Chantal

Chantal

@talmonster.bsky.social

I don’t even know anymore

147 followers1.6K following117 posts

The national guard is invading our cities, the federal government has declared war on trans people and anyone who isn’t MAGA…and the Democratic Party just sent me an email asking for money so they can raise the taxes on billionaires. Way to seize the moment, yall.

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NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

wired.comThe FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut OutMetadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

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Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey refused to approve thalidomide in the US, saving thousands of babies from devastating birth defects. Her success despite gender bias-she was initially hired at the FDA partly because her first name "Frances" was mistaken for "Francis" #WomenInSTEM tiny.cc/x14j001

tiny.ccHow One Determined FDA Scientist Saved American Children From a Birth Defect CatastropheDr. Frances Kelsey resisted intense industry pressure to approve thalidomide; the drug was the cause of severe birth defects in over 10,000 infants in other countries.

Yall, there’s gonna be a storm named after me this year. This is a big deal for the little girl who couldn’t ever find her name on any of those personalized pins/toothbrushes/bracelets/keychains they sold at the mall.

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"Incidentally, the president’s sudden push for the tourist destination of Alcatraz to once again become a maximum-security prison complex came just hours after a South Florida PBS station aired the 1979 classic film Escape from Alcatraz. The president spent the past weekend... in Palm Beach."

independent.co.ukTrump announced Alcatraz reopening hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired on PBSThe 1979 film starring Clint Eastwood about the daring 1962 escape attempt aired on the local PBS channel just six hours before the president made his demand that the prison be reopened

2AM is a real bitch of a time when you have a newborn. Do I try to sleep? Nah, better just lay here in the dark and wait for the next dinosaur screech that summons me to the milk and poop mines.

Ok I’m getting really annoyed at all the websites that force you to subscribe or have an account to get the news. I don’t post on FB much, but I am always on the lookout for articles/information that my normie/conservative extended family can digest easily. 🧵

Stuff about how DOGE cuts are hurting veterans and retirees, how DEI mania is removing important parts of history and making us worse, stuff about children suffering in Gaza and Ukraine due to foreign policies, and all over the world because of the end of USAID. But every time I think I’ve found one

The actual story is behind a paywall. No wonder the conspiracy theories and fear mongering go viral so easily! The bad information is free while the actual information is pay to play. I’m trying to get pebbles of actual info out there while they’re just spamming the internet with free garbage.

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I feel like we need to form a League of Relatively Normal People, and our agenda should be things like: --Canada's cool, leave them be --Lot of smart people at universities, that's a plus --We're scared of getting cancer, so let's research it --Fewer floods and wildfires would be nice

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The GOP pitch is "short term pain for long term pain." This is exactly how QAnon worked - things will be very ugly and bloody for a while, but it has to happen to usher in the golden age of wealth and freedom. The GOP is running the QAnon playbook for the entire economy.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

SANCHEZ: What do you tell your constituents when you hear auto makers say that the cost of certainly vehicle is gonna skyrocket? It's gonna jump upwards of $12,000 because of these tariffs? REP. LISA McCLAIN: I tell them to relax ... it might be a little uncomfortable

A thread about hippos to cleanse the palette.

Nome@nome.bsky.social

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

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Replying to @adamserwer.bsky.social

Immigrants, trans people, palestinian rights activists, eventually it’s going to be your turn when the regime decides you are an enemy

I am having a baby soon and I swear if I have to drag my newly post partum butt & incredibly vulnerable newborn to a Social Security field office to make them a Legal American Human while there is fucking bird flu and measles and MAGAs running wild…my wrath will be limitless and all consuming.

Arthur Delaney@delaneyrules.bsky.social

The Trump admin canceled contracts with Maine's CDC supporting "enumeration at birth" -- the way 99% of American babies get their Social Security Numbers. Now Maine parents have to visit field offices in-person to get their newborn SSNs Why? No reason given. www.huffpost.com/entry/maine-...

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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

I know we all kinda knew that the Dems were just Rs with (slightly) better social skills, but the mask is really coming off as far as anyone believing there is any real Opposition party in this country. “Sorry bout the fascism, it’s your fault for not voting hard enough.”

Greg Giroux@greggiroux.bsky.social

US House voted 224-198 to censure Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) Republicans 214-0 Democrats 10-198 (with 2 Ds voting "present")

My mom (and a lot of her white middle class boomer age friends) STILL firmly believe that this is all political theater and nothing is going to actually change. Because it hasn’t effected them yet, and so anything they hear about other people being effected must be an overreaction or hysterics.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social

MIL just told us of a relative, a mom, who has a trans child. She voted for Trump, so her kid moved out (obvi) and now the mom feels she has “egg” on her face because she “didn’t realize it would be so bad.” And I have a lot of questions, structural, about how this is not an aberration.

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As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.

Someone in my local FB group just posted a video of someone keying their Tesla in a parking lot. Apparently it records video of that kind of thing. I just thought everyone should know for no reason at all.

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No wonder I had an anxiety disorder - I spent the last 10 years seeing this coming and feeling like I couldn’t do enough to stop it. I say “had” because I’m 100% anxiety free now. Maybe it’s the perverse relief of the horrible thing finally happening - seeing the enemy’s face clearly.

I left an abusive relationship decades ago, but the second Vance started talking about how Z should be grateful I felt my body shut down. It was like I was 16 in that locked car again. Trying everything I could to get out of the situation but knowing exactly how it was going to go. Fuck that noise.

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The country is literally being run by the worst type of men possible and frankly we deserve to be shut out from the rest of the world. Block our number and go full no contact. Send your biggest and burliest friends to pick up your stuff and never drive by the neighborhood again. Save yourself.

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Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.

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Replying to @denisedwheeler.bsky.social

This was harder than I thought because things that would seem hilariously outrageous a few months ago are now in the “too true” category. Went with a classic and uploaded a copy of the CDCs pre-RFK vaccine schedule

I truly hate living in the area where I live. It’s beautiful, and full of cool history, and small town aesthetics that I enjoy…but the people…oh the people. How am I supposed to raise two white male children to be good, kind, people in a place where they are going to be surrounded by this?

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helluva thread from the hellsite about the comically bad “savings” doge claims to have found (sorry for the weirdly sized screenshots, I had to squeeze everything into only 4 of them)

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RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

Scene: my living room after a 10 minute fight about Trumps foreign policy. A thread. Mom: *dripping in sarcasm*well I guess you think the U.S. is just the BAD guy then. Me: we ARE the bad guys in this instance. This is all very BAD.

Mom: *absolutely shocked* oh, nice love for your country you have there! Me: I DONT WANT TO LOVE THE COUNTRY THAT IS THE BAD GUYS! Mom: ugh, what a sad brain you have. I feel sorry for you. So we should just get nuked then?