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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just saying that the best contestation of Christian nationalism is a better politics, not a better religion.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026

here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

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Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Me (not him) on Kirk - www.patreon.com/posts/bandit...

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isaac @sevier.io · 03/08/2025

I think there’s a big difference between “all hope is lost” and “I have lost hope” and in climate it is really important to distinguish between the two. My personal feelings, your personal feelings are not the limits of our collective politics.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I think one of the reasons there’s so much cognitive dissonance on the right about Epstein, child sex trafficking, and their own heroes is that they don’t think of the victims as real people. They view the abuse as an intangible evil but when real victims come forward they ignore and deny them

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Matt (he/him) @iicapum.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I’m a K-5 art teacher, and I’m constantly emphasizing to my kiddos how important and true and beautiful it is to see brush strokes and dents and mistakes because it shows that a human being made this thing. They’ve taken to calling out all kinds of human things as showing “the hand of the artist.”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

"The Stranger's Case," William Shakespeare Sir Thomas Moore: Act II Scene 4 ___ Imagine that you see the wretched strangers, Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage, Plodding to the ports and costs for transportation ...

Refugees reach land in an inflatable raft. A young child in the foreground crouches on some rocks, crying.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/04/2025

i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

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Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador

Donald Trump’s administration is talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Portraiture "it is an investigation... of how the features + the nature of the subject connect. What she comes up with here is a rendering of Trump as a soft piece of fabric pulled around a cushy pillow. This is hardly a sensitive portrayal of a man who has in 2mo dismantled 🇺🇸 civil society..."

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The Daily Heller: 'Damn It, They Can See the Pictures' – PRINT Magazine

Four artists react to Sarah A. Boardman’s Trump portrait debacle in Colorado.

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DocAtCDI @docatcdi.com · 12/03/2025

About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back

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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 30/01/2025

I will again point out that like "state's rights", "parent's rights" are not a thing. Parents have authorities, not rights, when it comes to their children (and those authorities can be revoked). Children have rights. Not parents.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Per @aoc.bsky.social and co., I'm here to celebrate echo chambers and preaching to the choir. Which sings back, beautifully. "The primary assumption behind the idea that we shouldn’t preach to the choir is that one’s proper audience is one’s enemies, not one’s allies." harpers.org/archive/2017...

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Preaching to The Choir, by Rebecca Solnit

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 30/09/2024

Instead, voting is closer to a marker, an exchange of power that can be called in or revoked based on the conduct of the recipient. A vote is consent, and as consent can be renegotiated or denied at any time — if you pay attention between elections! But the consumption model wrecks this.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

The attacks you’re seeing on the Harris and Walz families from the online right are reflective of a different ideological orientation towards family as mere objects that are meant to reflect the greatness of the husband and father, not people with their own lives and emotions.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

My latest features five biblical women, Audre Lorde & Gerda Lerner, asking: To what extent might institutional change be possible? Can the master's tools can dismantle the master's house-- and if not, what do we need in order to build something new together? Full essay: Read and share: ❤️🌱

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Tzlofchad's Daughters and the Master's Tools

Can we make true institutional change?

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

Quite a few Americans like the idea of strongman rule. Why not a dictator who will get things done? My latest Substack: "The Strongman Fantasy: And Dictatorship in Real Life" open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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The Strongman Fantasy

And Dictatorship in Real Life

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

I don’t even mean because it hurt Trump. That’s nice too. But Jean stood up for sexual assault victims everywhere by facing down one of the most powerful men in the world. And she won. This is a watershed day for survivors.

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Space City Weather @spacecitywx.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

There are changes in the forecast for our upcoming cold spell, which looks to arrive in the Houston area earlier than anticipated. There is also a slight chance of some wintry precipitation on Sunday night into Monday morning. But things are still up in the air - so to speak.

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Arctic air is coming to Texas, possibly as early as Sunday morning

Good morning. There are some changes in the forecast for our upcoming cold spell, which looks to arrive earlier than anticipated. There is also a slight chance of some wintry precipitation on Sunda…

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

“What a Gazan Should Do During an Israeli Air Strike” by Mosab Abu Toha:

Turn off the lights in every room / sit in the inner hallway of the house / away from the windows / stay away from the stove / stop thinking about making black tea / have a bottle of water nearby / big enough to cool down / children's fear / get a child's kindergarten backpack and stuff / tiny toys and whatever amount of money there is / and the
ID cards / and photos of late grandparents, aunts, or uncles / and the grandparents' wedding invitation that's been kept for a long time / and if you are a farmer, you should put some strawberry seeds / in one pocket / and some soil from / the balcony flowerpot in the other / and hold on tight / to whatever number there was / on the cake / from the last birthday.

