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Sumati 💙 Quirk & Conscience

@sumatithomas.bsky.social

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Pollster @changeresearch.com. Southern politics with a side of snark. Raising kids, herding pets, and fighting for democracy in Mississippi. Black. Desi. Follow me on other socials 👇🏽 http://linktr.ee/sumatithomas

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Sumati 💙 Quirk & Conscience @sumatithomas.bsky.social · Jan 24

Trying to grow my subscribers on Substack. If you like political snark and want to follow politics from the lense of a blue dot in the middle of red Mississippi, please subscribe. I will also subscribe back! Thanks, yall! sumatithomas.substack.com?r=2b4ahe

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Pollster @ Change Research. Southern politics with a side of snark. Raising kids, herding pets, and fighting for democracy in Mississippi. http://linktr.ee/sumatithomas

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Sumati 💙 Quirk & Conscience @sumatithomas.bsky.social · 4d

More playing around with Sora #ai #sora #governmentshutdown #politics

Sumati 💙 Quirk & Conscience @sumatithomas.bsky.social · 4d

Sora 2 is wild. 🤣 #ai #sora #epstein

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Sumati 💙 Quirk & Conscience @sumatithomas.bsky.social · 7d

Anyone have a sora invite code they wouldn’t mind sharing? 🥺

Sumati 💙 Quirk & Conscience @sumatithomas.bsky.social · 11d

Love my lil 4 legged besties

Sumati 💙 Quirk & Conscience @sumatithomas.bsky.social · 12d

New bag! In love! 😻

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17d

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · Aug 22

D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state.

But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed.

D.C. statehood now.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · Aug 23

Here's what you see here in Mississippi when trying to access Bluesky.

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🎃dutch(trick or)treat🎃 @dutchtreat.bsky.social · Aug 23

Bluesky can still be accessed via Graysky for Mississippi users. Pass it on.

Graysky - a bluesky client

Experience a whole different skyline.

graysky.app

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Sumati 💙 Quirk & Conscience @sumatithomas.bsky.social · Aug 23

I’m still able to access Bluesky with the Openvibe app. Please pass this along to other Mississippians

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · Aug 23

To reiterate: bsky.app/profile/asht...

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · Aug 22

Another way y'all can really help us right now is with a donation. We're a nonprofit newsroom and our stories are free for anyone to read (no paywalls), so your support helps a lot.

We appreciate whatever y'all can give. Here's the link: givebutter.com/mfpdonate

Give Now to Grow MFP Journalism in 2025!

Help us grow our newsroom in Mississippi and our systemic reporting to make a difference for our home state and beyond.

givebutter.com

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Sumati 💙 Quirk & Conscience @sumatithomas.bsky.social · Aug 22

App no longer works 🫠 I can access through Openvibe… for now

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Sumati 💙 Quirk & Conscience @sumatithomas.bsky.social · Aug 22

The app still works for me, but the webpage in a browser does not.

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now.
A new Mississippi law requires us to implement age verification for all users before they can access Bluesky. We think this law creates challenges that go beyond its child safety goals, and creates significant barriers that limit free speech and disproportionately harm smaller platforms and emerging technologies.
As a small team, we cannot justify building the expensive infrastructure this requirement demands while legal challenges to this law are pending.
For now, we have made the difficult decision to block access to Bluesky in the state of Mississippi.
To learn more, read our blog post.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 15

Heinrich: And what was really stunning to me as someone who has been in a lot of these press conferences a few things very unusual. You had Putin come out and address the press first. We are on U.S. Soil here

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 16

FOX REPORTER: “The way it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. It seemed like Putin came in and steamrolled, got right into what he wanted to say, got his photo next to the president, then left.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 15

OBAMA TO TEXAS DEMS: "We became complacent... This precious democracy is not a given. It requires us to fight for it." 🇺🇸

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · Aug 15

Just for those who may be a little confused: This is how an American president should treat Putin.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Aug 15

Trump struggled to walk in a straight line as he went to greet Putin

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Sumati 💙 Quirk & Conscience @sumatithomas.bsky.social · Aug 16

Ended up buying a boneless couch for our kid’s playroom and it is the most comfortable thing!

Sumati 💙 Quirk & Conscience @sumatithomas.bsky.social · Jul 27

Why are boneless couches the same price or more than regular couches?! Wanted something comfy for the kids playroom and these prices are ridiculous for something that comes shrink wrapped in a box.

Sumati 💙 Quirk & Conscience @sumatithomas.bsky.social · Aug 16

Upgraded from DHGate to dealing with the actual seller on WhatsApp and now feel like I’ve unlocked VIP shopper mode. 🥰

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Aug 3

"If SCOTUS guts the Voting Rights Act, the prospect of Republicans stealing only 5 seats in Texas will feel quaint. While California must counteract what the GOP is doing in Texas, we don’t have enough seats to counteract what they could do if the VRA if gutted. It cement permanent GOP rule."

Supreme Court poised to permanently entrench Republican rule

The latest move by SCOTUS is a "five alarm fire"

plus.briantylercohen.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 4

Texas House Democrats offer a brief response to Gov. Greg Abbott's threat of arrest and expulsion: "Come and take it."

TX HOUSE DEMS STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO ABBOTT: "COME AND TAKE IT"

CHICAGO — After Gov. Greg Abbott threatened lawmakers with arrest and expulsion from the House of Representatives for denying him a quorum to pass his racist mid-decade redistricting scheme, the Texas House Democratic Caucus issued the following statement:

“Come and take it.”

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · Aug 3

This Peter Baker joint does catalog Trump's lies and censorship, but headline and text tie themselves in journo-cliched linguistic knots to avoid that direct judgment. He's not "underscoring a tendency." He's not an "echo" of an "authoritarian playbook." He is a dictator.

News Analysis

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook
In firing the head of the agency that collects employment statistics, the president underscored his tendency to suppress facts he doesn’t like and promote his own version of reality.

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Sumati 💙 Quirk & Conscience @sumatithomas.bsky.social · Aug 3

Deochii is live at Lalapalooza on Hulu right now. 💃💃

Sumati 💙 Quirk & Conscience @sumatithomas.bsky.social · Aug 1

🧠 People aren’t just confused. They’re tuning out.

More and more, the news says one thing, online content says another, and folks are left not trusting either.

Here’s a quick look at what the data is telling us.

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