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TheDoctorSarah

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Art historian (Late Medieval and Renaissance). Mary Magdalen(e) stan. Lover of ballet, cats, and Tottenham Hotspur. Fan of Star Trek, Doctor Who, and cozy murder mysteries. Also a new and avid crocheter. Don't let me buy more yarn!

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TheDoctorSarah @thedoctorsarah.bsky.social · Aug 6

Interested in Mary Magdalen? Look an article on her living in the wilderness in France!

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“I Am That Woman:” Creating the Eremitical Magdalen Dwelling in the Wilderness of Provence - Different Visions

Sarah S. Wilkins • Pratt Institute Download PDF Recommended citation: Sarah S. Wilkins, “’I Am That Woman:’ Creating the Eremitical Magdalen Dwelling in the Wilderness of Provence,” Different Visi...

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 3h

Mayor Johnson's office confirms that he did, indeed, call for a general strike at the Chicago "No Kings" march when he said: “If my ancestors, as slaves, can lead the greatest general strike in the history of this country, taking it to the ultra-rich and big corporations, we can do it too!”

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 12h

Erez Reuveni, a fired Department of Justice lawyer who's now blowing the whistle, says he witnessed a disregard of due process and for the rule of law at the DOJ. cbsn.ws/4qkAtSr

Fired Justice Department lawyer blows the whistle on what he describes as abuses of power at the DOJ

Former Justice Department lawyer Erez Reuveni is speaking out about a pattern of troubling behavior he says he witnessed inside the DOJ that undermined the rule of law.

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TheDoctorSarah @thedoctorsarah.bsky.social · 12h

Is laforge a Star Trek: TNG reference? Because that’s just icing on the cake if so!

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

Every minute that menopausal women don’t burn down the house and block is a minute you should be grateful for, so this is indeed a powerful potential force, IF it weren’t also confounded by fatigue and brain fog

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 1d

My biggest unscientific thesis is that menopausal women can either use their angry "I don't give a shit" powers for good (protecting democracy in a penis costume) or bad (Karen-call the police on everybody).
You need to decide which one you will be.

Moira California @moiracalifornia.bsky.social · 1d

53-year-old woman in Alaska

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

The frogs have spawned!

Dublin represent! #NoKings

The NoKings protest in front of the US Embassy in Dublin. There are four frogs and a chicken.

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Oku ΘΔ @oku.mow.haus · 2d

Repost if you have more followers than the Official White House BlueSky Account

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6d

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 8d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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TheDoctorSarah @thedoctorsarah.bsky.social · 8d

It’s so much worse than regular iced coffee !!!

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Kevin St. Alder @kevinstalder.bsky.social · 10d

Statement from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee 👏 🙏

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TheDoctorSarah @thedoctorsarah.bsky.social · 11d

This doesn’t even read as satire atm

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 14d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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TheDoctorSarah @thedoctorsarah.bsky.social · 16d

Ear seeding ?? I don’t even want to know.

TheDoctorSarah @thedoctorsarah.bsky.social · 17d

I met him several times when I was a kid and am glad to read he was just as wonderful as I remember him being.

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 18d

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today.

h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

Scan of a typed letter from 1970, from Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, addressed to "Joel Lipton, 622 N. Foothill Road, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210"

It reads:

"Dear Joel:

I think it is more difficult these days to define what makes a good citizen than it has ever been before. Certainly all any of us can do is follow our own conscience and retain faith in our democracy. Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call "American Virtues" who lack this faith in our country.

I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities.

Sincerely yours,

Charles M. Schulz"

At bottom is an illustration of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, a kite wrapped around the dog house.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 20d

one of the through-lines of this administration is that it is ideologically pro-rape

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20d

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

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TheDoctorSarah @thedoctorsarah.bsky.social · 21d

You are here?

TheDoctorSarah @thedoctorsarah.bsky.social · 22d

Especially as his seat is in literally no danger. It wouldn't even require any courage on his part!

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 23d

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.

I just don't know what to say anymore.

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TheDoctorSarah @thedoctorsarah.bsky.social · 24d

Can I trade my coworkers for his?

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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 24d

This is a problem.

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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 25d

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27d

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 27d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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