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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1h

A remarkable, much-needed political ad, and also read @katelynburns.com on her reaction to it: www.patreon.com/posts/you-ha...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 5h

He says he loved Legionnaires of the Antichrist before it was cool.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 5h

sounds great tbh

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 5h

It's pretty easy to hate celebrity profiles but then @emilynussbaum.bsky.social comes around and shows you it's okay to love them again. This on the incomparable Keri Russell is perfection:

Keri Russell’s Emotional Transparency Has Anchored Three Decades of TV

But, offscreen, she’s not even sure that she wants to be an actress.

www.newyorker.com

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 6h

This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 6h

Pretty sure my metal-head hot Swedish husband has some "legionnaires of the Antichrist" on vinyl and maybe a t-shirt or two.

Screenshot of a WashPo article with the skeet, "Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future."

Image shows a sweaty white man with a face like Judge Doom from Roger Rabbit holding a microphone and speaking in front of a lecturn.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 11h

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 22h

thank you for your birbice.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 22h

Agreed.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 22h

I read @erininthemorning.com's newsletter and promptly wrote emails to Kirsten and Chuck calling them on their anti-trans bullshit. I won't vote for politicians who throw trans Americans under the bus.

26 Senate Democrats Help Pass Military NDAA Containing Trans Sports, Surgery Ban, No Protection For US Troop Deployments

The bill passed by a wide margin in the Senate and will be the starting point for negotiations with the House, which contain more severe anti-trans riders.

open.substack.com

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 22h

The Trump administration's ever-increasing hysterical reactions to protesters, judges, and schools refusing to sit back and take it, while unquestionably dangerous, means that it's working.

May the frogs dance on.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

I feel your utter mystification. They had the world on a platter and fucked it up over being total shitheels to powerless women. What massive, sad pathology is that.

chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck yes!

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Alex Segura @alexsegura.bsky.social · 1d

Just announced at NYCC: I’m writing a KNOW YOUR RIGHTS comic with artist @davidhahn.bsky.social in partnership with @nycschools.bsky.social #civicsforall comics program, covering and explaining student rights when it comes to immigration enforcement.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously. Mind-boggling.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

by Raymond Carver

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

same, actually

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

I love my Swedish doctor, Karin, who calls me at home to interpret my test results every time she orders some.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 1d

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

www.mibfc.org

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing. Well done!

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 2d

At this moment in history, just imagine having a platform that reaches millions of people—with wide leeway to cover almost anything—and doing this with it.

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:

Douthat: So, just to take a related example, one of the controversies of many that you’ve been mixed up in has to do with slavery, and whether slavery is absolutely forbidden by the Bible, absolutely forbidden to Christians, or whether it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: And you think it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: On this, on a straightforward reading of the New Testament, I would agree with you. I would say, pretty clearly, there is a pretty clear path from the message of the Bible to the abolition of slavery. But there is no moment in the New Testament when Jesus insists on the manumission of slaves.

Wilson: Right.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

The worst part about the AI bubble popping is how many average people will be affected by the economic fallout. People will lose their job, kids will go hungry, and families will lose their homes. Yet these billionaire bastards won't feel a thing other than a decline in their net worth.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2d

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing! I'm so happy for you!!!

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