mizmaxgordon

@mizmaxgordon

Proud Liberal🇺🇸, writer, editor, pacifist, mom🏳️‍🌈, INTP❤️Lakes, brownies, good coffee, words.

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mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· May 13

Consumer confidence sank to a historic low when inflation surged and then rose. But it was still lower when Biden left office than when his term began. www.factcheck.org/2025/10/bide...

A chart showing up and down arrows indicating some economic facors under Biden

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Mar 26

Fixed it.

3 young men with Hitler-style mustaches.

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Mar 19

And gains the world nothing. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

First six days of the US war in Iran: $12.7bn
Cost the same as one year of...
Paying 9% of the US's elementary school teachers
Paying 47% of the US's firefighters
Medical care for 693,000 veterans
1.5 million public housing units
Medicaid for 3.6m children

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Mar 9

We love you, @fpwellman.bsky.social

Screen shot of two posts. The top one, from fucknut Markwayne Mullin, says, "I will lead the breach. I will lay down cover fire. I will take the high ground. I'll expose myself to enemy fire to communicate. We must bring back integrity, focus, and put the Warfighter first inside DOD. I stand with @SecDef @PeteHegseth."

The bottom post, a response from @FPWellman, says, "You're afucking plumber! You've never served!!! You could have, but you didn't. We had the longest war in U.S. history, and you sat that shit out the whole time—but now you want to be a big tough guy for the idiot that can't keep a secret. You're such a fucking joke. No one is scared of you. Go clear a drain of your own bullshit."

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Mar 7

Thanks to @siannan.bsky.social on IG

Image show a warship blowing up. Superimposed over it is a post from someone named @richiebree that says, "Torpedos must be the only pedos the U.S. government is willing to fire."

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Feb 17

Both had been out for a several years when I was 19, but they wwere heavy in my rotation that year:

Dreamboat Annie album cover (artist: the band Heart)

Diamonds and Rust album cover (artist: Joan Baez)

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Feb 17

The Ballad of Blankey-Clutching Barbie and Her Cameo-Hustling Cuck-Maker, Corey: open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Image shows Corey Lewandowski and Kristi Noem.

Text says, "Remember when Scott Pruitt’s $3,000 tactical wardrobe was the height of federal corruption? We thought we’d hit rock bottom. Turns out that was the kiddie pool. Because Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski just couples-retreat cannonballed in, yelling, “Hold our KY!” while commandeering a luxury jet on Ma & Pa MAGA’s dime and turning it into a mile-high corruption cabana—all while deporting landscapers, nannies, and abuelitas who probably paid more in taxes than their collective spray-tan budget."

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Feb 16

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Text says, "Someone said if the Epstein files were full of Black men, America would be on fire right now. There wouldv'e been hundreds of arrests, media dragging everybody nonstop. And honestly...they didn;t lie. But since it's them white hellites, it's crickets and "ongoing investigations." Like, what are y'all actually doing?"

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Feb 15

I second this motion.

Test says,
Dear Democratic Senators: If you are forced into a filibuster over the SAVE Act, I suggest you use that time to read the Epstein Files out loud into the record."

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Feb 14

Text shows a quote from Alexei Navalny's widow:

'Now there is proof: Putin killed Alexei with chemical weapon,' Navalnaya says

Yulia Navalnaya has just responded to the UK statement on her social media channels:

“Scientists from five European countries have established: my husband, Alexei Navalny, was poisoned with epibatidine – a neurotoxin, one of the deadliest poisons on earth. In nature, this poison can be found on the skin of the Ecuadorian dart frog. It causes paralysis, respiratory arrest, and a painful death.

I was certain from the first day that my husband had been poisoned, but now there is proof: Putin killed Alexei with chemical weapon.

I am grateful to the European states for the meticulous work they carried out over two years and for uncovering the truth.

Vladimir Putin is a murderer. He must be held accountable for all his crimes.”

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Feb 7

I know it's early. We're tired. We need some relief. But the country is being ripped apart at the seams by Nazis in the White House and Congress…people are being shot in the streets and dragged to concentration camps…our rights are ebbing away…and this is what people are talking about?

Image shows a list of trending topics:
1. BMovieManiacs
2. Classic Horror
3. The Last Drive In
4. House on Haunted Hill
5. Drag Race

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Feb 6

His message:

Image shows a pair of downhill ski tips and, between them, written in urine, the words, "fuck ice"

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Feb 6

What a real POTUS and his wife look like. ❤️

A smiling Barack and Michelle Obama wearing casual clothes with a peaceful landscape behind them

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Feb 6

Best bought in bulk.

Image shows a silhouette of a KN95 face mask

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Jan 30

This 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

The text is a poem entitled "If they Call Me a Domestic Terrorist," written by Michael F Dubois:

If they gun me down
in my own street someday
may my crime be compassion.

May the record show
from every angle
that I was helping a woman up
after they pushed her to the ground,
that not even their weapons
could stop me from extending
my hand to those in need,
that I was a walking example
of the best my elders taught me—
that everyone is equal
and worthy of defending.

If they tell the nation,
from the highest podium,
that I was a domestic terrorist,
let it be known that my radical act
was believing the best in people
when they wanted nothing more
than to divide us.

