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Janet Donavan 🛟 @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, it was worse when I was on crutches with a one year old and a three year old, except I was younger so it hurt less 😭…

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Janet Donavan 🛟 @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 2d

Annoying things you can’t do on crutches: Laundry. Grocery shopping. Walk the dog. <sigh>

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d

This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.

Text card: Listen for dangerous words.
Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.
#OnTyranny

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

"...all those who are playing on or with this [digital] infrastructure will have won. And we will be a continent, like many others, of conspiracy theorists, extremists, noise and fury."

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

"We did not design our democracies for this. We are a long way from the democratic agora of antiquity. And so, if we Europeans do not wake up and say, ‘We want to take back control of our democracies,’ I can tell you this: within 10 years..."

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

"...and towards algorithms designed to promote cognitive excitement, overreaction, and the volume of what we like or dislike, again favouring extremes, because at the heart of these models is the monetisation of your presence in order to sell it to advertisers."

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Janet Donavan 🛟 @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations 🎉!!

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Janet Donavan 🛟 @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 4d

When you are wheeled into the ER with a heart attack, are you ready to show your passport/birth certificate/social security card??

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Candice Fortin @candicefortin.bsky.social · 5d

No accountability for the MOVE bombing in Philly was one of the stepping stones for what’s happening in DC, Chicago, LA, Memphis right now.

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Janet Donavan 🛟 @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you. I wanted to know what the problem was but could not bring myself to read what was obviously just an incredibly wrong and stupid article.

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Janet Donavan 🛟 @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 6d

Taking the name of the Lord in vain was always the most terrible swearing possible when I was growing up. My parents do not swear.

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Janet Donavan 🛟 @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 8d

Are we going to see mass resignations from military officers? Everything Hegseth is saying is basically the opposite of how the world’s most powerful military actually works.

Janet Donavan 🛟 @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 10d

These people have a lot of difficulty understanding the difference between movies and real life. Access to AI is not helping them.

Janet Donavan 🛟 @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 11d

Maybe we have to call it the hydrophobie??

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Janet Donavan 🛟 @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 13d

Ohhh!! Or the War of Jenkins Ear! Like, crazy maritime stuff, pirates, connection to George Washington…

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13d

can we at least start litigating some different wars? somebody do some wars of the roses posting, that could tie up the timeline for at least two years, you can cross the streams with GoT posting and really deep fry some brain worms

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 13d

I love how at least once a month we litigate WWII on this website

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Janet Donavan 🛟 @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 13d

Let’s do WWI…Like, seriously, what was that even about??

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13d

can we at least start litigating some different wars? somebody do some wars of the roses posting, that could tie up the timeline for at least two years, you can cross the streams with GoT posting and really deep fry some brain worms

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 13d

I love how at least once a month we litigate WWII on this website

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Janet Donavan 🛟 @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 14d

Your rapture jokes are fine, they are funny, I will not try to take them from you. Some of us grew up with real rapture trauma, though. The world is going to end, what is the point? “The countdown’s getting lower every day” song… Will I be left behind? It was a lot.

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Janet Donavan 🛟 @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 14d

Also the 90s. The 90s were a lot. Pervs everywhere.

Janet Donavan 🛟 @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 14d

The 2000s have been a lot —late Xer

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Janet Donavan 🛟 @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 15d

One of the most dangerous things they are doing is taking our words. When they take our words and obliterate the meaning of language, we lose not just the right to speech, but the actual mechanisms of speech.

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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 15d

Some recent comments to @mcnamarawdet.bsky.social: "Our counterterrorism infrastructure has been largely eroded, if not destroyed, by the #Trump administration, and in particular, #DOGE cuts in places like the FBI and DHS." @wdet.bsky.social wdet.org/2025/09/22/t...

Threat of political violence remains high after Kirk killing - WDET 101.9 FM

Terrorism expert Jacob Ware says the U.S. is still in 'a very dangerous moment' following the assassination of the conservative podcaster.

wdet.org

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Janet Donavan 🛟 @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 16d

Debate is a skill that is only good for democracy if it is built on shared knowledge and values. What passes for debate among authoritarians is pure sophistry; no amount of skill-building by the left will get them to agree to use factual information or share a belief in a diverse democracy.

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