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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm really looking forward to my conversation with @kdettmar.bsky.social about his fabulous new book Punk in 50 Pieces. If you're in Seattle, I hope you'll join us Friday, 9/25 at Third Place Books, Ravenna. thirdplacebooks.com/event/kevin-...

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

“Beware—the Nerves!” Ukraine, 1975 Artist: Yevhen Syvokin Full video: dai.ly/x8js0lh

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Clip from “Chromophobia,” by Raul Servais (1966). On reclaiming creativity and hope from those who aim to drain it from you. Via @an.i.mat.tion (IG)

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Although fair use exceptions to copyright include satire, Conan O’Brien was denied fair use of both the melody and lyrics to the Sound of Music when his new travel show went to Salzburg. His response:

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

On the “tragedy of the commons” as an alibi for the privatization of our common wealth. 🙏🏼 @theforestjar.bsky.social

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I taught a course, Rhetoric and Popular Culture, for over 20 years, mostly focused on exactly these themes. I’ve been out of the classroom a while, but this makes me want to jump back into the conversation—about the relationship between commerce and counter-cultures. A lot has changed. Much hasn’t.

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Mrs. Frazzled does a great job breaking down the rhetorical power of satire, here. 🙌🏻

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

“What I worry about most is the long-term consequence of losing a generation of young scientists,” former NIH director Francis Collins. The partnership between the federal government and our universities is one of America’s greatest legacies. Protect it. @theatlantic.com #AcademicSky #MomSky

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Tracking Trump’s Higher Ed agenda: Shrink the Dept. of Ed Eliminate DEI Overhaul accreditation Cut federal research $ Restructure student loans Tax elite universities Limit academic freedom Roll back civil rights Restrict int’l students #AcademicSky #MomSky www.chronicle.com/article/trac...

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

“We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.“ 2/4

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

TRUTH! 🗣️@ladyizdihar.bsky.social

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Me too. My grandmother always treated us to a trip to the bookstore when I was a kid. She was a fan of non-fiction, political stuff—biographies about journalists, presidents, etc. But she *never* judged my choices, happily buying me whatever I was into at the time. She just wanted me to read!

Book cover of a sweet valley high book, dangerous love from the 80s. A blond girl holds onto a young man on the back of a motorcycle. Dangerous love is the title.

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Happy Independent Bookstore Day to all who celebrate! (As if I needed an excuse…)

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Washingtonian here. Our nat’l forests are precious. I’m always sad seeing the cut trees stacked high on one side of the mill and the finished timber on the other, their bark stripped clean. Musk’s chainsaw was a prop. This proposal to fell HALF our forests is all too real. Devastating. #MomSky 🌲

A forest with a large swath of its trees felled.

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Noam Chomsky: “To know where to look, how to look, how to question, how to challenge, how to proceed to deal with the challenges that the world presents to you…in cooperation and solidarity with others. That’s what an educational system should cultivate from kindergarten to high graduate school” 1/2

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Picking this thread back up. The most recent issue of the Economist seems a good fit.

Trump and Putin huddle at the end of a long otherwise empty conference table cover of the economist

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Adding these powerful graphics from Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement protests (2014). 🖼️ Source: CNN “The Power of Poster Art in Hong Kong Protests”

Graphics break down the different types of people seen at protests—workers, students, etc

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I’m no expert but I believe, in short, it’s been ratified but not “published” as Gillibrand and others have been pushing Biden to do. He’s “declared” it law of the land, but for some reason wants to avoid a political fight over *equal rights for women* by publishing. I say, bring the fight.

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

2/3 …And all in a package that’s familiar to many Americans. Ditto for UAW president Shawn Fain, an old school working class hero with serious media chops: “The Working Class Is the Arsenal of Democracy!” Walz and Fain show a path for getting a certain kind of white guy back onto the left…

Shawn Fain, in red t shirt, fist in air at a rally

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

🧵1/3 Lukewarm take, but hear me out: I was deeply into the veep-stakes discourse. I was pulling for Walz hard. Shaky debate performance aside, Walz is an excellent messenger for mainstreaming some pretty leftist ideas. E.g., “What some people call socialism, I just call being neighborly!”…

Tim Walz in t shirt and ball cap laughing with two other men

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

A lot of people are rightly sharing lessons from Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny these days. Thought I’d give a shout out for the graphic edition with beautiful art by Nora Krug. Got it for my teens but it’s a great overview for all of us. @timothysnyder.bsky.social

Cover and page sample from Snyder’s On Tyranny.

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

This has been making the rounds and it leaves me feeling a lot of gratitude for Chomsky. When I was young his work was a huge part of my political awakening. He’s been a truth teller for decades and his voice could not be more relevant than it is today.

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I’m late to this party but…SEVERANCE! 🤯 I haven’t liked a show this much in a really long time. Brilliant. 📺

Four people in office wear walking in a hallway.

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I’ve loved this one for years. Ramona the Pest as Riot Grrl. That’s it from me, for now. Would love to see your examples.

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Emory Douglas’ graphic two tone prints in support of the Black Panthers, 1969. Beautiful.

A woman, shouting, holds up a newspaper with the headline “all power to the people”

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

The posters of Atelier Populaire, in support of the Paris revolts in spring ‘68 are simple and cutting design.

Blue graphic of cop with club and shield

A man’s body mapped like beef with the “cuts” as mass media—radio, television, etc

The word capital being smashed by a hammer

A woman throws a brick with barricades in background. Reads: the beauty is in the streets

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

@brendelbored.bluesky.social has a great thread, 🔗 below, on bad graphic and AI designed resistance memes. Let’s beautify our skylines with a thread on past and contemporary good activist design. (I’m admittedly better on the historical examples) Feel free to add!🧵 … [Credits in alt cap]

Barbara Kruger, my body is a battleground 1989. Woman’s face in black and white, half as negative

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

My eyes! 😩✋ Seriously, though. Thank you for this? I’m going to start one to promote good activist design past and present. It’s a noble art form!

Emory Douglas, The Black Panther. Block print of three black panther activists

Poster from Paris uprisings in May 1968. A graphic of woman throwing brick and barricades.

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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I just had whatever is the opposite of that Drake meme. One minute I was so excited to see Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds were coming to Seattle in May. Then saw tix had already been snatched up by scalper sites, going now for 2x price. 😩