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Tessa🌹

@aquariusing.bsky.social

30-something. Socialist. American. Political scientist. Polyglot. Comics nerd. Vancouver Canucks fan. Can be found consuming horror genre media. ❌👑 https://dsausa.org/join 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦

created November 30, 2023

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Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

And bust out the hazmat suits and quarantine it

2/9/2025, 5:12:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

I say we cancel tomorrow, just as a precaution. Skip us to Wednesday

2/9/2025, 4:50:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

About the 2 pm announcement from the Oval that has no details on the topic? I found out as soon as I got into bed and this is my lesson on why checking the socials at night is bad because wooooo no sleep now for me

2/9/2025, 4:43:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 (@50501movement.bsky.social) reposted

C’mon folks 19 states are facing occupation, let’s make sure this toolkit makes it around BlueSky 🤗 WE are the resistance!

1/9/2025, 3:40:52 AM | 436 216 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

ain't THAT the fucking truth; they were writing his eulogies anyway as it was already. hypocrites, all of them

1/9/2025, 2:13:48 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

A-freaking-men to this

1/9/2025, 2:08:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

Robert Mueller was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2021. We’re just learning about it now because he was asked to testify in the Epstein matter and won’t be able to. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

1/9/2025, 1:23:02 AM | 5273 1425 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dreamwidth Status (@dreamwidth.org) reposted

Reminder that we will begin geoblocking connections from Mississippi tonight, plus new news: we must also temporarily block signups from users under 18 from Tennessee. dw-news.dreamwidth.org/44774.html

31/8/2025, 8:21:44 PM | 70 51 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sande (@sande0724.bsky.social) reposted

Now that this is settled, it's time to.... RELEASE THE FILES.

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31/8/2025, 12:02:18 AM | 78 31 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

The US military decisions every decade/decade and a half are like "well guys and gals, it's been a minute since we rolled up and stole some oil, how 'bout it?"

31/8/2025, 3:06:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) reposted

Because…it’s a week 👇 Where are Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, anyway? 🤷‍♂️

31/8/2025, 2:58:28 AM | 128 29 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

My cynical yet realistic/based on precedent answer is "oil?"

31/8/2025, 3:00:21 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

(If the POTUS wants a 51st state so badly, DC has been asking for decades, shit)

31/8/2025, 2:09:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

I have. A LOT OF FEELINGS. about this being framed as only or mostly tariffs.

31/8/2025, 2:05:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social)

How about we stop begging Canadians just for money, & if we truly want to call them our friends and allies, make this country a safe place to come to and want to come to? Also, it's not mostly a tariff issue. It's the disrespect of "51st state" rhetoric issue that few US politicians have denounced.

31/8/2025, 2:04:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Back the blue unless the blue defends democracy, I guess

31/8/2025, 1:59:43 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social)

I needed this laugh. Thank you, social media algorithm

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31/8/2025, 1:49:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jacobin (@jacobinmag.bsky.social) reposted

In a close election, 1,200 battery plant workers at the BlueOval SK Battery Park in Kentucky voted to join the United Auto Workers this week. The ultimate outcome of the vote will hinge on 41 ballots that the union is challenging.

30/8/2025, 11:34:08 PM | 28 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social)

Americans want the Epstein files and the One Big Beautiful News Notification.

30/8/2025, 9:55:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Oil execs *are* effectively arsonists.

30/8/2025, 9:53:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

So many people showed their asses on this one with covid. Early pandemic I saw, in doctor's offices, signs that were like "tell us if you've been to China recently" like it was the early 80s with AIDS and an association around gay people then.

30/8/2025, 8:24:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social)

Remember, everyone: This is not normal to see in American cities. It cannot become normal.

30/8/2025, 7:25:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Good god. And even IF a service wasn't going 100% away, surely he knows that fewer dollars into a service means the service is inherently diminished; it can't serve as many people or as quickly, et cetera, snowballing into a weaker value for it as a whole.

30/8/2025, 5:30:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

So you asked why and promptly got gaslit about the definition of budget cuts? That's how this reads to me

30/8/2025, 5:24:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social)

Gross. Trump's looks like a tacky representation of a palace (intentionally, I'm sure), and we had a whole-ass war here about our take on kings.

30/8/2025, 4:28:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Same. We all really came together hoping for the same thing.

30/8/2025, 4:24:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

I thought he hated shaking hands

30/8/2025, 4:21:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Legit

30/8/2025, 3:29:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

TACO in five, four....

30/8/2025, 3:18:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social)

Where is the One Big Beautiful notification?

