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Micah @rincewind.run · 28d

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28d

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · 28d

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28d

I had no wish for him to be murdered, but I’ll harshly judge anyone who flies their flag at half staff for that hateful extremist or talks about honoring his memory. There was no honor in his life.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 28d

What I would add is that Kirk said that someone should bail Paul Pelosi's attacker out of prison.

The difference between us and them is that I think that even the people on the other side who call for political violence against me, shouldn't have it done to them.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28d

I encourage everyone to look out for their safety and practice good internet hygiene, of course. But some of the scolding posts I've read suggest we can change the awful aftermath of a fateful event by just holding our tongues and being quiet little mice, and that isn't my experience.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28d

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 28d

here's an idea: maybe guns shouldn't be so fucking easy to get

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 28d

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:

"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 28d

That’s the thing. I wholeheartedly agree with the idea that political violence is bad and that this shooting will make it worse.

But it also feels to me that this is yet another area where Republicans get away with shit that no one else ever could.

I don’t feel bad for the guy, but this is bad. /1

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 28d

I suspect the response here will be asymmetric. Regardless of the shooter's identity, Democrats will make strident appeals for peace and calm, while Republicans will call for retribution and an escalation of violence. This is a very bad combination.

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NPR @npr.org · Aug 28

It's been 70 years since Emmett Till, a Black teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, was lynched by a mob of white men.

70 years after Emmett Till's murder, Mississippi museum acquires gun used to kill him

It's been 70 years since Emmett Till, a Black teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, was killed by white men because he whistled at a white woman. Now the gun used in his death is in a museum.

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Mike Boulanger @mikbo519.bsky.social · Aug 27

My friend Tim is in the ICU fighting for his life. He likely needs a liver transplant, and has no insurance. If you can find it in your heart please consider a donation 🙏

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Liver Donor needed

My husband is 34 years old. Has liver cirrhosis, kidney failure and heart failure. He may need a liver transplant. Is in the ICU fighting for his life. He does not have insurance and may need a liver ...

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · Jul 22

Wow. He’s actually gone. Rest in peace, Prince of Darkness. news.sky.com/story/ozzy-o...

Ozzy Osbourne dies just weeks after farewell show

The heavy metal star reunited with his Black Sabbath bandmates on stage at Villa Park earlier in July.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · Jul 13

Tech bros don’t want to save the world. They want to own it, brand it, license it, and charge you a monthly fee to visit.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jul 3

the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · Jul 3

Yes, the budget funds a vast expansion of concentration camps at home and will spur a larger system abroad. After looking at countries that have gone this way (including the US, which has been on this path for some time), I can say many of us are still in a position to fight it. But we need to act.

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · Jul 2

I wrote about the budget bill, police-state measures intensifying, Himmler's defense of camps, the dangers of mirroring Putin's Rosgvardia, Trump's wish for a multistate network of concentration camps, and a long list of things you can do right now to fight ICE.

America's (not-so) secret police

The budget bill unleashes a detention system that threatens every American.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Jul 3

I'm already seeing centrists and leftists sniping at each other but the blame for this is 100% on the Republicans. This is what they do with power and it is imperative that we work together to keep them as far from it as possible, forever.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · Jul 3

Hell is empty and all the devils are here

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rprobbins.bsky.social @rprobbins.bsky.social · Jul 2

Truth,

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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · Jul 2

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · Jul 3

A painting of a bird next to the words "oh my god what the fuck"

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · Jul 3

I think a lot these days about how little of Reagan radicalism ever got undone, how much of it became the accepted baseline even as Democrats found their way back to the White House.

We cannot allow Trumpism to take the same path.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Jul 2

I’m going to be very honest and clear.

I am fully preparing myself to die under this new American regime. That’s not to say that it’s the end of the world. It isn’t. But I am almost 50 years old. It will take so long to do anything with this mess that this is the new normal for *me*.

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Kira Grunenberg @shadowmelody1.bsky.social · Jun 26

Cheers to Lara Pellegrinelli for her study on the faculty gender gap in Jazz Studies, published today by the Berklee School of Jazz & Gender Justice.

So many fields of study, and thus, fields of work, are male dominated. Music, and jazz especially, are no exception.

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Study Reveals Stark Gender Gap in Jazz Education

A new report from the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice and researcher Lara Pellegrinelli finds that male jazz faculty outnumber their female counterparts six to one.

www.berklee.edu

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