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Daughter of the Raven

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A bundle of anachronistic non-sequiturs. She/her. I am an enigma even to myself. Happily under-babied.

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 01/10/2026
End the death penalty. End it now. There is no reason for it, never.
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The death penalty continues to be a ghastly abomination.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An ambitious narcissist megalomaniacal right-wing Christian nationalist fanatic with a drinking problem and a history of erratic and reckless behavior who hates rules of engagement in charge of the most powerful military in the history of the world. What could go wrong? bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Y'all: Morocco now has a female Prime Minister. Let that sink in. What are we doing here, U.S.???
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I don't think it's a stretch to say this kind of crap is directly related to college fratboy kind of crap.
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The entire Big House is stunned and so am I. 😳 Nice game, Iowa.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 26/09/2026
The Bulwark community has raised more than $200,000 for the Haitian Support Center in Springfield, Ohio, which is helping families with food, transportation, legal assistance, and other basic needs. If you’re able, please consider donating.
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The Bulwark Community Stands With Springfield
Over the past year, we’ve been telling you about what is happening to Springfield’s Haitian community, and about the extraordinary people there who have stepped up to help their friends and neighbors through an incredibly difficult time. Now we’re asking the Bulwark community to step up with them. We’re raising money for the Haitian Support Center, which is on the ground in Springfield helping families with food, transportation, legal assistance, and other basic needs.
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yikes.
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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East German town bans future Holocaust memorial plaques
An East German town has approved a motion by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and ruling centre-right ​Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to reject future installation of brass plaques ‌comme...
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I mean Gentleman Jack isn't here so the list is illegitimate, but not bad for amateurs.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/09/2026
🚨 TEXAS PEEPS, CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION. A DPS screwup left voter registration applications sitting unprocessed for months. The deadline to register is October 5. Don’t find out at the ballot box that you’re not registered. CHECK IT NOW. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
On this day in 1863, Mary Church Terrell was born. She became a lifelong advocate for racial and sex equality. In the 1910s, she picketed the White House for woman suffrage. In 1953, at age 89, she won a Supreme Court judgment that racially segregating restaurants in DC was illegal. #WeTheMen
Mary Church Terrell
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The potash acquisition analysis here was surprisingly enlightening.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 24/09/2026
This, for people who don't follow US soccer, is the coach of the Seattle Sounders donating to the GoFundMe of the fields director at Starfire Sports (where the Sounders used to train), who was just abducted by ICE.
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Never mind the stupidity of her framing. Trump is desperate when he's putting Melania out there to claim she's allegedly trying to get Ukrainian children back to their parents - let's not forget, 4+ years since they were kidnapped.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24/09/2026
@brendanhartnett.bsky.social endured six straight hours of Trump TV to answer one important question: How bad is the White House’s new 24/7 channel? “It sucked.” Read his minute-by-minute journey through what may be the most boring propaganda ever produced. lnk.thebulwark.com/3TouD6V?utm_...
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These are amazing.
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Slush Puppie Fund Bureau Chief @326bureauchief.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Watching this with the sound *off* is horrifying, for what it is worth to ya.
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
😂😂😂 This isn't really funny. It's stupid and ridiculous. But I couldn't help it. I laughed at the White House incompetence. The White House banned Politico, citing anonymous sources. It provided the quotes. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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The White House banned Politico, citing anonymous sources. It provided the quotes.
In a letter defending its ban of Politico, the White House critiqued a report based on a press call it conducted, where reporters were told not to name the speaker.
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MizLeslie @mizleslie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Important piece.
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Politics is not policy. I mean, obviously, but sometimes I wonder if people realize that.
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump telling the UN he will annihilate Iran if demands aren't met reminds me of a cartoon villain beaming in to threaten a meeting of superheroes.
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Austin Powers Dr Evil's Iconic Pinky Pose
Alt: Austin Powers Dr Evil's Iconic Pinky Pose
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just gonna leave this here. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
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Welcome to the Wile E. Coyote Moment
For the next six weeks everyone in American politics will be acting as though the bottom has not fallen out of the GOP.
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Whether or not I support Mamdani, I do think Dems should take this to heart. I'm also thinking of @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social mentioning over and over that her focus groups indicate Ossoff gets a lot of support for "constituent services."
