Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
If there's no federal aid, there's no need for him to have a job, no?
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Cameron Hamilton said at a private conference in Little Rock, Arkansas that Trump plans to shift responsibility for disaster management to the states. Not a big problem for California or Florida, but Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana?
— Navy Man (descendant of ANTIFA since the revolution) (@navymanhy.bsky.social) October 21, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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Peace,
emaycee
So much losing
NEW: A federal judge has now ruled that former SDNY prosecutor, Maurene Comey, was UNLAWFULLY fired by the Trump DOJ. He orders her retroactive reinstatement and back pay. Comey alleged in her lawsuit that she was fired for politically motivated reasons. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/m...
— Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) October 26, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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Peace,
emaycee
Deserting a sinking ship
Trump Media stock is down 46% today. A share costs about as much as a Happy Meal. At its peak, investors paid $175 a share.
— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell.com) November 4, 2026 at 10:21 AM
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Peace,
emaycee
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes?
Van Hollen, Flanagan, El-Sayed, Jackson, Hamilton, and Stratton have said they either don’t want Schumer as majority leader or that they’re not sold yet. Talarico and Pappas both stressed “new blood” This is not inevitable and there is an incredible amount of chatter for this point in the process
— Jared Yates Sexton (@jysexton.bsky.social) November 4, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Michgan, we won
The many beat the money. The people beat the corporations and special interests. Hope beat hate and fear. Michigan, we won.
— Abdul El-Sayed (@abdulelsayed.bsky.social) November 4, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
In bed with a Chinese spy
Under Trump, a Chinese spy has more influence on the most critical issues of our foreign policy than all Americans put together. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/u...
— Timothy Snyder (@timothysnyder.bsky.social) November 9, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
He will never learn anything (or once a liar, always a liar)
Trump: We won in Iran. Again, we haven't lost anybody. No soldiers.
— FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) November 9, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace.
emaycee
A good start
Breaking news: Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The effort centers on Hegseth’s role in the unpopular Iran war, which Massie alleges is unconstitutional.
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) November 9, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
Monday, November 9, 2026
A massive red flag for the GOP
Southern voters swung 20 points toward the Democrats.
— Steve Rattner (@steverattner.bsky.social) November 4, 2026 at 8:39 AM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
An election haiku
An acquaintance wrote a haiku for the electoral victory over Trump and his kowtowers: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha HA! Motherfucker
— MeteorBlades (@meteorblades.bsky.social) November 4, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
Is this really our best option?
Reminder: @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social doesn’t support abolishing ice or Medicare for all (anymore). He also has been backed by AIPAC, takes private meetings with Kushner This is really @TheDemocrats best option for speaker?
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) November 5, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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Peace,
emaycee
A new era of leadership?
Sorry Schumer, The times, they are a changing and leadership must be willing and able to follow.
— Xela Hart (@xelahart.bsky.social) November 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
Sunday, November 8, 2026
CBS continues its push to be America's state media
Trump sycophant Bari Weiss Exposed for Pushing CBS to Smear Democratic Candidates CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has been pushing reporters to use incendiary language and go on goose chases in attempt to attack Abdul El-Sayed and James Talarico.
— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) October 19, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
Shitshow or clownshow? You decide!
Trump: “I am pleased to announce that the Great Dana White, a violent Fighter and Warrior, has been offered the job of Press Secretary of the United States. I have requested that he bring with him assistants … Dana will be a Press Secretary like none other. Dana, please take the job!”
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 7, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
Apparently, they want to get their asses kicked in 2028, too
BREAKING: Trump announces Stephen Miller will become White House Chief of Staff
— Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) November 6, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
The baby bitch is throwing a fit
Trump calls for Democrats who have sent oversight letters and messages to Republicans to be imprisoned and orders Todd Blanche to investigate
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 7, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
Saturday, November 7, 2026
Treat them accordingly
Don't be gracious in victory. Be ruthless. And retaliate. They are awful, deceitful people. Treat them accordingly.
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) November 4, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
Deliver on hope
Mamdani: We cannot mistake last night as the end of the story. Last night creates an opportunity for us, and now it is up to us as the Democratic Party to fulfill that opportunity and deliver on hope in a way that Americans can live, breathe, and feel every single day.
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) November 4, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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Peace,
emaycee
Somehow, moron does not quite convey how stupid Trump actually is
I am late to this post from Trump, but my goodness.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) October 19, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
And hopefully they've been told to go fuck themselves
Pentagon tells Europeans to cool their rhetoric on Russia, sources say Pentagon officials have in recent weeks asked several NATO countries to tone down their rhetoric regarding the threat posed by Russia.
