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Sarah Brand

@sarahbrand.bsky.social

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DC-adjacent. local elected/activist, data nerd, sometimes SF/fantasy writer, live-in photographer for my cats. opinions are mine and do not reflect the views of my cats. elected official account: @sarahbw.bsky.social

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Sarah Brand @sarahbrand.bsky.social · Sep 16

New followers! Hello! This is my personal account, where I retweet elected official stuff for ~*reach*~ but also post cat pictures and repost things like DS9 and Tom Holland’s “Umbrella.” If you’re just here for the politics, @sarahbw.bsky.social is your best bet. Either way, I’m happy to have you.

Sarah Brand-Wiita @sarahbw.bsky.social · Sep 16

Hello, new followers! I was elected in 2022 to the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee in Maryland. We are not government officials, but we are on the primary ballot every four years and elected by the 400,000 Democrats in our county to lead the local party.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 6h

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 6h

The Kyiv Independent is proud to announce the U.S. premiere of its full-length documentary, “Can You Hear Me? The Invisible Battles of Ukrainian Military Medics,” hosted in collaboration with the Embassies of Sweden and Ukraine.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 6h

Join the screening of the film in Washington (Oct. 10) or New York (Oct. 14) by filling in the form.

Washington: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
New York: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7h

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

bsky.app/profile/jame...

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 2d

Some things I've learned in my first few weeks:

1) There is a grey market candy swapping racket between janitors, TSA agents, CSRs, and everyone else who has to stand someplace all day at the airport.

Hi-chews, sour candies, and gummy anything are in highest demand.

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Sarah Brand @sarahbrand.bsky.social · 2d

*ever using it on the people the law is supposed to protect and not bind

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

Let’s talk about ‘whoa.’

First of all, ‘woah’ is not yet considered an established spelling variant of ‘whoa.’

While ‘woah’ has grown in prevalence since the late 20th century, ‘whoa’ is still about 5 times as common as ‘woah.’

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 3d

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 4d

The question of “how many fascist government actions make a country a fascist country?” is a semantics distraction.

The real question is “Is the country doing fascist things?”

If the answer to that is yes, we need to be focusing on how to stop them.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 3d

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day, still here for some reason

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Sarah Brand @sarahbrand.bsky.social · 4d

don’t forget the missing hairbrushes and very lazy pirates

Sarah Brand @sarahbrand.bsky.social · 4d

So fascinated by this. Does your book’s section on the myth extend past the excerpt you shared?

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Sarah Brand @sarahbrand.bsky.social · 4d

Aw, I hope you heal up soon ❤️‍🩹

Sarah Brand @sarahbrand.bsky.social · 4d

Oh no! are you okay??

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4d

Otherwise former ICE agents will be running for office in a few years.

Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 4d

I so desperately wanted (still want) a Truth & Reconciliation Commission focused on the U.S. response to COVID-19.

Now here I am again.

I don’t know that I will live to see it, but THERE MUST BE A RECKONING for this fascist pivot.

We MUST create a space for rejection and repair to move forward.

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Sarah Brand @sarahbrand.bsky.social · 4d

I love them.

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Sarah Brand @sarahbrand.bsky.social · 4d

At least you’re not learning about international finance while trying to *sell* tulip bulbs…

Sarah Brand @sarahbrand.bsky.social · 4d

I was going to say the first step is having money but then I remembered that isn’t necessarily true

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 5d

Periodic reminder: use alt text on images, please!

Many visually impaired folks use tech called screen readers to hear what is on the website.

Alt text allows the screen reader to describe the image to these users.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 5d

when what the world actually needs is a hybrid of xanga and Google plus

👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 6d

twitter is currently a frankenstein combination of 4chan and tumblr. we all know this. but bluesky is a different beast that i don't think people born after ~2004 fully grasp. bluesky is a frankenstein combination of tumblr and somethingawful

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Sarah Brand @sarahbrand.bsky.social · 5d

A small beige dog with big dark eyes and folded-over ears is having a PTSD flashback with helicopters and soldiers (the helicopters, in this case, are Xanga)

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Sarah Brand @sarahbrand.bsky.social · 6d

”A madman in a cave”? Did he also build a mecha suit with a box of scraps?

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 7d

Lots of crim legal reformers have been arguing—correctly—that ICE’s behavior that is drawing outrage isn’t *that* much different from lots of routine police actions.

But I think this is. Even the bigger gang raids have not indulged in this magnitude of wanton indiscriminate collective punishment.

Andrew Hazlett @andrewhazlett.bsky.social · 7d

Terrorizing and wrecking an entire 150-unit apartment building--hundreds of people, mostly legal or citizens--to detain 37 people. This should be a much more massive story.

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 7d

“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”…

“Stuff was everywhere…people’s birth certificates, and papers thrown all over. Water was leaking into the hallway. It was wicked crazy.”

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7d

"too"

image of Regina George from the scene where she says "so you agree?"

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Sarah Brand @sarahbrand.bsky.social · 7d

A sectional antipope, if you will

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