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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

So much lying. First, there *is* a legal mechanism for tapping contingency funds.

Second, most important, Johnson cites times when Trump ILLEGALLY moved money around, especially to pay military. Trump won't break the law for hungry people, though.

Why?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: In the last Trump shutdown, he made sure SNAP benefits went out. Why do you think he shouldn't do that this time?

MIKE JOHNSON: The president has done exactly what he did in the first term, and that is bend over backward to make sure we mitigate the harm. The money doesn't exist to do it.

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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · 2d

You typo made me smi-i-ile

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 10d

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 12d

I'm begging for Trotskyists to add an ounce of Critical Race Theory to their politics.

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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · 22d

See also the class warriors who think “identity politics” are a distraction.

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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · Sep 30

What, then? A J6-style insurrection?

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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · Sep 30

I don’t know anyone who feels safe right now.

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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · Sep 30

I bet it’s already there in the Black church, not that non-Black progressives give it much thought.

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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · Sep 30

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · Sep 30

The thing that people want from Democrats is for them to have won in November or failing that say something that will make them feel better about the current situation and everything sucks so it's not going to happen.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · Sep 30

People on this website: Democrats only do words and they need to do more than words!

Also people on this website, sometimes in the same post: What Democrats *really* need to do is better words!

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · Sep 30

And look, everything is very scary and awful it's hard not to lash out at the people you feel safe lashing out at instead of the people causing you harm.

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · Sep 30

The thing that people want from Democrats is for them to have won in November or failing that say something that will make them feel better about the current situation and everything sucks so it's not going to happen.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · Sep 30

People on this website: Democrats only do words and they need to do more than words!

Also people on this website, sometimes in the same post: What Democrats *really* need to do is better words!

Maybe Democrats in general should get better at messaging? Is that ever a thought? I can tell more about the GOP plan from Dem accounts than what a Dem plan might be. All l've seen is sternly worded letters and vague notions of "this isn't normal".
Is it possible that they're just bad at messaging?

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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · Sep 30

People really want empty threats, the more fiery the better. I truly don’t understand it.

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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · Sep 30

So do many of the leftists commenting on this thread.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · Sep 30

Just thinking today of all the colleagues who called us alarmists and cranks when we pointed out that Trump was talking and acting like a fascist in 2016

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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · Sep 29

Or go to therapy.

Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · Sep 28

Do your commenters actually expect the House under Mike Johnson to impeach Trump?

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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · Sep 28

Our chance to stop this was last November. I assume all of your followers voted for Harris, right?

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Washington County Democrats @washcodems.bsky.social · Sep 19

I keep coming back to this essay by Zinn, "The Optimism of Uncertainty."

Especially the second screenshot.

www.howardzinn.org/collection/t...

I have tried hard to match my friends in their pessimism about the world (is it just my friends?), but I keep encountering people who, in spite of all the evidence of terrible things happening everywhere, give me hope. Especially young people, in whom the future rests.

Wherever I go, I find such people. And beyond the handful of activists there seem to be hundreds, thousands, more who are open to unorthodox ideas. But they tend not to know of one another’s existence, and so, while they persist, they do so with the desperate patience of Sisyphus endlessly pushing that boulder up the mountain.

I try to tell each group that it is not alone, and that the very people who are disheartened by the absence of a national movement are themselves proof of the potential for such a movement.

Revolutionary change does not come as one cataclysmic moment (beware of such moments!) but as an endless succession of surprises, moving zigzag toward a more decent society. We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Even when we don’t “win,” there is fun and fulfillment in the fact that we have been involved, with other good people, in something worthwhile. We need hope.

From: The Optimism of Uncertainty
By Howard Zinn •
ZCommunications • September 30, 2004; The Nation • September 20, 2004

An optimist isn’t necessarily a blithe, slightly sappy whistler in the dark of our time. To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something.

If we remember those times and places–and there are so many–where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

From:
The Optimism of Uncertainty
By Howard Zinn •
ZCommunications • September 30, 2004; The Nation • September 20, 2004

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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · Sep 19

I’m headed there for the first time in my life next month and am thinking the same thing! Along with Ethel Mertz, of course.

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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · Sep 17

My other favorite Chumash place name is Malibu, from “humaliwo,” “the surf sounds loudly there.”

I need a beach day.

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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · Sep 17

We used baby oil to to clean the tar from our feet after days at the beach in Isla Vista or Goleta.

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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · Sep 17

Speaking of the La Brea pits, Pismu, which we know in the name of the town Pismo Beach, is the Chumash word for tar, so “the Central and South Coast” (as the newscasters used to call it when I lived near the tar-spotted beaches of Santa Barbara) has three languages’ words in place names.

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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · Sep 12

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’

The far-right commentator didn’t pull his punches when discussing his bigoted views on current events

www.theguardian.com

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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · Sep 12

www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/no-i...

No, I won't be shedding any tears for Charlie Kirk - LGBTQ Nation

He spent his life fomenting hatred against me, my friends, and neighbors. And now we're supposed to fly flags at half-mast for him?

www.lgbtqnation.com

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · Sep 8

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

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