— European News (@eunews.social) October 30, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emayce
Friday, November 6, 2026
Going to be a fun six years
El-Sayed: JD… There is this delicious irony in the fact that you're constitutionally obligated to swear me in. Do you know what that means? Wolverine 1, Buckeyes 0.
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) November 4, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
What we voted for
Wow, this left us speechless, too. Minnesotans are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at the memorials for Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Thank you to everyone who left a sticker in their honor. 💙
— Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) November 4, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
Sick and tired
Americans are tired of being told their needs are unrealistic by politicians who have been bought by the wealthiest people in the country.
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) November 4, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
So Trump's going to get his ass kicked by Cuba, too?
Trump: "We'll take care of Cuba on our way back from Iran ... those beautiful ships, they'll pass Cuba. We'll have one of them stop about 50 yards off the coast. They'll raise up their hands, and then we're gonna send Marco Rubio in."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) October 23, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
Thursday, November 5, 2026
Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. DCXVI--Debbie Reynolds: Tammy
[Blogger's note: Back-to-back-to-back...thrice as nice!]
Baby's got blue skies up ahead, but in this I'm a rain cloud, ours is a stormy kind of love, ohohoh...I'm (only six days!) late again....
My introduction to this week's tune came from a compilation CD that I picked up at--you guessed it!--our local library sale for a dollar. It was a three CD set called The Fabulous Fifties, and disc two, which was cleverly entitled Unforgettable Fifties, was chock full of songs that were, well, uh...unforgettable. As so often has happened on my musical journey, I learned that this week's artist--whom I had only known as a very talented actress--had also been a pop music star....
Debbie Reynolds was born in El Paso, Texas in 1932, and had her breakout role at the ripe old age of twenty when she co-starred in the classic musical (which is actually a quite entertaining movie), Singin' in the Rain. Over the course of her sixty-eight-year career, Reynolds starred in numerous movies, plays, and TV shows, and had her own TV variety show as well as a Las Vegas act. She also released several albums. Reynolds was nominated for a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, a Tony, and an Emmy. Despite her quite successful career, Reynolds biggest claim to fame may have been that she was the mother of Carrie Fisher, of Star Wars fame (he writes "of Star Wars fame" for the three people in the world who don't know who Carrie Fisher was). Reynolds was well known for being down to earth--as an example, despite her fame, she was the leader of her daughter's Girl Scout Troop. Famed dancer and actor Gene Kelly said of her that she was just as happy playing her French Horn as she was starring in movies. Reynolds was a very early supporter of the LGBTQ community and quit her TV show (costing her $2 million) because her contract forbade cigarette advertising on her TV show and the network featured tobacco ads regardless (though she did characterize it later as the stupidest mistake of her career). Sadly, Renolds passed away from a stroke, one day after the sudden death of her daughter Carrie from cardiac arrest, on December 28, 2016.
"Tammy" was released as a single in 1957 from the movie Tammy and the Bachelor and would show up on numerous greatest hits/best of packages that Reynolds released during her career. It reached #1 (with a bullet!) on the Billboard Hot 100, and near as I can tell, may have been the only single she released that charted. It was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song. If you're going to have just one hit, hitting #1 with an Oscar nomination is the way to go....
Fun Fact. Motown founder Berry Gordy was so smitten with "Tammy" that he wanted to name his first record label Tammy. Unfortunately, the name was already taken so he called it Tamla instead (which he later merged with Motown).
There's nothing earth shattering about this one--"Tammy" is a sweet love ballad, filled with lush strings and woodwinds and a tinkled piano key here and there. The lyrics feature numerous references to nature (whippoorwill, owl, leaves rustling) which I thought a bit different until I read about the movie it was featured in and learned that the Reynolds plays a young woman who lives with her grandfather in a shack on a swamp. Not surprisingly for an artist who made her career singing in musicals on stage and screen, it's Reynolds' voice that carries the day--her vocals are as soft and precious as a seventeen-year-old who's falling head over heels in love...which worked out quite well as that was the character she portrayed in Tammy and the Bachelor. This was one of the songs that I fell in love with the first time I heard it and knew I would love for the rest of my life. And it's still keepin' on keepin' on....
Lyric Sheet: "Does my lover feel what I feel/When he comes near/My heart beats so joyfully/You'd think that he could hear..."
Enjoy:
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Peace,
emaycee
We're in for a bumpy two years
the guy is cuckoo. imagine being in his position and giving a rip about this right now.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 4, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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Peace,
emaycee
The courage of ordinary people
The resistance of Minnesotans this winter changed the trajectory of our country and that cannot be overstated.
