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I don't have many thoughts about Kylo Ren specifically, but every time there's discourse around why anyone would want to to REDEEM the VILLAIN when they don't DESERVE that it seems to miss the point of redemption stories in the first place. Calm down there Inspector Javert.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 5h

I imagine he thinks it will go just like demolishing the White House: they'll show up and start taking what they want, and dare Denmark to stop them.

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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 6h

I just…I just don’t think we’ve got enduring 2+ more years of this in us. I just don’t

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 8h

The tragedy of Biden's presidency is not its lack of success, but how little its success was recognized. The claim Democrats don't have a policy program is false. Finishing the projects Biden began, working with Bernie Sanders and others, should be central to the project of the next president.

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Joe Biden's underrated presidency

He's achieved a lot — with the notable exception of popularity.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 9h

for the love of god, @peggyflanagan.bsky.social, PLEASE start cutting some negative ads

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 11h

I mean, yes, but it proves impermanence. Loki says Not Today.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 11h

Loki is not going to suck me back into the MCU. Loki is not going to suck me back into the MCU. Loki is NOT GOING TO

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Now that is quite a photo. (Credit: Doug Mills / New York Times)

From Doug Mills on X: White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia and Special Assistant to the president Natalie Harp join President Donald Trump in Marine One he arrived in Wasilla, Alaska yesterday.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 11h

don't forget the 90 million who didn't vote at all. never forget that they're at fault too.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 12h

There is enormous value for young people to watch those news coverage archives in real time. It should be required in political science classes and history classes to have any chance of understanding the 21st century. Whatever the fuck this is, it ain't it.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 13h

It's just kind of bizarre. You've already blown all benefit of the doubt and good will. People are going to be fleeing the district regardless now because they don't trust that this won't happen next year or the year after. So why not just rip the bandaid and get it over with?

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 13h

I honestly have no idea how they thought it would turn out any differently than it has. If they were going to go with "we're going to barrel through regardless of whether people understand or not, so why waste time on effective communication" then drawing back now is the worst of all worlds.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 13h

In a weird way, closing schools is like withdrawing from Afghanistan. Everyone knows there's no workable alternative on the horizon, but they also know the blowback will tank the careers of everyone who implements it, so folks kick the can and hopes the next group will handle it.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 14h

It's a laudable goal, but my sense was that instead of doing better communication, MPS decided "we know the pushback is going to be awful no matter what so let's just drive this through as fast as we can and minimize the number of events where people threaten to shoot us". That made it worse.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 14h

The communication sucked, but if I understand correctly, the issue is that they can't fund specialists at low-enrollment locations. Emptier schools have to do without art teachers, music teachers, health counselors, etc. If they consolidate, all students get on-site access to the those resources.

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Queen Joan of the Kikamathu Fae @theroguesenna.bsky.social · 15h

Nor do gay men automatically sidestep misogyny. In fact some gay men are much more misogynistic bc they disdain women altogether.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 14h

Saint Paul faced similar pushback in 2022, but they ripped the bandaid off and got it over with. SPPS has many problems but it's overall a much healthier school system that MPS.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 14h

Part of the trouble (as anyone in education knows) is that closing schools is sometimes necessary and ALWAYS unpopular. Like, death threats unpopular. Eventually it's going to have to happen (hopefully in a more organized way than this) and punting because of public outcry isn't a solution.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 15h

Obviously X is poisoning society, but the real Elon Musk existential threat comes from the fact that Starlink holds most of the world's weapons systems hostage.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 17h

Evelyn Normielib on 2 for 1 night

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Trust me: whatever you’re doing right now is less important than watching this candidate interview. No spoilers, just trust:

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

after so many years of Civility™️ and Reaching Across the Aisle™️ and Bipartisanship™️, we are so hungry for anyone to just flat-out say “are you a whole-ass criminal y/n, trick question it’s yes and we have proof” right to their faces it hits like ice-cold peppermint schnapps

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If Texas breaks $4 then Talarico's a shoo-in.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

funny how you commit a few thousand kidnappings and all of the sudden people stop giving you the benefit of the doubt

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"It was terrible." Yeah it fucking was, shithead.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

maybe don't try and sack our city next time

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“Overcome with emotions reliving hostile environment he says he experienced” Go -- and I say this with all due respect -- fuck yourself.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026

Tafoya, who's now campaigning as a "pro-choice R," on a pod earlier this year: "I'm all about confirming conservative, strict constructionist judges. And I am all about voting against taxpayer-funded abortion. So my stance is not the stance of the MN laws as they exist, which I believe are barbaric"

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's easy to forget that the GOP establishment didn't at first. They thought he was a joke for most of 2015, and once he wasn't a joke they really tried to defeat him. But Trump said outright all the stuff they'd just been dog-whistling, and the base loved him for it, so eventually they went all-in.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A functioning democracy is incredibly boring (laudatory)

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

how on earth can they possibly enforce this

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

At some point we also have to deal with the fact that one of the two parties is openly hostile to democracy. If you have to win big every election or else the country falls into despotism we're all just playing Russian roulette every few years

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Can you imagine having a contagious headcold, wrapping yourself in an afghan with a mug of tea, and watching Marlena's demonic possession for a week?

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If streaming services made old episodes of soap operas available, the entire game would change. There's almost no limit to the amount I'd pay for access to mid-90s Days of our Lives.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

there's not enough popcorn in the world

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

you want to be a writer and yet you hate people loitering around in cafes doing nothing? that's like most of the job

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I really hate this "things were always bad so it's pointless to say they're getting worse" take. It always depends on treating two things that are different as if they're the same, and presents the options as total revolution or nothing, the end result is always nothing.

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Oh god, fuck off

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I spoke a bit about Matthew Shepard over the weekend in person to some folks, but I didn't want to let the anniversary of his death — October 12, 1998 — pass by without giving a moment to him and his memory here.

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Jesse Farrell @jfsculpts.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Has Silwa been doing a decades-long, Andy Kaufmanesque work this whole time?

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I know there’s so much about Trump that just goes uncovered but my god it’s crazy his open lust for his own daughter just gets… nothing

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Mike Beckstrand @beckstrand.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

In continuing #FuckICE news, SPPS just announced an enrollment shortfall of *hundreds* of students, many of which are ELL. The social and economic fallout of Operation Metro Surge continues to hit St. Paul and the Twin Cities at a time where these costs are hardest to bear, to boot.

Each October 1st, SPPS compares the number of students attending our schools with the enrollment estimates used to develop our annual budget. This year, our preliminary enrollment count shows that we have several hundred fewer students than we anticipated and fewer students attending SPPS than last year.

We know there are many factors affecting families and communities across Saint Paul right now. Operation Metro Surge, changes in immigration, and fewer new families settling in our community are among the circumstances reflected in our enrollment. Many of the students who are no longer enrolled with us are English language learners.

Behind every enrollment number is a student, a family, a teacher and a school community. We deeply miss the students and families who are no longer in our classrooms. Their absence is felt in our schools and throughout our community.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Huh. Apparently Katie Miller deleted this tweet that I had the foresight to screencap. Turns out I can TOO make things go viral on Xitter, even.

My RT of a Katie Miller tweet which RTed the NYPost coverage of the Ilhan Omar raid.

She said: Promise made, promise kept.
I said: Katie Miller is not going to do very well in a deposition.

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