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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 11h

I am done hearing that Liberals need to find more joy in their lives. I am done being ridiculed that we don’t smile enough, and take everything too damn seriously these days. You want joy from us?

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 11h

In sum, litigation has been a necessary defensive strategy to prevent any further erosion of voting rights, which is the cornerstone of our democracy. However, it is not a sufficient approach to fortifying our democracy. For that, we need

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 11h

Prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance. Seven P’s. Seven words. A United States senator should be capable of mastering them before accusing a witness of a felony. Eric Schmitt apparently found that preparation excessive.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 11h

A month ago, ICE took my gardener. Since then, I’ve been writing about his disappearance and about me and my neighbors’ efforts to get him home. (You can read about it here.)

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 11h

Watching yesterday’s Senate Judiciary Committee spectacle was like watching a group of Made Men in the Mafia taking on the witness who broke omertá and talked. It wasn’t always this way: there was a time when Republicans cared whether our democracy survived. Yesterday’s

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 11h

Citizens cannot defeat that belief at the polls alone, so Americans need boycotts as well. Trump signs executive orders, but federal employees and private contractors decide whether those orders take effect. German workers and civil

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 16h

The Pentagon holds the life stories of a country. Names and Social Security numbers. Along with information about what jobs people have held inside the military apparatus. That is exactly where a door stood open for months.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 16h

The detention system in the United States has grown faster than anyone planned for it. Since January 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, has driven its capacity up at a pace that basic order could not keep up with.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 16h

Netanyahu’s "Eighth Front": Who Gets to Hold Him Accountable? By Tony Pentimalli By now, you already know what Benjamin Netanyahu said at the United Nations. You heard him call the genocide

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 17h

Trump’s intervention in Brazilian elections undermines a basic and generally cherished right to self-determination, as well as the right to democracy itself. It is even clearly illegal under the Charter of the Organization of American States, to which the US is a signatory.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 17h

Part 2 Jack Smith Will Not Be Silenced An American Hero Michael Jochum And then there was the moment that seemed to encapsulate the circus. Senator Eric Schmitt accused Smith of perjury and suggested that Smith had secretly traveled to Atlanta,

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 17h

Part 1 Jack Smith Will Not Be Silenced An American Hero Michael Jochum I don’t know about you, but I firmly believe Jack Smith is not the kind of guy you want to fuck with.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 17h

Jeffrey Epstein refused to release his photos of President Donald Trump with young women at his home because he feared for his own life, an author claims. Trump biographer Michael Wolff made the claim on Tuesday's episode of "Inside Trump's Head," where he and

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 17h

ost weeks for this column, I take one big story and pull back to show the larger picture. Today I’m working in the other direction, taking a snapshot of the past week’s headlines and walking through how, taken together, they tell a single story: a

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 17h

Two days ago, British authorities arrested scores of elderly protestors outside of a Labour Party conference for peacefully holding signs that expressed solidarity with Palestine Action and opposing genocide.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 17h

Two separate grand juries in two separate jurisdictions looked at the evidence against Donald Trump and indicted him. Not one. Two. Regular citizens in Washington and in Florida, hearing the facts under oath, said this man should stand trial.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 18h

Somebody Has to Say It Out Loud What’s going on, America? I keep asking that question in my office and in my car, and today I am putting it on paper because none of us gets to stay silent anymore.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 18h

Jack Smith kicked off his testimony on the Hill today like this: “I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including my decision to bring charges against President Trump.” He told senators that his investigations developed “proof beyond a

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 18h

Much like Hungarian voters shattered sixteen years of Viktor Orbán’s illiberal entrenchment earlier this year, the exhaustion of the public has reached a breaking point, and the sheer momentum of people demanding accountability has the power to cut straight through the BS.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 18h

Overall, then, the deep unpopularity of AI isn’t hard to explain. Here we have a technology that is enriching a small number of people, but whose creators warn may destroy millions of jobs if not the world. And even the usual argument for pro-

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 18h

Smith, in contrast, stood firmly on facts and the rule of law. “I have been fortunate to serve a country that I love for nearly 30 years in local, national, and international settings,” he said in his opening statement. “My service has spanned both

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 18h

Restore democracy-Vote against the fascists!

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