Reposted by Merope1113Davis Bickford @davis.social · 24/07/2026people who can’t tell what a nazi is are suddenly homeric scholars demanding historical accuracy in a story where the wind lives in a bag. 3660127
Reposted by Merope1113The Verge @theverge.com · 27/06/2026Margaret Atwood says the problem with AI is ‘garbage in, garbage out’buff.lyMargaret Atwood says the problem with AI is ‘garbage in, garbage out’The Handmaid’s Tale author tried Claude exactly once, and wasn’t impressed. 1118736
Reposted by Merope1113Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 25/06/2026"...the Supreme Court have given constitutional protection to the openly racist and white supremacist policies of the Trump administration... the thousands of words Alito wrote could have been tossed out in favor of just 10: “Haitians have no rights white men are bound to respect.” 232
Reposted by Merope1113Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Just a fucking spectacular piece defector.com/diabolical-m...defector.comDiabolical Motherhood | DefectorOn June 25, 1976, three and a half years after Roe v. Wade made abortion legal in the U.S., The Omen hit theaters. Most viewers remember the high-drama deaths—by impalement, decapitation, hanging—or t... 37720
Reposted by Merope1113derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Meet Crumb, Button, and Clover. A friend in the Bay Area found them behind a gas station. Unfortunately, she isn't able to keep them, so if she can't find someone to adopt them, they will be going to a shelter. Can you help me find them a home? They are in good health and very tame. 7153351769
Reposted by Merope1113Karen J Watson 🇨🇦 @watsonkaren.bsky.social · 18/05/2026GIFT @nytimes.com - a coming home for both sides of the family www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...nytimes.comA Family Secret No More 082
Reposted by Merope1113David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 12/05/2026The U.S. Supreme Court is conducting a coup d'etat. It is at war with the very premise of an electoral democracy. Nothing about that institution or its work is legitimate. Nothing. 522447687
Reposted by Merope1113Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Trump advisers think the age of imperialism ended because of wokeness, not because 1) colonized peoples made colonialism untenable 2) technology made territorial empire unnecessary. They thought mere brutality and perceived genetic superiority would make wars against countries like Iran easy. 5449981101
Reposted by Merope1113Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Good local example of the moral imperative of making tariff refunds easy/automatic: abc11.com/post/triangl... 826167
Reposted by Merope1113Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP. 10052431659
Reposted by Merope1113Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/02/2026“The SAVE Act will require voters to show proof of citizenship in order to register to vote in federal elections…” “Only half of Americans hold a valid passport…Birth certificates are also problematic for many married women [whose] name may be different than the name on her birth certificate.” 7920031058
Reposted by Merope1113dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 01/02/2026i would like to know when we can have diana back 229866
Reposted by Merope1113unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 25/01/2026We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September. They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police. If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66 2227441513
Reposted by Merope1113Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son." 1962470612666
Reposted by Merope1113e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 24/01/2026every federal agent who ever put on a mask did so because on some level they knew this moment was coming they knew they were setting out to do things that would deserve profound shame at the least, and righteous retribution at the most 132001399
Reposted by Merope1113Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/01/2026Do you appreciate @nws.noaa.gov's posts on Bluesky? Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices? NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN... Press release: www.weather.gov/media/notifi... 251240651
Reposted by Merope1113ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 22/01/2026the president slowly physically decaying and manifesting what appears to be some kind of stigmata on his hand while becoming more insane and evil would be dismissed as a hacky writing device 492363385
Reposted by Merope1113Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 22/01/2026What possible combination of words can capture the depth of evil here? For faceless, fascist goons to abduct a five year old - to use them as bait to abduct their parent? It's been a long time since I believed in heaven, but the last two years have made me truly hope there is a hell. 38419
Reposted by Merope1113Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 16/01/2026Additionally, we'd like to hear from people of color who believe they have been targeted by immigration agents because of their race, language or location. Please fill out our form:theguardian.comUS citizens and permanent residents: have you been racially profiled by ICE?We’d like to hear from people of color who believe they have been targeted by immigration agents because of their race, language or location 23931
Reposted by Merope1113Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 06/01/2026ICE observers in the Twin Cities are in need of dash cams to prevent further intimidation and frivolous claims. Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it! 11215541143
Reposted by Merope1113Todd Gregory @toddgregory.bsky.social · 06/01/2026You should give this one a read. Gift link.nytimes.comEva Schloss, Anne Frank’s Stepsister and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 96 0185
Reposted by Merope1113Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/01/2026It's the only game that matters. My SKETCH of British politicians playing the Trump Game. 22795257
Reposted by Merope1113Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... 6233201243
