Allison
@aberryhill.bsky.social
Writer, accordion player, runner, reader, teacher, wedding officiant, Iowa farmer, dirt-road Democrat, juggler, freethinker. Not necessarily in that order. Oh, and puppets. http://schoolblazing.blogspot.com
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Allison
@aberryhill.bsky.social
· Jan 21
He’s no longer courting MAGA. He’s only answering to the billionaires now.
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This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
Lovely poem in this week’s @newyorker.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Lovely poem in this week’s @newyorker.com
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“I’m not a serious thinker. I’m a writer: that’s very different. I think a writer’s intelligence has to be alive, has to be incomplete. It has to carry contradiction. It has to be sort of haphazard and amateur.”
- Benjamín Labatut
- Benjamín Labatut
November 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
Make art.
November 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Make art.
Just wow. Best reading in months.
“Buried within every family, perhaps, is the secret desire to self-destruct, to push intimacy to its ugliest extremes.” Read new Fiction by Madhuri Vijay, the author of “The Far Field.” https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/u3tobY
“Lara’s Theme,” by Madhuri Vijay
Buried within every family, perhaps, is the secret desire to self-destruct, to push intimacy to its ugliest extremes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Just wow. Best reading in months.
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The moment I realized in grad school that there is complete power in asking questions when you don't know what something means. Turns out, it's a baller move.
Normalize admitting you don’t know what some shit means!
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The moment I realized in grad school that there is complete power in asking questions when you don't know what something means. Turns out, it's a baller move.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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Remember Jamal Khashoggi.
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Remember Jamal Khashoggi.
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only pay for what you need at the supermarket by peeling and dicing/slicing your onions *before* you put them on the scales
November 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
only pay for what you need at the supermarket by peeling and dicing/slicing your onions *before* you put them on the scales
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It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.
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when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale
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Well then he better have some specific accounting for every dollar.
November 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Well then he better have some specific accounting for every dollar.
Just reread Elie Wiezel’s night with my freshmen. Prophetic.
Joke’s on everyone who said liberal arts degrees don’t prepare you for the real world - my studies in rise of the Third Reich now doubles as a survival guide.
November 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Just reread Elie Wiezel’s night with my freshmen. Prophetic.
Assigning myself to the role of Andrew Harnik Fan Club president.
November 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Assigning myself to the role of Andrew Harnik Fan Club president.
First snow of my 65th year
November 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
First snow of my 65th year
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If you were looking at a newspaper (or its website) this morning and didn't see this iconic photo, it was an intentional choice to pander.
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
If you were looking at a newspaper (or its website) this morning and didn't see this iconic photo, it was an intentional choice to pander.
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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
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It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
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BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
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Know your rights when voting today.
November 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Know your rights when voting today.
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On Teen Vogue: It's an amazing publication full of talented journalists. It offers so much value. It's clear the monied interests in media aren't interested in preserving that value, especially if it threatens the status quo that undergirds their wealth. Capitalism and journalism are enemies.
November 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
On Teen Vogue: It's an amazing publication full of talented journalists. It offers so much value. It's clear the monied interests in media aren't interested in preserving that value, especially if it threatens the status quo that undergirds their wealth. Capitalism and journalism are enemies.