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Ruth Marshall

@wtfis2bdone.bsky.social

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Prof @ U. Toronto. Political theory, postcolony, the end of days, demon sperm. Free Palestine. utoronto.academia.edu/RuthMarshall

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Ruth Marshall @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 21d

"Where everybody lies about everything of importance, the truthteller, whether he knows it or not, has begun to act; he, too, has engaged himself in political business, for, in the unlikely event that he survives, he has made a start toward changing the world.”

Hannah Arendt - "Truth and Politics"

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 7h

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7h

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 2h

Much of the coverage of this White House "compact" remains really very bad, including today's headlines about MIT. Read @fishkin.bsky.social on what's actually going on here.

talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-tru...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2h

The US is going to host a Qatari air base in Idaho which is somehow fine but Mexican immigrants are somehow not

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h

Why aren’t more women using the deepfake site? 🤔

Sora 2 is drawing a huge crowd of teenage boys. This doesn't bode well — trust me.

Sora 2 seems to encourage people to make fun of each other. It's also attracting a lot of teenage boys. This could be a nightmare for Sam Altman.

www.businessinsider.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3h

Gaza Humanitarian Fund "distribution sites" (Israeli killing fields) are being dismantled as part of the ceasefire

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 16h

Christopher Columbus was a murderous rapist piece of shit who is only remembered as anything other than a genocidal monster because he was also incompetent as an "explorer" and got lost.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 7h

I wrote about the Elizabeth Holmes of the media lyz.substack.com/p/let-the-al...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 20h

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Ruth Marshall @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 3h

And grandmas! Mine had been allowed into medical school during WWI cos there weren't enough young men. First gen of women in! She qualified as an anaesthetist, then got married and stopped working until WWII, when she was back dealing w all the bomb victims. ALL our oldies were antifa!

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 1d

Saying someone is a "member of antifa" is like saying someone is a "member of socialism" or something. it makes zero sense. But they can't use the ideological form of the word because it makes it too clear what the ideology actually is and it would include our grandpas

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 19h

Letitia James and James Comey have the best lawyers on earth and will almost certainly be fine. The fact that there’s a zillion stories about them and virtually none about NSPM-7 - which affects countless ordinary people - really says something about who the media writes for

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 3h

Friends, I am feeling extremely depressed. I haven’t even been lucky enough to see or embrace what’s left of my memories, my clothes, my bed, and my room in my home, as my city is still under the grip of occupation.
I feel a very, very, very deep depression.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

Janet Mills — who is 77 — should stay the absolute fuck away from the Senate race and this situation is honestly

FRUSTRATING. AS. FUCK.

GRAHAM PLATNER FOR SENATE!

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

Doing politics the right way is when the far-right regime in power memorializes a fallen influencer by terrorizing an academic that the influencer's McCarthyist organization once baselessly singled out for abuse.

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Ruth Marshall @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 3h

LOL. Just go away. Nobody is listening to your rank garbage.

Ruth Marshall @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 3h

How are those hasbara bucks working out for you? Imagine being Judas for a living. Good luck with the rest of your abject worthless life.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 11h

They’re all crooks

ProPublica @propublica.org · 18h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7h

This is disastrous.

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 15h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 16h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 5h

no foreign bases on american soil.

my blood pressure just shot up. this is insane.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 17h

It’s depressing and frankly a national humiliation that Stephen Miller, an utter idiot compensating for his profound masculine insecurity, is the greatest threat to the American people today.

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