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Cameron Sparkles, PhD@allegedlycam.bsky.social |
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Historian of science and religion in a previous life. Author @Palgrave (2020). Views mine. He/Him. Orange belt in Karate (2002). I'm big in Japan.
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Chrissy Stroop
@www.bugbeardispatch.com
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“National greatness” is a pernicious lie in any context.
“Russians and Americans have a lot in common—much of it unhealthy—including an ‘imperial provincialist’ outlook, a tendency toward grandiosity and conspiracy theories, and a penchant for violence”
www.bugbeardispatch.com/p/some-july-...
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Melissa Gira Grant
@melissagiragrant.com
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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
www.mediamatters.org/project-2025
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Brendel
@brendelbored.bsky.social
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There’s so much of this shit with people in Trumps orbit. Stephen Miller once ran in the middle of a girls track meet to go “I am a man, I am better at sports”. No point to any of it except to be an awful human being.
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Pavel
@spavel.bsky.social
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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders.
AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...
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Cameron Sparkles, PhD
@allegedlycam.bsky.social
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I also wish people luck who have ridiculous and abysmal goals. Totally normal thing to do.
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Bex
@bexcommunicated.bsky.social
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Ah fuck. Everyone who told me Chevron being overturned wouldn’t matter can kindly have a seat now. I don’t really consider myself an expert in much but considering I’ve been working in health regs for the past almost 8 years, I knew this was 100% coming. I just didn’t think it would be so fast 😭
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Stonkers
@stonkers.bsky.social
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Byron C Clark
@byroncclark.bsky.social
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Kelly-Jay Keen aka Posie Parker received 196 votes in the electorate she stood for, meanwhile, this woman won the seat with over 24,000 votes
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Cameron Sparkles, PhD
@allegedlycam.bsky.social
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Oof.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)
@shengokai.bsky.social
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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.
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Katie Tightpussy
@juicysteak117.gay
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leftists: here is exactly what will happen libs: that's not true. you leftists are delusional [exactly what happens] libs: you leftists have ruined everything again
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Seth Trueger
@mdaware.org
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incidentally I am an emergency physician and I use a walker
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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More anti-democratic thoughts from 2018 the NYT allowed this writer to exclude from his current piece. Delivered with an air of detached irony, as if he miiight be joking or exaggerating. But is he?
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Alex A. Pagliuca
@alexpagliuca.bsky.social
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Terry McCauliffe after Unite the Right, “No one could have known,” after thousands of pages of Discord logs were being published, for months, showing fascists planning for violence and improvised weapons.
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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Free idea for Biden: drop a court packing plan right now and that’ll change the conversation REAL quick
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Kevin Koehler
@kevrockcity.bsky.social
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Read this story and then ponder how many good apples in the police department and prosecutor's office *absolutely knew* who was the real murderer was and conspired to railroad this lady to protect him.
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Sean
@publichealth.bsky.social
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sure it’s heritage being heritage, but their continued escalation of the violent rhetoric and threats is not to be taken lightly. especially not after j6
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Karl Bode
@karlbode.bsky.social
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the exploitation of this Chevron ruling is just getting warmed up and is going to ratfuck every last effort at policy reform or corporate oversight across every sector and issue in the country
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☀️ Starshine
@starshine.bsky.social
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Thomas Zimmer
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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Unfortunately, this is not just the abstract manifesto of a feverish mind. It comes with concrete plans and a detailed strategy of how to take over and transform government into an autocratic revenge machine that can impose a reactionary vision against the will of the majority. /end
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Nathan K. Hensley
@nathankhensley.bsky.social
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The July 4, 1942 edition of the "Pinedale Logger," the newspaper written by inmates of the concentration camp in my hometown of Fresno, CA, describes a "Gala Fourth Festival" & features a masthead motto from Thomas Paine: "Tyranny, Like Hell, Is Not Easily Conquered."
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Nate O
@nateo.bsky.social
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James Orr, associate professor at Cambridge, supports esoteric Hitlerist and confirmed neo-Nazi Nina Power
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
@ugarles.bsky.social
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the conservative theory of law in one headline
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Brendel
@brendelbored.bsky.social
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“The rabbits got the gun now” coming from a lawyer for a crooked Governor going after a newspaper writer is such a telling comment about how much we’ve let powerful people cast themselves as victims and it goes from this to Elon to Trump and everywhere else
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Joshua Erlich
@joshuaerlich.bsky.social
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this is full on nonsense. nothing in Bostock depended on a "but for" standard. it was a textual ruling on the meaning of "sex." this is fully made up bullshit.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Keir Starmer, the future prime minister, explicitly saying that trans women don’t have the right to use women’s toilets, which we have always been using, is giving the green light for people to harass us and do violence to us, as well as to cis women deemed not feminine enough. Don’t vote Labour.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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This won’t even satisfy trans-eliminationists like JK Rowling. Every time a concession is made by cis politicians, they demand more. This all started off as “concerns about GRA reform” and we’re now at the point where “gender-critical” freaks are effectively demanding our social death.
