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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Here for the acronym seekers: TWIRP (Two Weeks to Impeach and Remove the President) h/t @phl2ilm.bsky.social

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It’s helpful for me to remember that a lot of discourse boils down to I’m really struggling or afraid or angry and don’t politically know what to do to stop it but I won’t just say that.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/06/2025

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

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Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Families Make America Beautiful. Please share widely and see you out this weekend! #NoKingsDay www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B8X...

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Families Are Beautiful

YouTube video by National Education Association

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esmereldaknits.bsky.social @esmereldaknits.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Grateful to @prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for sharing this now. “Violence” is an eminently flexible term and its operational definition is dependent on who’s deploying it.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 11/06/2025

"Why are people throwing rocks?" Why are federal agents pointing weapons at US citizens?

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 11/06/2025

"why did a car burn?" is not a greater question than "why did you kidnap Jose?"

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esmereldaknits.bsky.social @esmereldaknits.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I always learn when I listen to #VibeCheck This week I learned “gingers” (a term for redheads I am barely accustomed to after years of hearing it) sometimes get called “red velvet” Thanks @zachstafford.bsky.social for bringing this to my redheaded attention open.spotify.com/episode/0dN4...

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There Is Not a Sharp Angle to Be Found

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Christopher Hudson @chrishudsonjr.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

“The pace of repression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine: It’s easier to hide behind forty atrocities than one single incident.” -Nemik #StarWars #Andor

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

What you refuse to say is also a message.

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esmereldaknits.bsky.social @esmereldaknits.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

@joellemonique.bsky.social discussion on The Force and #Andor during this episode was spot on. As always, the whole crew delivered the most entertaining, most insightful discussion of the week for me. open.spotify.com/episode/6LDd...

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Andor Season 2 (Episodes 7-9) Roundtable

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I say this with complete and utter sincerity, Democrats should stop listening to third-way consultants like Ezra Klein and should be physically forced to watch Andor instead.

Mon Mothma, pacing outside on Coruscant, whispering, "The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil."

Mon Mothma, giving her last speech to the Galactic Senate, shouts, "The monster who will come for all of us soon enough".

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I wrote "The Trial" on June 11, 2021, the day Darnell's Frazier—an 18 year old Black girl— received an honorary Pulitzer Prize for her video of George Floyd being murdered by those cops. Today, though, I share it because I’m struck by how it applies to Tyre Nichols as well.

The Trial

I don’t watch the video
but can feel it playing

on a loop in a room miles
away from where he keeps

dying behind my eyes. All
I have left are tiny twitches,

small choices. “Please,” I beg
alone in the box of my dark,

“I don’t want to hurt that way
today. I already hurt that way

yesterday. Please don’t kill him
again.” No one listens when

I talk myself in circles, not
even me. When I hurt like this,

I’m just someone’s redaction,
a slur the other slurs prefer

not to say, used and useless
while the video plays me,

rewinds to unwind me, records
over an old innocent video

of me breathing. This video
has got me against the wall

or by the throat or on my back
or— oh, who cares? Even

my exhaustion is tired. Just
pick a position, pick a “reason.”

And if it doesn’t kill me the way
you prefer, try again tomorrow.

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Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

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World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out

After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.

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esmereldaknits.bsky.social @esmereldaknits.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I’ve spent the last 2 weeks with #Andor S2 scores as my workday soundtrack. Today, I decided to really branch out & listen to S1 scores again. How could I have forgotten that “My Name is Kino Loy” makes me well up with emotion & gives me chills? The music of Andor, both seasons, is so, so good.

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esmereldaknits.bsky.social @esmereldaknits.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Surprising nobody, I love this breakdown & analysis of last night’s stellar #Andor “Through the lens of this show, what does it mean to have your rhetoric match your actions?” @netw3rk.bsky.social “Be the person that guns up the machine.” @rosiemarx.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0aOF...

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Andor Season 2 (Episodes 7-9) Recap

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esmereldaknits.bsky.social @esmereldaknits.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

If I hear a conversation with @mauricewfp.bsky.social , I’m gonna recommend you listen to it. This episode of @fascismbarometer.bsky.social is no exception. Good, good stuff. open.spotify.com/episode/3LbQ...

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No Kings, No Billionaires: Building a People-Powered Future

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

These American children have been abducted and exiled, not "deported." Deportation implies a legal process and there is none for these actions.

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esmereldaknits.bsky.social @esmereldaknits.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I appreciate @cotwatch.bsky.social reflecting after their initial reactions to #Andor. In particular, the letter from Katie events of E3 and their thoughts on Perrin. My take on Perrin: he’s an essential avatar for many, many people during times like these open.spotify.com/episode/6MK7...

