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Larisa LaBrant@larisa-labrant.bsky.social |
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Ashley Fairbanks
@ziibiing.com
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A lovely Appalachian leftist on TikTok said that folks always talk about what radicalized them in terms of theory, struggle, or rage. But, he says, what about the soft things that radicalized us, too? Grammas that kept us fed, bees, flowers, friends being happy when they could make ends meet?
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Jay Weixelbaum
@jayweixelbaum.bsky.social
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I don't like the policies of the Reagan era, but the nation survived I detest defending that administration--but why is there a different standard for Democrats? Especially when a Trump dictatorship is at stake? Makes zero sense. And Biden is much better shape than the Gipper.
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Jay Weixelbaum
@jayweixelbaum.bsky.social
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Did the electorate abandon him in this crucial moment when the US could snuff out Hitler's Third Reich? No, they did not. If you're talking "replace Biden" now, I have a question: why are you so much weaker than voters in 1944? Would you have handed over the White House to the America Firsters?
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John Rogers
@johnrogers.bsky.social
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Charismatic people solving moderately difficult problems on a weekly basis is the engine of successful television.
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Amanda Katz
@katzish.bsky.social
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Love everything about these USA gymnast lewks and this awesome multimedia story showing how you make $3000, ultra-sparkly, crystal-encrusted leotards. That second one from the top right with the red white and blue and art nouveau detail, wow!! www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olymp...
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Sarah
@sosomanysarahs.bsky.social
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Tempted to propose a nostalgia progressive platform, starting with public pools and libraries being open every day and for reasonable hours. Oh, and keeping national parks, since apparently that's up for discussion. Things that don't cost much and make life nicer. Anything else I should add to it?
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Bethany Brookshire
@beebrookshire.bsky.social
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I love this idea. Community spaces: libraries, public parks, public POOLS. These are vital for helping people get outside, bond with the outdoors, create community! They are also LOW CARBON LEISURE. prospect.org/sponsored/th...
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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As someone who travels through airports more than many people this last bit is batshit. The worst thing about US airports is getting to and from them. Get more public transport to go there you chuckleheads
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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thank fuckin Christ somebody is trying to bring up SOMETHING ELSE to talk about
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Larisa LaBrant
@larisa-labrant.bsky.social
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It's more weird to meet people who don't listen to everything from ABBA to Rob Zombie with a side trip thru Yo-yo Ma.
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Larisa LaBrant
@larisa-labrant.bsky.social
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Right out of one of my favorite board books
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Hillary Monahan
@hillarymonahan.bsky.social
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Social media is where marginalized people can build community and anyone who undervalues that has never been the only ______ in a crowded room.
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Hillary Monahan
@hillarymonahan.bsky.social
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I guess Mousie really screwed up this time. Ash just carried his toy mouse over to the litterbox and dropped him in. You know what you did, MOUSIE.
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Hillary Monahan
@hillarymonahan.bsky.social
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The beauty of being an American is I can criticize the candidate I feel forced to vote for in November. Cause here's the thing. If I don't vote for him, I might lose that privilege. This sucks. A lot.
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Kim Shumway
@kimshum.bsky.social
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Good reporting on an entirely predictable problem. Fun fact: Airbnb also covers up thousands of sexual assaults every year! Its internal safety team has "cool-down rooms" to take a break from the trauma of what they hear. It's a bad company, a bad industry, and people should just stay in hotels.
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Josh Rosenau
@joshrosenau.bsky.social
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After decades of activism, Joe Biden’s administration finally was the one to ban USDA’s Wildlife Services division from deploying cyanide bombs on federal BLM lands. These things have killed pets and injured recreationists, and killing carnivores is bad policy anyway. Biden got it done.
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Nicholas Grossman
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
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Reps. Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush and AOC have all put out "Biden is the nominee, support him" statements. The left-most part of the Democratic Party fighting to keep him while the right-most part—centrists, swing district Reps, NeverTrumpers, etc.—push for him to drop out was not on many Bingo cards.
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Adrian Bonenberger
@bonenberger.bsky.social
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The common sense last red line should always have been “when they openly admit their intentions in public under their own names.” Saw a Heritage Project 2025 guy last week publicly calling to repeal the 20th century and get rid of the Civil Rights Act. Can’t get much clearer than that
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Adrian Bonenberger
@bonenberger.bsky.social
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The whole premise of Project 2025 is that they’re going to short circuit Congress and make it so Trump is the ultimate authority on “can they do that,” everything else follows from that premise. Can they short circuit a gridlocked Congress? Will the Supreme Court permit it? Yes, and yes
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Alisha Grauso
@alishagrauso.bsky.social
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Exactly. At this point, people still expressing disbelief and pearl clutching about the far-right's intentions infuriate me. Grow up or get the fuck out of the way so the rest of us adults who are actually willing to grapple with reality can work on stopping it.
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Manisha Sinha
@profmsinha.bsky.social
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Historian here, my bit on the suicidal push by the pundits to drop an incumbent President with no serious challenger in sight and reduce the Democratic Party into a circular firing squad on the eve of an authoritarian take over of the American republic. www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/l...
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IDtheMIKE
@idthemike.bsky.social
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The fucking Heritage Foundation already said they'll do everything in their power to tie up an effort to nominate someone else in court. Imagine not knowing if Kamala really is the nominee because SCOTUS is spending the rest of 2024 deciding.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
@joshuafoust.com
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The claim that “everyone saw the debate and turned on Biden” seems to be entirely a narrow phenomenon of only a segment of the elite, the same ones sucking all the oxygen out of the room to discuss anything else. I have yet to see a single poll showing him drop out of the margin of error.