— Liam Davis Temple (@liam2manynames.bsky.social) November 4, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
For generations
Mamdani: Our job is not to lecture Americans on the choices that they've made. Our job is to listen, and then our job is to lead, and now we have the opportunity to lead with a mandate the likes of which we haven't seen in our country for generations…
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) November 4, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
Love your neighbor as yourself
Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”
— BeshearStan (@beshearstan.bsky.social) October 25, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. DCXV--Bicycle: Electrolux
[Blogger's Aside: Back to back days!]
Saturday in the park, I think it was the Fourth of July, Saturday in the park, I think...I'm (twelve days) late again....
My introduction to this song, as has happened a couple of times before, was catching it on one of those stations featured usually somewhere in the 5000s on your cable TV channel listing. Back in the day, in St. Louis, good times with my kids, too many sleepless nights....
Blogger's Note: This week's post will be, other than the YouTube video for the song, without links (couldn't even find the lyrics anywhere) for most of the information relating to the band. Unfortunately, there was very little info about the band on the world wide web, and the only history I could find was on allmusic.com, which, for whatever reason, always causes my computer to freeze.
Bicycle, near as I can tell, was formed sometime in the nineties by singer/songwriter Kurt Liebert. After being laid off from his job in the pharmaceutical industry, he used his free time to pursue his dream of playing in a band and travelled from gig to gig with his collaborator Forrest Burtnette. They gained a little bit of a reputation, got a few musical grants, and headed for Seattle, where, again near as I can tell, they made the only album of their career in 1999. They had help from Chris Ballew of the band Presidents of the United States of America on production and backing vocals (note his Wikipedia entry makes no note of this work). In addition to Liebert and Burtnette, the band featured Andrew Massey on guitar and Mike Musberger on drums. And that's where my story ends--no idea what became of the band or its members after 1999.
Fun Fact: Bicycle got its name from when Liebert and Burtnette first started playing gigs--they rode to all their performances on bicycles, thus the band's name.
"Electrolux" was released on their rather expertly entitled LP, Bicycle. Though my guess would be neither charted, I have no information as to the success of either single or album.
As regular readers (all three of you) know, emaycee is a big fan of power pop...and that goes a long way to explaining my love for "Electrolux." Massey's guitars pulsate, Musberger's drums pound, and Liebert's vocals are reminiscent of the British Invasion of the sixties. In a nutshell, until this week I never realized how dependent I was on lyrics links for my song descriptions--yikes! Still, all in all, a great little tune that's well worth three minutes and thirteen seconds of your life.
Lyric Sheet: Forget about it--I'm notoriously bad at deciphering lyrics without a cheat sheet.
Enjoy:
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Peace,
emaycee
Our Big Night #5: Worst run campaign in history?
aimless rambling about the reflecting pool is exactly how you motivate voters before election day masterful gambit, mr trump
— Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social) November 2, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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Peace,
emaycee
Our Big Night #4: Everybody hates you
yeah it turns out if you keep shooting people in the street and kidnapping children and making it impossible to get food or healthcare or education and then gloat about it, everybody hates you
— Kat Abughazaleh (@katmabu.bsky.social) November 3, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
Our Big Night #3: A decisive rebuke
This is the first time in 20 years that a Republican president has lost both houses of US Congress.
— Al Jazeera English (@aljazeera.com) November 4, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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Peace,
emaycee
Our Big Night #2: Back to a House for the people
Democrats win majority control of US House, news media projects reut.rs/4ioWv4D
— Reuters (@reuters.com) November 3, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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Peace,
emaycee
Our Big Night #1: The end is here
Democrats win control of the US Senate, ending Republicans’ dominance in Washington
— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune.com) November 4, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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Peace,
emaycee
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. DCXIV--Black Sabbath: Iron Man
"I look pretty tall but my heels are high, the simple things you see are all complicated, I look pretty young but I'm just...(a new FNJ record--18 days!) late again.
I couldn't begin to tell you when I was introduced to this week's song (probably through some AOR radio station back in the day), but my best story about this week's tune was from my Camelot Music days. A woman I worked with got married and invited a number of us from the store to celebrate her nuptials. Rather than the usual quaint reception afterward, she and her new husband invited us all to join them at a heavy metal club which was a) absolutely gigantic in size, and b) completely packed on a Saturday night. A band was performing heavy metal covers and as I sat there in my suit and tie, just a wee bit tipsy, I wondered what I could do to liven up my already pretty interesting evening. My answer was to begin shouting at the top of my lungs for the band to play this week's tune. Over time, most of the wedding party was joining me in screaming the song's title to exhort the band to play it, but alas, they never did....
