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Melody
@jaidling.bsky.social
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She|Her. I'm 36, with 2 partners, 5 cats, and 1 house. I like cats, books, people, and rye (in that order). I also avidly adore Padoru season.
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Melody @jaidling.bsky.social · 22d
TO BE CLEAR: not maid cafes with catgirls!!! CAT CAFES with catgirls.
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michaeljstern.bsky.social
I worked for DOJ. I don't think people realize how dangerous it is for the White House to takeover the daily operations of the Justice Department.
December 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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seananmcguire.bsky.social
When we start reaching the point of "better a dead child," I don't give a fuck what the other half of that sentence was going to be. The trans children I have known--and trans kids exist, absolutely--have been joyous, delightful, wonderful souls. They would not be better dead. No child is.
December 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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charlesornstein.bsky.social
A story that should shock our collective conscience: After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
jaidling.bsky.social
TO BE CLEAR: not maid cafes with catgirls!!! CAT CAFES with catgirls.
December 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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ageofoddish.bsky.social
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane. A plate of the same cookies.
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
/20 In closing, this is the result that the Right, the Federalist Society, the Heritage Foundation, and their crew have successfully fought for: a system where the federal government can deliberately violate your rights and there is no effective remedy - meaning you don’t really have the right.
September 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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gwensnyder.bsky.social
They're feeling very comfortable saying what they really think these days, aren't they
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 13
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
We’re frogs in the pot about this, I think. We’re so hardened to eliminationist, fascist rhetoric from the right that it hardly makes a dent when a prominent host on a major network suggests exterminating a large group of people. But he did. And nobody on modern Right gives a shit.
kenwhite.bsky.social Don’t Have To Apologize For Being Popehat Anymore @kenwhite.bsky.social · Sep 13
But don’t call them Nazis.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 13
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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parodybit.bsky.social
The trains got way worse, but the state media TOLD everyone they were running on time.

We're seeing a lot of this, like with how we're all going to be healthier, somehow, without vaccines, testing for food-borne pathogens, cancer research, Medicare or Medicaid, reproductive healthcare, and so on.
August 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Radley Balko is always worth reading, but when he talks about police militarization, he’s speaking as one of the most qualified journalists we have. He’s rather apocalyptic about where we are with a huge ICE force. He’s right.

open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...
The police militarization debate is over
Quaint disputes about the proper role of police and military have been superseded by a more urgent threat: Donald Trump is creating his own, personal paramilitary force
open.substack.com
July 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Bold move by Texas to say that the First Amendment only applies during daylight hours.
We’re not exaggerating. SB 2972 would require public universities in Texas to adopt policies prohibiting “engaging in expressive activities on campus between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.” Expressive activity includes “any speech or expressive conduct” protected by the First Amendment or Texas Constitution.
July 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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scalzi.com
Someone pulled this up from the recesses of the Internet, I think I originally posted it nearly a decade ago, and it's still true
April 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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joshsternberg.com
This was a choice. Fine won by 8 pts in the district Mike Waltz won by 30 pts just 5 months ago.

That the NYT frames it as “easily won” is a leading reason we are where we are.

Headlines matter. Framing matters.
Breaking News 3m ago Randy Fine, a state senator, easily won a House seat in Florida, adding to the G.O.P. majority.
April 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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surcomplicated.bsky.social
Welcome back, drug-resistant tuberculosis. Now say hello to our new friend:
sailorrooscout.bsky.social Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · Mar 31
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at McMaster University have discovered a NEW peptide antibiotic that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria INCLUDING those RESISTANT to existing antibiotics. This discovery marks the first potential new class of antibiotics in NEARLY 30 YEARS. 🧪🧵⬇️
April 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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freddydeknatel.bsky.social
A slide about the death toll in Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic.”
March 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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realworldrj.bsky.social
Theres a headline from the 1930s for every single thing happening here today
March 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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mollyskyfire.bsky.social
Louder.
irlagainstfascism.bsky.social Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · Mar 26
Does this sound at all familiar? It should!
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March 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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drjeffmasters.bsky.social
EPA warning: do not go outside in the Central U.S. dust storm! Hazardous dust covers parts of OK, MO, IL, TX, IA, AR. On Fri, St. Louis AQI peaked at 3,372 from PM10 (dust); on Sat morning it was 556. AQI over 300 is “Hazardous”, over 500 is off-scale. Consult airnow.gov.
March 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. It’s like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity.

Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.
March 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections.

Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.
February 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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evacide.bsky.social
Some useful Surveillance Self Defense links for people who want to lock their shit down right now:

Attending a protest: ssd.eff.org/module/atten...

How to Use Signal: ssd.eff.org/module/how-t...

Security starter pack: ssd.eff.org/playlist/wan...
How to: Use Signal
Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.0. iPhone: 7.0 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time...
ssd.eff.org
February 3, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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profjdnelson.bsky.social
Hard to imagine a stronger Masterpiece Cakeshop claim.
February 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.
X post: Elon Musk @elonmusk We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead. U.S. policy was to help bring an end to apartheid and establish a nonracial, democratic government. In response to this policy and the Act, USAID/South Africa was responsible for financing projects that apartheid victims viewed as critical in promoting social, political, and economic change through peaceful means. The mission enabled community consultation and ensured that the United States did not impose foreign-defined solutions to local problems. USAID created projects and activities to respond to the priorities of the black community and its leaders, maximized black participation and leadership, and ensured activities had a linkage to the general objectives of U.S. policy. First-year funding for the program was $25 million, which was raised to $50 million the second year. The main project areas were community outreach and leadership development to redress the repression of black-led institutions; educational support and training to address the educational crisis in South Africa; black private enterprise development to combat the inhibiting effects of apartheid–induced discrimination in private enterprise; university grants to help create a new generation of economic and political leaders; human rights; legal assistance; labor union training; and health and nutrition
February 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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czedwards.bsky.social
With alt-text:
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Posted by azspot at one of the other social media platforms "Rich kids should go to public schools. The mayor should ride the subway to work. When wealthy people get sick, they should be sent to public hospitals. Business executives should have to stand in the same airport security lines as everyone else. The very fact that people want to buy their way out of all of these experiences points to the reason why they shouldn't be able to. Private schools and private limos and private doctors and private security are all pressure release valves that eliminate the friction that would cause powerful people to call for all of these bad things to get better. The degree to which we allow the rich to insulate themselves from the unpleasant reality that others are forced to experience is directly related to how long that reality is allowed to stay unpleasant. When they are left with no other option, rich people will force improvement in public systems. Their public spirit will be infinitely less urgent when they are contemplating these things from afar than when they are sitting in a hot ER waiting room for six hours themselves." — By Hamilton Nolan, from the essay Everyone Into The Grinder
December 2, 2024 at 4:50 AM