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Rose Schmits
@roseschmits.bsky.social
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“Shouldn’t” is just terrorising my mind i’m not rotating it in my mind it is violently shaking and lurching around outside of my control
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Rose Schmits
@roseschmits.bsky.social
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Its the fact he said “shouldn’t” for me. Keir Starmer said I shouldn’t have the right to womens spaces And we’re about to watch a nation celebrate this man and grant him massive power
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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@carriem.co.uk
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Too angry to comment.
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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Jesus. Automated enforcement advocates really underestimate the potential for abuse with these cameras. The amount of information they collect is staggering, as is the ability to piece it all together to meticulously track individual people.
reason.com/2024/07/01/s...
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Josh Rosenau
@joshrosenau.bsky.social
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I think sometimes about how Larry Pratt, founder of the right-of-NRA Gun Owners of America, pitched the nascent militia movement in 1992 as a version of the Guatemalan death squads he admired. There is a long term plan at work here.
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Kevin Gannon
@thetattooedprof.bsky.social
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Also, the author bio is a perfect encapsulation of the incestuous network of right-wing institutes, fellowships, and "think tanks" designed to prop up mediocre intellects so long as they lick the right boots.
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George Takei
@georgetakei.bsky.social
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In "How Men Like Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh, And Brock Turner Are Made," writer Amelia Mavis Christnot explores the roots of toxic masculinity and privilege. From Ivy League halls to positions of power, see how entitlement shapes behavior and fuels impunity. A powerful read.
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Ashley Fairbanks
@ziibiing.com
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Here's a pretty great article about billionaires in the US. The Trump tax cuts are really doing their job. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com
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Conceding the premise that the presidency is a show and all that matters is how it’s perceived and not what it can do has infected our entire politics, and given Republicans carte blanche to be incompetent because it doesn’t matter that they fail it only matters that they can sell it as success
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Paul 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@pault.bsky.social
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Just reupping for the post work crowd. The Law Commission just posted their issues paper on putting gender in the Human Rights Act. It's great.
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Adam Rothman
@adamrothman.bsky.social
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"Today’s Supreme Court has just recreated one of the most despicable cases in English history, a case that signified the apex of absolutism in British history and was repudiated by a revolution for the damage it caused."
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Chrissy Stroop
@www.bugbeardispatch.com
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When you’re raised evangelical and you’re queer, figuring that out about yourself can be delayed due to the repression that comes with authoritarian socialization. This one goes out to all my fellow exvangelical late blooming queers. There’s nothing wrong with us; we are beautiful and valid 🌈❤️
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Anise K. Strong
@anisekstrong.bsky.social
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As someone attuned to subtler forms of sexism in writing, it's also really hard not to read Roberts' tone as "Those Lady Justices - so emotional! So anxious & hysterical! We Cool Considerate Men are acting from Reason and Farsight in a way that silly impulsive women of color just can't understand."
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Emma Evans
@trance.bsky.social
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It's important to note that Trump tried to order this at least twice we know of during his regime.
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Pot Shop Boy
@potshopboy.bsky.social
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Hey @bsky.app when is safety going to be taken seriously here? Creepers, stalkers, death threats going on and nothing is being done.
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris etc
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Chrissy Stroop
@www.bugbeardispatch.com
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Today’s my birthday, and if you’d like to do something encouraging for me, please subscribe to and/or tell your friends about my newsletter, The Bugbear Dispatch!
I write about the impact of authoritarian evangelicalism on individuals and society, among other things
www.bugbeardispatch.com
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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Yup. The Constitution includes a narrowly-defined legal immunity for members of Congress in a specific circumstance. Not one word about Presidential or Supreme Court Justice immunity. Those parts were made up out of thin air.
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David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social
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Our long national nightmare is longer.
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Thomas Zimmer
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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America can accept this Supreme Court as legitimate and its rulings as the final word - or it can have true democracy and a functioning state. But not both.
Wrote this a year ago - and things have only gotten worse: The Rogue Court vs Modern Democracy
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thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-rogue-...
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Eric Rauchway
@rauchway.bsky.social
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always already time for the Judicial Reform Bill of 1937
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