Reposted by Merope1113JFB @mrgermy.bsky.social · 22/12/2025I'm still able to download it, but just in case I've re-uploaded it here drive.google.com/file/d/1GRcg... and here drive.proton.me/urls/X8C14W3... 1414470
Reposted by Merope1113Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 08/11/2025I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!lithub.comMaybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran MamdaniIt’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen… 7439181175
Reposted by Merope1113Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 07/11/2025See I wish the ~edible gardening~ folks would grapple with this. at least a little bit. Productive food plants aren't gonna look like A Flower Garden, for the same reason most moms don't look like supermodels. WE GOT OTHER STUFF GOIN ON OK? 519230
Reposted by Merope1113Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 06/11/2025“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”chalkbeat.orgFamilies "horrified" after daycare teacher pulled out of school by federal agents.The incident happened in front of parents and children at Rayito de Sol in North Center, a parent said. They believe the employee, who cares for infants, is legally allowed to work in the United State... 5530431335
Reposted by Merope1113Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/11/2025"Witnesses and school employees said they thought the school was under attack and scrambled into rooms and vehicles outside in search of safety." One mother who walked in right after described "a room of crying kids, crying parents and crying teachers" www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...washingtonpost.comArmed ICE officers chase teacher into preschool in ChicagoThe arrest appears to be one of the first in which immigration officers entered school grounds as part of an enforcement operation during Trump’s second administration. 711461
Reposted by Merope1113Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025The obsessive wokeness panic is about elite labor market competition and prestige. People use a lot of fancy words to obscure this, and offer some substantive criticisms as well, but that’s ultimately its driving force. 281725263
Reposted by Merope1113Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 22/10/2025With Republicans it's always the same strategy: Families lose, billionaires win. youtube.com/shorts/co788...youtube.comWith Republicans it's always the same strategy: Families lose, billionaires win.YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley 5374139
Reposted by Merope1113Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Merkley has held the floor for about 21 hours now and nobody is talking about it 0175
Reposted by Merope1113jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/10/2025also, what an image. the president demolishing a portion of a humble people’s house to make room for his royalist monstrosity 533542477
Reposted by Merope1113pnwg69.bsky.social @pnwg69.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Please, if this is not the type of country you want to live in, do something about it! The next nationwide protest is a month from today, Oct 18th. The closer we get to the 18th the more local protest will be organized. Please spread the word. Plz share and repost. www.nokings.orgnokings.orgNo KingsAs the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ... 12111
Reposted by Merope1113Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10/09/2025I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves. I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct. I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-... 2825251215
Reposted by Merope1113Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2025We do actually need to pay attention to the distraction when death and punishment is the way they’re distracting. 2466108
Reposted by Merope1113WIRED @wired.com · 03/07/2025Nearly 12 million people could lose health care coverage if the bill gets passed and signed by Trump, while hospitals would be hit hard by Medicaid cuts. www.wired.com/story/trumps...wired.comTrump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Leave Millions Without Health InsuranceNearly 12 million people could lose health care coverage if the bill gets passed and signed by Trump, while hospitals would be hit hard by Medicaid cuts. 29532219
Reposted by Merope1113Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 28/06/2025See the Artworks That Explore the Forgotten History of Harriet Tubman’s Civil War Triumphssmithsonianmag.comSee the Artworks That Explore the Forgotten History of Harriet Tubman's Civil War TriumphsTubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved laborers, is now the subject of an exhibition in Charleston 1238
Reposted by Merope1113Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country 13465482056
Reposted by Merope1113Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Justice Sotomayor ends her dissent by saying the Supreme Court has permitted "thousands [to] suffer violence in farflung locales," an action which "rewards lawlessness" by the Trump administration. She says the Court has undermined the basic concept of Due Process under the law. 141790459
Reposted by Merope1113U.S. Institute of Peace @usip.org · 13/06/2025👋 Hello, we're the United States Institute of Peace (USIP)! We are very happy to join @bsky.app, and thrilled to announce that our website, www.usip.org, is back online! We look forward connecting here and bringing you useful content, resources and opportunities for peacebuilders around the world. 421227287
Reposted by Merope1113Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Somewhere along the line we lost all utility of antonyms and synonyms. Remember those sat sections on analogies and comparisons? We need to bring that skill back. 52279
Reposted by Merope1113darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 10/06/2025i understand the framing, which is about RFK jr lying to a senator to get senate approval but RFK jr also lied to the american public just completely unacceptable for a public official and senator bill cassidy is not the only one who should take action for being lied to 782418556
Reposted by Merope1113Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 10/06/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o... 31808205