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Jan 30

Remembering a book that made a big impression on me when I was a kid. After Nazi troops take over a tiny Norwegian village, brave kids use their sleds to sneak $9 million in gold past the guards…and save their village. We may have to do that here to save our country. #trumpsNazis #resist

The image shows the cover of a book, Snow Treasure, by Marie McSwigan. The book's illustration shows a young boy in a colorful sweater sledding past 2 Nazi guards. A young girl and boy in the background prepare to launch thein sleds, too.

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Jan 30

The next No Kings nationwide protests will be March 28. Be there! Bring friends! Show up!

The text says, "March 28: No thrones, no crowns, no kings."

The image shows a simple crown crossed out with an X positioned between two megaphones against a black background that shows faint protest signs.

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Jan 25

From @kyleforcongress.bsky.social on IG This was the first shot. Left hand planted on the ground, right hand holding a PHONE. #ICE=gestapo

This still image shows the FIRST of the 10 shots ICE fired into Minnesotan Alex Pretti. His left hand is planted flat on the ground, and his right hand is holding a PHONE. The ICE agent is holding his handgun only INCHES from the back of Pretti's neck. This was the first shot. The rest were delivered into Pretti's back as he lay on the ground.

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Jan 24

"Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, published in the New Yorker on November 10, 1962. The article's subhead says, “Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/196...

The text is an excerpt from "Letter from a Region in My Mind," an essay by James Baldwin published in the New Yorker on November 10, 1962. The subhead of the article says, “Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.”

The excerpt says this:
"[White people] needed a handle, a lever, a means of inspiring fear. It was absolutely clear that the police would whip you and take you in as long as they could get away with it, and that everyone else—housewives, taxi-drivers, elevator boys, dishwashers, bartenders, lawyers, judges, doctors, and grocers—would never, by the operation of any generous human feeling, cease to use you as an outlet for his frustrations and hostilities. Neither civilized reason nor Christian love would cause any of those people to treat you as they presumably wanted to be treated; only the fear of your power to retaliate would cause them to do that, or to seem to do it, which was (and is) good enough. There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be “accepted” by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don’t wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet. White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this—which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never—the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed."

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Dec 9

I support this.

Text says, "Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Trump's ex-wife Ivana wasn't an American citizen until 1988. She gave birth to Dr Jr in 1977, Ivanka in 1981, and Eric in 1984. Let's cancel THEIR birthright citizenship first."—Andrea Junker

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Dec 8

Cover of the book The Color Purple by Alice Walker

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Nov 23

#pedotrump will certainly try to find ways to keep the files out of the public view, but perpetuating the fiction that they are one easily accessible database is disingenuous.

Text is an excerpt from Jay Kuo's "Everyone Take a Victory Lap...and Breathe":

"On the question of Trump or the FBI tampering with the files (e.g., deleting instances of Trump’s name, removing video evidence, destroying images), I have significantly less worry about this than most.

Why? The “Epstein Files” isn’t some centralized database. They comprise a host of electronic and physical evidence collected by the FBI, held under seal by the courts, used in civil proceedings, and held by third parties. The core investigative files, gathered by the FBI, are subject to strict chain-of-custody controls, meaning they have electronic timestamps, evidentiary IDs, digital authentications, and audit trails. That’s very hard to mess with, at least not without someone noticing."

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Nov 20

Clear+Vivid: Alan Alda speaks with Bill McKibben podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Text against a faded picture of windmills and solar panels: Clear+Vivid: Alan Alda speaks with Bill McKibben
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bill-mckibben-tomorrow-will-be-sunny/id1400082430?i=1000736294199
• In March 2025, fossil fuels made less than half our electricity. Around the world, 95% of new generation came from renewable sources.
• In May, the Chinese were putting up 3 gigawatts of solar panels
a day. A gigawatt’s the rough equivalent of a large coal-fired power plant…so one of them was going up every 8 hours.
• Bell Labs invented solar panels in 1954, but they weren’t cost-effective for anything except satellites. Thanks to decades of science (and activism), it’s now cheaper to produce energy from the sun and the wind than from coal and gas and oil.
• Fossil fuels: contribute to 1 in 5 deaths (9m/year) from byproducts and has been a major contributor in launching endless wars
• Every 10th of a degree that we raise the planet’s temperature moves 100 million human beings out of a safe climate zone and into a dangerous one.
• The current administration is stopping renewable projects to protect the profits of fossil fuel corporations. For example, Trump killed a R.I. wind project that would have generated enough electricity to power 2 million homes.
• We’re ceding the technological and economic future to China.

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Nov 18

These

Album cover: Tracy Chapman (eponymous album)

Album cover: Melissa Etheridge (eponymous album)

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Nov 17

I second yours, but close runners-up are these:

Album cover: Verities & Balderdah (Harry Chapin

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Nov 15

His garish inspirations (from Russia, of course) have 1 word in common: Grand Kremlin PALACE, Winter PALACE, Summer PALACE...

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Nov 14

@voteinorout.bsky.social

Text says, "The official was Joe Schmidt, the acting deputy chief. He was overheard saying the DOJ planned to redact Republican names from the Epstein files while leaving Democratic names visible. That raised a new question about who the Department is trying to protect."

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Nov 12

"violent resistance"

5 people wearing brightly colored inflatable costumes

mizmaxgordon@mizmaxgordon· Nov 11

The Surrender Caucus senators "thought they were sparing their constituents some present pain, but they are actually dooming them to far worse pain later. And the surrender was a slap in the face to all who suffered to get us this far." statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-surren...