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N.S. Dolkart, elected official

@nsdolkart.bsky.social

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Author of cool fantasy stuff. Hebrew school teacher. Dad. Program Chair for Readercon, the Boston-area literary conference for speculative fiction. Now a town meeting rep and local access TV host too. Not a security guard, but I played one in an opera.

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N.S. Dolkart, elected official @nsdolkart.bsky.social · Aug 7

Oh! By the way! I got interviewed about my fantasy novels! youtu.be/knXgBkMhA2s

The Stoughton Writers Group: Fantasy Novels with Noah Beit-Aharon

YouTube video by Stoughton Media Access Corporation

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Lev Mirov @thelionmachine.bsky.social · 3h

Every time someone types a new version of an epithet for the president and his brute squad, I feel like they're intentionally and on purpose trying to get around my key word blocks and it's never for anything that isn't ultimately just a hot take

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 55m

39. …It would still really help if rich people would stop pissing carbon into the atmosphere for no reason.

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 56m

38. Ordinary people have no idea how much progress we’ve made. Tell people at parties that UK carbon emissions in 2023 were at their lowest level since 1879, for example. Most developed economies are now reducing carbon emissions without lowering quality of life.

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 56m

37. You can be cynical about government and corporate net zero emissions targets if you like, but they're a lot better than no net zero emissions targets.

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 56m

34. Europeans shouldn't feel guilty about using electricity for airconditioning, it'll all come from the sun anyway by 2030. Solar generation times and seasons match airconditioning demand pretty well, which is good news for really hot countries as well.

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N.S. Dolkart, elected official @nsdolkart.bsky.social · 53m

There are no Judeo-Christian holidays, only Jewish holidays and Christian holidays. Criticize a company for celebrating Christian holidays and recognizing the existence of like one Jewish holiday, to the exclusion of all other holidays and cultural backgrounds.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6h

Elaborating b/c there's a lot of misunderstanding on this.

Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 7h

Even if he did, which I'd bet is likelier than not, none of this is true. The Insurrection Act is not a declaration of martial law. It doesn't close the courts. It doesn't suspend habeas corpus. It means you can use the military to enforce federal laws, but the laws themselves remain the same.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1h

Energy transitions don't happen everywhere all at once. They happen sector by sector, place by place. Pointing out that some sectors and places are not advancing yet does not negate that others have come a long way.

Here are the Nordics - heat pump roll-out replaced fossil fuels reducing emissions.

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 9h

*deep breath*

The term Judeo-Christian is somehow both antisemitic and Islamophobic: it reduces Judaism to Christianity's predecessor on the one hand and implies only two Abrahamic religions on the other, when there are (at least) three

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 1d

I have had the most Michelle Duggar-looking elderly rural Montanans be completely normal to me about being trans, “why are people being so goddamn weird about it” is an underrated winning message

a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 1d

guy who brought the trans flag we iwo jima’d described himself as “yeah i was pretty neutral about trans people, think i still am honestly, but these people are being so goddamn weird about it that i gotta get off the fence”

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 1d

Oh they’re really protecting the pedophiles this is bad

Hi there,
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This takedown is not a temporary suspension. Please do not create additional accounts on our service. We will take action against any additional accounts as we become aware of them.
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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 17h

Washington Post report details deal that I and other El Salvador watchers have been talking about for years: Bukele made a pact with MS-13, DOJ has known about it, and now Rubio’s State Dept is helping him cover it up by handing over gang leaders in US custody to Bukele to be silenced.

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 6h

Totally forgot about the Tea Party giving a televised rebuttal. Searching for news about it I stumbled on this section of a 2011 interview that does a good bit of foreshadowing.

SMITH: It was almost as if [Minnesota U.S. Rep Michele] Bachmann was translating the official Republican response into Tea Party-ese, which was kind of the point. The leaders of the Tea Party Express, who sponsored the speech, say they have no problem with Ryan or the Republican message. They just wanted to do something for their own members online, to show their independence.

In fact, Bachmann was staring off to the side into the Webcam that fed to the Tea Party site, instead of the TV camera. So for the conservative faithful, at least, she was looking right at them.

https://www.npr.org/2011/01/26/133233077/Tea-Party-Response

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 15h

It is deeply immoral that cashiers in the US are not allowed to sit.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 8h

they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13h

Republican rhetoric all week was clearly aiming to either depress turnout or inspire visible maga pushback. Neither happened and the press doesn’t seem particularly interested in exploring the implications of that.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 8h

Something I'm not enjoying is the president constantly looking into the camera and saying "I am breaking the law" only for the Supreme Court to go "We conclude the president isn't breaking the law"

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 10h

My best friend was able to leave her abusive husband because the ACA made it possible for her to still get health insurance

2018 is gonna be so much better, yo. For the first time in my life, I have health insurance that isn't from my father or my husband. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Obama.

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 8h

Here is my most damning indictment of romance as a genre: we are currently living in a time when stalkers, rapists, and murderers are romance MMCs, but I doubt I could name more than 10 books in the whole history of the genre where an FMC has an abortion.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d

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Finnan Haddie @finnanhaddie.bsky.social · 11h

Moulton also opposed Massachusetts’ Fair Share law (also called the millionaires’ tax) that funds free school meals for every K-12 student in the state, so apparently he dislikes feeding kids as much as he dislikes trans girls.

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Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 11h

The Framers: We have published a gigantic collection of essays entitled "Don't Elect That Guy"

Modern America: We have successfully elected "That Guy" from the famous publication "Don't Elect That Guy"

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12h

There's just no way to exaggerate how cooked your brain has to be to think like this. Trump is an unprecedented, law-breaking, norm-breaking, increasingly demented maniac who is destroying this country's basic institutions. Like, right now! As we speak!

But media elites find that boring.

It’s 2025, and Democrats Are Still Running Against Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 14h

I know we’ve been using “deeply unserious” in a positive sense for the protests that incorporate humor and silliness and joy

but if you’re sour that millions of people across the country came together to say we’re not going quietly into fascism, you are deeply unserious in a bad way

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