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 10/01/2024

The reason swatting is effective as a domestic terrorism tactic is because it assumes — correctly — that the police who respond to an anonymous call are likely to immediately resort to extreme violence if something goes wrong or wires get crossed or whatever.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 31/12/2023

It's the final December Comfort Watch, and we finish with what is probably the ultimate in comfort watches: The Princess Bride. Would you like to know why I think this film, originally only a modest box-office success, became a generational classic? As you wish: whatever.scalzi.com/2023/12/31/t...

Cary Elwes and Robin Wright, experiencing True Love, in The Princess Bride

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

here is some very good advice from Spinoza. I think of this often, especially in dark times:

“No deity, nor anyone else, save the envious, takes pleasure in my infirmity and discomfort, nor sets down to my virtue [my] tears, sobs, fear, and the like… Therefore… it is the part of a wise man to refresh and recreate himself with moderate and pleasant food and drink, and also with perfumes, with the soft beauty of growing plants, with dress, with music, with many sports, with theatres, and the like, such as every man may make use of without injury to his neighbour.”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

I wrote about Substack founder Hamish McKenzie's nonsense answer to an open letter about Nazis on his platform, and asked him some follow-up questions. Why The Reframe is probably moving homes in 2024, and how subscribers can help creators who are there. armoxon.substack.com/p/questions-...

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Questions for Substack

Follow-up questions about Nazi "ideas" for Substack's founders, and contemplating the future of The Reframe.

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 23/12/2023

“When you're infected with #measles, your #immune system abruptly forgets every pathogen it's ever encountered before – every cold, every bout of flu, every exposure to bacteria or viruses, every #vaccination. The loss is near-total and permanent.” If you are #antivax, you are courting death.

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The race to understand 'immune amnesia'

Scientists have known for years that measles can alter the immune system – but the latest evidence suggests it's less of a mild tweaking, and more of a total reset.

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keithy.bsky.social @keithy.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Gift link for same: www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/o...

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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Joined the 538 crew to discuss the implications of a potential second Trump term and contemplate how to discuss the "stakes, not the odds" (h/t @jayrosen.bsky.social) abcnews.go.com/538/trump-te...

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

I wrote an op-ed for the NYT about what reporting on long COVID has meant to me—how I approached it, the impact it had, and how it taught me to be a better journalist. This piece is sort of a manifesto for a journalism grounded in compassion, rigor, and care. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/o...

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Opinion | Reporting on Long Covid Taught Me to Be a Better Journalist

Covering long Covid solidified my view that science is not the objective, neutral force that it is often caricatured to be.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

"This is a damning indictment of my profession, my prepandemic self included. I am far from the only journalist covering this topic but clearly there aren’t enough of us. How could so many people feel so thoroughly unrepresented by an industry that purports to give voice to the voiceless?"

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Opinion | Reporting on Long Covid Taught Me to Be a Better Journalist

Covering long Covid solidified my view that science is not the objective, neutral force that it is often caricatured to be.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/12/2023

reading this makes me tremble with rage. the uvalde police are terrible cowards and scum who didn't even have the decency to do the honorable thing after the magnitude of their cowardice became clear www.texastribune.org/2023/12/05/u...

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“Someone tell me what to do”

Across the country, states require more training to prepare students and teachers for mass shootings than for those expected to protect them. The differences were clear in Uvalde, where children and �...

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

I wound up darker on George Santos than I expected in writing this about him months ago; for all the aspirational posturing and outré graft he's also a seriously lousy person who rode a very ugly wave. But as ominous symptoms go, he made for a very colorful rash. defector.com/the-man-who-...

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The Man Who Invented Himself | Defector

George Santos stands out as a liar and a crook even by the standards of a broken political moment. And yet he seems to be right where he belongs.

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Rare crosspost but my personal thoughts on Nixon, Kissinger and how I can play one but not the other: www.patreon.com/posts/939111...

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