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Brooke

@brooklynmarie.bsky.social

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Tlönista. Shitposting merrily downward. Weird plant, cat, books lady. Sci-fi, fantasy, art, jazz, etc. Profile photo is a selfie with the bottom half of my face hilariously covered by my cat's. Banner pic is of crows in a tree.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · Jan 25

What we are all experiencing is called "resilience targeting." It is a deliberate attack favored by many of todays shitlords, and is a fairly well known theory in disinfo and climate circles; it's just that everyone seems to be in denial that it's an attack. Today might be a good day to read up

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 6h

That's my friend @chadmbriggs.bsky.social!!

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 9h

This is climate-based resilience targeting.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h

“We’re physically seeing the impacts of a changing climate on these communities. … And the fact that we don’t have a government framework for dealing with these issues is not just an Alaska problem, it’s a national problem.”

(Published May with KYUK)

Newtok, Alaska, Was Supposed to Be a Model for Climate Relocation. Here’s How It Went Wrong.

The project’s challenges highlight how ill-prepared the U.S. is to respond to the way climate change is making some places uninhabitable.

www.propublica.org

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h

Newtok, Alaska, Was Supposed to Be a Model for Climate Relocation. Here’s How It Went Wrong.

The project’s challenges highlight how ill-prepared the U.S. is to respond to the way climate change is making some places uninhabitable.

www.propublica.org

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h

when i saw marsha fucking blackburn was being honored by journalists i thought i was having a neurological episode

Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com · 21h

June 11: GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill to defund NPR and PBS because of their "left-wing propaganda" and "radical leftist gender ideology."

October 7: The news industry's main trade group gives Blackburn its "Support Journalism Champion Award."

Just shameless.

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 9h

People are making light of this, and I get it, but some of my most profound experiences of something bigger than myself have been my times with migrants. I am not a religious person, but I have spent time with Jesuits, Sikhs, and Friends who serve migrants and we had a great deal in common.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 16h

Go woke, go Pope

Pope Leo says faith and love for migrants are connected

In his first major document as leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo urges nations and believers to care for the poorest in society.

www.npr.org

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 9h

A Jesuit priest told me he experiences God through migrants, he sees God in them and they bring out the part of God that is in him. I don't think I've gone a day since then without thinking about that. It changed how I understand faith. You can hear the interview here www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

What Can You Do? Mutual Aid Along the Migrant Journey - It Could Happen Here | iHeart

James' final episode looks at the people helping migrants once they leave the Darién Gap, and how you can help. Donation links for groups featured in this series: Border Kindness: <a...

www.iheart.com

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 9h

Oh no! I didn't mean to make it seem I was making light, if I did I completely apologize. I was profoundly happy to see these statements from him and agree with you.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 10h

You've been circumcised three times?!?

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 10h

😭 please give that old man a kiss from me

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 10h

I think about that all the time!! I learned not one lesson 😂 worth it though

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

Folks worry about fascism

I’ve been job hunting for a year

In terrified that white folks, non Black , and “hustle culture” are gonna shrug off the utter decimation of the prime earning years of an already compromised populace

And do no work or planning beyond

“BUT TRUMP”

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 11h

It’s exhausting and especially for me because people openly don’t employ em and then from their well paid positions to observe me

And bluntly me doing public education and volunteering

Is more fruitful than sending resumes which means I tweeting for my Go Fund Me

nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 11h

This is also the worst job market I've personally seen, in over 25yrs. I had to submit hundreds of resumes, before landing my current job a year ago—and in the past, I only ever submitted maybe a dozen. Yes, I work in tech, but I've heard the same sentiment from folks in other markets as well.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 11h

Is... is such a feeling possible??

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 11h

Perry:
More people are being detained and deported.
More people are being arrested.
This courthouse is open.
"There is no evidence that the president is unable, with the regular forces, to execute the laws of the United States."

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 12h

Perry is back on the bench.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 12h

As we wait for Judge April Perry to rule, here's my full story from this morning's extraordinary hearing, for @wttw.bsky.social:

Federal Judge Appears Skeptical of Reasoning Behind National Guard Deployment in Illinois During Ongoing Hearing

Lawyers for the Department of Justice told U.S. District Court Judge April Perry the president deployed the National Guard because “levels of violence against federal law enforcement executing their l...

news.wttw.com

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 11h

Great minds ❤️

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 13h

Ugh it would go down like a hostage video

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 13h

Who gives a fuck

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 13h

Not just genitalia. Children's genitals

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 13h

Rizz em with the jism

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 13h

The tism in the jism

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 14h

And on the fourth day God said if you cut the penis your sons will know so many facts about whales

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 19h

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14h

at some point you have to wonder why this barely interesting thing warrants any media coverage at all in a country with oodles of interesting things editors deem unfit to cover

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15h

Turning Point USA announced it will host counterprogramming to the Super Bowl halftime show, called “The All American Halftime Show,” as MAGA critics have been enraged over the selection of Bad Bunny as the 2026 headliner.

MAGA rage over Bad Bunny at Super Bowl sparks an alternative show

Counterprogramming hosted by the group that Charlie Kirk founded spotlights the growing political polarization surrounding one of the biggest events of the year.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14h

it's almost as if the extraction class has hijacked the press to help them use race and gender as wedge issues to distract the plebs from the fact they're destroying consumer protection, corporate oversight, democracy, and labor rights while selling the country for scrap off the back loading dock

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