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Sean MacGillivray

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Web dev, musician, he/him


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Ian Boudreau's avatar Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social
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The reason polling keeps getting weirder is because every year, more and more normal people stop answering the phone for any reason

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Nails Nathan's avatar Nails Nathan @chadstanton.bsky.social
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This dude had been working for the school for ten years. How’s any child who’s been subject to his class supposed to grapple with how his thinking has affected their lives?

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Erin Fogg's avatar Erin Fogg @criminalerin.bsky.social
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This headline is dishonest. After being punched in the face by a cop for trying to comfort her father as their family's house burned down, she was also charged with a felony.

www.foxla.com/news/woman-t...

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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"lets just move on as a country from the bush era torture" predictably did not heal the nation, it just empowered the torturers to grow bolder and entrench their power.

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Eileen Clancy's avatar Eileen Clancy @clancyny.bsky.social
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Man cyberstalks ex and kids by offering: $25 per photo of two 3 y.o. girls $50 for video $100 for address of mother-child yoga class $10,000 for anyone who can bring the girls for “a peaceful, arranged meeting.” Guy to Tribune: "I hear she’s scared. She should be scared." Chicago cops do nothing.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى's avatar Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com
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Israeli forces fatally shot 14-year-old Ghassan Gharib Hussein Zahran in the back while he played with friends yesterday in the occupied West Bank. Israeli settlers and soldiers attacked Palestinian residents who tried to reach Ghassan while he bled out. Defense for Children International.

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Patrick S. Tomlinson's avatar Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social
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The Washington Post's slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness" feels less like a call to action and more like a mission statement these days.

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Sage 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Sage 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social
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The USA multiple times a year ever since Cuba became socialist in the 1960’s:

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Sage 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Sage 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social
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the CIA kept fucking up their attempts to kill Castro to the point it became a running gag in lefty pop culture during the 1960’s.

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Sage 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Sage 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social
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CIA director: “what if we send a sexy lady to kill Castro?” (1 month later) CIA grunt: “sir, the sexy lady became Castro’s lover & has refused to kill him. she is also not returning to america.” CIA director: “ah. well. never the less. maybe we try making exploding cigars again?”

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Karl Bode's avatar Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social
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right wing propaganda's greatest success is seeding the lie that our overwhelmingly center-right corporatist press is somehow "too liberal" in reality, anything vaguely resembling progressivism is defunded and marginalized (ask me how I know)

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Luke LeBrun's avatar Luke LeBrun @llebrun.bsky.social
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NEW: Top Shopify executive’s right-wing media website rails against immigrants while defending a legally designated terrorist group. The right-wing Canadian media website ‘True North’ deleted its interview with the founder of the Proud Boys shortly after being contacted by PressProgress:

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Sean MacGillivray 's avatar Sean MacGillivray @macg1llivray.bsky.social
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I swear these mfs are gonna drive me to learn Magento

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Laila Lalami's avatar Laila Lalami @lailalalami.bsky.social
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Remember the outcry from our entire political class back in October when it was reported that Israel had hit 1 hospital? They immediately screamed fake news. Now it’s 8 hospitals, and they’ve all gone silent.

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Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
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"Over the course of several months in 2024, TIME spoke to more than 40 people in the Granbury area who reported a medical ailment that they believe is connected to the arrival of the Bitcoin mine: hypertension, heart palpitations, chest pain, vertigo, tinnitus, migraines, panic attacks."

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Rachel Shelden's avatar Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social
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It cannot be stressed enough that adjusting the size of the Supreme Court in the 19th c. was a serious solution to serious concerns about how the Court functioned. As @earlymodjustice.bsky.social points out, reform often addressed imbalances. And these imbalances were often about REPRESENTATION. 1/

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Stef Schrader's avatar Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day
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writers should be allowed to financially bankrupt these morally bankrupt ghouls who steal our likenesses/bylines to vomit out low-quality chatbot-written garbage www.404media.co/a-beloved-te...

