Sharon Arnold
@sharonarnold.bsky.social
noun. battle bard augur wonderer philosopher
verb. animist queer heretic essayist
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www.dimensionsvariable.org/
verb. animist queer heretic essayist
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www.dimensionsvariable.org/
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them: "define your area of expertise."
me: "in the interest of transparency, I feel I should disclose that I'm really just a jackass with a lot of opinions and access to pdfs."
me: "in the interest of transparency, I feel I should disclose that I'm really just a jackass with a lot of opinions and access to pdfs."
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🔥 “To me, when we're talking about what justice looks like, it's ultimately getting to a place where every single fascist agent and the leaders that directed them to do what they did are held accountable to the highest degree of the law. And that means prosecution.”
"The day of accountability will come": Rep. Delia Ramirez on abolishing and prosecuting DHS
The Handbasket spoke with the congresswoman who called out ICE long before it was popular.
www.thehandbasket.co
February 14, 2026 at 2:19 AM
🔥 “To me, when we're talking about what justice looks like, it's ultimately getting to a place where every single fascist agent and the leaders that directed them to do what they did are held accountable to the highest degree of the law. And that means prosecution.”
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It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea
February 13, 2026 at 11:26 AM
It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea
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“You’re gonna get in trouble for that.”
“OK.”
Perfect reply. No peace for fascists.
“OK.”
Perfect reply. No peace for fascists.
February 14, 2026 at 12:25 AM
“You’re gonna get in trouble for that.”
“OK.”
Perfect reply. No peace for fascists.
“OK.”
Perfect reply. No peace for fascists.
lmao seriously let's not
It is *2026,* and it's two and a half years until Election Day, and you're telling me I already need to support a Dem who literally just declared it Ronald Reagan Day
February 13, 2026 at 11:56 PM
lmao seriously let's not
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These measures aren't extreme. They're what you do to avoid getting COVID, which is still circulating. There's no cure for long COVID. There's no treatment for long COVID, and the vaccine can only currently make all this much less likely.
February 9, 2026 at 1:23 PM
These measures aren't extreme. They're what you do to avoid getting COVID, which is still circulating. There's no cure for long COVID. There's no treatment for long COVID, and the vaccine can only currently make all this much less likely.
Murphy rightly nails him for conflating ethnicity and "white identity," which he was asked to define. he fumbles because his core argument is white supremacy/white nationalism. he's cherrypicking, not reconnecting to, the ethnicity and culture our ancestors traded in for the benefits of whiteness.
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 13, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Murphy rightly nails him for conflating ethnicity and "white identity," which he was asked to define. he fumbles because his core argument is white supremacy/white nationalism. he's cherrypicking, not reconnecting to, the ethnicity and culture our ancestors traded in for the benefits of whiteness.
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One thing abt reading a paper paper is that you can see — and be 🤬 by — how much industry attention + attentional real estate are consumed by, and how capital is concentrated in, the stupidest, most nefarious things.
Meanwhile, I’d ❤️ a mere $20K to sustain a collaborative library protect
Meanwhile, I’d ❤️ a mere $20K to sustain a collaborative library protect
February 13, 2026 at 3:21 PM
One thing abt reading a paper paper is that you can see — and be 🤬 by — how much industry attention + attentional real estate are consumed by, and how capital is concentrated in, the stupidest, most nefarious things.
Meanwhile, I’d ❤️ a mere $20K to sustain a collaborative library protect
Meanwhile, I’d ❤️ a mere $20K to sustain a collaborative library protect
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they’re talking about the decision to add facial recognition to the camera glasses. this company needs to be shut down.
this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
February 13, 2026 at 3:24 PM
they’re talking about the decision to add facial recognition to the camera glasses. this company needs to be shut down.
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this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
February 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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It's also really important to be careful about what you repost especially in a climate where so many awful things are happening. Don't spread misinformation. Not even when the response to corrections is 'well, the point still stands.' Always check the date and source.
February 13, 2026 at 3:32 PM
It's also really important to be careful about what you repost especially in a climate where so many awful things are happening. Don't spread misinformation. Not even when the response to corrections is 'well, the point still stands.' Always check the date and source.
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Posting stories from years ago and implying that they are recoent is bad practice. Especially when you are attempting to demonstrate that, say, the Border Patrol has been Like This for a long time. One could instead make a thread discussing some of the agency's priors and putting them in context.
February 13, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Posting stories from years ago and implying that they are recoent is bad practice. Especially when you are attempting to demonstrate that, say, the Border Patrol has been Like This for a long time. One could instead make a thread discussing some of the agency's priors and putting them in context.
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The people of Minnesota are amazing. The leadership of Minnesota is feckless and needs to be replaced by some of those brave people who were actually standing up against the machine for what is right.
“All along the way, the community has stepped up with our whistles, with our cell phones and with our bodies to defend our neighbors,” Communities United Against Police Brutality president Michelle Gross said.
“But what do we see from our public officials? They have utterly failed us.”
“But what do we see from our public officials? They have utterly failed us.”
