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sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 1d

Kat’s post on the 7th does not make any false equivalences, nor does it undermine anyone else’s grief or the cause of Palestinian liberation. That’s still centered, as it should be.

sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 1d

If you see everyone who was killed that day as an IDF terrorist, including children & infants, we don’t speak the same language. I’m fine with not sharing your paradigm. I believe in resistance, but I draw a line at dehumanizing innocents as collateral. Not everyone has the luxury of abstraction.

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sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 3d

For ppl getting upset at this —
Kat Abughazaleh is a Palestinian-American who consistently recognizes Palestinians. She’s memorializing the 7th, and she can do that & continue to address the genocide & how that day has been exploited by Israel.

Some of y’all‘s radicalism is a breathless void.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.

As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.

Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.

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sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 4d

Kat is Palestinian and has consistently been recognizing Palestinians. She’s memorializing the 7th, and she can do that and continue to recognize the genocide and how that day has been exploited by Israel.

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sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 5d

I’m in Montreal & people keep saying things like “You’re visiting from New York? How did you hear about us?” like Montreal is a place we learn about on Yelp.

I know it’s Canadian self-deprecation / humor, but 1) they’re also serious 2) I think it’s more insulting to us than them? It’s a drive!

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sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 10d

super stoked to travel and brag about america! gonna sock anyone who even TRIES to talk ill of the dead.

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sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 13d

I hate to undermine even a smidgen of reassurance these days, but they probably hate Stephen Miller for the wrong reasons.

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sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 18d

the unhinged right has rly
been chompin their own tail lately. who could have seen that coming

Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 18d

LOL oh wow the anti-vaxxers are mad that RFK Jr is saying Tylenol causes autism instead of vaccines. “We didn’t wait 20 years for Bobby to finally speak and then get served Tylenol as an answer.”

Anti-vaccine groups melt down over reports RFK Jr. to link autism to Tylenol

“THIS WAS NOT CAUSED BY TYLENOL” Kennedy’s anti-vaccine group retweeted.

arstechnica.com

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sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 23d

Ahhh ty! It’s been years.

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sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 23d

Also holy shit

sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 23d

What is that first photo? I know John Cleese but don’t know this one

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sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 23d

this is it right here. @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social succinctly explaining how establishment media yields to bad faith politics again and again. (have been thinking all day about how the paradox of tolerance works as a test of journalistic and ethical integrity.)

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 24d

“A democratic society needs people in Ezra Klein’s position to treat Charlie Kirk’s anti-democracy stances as disqualifying, rather than pretend they’re just another policy opinion…”

@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social w/an excellent critique of Kirk hagiography

www.arcdigital.media/p/ezra-klein...

Ezra Klein Accidentally Shows How the Media Brought Us Trump

The prominent liberal pundit made up a fake version of Charlie Kirk to praise, laundering his reputation the way a lot of mainstream media launders MAGA

www.arcdigital.media

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sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 23d

“One of them” was too much of a journalism for them, and heaps more than whatever the f Ezra Klein is doing.

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sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 23d

it seems like “liberal” dems - esp white guys - have gone full bimbo. they’re publicly playing dumb to win the approval of terrible (violent) men.

10 years ago liberal podcasters at least pretended to understand the paradox of intolerance. now they’re like, “point well-made, angel of death! 🥰😍💦”

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sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 23d

This is brilliant

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sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 23d

🔥🔥🔥

Silkabelli (mutazione-piromane Edition) @silkabelli.bsky.social · 25d

Queen

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 24d

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

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sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 24d

same story.

sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 25d

“to sara’s point earlier…” — corporate meeting erotica

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sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 25d

the skill, the grace, the british 🏀🏀!

Lilly ⭐️ @mothcub.bsky.social · Sep 4

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 25d

yep! only thing wrong about this image search is that it says ai is hidden

sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 25d

now when i search for “significant cognitive disadvantage,” i’ll see a picture of mark zuckerberg

i love when facts

CNN @cnn.com · 26d

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told analysts that people without smart glasses may one day be at a "significant cognitive disadvantage" compared to those who do use the tech: https://cnn.it/47L2Y5a

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29d

For example, when men demand empathy but only women are socialized to have empathy, it becomes a demand for accommodation.

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sara fran @sarafranagain.bsky.social · 29d

Woah. Sheesh. I am astonishment.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29d

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:

Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · Sep 10

Whether or not you support political violence won’t change where we’ve come to, nor where we’ve been for some time in this country. I am quite taken aback by how many people only invoke the term ‘political violence’ when it happens to a person with power. It’s political violence the other way too.

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