things to each other's faces.
24.11.2025 00:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm elated by all the different modes of #resistance that are emerging. Clearly there are assholes amongst us
but wow
there's a surprising amount of creative #resistance genius, too.
A gorgeous example of how every MAGA accusation is a confession.
24.11.2025 00:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0oh....is there a football game on today?
24.11.2025 00:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0oh for pete's sake....
24.11.2025 00:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0...because he can't. Far from being a slur or a joke, his cognitive incapacity and untreated psychological disorders are very very real. "Pathological liar" is more than a mere insult.
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23.11.2025 20:07 — 👍 111 🔁 52 💬 7 📌 4Unfortunately $hitler abandoned all concern with facts at least 45 years ago.
24.11.2025 00:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0really?
I did NOT pick up the book because I assumed it would be a fluffy fantasy romance.
Now I'm curious....
I have very little formal political science knowledge but from what little I know,
our two-party system becomes less viable with each passing year.
😪
23.11.2025 23:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of my favorite quotations. Thanks for posting.
23.11.2025 23:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Long one of my favorite quotations. Thanks.
23.11.2025 23:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In the U.S.? Globally? And why or how is that crazy?
23.11.2025 23:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Mass migration or immigration?
23.11.2025 23:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They could
and yet
they don't.
I wonder what happened next.
23.11.2025 23:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Careful what you wish for....
23.11.2025 23:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Although it is currently a predominantly GOP slant, it isn't unique to one political party. Narrow-minded, shallow thinkers present in among all ages, political affiliations, ethnicities, genders...
Humans. We're a diverse and peculiar species.
Of course, Republicans are also Americans. More accurate to say "Republicans realize most of the rest of America hates them."
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23.11.2025 23:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hear it and, perhaps due to my highly sensitive nature, I can feel it. On my skin. In my gut. In my head. Which is why I very rarely read or listen to Donald Trump directly, preferring to follow trusted reporting.
23.11.2025 23:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0But this is par for the course for state-run media. It's been this way for years.
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