Maria Bruno
@mariabruno01
Talk too much about Ohio state politics, extremism, and billionaires. Executive Director, Ohioans Against Extremism @Ohagainstextremism.bsky.social Ohagainstextremism.org
As a longtime advocate for trans rights, I was asked about the “controversy” surrounding Ohio governor candidate Amy Acton’s recent comments on trans athletes. Here’s what I said.
This is very good. A visual look at the absurdity of our current economy $1=1mm $83k (avg. income) $1 million $1 billion Elon’s wealth.
Trump stickers on gas pumps throughout the Midwest are about to hit different
This is an Ohio lawmaker sharing a post that calls for one of her peers — a lawfully elected sitting state representative — to be deported. She appears to be openly advocating that one of her peers be denaturalized (have his citizenship ripped away) Depraved doesn’t cover it.
Senator Bernie Moreno (& Jerry Cirino’s daughter) saw a post from the troll account LibsofTiktok, then used their official power to harass the school district… despite it being completely false. A pathetic but increasingly frequent display of incompetence & malice. www.cleveland.com/lake-county/...
FYI I cannot see messages on this app. Ohio passed a dumbass law and now Bluesky wants me to give info to a third party vendor to “verify my age” to even see who messaged me, which I’m not doing. So, long story short, don’t message me. I won’t see it.
Yes the world is exploding and all that but this morning I picked a perfect raspberry and we had a photo shoot to celebrate her beauty before i sent her to berry heaven🍓👼
Please, I beg you all to learn about how algorithms literally shape your perception of reality. Some of you guys think people are demonizing a guy who just loved his family, while others think normies are praising hateful rhetoric. And both sides are… wrong.
I know it’s all a dumpster fire but as your resident “person who pays attention to crazy extremists” I’d like to provide the following update: white supremacists are infighting like crazy and it’s hilarious.
These last 2 weeks, leaves suddenly shot up. Proving my pessimism wrong. Look at this beauty. Sometimes it pays off to be persistent & patient, & keep the hopeful watering, even when you don’t actually feel very optimistic. I’m choosing to make this a metaphor about the moment we’re in.
Completely deranged “joke” about feeding human beings to crocodiles from Ohio’s Butler County Sheriff’s Office. This is the culture set by the guy that loves being on RW News & enjoys dehumanizing immigrants & spreading disinformation for his own personal gain.
There’s a group of people getting rich off of making Ohio into a surveillance and police state. They should face so much more scrutiny. www.statenews.org/government-p...
People massively underestimate what a viral video can do to undermine a campaign relying solely on “name recognition”. Mamdani isn’t even MENTIONED in the January and March (4 months ago!) articles about Cuomo entering the race. People can learn names.
Today I learned that if you have an IPhone, you have to manually revoke AI data mining permission for each individual APP. Meaning by default, Apple Is training AI based on how you, IPhone user, use your phone apps. As the kids say, we are so cooked
Video 1: Trump is terrorizing our communities and kidnapping people and that’s unconscionable Video 2: communities that don’t fall in line when terrorized by militarized police violence will be prosecuted and punished to the full extent of the law lol the “dem messaging problem” in a nutshell
Ok we are playing this MLK game again: he said the biggest impediments to justice are ppl doing nothing but criticizing the victims of racist brutality rather than lifting a finger to prevent the brutality. Also his nonviolence got him killed anyway. yall tell on yourselves
MAGA is weaponizing their trans obsession to build animosity towards a Reagan-appointed judge. You should care about hate against trans people bc trans people deserve freedom & dignity. But you should also care bc their demonization is a tool to undermine the rule of law.
We need to deal with the fact that the loneliest people on the planet are consuming hours of propaganda sludge for hours on end, every single day.
The top political funders are making business decisions with extremely predictable political consequences. One more fucking poll about people’s feelings on trans athletes is not the critical analysis missing from this conversation. Cross-posting from the bad place
I was 26 in 2016 & while in college a few years earlier, my friends & I made a safety plan before we went to parties, esp on campus, bc we knew if we were raped (which was super common) the school was unlikely to believe us. Obama started a whole ass initiative to address it. But go off, king!!
Question re: strategy. What’s the brilliant strategic vision behind going on to Fox News to give them free clips of you bashing the members of your party bringing in 10,000+ crowds in bright red states on an odd number year? Plz explain like I’m 5