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Andrea Grimes's avatar Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.bsky.social
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CLASSIFYING ABORTION AS A 14TH AMENDMENT ISSUE IS NOT "TEMPERING" LANGUAGE ON ABORTION, IT IS EXPLICITLY IDENTIFYING FETAL PERSONHOOD AS A PARTY GOAL THAT'S WHY THE GOP AGREED TO IT THEY LIKE IT IT DOES WHAT THEY WANT IT TO DO: ALLOW THE PROSECUTION OF ABORTION AS HOMICIDE

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Justin Ling's avatar Justin Ling @justinling.bsky.social
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i think the scourge of comically-bad AI-generated racist agitprop, generated by spam farms to get engagement from boomers, has properly come to twitter. everything is facebook now

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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folks… we are juiceless we have lost the juice how could we lose out to Threads of all places on bullying the Times

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Max Kennerly's avatar 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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Fifty Shades of Whey's avatar Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social
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a cop shot himself and this is the headline they went with

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Sean MacGillivray 's avatar Sean MacGillivray @macg1llivray.bsky.social
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(this isn't a critique of long driveways, it's just a way to illustrate the much longer distances between things in rural areas)

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Sean MacGillivray 's avatar Sean MacGillivray @macg1llivray.bsky.social
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100%, when you get out into the country and people's driveways are longer than the distance between urban transpo stops, the last-mile problems (transit station to destination or doorstep) of mass transit get a lot harder to solve.

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Zander🚈🔰's avatar Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social
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Transit funding = antifascist praxis

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Luckily, when we hear the excuse "we were just following orders" there's nothing horrific that comes to mind.

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Something grimly funny about how like 10 years ago, every harmless crank who believed in stuff like flat earth and fake moon landing would either be radicalized into antisemitism or gradually revealed it, but now all these people are open antisemites and they stumble into flat earth

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Molly Shah's avatar Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social
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Updating your profile pic to this in 2024 makes me want to write an essay.

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Brendan Nyhan's avatar Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Category error watch. People keep assuming legal proceduralism will apply in an authoritarian state.

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Hayes Brown's avatar Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social
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idk it just seems to me that laws, like tech, should be created with the question "what would the worst person i know be able to do with this power" in mind and it's truly incredible how much this opinion fails at that basic task

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Director, Basque Space Program's avatar Director, Basque Space Program @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
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This is your enemy. His pinned post is unhinged racist trash, but he is serious about the agenda

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eva's avatar eva @eva.computer
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Supreme Court: The president is an untouchable king Trump: i’m going to execute every journalist i’m going do it folks my daughter has a butt that won’t quit they got those big chewy pretzels here $5 get outta here NYT: How To Use The Cass Review to Talk to Your Kids About Their New Summer Camp

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☀️ Starshine's avatar ☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social
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[type of guy who can’t manage a 20 person discord without it imploding into petty feuds voice]: i am going to lead a revolution of the workers

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Dr. Holly Walters's avatar Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social
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Don't forget the Sharpie.

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Hillary Monahan's avatar Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social
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My left af nonbinary queer partner came from a poor family and wanted to go to college so they enlisted. Wanting to go to college and being forced into the military is not a political party. It's our government being fucking predators and using the cycle of poverty to keep its death machine.

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Megan Carpentier's avatar Megan Carpentier @megancarpentier.bsky.social
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“I had a very, very rambunctious youth.” He was 44 at the time his then-nanny says he pinned her in a pantry and groped her.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) 's avatar Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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Hey so…we are in the middle of a far right coup and the far right is telling you they are going to continue and if we try to stop them they will resort to open violence.This is cartoonish and people need to push these fascist now. Not tomorrow not next week we need massive protests and direct action

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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He's right. They're stealing the country from us and ending democracy. "Bloodless if the left allows it to be" is a threat to kill anyone who fights back

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again

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Media Matters for America's avatar Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social
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Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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Kandy's avatar Kandy @kandyelmo.com
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bringing this here because i've had it

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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i think it's worth noting that the court's decision was bad in ways that even pretty cynical pessimists were surprised by

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Gareth Owen  🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭)'s avatar Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social
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The right wing has no underlying principles, what is right or wrong depends entirely upon whether or not it benefits them.

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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life under authoritarian regimes is like war: most Americans don’t know that it’s often really normal and boring, up until the rarer, horrible moments when it isn’t

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