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Clancy Ratliff

@culturecat.bsky.social
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Overdoing my best. Never again a country without consequences!

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2h
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Since this summer, ICE has been arresting asylum applicants at airports. Many came legally, then applied for asylum. They have been here for years just stuck in a massive line, working and paying taxes while they wait. No prior admin would have arrested them. Their “overstay” is due to DHS delay.
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 6h
I recently realized that all these years, I've been conflating this Sophie B. Hawkins song with Selena's "Dreaming of You." I genuinely listened to this song and imagined Selena, and no one else, singing it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq-4...
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Sophie B. Hawkins - As I Lay Me Down
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the darmok "lemon when a week is has been" meme from star trek tng
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
😂 apnews.com/live/trump-m...
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Live updates: Trump will campaign in Alabama ahead of the midterm elections
President Donald Trump is on the campaign trail in Alabama ahead of the midterm elections, even as a new poll shows Americans find him deeply unpopular.
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was watching Bob's Burgers with my son on Hulu and this ad came up. I find it a sad example of @doctorow.pluralistic.net's idea of the reverse centaur. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd0U...
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Solo Dinner | Instacart
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m proud to have voted no on making it legal in my state (it passed anyway).
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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 27/09/2026
had a chat with someone yesterday and told them, and not that I'm saying anything innovative here, but I really can't imagine why I'd want to look at something no one cared enough to actually make, or read something no one cared enough to actually write.
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These kinds of actions (access to Broadway shows and now opera) are going to have all kinds of wonderful ripple effects that we can’t predict. This is an article of faith for me.
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rewatching the Dregs of Humanity episodes of It's Your Move. Some of Jason Bateman's best work! Bless the people who put this on YT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cBR...
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It's Your Move - the Dregs of Humanity
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bene Gesserit: "Put your righte hande yn the box" Me [figuringe out wher to put my iced coffee]
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Man Who Saved The World. May his memory be a blessing.
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Roses are red, Violets are blue, Drag queens ain't done shit to you
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I read this article, "Multimodal Literacy and the Myth of Low-Skilled Labor at Waffle House," when it came out, and I still think about it sometimes because it's that good! journalofmultimodalrhetorics.com/6-1-2-issue-...
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6.1-2 Issue Measel
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
The guy regularly threatens to commit genocide whenever he can’t think of anything to say.
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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Knowing that someone has used ChatGPT to think means I will never ask them about anything. Their ethos is done. People don't talk enough about how using ChatGPT erodes trust and ethos. Professors and students using ChatGPT to outsource thinking are losing their credibility.
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I worked at a movie theater in the 90s. The two movies I remember people walking out of most: The Jerky Boys (not sure if their expectations were low enough) and Virtuosity. www.imdb.com/title/tt0114...
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Spending these days fact-checking and endnoting, I've been Googling at industrial scale, which has given my a brain-melting lesson in how fucked we are as a civilization. In today's installment, a quote from Geo W. Bush's 2nd inaugural in 2005 is depicted—why not?—as one from Obama's in 2013.
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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My kid asked me what‘s something I teach my students and I said “That if you write what you have to say on paper then—unlike devices—no one has access to it except you and whoever else physically interacts with the paper” and you guys, it made an immediate impression
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm kind of surprised Trump hasn't announce a redesign of the American flag yet
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is a really important point that I wish some people would be more precise about. “AI” as a vague concept in the news gives evil people the ability to wash their hands of actions they designed these systems to carry out. It would be trivial to fix this in alignment. They don’t want to.
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 19/09/2026
When the man's In his bed And you smooch His flat head That's amore
a large, fluffy grey tabby asleep in a round cat bed with a fuzzy white lining. the top of his head could be smooched? discuss.
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is responsible governing by South Korea. People may complain that mandates about food disposal are anti-freedom, but so much of the food waste problem can be prevented just by not buying too much food in the first place. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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New York has a food waste problem. South Korea has already solved it
South Korea has cut household food waste going to landfill from 97% to almost nothing. New York City has started sending its scraps the same way.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What about Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, the Easter Bunny, and the Abominable Snowman? Can we look into them too? bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I can't stand it when people say "males" or "females" in reference to humans. To me it's like hearing someone say "paws" instead of hands or feet.
