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Coffee and Fingernails@coffeenfingernails.bsky.social |
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Lover of art and people. Political watcher and doer. Descendant of Sapelo. Auntie of Adrianna. Dog mom of Phineas McGee.
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Coffee and Fingernails
@coffeenfingernails.bsky.social
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Maybe this is silly but irritated that the 5 year old is the subject here. It's his parents who left this poor baby vulnerable to measles in the first place and then traveled with him.
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man it's a hot zone,
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We know we don't have much time left so we've been spending a lot of time with America for its last birthday. Plenty of hugs, taking pictures. My niece is in film school, and got the camera out and interviewed it about what it was like growing up, just trying to record memories while we have them.
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Cheryl Rofer
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So it's a white guy telling us not to vote. It's a white guy who wants us all to go quietly and there won't be blood spilled. I wonder what the women and people of color and LGBTQ think...?
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Coffee and Fingernails
@coffeenfingernails.bsky.social
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The @nytimes.com can have its pick of op-eds from people who are insightful, knowledgeable and talented writers. Why on earth would they publish someone who is none of those things? Have held onto my subscription up to now but this is so fucking insulting I think I'm done.
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G. Willow Wilson
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I’ve been skeptical about the idea that there is an actual rightward turn underway at the NYT, and assumed their recent baffling editorial decisions were a result of the usual tepid liberal both sides-ism. Today I’m canceling my subscription.
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Coffee and Fingernails
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This is fucking irresponsible and @nytimes.com truly should be ashamed
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Internet Archive
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You want your MTV? ⬇️
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Coffee and Fingernails
@coffeenfingernails.bsky.social
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Folks...
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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I don’t know what you expect the presidential election to accomplish exactly but it’s not a miracle drug to fix all problems. It’s just oxygen to keep breathing while the real work happens on the ground. That work is a heck of a lot harder to do without air.
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Coffee and Fingernails
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Love her
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Coffee and Fingernails
@coffeenfingernails.bsky.social
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Strange to talk about all the (very plausible, even probable) terrible things that could happen to people under a Trump presidency and then roast people for thinking about leaving. May not be realistic but it's an unbelievably relatable impulse...
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Coffee and Fingernails
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Question for anyone who has the expertise to answer: Does a presidential candidate/party have to name a running mate?
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Coffee and Fingernails
@coffeenfingernails.bsky.social
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This and also the fact that Trump is running on an economic platform of "make all your shit more expensive".
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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You know what they call an authoritarian caught in inconsistency? “Sir.”
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Coffee and Fingernails
@coffeenfingernails.bsky.social
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The things that are controversial in this country...
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Coffee and Fingernails
@coffeenfingernails.bsky.social
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If they kill their AI and bring back Google Reader, all is forgiven...
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Coffee and Fingernails
@coffeenfingernails.bsky.social
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This to me is the problem with the idea that anyone made Bernie lose but Bernie. No one stopped him from aggressively courting Black voters. His failure to do so cost him the nomination, and, IMO, indicated a lack of political instinct that c/would have tanked him in the general.
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Coffee and Fingernails
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Anyway, vote and also do what Hamilton says.
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Coffee and Fingernails
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The dismantling of organized labor was a necessary step to the takeover of US civic institutions, allowing for the dismantling of democracy broadly. Countering this means building the movement institutions (like unions) required to reclaim the US institutions we abandoned/were pushed out of
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Coffee and Fingernails
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I don't think anyone sees institutions as inherently fair/just, but what the Right has always understood is that power can only be wielded via institutions. Their current victories are the culmination of 70 years of focusing on institutions while too much of the left abandoned them for abstractions.
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Coffee and Fingernails
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There's a serious semantics/term definition problem getting in the way here because I am a self-identified Liberal Institutionalist and my prescription for the present moment is the same as @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social's.
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Coffee and Fingernails
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I suppose this is true but as someone who watched both Politically Incorrect and the HBO show back in the day I feel confident saying the man is dumb as a box of hair. (he also used to stalk the USC campus for college girls when I was a student there, which is grosser to me the older I get).
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Coffee and Fingernails
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One way to solve this problem would be to have fewer--or even zero!--poor people
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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The States Project is one of the best bang-for-your-buck options for your campaign donations. Even beyond it, though, state legislatures deserve your attention. Next time you're tempted to send money to whoever's going to lose to MTG, send it instead to a contested state leg seat.