30/8/2025, 3:12:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Hopefully an early one

30/8/2025, 2:07:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social)

It was fun while it lasted y'all 😩

30/8/2025, 1:44:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't give him ideas 🤣

30/8/2025, 6:17:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Here's hoping we wake up to good news

30/8/2025, 6:16:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

The yelling and jumping around will cause earthquakes

30/8/2025, 5:56:55 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

30/8/2025, 5:54:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Max Berger (@maxberger.bsky.social) reposted

Live your life so that people don’t consider rumors of your death a form of edging.

30/8/2025, 5:42:04 AM | 4922 752 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social)

I gave up hitting refresh on my feed here and the news, took a shower and now it's almost 2 am and still nothing

30/8/2025, 5:48:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

All of us right now:

30/8/2025, 4:45:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social)

I'm ready for a fucking party. 🙏 Clots and prayers

30/8/2025, 4:42:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

wait was the last time we saw him at that fucking cabinet meeting?

30/8/2025, 4:17:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

new fear unlocked

30/8/2025, 4:16:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Not a bad idea hahah, we shouldn't be caught unprepared

30/8/2025, 3:56:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

We need the outfits, we need the wine, the music, the decorations

30/8/2025, 3:50:51 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

We can only hope

30/8/2025, 3:48:04 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Is that couch lover's only line??

30/8/2025, 3:46:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael P. Breen (@mpbreen21.bsky.social) reposted

The phrase “unconstitutional abuse of power” is right there

29/8/2025, 4:07:52 PM | 331 88 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Max Berger (@maxberger.bsky.social) reposted

It’s important that everyone act as if the federal government is occupied by a group of Nazi sympathizing, neo-Confederate insurrectionists who are opposed to multiracial democracy and at war with the constitution—because that’s exactly what’s happening.

29/8/2025, 4:04:00 PM | 439 133 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) reposted

👇🎯

29/8/2025, 4:05:52 PM | 68 23 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

That's not the flex abbott thinks it is

29/8/2025, 4:10:53 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jenn Burrill (@jennburrill.bsky.social) reposted

The 2nd Amendment is there so people can defend themselves against a tyrannical government, not to kill their neighbors

28/8/2025, 8:33:47 PM | 6 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Me, watching all the militias and 2A wingnuts sworn to defend against a tyrannical government.

29/8/2025, 1:37:48 AM | 537 74 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

28/8/2025, 9:39:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Why? so the GOP can say he's the bestest boy?

28/8/2025, 4:17:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social)

Just a reminder that she was a traitor to the United States and a vile piece of scum who deserves no honor. May her grave be a public toilet.

28/8/2025, 4:12:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

The worms in his brain are speaking to him probably

28/8/2025, 2:22:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Furthermore it's not a woman's job to tell men why they need to have empathy

28/8/2025, 12:36:56 PM | 93 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Uh...

28/8/2025, 11:15:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

*oh no* 🤡 I guess 🎵the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now, she's dead🎵 welp

28/8/2025, 5:50:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

They really are, whew. I'd say they're so loud they're deafening but I am literally deaf in one ear since summer 2021 so maybe that's too accurate to say 😂

28/8/2025, 5:42:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

I literally thought this was that "Q Anon Shaman" J6 guy with the dumbass face paint. They really have a look about them

28/8/2025, 5:39:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ed Markey (@edmarkey.bsky.social) reposted

Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.

28/8/2025, 1:43:52 AM | 14044 3188 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social)

American heroes of the post-2024 election era: Luigi and sandwich guy. 🫡🗽

28/8/2025, 1:55:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org) reposted

We’re taking action to stop “ICE Air.” Avelo Airlines is cashing in on Trump’s cruel deportation machine by running secretive, often illegal, flights. Join our campaign to make these flights too costly to continue. www.groundavelo.org/...

28/8/2025, 1:47:00 AM | 653 227 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Sheinbaum in 2026 CUSMA renegotiations is gonna be like: "Anyway, now that we see I WAS RIGHT, I have some other things I would like to point out..." [pulls out big binder] And I'm here for it

28/8/2025, 1:49:21 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Honestly though. Do you think when North American delegations go somewhere, she's like "I don't know these gringos, they're just guys to my north"

28/8/2025, 1:44:14 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Most Americans love Canada, so know we support you right back even though our government shamefully does not reflect that.

28/8/2025, 1:40:58 AM | 33 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

And a scientist! She is such a breath of fresh political air in this hellscape.

28/8/2025, 1:37:14 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

As an American: no. Canada is a sovereign nation and has its own merits of greatness, devoid of US comparison.