As may come as a surprise to my loyal readers (all three of them), I'm not exactly a metal head, but I do have to admit that I found the Wikipedia entry for Black Sabbath to be quite interesting. They are another of those bands for which a paragraph can't begin to cover their career, but what the hell, here goes.... Formed in 1968 (the original lineup was vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler, and drummer Bill Ward), they would go on to musical greatness, including being what many consider to be the greatest metal band ever. The band would go through many incarnations (Iommi was the only constant), through the years, disbanding in 2006, reuniting in 2011 for six years, before reuniting for the last time in 2025. Along the way, they sold over seventy million records, were inducted into the U.K. Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, won two Grammy Awards, and were ranked 85th on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All-Time." For their career, Black Sabbath released nineteen studio albums (with nine top ten and two #1's in the U.K., and two top tens and one #1 here in the States), eight live albums, fourteen compilations, and thirty-seven singles (one top ten in the U.K.). Sadly, Osbourne passed away in 2025 (just seventeen days after the band had reunited for a benefit concert); the other members continue to make music.
Fun Fact: Black Sabbath was often equated with the occult, but the band members hated it. As many of their songs were about the inequity of society (wars, class warfare, unequal justice), the members considered themselves to be a socially conscious band.
"Iron Man" was the second single from their 1970 album, the rather suspiciously entitled Paranoid. The single would hit #52 in the U.S. (their highest charting song here) and #48 in their native U.K. The album (considered by many to be the greatest metal album of all time) would hit #1 in Great Britain and #12 in America. The song was also ranked at #317 on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" while the album was #139 on its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time."
"Iron Man" tells the tale of a man who goes into the future and witnesses the end of life as we know it, and while coming back to warn us of our dire predicament is turned into a man of metal (writer Bill Ward says he was completely unfamiliar with the Marvel Iron Man character when he wrote it and the song has nothing to do with him). While he tries to educate people on their upcoming demise, they make fun of him and eventually he gets pissed off and becomes the one to destroy the planet. Ward said his Iron Man was an allegory for Jesus Christ, though with his ending being fuck your neighbor rather than love your neighbor. As noted above, I'm not a metal head, but Iommi's main guitar riff is apocalyptic (great solo later in the song, too), Ward's drumming (especially at the beginning) sets the ominous tone, and Osbourne's droning vocals capture the protagonist's angst and anger perfectly. If more metal songs were like this one, I'd probably be right up there with Beavis and Butthead in heavy metal fandom....
Lyric Sheet: "He was turned to steel/In the great magnetic field/When he travelled time/For the future of mankind..."
Enjoy:
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Peace,
emaycee
Election Day: This blog trolls fascists #2
OBAMA: That just feels a little bit different… where people are so sick and tired of being sick and tired. After 2 years of chaos. and cruelty. and corruption. and incompetence—you get a chance to say enough's enough.
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) October 24, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Peace,
emaycee
Election Day: This blog trolls fascists #1
Get your ass out and vote!
— Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 (@chariselee.bsky.social) October 17, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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Peace,
emaycee
Monday, November 2, 2026
Trump taking care of his rich buddies at our expense
"The war with Iran has been very lucrative for American oil companies, which have earned more than $130 billion in profit as people pay much higher prices for gasoline, diesel and other fuel."
— James Downie (@jamescdownie.bsky.social) October 30, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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Peace,
emaycee
The truthfulness in this statement is staggering
Obama argues that we won’t fix our political problems unless we rediscover our moral compass first
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) October 24, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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Peace,
emaycee
Absolutely shocked by this one...
Pentagon refuses to probe Starlink, Starshield restrictions in Ukraine – media #Ukraine
— AmplifyUkraine 🔱🇺🇦 (@amplifyukraine.eu) October 29, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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Peace,
emaycee
Haley's vomit
Haley Stevens is absolutely betraying the Democratic Party. She claims she’s opposing hate, while endorsing a Republican who ran a blatantly Islamophobic campaign to help empower the most overtly racist president in modern American history. Disingenuous insanity.
— Ahmed Baba (@ahmedbaba.bsky.social) November 1, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
Sunday, November 1, 2026
All they have left is the racism
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) October 26, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Someone's worried...
as you read the insane campaign fundraising numbers dropping today please recall that currently Elon Musk is personally responsible for about 1 in every 20 dollars spent on behalf of Republicans nationwide in 2026; I wouldn’t be surprised if when the dust settles that number is as high as 1 in 10
— ghost malone ergo propter bones (@proptermalone.bsky.social) October 16, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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Peace,
emaycee
Apparently, fascist and criminal people of color are okay
Losing an election is not grounds for asylum. apnews.com/article/braz...
— Joaquin Castro (@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social) October 27, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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Peace,
emaycee
How can anyone take these people seriously?
Hassett on inflation trending up, and next to a graphic showing gas at $4.22 a gallon: "The inflation story is a positive one"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) October 29, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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Fuck Donald Trump
Peace,
emaycee
Saturday, October 31, 2026
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