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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 8h
That’s not a conch shell.
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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 14h
It seems like the values involved in profiteering share few attributes with the values involved in the process of archiving.
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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’ve been on this train for a minute now but I truly think the only way to prevent another Trump from happening is to destroy the right wing information ecosystem. They have built a monster from the ground up through talk radio, Fox News, and now X and far-right influencers. It needs to burn
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
major democracies electing far-right populist governments
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First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans @firstuuneworleans.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Join us Sunday at 1pm to celebrate the life and legacy of longtime member Mary Jo Day #uuSky
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Nancy Hicks @nancyhicks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
RFK Jr was my top for impeachment, but it’s a close call. He’s damaging the health of the entire nation. Hegseth is weakening our military & damaging our national security. Vought is damaging our all gov’t structures. I know the won’t end up removed by the Senate, but let’s fight chaos with chaos.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.
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ʙᴇɴ ᴜʀʙᴀɴ @benurban.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A screenshot of a Bluesky post:

John Fugelsang
@johnfugelsang.bsk...

My dad was a public school teacher; and he always said the toughest parts of the job were:

1. Having to pay for your own classroom chalk, and 

2. Performing gender-
reassignment surgeries during class hours w/out parents finding out.

9:08 AM
Aug 26, 2026
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I haven’t in a while (knock on wood) but my hubs has roofing nail/flat tire PTSD and twitches riding over any surface that isn’t spit clean—which is about 90% of the NOLA roadway. The anxiety is real.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The New York Times has a choice of whether to cover Trumpism as A) an amusing and colorful example of the oddity of American politics, or B) an existential threat to the future of everyone you know and love. Over and over, they choose A. They trivialize themselves.
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What an amazing gift! Thanks for sharing.
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Chaplain John @chaplainjohn.medsky.social · 03/10/2026
I am beginning to think that the hardest work will not be voting the bums out(the rage will probably handle that) but making sure we have the conviction to truly reform. It is long past time for "boys will be boys" to be immolated and die a profound death.
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And nightmares about roofing nails.
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It isn’t hypocrisy to engage in mass murder while demanding the death penalty for others—it is asserting a hierarchy of whose freedom entails killing and whose lives matter.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just a reminder that the Secretary of Defense is a dangerous idiot
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Hilarie Ashton @hilarieashton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The state cannot be allowed to continue torturing people and claiming it's a just punishment. The death penalty must be abolished.
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you think you can’t be shocked anymore. This. And then you get to the secdef’s speech. I was only off the internet for three hours!
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wow, step away for a few hours and come back to find the potus and the secdef both making the most hateful, racist, everything phobic speeches ever.
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Massively important story. We’ll see how this goes, but Talarico isn’t within striking range because of some kind of heterodox move to the right. He’s making a strong, clear case for ideas that work better than plainly horrific Republican ones.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 13/04/2026
I swear I will vote for any person who runs on revenge and court reform. That’s it. Those are the two planks of your campaign? You got my vote
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans work very hard to keep us stupid and apathetic.
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And doesn’t care how stupid he makes my state look. Actually, he, and other republicans, work very hard to keep us stupid. Last in everything important.
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sisterofeve.bsky.social @sisterofeve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“He’s been a Democrat. He’s been a Republican. John Kennedy’s been everything but a Baptist preacher. John Kennedy’s been what’s best for John Kennedy.” -- Foster Campbell
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docdver.bsky.social @docdver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kennedy is an insufferable cunt
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And this is how he uses that class A education.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “We had proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump committed serious crimes”
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Part of the testimonial injustice in the situation is believing that the harm to accused men is worse than the rape and worse than the harm caused to advocates and survivors everywhere when men are let off easy
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More for the “we live in interesting times” file.
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Maybe in three years we’ll all get another class action suit award check for $11.57.
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We. Do. Not. Forget.
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
TBF, we hate him, too.
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First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans @firstuuneworleans.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Beloved FUUNO Friends & Family, Please join us October 4 in remembering Mary Jo Day, who gave so much time, energy, and, most of all, Love to our congregation. We’ll laugh, we’ll cry, we’ll fais do do—Sunday, October 4 at 1PM, 3900 St Charles Avenue. #uuSky #UnitarianUniversalist
Beloved FUUNO Friends & Family,
Please join us October 4 in remembering Mary Jo Day, who gave so much time, energy, and, most of all, Love to our congregation.
We’ll laugh, we’ll cry, we’ll fais do do—Sunday, October 4 at 1PM, 3900 St Charles Avenue.
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Exactly. Up is down, evil is good, etc.
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I do not watch #DWTA but it was kicking to open my machine and see old school live tweeting by an OG #NOLAtwitterer. <Waves excitedly>
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s the same money going ‘round & ‘round in circles—and we’re caught in the whirlpool! And the Trump base ain’t never going to get any of it like they think they will.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We are not living through "an authoritarian impulse," we are living through actual AUTHORITARIANISM.
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Louisiana here: is the “woke left” why David Duke? Hint: Hell, no.
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yeah, I’m pretty clear why.
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Priceless story!
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Makes sense. But it did make me think of your birds! Spiced up of course! 😁
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@effinbirds.com
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I need “Someday everyone will have been against this” on a bumper sticker, a t-shirt, a billboard, on spiced up for one of those Effing Birds posts.
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m so sorry. My great granddaughter is terrified of shots, which I’ve been kind about but thought was a childish defiance response. But maybe not. I hope you can find care without being terrified.
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
But of course. The FBI doing what it does.
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
And yet, here am I, 75 year old poet and great grandmother reading a 54 post thread with my morning coffee and trying to understand
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Coming to America, maybe
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My man looks like the inspiration for the FBI’s relaxed stance on bestiality
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “How to be antiracist in the authoritarian age: a conversation with Ibram X Kendi” - sign up now www.mobilize.us/surj/event/1...
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How to be antiracist in the authoritarian age: a conversation with Ibram X Kendi · Showing Up for Racial Justice
How are authoritarians able to win over so many white people? And convince them that they’re better off with fewer rights and economic instability? And what will it take to beat them at their own game...
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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.” Robert Penn Warren, who died on this day in 1989
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