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Andor Debrief | Episodes 1-3 (Listener Reflections and Discussion)

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esmereldaknits.bsky.social @esmereldaknits.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Without downloading any new pics where are you mentally?

Bedraggled yellow emoji with bags under eyes, scrolling on their phone (even though they know it’s breaking their brain)

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esmereldaknits.bsky.social @esmereldaknits.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I have listened to A LOT of Andor Season 2 conversations this week. @netw3rk.bsky.social discussion of dynamics of resistance and rebellion in its early phases is probably my favorite conversation. open.spotify.com/episode/5ldt...

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Andor Season 2 (Episodes 1-3) Roundtable

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Today, of course, is already an important anniversary of a huge global loss. 9 years. They stand in the way of love & we will smoke them all.

Black & white photo of Prince, sporting an afro, bell bottoms & heels, turning over his left shoulder to smile at the camera & give the finger.

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We Are Somebody @wearesomebody.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Over the weekend, We Are Somebody Founder @ninaturner.bsky.social, Until Freedom co-founder Tamika D Mallory, and Pastor Jamal Bryant met with Target leadership. We have released the following joint statement ⬇️

April 21, 2025
NATIONAL TARGET BOYCOTT LEADERS WE ARE SOMEBODY FOUNDER NINA TURNER, UNTIL FREEDOM CO-FOUNDER TAMIKA MALLORY, AND PASTOR JAMAL BRYANT CALL TO CONTINUE BOYCOTTING TARGET STORES, ANNOUNCE TARGET BOYCOTT ORGANIZING COMMITTEE.
ATLANTA, GA - We Are Somebody Founder Nina Turner, Until Freedom co-founder Tamika Mallory, and Leader of the 'Target Fast, Pastor Jamal Bryant renew the call to boycott Target and announce a Target Boycott Organizing Committee in the wake of the company rolling back its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
Nina Turner, Tamika Mallory, and Pastor Jamal Bryant issued the following statement:
"Easter Sunday was the final day of the 'Target Fast, which was part of the national Target Boycott. We are renewing our call to boycott Target on the grounds of the company reversing its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in response to legal threats from the Trump administration.
Over the weekend, the three of us met with Target leadership and our takeaway is this: Target is feeling the power of our communities and wants this boycott to end.
However, we believe that Target CEO Brian Cornell remains unaware of the betrayal felt by our communities due to his company's decision to cower to the Trump administration. Diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environments should be the hallmark of any company and/or government, it should be a source of pride.
We are recommitting to our demands and are announcing a renewed vision moving forward.
We recognize that no single organization, activist, or movement leader can determine the end of this boycott — that is the responsibility of Target and the power rests with the people. While the conversation seemed encouraging at times, it is clear that Target CEO Brian Cornell is still too afraid of the Trump administration to commit to using the words "diversity, equity, and inclusion."
We remain committed to the original demand that Target reinstates diversity, equity, and inclusion programs by na…

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We Are Somebody @wearesomebody.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

This is the people’s boycott—since our call to #BoycottTarget, Target stock has fallen by roughly 30%. Don’t EVER let anyone tell you we don’t have the power, collectively.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?

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Zach Stafford @zachstafford.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Do not forget that lynchings in America used to be entertainment events for white people. This same entertainment treatment is now being deployed at the prisons in El Salvador where Trump wants to send American citizens. These two forms of state violence are connected.

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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The silence is so loud

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 16/04/2025

Freelance comrades! Scarleteen is looking for writers to cover a range of topics: If you're a person versed in sexuality and relationships and advocating with young people, I'd be interested in working with you: sesmith at scarleteen dot com. More info below, and on our Write for us page.

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Write for us!

Creating and publishing some of the best content for young people about sex, sexuality, relationships and identities there is is what we do here. Diversity of voices and perspectives is also important...

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 10/04/2025

A painting of a bird beside the text "i don't think you understand exactly how fuckin' pissed we all are"

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esmereldaknits.bsky.social @esmereldaknits.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Listen to this. From @samsanders.bsky.social “We have to get to a point where we can understand that people can be doing the work while expressing all types of different emotions & they don’t owe you the performance you think you should have while they’re doing it” open.spotify.com/episode/0U6q...

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If You Don’t Want to Be Edged, Get Out of My Bed

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esmereldaknits.bsky.social @esmereldaknits.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I saw many a great sign today, too. A very big turn out in this little city.

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