Terroresa Ripperhoff
@tree26.bsky.social
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She/her, Ph.D. Reader, writer, teacher, talker. GenX Grande Dame.
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tree26.bsky.social
He should never have been on the ballot #TeamDieMad
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mobydickatsea.bsky.social
your whales must be seen before they can be killed
tree26.bsky.social
“Tense incidents” doesn’t quite capture it.
Since they’re going to call you “Voice of Antifa” anyway you might as well go all in on the truth.
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alexhairysun.bsky.social
In Evanston: a last-minute protest against ICE, called just a couple hours ago, draws dozens of people to Oakton Street near where two people were abducted in front of a Home Depot yesterday. I need to run to cover City Council, but more people are still arriving.
Protesters against ICE line up along Oakton Street in Evanston near the Home Depot. In the foreground, two people hold a large Mexican flag. Protesters against ICE line up along Oakton Street in Evanston near the Home Depot.
tree26.bsky.social
Equal parts terrifying and pathetic
unraveledpress.com
ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.
tree26.bsky.social
Conspiracy theory vs conspiracy fiction
airbagmoments.bsky.social
Conspiracy theorists succumb to the tantalizing temptation to over-simplify messy reality.

Nevertheless, sometimes there are real and world history-inflecting conspiracies. We're living in one.
carolecadwalla.bsky.social
This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
tree26.bsky.social
Where I lived during grad school
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perrybaconjr.bsky.social
"FDR knew there are sides. When you replace that and have no villains because you want neoliberalism and a rising tide lifts all boats, you render people susceptible to the right. Neoliberalism is the handmaiden to authoritarianism," says @anatosaurus.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2015...
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candylovely.bsky.social
Portland is in the "house" 🥁💪👏😁
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grahamformaine.bsky.social
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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jbm0.bsky.social
"The Danes used empathy politically—an action abhorred by right-wing leaders, who have gone so far as to brand it as an enemy and a weakness. But what they are leaving unsaid is that fascism cannot prosper where empathy exists."

www.thenation.com/article/acti...
The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We
Danish resistance didn’t arrive all at once during World War II. But taken as a whole, the Danes’ actions are a testament to what’s possible when we work together to fight fascism.
www.thenation.com
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protecttruth.bsky.social
All right. This is an opportunity. Prior #NoKings protests were huge but did not get the media coverage they deserved.

Now R’s are anticipating NoKings will hurt them. So they are proactively lying in the media about 10/18.

We shd use this: D leaders should be in the media talking about #NoKings.
atrupar.com
Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."
tree26.bsky.social
I will die mad about it
nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
Luttig made a comprehensive originalist argument that 14A forbid Trump in 2024. The Roberts court took legal text that says insurrectionists can’t hold federal office unless given an exception by Congress, and ruled that they have to be allowed to hold office unless forbidden by an act of Congress.
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tree26.bsky.social
Halloween is going to be lit
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cdelawalla.bsky.social
Imagine choosing *PORTLAND OREGON*--home of "Keep Portland Weird"--to fuck around and find out about.

The footage from the "Emergency Naked Bike Ride" (which, by the way, will go down in American history as a brilliant protest strategy) is cracking me up.

Act like clowns expect a circus, baby!
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bretdevereaux.bsky.social
This is correct, in part - as the grim, military historian in me feels the need to note - it is psychologically much harder to get soldiers to open fire on people they view as 'respectable.'

And I dread, with grim increasingly certainty, that we are headed to a point where that matters.
whatsarasaid.bsky.social
protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space

we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning
tree26.bsky.social
In honour of the mass firings at the CDC, I propose that for the duration of this administration it be called The Blight House.
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theophite.bsky.social
this is fucking obscene
atrupar.com
Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."
tree26.bsky.social
Children of Men is possibly my favorite movie of this century but I nevertheless understand your position