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Coffee and Fingernails
@coffeenfingernails.bsky.social
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This is like I've of those AITA posts that the poster ends up deleting because everyone is like, Babe, you could not be a bigger asshole!
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Coffee and Fingernails
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A sign I've finally snapped: reading responses to the King Trump ruling and have the Godfather opening on a loop Bonasera: I believe in America. America has made my fortune... Godfather: I understand. The police protected you and there were courts of law. So you didn't need a friend like me.
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Coffee and Fingernails
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Coffee and Fingernails
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I'm so so sorry.
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maura quint
@mauraquint.bsky.social
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when I was a child, I thought smart people were in charge. when I got older, I realized you didn't have to be smart to be in charge. but the piece that was hardest to learn is that no one is really in charge at all. no one's going to fix it beyond us.
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David_j_roth
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I keep coming back to "all this for literally Donald Trump," but it fits. There's not some more competent aspiring autocrat who'd somehow "earn" or "win" this. This is how it has always gone: feckless/evil elites attaching themselves to the sociopath they believe will get them where they want to go.
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Very Very Common Mike Dunford
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Vote. Also knock on doors, volunteer for campaingns. Get involved locally. Go to meetings, work with others, make your own community safer, better, more organized. Know what's on school board agendas. Show up and comment. Give politicians a reason to know what you want, and why they should care.
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
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Oh boy, $150,000!
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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
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Things are bad but all the more reason for optimism of the will and rejection of doomerism and nihilism. Only way out is through.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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These are extremely difficult, dangerous, and bad times, and simple fact is we didn't have to come to this; but we don't have to stay here either.
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Coffee and Fingernails
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I vote for "Give me that Vitamin D" a la Beyonce but open to other ideas.
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Coffee and Fingernails
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Coffee and Fingernails
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I agree. My work focuses on demystifying this stuff for people who want to engage but aren't interested in making this their whole lives. Too many of us are yelling at each other on here instead of doing the necessary outreach. Feel free to DM me if I can ever be useful!
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Coffee and Fingernails
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100%! I certainly don't blame anyone. I think round the clock organizing and just plain community building is vital. That's why I suggested you engage locally in groups doing that work. I recommend a book called Rust Belt Union Blues to get a sense of what this looked like in the union context.
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Coffee and Fingernails
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Ugh, I meant Gore in 2000 obviously...
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Coffee and Fingernails
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People who gained access to healthcare, or housing or who were able to get enough to eat, etc. That stuff is not part of the rhetoric and flies below the radar but it is the only reason to actually do this work.
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Coffee and Fingernails
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If your measure of success is a revolution you are destined to be disappointed (even if/when the revolution comes and you discover revolution is just a sexy word for war). But there are millions of people whose lives have been saved or dramatically improved by policy wins of the last 20+ years
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Coffee and Fingernails
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Well, part of the issue is not enough folks took that advice. A world where Gore won in 2020 or Clinton won in 2016 is one where Roe is still the law of the land and federal agencies still have power. But beyond that, the implication is nothing has changed for the better and that's just not true--
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Coffee and Fingernails
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Coffee and Fingernails
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There are a ton of other tasks for us introverts--data entry, event set-up/break down, offering rides to the polls, etc. And you don't have to figure it out alone. If you connect with an org on the ground, they can help you find the overlap of things you can do comfortably/things they need.
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Coffee and Fingernails
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It is insufficient! It is also necessary. If you're genuinely looking for ways to do the other necessary things, look for local groups that are engaged in organizing in your community (can try idealist.org or volunteer match as starting points). Engage in policy advocacy at local/state level.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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nothing is inevitable but the heat death of the universe, & everything can be changed, with the right combination of communication & communal effort. Some people are overwhelmed & despair of these things because they genuinely don't see a light anywhere, & we should help each other find that light…
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Coffee and Fingernails
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Feel like this is a job for @theferocity.bsky.social but I will be doing my part.
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Greg Greene
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The only obstacle between the U.S. and autocracy this fall is you, me, and everyone physically, mentally and legally able to cast a ballot.
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Coffee and Fingernails
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When I lived in NYC, several times a year I would go to the Neue Galerie (for both new pieces and my faves from the perma collection), sit in their 19thc Austria-themed cafe and have the only pretzel I've ever loved with mustard and sausage, and then walk across the park to finish the day at the Met
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
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i have so much boundless contempt for these pathetic white men, who were blessed enough to be born in one of the few attempts at multiracial democracy in the world, and who panic at being no more valued than anyone else to the extent that they'd blow it all up and go back to divine right of kings
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