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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds

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She/her - I have that Jezebel spirit In the immortal words of Bartleby, "I would prefer not to." Fearless and undefined this is what it sounds like.

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · Jan 2

What America becomes in the future is predicated on who we are today and every day.

George Lakoff @george-lakoff.com · Jan 1

Tips to keep democracy alive in 2025:

1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it.
www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...

2025: Keep democracy alive. FrameLab New Year's resolutions

Advice for defeating the authoritarian threat

www.theframelab.org

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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 2h

Oh my god, it's like when Wolverine gets shot!

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 2h

It’s actually kinda driving me up a wall.

Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 4h

The great irony of blueskys political hobbyists demanding that Ds talk about nothing but this issue now is that Harris actually made "Trumps an existential threat to our democracy" a pretty central campaign focus. Voters shrugged! The online left said she had to be more than just "anti-Trump"!

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 17h

Sorry but if there is one single US political proposition that we have tested to destruction in recent years, it’s the idea that a critical mass of swing voters see democracy vs authoritarianism as a crucial and salient issue in judging Trump. They simply do not! I don’t like it either

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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 2h

Guardians of Pedophiles from vjaybombs

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 2h

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk

Alt: Stephen Colbert in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk, he reaches forward and he holds his hand out gesturing, "Give it to me! Now!"

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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 3h

"In those days, the communists were, I tell you this in all truth, the only human ones." Patrick Chamoiseau

Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 4h

rereading a novel from the 50s set in the 30s and i know this passage did not hit as hard when i first read it in the 90s as it does now

Photo of a passage from "The Watch That Ends the Night"

Jerome stopped and stared at me with incandescent eyes.

"Try and understand this-the fascists have brought back tor-ture, and torture calls for martyrs. And what else is fascism but the logical product of the capitalist system?"

"What do you mean—torture calls for martyrs?"

"Simply this. Unless a man is able to stand up and look the torturer in the eye and say, 'I'm not afraid,' torture becomes the way of the world. It's as simple as that."

"Is it really as simple as that?"

"No." He shook his head impatiently. "No, because underneath it all is the plain economic exploitation of a rotten world.
The communists are the only people who understand that. How can you pretend they're not one hundred percent right when they say that at a time like this the life of a single individual isn't worth a snap of the fingers? Wasn't Debs right when he said that so long as there was a soul in prison he wasn't free?

What does a single marriage count in a balance like that? It isn't easy being me. I know what all this means. [Highlighted sentence:] This evil inside the human animal-the fascists are charming it out like a cobra out of its hole and the capitalists let them do it because they think it's good for business. You think I'm abandoning Sally by leaving for Spain. I tell you, if I don't leave for Spain then I really do abandon her to a future of fascism and concentration camps."

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 4h

I think what makes General Mark Milley's 2023 farewell speech so iconic & timeless isn't just that he says we don't take an oath to a dictator...

It's that he added "or a wannabe dictator" to show that we should have no allegiance to sloppy, Reality-TV fascists like Trump.

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 4h

The way everything is lining up for AI even though it's not consistently accurate and a huge resource drain, all while people are plenty vocal that they don't want it everywhere, makes me think this isn't about us. It's about them and what they stand to gain. We're just in the way.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15h

37 states have passed legislation specifically granting sales tax exemptions for data centers.

Among the beneficiaries of these exemptions are Amazon, Meta and Google, all companies worth over $1 trillion.

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full slack @fullslack.bsky.social · 11h

how anyone can see this as anything but a perfect example as to why billionaires & corporations should be taxed is bonkers to me. when you suffer, the rich strive. while you bleed, they benefit. that’s how the entire system is devised.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15h

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 4h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood from Raiders of the Lost Ark. They are standing side by side, Marion's hand on Indy's shoulder and they are smiling. This is a publicity shot rather than a film still.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 8h

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 9h

Not surprised but now what? That's always the question when we get a favorable ruling.

Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 10h

BREAKING: Federal judge officially found ICE violated people’s rights during raids in Chicago, conducted unlawful arrests.

Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 9h

Independently wealthy? LOL

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 9h

Weird how Antifa never asks me for money. Everyone else does, but Antifa is very quiet.

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April @apriljoy.bsky.social · 10h

FBI Director Kash Patel claims 5% of Chicago’s 2.5 million residents, approximately 110,000 people, are active gang members.

Chicago should start a class-action suit against Patel. Make him prove his statistics.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 9h

feels like it should be a big deal that the president is directing the invasion of american cities based on what are almost certainly AI videos shown to him by his staff

maybe one of our ostensible news organizations could track down exactly what it is that he's seeing

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h

no they're LITERALLY exaggerating this issue. there is absolutely no data backing up their claims. ffs just say that!!

NBC news: The discussions come as Trump has sought to deploy National Guard troops in several major cities — including Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon — saying they’re needed to reduce crime and protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from protesters. Critics have said that the Trump administration is exaggerating issues in those cities.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 9h

No joke, if you’re in Arizona be weather aware.

This has a chance to be a disaster.
Remember: new climate = new risk.

A national weather service warning about extreme rain this weekend in Arizona.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 9h

I cannot be in a job where I would have to listen to someone just bald faced lie like this weasel does and not cuss them or slap them upside their head. Like, I'm just not that good of a person, I guess.

I have a job where interaction with others is minimal, to everyone's benefit. LOL

Effin Birds image of a red bird with black wings sitting on a branch with the words - I SEE THAT YOU'RE A BULLSHIT SPECIALIST @effinbirds.

Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 9h

Maple Syrup Moses is nothing if not predictable. LOL

The Only Superhero Without A Movie @mbriatack.bsky.social · 9h

Seriously:

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

One of these women has spent a lifetime selflessly funding a reading program widely available to any child who wants it, while the other one is an author of several books for children who did not do that.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 9h

Dolly Parton has been a good person all her life. She does so many kind things for people. Compare that to someone like JK Rowling who wakes up every day and decides to be an absolute asshole.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9h

Part of the transition from conservatism to authoritarianism is the shift from lies with some veneer of plausibility (wink wink) to lies that are demonstrably, obviously lies, such that accepting them involves an almost total subjugation of individual discernment or judgment.

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 10h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 11h

The NYT piece today links to Susanne Lohmann's research on protest in Dresden, which discusses how the painfully normal effect helps legitimize dissidence www.jstor.org/stable/2950679 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

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Alex Mack 10 🇯🇲 @chillarybanks.com · 11h

Like I said, I’m NEVER buying another product again.

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 14h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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