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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly I want to throw my phone into a large body of water.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Knowing who to be mad at truly is praxis.

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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 4d

MAGADETH

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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 4d

The Queen of reading a room. She KNEW we needed this!! 😭

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Listeria monicytogenes 😱🦠 @pkpd-babe.bsky.social · 4d

gather ’round the prayer circle

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4d

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

variety.com

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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 4d

Eavesdropping on 8yo and three friends eating dinner at our kitchen table. One friend just asked “are we still kids?” 8yo answers with a deep sigh that sounds like the weight of the world: “we are.”

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 5d

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5d

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 5d

lol this entire era of politics has proven to me that rules are indeed fake

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 6d

Truly the wildest shit is happening as we approach rapid collapse with Trump ready to circumvent court orders to deluge US cities in troops for the “crime” of disagreeing with him—and normies are hardly aware of it

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 7d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 7d

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 8d

Do you take Allegra D? It’s expensive but literally I can not breathe without it 😩

RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 8d

OMG LOOOOOOVE. And do we teach the children a choral number to sing, maybe All Good Gifts from Godspell?? MAYBE. 😩💜

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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 10d

“Our power isn’t in making one of the choices that are presented to us. Our power is in shaping the choices available to us.” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11d

Great column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

(gift link)

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

www.nytimes.com

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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 10d

No. They are powerful, violent white supremacists. We need to keep talking about THAT.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12d

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 11d

Another call for sources: I'm reporting on pediatric Covid vaccine access. If you've had trouble finding pediatric doses in stock, or if your child was turned away, I'd love to hear from you: [email protected].

Thanks to those who replied to my pregnancy callout; that story will be out soon.

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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 11d

We can’t fight stigma while selling stigmatizing policies.

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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 11d

Viability limits are fetal protection laws that collude with personhood in criminal codes. What is more ANTI abortion than that?!

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Pregnancy Justice @pregnancyjust.bsky.social · 12d

We have NEW research on pregnancy-related prosecutions in the first two years after Dobbs, and there are surely more cases.

They show us that giving rights to fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses paves the way for people to be ARRESTED and PUNISHED for all pregnancy outcomes — beyond abortion.

In the two years after Dobbs, prosecutors initiated at least 412 cases charging people with crimes related to pregnancy, pregnancy loss, or birth.

Prosecutors criminalized 31 people who experienced a pregnancy loss in the 2 years after Dobbs.

Pregnancy related prosecutions happened in 16 states. These were the top 3: Alabama, Oklahoma, and South Carolina.

Most cases involve allegations of substance use during pregnancy - 399/412

Most cases began in a medical setting - 264/412

Most cases involved the family policing system - 217/412

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14d

it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation

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rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · 13d

Abortion later in pregnancy is often misunderstood & heavily targeted through both policy & stigma. Erika Christensen @rhavote.bsky.social, Jenn Chalifoux, & Dr. Diana Greene Foster sat down with us to share their personal stories & why access to later abortion will always be needed #SafeAbortionDay

Access to Later Abortion Will Always be Needed — rePROs Fight Back

Abortion later in pregnancy is often misunderstood and heavily targeted through both policy and stigma. Erika Christensen , co-founder of Patient Forward and later abortion patient and advocate, Jen...

www.reprosfightback.com

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 14d

People who treat the terrain of politics as fixed or natural have no business opining on it.

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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 14d

Predictably I loved the Lilith doc. Many feelings!