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm genuinely confused; Republicans have been posting the exact same kind of stuff as the Bo French tweets for a decade. I guess he had some kind of ticker counting in the background, and once it hit Xmillion of those posts, THEN he condemns them? www.huffpost.com/entry/karl-r...
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Karl Rove Announces He Will Vote Democrat In Fiery Rebuke Of GOP: 'I'll Have No Part Of It'
“The GOP’s stables need a cleaning,” the Republican strategist wrote in a scorching Wall Street Journal editorial.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Yes, care about the real kids who really die because of the bullshit I told their incredibly gullible parents. But what about the imaginary kids I made up? Don't they deserve sympathy for their non-existent injuries, too?"
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Came to Bluesky for reactions to the new cat species, saw that it's the number 1 topic, satisfied!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ugh, I wish this person had been right.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
only send your strongest, buffest, most handsome men to watch mr hegseth
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
guy who's easily around the 90th leftmost percentile of American voters obsessively hated as if he's some kind of right-wing bigoted reactionary is insane levels of needing to touch grass
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Not to mention the fact that OPT does not require *paid* employment; volunteer jobs/unpaid internships count as OPT, and students who graduate take them anyway just to stay in the country while applying for permanent jobs that include sponsorship. This adds insult to injury.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Sometimes I think about retiring early from academia. I'd want to work for an environmentalist nonprofit and have a side hustle of running one of those social media accounts where the person just shows old photos from the 80s and 90s and tells stories about that time.
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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time
a picture from the NY Post titled "	today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
And now Robin Morgan, right on the heels of Steinem. apnews.com/article/robi...
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Robin Morgan, poet and feminist whose allies included Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem, dies at 85
Robin Morgan, a wholesome child star of the 1940s and ‘50s who grew up to become an all-American radical as a poet, essayist, editor and leading second-wave feminist, has died.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
i'm not even saying we have to quit forever. just for literally two months right now and then again in 2028 please
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
She didn't get to see a woman president in her lifetime or the passage of the ERA. 😢
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I remember when lots of immensely stupid people declared that anyone who got the covid vaccine would die within five years. 🤡 Five and a half years later, I’m still here, of course.
Partial screenshot of my vaccination record from my Louisiana wallet app showing that I got my first dose on March 19, 2021.
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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A friend refers to the "a pedestrian was struck by a car" construction as the "exonerative" tense, and that shall be its name henceforth and hereafter.
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Here’s my Gloria Steinem tribute: I saw her give a talk at University of Tennessee in 2002, and I was so charged by her presence that I stayed up almost all night. It was a packed auditorium, and she handled the proto-TPUSA types who stepped up to the microphone like a boss.
A photo of me with Gloria Steinem. We’re sitting side by side at a table.
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
He's working on it I'm sure. First, I'm genuinely surprised we're not the United States of Trump yet. DC will be called Donald's Command.
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Today I'm remembering Allison Crews, feminist advocate for teen moms, who passed away in 2005 at age 22, gone but not forgotten. I hope her son Cade is doing well. Her website girlmom.com no longer exists, but the mission statement survives here: www.protectchoice.org/article.php?...
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The Pro-Choice Public Education Project : Girlmom: We Are Young/Teen Moms and Pro-Choice
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I hate how tinfoil-hat I'm feeling about this: suspecting that this whole thing (no-show at July 22 hearing) was planned as damage control so that DHS could do that "overstayed his welcome" post. I'd be very surprised if he didn't get special treatment in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/milo...
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Far-right British provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported after his immigration arrest in US
U.S. officials say British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported back to the United Kingdom. The U.S.
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Seneca Nation calls for reversal of Trump's ‘Lake America’ executive order
The leader of the Seneca Nation in upstate New York is criticizing President Donald Trump’s decision to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” saying it violates a more than 225-year-old treaty and sh...
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I just saw that back in June, Emi Koyama died. Koyama's work was influential to me as a Gen X feminist. www.autostraddle.com/emi-koyama-i...
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Prolific Trans and Intersex Activist Emi Koyama Has Died. Her Legacy Reminds Us To Imagine Transfeminist Futures
Koyama’s work deeply shaped the last three decades of trans, feminist, and intersex thinking.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/08/2026
If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People.
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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Ron Wyden! 🏆
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