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Griff

@dr-griff.bsky.social
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Musician, filker, educator, queer, Jew, sci-fi and fantasy fan, writer, singer, songwriter, AuDHD, disabled person, occasional policy wonk. FAWM. 50/90. #HarrisWalz2024. No MAGAts, no DMs. He/him. I refuse to believe we cannot create a better world.

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Griff @dr-griff.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
When you look up "domestic enemy" in the dictionary, it says "see him."
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Griff @dr-griff.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Pro tip: Live in such a way that you don't get a preview of the joy and celebrations people will be having after your passing.
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Griff @dr-griff.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Given the level of finger-pointing and screaming at each other currently emanating from various big names in the GOP, I expect the next step is going to be the formation of a circular f*r*ng squad arranged in a very complex Venn diagram.
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Griff @dr-griff.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
If you work for Faux "News," you should know that that stain doesn't ever come out of your résumé.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Deploying the military on U.S. soil as law enforcement against Americans was on page 555 of Project 2025. So don’t say “I didn’t vote for this,” because you did. This isn’t a response. This was always their plan.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Breaking: ABC News says senior national correspondent Terry Moran "has been suspended pending further evaluation." This since-deleted tweet is the reason for the suspension:
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Non-violent resistance to fascism: Educate communities, amplify truth, and organize peacefully. Vote, protest, and support free press. Build solidarity through art, dialogue, and mutual aid to counter hate with hope and unity. #ResistFascism
CHARACTERISTICS OF FASCISM
Authoritarianism: Fascism advocates for strong centralized power, often led by a single leader or party, with limited or no accountability.
Nationalism: Fascist ideologies emphasize a fervent loyalty and devotion to the nation, promoting a sense of superiority and often emphasizing cultural or ethnic purity.
Totalitarianism: Fascist regimes aim to control and regulate all aspects of society, including politics, the economy, and individual lives.
Suppression of Dissent: Fascism seeks to silence or eliminate opposition, often through censorship, propaganda, and the use of force.
Militarism: Fascist ideologies frequently glorify military strength, expansionism, and aggressive foreign policies, often viewing war as a means to achieve national greatness.
Glossary of terms | © www.WorksheetsPlanet.com |All rights reserved
PLANET
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Sheryl with an S @beachblond52.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
#ProudBlue #Pinks Thank you, Robert Reich for reminding us that Trump is not invincible, he is but a coward hiding behind the green curtain. He’ll be cowering in his bunker soon. “I won’t, back down, no I won’t back down, you can stand me up at the gates of Hell but I won’t back down.” Tom Petty
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The feds kidnapping and trafficking people is a violent crime. Protesting it is fighting back against abuses of power. The government claiming protestors started the violence is DARVO—Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. It’s what abusers do when they face consequences.
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Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Keep the sequence of events clear in your mind: ICE was preparing to snatch day laborers from a Home Depot in order to meet deportation quotas set by Trump. Community members protested. ICE responded with flash-bangs and tear gas. ICE started it and ICE escalated it. Period. #LosAngeles
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SEIU California @seiuca.org · 06/06/2025
Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...
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SEIU California | SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles
We are proud of President Huerta’s righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement…
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Griff @dr-griff.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
"I don't owe anyone anything" is a brattitude commonly shared by house cats, libertarians, and two-year-olds. It's not a good look. Don't wear it.
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Jeff Turner 🦋🌈🦋🌈@loveneverhate @loveneverhate.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…” The words from the Declaration of Independence resonate now more than ever given Trump.
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Sunnie Larsen (she/her) @solcita.sunnie.org · 06/04/2025
The second Filk Hall of Fame award goes to TJ and Mitchell Burnside-Clapp! #FHOF #FKO
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Sunnie Larsen (she/her) @solcita.sunnie.org · 06/04/2025
The first Filk Hall of Fame award goes to Eric Coleman and Lizzie Crowe (Cheshire Moon)!!!! #FHOF #FKO
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Janet Spaulding @jancan24.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Horrific!
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Local Indivisible member was abducted by ICE in Washington. If you're in the state, please elevate this thread to your electeds and ask for their help in getting his release.
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Griff @dr-griff.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I've seen smarter cabinets at Dollar Tree. Come on, people. We deserve and need better than this.
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Don't Forget to Say Thank You @speedboats.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
As a cybersecurity professional with years of counterintelligence experience: This administration's cybersecurity actions from a holistic standpoint can only be explained by one explanation: Trump is a Russian asset. Ask another cybersecurity professional what they think. Educate yourself.
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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member: Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800 Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 mb@buttericklaw.com
A screenshot from a legal complaint with contact information for the plaintiffs' attorneys that states, "Joseph R. Saveri (State Bar No. 130064)
Cadio Zirpoli (State Bar No. 179108)
Christopher K.L. Young (State Bar No. 318371)
Kathleen J. McMahon (State Bar No. 340007)
JOSEPH SAVERI LAW FIRM, LLP
601 California Street, Suite 1000
San Francisco, California 94108
Telephone: (415) 500-6800
Facsimile: (415) 395-9940
Email: jsaveri@saverilawfirm.com
czirpoli@saverilawfirm.com
cyoung@saverilawfirm.com
kmcmahon@saverilawfirm.com
Matthew Butterick (State Bar No. 250953)
1920 Hillhurst Avenue, #406
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Telephone: (323) 968-2632
Facsimile: (415) 395-9940
Email: mb@buttericklaw.com
Counsel for Individual and Representative
Plaintiffs and the Proposed Class"A screenshot from a legal complaint that states, "UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION
Richard Kadrey, an individual;
Sarah Silverman, an individual;
Christopher Golden, an individual;
Individual and Representative Plaintiffs,
v.
