Maximum Mary

@maximummary.bsky.social

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Noir hound, knitter, all around hep kitten

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Just turned on the TV weather and the storm is a fair bit north of me. Stay safe up there!

Holy shit. Window only open a crack because it’s still 86, but blast of wind just blew the shades up into the room.

I like to have the patterns for my current knitting projects on my iPad, able to be accessed whether or not I am currently on wi-fi

A 1979 dollar is worth $4.33 today, but Vogue did used to have fashion that regular people could wear, not just aspirational fantasy

Shelley Duvall for Vogue back in 1979, reminding us all how drab post 2000's fashion is and how we really should need to put more colour back to our daily lives. #fashion #shelleyduvall #actress #vogue

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How much coverage have you seen of the fact the stock market is currently at an all-time high? What percentage of Americans are aware of this fact? Why or why not?

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I was just thinking about how Obama had the PUMAs to contend with heading into his 2008 convention, Clinton had Bernie or Bust in 2016, and now Biden has this sort of cross-cutting rebellion that elected progressives have decided not to join.

I knew having AOC, Bernie and other progressives demonstrate they have his back would pay dividends but I didn't think it would happen so quickly

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Just a reminder: Trump inherited the lowest homicide rate of any president in 50 years. He was the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher homicide rate than when he entered. And the rate has dropped every year since he left. www.foxnews.com/video/635815...

RNC day 2 to focus on crime and safety as victims' families speak out | Fox News Videowww.foxnews.com Erin Rachwal, who lost her son to fentanyl poisoning and Sheri and Aaron Sparks, who lost their son in the Waukesha parade attack, on the need to hold criminals accountable and stop the influx of illi...

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Oh, it turns out I figured out what to do with all of my anger! It’s a huge, free essay on whiteness and boundaries and why I spent all of yesterday bopping white liberal racism on the head. www.patreon.com/posts/108254...

I’m actually still very angry about this and I’m not sure how I’m going to deal with it, but absolutely none of my coping strategies will include bullying white marginalized people because I’m actually interested in progress

Racism, Transphobia, and the Bluesky Brigade | Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBluewww.patreon.com Get more from Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBlue on Patreon

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Biden's bravest policy move, where he paid a big political cost, was ending U.S. involvement in a major war that Trump and Obama didn't end.

It is possible that some of the things Republicans will say tonight are not strictly true. But the one that always gets to me is the claim that four years ago the US was at peace.

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I keep reading this and every time I get to "She ate the whole man" I start sobbing with laughter It's not that it's funny, perfectly unremarkable behaviour for many varieties of arthropods, it's just SHE ATE THE WHOLE MAN

She ate the whole man. There are a few wings at the bottom of the enclosure, but he's just GONE.

Also, Medicaid funds the US organ donation program, haven’t seen much on what the drastic cuts and lifetime caps would mean for that

if you’re trying to engage with politically disconnected people about project 2025, identify a specific part that you think will resonate with them. i just told my friend who’s a public school teacher about the plan to abolish the department of education and that got her hooked.

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Michael Tae Sweeney

Yup. Energy transitions when they occur produce social-scapes that are discontinuous with what preceded them. The one we're in now snuck up on us, but this sh*t matters.

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Just buy 2000 billboards in Western Pennsylvania with Vance's picture that say "this MFer from cincinnati" bsky.app/profile/mtsw...

The media wants you to believe JD Vance grew up in small town Appalachia when he grew up in exurban Cinci. 45 minute drive down the interstate if you want to see a Reds game

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Nobody at the RNC came to hear Boris Johnson and Kellyanne Conway. How embarrassing. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Haven’t been going to Readercon since it moved to Quincy, kinda miss it, but cons are no longer just a fun safe space to hide from the weather and knit during panels

Kids, if you went to #Readercon, test yourself for #Covid-19. Some folks have already been testing positive. 😢

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A much better timeline cleanse than the cybertrux going around.

A Barbara Stanwyck ad for Royal Crown Cola. Stanwyck was BOTD in 1907.

The no masks in hospitals is really about the fact that the medical profession is highly Republican, even the parts fully funded by Medicaid

It’s great to see Olympians and Tour de France cyclists are now wearing masks, but it says a lot that society is more invested in protecting famous athletes than people who are sick in hospitals, where there are no mask requirements these days.

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Happy birthday Barbara Stanwyck, who will play me in the time travel movie of my life.

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Me and my son don't know nuthin' about no bank robbin', Sheriff.

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The specific language I'd recommend is "Republicans are cutting taxes for billionaires and taking away your refund to pay for it"

Said it before, I’ll say it again, tell people Republicans want to take away their tax refunds.

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It does feel like wrapping an orphaned baby birb in a fresh tortilla to keep it warm while rehabbers come to collect it is uniquely American

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Large landlords would lose out on a federal tax write-off if they hiked rents more than 5% a year under a new proposal from President Biden

Biden Calls for National Rent Control on Corporate Landlordswww.bloomberg.com The White House proposal would cap rent increases at 5% for millions of tenants nationwide. But Congress is unlikely to act.

Arizona is 49th in public school funding and they are now gifting nearly half a billion to private school and homeschooling parents. So much grifting.

Yeah. Probably should just fund public schools.

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Trump holding the Bible was among the highlights of his presidency. It was like watching an orangutan hold a graphing calculator

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oh please let this be true

timeline cleanse hat tip @penryu.bsky.social

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As soon as we learned that Crooks was a registered Republican it was clear that the assassination attempt was going to be a two-day story.

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Still amazed by how quickly we all moved on from the USSS wiping its comm records after the January 6 insurrection.

Of all the many fantasies that The West Wing propagated about American political life, the most absurd in light of many subsequent events was the idea that the Secret Service was an incorruptible and superbly-run organization staffed by consummate professionals.

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I feel like republicans freaking out about jd vance, who is policywise everything they could've wanted and has spent the last six years molding himself into trump's mini-me, is instructive about the dangers of moving from "theoretical alternative politician" to "actual person on the ballot"

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Every space is a liminal space if you can never remember what you came into a room for.

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I'm working on policy proposals to protect consumer rights when companies brick smart devices. So please share devices that you've owned that stopped working because the company that made it killed software support or went out of business. Also, please share this request. Thank you.