28/8/2025, 1:33:47 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Naturally, the female president puts her male North American counterpart leaders to shame. Love to see it. Another good argument for electing smart, community focused, women to office.

28/8/2025, 1:31:25 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Absolute fucking weirdos!! Walz was right on the money

28/8/2025, 1:28:50 AM | 42 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Well sucks to be Dementia Don because we the people want elections

28/8/2025, 1:27:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

That chance for - positive - possibility is keeping me sane right now. I don't want to go back to where we were even a year ago, b/c I want to go somewhere better, & want to do it w/ rebuilding alliances too. And if the fascists think I'm not gonna bust my ass trying to get there, bad news for them.

28/8/2025, 1:26:09 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Secy Brainworms is a fool

28/8/2025, 1:18:36 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Simon Rosenberg (@simonwdc.bsky.social) reposted

Trump hasn't gone on vacation this summer, been throwing a lot at us. Recent polls suggest it isn't working: 37-55 Quinnipiac 40-56 Gallup 41-56 Strength In Numbers 👇 41-56 Econ/YG 40-54 Ipsos/Reuters S/I/N has Ds +8 in generic ballot, Q has Trump 41-56 on DC occupation. bsky.app/profile/gell...

27/8/2025, 8:39:13 PM | 376 89 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted

This administration of extremists, quacks, and grifters continues to endanger the lives and health of millions

27/8/2025, 8:49:13 PM | 4448 1279 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Apparently it's: If he can't 'have' the US, no one can

27/8/2025, 8:25:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

HAH. (I'm not gonna lie, it's also been kind of funny watching MAGA realize that Scott Bessent used to work for Soros and is also the highest ranking LGBT person in the administration)

27/8/2025, 8:17:12 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Damn, another sellout

27/8/2025, 8:10:33 PM | 15 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Paranoia because he knows he's dying fast

27/8/2025, 8:05:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

I assume we as a country should expect any day now, in this clown show government, to see national guard troops in Mississippi families' homes, as well as Mississippi hospitals?

27/8/2025, 8:04:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

if Republicans can ignore rulings, I don't see a problem here for Democrats to do the same

27/8/2025, 7:48:24 PM | 36 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

The Republican definition of "but but but Free Market Capitalism!!!!!!!" we've all had to hear them screech about since Reagan sure is taking on wild new meanings

27/8/2025, 7:47:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 7:41:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

we noticed you're not, donnie

27/8/2025, 7:40:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

hahahahahahahahahahahahah

27/8/2025, 7:38:53 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Insert the 'I'm not surprised, just disappointed' meme here. I call them cosplaytriots.

27/8/2025, 7:37:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

"Don't Tread On Me" became "Oh Yeah Tread On Me Harder Daddy" real fast and I'm like... y'all are EMBARRASSING

27/8/2025, 7:18:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

And not having to hear another 2A dudebro talk about how they like guns in order to take out a tyrannical government as it was written for, while they were the same people who were storming the Capitol on Jan. 6th & are sitting around letting an actual tyrannical gov't run roughshod over the US

27/8/2025, 7:15:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social)

"...For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:...."

27/8/2025, 7:09:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

As an American woman who's not a 2A fanatic, I would accept these terms of a compromise.

27/8/2025, 7:08:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah because he's a bat shit, brainwormed fascist, gravel voice dipshit

27/8/2025, 3:15:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

I believe the term is "in cahoots with"

27/8/2025, 3:14:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Also. Look. I know there are good people in the US military and state national guards, but after being turned on us on our soil -- nah man, I'm not trusting a uniform wearing person again. Fuck that entirely.

27/8/2025, 1:59:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

Absolute psychopaths, the whole lot of them

27/8/2025, 1:55:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social)

I think one of the more absurd things about the cabinet meeting yesterday was the cabinet was so chill when media was asking Trump shit like what cities he wanted to federally take over next. Like it's some kind of joke, 'Dementia Donnie which citizens do you want to terrorize with your GI Joe toys'

27/8/2025, 1:54:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

L O L. I hope she loses

27/8/2025, 1:47:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

How about a big "hell" followed by a "no"

27/8/2025, 1:09:05 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social) reply parent

And not only that, tell us how you will bring charges against the MAGA regime for their crimes. We can't make the post Civil War mistake again.

27/8/2025, 3:51:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tessa🌹 (@aquariusing.bsky.social)

The American people deserve candidates who will call out the fascists and fascism here, and not mince words or be "polite" about it. Our democracy deserves it. Call. These. Un-American. Fuckers. OUT. It's we the god damn people, y'all.

27/8/2025, 3:48:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view