Tess Fakename
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Tess Fakename
@digghappy.bsky.social
Historian, anthropologist, theatre director and DM. 🏳️‍🌈
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Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
n.pr
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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nyt op-ed: we cannot normalize the left’s brazen attempt to win voters by talking to them
June 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
June 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Schrier to RFK Jr: You gave Cassidy the answer he needed to hear in order to get his confirmation vote, then as soon as you were secretary you turned around & fired all 17 members. You lied. I also want to be clear that I will lay all responsibility for every vaccine-preventable death at your feet.
June 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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NEW: The school, part of a special education district that had students arrested at the highest rate in the U.S., had previously pledged to change how it disciplines kids after a ProPublica, @chicagotribune.com investigation & federal probe.

By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social
A Teacher Dragged a 6-Year-Old With Autism by His Ankle. Federal Civil Rights Officials Might Not Do Anything.
The Garrison School is part of a special education district that had students arrested at the highest rate in the country. It had pledged to change how it disciplines kids after a ProPublica-Chicago T...
www.propublica.org
May 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Judges and politicians who are still in office should not have book deals. They should not have side hustles. They should not have active financial commitments beyond their one fucking government job. If they want to make more money or whatever, they should quit.
May 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I absolutely refuse to let AI take my beloved em dash away from me.
May 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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HELL YEAH. WARFIGHTING. LETS FUCKIN GOOOOO dammit we dunked another F-18 off the side of an aircraft carrier
Hegseth to American troops in Qatar: "We're restoring the warrior ethos. No more political correctness, gender pronouns, DEI, CRT, or climate change. We're in the business of warfighting."
May 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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He is a union apprentice and raising three special needs kids, two of them from his wife's previous relationships so yes he is certainly in the running.
Leavitt describes Abrego Garcia as "hiding in Maryland" and says, "based on the sensationalism of many of the people in this room, you would think we deported a candidate for father of the year"
April 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
April 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Why are blue states paying taxes to a fascist federal government? Why is our money still supporting red states that pervert democracy? Let the red states take full ownership of their policies instead of relying on blue states to support them. Don’t they have bootstraps they can pull up?
April 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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The only power money has is how easily a fool will trade their lives for it.

#money #exploitation #MoneyPower #Value #capitalism #bluesky #HumansAreGreaterThanMoney #Humans>$
March 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Engaging with an algorithm teaches it to better manipulate you.

#algorithm #manipulation #SocialMedia #EchoChamber #BigTech #bluesky #HumansAreGreaterThanMoney #Humans>$
March 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Waiting for the day when blue states grow weary of supporting maga red states/federal government and secede.
March 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Every single Republican who kneels before the fascist in the White House has forgotten how we became a country.
I have a feeling that they will soon have a painful history lesson.
March 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Casually wondering if the OG 13 colonies could become their own country.
March 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...
theonion.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Handing these criminals a blank check is a betrayal. They have breached our data, ransacked our services, fired our people, insulted and dehumanized us, committed crimes against immigrants and citizens.

Backing down will be the end of the Democrats. We see you fully and will not blindly support.
March 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.

Do not let anyone play games with you.
March 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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well this made me cry over breakfast. to any democrats holding even a shred of power right now: look at what’s possible from people far more endangered and vulnerable than you and grow a spine, you fucking cowards www.erininthemorning.com/p/powerful-s...
Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana
Transgender Reps Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell delivered powerful speeches on the Montana House floor on Thursday. Republicans defected en masse to join them in voting against anti-trans bills.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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That is exactly true.
March 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Over the last three years, the head of a small charter school network that serves fewer than 1,000 students has taken home up to $870,000 annually, a startling amount that appears to be the highest for any public school superintendent in Texas.

By @emsimani.bsky.social and Lexi Churchill
This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.
On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the…
propub.li
March 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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January 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.
February 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM