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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds

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She/her - I have that Jezebel spirit In the immortal words of Bartleby, "I would prefer not to." Fearless and undefined this is what it sounds like.

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · Jan 2

What America becomes in the future is predicated on who we are today and every day.

George Lakoff @george-lakoff.com · Jan 1

Tips to keep democracy alive in 2025:

1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it.
www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...

2025: Keep democracy alive. FrameLab New Year's resolutions

Advice for defeating the authoritarian threat

www.theframelab.org

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1h

This rocks.

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 12h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 2h

These frog costumes are gonna be our Guy Fawkes masks. IYKYK

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 22h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 4h

This is in reaction to a post about Ms. Rachel.

I swear to God if Jesus showed up today there would be an insane faction saying he was "virtue signaling" by healing the sick and feeding the poor.

Humanity is broken. To quote David Lynch, "Fix your hearts or die."

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 4h

Like if you have ever seen videos of babies and little kids reacting to her just saying “Hello” you would never question that this MUST BE a fundamentally decent person who has no reason to “virtue signal”

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 4h

Very, very good chance that Trump has just permanently destroyed the second most important cash crop in the country, and nobody is going to like the downstream effects of what happens after almost a full fifth of the agriculture industry loses the only bulk buyer in the world that actually matters.

GuyWhoNeverWenttoEpsteinsIsland @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 4h

Dawg the farmers are never exporting another soybean

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 5h

Trump proposing 100% tariffs on China

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 4h

Feeling a lotta bit weltschmerz lately.

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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 9h

NEW: The government shutdown is pushing air safety workers to the limit.

“One person can only answer, troubleshoot, and resolve so many problems at once,” an FAA employee tells @aarianmarshall.bsky.social:

The Shutdown Is Pushing Air Safety Workers to the Limit

Federal employees say that flying is still safe despite the strain on air traffic controllers. But expect even more airport delays ahead.

www.wired.com

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 9h

ICE is already responsible for overloading shelters bc detained/fleeing families have to leave beloved pets behind. ICE will also kill a lot more dogs.

I know @weratedogs.com is already bold in taking political stances, but any amplification of this carelessness could further grind down ICE's rep.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 9h

The Trump administration has signed off on building a Qatari air force facility on American soil.

The facility will be located in southwestern Idaho.

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Exceptional Product @unit-of-product.bsky.social · 9h

How are the Conservatives living in IDAHO not apoplectic with rage at this moment?

How is giving Qatar a military base INSIDE Idaho making anyone great other than Trump?!?

Again, another learning moment for #MAGA - "I was pro-Trump til he sold Idaho to Qatar"

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 19h

"Sudden correction" is a euphemism for crash.

They're predicting that "AI" lunacy is about to cause a stock market crash by 40% or more.

Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 23h

A friend sent me this article and genuinely it’s f***ing insane and I can strongly recommend reading it. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10h

Two GOP governors — Vermont’s Phil Scott and Oklahoma’s Kevin Stitt — just slammed Trump’s troop deployment as unconstitutional. Even Republican governors are finally calling him out for using the National Guard to take over American cities.
newrepublic.com/post/201610/...

“Unconstitutional”: Two GOP Governors Slam Trump’s Troop Deployments

Republican governors are finally calling out Donald Trump for using the National Guard to take over American cities.

newrepublic.com

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 19h

I remember some comedian doing a bit once where he said if you ever find yourself in a sketchy part of town at night, act like a complete lunatic. It'll make anyone think twice about messing with you.

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Logistics, USS Enterprise @starfleetstagemgr.bsky.social · 1d

THIS THING RIGHT HERE.

No matter what you are using AI to do, it is doing something that is a skill and that you are not developing. Summarizing is a skill. Picking out important pieces of information is a skill. Taking notes improves retention.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

I think the killer argument against relying upon AI to write is the massive amount of thinking and concept-welding that goes on for me (and I assume most everyone else) during the *process* of writing something - it’s a cognitive process and I know I’d actively get stupider if I skipped it

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 1d

I also just wonder if any of these people have ever really appreciated the value added in going through the experience of something like this. The fact that it changes you to engage with and puzzle over your own work, that you're not a content printer that just needs juicing to go faster.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 22h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

We are doing politics with version of America in our heads that doesn’t really exist—or, at lest, not fully.

Trump’s portrayal of American cities as war zones is, of course, not based in reality. But neither is the persistent belief among many we have not already hurtled into authoritarianism.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about how hard it is to do politics in reality right now, both because of the fictions beings imposed on us and because of the fictions we maintain in our own minds. Read at @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/all-in-our-h...

All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations

Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 1d

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

RNS @rns.org · 2d

The pastors’ efforts are part of rising faith-based pushback to the Trump administration as the president seeks to implement plans for mass deportation of immigrants.
religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who…

religionnews.com

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Nichole @tnwhiskeywoman.bsky.social · 1d

Watching Psycho (1960) from my sickbed. It’s my favorite film ever and I think the scariest part is how Marion turns on the shower while standing directly under the spray. No warm up, no temp check. Just raw.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

The 15th will be the first missed paycheck for federal employees if the government doesn’t reopen. This is what military see when they try to access their pay statements. One soldier told me they’ve never seen “currently not available” in 20+ years.

Account Access History
Reserve/Active Military Members:
Your Leave and Earnings Statements are not currently available via myPay. We will announce here when they do become available.
Thank you for your patience
WARNING
18 U.S.C. S 1030 prohibits unauthorized or fraudulent access to government computer systems. If the credentials you enter are not your own, you are in violation of this law and should exit this system immediately. Completing this action may subject you to a fine of up to $5,000 or double the value of anything obtained via this unauthorized access, plus up to five years imprisonment.

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Nicole Snark @nicokow.bsky.social · 1d

This is contributing to how difficult it is to buy a home.

Should have voted for someone who saw it and wanted to stop it.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

www.mediaite.com

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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my god, it's like when Wolverine gets shot!

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 1d

It’s actually kinda driving me up a wall.

Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 1d

The great irony of blueskys political hobbyists demanding that Ds talk about nothing but this issue now is that Harris actually made "Trumps an existential threat to our democracy" a pretty central campaign focus. Voters shrugged! The online left said she had to be more than just "anti-Trump"!

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry but if there is one single US political proposition that we have tested to destruction in recent years, it’s the idea that a critical mass of swing voters see democracy vs authoritarianism as a crucial and salient issue in judging Trump. They simply do not! I don’t like it either

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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 1d

Guardians of Pedophiles from vjaybombs

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 1d

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

Alt: Stephen Colbert in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk, he reaches forward and he holds his hand out gesturing, "Give it to me! Now!"

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