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𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝙽𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚜 @flambo.bsky.social · 1d

Harriet Tubman was alive at the same time as Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan. (That's my all-time favorite.)

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𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝙽𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚜 @flambo.bsky.social · 2d

Is John Yoo back?

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𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝙽𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚜 @flambo.bsky.social · 6d

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“There’s a baby!” ICE agents stop Alamosa family at gunpoint, smash car window

Immigration arrest last week in southern Colorado follows national trend of escalating force from ICE agents

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𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝙽𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚜 @flambo.bsky.social · 8d

August 19, 1783

"Weighted at the Scales at West Point.

Gen. Washington, 209 lbs.
Gen. Lincoln, 224
Gen. Knox, 280
Gen. Huntington, 132
Gen. Greaton, 166
Col. Swift, 219
Col. Michael Jackson, 252
Col. Henry Jackson, 238
Lieut. Col. Huntington, 232
Lieut. Col. Cobb, 186
Lieut. Col. Humphreys, 221”

𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝙽𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚜 @flambo.bsky.social · 8d

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Weight of a War, or The "Big Men" of the Continental Army - Fort Stanwix National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)

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𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝙽𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚜 @flambo.bsky.social · 8d

a cartoon character says when i m in command every mission 's a suicide mission

Alt: Zapp Brannigan says "When I'm in command every mission's a suicide mission."

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 9d

"So this is what the future is like? I am thankful for death."

T.S. Eliot Sees Cats for the First Time

My nerves are bad to-night. What the hell is this? I see crowds of people walking round in a ring. Have those people glued fur to their heads? Oh, ...

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𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝙽𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚜 @flambo.bsky.social · 9d

He held the bat close in after that swing. It's like a catcher framing.

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𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝙽𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚜 @flambo.bsky.social · 9d

Kissinger lives.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12d

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

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Chron.com @chron.com · 16d

"Who builds a ballpark next to a gun range?"

Coach airlifted after being shot at youth baseball game in Katy, Texas

"Who builds a ballpark next to a gun range?"

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𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝙽𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚜 @flambo.bsky.social · 19d

With realistic hypodermic loading?

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 21d

Agreed, and I think part of this is Pritzker gets more than most how being the anti-Trump isn't trying to out-funny the funny man, to compete in the irony-poised joke game, to be another outlandish character. It's being earnest and serious about the stakes of a real crisis, like a functional adult.

Cait @caitesq.bsky.social · 21d

I was not predisposed to like Pritzker, but he is meeting the moment better than most of them.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23d

I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source.

You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"?

My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 24d

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 23d

New cartoon about (gestures vaguely)

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Cartoon: The week that was

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25d

Thousands of women are sharing this and saying yes, this was their experience, many of them sharing their own horrific 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s experiences. (And almost everyone sharing it appears to be female.)

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25d

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit

Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture

www.theguardian.com

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Jane Friedman @janefriedman.com · 29d

Ever pop open your manuscript file and feel … nothing? Not dread, not excitement—just a dull emptiness.

Author and book coach Anne F. Haag suggests what you might do next.