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None of Your Beeswax @theunknownajax.bsky.social · Feb 11

As a disabled and marginal person, I burned out badly because I lost all access to the dance. Maybe if I regain that I'll heal enough to return to the fight. That is the first spark of hope I've felt in a long time.

"During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for. It didn't look like we were going to win then and we did. It doesn't feel like we're going to win now but we could. Keep fighting, keep dancing.

--Dan Savage

Picture of Dan Savage sitting on concrete steps smiling, wearing a ringer tee.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · Dec 3

(pulling up the ladder behind me) This is an opportunity for you to succeed through hard work and determination

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Cheer Captain @cheercaptain.wang · Dec 4

A certain healthcare corporation who needs a new chief executive today once laid my dad off at 39.5 years of service so he wouldn’t be entitled to the 40 year pension. His team raised money themselves to give him a watch with “39.5 Years” engraved on it. I think about that watch A LOT.

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · Dec 7

In the real-world trolley problem, Track One has thousands of people tied to it, and Track Two has billions of dollars in corporate profits. The trolley departs every day on a regular schedule, always taking Track One, and nobody does a thing about it.

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Cranky Canuck @crankycartoons.bsky.social · Dec 6

💙💙💙

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · Nov 23

That's why there's an aggressive effort now to blame "identity politics," it's a retcon because Harris ran exactly the campaign centrists wanted, catering to conservatives, never criticizing Netanyahu, never blaming billionaires or big corporations, the works—just to lose to Old Man Yells at Cloud.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Nov 23

I agree on the centrist point and frankly there are a lot of people out there who are just saying what they need to say to cover their ass and cash a check. It sucks.

The Cheney thing is a clear example of a bad idea that the people who pushed it won’t take responsibility for. They need to

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · Nov 24

NPR has spent the last few years softening its coverage to appease Republicans and here's their reward

"Democrat propaganda": Marjorie Taylor Greene plans to team up with Musk to defund NPR

She accused the public radio network of doing "nothing for the American people."

www.salon.com

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Eric Reese @reeseer83.bsky.social · Nov 26

The right wing never gives up, never admits defeat. They just regroup and find a new wedge to hammer on. Bathrooms didn't work out the gate, so they aimed at sports, which got traction. So now they're back at bathrooms.

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TheGratefulDeadpool @gratefuldeadpool.bsky.social · Nov 25

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

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Laurie Kilmartin @anylaurie16.bsky.social · Dec 5

This is the only bathroom I would feel safe in

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Dec 5

Trans folks held a dance party in the Capitol bathroom to protest the bathroom ban on there.

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Brian Standlick @brianstandlick01.bsky.social · Dec 6

"social contract"
I was wondering when I might see that
here's another "social" something to ruminate over

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rigbeyrearden.bsky.social @rigbeyrearden.bsky.social · Dec 5

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · Dec 5

discussing? those fucking things should be printed up and ready to sign tomorrow.

Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · Dec 4

Biden White House Is Discussing Preemptive Pardons for Those in Trump’s Crosshairs www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Biden White House Is Discussing Preemptive Pardons for Those in Trump’s Crosshairs

The nomination of Kash Patel, who has vowed to pursue Trump’s critics, as FBI director has heightened concerns within the president’s inner circle.

www.politico.com

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MX Gaius Wydra @mxgaiuswydra.bsky.social · Dec 5

His lead poisoning was a pre-existing condition.

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ToastyLOven @toastyloven.bsky.social · Dec 5

The only thing we need to know about the "alleged gunman" is absolutely nothing. As far as I'm concerned, the man shot himself.

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TheWhaleShark @thewhaleshark.bsky.social · Dec 5

We finally found the fabled "good guy with a gun" and conservatives are freaking out about it.

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · Dec 5

Also notice that they did this right after open enrollment has closed

Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · Dec 5

Interesting how it isn't a qualifying life event that allows you to switch providers when the provider materially changes their service. Something something free market?

www.rochesterfirst.com/new-york-sta...

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield to cap anesthesia coverage after certain time frame

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Those who use Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance will likely soon have to pay out of pocket for anesthesia services, should their surgeries fall outside a specific tim…

www.rochesterfirst.com

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Coriolus Nimrod @coriolusn.bsky.social · Dec 5

I think I know the answer to this, but does the NYPD go all Enemy of the State like this when the victim is, say, a 17-year-old Bed-Stuy resident rather than a 50-year-old Minnesota resident who happens to run an evil organization?

Thompson, a 50-year-old Minnesota resident , was due to speak at an investor meeting when he was gunned down at point-blank range around 6:46 a.m. Wednesady outside the New York Hilton Midtown on Manhattan’s 6th Avenue.

Police are calling the crime a “targeted attack.”

Almost two hours earlier, the suspect, a white man dressed entirely in black, was recorded walking outside the Frederick Douglass Houses, a public housing project on the Upper West Side, as early as 5 a.m., according to ABC.

He was next spotted on a Starbucks security camera at West 56th Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan approximately 30 minutes before Thompson’s death .

The shooter was then sighted walking alone to the New York Hilton Midtown – where Thomson was scheduled to speak at a conference – about five minutes before the victim arrived, police said.

The suspect then stepped out from behind a car and gunned Thompson down, hitting him in the back and right calf, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.

After fleeing the scene, the suspected rode into Central Park on an e-bike at 6:48 a.m., before being recorded cycling out of the park on West 85th Street just before 7 a.m, according to video footage reviewed by CBS.

As the NYPD scrambled to find the killer, police deployed a swathe of investigators – uniformed and plain clothed – dogs, drones and helicopters in the hunt for the assailant, according to The Times .

Investigators were also said to be using facial recognition technology to try to identify the suspect from surveillance images.

According to a report by CNN, police tracked the assailant down to a hostel on 103rd and Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan. It was there were police obtained one image where the suspect isn’t wearing a mask in his hostel, a law enforcement officer told the outlet.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Dec 5

The other day I was pitching our Gilded Age course to undergrads:

“Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a nation where the wealthy had insane power and ordinary people were reoeatedly crushed by them until they lashed out in anger?”

Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social · Dec 5

journalists really should have a gilded age/progressive era historian on speed dial for the next few years. it will help a lot!

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · Dec 6

I'm sure that more screen time will solve the problem

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · Dec 6

who up being an insomniac

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Dec 6

Can Trump’s team of billionaires become a team of rivals?

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · Dec 6

Violence is part of our history.

Violence is incumbent in exploitive systems, and exploitation provokes backlash.

We are in a period of great wealth inequality, worker oppression, and social and cultural change.

Violence will likely be part of our future, unless people’s needs are addressed.

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Staring@TheAbyss @tommysalami420.bsky.social · Dec 6

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