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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Famous Chicago Mayor Harold Washingron quote: "Take their money, then vote for me."

Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The middle class has told so many lies about who is brave and financially comfortably (nobody btw) that this sort of thing actually surprises some.

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

There's a lot of blah blahing for the sake of clicks and reader stats, but the Italians can be counted on the understand how most brands of fascism work and what they want. Viz:

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I'm pretty sure she's asking for courage and integrity from lawyers. Trauma does trigger delusion, so 🤷🏻

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

What's WWIII without European casualties, amirite?

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Context matters - this would have been our first large-scale concentration camp of the size of the famous Nazi 1.0 camps. He will still need facilities of this size, and while we don't want these camps anywhere, if he starts setting them up here, the risk of proliferation balloons. Short term win,

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

If you're at Harvard, say a thank you today to Claudine Gay, who was your scapegoat for the intolerant right and shifted the wrath of Trump to hit Columbia first. Once again, a Black woman's pain has made life easier for the elite.

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I'm applying to MFA programs and saw for the first time today "do you identify as a first-generation student?" IMO, this is a status w/ an external, identifiable metric. It is a tremendous achievement that should not be watered down by people who "feel" that they are first generation but who aren't

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Can anybody explain the autocorrect that hyphenates thank you? What an odd choice.

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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

Findom in the 1930s was much simpler, you’d put 5 wooden nickels and a strawpenny in the post, and 6 to 8 weeks later a buxom gal with ruddy cheeks would send you back a daguerreotype of herself sitting quietly in the parlor wearing a spectacularly revealing hat

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Pro-democratic theorists hate that Hitler got elected so much they ignore it.

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Social media poster chides Buddha, Jesus for not accomplishing much. 😂

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Just pathetic that a POLISH politician would not understand the logic of disarming Europe. Europe has believed that disarming was proof of its presence as a global force. Imagine if the Continent had continued to be as belligerent as the U.S. and Russia. Europe has done many things wrong, but

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

America doubling down on its most pro-rape political season since the 1950s.

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

White Americans have been agreeing to this Devil's bargain since the dawn of the republic. As long as Black and Brown folks (but especially Black folks) are getting it worse, white people will go along with whatever. For this group, anti-Black hatred is stronger than even self-preservation.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 24/02/2025

oh cool I’ve been meaning to learn anxiety

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Writers: DO NOT listen to tough love advice on social media. If someone tells you that if you don't like your writing, a reader won't, they are feeding into insecurities common among many writers. Just make a note of that name and don't work with them. ✍️ Trust the process and know that

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

One of a new series. A kind of deconstruction (and reconstitution?) of the "No Blossom" pieces. (documentation of that exhibition can be seen at tinyurl.com/bdf4xskd) As yet unnamed, but watercolor and ink on watercolor paper, 9"x12" #art #fineart

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Best read as a single billboard

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The Bowl of Romaine Lettuce people and the Fruit on a Stick people will finally be together, as was always destined 💖

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Or you could just start making loud honking noises whenever a lawyer type gets within 20 feet to drive them away (the online equivalent is just all caps words repeated without sense or surcease) and we could call that the AK AK rule.

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Remember that free speech exists in the United States, unless of course you start asking some uncomfortable questions to those of power and privilege.

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The top federal prosecutor in New York and two senior federal prosecutors in Washington have resigned after refusing to follow a Justice Department order to drop the corruption charges against NYC mayor Eric Adams www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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Federal prosecutors in New York and Washington resign after refusing to drop Adams charges

At least six prosecutors, including the acting U.S. attorney in Manhattan, have stepped down over the DOJ order to dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Failed the loyalty test. Presumably this was a multiple choice exam with no advance prep, as the mayor doesn't assign homework.

Three heads of departments in the city of Chicago who have just resigned are pictured: heads of OEMC, Jose Tirado; COPA, Andrea Kersten; and Aviation, Jamie Rhee.

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

From the Chronicle of Higher Education, all the college DEI-related law making happening right now. You have to register to see the DEI legislation tracker, but it's free : www.chronicle.com/article/here...

chronicle.com

DEI Legislation Tracker

The Chronicle is tracking state legislation to restrict colleges’ efforts to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion. Where does your state stand?

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Daniel @escargotpro.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Trump's America

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The worst this gets, the more I hate the Democratic Party. My long era of voting may be over...

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

THIS is why the assault on the Internet Archives preceded the inauguration of this beast.

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

If your defense RE Trump is that you voted for Biden, the segregationist and genocide enabler, guess what? So many Americans treat politics like a consumer and not a citizen & think "don't blame me I tried to buy the kinder suit" is a defense for what our country does with our police & military.

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Counterpoint: Irreparable damage has already been done. Lives WILL be lost because of his policy choices. The damage to our political institutions cannot be undone. You must work with the knowledge that it may be in vain, but if you're not part of the resistance, history will remember your

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 04/02/2025

Ignore the media headlines reporting that freezing federal spending or shuttering federal agencies “raise questions” or “push boundaries.” It’s an anticonstitutional lawbreaking spree.

brennancenter.org

Breaking the Law

Just weeks in, the Trump administration has violated rules, laws, and the Constitution.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:

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Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized (Gift Article)

A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This is our first major concentration camp* -- the first Nazis ended up with 23 of these. There are also feeder camps needed to make the system work. We have 200. The first Nazis ended up with about 1,000, according to scholars. The major camps held an average of 70,000 people, 2/3rds of whom were

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🏳️‍⚧️”Fall Futch”🦾 @faefutchauntie.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

blue collar kids learn (often the hard way) that you cannot say certain things to people and not expect to have a fist coming your way. Rich kids never learn that. Look at where were at.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

However much we yell at the newspaper it’s not enough.

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Gabriel @gabrielpiemonte.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

In our contemporary world, where people pretend there is no morality but lack the intellectual and spiritual depth to replace it, we encounter bald hypocrisy as commonplace. To wit: AI is always and only theft and its products are always

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The amount of Luigi art on Xiaohongshu is unreal. Like if you thought he was a folk hero in America, I've never seen so much content about him. There's 'how to look like him' clothing tutorials. There's songs and skits about how he wants to give the freezing firewood. Had no idea this was going on.

Luigi pencil sketch (looks shockingly like him)

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