Minneapolis activists press local leaders to respond to federal surge
Minneapolis activists say state leaders have failed to act as federal agents arrest protesters and residents during an ongoing federal surge.
www.mprnews.org
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM
The people of Minnesota are amazing. The leadership of Minnesota is feckless and needs to be replaced by some of those brave people who were actually standing up against the machine for what is right.
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As I've been on a roll with Star Trek threads today, let's continue with this one: you know one of the best parts of Geordie's visor?
90% of the time, nobody fucking mentions it.
90% of the time, nobody fucking mentions it.
a man is standing in a hallway with a blue light behind him
Alt: Geordie LaForge, rolling to make it out of Engineering under the lowering blast doors.
media.tenor.com
September 1, 2024 at 2:38 AM
As I've been on a roll with Star Trek threads today, let's continue with this one: you know one of the best parts of Geordie's visor?
90% of the time, nobody fucking mentions it.
90% of the time, nobody fucking mentions it.
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what ablebodied ppl don’t rly get is that visible disability doesn’t mean a world that has failed to “cure” it, but a world where disabled people are given the equity and resources to BE AND BE TREATED LIKE PEOPLE
I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
February 13, 2026 at 2:58 AM
what ablebodied ppl don’t rly get is that visible disability doesn’t mean a world that has failed to “cure” it, but a world where disabled people are given the equity and resources to BE AND BE TREATED LIKE PEOPLE
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Frank’s art is beautiful: please do check it out! Look at this beautiful crow print which just arrived at my house
February 12, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Frank’s art is beautiful: please do check it out! Look at this beautiful crow print which just arrived at my house
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under questioning from Peters, ICE officials confirm that Kristi Noem's claim about Pretti being a "domestic terrorist" was not based on information from them
February 12, 2026 at 5:07 PM
under questioning from Peters, ICE officials confirm that Kristi Noem's claim about Pretti being a "domestic terrorist" was not based on information from them
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it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states
Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”
February 12, 2026 at 4:11 PM
it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states
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I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at [email protected] to let them know what you think of this.
February 11, 2026 at 8:10 PM
I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at [email protected] to let them know what you think of this.
members of Congress are using a government database and being monitored by the DOJ? this kind of surveillance is illegal as far as I'm aware
A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
February 12, 2026 at 3:49 PM
members of Congress are using a government database and being monitored by the DOJ? this kind of surveillance is illegal as far as I'm aware
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Our very own Natasha Sumner's book will be published next week by Princeton University Press!
Heroes of the Gael traces the evolution of the Fenian tradition of story and song over 1,400 years.
You can pre-order now:
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Heroes of the Gael traces the evolution of the Fenian tradition of story and song over 1,400 years.
You can pre-order now:
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
February 12, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Our very own Natasha Sumner's book will be published next week by Princeton University Press!
Heroes of the Gael traces the evolution of the Fenian tradition of story and song over 1,400 years.
You can pre-order now:
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Heroes of the Gael traces the evolution of the Fenian tradition of story and song over 1,400 years.
You can pre-order now:
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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The two genders
Gun trainers nationwide say women and liberals are taking more interest in classes after Alex Pretti’s shooting
“I see people who I would never have expected to have any interest in a firearm at all talking about it,” one trainer said.
www.nbcnews.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:09 PM
The two genders
it's because of brazen lies like this that I won't believe they've scaled down in Minnesota until people in Minnesota say they have. also, it's not a triumph when they're just going to ramp up elsewhere across the country. the worst of the worst? indeed, they are.
Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."
February 12, 2026 at 2:51 PM
it's because of brazen lies like this that I won't believe they've scaled down in Minnesota until people in Minnesota say they have. also, it's not a triumph when they're just going to ramp up elsewhere across the country. the worst of the worst? indeed, they are.
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I would like the definitions of "small" and "footprint" please
Homan says the ICE drawdown in Minnesota is "already underway this week, and will continue into the next week."
A "small footprint" will remain, he says.
But Trump's ICE surge in Minneapolis is officially over.
A "small footprint" will remain, he says.
But Trump's ICE surge in Minneapolis is officially over.
February 12, 2026 at 2:31 PM
I would like the definitions of "small" and "footprint" please
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I don’t think we should allow the secret police to round people up and sort them by race
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:32 AM
I don’t think we should allow the secret police to round people up and sort them by race
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we got a request today for help from some international students that kind of fall through the gaps of any available assistance programs
want to help pay their rent? it’s only $1200 and I’d love to get it handled instead of leaving them hanging
venmo: @ziibiing
paypal: @StandWithMinnesota
want to help pay their rent? it’s only $1200 and I’d love to get it handled instead of leaving them hanging
venmo: @ziibiing
paypal: @StandWithMinnesota
February 12, 2026 at 3:44 AM
we got a request today for help from some international students that kind of fall through the gaps of any available assistance programs
want to help pay their rent? it’s only $1200 and I’d love to get it handled instead of leaving them hanging
venmo: @ziibiing
paypal: @StandWithMinnesota
want to help pay their rent? it’s only $1200 and I’d love to get it handled instead of leaving them hanging
venmo: @ziibiing
paypal: @StandWithMinnesota