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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The clouds are usually worth the price, but yesterday I got C12 (no view). TY for the sky high chat on James, Huck Finn, dystopian forecasts, and non-violent resistance. @thomasflores.bsky.social (PS Happy bday to E12)

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

From @steveinskeep.bsky.social : If I understand this correctly, the US president has launched a trade war against the world, believes he can force the EU and China to meet his terms, is determined to annex Canada and Greenland, but is powerless before the sovereign might of El Salvador. Is that it?

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fran #DemForce @newpage-fd.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

At least 12 crosswalks in various Silicon Valley cities were hacked this weekend so that when you press the the crosswalk button you hear a message claiming to be from Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg. 🫢😁😁😁 www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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Hilarious resistance: Silicon Valley crosswalks hacked to imitate and mock Musk and Zuckerberg

Resistance to Trump and his oligarchs comes in many forms. Here’s a new one I just read about and it’s both powerful and hilarious. At least 12 crosswalks in various Silicon Valley cities were hacked ...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 01/04/2025

Others have pointed this out already but the Booker's "stunt" is him literally Doing the Job - impassioned speechmaking is supposedly the main reason for Senators to exist and the only reason any of them from before the United States was established are remembered by name

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Senator Cory Booker concludes his record-breaking Senate Floor speech after 25 hours Massive applause for Booker

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

It's not that what's happening in the US now is "like" the Holocaust: they're actually doing the exact same thing. Calling it deportation, doing it some place where the laws are more malleable, that's how the Nazis did it too. The same rhetorical and legal sleight of hands were used.

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Daily routine now: Gratitude list. Coffee. Yoga. News. Inspiration to fight. Fantasies of flight (Spain? Canada?) Freeze. Gratitude list. Bed.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Thank you for this @chenoweth.bsky.social Everyone should follow their important research on resistance

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I have said this from the start: the pace and scope of change in America resembles a post-coup situation.

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Michael R Harvey @epublicus.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Authoritarianism scholar Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins WIRED to answer the Internet's questions about dictators & Fascism. This is excellent and well worth the time to watch. Prof. Ben-Ghiat has the unique gift of concise specificity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6f...

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History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Here’s an idea: Rogue government has installed itself in the US capital. 100,000 federal workers from the former US are unemployed. Sounds like there are 100,000 highly skilled experts looking for a new job could be a good foundation for a new nation…

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Seems Vance is getting off scott free. For now on: Trump-Musk/Vance. Credit where credit’s due.

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

To digest it all, I literally hand-wrote in my journal the entire timeline outlined in this Canadian Mugsy Margarit’s recount of WTF has been happening with Canada/US. I stand with Canada. 🇨🇦 It’s chaos down here, and this cuts through. All below is from the link in the first🧵

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Vaccines for chickens. Oh to be a chicken. 🐓🐓🐓

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Friends keep emailing me with news about the coming of an #asteroid... Glad to have a song for the moment. 😂 ICYMI, the music video: youtu.be/BEAwGnTaisc?...

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Asteroids And Chaos | Arielle Silver | LYRIC VIDEO

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Morning rituals. 2024: meditation, coffee, journal 2025: meditation, coffee, journal, calls to Senators and Reps #yoga

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Ann Ramsey aka annxramsey @annramseymusic.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Federal workers new web site explains what real efficiency is. www.wethebuilders.org

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We are the builders

We find the truth and tell the truth

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

This, too, is our work: to not turn insensitive to sweetness and love. TY for the reminder @nytimes.com #poetry #books

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Slogan should be MTUI: “making the unimaginable imaginable.” Two for today: 1. Even in #OC - a public library? 2. Me posting anything about a %footballer. Really, though. Unbelievable, Huntington Beach Central #Library www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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Chris Kluwe Is Arrested After Protesting MAGA Plaque in Huntington Beach

Chris Kluwe, a former punter for the Vikings, was arrested after speaking at a City Council meeting in Huntington Beach, Calif.

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

At the height of a historic moment of sweeping and unchecked austerity measures, the loudest and wealthiest people in the room have built a movement that culminated in this: an executive order that establishes a precedent to strip funding away from #womeninsport. www.theguardian.com/sport/commen...

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Trump singled me out for ruining women’s sport. This is my response to him | Austin Killips

The president talks about trans athletes ‘invading’ women’s sports, while doing nothing at all to elevate, fund or support women athletes

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Needed a break from #coup talk with a few minutes to journal on this question: If were the last day on Earth, what would you be grateful for? Feeling better. Also: Anyone know the artist of this graphic? #thursdaythoughts #yogaeverydamnday #maryoliver

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

World, you might want to think about the fact that the #US is gutting every #taxpayer-funded program except the #military.

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

@nytimes.com seriously, while this US #coup is happening, wtf is going on in your newsroom? Every. Single. Day: “bury the lede.”

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

‘This is a coup’: @theguardian.com is publishing #coup as headline news what others only write in OpEds. (Ehem looking at @nyt.bsky.social app - “front page” and top of fold gone in favor of oped and analysis?? #burythelede #trumpmusk www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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‘This is a coup’: Trump and Musk’s purge is cutting more than costs, say experts

In slashing staff and disabling entire agencies the administration is lacerating the structures of US democracy

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🦋❄️🍁Baron🍁❄️🦋 @baron333.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

If you agree with @cherijacobus.bsky.social Raise your hand ✋️

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Author byline has never shouted so loud. @theatlantic.com can someone clarify why @grimes.bsky.social - former spouse and 3x parent with Musk - is a coauthor (aka “author”ity) of this LA housing article? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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A Proven Way to Ease L.A.’s Housing Crisis

States around the country are showing Southern California how to rebuild.

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Like #birdflu, the thing about fact is that it stays even when data disappear. Thanks for holding on to both @archive.org

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

After years of flirting with Substack, this week I fell in love. It reminds me of someone I knew who wanted to quit Diet Coke. His personal trainer told him to not worry about the soda quitting, but advised him to drink a gallon of water a day. 🧵

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Musk via livestream: “If it’s not possible now, it will never be possible. This is our shot, This is the best hand of cards we’re ever going to have. If we don’t take advantage of this best hand of cards, it’s never going to happen.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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February 3, 2025

I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Been trying to up my #adulting game and with all the #musk shenanigans figured today was a good day to freeze my credit reports at @transunion.bsky.social experian and equifax

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

One of those days when you set up identity theft protections for yourself in case of theft from the government… www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Came home from S. Florida #folkfestival with a prize for my song about values clarification, and spent the rest of the night watching the #grammys and catching up on the slow-mo steal of the US…

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 30/01/2025

Well said, Pete Buttigieg

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Trump and his advisors are high on their own supply after getting away with so much in their first week. But they are going to regret this one. It’ll devastate red states that rely on this money for basic programs that keep people fed, clothed, alive. A huge unforced error politically and legally.

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Hi, friendly reminder: You can open stories and read them instead of merely responding to a headline? Reading stories is proven to be a way more useful endeavor, and, fun fact, it helps journalists keep their jobs. If you like that sort of thing.

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Emily Zuzik @emilyzuzik.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Next live show and last of 2024 Friday Dec 6 Songbirds of Ramona Ranch W Ashley Norton and @ariellesilver.bsky.social Tix at addmi.com/e/songbirds-...

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

I think I like this Bluesky world.

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Arielle Silver @ariellesilver.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Blue Xmas soundtrack for your listening pleasure on this fine Saturday — open.spotify.com/playlist/5uB... #music #spotify #holiday

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BLUE XMAS

BLUE XMAS · Playlist · 37 songs · 6 likes

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