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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

HEY PORTLAND Jefferson High School is doing my play about RPGs and online harassment and misogynist violence in geek spaces, and I'm wildly excited to see it again onstage for the first time since Ida B. Wells High School premiered it in 2018 Hope you all can make it! I'm proud of this one

A hand-drawn theatre poster which says

The Jefferson Democratic Dramatics Presents:
Red Sky at Morning
By Claire Willett

The illustration is of a desktop computer covered in miscellaneous nerdy stickers - a pair of crossed battle axes, a lesbian flag, a skull, lots of yellow stars, etc - with an image onscreen that looks like a chat room where messages are being exchanged, a couple text boxes and then an image where you can see a triangular red flag.

Below the image is a content warning for "some strong language and mature themes" as well as the show information:

Performance Dates:
Friday Oct 23, 7 pm
Saturday Oct 24, 2 pm and 7 pm
Friday Oct 30, 7 pm
Saturday Oct 31, 2 pm

Ticket $:
Adult $10
Student $6

Location:
Jefferson Auditorium

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4h

the most scream-inducing aspect of all of this, of course, is that the only reason giving money to lifesaving causes is a zero-sum game AT ALL is because of ghouls like this who don’t think “everyone. every life. every single life. whatever it costs” is a reasonable answer

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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 10h

You want a list of absolute pieces of shit in literature? I got a couple hundred episodes for you nerds. shows.acast.com/fbol

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F***bois of Literature Book Podcast

A comedy podcast about books

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 9h

I loved discussing “Rebecca” and “The Importance of Being Earnest” on Fuckbois of Literature SO MUCH, not least because our discussion of my great-aunts’ doll room sparked INTENSE discussion on Twitter afterwards 😂

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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 15h

Catholic Archbishop for the Military Services with pastoral responsibility for US soldiers issues statement saying Catholic military personnel are morally obligated to refuse to participate in a potential livestreamed execution of Nidal Hasan. www.milarch.org/archbishop-b...

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Archbishop Broglio Issues Statement on Proposed Execution Livestream - Archdiocese for the Military, USA

Archbishop Broglio has issued a statement on the proposal to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10h

I really do still think at least once a week about all the panic buttons being ripped out of Ayanna Pressley's office

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 10h

Carlee Purdum, a sociology professor who has researched how natural disasters impact incarcerated people, said she was overwhelmed to hear the news of the victory. “The immense pressure it’s going to relieve off of people’s health and on the entire system. I just can feel that,” she said.

thexylom.com

The ‘Lionesses’ Who Sued To Get Air Conditioning in Every Texas Prison — And Won

A group led by formerly incarcerated women spent years advocating for those trapped inside prison walls during Texas’ hot summers.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10h

It's not about placing themselves at the top. They're already at the top. It's about putting us more firmly under control. Deskilled, devalued, hyper-surveilled, desperate. That vision of fascism won't be defeated in the next two elections. It's a long fight.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10h

People talk about AI not turning a profit and how it's a massive bubble—they're not wrong. But remember when Uber was willing to take tremendous losses FOR YEARS to engineer dependence and bleed out the competition?

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10h

And remember, all of this is happening amid the AI buildout. AI, which is not a coherent set of products and services, but rather a commercial and political project, can be understood as a full-spectrum class-war offensive. An offensive waged by one industry, which put their guy Vance in the WH.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11h

And even if they take huge losses during the midterms, we've still got a very ugly road ahead. These people will thrash about and cause tremendous harm. They will keep killing, jailing, kidnapping, and bombing. This is a long fight.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11h

They can lose. But it's going to be messy and dirty. And btw, the midterms are not a lock. They will pull every dirty trick in the book, and then some. We are playing the game at a disadvantage and have to win anyway. That's no easy task.

truthout.org

Activists Are Preparing to Defend Elections This November

“It’s about relational organizing,” says organizer Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11h

Some people, and I don't just mean Trump, have been moving through the world as though they would never face a potential consequence for any choice ever again, because they never planned on losing power. That means they think they can't afford to lose now. There are a lot of desperate moves ahead.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11h

The demagoguery doesn't work as well when people are paying high gas prices. The GOP is in bad shape ahead of the midterms. This is going to be a time of desperate Trumpian shenanigans because, as y'all may recall, they don't believe in fair fights and never admit to losing anything.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11h

Multiple things are true here. This is a fascist, authoritarian administration. It has not yet fully consolidated power. Some of its efforts to do so have been frustrated. Trump is a doddering, confused egomaniac who started an unpopular war that's costing everyday people a lot of money.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10h

truly, like you think you're mostly unshockable and then ???????

