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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14/11/2025

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This guy gets it

Don Moynihan, a professor at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, agrees that the administration is trying to “change the facts on the ground” at the agencies it has targeted, by eliminating personnel and suspending grants. Once that’s done, even if the court says your actions were unlawful, restoring the status quo ante will be “a little bit like trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube.”

“Two big problems jump out” for the next president looking to restore the federal government, said Moynihan. The first is that the Trump administration is trying to shift the balance of the federal workforce away from career employees toward political appointees. If successful, the number of Trump loyalists in place for the next president could be not the usual 4,000 or so, but 54,000 or 104,000. “To what degree do you trust them?” asks Moynihan. “That is quite a different proposition than has been faced by any president in the past.”

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Catherine Martin, PhD @flyingmooncat.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Woke up hoping for a new chapter of a great fanfic but the writer's chronic pain kept her from writing this week. Instead, I saw that we'd pressured Romania into letting us give sanctuary to sex traffickers/far right radicalizers. There is no better encapsulation of 2025.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Folks asking for sources other than NY post, Inside Higher Ed article was published yesterday, link below.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Not the banner you want seeing over this article from … checks notes … 8 days ago

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The thing about “patriotic education” is that if you have to lie about America to love it then you probably don’t really love it. Ultimately their objection to the flawed universalism expressed in the declaration is the idea that the flaws were bad or that the universalism should be realized.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Donald Trump has revoked EO11246 signed by LBJ in 1965, mandating equal opportunities by federal contractors.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 22/01/2025

Ok so Trump. Great job bringing TikTok back, that's something I'm sure you'll never stop bragging about. Now about how fast you're taking a wrecking ball to the America's structure & threatening people's rights. Also the CDC can't even ever send us advisories about disease anymore? Overkill.

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Dr Abolish ICE @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Well this is quite an opener

NINETY-TWO YEARS AGO THIS MONTH, on Monday morning, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was
appointed the 15th chancellor of the Weimar Republic. In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy, Hitler set about destroying a constitutional republic through constitutional means. What follows is a step-by-step account of how Hitler systematically disabled and then dismantled his country's democratic structures and processes in less than two months' time_ specifically, one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes. The minutes, as we will see, mattered.

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Matt Oswalt @mattoswaltva.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

TikTok was never going anywhere. The TikTok creator gave millions to Trump and they orchestrated this whole PR stunt just so Trump will be seen as a 'hero' to young people. It was literally the Kidz Bop version of the Reichstag Fire

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves *other people’s interests* - not yours.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

A lesson from the TikTok Affair should be that bipartisan efforts to preserve U.S. national security are vulnerable to the incoming president getting bought off and switching sides for his own personal and political benefit. Not great!

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18/01/2025

If law enforcement wants to enter your home, unless you consent, they need a JUDICIAL warrant like a search warrant. And you'll notice cops with search warrants don't ask permission. If ICE needs your permission to enter, they don't have a judicial warrant. They have an administrative warrant.

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The Art of Sean Andrew Murray @seanandrewmurray.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Ummm… Trump just played a video at his rally that was supposedly showing what the military “used to be” back “in the good old days” when we used to “win wars” vs. the “woke” military of today - by showing clips from… wait for it: APOCALYPSE NOW!! 🤦🏻‍♂️ I have no words.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 19/01/2025

@aoc.bsky.social e-mail going after TikTok & social platforms collaborating with Trump - with a shout out to @bsky.app

First of all, Donald Trump is not president right now.

He's a private citizen. He does not have access to presidential powers. He does not have the ability to do any of that.

Please understand that TikTok's decision to name Trump in the notification is a choice. They are signaling that they have agreed to privately collaborate with Donald Trump and the Trump administration.

For all of those concerns that people were saying that TikTok is gonna be used as a propaganda tool by the Chinese, understand they're using it as a propaganda tool for the right.

Now, I want you all to put all the pieces together because what this effectively means is that every mass social media platform in the United States has been taken over by the right wing, with the exception of Blue Sky (but Blue Sky is still very small, relatively).

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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Trump is the icing on a very shitty cake. And we have a lot of work to do to earn the trust of the majority of the world again, if we ever had it in the first place, which is debatable. We can start by having a citizenry that stands up to Trump in tangible ways.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

The last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre said the Justice Department’s recent report “falls heartbreakingly short” and are still calling for reparative action

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‘This is a call to action’: Tulsa race massacre survivors express frustration with DOJ report

"At 110 years old, we are weary, but we will not rest until justice for Greenwood is secured.”

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/01/2025

Or that Brendan Carr, Trump's pick to head the FCC, sent Meta a letter right after the election telling Zuck that fact checking was against the First Amendment and Carr was poised to take action if Meta kept fact checking. www.fcc.gov/sites/defaul...

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Catherine Martin, PhD @flyingmooncat.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

"White evangelicalism has never been about morality or even really faith, but identity — specifically Whiteness. By conflating religious and racial identity, white evangelicals have put a moral gloss on a deeply immoral desire for white supremacy." www.salon.com/2025/01/09/h...

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Evangelicals loved Jimmy Carter — until his anti-racism turned them against him

The religious right began with white supremacy — which is why their love of Trump was predictable

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Just a reminder that Facebook/Meta has allowed the most disgusting, racist calumnies about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to stand since its inception. They’re just sharing the hate a bit more widely now.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

"In the eyes of autocrats and plutocrats, the future is not a right but a commodity." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) hidinginplainsightbook.com

Excerpt from HIDING on climate change and vicious exploitation by plutocrats who want to depopulate the earth

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 10/01/2025

Well, we're adults (as a children's lit scholar, one would be surprised about the capacity kids have for empathy)... But! We're adults who want to be endlessly entertained. People talk about the literacy rate, but it's not just that. Some of my elders were illiterate & did not have these politics.

