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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

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L.A. Kauffman @lakauffman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

A few thoughts about today's protests: 1) The April 5 Hands Off day of action clearly ranks as one of the very largest mobilizations in U.S. history, by two different measures: -- total national turnout (~ 3 million) -- number of local protests (~ 1400)

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

From inside the DoD: “Schumer's bungling over the past two months & creation of this lose-lose scenario is a complete dereliction of his duties. This was the sole moment where they had any real potential leverage to stand up and fight for the Constitution & they completely blew it from day 1.”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

And clearly he's speaking up because we spoke up and told him to do it. Keep calling, emailing, protesting, making a racket for democracy.

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Also, here are a few groups/projects I particularly recommend supporting, where every dollar will make a huge difference in people's lives: bsky.app/profile/bord...

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I have a mutual aid and political education resources spreadsheet that includes Boston-area groups, as well as many in other areas of the country, and national networks of local groups: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Resources for mutual aid and political education

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Cat @catwithonelife.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social I just finished reading “Hope in the Dark” and wanted to say thank you. I’m pretty new to being an action-taker, and was feeling discouraged. But the book gave me the boost of courage I needed to keep my eyes on the world of possibilities 🫶

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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. @estebanjq.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

What can you do about the assault on USAID? Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

What folks are getting a tough lesson in right now: Institutions are people. They are not abstract forces that exist as firewalls or safeguards. They are just people who play a role and who perhaps have abided by norms, but whose decisions minute to minute shape the role those institutions play.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 31/01/2025

@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point

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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I’ve spent about 2-3 hours each day on calls or chats with my US gov friends. Here’s an anonymized recap of what’s going on. First, I am so very sorry that they are living our last year at Twitter. I never wanted to think about that time again, and I hope my advice is helpful. 1/

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Dems can: -oppose all Trump nominees until this EO is withdrawn -deny unanimous consent to slow senate proceedings -vote no on all cloture -force quorum calls at every chance It’s a constitutional crisis. There is absolutely no reason the Senate should be connecting business as usual.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/01/2025

we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously. Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause." They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Frank Wilhoit seems very topical today: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/01/2025

This one hour of day seven of the presidency.

Washington Post news items:

National Science Foundation halts reviews of research proposals

NIH stops new research as part of health communications pause

Researchers funded by Education Department told they need agency permission to publish results.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Saw a "Democratic strategist" say "we have to earn people's trust back." Just mind-boggling that so many don't understand how this works. Did voters in 2024 say "I trust the Republican Party"? No. They were mad at those in power. Democrats have to get them mad at Republicans. It's not complicated.

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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

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John Ramsey @jramseyi.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

A cute drawing I made while testing some brushes.

Digital illustration of a white cat standing in a field. There are yellow flowers blowing in the wind and clouds in the background. The cat is looking at a butterfly.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Hello new community! I love how fast this place is growing. FYI we released a new Indivisible guide with practical steps that folks in red, blue, & purple states can take to fight back. Don't ask for permission - take it, copy it, make it your own, & start organizing. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Indivisible: A Practical Guide to Democracy on the Brink

If there's one universally accepted truth in the modern age, it's that sequels suck. And Trump 2.0 will be no exception. Trump, Vance, and their MAGA minions feel vindicated by the victory of their bi...

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

As an Indian, as someone who lived in Egypt, and who has, modestly, remained committed to my politics despite that, here are my rules for living under fascist regimes: 1) Focus on organizational structure. 1/

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

If you just joined Bluesky after AOC posted then I want to share a story with you about the power or organizing. Because we’re going to need it. ⬇️

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

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