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A Ferrard

@andreaferrard.bsky.social
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Atlanta native, Vanderbilt & Boston U Bxl grad, Swiftie over 50, fan of Broadway, Atlanta Utd, and democracy. Image my own.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches" Remember when presidents had dignity? Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio:
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Jersey @jerseyhighway9.bsky.social · 8h
"Power to the People" - Tom Morello and Bruce Springsteen in concert now on MS Now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSU1...
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MS NOW LIVE EXCUSIVE : "POWER TO THE PEOPLE" with Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Tom Morello and more!
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 9h
I effing despise RFK Jr. I had a cancer caused by HPV that had a massive impact on my life. I would have loved to have a vaccine that could have prevented all of that and whatnot. Yet that fool has claimed that HPV vaccines themselves cause cancer and he’s making bank on that lie and others.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11h
I don’t remember anyone giving Jerome Powell a check for $100 million. Who gave it to Kevin Warsh, days before he was confirmed and why?
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 10h
I am challenging Mike Collins to join me in demanding an end to this war.
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The Liberty Pear @thelibertypear.com · 14h
Even Republicans have started to realize Talarico is the only logical choice in Texas. Vote Talarico.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12h
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Susan Behrens @susanbehrens.bsky.social · 10h
Great set tonight Flav! Public Enemy just finished their set. Dave Matthews is on now. *Check it out live on YouTube now* www.youtube.com/live/MLnTqKk...
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LIVE EXCLUSIVE: "POWER TO THE PEOPLE" with Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, and more!
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 12h
Newest Super Group,,, FLAVOR DAVES,!! #DaveMatthews #DaveGrohl #FooFighters
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 11h
Okay, George Lucas remains a schmuck but his wife is pure class. She made him make the museum souvenirs and food cheap so that schoolchildren without much money can still have a good day, because she says she remembers how bad it felt to go on expensive field trips. It DOES.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 14h
This guy is really good, not just for Maine news but for how to put together a news story so you understand the context.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h
Tim Snyder is correct: If Democrats want to regain working people, they must disavow Big Money and tackle our corrupt system. There’s no way the party can speak for or represent the working class in America if it's beholden to corporate interests.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h
The wealth of the richest 0.1 percent of Americans has more than doubled since 2019. If that doesn't convince you we need a wealth tax, renowned economist Gabriel Zucman will. Watch.
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How to Actually Tax Extreme Wealth (ft. Gabriel Zucman)
Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done.Baloney.Economist
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 23h
There is a line between "pushing the law rightward" and "acting as an enemy to the U.S. Constitution", and I think Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have crossed the line quite a while ago (seeking to nullify Reconstruction-era birthright citizenship constitutional amendments is just one example)
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 15h
Mad at RBG again www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement
The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.
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Roy Cooper @roycoopernc.bsky.social · 15h
Great morning in Cabarrus County with Justice @anitaearls.bsky.social It’ll take all of us to get across the finish line so let's show up for her and each other at the polls. Make sure you’re registered to vote by Friday, October 9th. Check your status at iwillvote.com.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 20h
Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.
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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 15h
Unruly reporting live from Minneapolis ahead of labor action and random Black love moment www.patreon.com/posts/171337...
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Unruly reporting live from Minneapolis ahead of labor action against ICE repression (and impromptu black love moment) | Unruly Subjects
Unruly reporting live from Minneapolis ahead of labor action against ICE repression (and impromptu black love moment) by Unruly Subjects on Patreon. Join Unruly Subjects 's community for exclusive c...
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Steve the Dog🐾 @stevethedogcivics.bsky.social · 17h
In this episode of @250to250.bsky.social , Victoria A. Smalls tells how Robert Smalls escaped slavery by commandeering a Confederate ship and rose to become a Union captain and U.S. congressman. 📽️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social 📺 youtu.be/duKTxhgUq6s 🐾 Steve #250to250 #WeAreAmerica250
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16h
ONE MONTH FROM TODAY:
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 16h
As Donald Trump and Kash Patel attempt to rewrite history, we know that Trump will be remembered as the worst President ever to serve. Our investigations are just getting started, and we will slow this Administration's attacks on our democracy come November.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
October 2, 2026
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October 2, 2026
Trump held a campaign rally tonight in Mobile, Alabama, the city where, as Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times recalled, his MAGA rallies really took off in August 2015, when more than 30,000 people ...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h
Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While the criminal justice system should address reports of rape, we know that rates of conviction are appallingly low for a number of reasons. Although, thanks to feminist interventions, the legal system is better equipped to understand this crime and less prejudiced against victims, we will not change the world through that means.

After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men?
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Sexual assault arises in part through both the entitlement and the desire to abuse and dehumanize women, which is in part about definitions of both masculinity and femininity: masculinity in that domination, violation and degradation are seen as status-enhancing, femininity in the perception that women’s bodies are for men to use, women’s voices and rights to be ignored.

The most compelling thing I’ve read in response to the Cornell case is in an essay by feminist writer Soraya Chemaly. She cites anthropologist Peggy Sanday, who told her that there are “rape-prone” and “rape-free” societies: “She found that in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety and freedom.”

They’re societies in which women’s rights to bodily and social self-determination are respected, and a man who violates those rights would face severe consequences. “Rape-prone cultures, on the other hand, treat rape as an entitlement in a system that revolves around masculine contests and hierarchies.”

