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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 31/03/2026

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

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Petergeist Clines @peterclines.com · 31/03/2026

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

A set of screenshots from DEEP SPACE NINE. An old Klingon throws his arms around Dax and shouts "Curzon, my beloved old friend!"

Dax returns the hug and says "I'm Jadzia now."

The Klingon grabs her shoulders, smiles, and says "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

This is disgusting. Ronald Reagan refused to acknowledge the AIDS crisis. Even refused to help his "friend from the Hollywood days" Rock Hudson. George W. Bush waited 7 years to recognize World AIDS Day. And now we are back to a POS GOP POTUS who will ignore it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...

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Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Does anyone know why, when a book is announced for pre-order, the electronic version is only available on Amazon? This is at least the 2nd time I’ve gotten an email from them about something I’m interested us (the new T. Kingfisher Snake Eater) and want to pre-order an ebook from Bookshop.org [cont]

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Sorry for the duplicate. As someone who had a malignant melanoma removed over the summer, this is very encouraging.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

MAGA must mean make America grim again. Rather than the joyful lady with the laugh, we’re stuck with the guy with no sense of humor and a vendetta against comedians. Our next motto should be MALA: make America laugh again. He hates that. Resistance through laughter.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The blacklist capitulation by movie studios in response to the Joe McCarthy witch-hunt proves that there is NO history of corporations prioritizing values or free speech over profits. #JimmyKimmel

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 16/09/2025

I saw goody proctor celebrating charlie kirk’s assassination

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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...

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Law enforcement officers remember police officer killed in CDC shooting in Atlanta

Weeks after David Rose was killed while responding to a shooting this month at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, officers are remembering the DeKalb County police officer as a courageous leader who pri...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

This is incredibly unfair. No taxation without representation. Perhaps Hispanics and Blacks in Texas should pay their taxes based on their representation.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Musicology Duck posted a video of a brass band playing in DC. In love that they’re playing “Which Side Are You On?” an old union song.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

still quite a lot to see—we have Nadine with her homemade protest banners, soldiers patrolling on foot, an anti-Trump brass band, and the guy who walks around draped in an Israeli flag offering to baptize people in the name of Jesus Christ. But no tanks!

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Hello. I work in engineering. You can tell by my white lab coat with a pocket protector in it, slide rule, and heavy glasses mended with white tape over the nose. I’m very serious and pompous and tell you it can’t be done.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Dying to pick lettuce. ICE is going to be pretty hot where they’re ultimately going.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I read this. It’s a good, powerful book.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I’ve come to the conclusion that politics is performance art that kills.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Today’s paper had a warning for Americans not to travel to Nicaragua because it is “sinking deeper into authoritarianism.” So Americans should feel right at home, eh? Did they realize the irony in printing that?

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Emily Crockett @emilycrockett.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Dear God, watch this ad to the end. Then share, and tell Congress to stop the abductions this Father's Day. www.nea.org/advocating-f...

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Families Are Beautiful

YouTube video by National Education Association

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Sigh. Another kerfluffle in Calif high school sports & a transgender girl competing. Can’t we just let kids compete in sports w/o worrying about the “fairness” of someone marked male at birth competing? Sports is inherently unfair. Short, fat me could never win against long-legged folks. That’s ok?

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Aaron Rupar is right. These “achievements” are an embarrassment. Not a single one helped the people of this country.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

If anyone is reading for the Hugo and is put off by the large letters in the middle of the text the publisher put on each page of The Tainted Cup, the ebook is just $1.99 at Barnes & Noble right now most likely it’s the same at Amazon and other e-vendors

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

What happened to copy editors? Do they no longer exist? I’m reading a Hugo nominee and there have already been two very annoying grammatical errors. This really throws me out of the story. The book is interesting, but if this continues, I will give up on the book.

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✨️Jill Kelley (she/they)✨️ @justicejoyandjill.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

One of the most incredible protest signs I've ever seen. A Japanese American woman folded a huge origami crane to honor the children of Japanese American internment camps & protest current ICE camps. 📸 permission at the Vigil to Stop ICE Expansion in Dublin, CA 4/16/25 ✊🏻 NEVER AGAIN IS NOW ❤️

One wing of the origami crane says, "1942 Never Again" with drawings of Japanese American children, and part of the body says, "Never Again is Now" with historical details written below.

The neck of the origami crane sign says "Free Them All", the tail says "Close The Camps". The other wing says "Is Now 2020", with a drawing of immigrant children separated from their families behind fencing.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/04/2025

Goldman: "Think about whether any of us want to vote a certain way but bc we fear for our personal safety, we decide to vote differently. We are no longer representing our constituents. We are representing something else more like the bully threatening us. That is more like Vladimir Putin operates"

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Another thing that bothers me about the idea of shipping people off to El Salvador, it pretty much acknowledges that trying to rehabilitate criminals is no longer considered an option. The people sent there are not hardened criminals, but they’re being treated worse than Jean Valjean in prison.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

What exactly is Congress doing as he says stuff like this? Why does no one with power actually rein this guy in?

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

If Soros were truly funding these protests, he would have to be richer than Musk. And I would like my check, if he is. Mountain View, California, 1500+ strong today! Woo-hoo! No pictures because I decided to just be in the moment for the whole thing.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Boo, UC Berkeley! That’s my husband’s alma mater. UCB used to stand up for freedom. What happened?

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I have hated the church song, “They’ll Know We Are Christians (By Our Love)” since I learned it in 1967. Our choir director programs it far too often. Smarmy, self-congratulatory lyrics with a juvenile melody better suited to camp songs. I would prefer to turn it into a question.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I’m going to one of the “Hands Off” marches next weekend. I’m not physically capable of marching, so I plan to sit at the rally point and hold a sign. Any suggestions for a good sign?

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Our governor may be throwing trans folk under the bus, but the county is standing strong. Transgender flag to fly throughout year edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...

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Transgender flag to fly throughout year - The Mercury News

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Leonard Cohen often had the words:

Verse from Leonard Cohen’s “Democracy”

“I’m sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I can’t stand the scene
And I’m neither left nor right
I’m just staying home tonight
Getting lost in that hopeless little screen
But I’m stubborn as those garbage bags
That time cannot decay
I’m junk but I’m still holding up
This little wild bouquet
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

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Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles @srmilesauthor.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

📢📢 Librarians! Teachers!! I'm crowdsourcing to compile the ULTIMATE Black Family Home Library Collection. Please contribute and share. #booksky #blackbooksky #edusky Home Libraries will become essential in this new era. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Vance is a jackass. Most seniors are retired. And not all jobs have the same schedule. I didn’t work Fridays in my last job unless I was covering someone else’s shift. Manufacturing jobs these days often have 12-hour shifts and alternate 4 and 3-day work weeks.

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

EPA warning: do not go outside in the Central U.S. dust storm! Hazardous dust covers parts of KS, OK, CO, MO, WY, IL, TX, NM, NE. The AQI in St. Louis hit an unfathomable 5,791 from PM10 (dust); an AQI over 300 is “Hazardous”. The tops: Lamar, CO hit an AQI of 12,802. Consult airnow.gov.

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Berni @bviola.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Opinion: if they really wanted to cut wasteful spending in government they wouldn’t appoint a rich person who’s never known want, they’d appoint a poor person who’s always had to find ways to make do on little money.

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