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lemieuxlgm.bsky.social
America's Most Underrated Senator (TM)
smith.senate.gov Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 5d
We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.
January 8, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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joebethersonton2.bsky.social
All of them. Trump, Vance, Bondi, Rubio, Hegseth. They should all be impeached and removed from office.
slack2thefuture.bsky.social David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 10d
To @housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Publicly and repeatedly demand impeachment or resign.

If you do neither, go ahead and pack your office because you’re losing your next election.

IMPEACH NOW.
January 3, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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rukira91.bsky.social
This isn’t even all of the AIDS quilt. It was so long they didn’t have room to display it all. Reagan flat out fucking murdered queer people
otherverseg.bsky.social Chris A Field, Otherverse Games @otherverseg.bsky.social · 27d
These are the "good and decent people" who didn't survive the Reagan presidency.
Ariel photograph of the AIDS Memorial Quilt stretched out on park in front of the US Capitol. Late 1980s.
December 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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liberalcurrents.com
“Faith leaders have been beaten, arrested, even shot with “less lethal” weapons, and church attendance has fallen significantly—by more than 50% in Spanish-speaking parishes in one Catholic diocese. But now there’s a plan to target Spanish-speaking churches nationwide during the holiday season”
Trump's War On Christmas Is A War On Liberalism
After decades of make-believe, the Trump administration is promising an actual war on Christmas that would traumatize religious communities with armed state power.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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altlofc.altgov.info
I recently read Arcadia during my last semester of coursework, a brilliant read. 🌹
harrywallop.co.uk Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · Dec 2
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 3, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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karenho.bsky.social
I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month
September 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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jaybird54.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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noturtlesoup17.bsky.social
The crowd did not disperse, an instead started playing Tubthumping by Chumbawamba — I get knocked down, but I get up again.
noturtlesoup17.bsky.social amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · Oct 19
Portland ICE facility now.
October 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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clancyny.bsky.social
Here's an issue from the Purdue Univ. student paper, The Exponent, dealing with the IU censorship of their student paper. Purdue put it in IU news boxes. (Purdue & IU are normally huge sports rivals.)

Download link: www.purdueexponent.org/frontpdf/lat...
Page 1, The Exponent WE STUDENT JOURNALISTS MUST STAND TOGETHER graphic of hands holding each other's wrists Red, Black, Yellow and White background is shredded newsprint
October 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
solitarykitsch.bsky.social
I’m so damn proud of these students. So damn proud.
gabriellehecht.bsky.social Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · Oct 18
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments
October 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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indyfromspace.bsky.social
I Had Sex With A Mummified Ham And All I Got For It Was A Job With Vanity Fair
September 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
solitarykitsch.bsky.social
Dammit. Thanks for the everything, man.
August 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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douglasmack.bsky.social
randomly decided to look at the history of people throwing sandwiches and...

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Cleveland Press, 1957 PAGE 16 Playful Gal Socks Cop With a Ham Sandwich MIAMI BEACH (UP)-A spirited young woman here has fulfilled her life's ambition. She threw a sandwich in the face of a policeman. Miss Lucille Douty, 28, was haled into court this morning. She had her explanation ready for the judge: It was worth it. I always wanted to throw something at a cop." Patrolman Bernie Hyman was the policeman who got the ham sandwich in the face
August 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
solitarykitsch.bsky.social
I absolutely never thought about it this way and…jeez. Yes.
vox-magica.bsky.social Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · Aug 11
i had to look up my own dissertation because i forgot the title. i hate it so much and i was wrong about a lot.

so, hey, dissertators: it's okay to write a shitty dissertation. get those credentials. even if you leave academia, this doesn't have to be your last word on your topic.
August 12, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”
August 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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lostcatdog.bsky.social
Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
August 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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brainnotonyet.bsky.social
Just popping in from the north woods again to say it again: Trump and the republicans are openly stating their goal is the invasion and military takeover of major blue cities including the countries capital because they see blue states and cities as enemy territory to be conquer by force.
Trump suggests taking over New York City and Washington
President Trump suggested a federal takeover of New York City and Washington, claiming a "tremendous power at the White House to run places when we have to."
abcnews.go.com
July 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Does it get more clear and in the open?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 12
Q: There are many people who fit the criteria of fleeing persecution. Afghans for example. But they're being denied refugee status. So why such an exception for the Afrikaners?

TRUMP ADMIN OFFICIAL: One of the criteria is making sure they can be assimilated easily into our country
May 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
solitarykitsch.bsky.social
My anger this man cannot be overstated.
May 6, 2025 at 4:00 AM
solitarykitsch.bsky.social
Ok. Back at it. OC, you could have delivered up a little less marine layer, but, thanks for whatever comes.
May 4, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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carljanderson.bsky.social
In.

First college course in 25 years. Time to dust off those portions of my brain.

So looking forard to this.
karenattiah.bsky.social Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Apr 27
Columbia cancelled my Race, Media and Int'l Affairs course.

But I'm teaching it anyway.

In just two days, 360+ of you enrolled.

If you are interested in a scholarship, email [email protected] w/ subject line, "Scholarship Request".
karenattiah.substack.com/p/enrollment...
Enrollment for Race, Media and International Affairs 101 is now open!
Grab your spot in Karen Attiah's Resistance Summer School pilot course.
karenattiah.substack.com
April 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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jamisonfoser.bsky.social
deported* a 2 year old citizen without due process

* doesn't sound like deportation to me!
kyledcheney.bsky.social Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Apr 26
NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country.

Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM