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Deirdre Assenza

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Sweary Poppins. Sass mouth. Lazy academic. Ski bum.

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Deirdre Assenza @deirdreassenza.bsky.social · Jun 22

I have started a list of experts in counterterrorism and will add to it as I vet. These are serious academics and experts in this field, for any interested.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 8h

The frogs of war won't negotiate / the frogs of war won't capitulate

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Daisy Gardner @daisygardner.bsky.social · 3h

Today, I talked to a closeted young evangelical whose day job is to make life miserable for LGBTQIA+ folks.

I hope that she discovers the Jesus who hung out with lepers & prostitutes - the Jesus who commanded his followers to accept those of a different gender / sexual orientation (eunuchs).

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Yur Mother @itsbambibanks.bsky.social · 1d

One thing about me, I’ll never forget a white person who talks to me crazy. Y’all really show y’all ass then expect me to share my space with you; as if I’m required to book you. I really am not and won’t be.
Even though True and I are in a better place, I will not forget who was in those likes.

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 19h

In Mahayana and tantric teachings, the Buddha also refers to the Dharmakaya Buddha, or formless Buddha, which is not a person or supernatural being but rather the unconditioned true nature of each of us that is already perfect.

~ Anam Thubten

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 20h

Your reminder that Mother Theresa was actually kind of a monster who denied dying people pain management because she believed pain was divine retribution/a test from God.

Get another woman to criticize women for not being perfect.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 21h

He was born trash, he lived as trash, and he'll die trash. The sooner, the better.

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Don Comer @doncomer.bsky.social · 4h

A religion that requires
the strong-arm
of the state to
ram its views
down the throats
of unwilling people
is a religion that
isn't worth
a damn.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 5h

God heard you dissing the ghost runner

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Snarkchasm @eiming.bsky.social · 1d

OMG the puppy killer says she just arrested the wife of one of the founders of ANTIFA. Her husband must have been born in the early 1900's!!!! Damn, they're stupid AF.

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk eating something

Alt: Dude roltfl. Laughing his ass off.

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伊藤暢達/Masahiro Ito @adsk4.bsky.social · 6h

The sketch/drawing of an armoured sniper being blown his head out while not knowing what's happened. From the on-sale Acid Bufferzone softcover.
I drew this more than six or seven years ago, though.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 13h

Counterpoint:

You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers

Wilson: Now, one of the things I want to do is say: I’m really glad that slavery’s gone, and good riddance. And I want to say that the Southern slave owner, who read the books of Ephesians and Colossians and 1 Timothy and treated his slaves decently, remembering that he had a master in heaven who he studiously tried to obey — what Paul said slave owners were supposed to do — I would say he was not an orc, and he is part of the reason why slavery ended. In other words, I would say he’s a good guy.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 6h

Please share and give if you can ❤️

Razan 🇵🇸 @palraz89.bsky.social · 1d

I am Nema from Gaza, amother of three children

Today, a ceasefire was announced, but unfortunately, it has not been implemented

our difficult situation remains the same 💔

🚨I need urgently 400$
to feed my children and to treat my little one💔

✅ Verified by Molly Shah
chuffed.org/project/save...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 6h

Let the kids know where the holiday presents are coming from this year.

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Sybil Schwartzbach, LMT @greathands4you.bsky.social · 20h

"The opposite of love is not hatred,but indifference, and silence and inaction only benefit the oppressor."
~ Elie Wiesel
🙏

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Deirdre Assenza @deirdreassenza.bsky.social · 6h

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 3d

Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter, Bernice King, reacts to Zelda Williams’ message asking fans to stop sending AI videos of her father, Robin Williams:

“I concur concerning my father. Please stop.”

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Jaycee Crawford / Vision Logic Images @jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social · 21h

'Evening Embers' (2021) -- Quiet Waters Lay Still as Yellow, Silvery Tones Streak Through the Overcast Sky at Sunset, Eagle Lake, Acadia National Park, ME

Every Friday is #SCAPE ✨& #ForestFriday ✨Come Join us!! 🤩

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford

a shadow framed view across the southern end of eagle lake at sunset - glassy still shallow waters dotted with small stones, small branches and logs and thin lake reeds and reflecting the glow of the thin low lying cloudy sky on the distant horizon

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Dark Nakano @nakanotakeko.bsky.social · 7h

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Jaycee Crawford / Vision Logic Images @jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social · 1d

'Dividing Lines' (2025) -- in the Eternal Struggle Between Light & Dark, it All Comes Down to a Faith in Balance & a bit of Well Placed Textures, Tidebrook Preserve, Freeport, ME

It's Finally Friday, Let's #SCAPE!! ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford

the frozen banks of the Harraseeket river -- ice on one side and frozen weed and mud and stone on the other, the edge of the forest cuts down through the sky aligning in a diagonal with the frozen edge of the river dividing visually and tonal weight both parts of the image, in the foreground a large log cuts from right to left providing the delicate act of 'balance'

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

The Democratic Attorneys General Association established a Legal Defense Fund for exactly this moment: when its members — including AG Tish James—are targeted by the Trump administration for political prosecution.

Donate here.

Donate to DAGA's Legal Defense Fund

The Democratic Attorneys General Association has launched a defense fund to help defend Democratic attorneys general and their staff who are targeted for political retribution by the Trump administrat...

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 12h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Is That Vyn Vamp?! 🦇 @vynvox.com · 22h

Pros: “Wow! This clan REALLY resonates with me as a minority by how they’re treated, devalued, and underestimated despite their resourcefulness.” 😀

Cons: “Wow! This clan REALLY resonates with me as a minority by how they’re treated, devalued, and underestimated despite their resourcefulness.” 🥲

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🖤♡Amanda♡🖤 @zephyrsky.bsky.social · 8h

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True friends are the ones who jump unprompted into your replies to defend you against someone making unwanted and uninformed comments

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Deirdre Assenza @deirdreassenza.bsky.social · 8h

I’m so sorry. I’ve honestly been called a cow repeatedly by men lately too (true story, not lying). Men feel entitled to let all the misogynistic assholery out right now because of the moment. It’s not you. It’s them.