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h

funniest thing I've ever seen in my life not even pink and blue baby colors?????? not even the kind of forced heteronormative bullshit that's at least pastel and cute???

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 14h

really can't have "make bigots afraid again" without powerful actors reinforcing the message that their views are marginal and unwelcome and yes that does include mcdonald's advertising

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14h

rainbow capitalism is important not as a statement of any corporation’s values (for that, look where they donate money and talk to LGBTQ employees!), but because they have access to consumer data we don’t have and they’re conservative by nature. a pendulum swing right now is useful data

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

true, it was grimace.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

The Omar story today and the Talarcio story yesterday are the same story of rat-fucking your opponents before an election. Except now the government does it, out in the open.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15h

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 12/10/2026

lord, give me the intelligence to know NYC isnt the capital of the US, the courage to claim it anyway, and the wisdom to know im right even though im wrong

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 12/10/2026

its really funny to me how the statement "new york is the capital of america" follows an inverse bell curve distribution for how well the person making it understands the country

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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

D+15 Midterm indicator

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is definitely the name of an English "It Girl" actor who suddenly turns up in everything and when you look into it her father owns Shropshire.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 12/10/2026

I genuinely don't understand why this is being framed as though the law is specifically about cracking down on asexuals. It's an anti-LGBT crackdown and it's being discussed as such outside of Western contexts. It's weird to reframe the law in this clickbait-y way.

In criminalising private, consensual same-sex intimacy and using the coercive power of the state to repress other basic freedoms, Niger’s military regime has shown a blatant disregard for fundamental human rights law. Niger now joins 65 other countries that use these laws to expose a vulnerable group of their own citizens to fear, violence, and state-sanctioned hatred.
-- Téa Braun, Chief Executive of the Human Dignity Trust

This legal development, which is believed to have taken place in February 2026, was not picked up by news outlets until recently. A ‘large-scale crackdown’ against LGBT+ people has reportedly already started in Niger.

This brings the total number of countries that criminalise consensual same-sex acts to 66. Thirty-three of these are in Africa.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 12/10/2026

I don't want to be a cunt but the way this is being reporting is kind of... gross? Clicking the link leads to a report about homosexuality being criminalized for the first time in Niger's history. Asexuality is only mentioned insofar as the acronym "LGBTQIA+" is used a few times.

In June 2026, the nation of Niger became the first nation in the world to criminalise asexuality, as part of a wider crackdown on the LGBTQIA+ community. The country, currently run by a military junta, broadened its anti-LGBTQIA+ laws, increasing the criminalisation of LGBTQIA+ ‘practices’ to include anyone who ‘attempts to’ participate.

Niger criminalises same-sex intimacy for the first time in its history

Neighbouring francophone countries under military rule, Burkina Faso and Mali, also recently criminalised homosexuality

The West African nation of Niger has enacted a law criminalising consensual same-sex intimacy for the first time in its history.

The new Penal Code of Niger is understood to introduce a provision criminalising ‘indecent or unnatural acts’ and ‘sexual relations with a person of the same sex’, though the Code is not yet publicly available. It is also understood to contain other wide-ranging provisions such as criminalising ‘LGBTQIA+ practices’ and involvement in organisations ‘for homosexuals or LGBTQIA+’. Imprisonment terms are up to 20 years and are accompanied by heavy fines.