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Gayle Force 🍉
@gayleforce.bsky.social
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I don't know where I read it but "abusers spend as much time grooming their character witnesses as they spend grooming their victims" has really stuck with me
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D.M. Schmeyer
@dmschmeyer.bsky.social
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The only way to take the party left, BTW, because I know whose saying shit like this, is to retain power, take more, and obtain a greater voice for that wing of the coalition in a government they helped create. There's no universe where a loss takes this party anywhere but to the right.
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Catblossom
@catblossom.bsky.social
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ALSO . . . majorly this. Let's cut the whole ridiculous process short, save all that money (surely there's something else we can spend it on?) and reclaim our time.
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Melanie D’Arrigo
@darrigomelanie.bsky.social
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The 1% evade $163 billion in taxes per year. That’s enough to end homelessness, and hunger, and pay for universal childcare, with billions left over. This is the crime wave we should be talking about.
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Chris Levesque
@levesque-chris.bsky.social
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What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't.
www.zdnet.com/article/digi...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Relatedly, please remember that a federal appeals court recently ruled that cops can compell you to use biometrics to unlock your phone. Passwords, pins, or patterns, people.
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Larisa LaBrant
@larisa-labrant.bsky.social
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Of you haven't read this book/trilogy, you're really, really missing out on a spectacular swashbuckle thru space with fab found family. #amreading (again!)
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Mary Gillis
@marygillis.bsky.social
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Everyone knows what to do about it. Describe the situation to a 5yo and they'll tell you what to do about it. Hell, ask a LLM what to do about it and it'll tell you "stop using the power-hungry AI." Just because corporations don't like the obvious solution to a problem doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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GigerPunk
@gigerpunk.bsky.social
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Mousecow has had one of THOSE days, so is now in garden, touching grass. With her tongue.
#EverybodyLovesMousecow
#mlem
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Aviendha69 - ⊃∪∩⪽
@aviendha69.bsky.social
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Alisha Grauso
@alishagrauso.bsky.social
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Looked. Chase Oliver is a libertarian with deeply infuriating views on abortion rights, who wants to abolish the Department of Education, and is a "good guy with a gun" idiot. I can not stress enough that my stance on him is "Fuck this fucking guy."
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Alisha Grauso
@alishagrauso.bsky.social
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Love to be lectured by a man about how I, a woman of childbearing age, am simply not understanding a male politician's stance on abortion and am wrong when I say I can read between the lines to what the politician is actually saying. I choose the fucking bear.
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Elizabeth Spiers
@espiers.bsky.social
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People really discount the extent to which The Squad are incredibly talented politicians, and mostly because they're young, women, and not white. But they've been more effective at getting policy positions across than most of their senior colleagues...
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Larisa LaBrant
@larisa-labrant.bsky.social
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Best Bad Boyfriend Forever and Always.
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Anna Holmes
@annabookwriter.bsky.social
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And conversely, the bad days don’t negate the better ones! It’s hard for people to understand dynamic disabilities because they think of illness as a light switch- you’re “healthy” or you’re not. It doesn’t suit that internal narrative to acknowledge that things change day by day.
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Hillary Monahan
@hillarymonahan.bsky.social
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People cannot seem to understand--or refuse to understand--that not all disability is static. With many conditions, some days are better than others. That doesn't negate the disability. It doesn't make the shitty days not count anymore.
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Tilly Bridges
@tillybridges.bsky.social
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can we maybe also not forget the part where they want to make being trans illegal
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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Among the many evils of "crisis pregnancy centers": they are not medical providers and so do not follow HIPAA or medical privacy ethics. Instead, they gleefully give away (to right-wing orgs) and sell (to data brokers) all information you give them. They should be illegal.
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Alisha Grauso
@alishagrauso.bsky.social
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When white voices are the loudest ones calling to sit out the vote, burn it down, etc. etc., there's a reason for it.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
@joshuafoust.com
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Hey, everyone who keeps downplaying the role of media framing, you know we can *literally* measure this happening, right? Your denialism doesn't make it go away, and you aren't smart enough to somehow evade it.
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Gary Legum
@glegum.bsky.social
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He literally four days ago signed a bill to fight Parkinson's because it's an issue his administration has been working on for awhile, might it be related to that, you weirdos?
www.parkinson.org/blog/awarene...
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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i keep seeing videos of people acting shitty in public where a top comment is something like “wonder who they voted for 🙄.” i honestly think a winning message for Dems is just “aren’t you sick of these fucking people”
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Sarah T. Fischell
@sfischell.bsky.social
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#NewWord = “cultivated ignorance”
E.g.,“The fire, climate, resilience, insurance/risk professionals who work on trying to prevent…climate catastrophes in CA are stunned by degree of cultivated ignorance of both citizens & elected officials.” - @mateosfo 😞
Ref 🧵:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18103...
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Lots and lots of of normal people do in fact care about things like reproductive rights, national parks, and their kids not getting shot at school! MAGAs are a freaky vocal minority, not a majority!
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Larisa LaBrant
@larisa-labrant.bsky.social
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Post your cat in a box Crow, the Boss of All of Us, enjoying his Cat Box Sunday with a bit of packing paper and catnip, in his new favorite box.
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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴
@knilirabaj.bsky.social
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Watching reaction videos of French fascists losing the election is so energizing. Need that shit in my country in November.
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
@brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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Thousands in the streets of Paris celebrating and cheering “no pasaran” or "They will not pass” as the far right falls out n France’s election. Just absolutely amazing scenes tonight across France as they fight the fascists back. Now it’s our time to be brave and come together to for a united front.
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