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A Yom Kippur story: Sunday night I wound up sitting next to a man and his son I did not know, and who didn't seem as familiar with the service as I was. It was a good service, and a good sermon featuring a metaphor of the body and souls of Judaism. That's for another time. 1/2
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
2025 Ravens are back. Please heal quickly, Zay.
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A good Yom Kippur is a blessing you can't understand until you've experienced it. Not all of them succeed - my earthly responsibilities may be too heavy, or I may have a difficult fast - but a good Yom Kippur beats every other holiday, hands down.
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The most Stalinist thing he's done or proposed yet.
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I don't care if no one outside the Beltway gave a damn about the Kennedy Center, although I sincerely doubt that's true. The arts community is a creative and vocal one, and the entire DC community is fully fed up with Trump. Together, I think this team has the juice to do a lot of protesting.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's pretty wild that there is an acute diesel shortage in the United States and its not even front page news. Although, I assume it will be in the coming days as the crisis deepens and we start having problems with our shipping and logistics in this country.
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I had to read this to make sure that's what the lawyer said, but yep. It's not a quote, but it's one hundred percent a distillation of what he said.
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Come on DC. Let's make this happen.
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Magenta @magentab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
guys, it may not be as bad as it seems maybe he just really hates bari weiss like the rest of us
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The force is weakening with this president. Will he lash out one terrible last time, or will he fade away and be a giant fallen in the sand like Ozymandias himself? Perhaps both.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m on a quiz show that only tapes 46 days a year and even I think this schedule is a little light.
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Lord Khan of Tooting is the absolute most AhMAZing title anyone has ever been given and I am now duly envious of the Mayor of London
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/09/2026
Wright Thompson tells Tim Miller why memories of his father make him defensive, and what that teaches about politics: "It is easier to change your opinion about facts than to give away a feeling that has been stripped from the facts. And so people will defend those feelings to the death."
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Do you have these moments when you realize that "history" wasn't that long ago? The great Nadia Boulanger lived until I was eight years old. When did her father and mother live? It's crazy to think about. From Wikipedia:
Juliette Nadia Boulanger was born in Paris on 16 September 1887, to French composer and pianist Ernest Boulanger (1815–1900) and his wife Raissa Myshetskaya (1856–1935), a Russian princess, who descended from St. Mikhail Tchernigovsky.
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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So...the goal is to convince the median voter that you understand you need to "fix" affordability so that you can be elected to make a more lasting mark, maybe with SCOTUS reforms, ethics laws, health care for all, student debt relief, true humanitarian immigration reform...
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Confused. 20 y/o me would be really, flippin' confused. "Wait, you're gay? Come to think of it, that makes sense. But a lawyer? Hmm, okay, wasn't expecting that but I guess I can see how that happened too. But you willingly FLY around the world for FUN??? NO WAY!!!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Ossoff: "The draft-dodging commander in chief builds a monument to himself while plunging us deeper into a war he doesn't know how to end or win"
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Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
𝗨𝗻𝗽𝗮𝘆𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 (𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗹𝘆) - Too many people still hope they can wait out Trumpism for things to return to 'normal'. But the world is past that even if Trump departs after his second term. This isn't just a blip, and instead of hope we need adaptation for survival. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Trumpism doesn’t die with Trump – we need to wake up to the facts
It is fanciful to think that the unpredictable, aggressive and often self-sabotaging US will revert to its old ways once its current leader has gone. But, as Keir Giles explores in his new book, the f...
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David J Court @davidjcourt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is the face of a dog who is thinking, "I'm going to find some discarded fried chicken in the park and there's nothing you can do to stop me."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Is this a “holy shit” story? Because it seems like one.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
​me: “So, Karl Marx, that’s basically what the world is like in 2018. What’s your analysis of the situation? Is capitalism still doomed?”
Karl Marx: “Holy shit, you went to the moon?”
me: “Does communism still have a future?”
Karl Marx: “The moon in the fucking sky?”
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Unfair advantage to the NASCAR pole sitter today.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m not convinced my Uber driver is old enough to drive?
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
... which is so effing depressing because it should be so obvious.
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Bye, America: Trump’s rhetoric pushes some Canadians to shun the U.S. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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Bye, America: Trump’s rhetoric pushes some Canadians to shun the U.S.
Buying groceries has become an act of patriotic duty for some shoppers in Canada.
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