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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 18h
the nyt excerpt is very stupid but it also smuggles in the unjustified premise that we need "more forgiveness" and I actually don't think that's true. I don't think the people who have been vandalizing our society for the last decade deserve to be forgiven
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 17h
THIS is why an independent prosecutor is essential in the Cornell case. How could the Tompkins County DA's Office refuse to consider additional evidence before deciding not to pursue criminal charges?? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence
Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 18h
"After measles swept through her household, the young woman wanted to get vaccinated. Her doctor said she couldn't because she had leukemia and the treatments had weakened her immune system" @bachynski.bsky.social
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A 20-year-old Amish woman with leukemia got measles and died in Pa.’s largest outbreak in three decades
After measles swept through her household, the young woman wanted to get vaccinated. Her doctor said she couldn't because she had leukemia and the treatments had weakened her immune system.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16h
Unsurprisingly the Russians are paying off the Americans to take their side in the Russia’s criminal war of aggression. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h
Trump has: -Cut protections for national monuments to open them up for mining -Pushed to open up our national forests for construction and logging -Proposed building data centers on thousands of acres of federal lands Nothing is sacred to this regime. It acts solely on behalf of the oligarchy.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 16h
NEW updates in the case of the young LSU student who was “forcibly raped” by a football player: the police and local DA are *now* investigating what happened. I have the latest details, including LSU’s history of multiple failures in handling sexual assaults on its campus: youtu.be/cy6ExQ5XLjI?...
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LSU Football Player UNDER INVESTIGATION After DISTURBING ASSAULT ALLEGATIONS!!
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22h
So grateful to @jcollins.bsky.social for this interview. It was an especially raw conversation, coming just a day after I learned that Maurice had died. "They are working and working and working some more, and it still isn't enough... There are so many languishing in a manufactured invisibility."
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‘There is No Place for Us’ tests America's promise that hard work brings security
The Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction narrative “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” follows five families around Atlanta as they seek to keep a roof over their heads and their ...
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 22h
VOTE BLUE in massive numbers.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A federal judge just spent 56 pages taking apart Trump's favorite scheme—then reported his own lawyers to the bar. Her name is Kathleen Williams. Remember it. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-had-...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21h
POPE LEO <turns chair around, sits, placing his arms on the back>: You want to hear about an Influencer, one with a direct connection to a superior intelligence?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21h
Diplomacy for private profit: More corruption in plain view. The Kushner/Witkoff talks with Russia nominally about ending the war in Ukraine are actually about a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives linked to Kushner and Witkoff. The deal, which is
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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The Weekend on MS NOW @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social · 21h
“That Katie Britt moment is like a metaphor for the whole Republican party” The Weekend hosts weigh in after Sen. Eric Schmitt’s attempt at a ‘gotcha’ moment toward former special counsel Jack Smith backfired spectacularly during a Senate Judiciary hearing this week.
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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 23h
Okay, I believe now:
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h
CNN: “Trump's net approval rating among voters under 30 has dropped from -7 points in October 2024 to -47… young voters' trust in Trump on the economy has shifted 73 points (!!) to -62 net approval…”
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 21h
This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
3. Members of Bryan’s band also wore shirts supporting the Palestinian cause, including his drummer, who wore a jersey honoring the memory of Hind Rajab. Zach Bryan has a second show at Gillette Stadium tomorrow, Saturday night.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
2. He is one of the biggest live draws in music, filling stadiums across the United States and in major cities around the world. Bryan served eight years on active duty in the US Navy and served overseas in Bahrain and Djibouti.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
1. Tonight at Gillette Stadium, Zach Bryan, one of the biggest country music artists in the world, wore a Free Palestine shirt onstage. Gillette Stadium is owned by Robert Kraft, who pushed Ed Sheeran and his promoter to drop Macklemore from his tour. Bryan isn’t just a major country artist.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h
ICYMI — country music star Zach Bryan and his band wore “Free Palestine” shirts at Robert Kraft’s stadium (From @yasharali.bsky.social )
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tucker: “I never understood why 🇬🇧 fought World War 2?” 😕 Rees-Mogg: “It was good vs. evil…We did the right thing…” Tucker: “Has 🇬🇧 benefitted?” RM: “We defeated Hitler… We’d all be speaking German…” Tucker: “Who cares?” 🤔
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h
Endless corruption.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump is planning to host a third gala for the top investors of his $TRUMP crypto coin. He and his family have raked in $2.2 billion from their crypto ventures, while their investors have lost almost the same amount. They’ll fleece anyone they can — even their own supporters.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And by a current Cornell student: "This putrid treatment of women did not originate in this house. It is a culture created over years of “tradition,” and it is what fraternities are built to produce, no matter what we say about the usual exceptions to the rule."
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Cornell, abolish your fraternities
The case surrounding the ‘Cornell 7′ is as lurid as it gets; whether or not these men face prosecution, it will not change the structural issue with Greek life
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Look how casually Vice President JD Vance mentions the possibility of political violence (“kind of insane that we didn’t have a revolution”) when discussing white men’s grievances. White identity politics (white nationalism) is central to his worldview.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Autopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the back
The report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest.
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