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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · 14d

The sacred container is a clown car.

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 17d

"Governments never announce that they have become fascist. They announce that the antifascists are now the enemy of the state"

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Anne 🩵🩷🤍 [נעמי יעל] @tranniehathaway.bsky.social · Dec 23

Damn, all those high fantasy novels were right: evil must be defeated in *every* generation and we must be ever watchful for its return

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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · 26d

Are we GOING to hell, or are we IN hell?

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AnnieOakleyinGA @annie1x.bsky.social · 26d

#Pinks #ProudBlue
Protect everyone, protect yourself. That’s how it works.

Sign on a telephone pole. It reads “whatever you allow your government to do to others, they will eventually do to you.”

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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · 27d

The Jester plays a role, speaking truth to power through humour.

I think we're in the "all bets are off" phase.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27d

2022 — a confession:

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NWresistance @nwresistance.bsky.social · 27d

HARTFORD #VISIBILITYBRIGADE this am!! Our regular dozen waving and lots of honking in support. We refuse to be enemies!

@hcrichardson.bsky.social @rbhubbell.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @nicollewallace.bsky.social @ctmirror.org @repjahanahayes.bsky.social

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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 27d

Colbert gone. Kimmel silenced. Not for lying, but for speaking the truth trump doesn't want you to hear.

Mocking the regime is now a punishable offense. All to keep critics quiet. Laugh too loud, think too clearly & you vanish. This is how authoritarianism sterilizes a culture & numbs dissent.

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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · Sep 13

Yesss, gurl.

Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · Sep 13

Absolute legends: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Defiant nuns flee Austrian care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps

Sisters Bernadette, Regina and Rita needed a locksmith to get back into their convent, defying Church leaders.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.com · Sep 12

I got my Covid vaccine 💉 today AND my flu shot.

Suck it RFKJr.

a woman in a striped shirt is dancing with her arms in the air .

Alt: Kelly Clarkson in a striped shirt is dancing with her arms in the air .

media.tenor.com

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The Autistic Rabbi(nical Student) | Mati [he/they] @autisticrabbi.bsky.social · Sep 11

Elul isn’t just about “going deep".

Some of us live there every day - our whole existence feels like one long Elul.

Teshuvah isn’t about fixing yourself.

It’s about returning to yourself.

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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · Sep 12

TLL

Lurie Daniel Favors @luriedanielfavors.bsky.social · Sep 12

Yesterday, Adam from South Dakota called my SiriusXM show to say Charlie Kirk was unalived b/c people on the left use words like racism or facism to describe folks like Charlie.

That call did not end the way he thought it would.

#TrollSlay: Words Hold Power
youtu.be/BEcoVzaEOP4

#TrollSlay: Words Hold Power

YouTube video by Lurie Daniel Favors

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joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social · Sep 12

repairman who has brought the wrong tools.

Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · Sep 12

When you realize the people you fired to avoid any investigation of your crimes are the same people you need to investigate other crimes…

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Sep 11

And beware of false flags and planted evidence with this FBI in charge. Skepticism is in order.

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · Sep 10

Doug Ford tells young job seekers “try inheriting your daddy’s sticker factory”

QUEEN'S PARK - Ontario Premier Doug Ford is telling unemployed young job seekers to "Look harder" for label manufacturing companies that they can inherit, or failing that, a lifetime's worth of backroom conservative political connections.

www.thebeaverton.com

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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · Sep 10

Here for it.
For those of us eating oatmeal, a book club/reading group is starting Radical Mindfulness this Sunday. Free to attend, free PDF, 30% discount on the physical copy.

Let's change the world.
rowecenter.org/radical-mind...

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · Sep 10

if we can’t get MAHA to agree that it’s wrong to kill public health workers if they don’t have control over policy, i’m not sure what common ground we can develop because that is categorically the same ideology as fascism, which you can’t work with. i’m glad folks are trying (we need them to) but

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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · Sep 9

The one episode I think of ALL the time.
And I may or may not have a book problem...

Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · Sep 9

Let's go, Team Human!! We can do this!!

Sam Still Masks 🪉 @theailingwitch.bsky.social · Sep 9

If you are able to get a flu and covid vaccine, PLEASE do (& wear an N95 or better when you do, if able!)

I am an immunocompromised person who cannot access the vaccine— trust me I’m tryin’— so I am DEEPLY relying on folks who say they care about me to truly care about me by vaccinating & masking.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · Sep 9

White people are fumbling their way through this moment because it’s really hard for them to accept that this is always what this country was about.

And they’re mad at Black people for still finding joy because “THE COUNTRY IS BURNING HOW ARE YOU WATCHING FOOTBALL.”

Interesting dynamic.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · May 4

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · Sep 9

👏Neurodivergence 👏isn't 👏a 👏disease!!

Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · Sep 9

1. RFK Jr. is a dangerous eugenicist and no one should believe any "study" he comes out with about anything 2. the main cause of Autism is that the human brain doesn't really have one "normal" mode and we only just started realizing that in the last few decades. 3. neurodivergence isn't a disease.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Sep 9

RFK Jr. wants to link Tylenol use in pregnant women to autism.

The truth: there’s no evidence of that connection, and there’s no single cause for autism.

📌 Tylenol is one of the only approved pain meds for pregnant women. So his reckless plan means forcing them to suffer without options.

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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · Sep 8

Can't hurt.

Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · Sep 8

@samgrittner on x

Healthcare Tip: Befriend a shady veterinarian now

Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · Sep 8

Rethinking my recent, "I need to get rid of some of these books," stance.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Jennifer Shin @jennifershin.bsky.social · Sep 7

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are inherent to all people and cannot be taken away, surrendered, or sold by any person or government. Thomas Jefferson integrated these principles into the Declaration of Independence, making them a cornerstone of American governmental philosophy.

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