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Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 2h

A recent epiphany:

The way neurotypicals speak is like a second language for the neurodivergent. NDs have to learn what NTs mean when they speak. And it’s trickier than an actual second language because we think it’s the same language when we’re kids but only gradually learn otherwise.

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Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 4h

Thinking about the US gov shut-down and how they’ll say “see gov doesn’t work” and how you have to reply, “broken gov doesn’t work, and you broke it.”

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Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 4h

Exactly. Why should I be friends with someone who believes I shouldn’t even exist?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

Walking away with $20 billion of US taxpayer money so Scott Bessent’s Wall Street cronies don’t lose their investments in Argentina.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 5h

The secret power of a people’s movement is that it’s random.

It’s neighbors protecting immigrants from ICE. It’s millions canceling Disney+. It’s a man throwing a sandwich. It’s inflatable frogs dancing.

Dictators struggle to fight a movement, because they can’t do what they want most—control us.

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Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 5h

Great answer to that monstrosity.

Mags @magsthepirate.bsky.social · 5h

The delicious irony of a (badly made) poster on water scarcity made by the water guzzling death machine. If someone wrote that, I'd say it was too on the nose.

Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 5h

Wonder what Hegseth thinks of them. Probably hates them too. We may be at a point where the “right” implodes because the factions hate each other.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 1d

He makes me want to move to NYC! And that clap-back he gave when the person shouted “communist” at him as he was getting on a bicycle, and he shouted back, “it’s pronounced cyclist!” The guy’s the bomb.

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Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 1d

More priests clearly dressed as priests should be showing up in the front lines of protests, especially ICE protests.

Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 1d

Her argument will be "I know how things work in DC" but in fact, "how things work" is irretrievably broken and that is why we need new people.

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Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 1d

KJV of Exodus 8:
2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
4 And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.

Blue Axeman @blueaxeman.bsky.social · 1d

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Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 1d

The thing is, that's what the authoritarians wanted and that's what they got.

Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 1d

This is a good idea. And maybe start dressing like them too.

"How" @myoneandonlykat.bsky.social · 1d

People in cities where ICE is terrorizing anything with two legs should start wearing masks like the ones the agents have.

Just saying.

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Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly what’s going on.

Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 2d

If you haven’t personally experienced a hostile takeover where the new CEO is just there to strip a company for parts and make as much profit for himself and the board as possible before declaring bankruptcy, welcome America.

You’re living it now.

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Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 2d

Alas, the US is not a signatory to the ICC, and Trump may try a blanket pardon. So it will be up to individual states to prosecute all ICE agents, when things hopefully settle down. That can be accomplished, if state AGs have the will to do it.

Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 2d

Do you know if people are researching all this? Anecdotally, I have noticed more people with canes and walkers and I wonder about Covid-caused strokes.

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Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 2d

Read the whole thing.

"Fascists punish humans for their humanity, because humanity exposes the fascist project for what it is."

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.

www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 3d

I thought I liked him before but now he's on a bicycle! 😍
Plus, great come back to the shouty person. 😎

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 3d

I guess you can't be all bad if you also have a Newfoundland.

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Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 4d

Do yourself a favour and listen to this episode, which will set your hair on fire, but then end with a positive view of the military (people in public service) that is reassuring in light of the threat to democracy.

Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 4d

With Yale Law School military justice expert Eugene Fidell and former JAG Maj. General Steven J. Lepper on the biggest civil/military crisis since the Civil War.

Trump Wants to Use American Cities as a “Training Ground.” It’s Becoming Clear Why.

MAGA cries “Insurrection!”, setting up a dangerous standoff between the American people and the military.

slate.com

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Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 4d

I wondered why they were bailing Argentina out.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 4d

Important thread if you have anything to do with education.

Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 5d

Part of this hierarchy has been created over decades by labor market economic stuff but universities embrace it so they can hire fewer profs overall and more Deans of ChatGPT Strategery 🙄🤮 It's also a deliberate political strategy to tighten up exactly who gets to have "academic freedom."

Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 5d

Great thread on asking what’s real and what’s manufactured. And why.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5d

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 7d

This is what I’m talking about:

bsky.app/profile/msko...

MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 7d

The law is no longer legal
The Constitution is no longer alive
Nothing is left to help us survive
Lawmakers choose fascism instead of democracy
Blaming us instead of the oligarchy
Human rights are removed with no restitution
No one’s prepared for the coming destitution
IT IS TIME FOR REVOLUTION

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