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Nikolai Raven

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WNY-born-and-bred Cascadian. Movie and video game geek, sports enthusiast, politnik, cyclist, and writer. America created me. Now it gets to deal with me. Narrative writer @staroath.bsky.social. He/him.

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“The phone numbers of Netanyahu and Putin shouldn’t be here either.”
#trump

06.03.2026 15:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Buffalo Sabres are now tied for first in the Atlantic.

Holy shit.
#SportsSky #hockey #Sabrehood

06.03.2026 04:23 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Kristi Noem isn’t with DHS anymore.

Now she’s (checks notes) Special Envoy to the Shield of the Americas?

Are we suddenly in a Marvel movie, or does Trump think he’s the hero of a Marvel movie?
#trump #dhs #kristinoem

05.03.2026 21:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah. I made that mistake myself. Except I was in my late 20s when he came to my attention.

05.03.2026 19:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seriously, I need to know NOW why all the Community Transit buses from Smokey Point to Lynnwood have all collectively decided to run HALF AN HOUR LATE!
#transit

05.03.2026 14:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump doesn’t need a real excuse. He’ll invent one.
#trump

04.03.2026 23:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
tucson.com/news/local/b...

04.03.2026 16:24 👍 2916 🔁 1771 💬 166 📌 337

What of the other 11%, though?

04.03.2026 15:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sign me up.

03.03.2026 23:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I hope Indiana has some kind of full employment act in place, or at least in the works, if they want to do this.

Guessing not, though.

As ever with the GOP, the cruelty is the point.
#gop #republicans

03.03.2026 23:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh come on, our BOMBS are smarter than the president? He says that like being smarter than the president is some kind of achievement. A box of rocks is smarter than the president!

03.03.2026 16:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My shoelace got caught in my car trunk release this morning.

Seriously, how the fuck are shoelaces even still a thing?
#tuesday #vibes

03.03.2026 14:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

03.03.2026 12:05 👍 3587 🔁 1639 💬 72 📌 267

Check the license plate there!

02.03.2026 20:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Late comment here, but I spent the last week exploring Alysa Liu’s internet rabbit hole.

She broke her sport, an international sports event, the internet, and a music streamer AT THE SAME TIME.

Without even trying.
#SportsSky #Olympics #AlysaLiu

02.03.2026 16:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Take a look at this thread. And remember, reading is a political act.
#libraries #BookSky #literature #bookbans #trump

02.03.2026 16:02 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Middle-class Americans can still FIND fissile nuclear material? I’ve had to make do with shitty knockoff fissile nuclear material from Mongolia!

01.03.2026 03:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This sort of thing disgraces all of humanity.

28.02.2026 18:59 👍 893 🔁 345 💬 6 📌 5

Yes. A new Iraq. Because the first one was so popular, right?
#trump #iran

28.02.2026 19:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

if you live in Kansas and need help please share your links here and I'll share
#transrights #kansas #transcommunity #mutualaid #mutualaidthread

26.02.2026 17:31 👍 60 🔁 56 💬 0 📌 2

Glad the ACLU is on this, but I fear it may require more than a lawsuit.
#transrights #transrightsarehumanrights

27.02.2026 18:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And let me expand this to include: this is NOT a “lower priority.” Fixing this is a day one executive order. And if Kansas is even remotely defiant, the Army moves in on day two.

Nothing - NOTHING - less.
#transrights #transrightsarehumanrights

27.02.2026 14:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dems need to be asked about what Kansas is doing.

They hem and haw, they're unelectable. They give ANY answer besides "the legislators who voted for this will be imprisoned for war crimes", they're unelectable.

Understood?
#transrights #transrightsarehumanrights

27.02.2026 12:58 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

So, out of state, what kind of pressure is within the peoples’ power to use to get Kansas to walk this back YESTERDAY?
#transrights #transrightsarehumanrights

26.02.2026 23:19 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kansas has hereby officially told all trans people to turn in their drivers’ licenses.

Driving while trans in Kansas while trans is now officially a crime.
#transrights #transrightsarehumanrights

26.02.2026 22:45 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 3

Seagal binge!

Clementine. God, this is melodrama at its worst. Unwatchable dreck. I may not even finish it.
#FilmSky #MovieSky #MovieBuff #movies

26.02.2026 15:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you are outraged about what Kansas is doing to trans people— criminalizing their very right to exist, seizing drivers licenses overnight and saying if they drive thereafter it’s a crime, which puts them into the PIC under their gender assigned at birth where rape is routine—I BEG YOU

26.02.2026 02:12 👍 802 🔁 298 💬 18 📌 15
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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way.
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

25.02.2026 23:31 👍 9717 🔁 4834 💬 409 📌 305

Mira Sorvino! Haven’t seen her name in awhile. Wonder what she’s been up to?

25.02.2026 19:17 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

So is getting to go to the Olympics part of Kash Patel’s job, or is it just a perk?
#fbi #kashpatel #SportsSky #Olympics

25.02.2026 15:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0