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vermontgmg.bsky.social
Following on the overwhelming response to last week's column, I wrote a second dispatch imagining how the Musk takeover would be covered by the US media if it was happening overseas, and they felt comfortable calling a spade a spade.... www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/white-nati...
White Nationalist Forces Consolidate Power Alongside Musk’s Junta
A second update on Elon Musk's coup from our intrepid imaginary foreign correspondent
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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pattonoswalt.bsky.social
January 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
Who gets the benefit of the doubt?A teenager tagged by cops as a gang member b/c he shops at a particular bodega or wears the wrong color? A Black man the NYPD decides is “furtively walking”? OR a white man from apartheid S.A. who posts antisemitic/racist stereotypes & endorses the Nazi adjacent 1/
January 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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timmyturmoil.bsky.social
You're so awesome. Keep up the fight. We're proud of you.
January 15, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
In 2020, I asked why so many Republicans had abandoned the values they had previously held. Still relevant.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
www.theatlantic.com
January 15, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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sickofthis.substack.com
Listen and read what @fpwellman.bsky.social has to say. He knows what he’s talking about and he says it clearly and with intent.

The distraction and rage bait cycles are meant to tear and wear us down. Be smart and keep your emotions focused.

open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
Are they distractions or not?
We're told not to fall for distractions but maybe they are all misdirections instead
open.substack.com
January 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does
January 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
The owner of a car company is controlling the House of Representatives from a social media app.
December 18, 2024 at 11:29 PM
greg-fw.bsky.social
Trump’s Rage at Liz Cheney Takes a Dark Turn—and Wrecks a Big GOP Lie newrepublic.com/article/1895... via @newrepublic.com
Trump’s Rage at Liz Cheney Takes a Dark Turn—and Wrecks a Big GOP Lie
Trump says Cheney might be “in trouble,” based on something cooked up by House Republicans. That demolishes the GOP’s spin about Kash Patel’s plans for the FBI.
newrepublic.com
December 19, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
MEMPHIS @BlackClergy901 PETITION: “We call on @mayorpaulyoung to negotiate and enter a consent decree with the Department of Justice to end the Memphis Police Department's pattern or practice of violating our constitutional rights.” actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...
December 18, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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tlecaque.bsky.social
The reason generative AI is banned in my classroom is both that process is part of learning and also using some programs' words without attribution is wrong, of course, AND ALSO it is a bullshit generator powered by intellectual property theft.
December 15, 2024 at 12:55 AM
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December 6, 2024 at 8:56 PM
greg-fw.bsky.social
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...
December 6, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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ceepain.bsky.social
Women: men are easy. They always going!

Men: No we ain’t.

Also men:
December 6, 2024 at 1:34 AM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Nothing says “lead the Pentagon” like mommy making phone calls for her very good boy.
December 4, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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mjfree.bsky.social
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget
December 4, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
a man who gets an email like this from his own mother should be legally required to reveal it to every woman he ever meets ever ever
The following is the text of the email that Penelope Hegseth sent to her son, Pete Hegseth, on April 30, 2018, as he was in the middle of divorcing his wife, Samantha. One sentence was redacted by The New York Times for privacy reasons. Son, I have tried to keep quiet about your character and behavior, but after listening to the way you made Samantha feel today, I cannot stay silent. And as a woman and your mother I feel I must speak out.. You are an abuser of women — that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth. I am not a saint, far from it.. so don't throw that in my face, but your abuse over the years to women (dishonesty, sleeping around, betrayal, debasing, belittling) needs to be called out. Sam is a good mother and a good person (under the circumstances that you created) and I know deep down you know that. For you to try to label her as "unstable" for your own advantage is despicable and abusive. Is there any sense of decency left in you? She did not ask for or deserve any of what has come to her by your hand. Neither did Meredith. I know you think this is one big competition and that we have taken her side... bunk... we are on the side of good and that is not you. (Go ahead and call me self-righteous, I dont' care) Don't you dare run to her and cry foul that we shared with us... that's what babies do. It's time for someone (I wish it was a strong man) to stand up to your abusive behavior and call it out, especially against women We still love you, but we are broken by your behavior and lack of character. I don't want to write emails like this and never thought I would. If it damages our relationship further, then so be it, but at least I have said my piece. [Redacted] And yes, we are praying for you (and you don't deserve to know how we are praying, so skip the snarky reply) I don't want an answer to this... I don't want to debate with you. You twist and abuse everything I say anyway. But... On behalf of all the women (and I know it's many) you have abused in some way, I say... get some help and take an honest look at yourself... Mom
November 30, 2024 at 6:21 AM
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nytimes.com
After two families learned that they were not the genetic parents of the babies they loved, due to a mixup during the in vitro fertilization process, they faced a devastating question. Should they switch their girls?
An I.V.F. Mixup, a Shocking Discovery and an Unbearable Choice
Two couples in California discovered they were raising each other’s genetic children. Should they switch their girls?
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social
My latest on the blog, inspired by comments I received after my last post on HR9495.

blackgirlinmaine.com/current-even...
We build at the speed of trust or, The limits of doing your own research | Shay Stewart-Bouley
Once upon a time, when I would get annoyed by someone’s actions—particularly online—I would feel the immediate need to respond, but with age comes the ability to sit with things. To think about whethe...
blackgirlinmaine.com
November 24, 2024 at 3:18 AM
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ryan-n-wiggins.bsky.social
Good morning democracy defenders! Just a reminder that the circus Trump is creating around the cabinet nominations is a feature, not a bug. He wants to distract with chaos so you can't focus. Don't fall for it.
November 20, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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augustjpollak.bsky.social
This Nancy Mace thing is going to be a defining moment for the Democratic Party. Mace is deliberately bullying another person, one of their colleagues. And if House Dems are too chickenshit to defend their own colleague over this open, blatant hate, what the hell is the point of them anymore.
November 19, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Rep. Jasmin Crockett is always 🔥
Tweet from Jasmine Crockett: If @HouseGOP really wanted to protect women, they'd release the Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz' alleged sex trafficking - not try to ban their colleagues from using the bathroom. Stop the bigotry and release the report.
November 20, 2024 at 8:35 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Talk about self-owns! This is rather amazing news on the abortion rights front.
Post by Taniel: A Wyoming judge just struck down WY's abortion bans. Get this: Judge invoked a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... that was passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Just backfired.
November 20, 2024 at 12:37 PM
greg-fw.bsky.social
We know that for years the RW media have been demonizing Democrats as communists who literally hate our country and want to destroy it. So, what are the very few, and brief, messages that can counter that? And what is a coherent strategy for distributing those messages to a targeted audience?
November 19, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Ah, the Age of Innocence is back.
Tweet from John Fuselsang Hegseth is so innocent he paid off the woman who accused him of rape & got her to sign an NDA. Gaetz is so innocent he resigned Congress to keep the report from coming out, after asking DT for a pardon. Trump is so innocent only 26 women accused him of doing what he said on tape he likes to do.
November 19, 2024 at 8:54 PM