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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds

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She/her - I have that Jezebel spirit In the immortal words of Bartleby, "I would prefer not to." Fearless and undefined this is what it sounds like.

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · Jan 2

What America becomes in the future is predicated on who we are today and every day.

George Lakoff @george-lakoff.com · Jan 1

Tips to keep democracy alive in 2025:

1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it.
www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...

2025: Keep democracy alive. FrameLab New Year's resolutions

Advice for defeating the authoritarian threat

www.theframelab.org

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Capt'n Amy, the Girl with the Sun in her Eyes @captnamy.bsky.social · 14h

This morning we witnessed an ICE action on our block.

This afternoon I saw this woman standing where it happened.

She was still there this evening.

I took her a bottle of water and asked her if she was standing vigil.

She looked at me with pain on her eyes and said "It's all I can do"

A woman wearing a dark green hooded clock stands motionless on a sidewalk holding a candle. A candle burns at her feet.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 14h

"To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating."

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

www.theguardian.com

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 11h

Republicans just blocked a bill to pay the troops

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 10h

"It's not porn, it's HBO" was the running joke in the aughts.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 19h

I’m rewatching “True Blood” and I forgot that HBO used to be so slutty. What a time.

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Jenn Burrill @jennburrill.bsky.social · 11h

All of New Mexico...

Patrick Doran @patrickdoran.bsky.social · 1d

I found this map showing which states used Dominion Voting Machines in the 2024 race. With an election denier as the new owner of Dominion which is now Liberty vote, I definitely would advise all states to get out of their contract with them & find a new one.

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 11h

I don't care who wins this game but I have to say I have missed an event that everyone is talking about together that isn't a bad thing.

Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 11h

Damn, beat me to it. 🤣

MrNelson007, Defender of Skara Brae @mrnelson007.bsky.social · 11h

Both teams proceed to throw rock for 6 hours

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11h

OK rock paper scissors to decide it

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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 12h

Fear is gone, only anger (and ridicule) now!

butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 1d

This proves that Taco n his Cult r doing the insane ICE $H!T to scare Americans to be complicit w what is happening. Taco wants us 2 post the cruelty 2 spread the fear. It only makes me more mad. Fear is gone n only anger now! #iceout #arresttrump

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 11h

They look like The Griswalds walking around Rome after going shopping in National Lampoon's European Vacation.

Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 12h

Look at these clowns…

Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 11h

Reskeet with a frog to scare ICE.

youtu.be/RNZN5PfMdqw?...

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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 1d

This is Randy Erwin, the President of the National Federation of Federal Employees, a union representing 150,000+ workers across the country. #arresttrump #wethepeople #democracy

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 12h

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 13h

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 14h

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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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 12h

🤣

Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 13h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 22h

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 12h

10/10

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 15h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 13h

There is a LOT that Trump and his minions are destroying but public health is an extremely difficult horse to get back in the barn once you've opened the door and run it off.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 14h

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13h

Let's make a promise here, friends... we ARE going to abolish ICE. Not REFORM it. ABOLISH it. And we're going to put that massive budget back into funding all the things that actually HELP people.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 16h

This rocks.

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 16h

These frog costumes are gonna be our Guy Fawkes masks. IYKYK

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 18h

This is in reaction to a post about Ms. Rachel.

I swear to God if Jesus showed up today there would be an insane faction saying he was "virtue signaling" by healing the sick and feeding the poor.

Humanity is broken. To quote David Lynch, "Fix your hearts or die."

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 18h

Like if you have ever seen videos of babies and little kids reacting to her just saying “Hello” you would never question that this MUST BE a fundamentally decent person who has no reason to “virtue signal”

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 18h

Very, very good chance that Trump has just permanently destroyed the second most important cash crop in the country, and nobody is going to like the downstream effects of what happens after almost a full fifth of the agriculture industry loses the only bulk buyer in the world that actually matters.

GuyWhoNeverWenttoEpsteinsIsland @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 18h

Dawg the farmers are never exporting another soybean

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19h

Trump proposing 100% tariffs on China

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 18h

Feeling a lotta bit weltschmerz lately.