Meta Platforms, Inc., a Delaware
corporation;
Case No.
Complaint
Class Action
Demand for Jury Trial
Defendant."
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Gary McGath @gmcgath.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Peter David, known as the author of the filk "A Lord of Time" among other things, is running a fundraiser to cover medical costs. www.cbr.com/peter-david-...
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Comics Icon Peter David Needs Our Help
A fundraiser has been launched for legendary comic book writer Peter David after a recent medical setback.
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Tim @timjvalentine.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This woman is a friend of mine and I support everything she has said... Sign... Tim Valentine!
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Griff @dr-griff.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This cause is important to me - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
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Stop Erasing Trans and Queer History!
The Stonewall Inn is where queer people fought back against police harassment in 1969, sparking the modern LGBTQ+ movement. At the forefront of the fight were trans activists like Marsha P. Johnson an...
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"An Apple spokeswoman blamed the issue on phonetic overlap between the two words"
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 25/02/2025
The American Sociological Association and the AFT are suing the DOE over the "Dear Colleague" letter threatening to withhold funding (or even initiate prosecutions) over accurate historical education. democracyforward.org/updates/chal...
The Letter suggests, however, that a wide variety of core instruction, activities,
and programs that schools, from pre-kindergarten through post-graduate education, use to teach
and support their students now constitute illegal discrimination.
10. For example, the Letter appears to ban the teaching of history and other subjects
that acknowledges “systemic and structural racism,” claiming that such instruction is
discriminatory. It is not clear how a school could teach a fulsome U.S. History course without
teaching about slavery, the Missouri Compromise, the Emancipation Proclamation, the forced
relocation of Native American tribes, the laws of Jim Crow, Brown v. Board of Education, the
internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, or the Civil Rights Acts, the Fair
Housing Act and the Voting Rights Act without running afoul of this prohibition.
11. Likewise, the Letter appears to ban any existing voluntary associations or student
groups, such as a Black Student Union. These groups are open to all yet provide programming to
support and amplify the lived experiences of students or faculty who are members of a particular
demographic.
12. The Letter appears to ban all programming in support of Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusion (“DEI”), again despite the fact that such programming is lawful and previous
presidential administrations of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden
have supported such efforts.
13. Finally, despite invoking the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision on college
admissions, the Letter goes well beyond that holding and states that many legal, evidence-based,
and well-accepted ways to foster inclusivity and increase diversity of all types are nevertheless
considered discriminatory by this administration
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
If you don’t think Trump is taking over the US Mail to do away with mail-in voting, you haven’t been paying attention.
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Rebecca E ❌👑 @spoutiblegirl.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The White House is expected to issue the order to dismantle the Postal Service today. We must take immediate action to protect this important public service that we all rely on, as well as the letter carriers who make it possible. Call 202-224-3121, ask for Mike Johnson's office.
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I know, my friend, you are worried that wearing a mask might ruin your outfit but know, my friend, constantly catching all these viruses will ruin more than just your outfit.
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Lisa Lin Doh @lisalindo.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
W. The. Actual. Fuck.
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Griff @dr-griff.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
So. Are we ready to admit this is a coup yet? We don't have kings in this country!
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Mariah 🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋 @mariahbrown.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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Madz @madz123.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Navalny should be alive and with his wife. Putin should have been murdered in the god forsaken jail.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Insane.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/02/2025
When we talk about the latest iteration of the segregation movement it’s important to be clear that it’s about transphobia AND misogynist racism. “The bills flow from a fundamental belief that whiteness — both the category and those who occupy it — is under threat.” truthout.org/articles/the...
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The Anti-Trans Panic Is Rooted in White Supremacist Ideology
Gender-affirming care poses a challenge to the reproductive imperative imposed by white supremacy.
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MWLogic17🦋💙✨ @mwlogic17.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
While Musk is investigating agencies with his DOGE team, he's hoping you forget all the investigations & controversies he's accrued through the last few decades. Don’t let anyone forget! Speak out about these things. #StopTheOligarchy
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💙 The Chronic Pain 💙 @thechronicpain.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Educate yourself, folks... They are trying to steal YOUR Money
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
i think many people are still thinking about this as a problem that goes away in four years. this is not a problem that goes away in four years.
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Well put!
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist
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xap @exapno.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Cathy McManamon's first livestream concert of 2025 - "Songs YOU Love" - is TOMORROW! Tickets at cathymcmanamon.bandcamp.com/merch/songs-... #CathyMcManamonMusic #Filk #FolkRock #SingerSongwriter #BandcampConcerts
A black curly heart silhouette on a white background, with red text overlaid.  Text reads "Songs YOU Love.  Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025 12pm PST / 1pm MST / 2pm CST / 3pm EST   cathymcmanamon.bandcamp.com "
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Holy. Fuck.
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Tobique Mike🇨🇦 @tobiquemike.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
People think he’s a genius. He’s invented nothing. He’s created nothing. He bought all he has with apartheid blood diamond and emerald money. Elon Musk is dumber than most kids taking STEM studies at the high school level.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/02/2025
Show this to a federal worker and let them know how many people support and appreciate them.
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Tracytastic Bitchcakes @trcytstcbitchcakes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
STOP FUCKING SAYING ELON IS SMART. He is lucky. He is manipulative. He has built nothing. He has invented nothing. He had daddy's money, made a couple of shrewd investments and then manipulated and strong-armed his way to where he is. STOP ACTING LIKE HE IS TO BE ADMIRED IN ANY WAY
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Jen🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ @jen.sheshed.rocks · 13/02/2025
Dear MAGA, Seriously, fuck off 🖕🏻 #SheShed
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🌊🌊 I Voted For Her 🌊🌊 @bluedotnd.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Ok BlueSky peeps, you know what to do!
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