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Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Thread worth reading if only b/c of how much of it, by volume, is people saying “the way GLP-1 meds are marketed/talked about is undoing decades of what was already achingly incremental progress on fighting cultural fatphobia and thin people are being more fucked up about fatness than ever”

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Same guy also said he lied to a healthcare facility to try to get patient information, which is incredibly illegal. A complete and unequivocal disaster for MAGA media. Maybe the worst I’ve seen in the second Trump admin so far.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Rarely do we see a situation where a public figure could have grounds for a real defamation suit (the bar is very high in the US) but by god these idiots might have actually cleared it. One guy involved said in a Twitter space that he hated Talarico and didn’t attempt to verify anything first.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Over on X, right-wing influencers rolled out audio they said proved Talarico was recently discharged from a mental health facility in Ohio and the story fell apart within hours. Completely humiliating episode for MAGA media and untold levels of cope on the timelines there tonight

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“I’m surrounded by women I fucking hate. They’re vile, idiotic cows who I despise with every fiber of my being. And I have to say, it’s really depressing that they don’t want to date a nice guy like me.”

Screenshot of part of a Twitter post -I am surrounded by 20-35 year old women in my life that are dumb, incapable, useless, and fat. Everybody is fucking them. Not sure what the deal is, but I don't get it....

Selection from twitter post reading - 2. They get 100s of matches per week on dating apps, they literally don't see me as a human.

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Miss Grand USA 2026, Victoria Oluwakotanmi, slays in this gorgeous pink dress but ... wait for it ...

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

if you made my death announcement about how well a product performed & mentioned two brand names in it, i would invent an afterlife from beyond the grave just so i could keep one foot in it while i haunted you & your children for as many generations as it took me to get bored.

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 11/10/2026

wait youre telling me we can make the internet livable again by just giving ukraine more money to blow up more of these??

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

THIS IS THRILLING INFORMATION I was asked about my fave Shakespeare movies and this Midsummer with Lindsay Duncan as Titania, which I had on VHS from some video store clearance bin, was the source of a lifelong crush on Lindsay Duncan

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 11/10/2026

Finished Opus and it’s as good as Pope Leo says. @garethgore.bsky.social describes an organization that has parallels to Scientology and wields an extraordinary amount of money and political influence. I highly recommend @clairewillett.bsky.social read it because it rates getting a thread from her

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Meghann Ord @litnerd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

@clairewillett.bsky.social posting Private Benitez reciting the St. Crispin’s Day speech in the rain just woke me like a sleeper agent. I used to be OBSESSED with that movie.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

LILLO BRANCATO'S SAINT CRISPIN'S DAY SPEECH IN THE MUD AND RAIN WITH GREGORY HINES LOOKING ON AND FINALLY GETTING IT HIVE RISE UP

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

this is one of my favorite Shakespeare films ever not just because every frame is so breathtaking you would hang it on your wall as modern art, and not just because Denzel and Frances are all-timers, but because "wait is ROSS the big bad??" is an incredible question to be left asking yourself

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

Remember when he screamed "No puppet! YOU'RE the Puppet!" in that really panicked way that had a bunch of us like "…uhh… kinda seems a weird way to deny that"? Anyway, we all know Russia doesn't have that much diesel to sell, making this sanctions-avoiding money laundering on a global scale, right?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

genuinely like. they keep him so shielded from reality with anything that can be viewed through a screen that half-empty rallies are the one thing they can’t AI or fake news away. I hope he retains enough lucidity to feel that cavernous echo

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

this is very much the problem with all the dudebro showrunners who took all the wrong lessons from Game of Thrones

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I converted to Catholicism two weeks ago. Here’s why I think Jesus would’ve supported live streaming executions.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I am old enough to remember when we thought Megan was better than this she’s the one that very publicly left the cult and repudiated their teachings and talked a lot about coming to realize how unjust she had been to queer people, many of whom put in a lot of years to educate her this is gross

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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

this target list says the DCCC is convinced the majority is theirs and they're looking to utterly break the GOP's spirit

Ally Mutnick @allymutnick
X.com
NEWS: DCCC begs donors in memo for $17M
before 10/22 to avoid "leaving winnable seats on table" amid wave of GOP $
Top races on line: #FL27 #NVO2 #SC01 #NY21
#MNO1 #ARO2
Others needing funding, per DCCC ED Julie Merz:
#C003 #FLO7 #IN05 #0H10 #NC09 #VA05
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2:00 PM • 10/9/26 • 45K Views
L7 45 135 月 35

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 10/10/2026

What Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd was a public extrajudicial execution. Keep that in mind when you say we haven't had a public execution since 1936. We have, actually. Many times. They're called police murders.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it.

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