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Catherine Martin, PhD @flyingmooncat.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Terry Pratchett mostly wrote in the adult space, but his Disc World books are accessible and hilarious. He did have a youth series about a girl witch, if said boy is cool with female protagonists. She's not terribly girly and there are tiny crazy fighting men and a sentient cheese.

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Catherine Martin, PhD @flyingmooncat.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Impossible Creatures by Katherine Ruqnnell is a new series that has similar vibes but an equally matched boy and girl pair trying to save the last magical place on earth. Bonus is that the author also has a book on actual endangered species if you're looking for more teaching moments.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Been said by many others but the Rick Riordan Presents imprint. It's my number one middle grade rec for parents looking for non-HP books. For kids who want something less intense, I often rec the Christopher Chant and Dalemark books by Diana Wynne Jones.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Alive I watch the news -- wars disasters corruption unprecedented storms I ask the Ancestors: Has it always been this bad? Their answer: We are dead Our troubles passed Now is always the hardest time to be alive. #BlueSkyPoetry #Poem

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Might be a good time to point out a billionaire couple own and use more water than every home in LA combined

Meet the California Couple Who Uses More Water Than Every Home in Los Angeles Combined
How megafarmers Lynda and Stewart Resnick built their billion-dollar empire.

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I stitched this old tweet by @ladyofsardines.bsky.social and remind myself of its truth literally every day.

Photograph of an embroidery hoop. A tangle of multi colored threads dangles from the bottom of the hoop, and stitched in grey thread is the following quote by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca: "It can be overwhelming to witness/experience/take in all the injustices of the moment. The good news is that they're all connected, so if your little corner or work involves pulling at one of the threads, you're helping to unravel the whole damn cloth."

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

“I didn’t make up the problems,” I pointed out. ‘All I did was look around at the problems we’re neglecting now and give them about 30 years to grow into full-fledged disasters.’" - Octavia Butler (2000) commongood.cc/reader/a-few...

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A Few Rules For Predicting The Future by Octavia E. Butler

Octavia Butler was an author of moving and prophetic science fiction novels. She wrote an essay in 2000 for Essence Magazine that teaches us the capacity we have to understand the future, as well a…

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Ursula K. LeGuin: "American science fiction has assumed a permanent hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, with rich, ambitious, aggressive males at the top, then a great gap, and then at the bottom the poor, the uneducated, the faceless masses, and all the women."

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.

You have, in fact, alienated yourself.

This tendency has been remarkably strong in American SF. The only social change presented by most SF has been towards authoritarianism, the domination of ignorant masses by a powerful elite—sometimes presented as a warning, but often quite complacently. Socialism is never considered as an alternative, and democracy is quite forgotten. Military virtues are taken as ethical ones. Wealth is assumed to be a righteous goal and a personal virtue. Competitive free-enterprise capitalism is the economic destiny of the entire Galaxy. In general, American SF has assumed a permanent hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, with rich, ambitious, aggressive males at the top, then a great gap, and then at the bottom the poor, the uneducated, the faceless masses, and all the women. The whole picture is, if I may say so, curiously "un-American." It is a perfect baboon patriarchy, with the Alpha Male on top, being respectfully groomed, from time to time, by his inferiors.

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

"[It] may be right to view with a certain irony those [who work as] dispassionate analysts standing above the battle. What the historical record strongly suggests is that no one is above the battle, because the battle is all there is" - Quentin Skinner, Visions (2002), I, p. 7

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Professor Power @powerofacademe.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

As a Bodin scholar, I'm necessarily a scholar of "Sovereignty" & thus tend to 'see' it everywhere. The way the term/idea exists out there in the world can be absolutely *wild.* Friends, this exists. This is real. I'm actually kinda speechless. But also have SO MUCH to say. 😂 sovereignmale.ca

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Catherine Martin, PhD @flyingmooncat.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Been exhausted from holiday retail, but I did take the time to celebrate Anita Bryant's death by FINALLY hanging out Pride flag. Still need to fix the flag pole base, but that's a bigger project.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Indeed...and I'd add the friendly amendment that this has been a *multi-generational* ref working effort on the part of the American right.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Peter Thiel has been going “democracy is bad because women vote against libertarianism” for like a quarter century and people are still doing this “Silicon Valley was forced right” thing

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

It’s reaching Nazi-level panic. And the left needs to get the story straight. Trans people are being attacked in the same way the right has attacked any new group that petitioned for their rights in America. We defend them because we know that there’s no freedom without the freedom to be yourself.

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bpaisano.bsky.social @bpaisano.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I feel like i've read thousands of these think pieces and they all just say 'we should be nicer to white men' and 'we need to redefine masculinity to be progressive' and i think the authors are just coming at the problem in an entirely wrongheaded way

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Catherine Martin, PhD @flyingmooncat.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

#bookchallenge Day 9 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt: Why the rape accusation against Pete Hegseth matters. Subscribe today! salon.com/newsletter Music by Fever Ray.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The right's opposition to the HPV vaccine was a harbinger of what blossomed fully into a categorical hostility to preventive medicine. Right down to the weird moralizing view that the righteous don't die of these diseases.

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Everyone knows the Eve Sedgwick quotation about Christmas. Here we see it in action: a Thanksgiving Day protest against genocide making a clear historical reference to settler colonialism is, through Christmas, looped into the discourse of compulsory cheer (the noncompliant are "grinches")

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Catherine Martin, PhD @flyingmooncat.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Confirms a feeling I've always had-'nonpolitical' really means whatever conservatives say it does. White men will continue to insist they're the norm. It's a good reminder for media trying to avoid charges of liberal bias. There's nothing you can do. Existing outside the 'norm' is 'political bias.'

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