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Currently at VTS near DC. Recovering Twitter User. I still do cool stuff like read the Western Canon for fun & now MDiv. absurdist 'holy theatre' pashit. Peter Brook (RIP) is still my hero. I live for cats (aka Iggyboos)

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🎉 Gidgetwidget @gidgetwidget.bsky.social · Dec 2

You know what we need is beyond anything I presume to imagine.

So I hope for every one reading this and I hope for the ones you hold dear.

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 10h

And hey, while I've got my soapbox out this morning, there is absolutely no excuse for the percentage of women creators on top books in mainstream comics still being this low.

Rachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · Apr 9

2014
“comics are for everyone”

2017
#MeToo

2020
“Men In Comics Say No” #ComicsPledge

2024
Only 12% of the Top 50 Comics of 2023 were created (written or drawn) by women

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 21h

Sorry luddites but this technology is here to stay and if you are not learning to use these tools then you are falling behind.

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Vicki with an 👁️ @catmomdo.bsky.social · 22h

History rhymes... and in that, there is hope; where there were triumphs before. "Reformers then used this philosophy—legal realism—to champion workers’ rights, challenge the pro-corporate bias of federal courts, create a strong progressive legal bench, and lay the legal foundation for the New Deal."

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 23h

You may be interested in this article
boltsmag.org/when-state-s...

“Stay Wrong”: When State Supreme Courts Fought Back - Bolts

More than a century ago, the legal left sought to blunt the power of conservative federal judges. They did so in state courts.

boltsmag.org

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Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 22h

Big mistake. Huge.

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Brewt Blacklist @brewtblacklist.bsky.social · 22h

Make a movie better by making it John Carpenter’s.

John Carpenter’s Deep Throat

Gayer Than Thou 🏳️‍🌈 @gayerthanthou.bsky.social · 22h

John Carpenter’s Madam Satan

David Kuhne @davidkuhne.bsky.social · 22h

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter’s Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 22h

I keep thinking about this detail from today’s hearing: Federal judge April Perry said she began getting threats “about 10 minutes” after she was assigned the case seeking to block Trump’s national guard deployment. This is the world we live in now.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

Perry: "I agree with you about the seriousness of threats, generally, across the United States right now. I don't think there's a single public servant, really, who is not being subject to threats.

"Mine started about 10 minutes after I got this case."

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 22h

Worcester.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 1d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Anne Libby @annelibby.bsky.social · 22h

Congratulations to the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Portland Frog.

Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 3d

This photo from Portland by @reuters.com's Carlos Barria 👌

A demonstrator dressed in an inflatable frog costume stands infront of law enforcement officers during a protest outside of the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) headquarters in south Portland, Oregon, U.S., October 3, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 23h

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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🎉 Gidgetwidget @gidgetwidget.bsky.social · 23h

*vibes*

a boy stands on a beach with birds flying around him

Alt: a boy on a beach makes a futile attempt to stop the large birds flying in front of him and watches helplessly as pelicans steal and fight over his red ball

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 23h

but I was told #metoo made men so afraid they wouldn't even talk to women

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 23h

Looks like we didn't have to wait for tomorrow for the written order: bsky.app/profile/jons...

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. District Judge April Perry's temporary restraining order is in:

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 23h

donning the armor of god to face the forces of hell

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 23h

The Trump administration is segregationist.
archive.is/BR5vB

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

Separately, in the administration’s first 200 days, only two of 98 Senate-confirmed appointees to the most senior jobs in government were Black.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 23h

Very sincere thanks to everyone who has offered condolences for our Fergus. I can’t respond to everyone individually but my boyfriend and I have been reading all the responses and they mean a lot to us. I just wanted to show you this, the last photo I took of him.

Photo of my handsome, fluffy, brown tabby, cat Fergus, lying on a velvety brown blanket against a pile of laundry.

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🎉 Gidgetwidget @gidgetwidget.bsky.social · 23h

Baltimore
Eastern Shore
Chesapeake
Any kind of "O" sound like 'on' 'ocean' 'over' 'oh my god' 'oriole'

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 23h

Worcester

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 23h

OH THANK GOD
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Smut Terry @smutterry.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I drive by the storage unit building, I want to yell, “throw it out!” at the people pulling in.

Always Sunny Trash GIF

ALT: Always Sunny Trash GIF

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Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · 23h

🔴 "Hay menos gente trabajando y el crecimiento de la población estadounidense, hoy por hoy, es gracias a la gente que viene del extranjero"

📸: Reuters

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Westerns & the Old West @davidlambertart.bsky.social · 23h

Happy 61st Birthday to the great @realgdt.bsky.social

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