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Deirdre Assenza

@deirdreassenza.bsky.social

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Sweary Poppins. Sass mouth. Lazy academic. Ski bum.

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Deirdre Assenza @deirdreassenza.bsky.social · Jun 22

I have started a list of experts in counterterrorism and will add to it as I vet. These are serious academics and experts in this field, for any interested.

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ArizonaTerry.bsky.social @arizonaterry.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t stop saying it

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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 7h

There is no middle class, there’s only the working class and the parasite capitalist class

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Blue Axeman @blueaxeman.bsky.social · 1d

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Natty🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🏐🏈🐕🐴📎 @grillnatty.bsky.social · 8h

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 21h

#portland #satire

SATIRICAL NEWS Man Struggling To Feed His Family Just Happy His Taxes Are Funding War on Portland, Oregon

guy laughing while holding a sack of something

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 1d

'But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else.'

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

#BookWormSaturday
(is celebrating short stories)

🎨 Jennifer Moses

Painting of sunrise or sunset over a calm sea. Lemon yellows and blue- greys. The sun peeps over a thick line of cloud above the horizon. It is reflected on foreground ripples. Suggests maybe a moment of unexpected happiness.

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Eric Stephen @ericstephen.bsky.social · 9h

MLB's final four has been set, aka the Henry Blanco gauntlet, named for the only player to play for the Dodgers, Brewers, Blue Jays, and Mariners

Henry Blanco (number 12, holding his arms up) on the Brewers

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8h

FUCK ICE FOREVER

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 10h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 10h

"If you want to talk about legacy, let's talk about the legacy of not voting." 💥

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 8h

I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end.

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The True American @thetrueamerican.bsky.social · 8h

Dear ICE :

I’m old. I have some advice for you.

Remember the screams.

I’ve done things I’m not proud of. Things I wake up at night feeling horrible guilt. But nothing like what you’ve done.

You will get old, and those nights are coming. Remember the screams, motherfuckers. They will haunt you.

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 10h

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Edie Falco on 30 Rock:
I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.

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Deirdre Assenza @deirdreassenza.bsky.social · 9h

Love!

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17h

It does feel like everything, everywhere, all at once.

Tweet from Brian Allen: “🚨 RFK Jr just said circumcision causes autism, but not because of the procedure. He claims Tylenol is to blame... and says ‘two studies’ prove it. We’re officially in conspiracy multiverse madness.”
Below, a C-SPAN screenshot shows RFK Jr speaking at a table during a Trump administration cabinet meeting.

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Mr. Fresh™️ @mrfresh.bsky.social · 1d

Umm…. #ice

A picture of a woman pointing at the biblical scripture Leviticus 19:33

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11h

Portland 🔥

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Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 11h

My feelings exactly, VP.

VP Harris at a stop on her book tour side eying hecklers trying to shout her down.

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Deirdre Assenza @deirdreassenza.bsky.social · 11h

Never watched one of his films never will. Marrying your child is never okay. Not even “for the art” ffs

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 12h

This whole thread. Every fucking word. Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 12h

You know what?

When the United States actually takes care of a of the people within its borders, I'll consider being respectful or grateful to this country. But for now, what I see is a country founded on multiple genocides doing its level best to either deny those genocides ever happened,