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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, and she kept fighting, organizing even when that was going on. This story says, see this person? She was a full human being.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 5h

I love how the big news on Trump’s tariff announcement is how moments before he made it a bunch of people made insanely profitable shorts on crypto, a thing that Bitcoin Bros are all astounded to see happening in a completely unregulated market of a fake currency primarily used by criminals.

BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.

30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.

The market dumped.

The trader made a profit of $192 million in two hours.

Unusual.

JUST IN: An anonymous trader opened massive crypto short positions just 30 minutes before Trump’s tariff announcements yesterday.

They made an estimated $192M in profits.

Donald Trump needs to go to jail. He is thief, he is literally robbing people internationally.

He announced 100% Tarrifs on China and sends the US stock market into a death spiral.

At the same time someone put over 1 Billion dollars into crypto with orders for 100 million being placed on Ethereum and Bitcoin and other crypto currencies across the board whilst markets got wiped after what he said. Billions, and I mean fucking billions got wiped out, whilst Bitcoin had it a biggest dip ever in a single candle losing 20k per Bitcoin, Whilst alt coins lost over 60-70% of value, everyone with leverage on the market with even 2 x leverage got murdered and robbed.

This was co ordinated, this was market manipulation with one anonymous wallet making over 200 million dollars in one day with trades showing that they knew Trump was going to announce this and crash the market.

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 4h

also that was the era of lines around Magnolia (good frosting abysmally dry cupcakes) bakery and other bakeries that became big franchised biz

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 4h

as my therapist said when I sucked at starting a small biz, creative people often think other jobs are easier than creative work but all jobs are hard

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 4h

$20B bail out goes well beyond Trump helping authoritarian pal

Scott Bessent is gonna make a ton of $$$

need to see Dems pounding the table on corruption

Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 4h

Love how I just heard a clip of Bari Weiss chirping about “Americans want to hear fresh ideas” on guns for ex and then open to this

Total disconnect from reality for these reactionaries

Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 5h

why is John Thune always ridiculously tan? Is he sitting in a tanning bed or golfing all day every day

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 6h

the guy in tan thinks he real fucking slick

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 6h

this narrative has been filtering down to the masses. Yesterday heard interview with Trump voter caught up in Chicago ICE raids who said he didn’t blame Trump he blamed Biden. “Trump is just cleaning up his mess”

Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 6h

to be sure, very bitchy teenager is where she got stuck

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 7h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 6h

longtime NYT opinion writer giving space to slavery defender:

let’s be clear, Jesus never insisted on manumission of slaves

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:

Douthat: So, just to take a related example, one of the controversies of many that you’ve been mixed up in has to do with slavery, and whether slavery is absolutely forbidden by the Bible, absolutely forbidden to Christians, or whether it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: And you think it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: On this, on a straightforward reading of the New Testament, I would agree with you. I would say, pretty clearly, there is a pretty clear path from the message of the Bible to the abolition of slavery. But there is no moment in the New Testament when Jesus insists on the manumission of slaves.

Wilson: Right.

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 6h

been listening to the theme song in the car and welling up

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 7h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t think this is true at all

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Benjamin Ahr Harrison @benjaminahr.mobi · 20h

My wife just said Lady Elaine Fairchilde looks like Murder She Wrote The Puppet. I am survived by her and my two lovely children. I am deceased.

The Lady Elaine puppet from the neighborhood of make-believe. Boomerang tumerang sumerang!

Angela Lansbury in an episode of Murder She Wrote, sort of holding her arms in a puppet sort of way.

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 20h

Andrea Zittel, A-Z Escape Vehicle: Customized by Andrea Zittel, 1996
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136180

The Norman and Rosita Winston Foundation, Inc. Fund and an anonymous fund

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 22h

also good to have a set of Christian people who aren’t Christian in a white supremacist way offering a different route

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 22h

it’s good when people to appeal to a particular culturally recognizable and familiar set of values to fight against authoritarianism

you don’t need to be a believer to appreciate someone using their soapbox for good

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 23h

Abbaye de Cluby #rose in the greenhouse this am,
29° at 7am outside

Pale peach glowing petals of Abbaye de Cluby hybrid tea rose against a frosted greenhouse pane of plexiglass

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 1d

masked state paramilitaries arresting journalists in broad daylight but the front page is for Musk's new robot or some other fucking bullshit

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

boy it would be nice to have an opposition party reacting to this in a way that suggests there’s going to be justice for it someday

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 1d

Knowing something like it would come along

Her years of having the absolute most insane 1960s brained take on everything to do with women

Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 1d

I finally get her. She’s been trying out for Bari Weiss media all along

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

Our classrooms are not safe for us or regular students. Our universities canot be relied upon to protect us. You have to keep speaking up about this. Faculty already are, but we need folks who aren’t in academia raising the alarm for everyone else. The End.

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