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Pip's owner, Liz. Chemist. Progressive. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏒 ⚽️

@lizbethd.bsky.social

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Chemist. Progressive. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏒 ⚽️ 📖Lover of hard science fiction and creature features. 🏫Proponent of local politics and building the bench. 🏒SJ Sharks die hard. Inaugural Boston Fleet STH. ⚽️NE Revs, LCFC, US national teams, SD Wave.

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Pip's owner, Liz. Chemist. Progressive. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏒 ⚽️ @lizbethd.bsky.social · 1h

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Pip's owner, Liz. Chemist. Progressive. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏒 ⚽️ @lizbethd.bsky.social · 1h

He really is trying to start a war, isn't he.

OSINT Intuit @urikikaski.bsky.social · 1h

Two US B-52 strategic bombers (BUNNY01 and BUNNY02) conducted practice missile launches today over the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of Venezuela.

#OSINT

Pip's owner, Liz. Chemist. Progressive. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏒 ⚽️ @lizbethd.bsky.social · 5h

No *brainer*

Ugh, between work and real life, I'm struggling to catch even small mistakes.

Anyway, here's a picture of my black cat.

Pip's owner, Liz. Chemist. Progressive. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏒 ⚽️ @lizbethd.bsky.social · 5h

FWIW, yes Markey is old. Like really so... but also, he was one of the first Dems to say what IDF is doing is genocide. And he supports trans youth, adults, and in between. He's a no trainer for me.

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Pip's owner, Liz. Chemist. Progressive. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏒 ⚽️ @lizbethd.bsky.social · 5h

Just saw that Seth Moulton has launched a Senate Bid to unseat Markey.

The last thing MA voters want is a replicant of Fetterman.

I asked Moulton about support for trans kids at an event once, and he said that unequivocally, he supported them.

Now it's a tune of convenience. Eff him.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17h

Tomorrow is a critical day for democracy in court. Compare how the Washington Post framed it vs Democracy Docket.

Right now, fearless, pro-democracy media is more important than legacy media platitudes. Sign up now to say informed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 19h

When people show you who they are, believe them.

And of course JD Vance refused to condemn this.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20h

Democrats need to put the same extended media consuming outrage into the Young Republican Nazi chats as Republicans mustered for Biden going for ice cream.

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Pip's owner, Liz. Chemist. Progressive. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏒 ⚽️ @lizbethd.bsky.social · 21h

Disgusting!

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

Pip's owner, Liz. Chemist. Progressive. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏒 ⚽️ @lizbethd.bsky.social · 1d

All in for @grahamformaine.bsky.social !!!

Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

A Maine senate nominee who can quote Andor, shuck oysters, and knock heads?

From my August profile of Graham Platner, the beefy scifi nerd who wants to put Susan Collins in the dustbin of history.

newrepublic.com/article/1996...

Platner draws a distinction between the Trump voters who might still be convinced to rise up against the real elites and the Trump enablers who’ve grown rich and powerful by backing him. “I’m not going to go down to Washington, have some conversations in a back room with somebody, and convince them that being a corrupt corporate scumbag is bad,” he says at the house party. It is his third campaign event ever and has about 50 people in attendance.

To him, persuasion is a dead end if the people you’re trying to sway have already torched the rulebook. Power, as he sees it, is the ability to ignore the referee and keep scoring. His goal isn’t to negotiate—it’s to demonstrate what a candidate backed by a real movement can do. “It’s not about getting me elected. It’s not about getting anybody elected in many ways. It’s about using all of this as a mechanism of building working-class power.”

“Individualism and hustle culture mean we’re always killing ourselves with work,” he says. “You’re too busy to talk to your neighbors.” Platner treasures the freedom that his disability pension gives him: He gets to choose to keep his company small, he gets to work the hours that make sense for him. Everyone should be able to.

Precarity can spark the political division that Star Trek–style post-scarcity might alleviate, but Platner thinks its most pervasive damage to our society is more subtle: We just don’t have time for each other. This is not just a political crisis. It’s an existential one.

He turns around in the front seat and stabs a thick finger at the notebook that I had set aside. “Write this down,” he says. “No matter which way it goes—taking the Senate or the fall of democracy—whatever the eventuality, the work remains the same.

“You have to build things for people to access. You have to build the apparatus for change, even if no one else shows up. If you don’t build the movement, it won’t be there when the day for action comes. It’s thankless. People live their entire lives building something they may never see succeed. And you do it anyway.”

Pip's owner, Liz. Chemist. Progressive. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏒 ⚽️ @lizbethd.bsky.social · 1d

I can't stand dem elites.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

THIS: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

reasonsvoice.bsky.social @reasonsvoice.bsky.social · 1d

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Pip's owner, Liz. Chemist. Progressive. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏒 ⚽️ @lizbethd.bsky.social · 1d

Some assumptions:

* some cats would be unable to adapt, of course, but those that could, adapt quickly to the concept of controlling new limbs.
* I am also assuming cat intelligence is greater than we presume.
* and I am hoping my cat won't try murdering me over late feeding.

Pip's owner, Liz. Chemist. Progressive. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏒 ⚽️ @lizbethd.bsky.social · 1d

#catsky

Thought experiment- Imagine cat(s) with brain:computer interfaces similar to neurolink or equivalent for those with paralyzed limbs.

How long until the downfall of humans as the dominant species?

Pip's owner, Liz. Chemist. Progressive. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏒 ⚽️ @lizbethd.bsky.social · 1d

This apparent cease fire agreement was in place in January 2025, prior to this Dictatorship. It just fell apart because The Great Orange One winked at Warmongering Netanyahu.

This *was* Biden and Blinken's plan, taken over, perverted and taken credit for by The Unwell One

katu.com/news/nation-...

Blinken claims Trump's ceasefire deal in Middle East built on Biden’s original plan

katu.com

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Pip's owner, Liz. Chemist. Progressive. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏒 ⚽️ @lizbethd.bsky.social · 2d

I have family that believe in this mythos as well. It's hard to have any rational discussion with them on faith topics for this reason.

Pip's owner, Liz. Chemist. Progressive. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏒 ⚽️ @lizbethd.bsky.social · 3d

Not that I really want to support the Revs monetarily anymore, but a back to back doubleheader would be kinda cool for a crossover event.

Pip's owner, Liz. Chemist. Progressive. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏒 ⚽️ @lizbethd.bsky.social · 3d

SAME

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 4d

Since it is Friday, I am once again reminding you that I am running for CA Assembly District 72, and that my solemn pledge not to use any campaign funds to eat excessive amounts of tortellinis remains in effect.

These are personal tortellinis.

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A plastic bowl filled with discount tortellinis and marinara sauce

www.kluweoc.com

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 5d

This arrest appears to be in direct violation of a temporary restraining order prohibiting DHS officers from arresting journalists. The officers here may well be subject to contempt of court. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...