@ruthmargo.bsky.social
Psychoanalytic psychotherapist, Unitarian Universalist, Social justice warrior, Never saw a barricade I didn’t want to throw myself on, Proud Granny 🐝, Dilettante photographer
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Hooray, you big tough guys in combat gear roughing up and throwing to the ground a slim young woman clad in jeans and a sweater. Your manly skills have no peer.
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'What It Looks Like When ICE Violates' First Amendment: Candidate Kat Abughazaleh Thrown to Ground | Common Dreams
Federal agents violently cracked down on protesters at an ICE facility near Chicago, throwing congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh to the ground.
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September 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Hooray, you big tough guys in combat gear roughing up and throwing to the ground a slim young woman clad in jeans and a sweater. Your manly skills have no peer.
www.commondreams.org/news/kat-abu...
www.commondreams.org/news/kat-abu...
Very apt historical reference.
September 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Very apt historical reference.
I cancelled my Disney+ and Hulu subscriptions. Fuck you, ABC. And fuck you, Brendan Carr. I’m exercising my free speech via credit card.
September 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I cancelled my Disney+ and Hulu subscriptions. Fuck you, ABC. And fuck you, Brendan Carr. I’m exercising my free speech via credit card.
Join the September 20th protests against the rapacious billionaires who are promoting Big Oil&Gas over Renewables, gutting our solar and wind projects, leaving a legacy of climate devastation for our children and grandchildren.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...
Two Valuable Satellites Are in ‘Perfect Health.’ They May Be Scrapped.
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September 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Join the September 20th protests against the rapacious billionaires who are promoting Big Oil&Gas over Renewables, gutting our solar and wind projects, leaving a legacy of climate devastation for our children and grandchildren.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...
Join me at Staten Island, Make Billionaires Pay action.womensmarch.com/events/state...
Staten Island, Make Billionaires Pay
As the United States braces for extreme heat, wildfires, and hurricanes, the Trump administration just rammed through a mega-bill defunding our communities to give handouts to billionaires. They’re di...
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September 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Join me at Staten Island, Make Billionaires Pay action.womensmarch.com/events/state...
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i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
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www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
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How climate messaging should be done
August 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
How climate messaging should be done
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Former Mossad, Shin Bet and IDF leaders join most of the world in demanding an immediate end to the Gaza war, saying it’s now an unjust, immoral and futile war of destruction guided by 'messianic and extremist goals' and threatening ‘the loss of Israel's security and freedom.’ It must end now.
'A futile war': Former Israeli security chiefs warn current Gaza war has no strategy
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August 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Former Mossad, Shin Bet and IDF leaders join most of the world in demanding an immediate end to the Gaza war, saying it’s now an unjust, immoral and futile war of destruction guided by 'messianic and extremist goals' and threatening ‘the loss of Israel's security and freedom.’ It must end now.
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My 'The Weekly' podcast interview this week with Jon Stewart on Trump, fascism, feckless Dems, Merrick Garland's role, Gaza, Israel, the corporate media, and more, has been getting a lot of love online, and positive feedback, and just crossed 1 million views on YouTube.
Have you watched it yet?
Have you watched it yet?
Mehdi Hasan on the Media, Democrats & The Crisis In Gaza | The Weekly Show
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
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August 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
My 'The Weekly' podcast interview this week with Jon Stewart on Trump, fascism, feckless Dems, Merrick Garland's role, Gaza, Israel, the corporate media, and more, has been getting a lot of love online, and positive feedback, and just crossed 1 million views on YouTube.
Have you watched it yet?
Have you watched it yet?
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Please, please, please watch this important discussion between Jon Stewart & @peterbeinart.bsky.social, based in and expanding on Peter's absolutely necessary book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza.
If you're Jewish in particular: please, please, please.
If you're Jewish in particular: please, please, please.
@peterbeinart.bsky.social talks about his book "being jewish after the destruction of gaza" on @thedailyshow.com
Peter Beinart - "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning" | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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July 31, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Please, please, please watch this important discussion between Jon Stewart & @peterbeinart.bsky.social, based in and expanding on Peter's absolutely necessary book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza.
If you're Jewish in particular: please, please, please.
If you're Jewish in particular: please, please, please.
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Staten Island Action Coalition fighting Medicaid cuts voted on by Malliotakis. Join us!
May 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Staten Island Action Coalition fighting Medicaid cuts voted on by Malliotakis. Join us!
Jeez! Anybody who has patronized a local watering hole knows what 86 means. Back in my wilder youth some of the regulars at my favorite bar were occasionally 86’d for being a little to obstreperous. But they were always welcomed back before long!
May 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Jeez! Anybody who has patronized a local watering hole knows what 86 means. Back in my wilder youth some of the regulars at my favorite bar were occasionally 86’d for being a little to obstreperous. But they were always welcomed back before long!
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On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is
April 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is
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The Monarch #butterfly embarks on one of nature's most incredible journeys, migrating up to 3,000 miles from #Canada to central #Mexico. These tiny travelers, with wings of vibrant orange, navigate the vast distances using the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields, defying the odds
April 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Monarch #butterfly embarks on one of nature's most incredible journeys, migrating up to 3,000 miles from #Canada to central #Mexico. These tiny travelers, with wings of vibrant orange, navigate the vast distances using the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields, defying the odds
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Mr. Booker Goes ro Washington! Thank you, Senator Booker for your thoughtful, inspiring, deeply researched words, not one word wasted on nonsense, in 25 hours and 5 minutes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjQ...
Cory Booker ends record-breaking Senate speech with tribute to late John Lewis
YouTube video by ABC News
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April 2, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Mr. Booker Goes ro Washington! Thank you, Senator Booker for your thoughtful, inspiring, deeply researched words, not one word wasted on nonsense, in 25 hours and 5 minutes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjQ...
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Great news for democracy!
Cry more Elon. 😂
Cry more Elon. 😂
April 2, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Great news for democracy!
Cry more Elon. 😂
Cry more Elon. 😂
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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
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March 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.