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Drew Herzig

@drewherzig.bsky.social
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Lao Tzu, Julian of Norwich, Meister Eckhart, Dante, Shakespeare, Bashō, Samuel Johnson, Jane Austen, Wm Blake, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, Ursula K. LeGuin, dark chocolate

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Megalulu ♡︎ @megalu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s so easy for anyone to say I protect the medical freedom of every person I will represent…..
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You do understand that everything he's doing to Washington DC is about fortifying the city when he decides he's not leaving office
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Permanent standard time is best for our health. So much research now to back this up! We shouldn't make a population wide health policy based on one very unscientific poll from 7 years ago @savestandard.bsky.social
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Drew Herzig @drewherzig.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/ke...
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Keep Transphobia out of the WNBA!
Anti-trans rhetoric flies in the face of the WNBA’s “No Space for Hate” campaign, one that WNBA Commissioner Cathy Englebert describes as “a unifying force—a place where people from all walks of life ...
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I explain how Trump is leaving all his options on the table when it comes to trying to interfere or intimidate people from voting. We should be clear-eyed about what he’s doing and make sure all of us show up in full force in November, so his antics won’t work.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 23/08/2026
See, it's just *not that hard.*
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Drew Herzig @drewherzig.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
rocdsa.solidarity.tech/stop-the-build
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Stop DHS/CBP/ICE from expanding detention center in Batavia - Rochester DSA
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
BEWARE: We are watching corporate media do all they can to further divide Democrats to help the GOP hold onto Congress.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/08/2026
Because the threatened billionaires are directing the media they own to split the opposition.
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Please REPOST there are so many Americans that are not aware of these cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. It’s so crucial to create as much awareness as possible.🙏
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/02/2026
The thing about the U.S. and Israel is that both of their leaders are trying to stay out of prison.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Also, Chris Van Hollen loudly criticized Joe Biden for his actions toward Gaza. He's been one of the most consistent Democratic politicians.
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Drew Herzig @drewherzig.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Chuck Schumer: STOP ICE NOW. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/chuc...
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Chuck Schumer: STOP ICE NOW
After another murder by federal agents in Minneapolis, we need ICE out of our cities and abolished. Corporate Democrats have been standing by and letting ICE terrorize our communities, tear apart fam...
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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 07/12/2025
Stories like these are exactly why inclusive spaces are necessary. Everyone deserves to be themselves EXACTLY as they are — no exceptions
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Elaborating b/c there's a lot of misunderstanding on this. Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.
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The Dangerous Ones @thedangerousones.com · 18/10/2025
IMPORTANT SAFETY TIP FOR NO KINGS! We’re seeing viral posts urging people to sit down/stay silent if violence emerges. PLEASE DO NOT DO THAT. In certain circumstances with activists highly trained in civil disobedience this *can* be effective. At a mass protest, it is a recipe for disaster.
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Join the Mass Infection Resistance @spiritsofland.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The Covid vaccine doesn’t prevent Covid infection, but I got mine anyway yesterday. It does reduce the risk of #LongCovid and severe illness. Plus it’s free so why not? I’ll continue to mask in all public spaces, and outdoors around people. #CovidIsntOver #MaskUp #StillCoviding
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Netanyahu announces Israel will not abide by the terms of facilitating humanitarian aid, despite it being a key ceasefire agreement clause. Didn't take long, did it?
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
"Courage is resistance to fear."
Attorney General Tish James
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
J6 Proud Boys.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
And that's why "born this way" is not a particularly great justification. We should have rights because bodily autonomy and free expression, whether we were born this way or just took it up one day for funsies
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."
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Drew Herzig @drewherzig.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Is this 'age verification' thing legit?
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Hayley Mariutto @haymariutto.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Excerpt of the quoted article, that reads:

“In the UK, this liberal instinct for compromise has led the country's allegedly left wing political party to be the one to try to ban trans people from public toilets and institute a total ban on puberty blockers. The US is quickly heading for that same outcome. The right has every incentive to continue lying constantly about trans people until "good liberals" give in and they can do whatever horrifically freakish shit they've dreamed about doing to trans people for years.”
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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Instead of the next judicial education session, all the judges watch this tiktok instead.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
No, supporting trans rights doesn’t cost elections! “43 percent of voters were more likely to vote for a candidate who stands up for transgender people. Just 21 percent of voters would be less likely to support a candidate who supports trans rights.”
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No, supporting trans rights doesn’t cost elections
Opinion: Supporting protections for transgender people is not just necessary, it's crucial, argues LPAC's Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
if you believe CK was "practicing politics the right way" then turn to BS to discuss political de-escalation, you clearly don't give a shit about trans ppl & other marginalized groups. if you can't plainly say these ppl are bigots & liars who are causing harm to others, then you are complicit w/them
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
What's happening with Jimmy Kimmel is about politics and power.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents. But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2025
I can't make it any clearer that these people want us eradicated. They're angry that there hasn't already been mass violence against us. They want a Kristallnacht where LGBTQ orgs, queer bars, and gender clinics are burned to the ground just like the Nazis they take inspiration from.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
This week we saw republicans finally care about a school shooting. Only because they were hoping it would lead to more shootings.
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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 13/09/2025
The type of speech most punished in this society is that which consists of telling the truth about how the powerful have harmed you
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Abdohassan @abdohassan.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Genocide is defined not just by numbers but by intent. Israel has declared its aim to erase Palestinian life in Gaza. The scale is clear: 680,000 killed, 380,000 infants. A genocide overwhelmingly against children, erasing Palestinian life at its root.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/09/2025
The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
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Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social
Ezra-

Your piece on the death of Charlie Kirk was reckless, insulting, condescending, and worst of all, a piece of hagiography. For someone who claims to honor history and context in your work, it reads as if it was written by someone who respects neither of those things. 

What does it mean to practice politics in the "right way"? For whom does a "taste for disagreement" benefit? Certainly not the vulnerable populations—trans people, Black women, and more—who Kirk routinely targeted with hate speech and calls for violence. 

When I was a college intern at NBC News Washington in 2008, I would watch your MSNBC appearances on the monitor in our office. At that point I could only dream of having a platform like yours, which has grown exponentially since then. Now that I have a platform (albeit it much, much smaller than yours) and I couldn't fathom using it to gaslight the country into believing a hateful man stood for a public good. Maybe it's time to consider how you're using yours. 

Marisa
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Genuinely feel like I am losing my mind. I feel like the post-9/11 Iraq War hype comes closest, but back then the Hot Takes Industry didn’t really exist, and the underlying cause made more sense. So it was bad, but made me doubt the bases of reality less.
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Chase Strangio @chasestrangio.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
And then print them knowing the harm it will cause….
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
there's no such thing as "transgender ideology." the only ppl who think that's even a thing are the far right & conspiracy theorists. & given that Gr0ypers have been feuding w/Kirk in recent months, sounds like something one of them might engrave on a bullet... juliaserano.medium.com/gender-ideol...
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“Gender Ideology” Is a Conspiracy Theory
In a recent essay, The Cass Review, WPATH Files, and the Perpetual Debate over Gender-Affirming Care, I made the case that “gender…
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
WTF? Does “the right way” to “practice politics” include lying re factual matters (eg saying Black Women have too little brainpower to be “taken seriously”)? Mourning Kirk’s murder & defending his right to make his wild claims doesn’t excuse praising his political MO www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Pundits are focusing on Kirk’s willingness to debate people while studiously ignoring the people whose basic humanity he was willing to debate
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Memo to public officials: if you didn’t make a statement condemning the murder of Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, then I have no interest in anything you have to say about the murder of Charlie Kirk.
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