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Best compliment I ever received: "The Google Fu is strong with this one."

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Detroit Breakdown @detroitbreakdown.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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Rob (the floor one) @floorisbed.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
it's amazing how prevalent the idea is that a bigot who calmly says "no sir" and "yes ma'am" is more civil than a kindhearted person who tells nazis to fuck off
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Deeann @deeann926.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
“I will never visit the United States again,” Mr. Jeong said. @nytimes.com #Hyundai www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Journalists and reporters and commentators are being fired for accurately repeating, as in word for word, what a person is on video saying. We have well and truly lost freedom of the press and freedom of speech.
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
"it's so strange that half of us are like you should care about everyone even if it doesn't directly impact you, the other half are like, no." H/t @wildoakfarms on IG
"it's so strange that half of us are like you should care about everyone even if it doesn't directly impact you, the other half are like, no."
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The Republican Party is gonna go down in infamy. Which is small comfort. But richly deserved.
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I am so ashamed of us. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Ice secretly deported Pennsylvania grandfather, 82, after he lost green card
Family of Luis Leon say they were initially told by someone he had died, but they found him alive in Guatemala hospital
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
You gotta be some kind of monster to be proud of canceling Kermit and Stephen.
Screenshot of IG post by @muppethistory showing Kermit the Frog and Stephen Colbert lying on a picnic blanket gazing upward, captioned: "Goddnight, my friends.

Forgive your anger. Be kind to yourself."
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
All I'm saying is if you have yet to see Superman, run don't walk. It's that good.
Image of Superman and Krypto from behind gazing at the earth from wayyyyy up high.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 01/07/2025
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I'm just leaving this here.
Miami Herald headline: "Miami-Dade County
It's official: Miami cancels November election, postponed it to 2026
By Tess Riski and CD Goette-Luciak
Updated June 26, 2025 8:36 PM"
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
70% of eligible voters did not vote for him. He doesn't have a mandate. He has a sliver.
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
This is fine.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
👇🎯 Again, the casual ease with which we’ve decided neither the law nor the constitution nor our int’l treaty commitments (which are also part of US law) matter at all is indicative of how far we’ve collapsed into authoritarianism & how not punishing things like Iran-Contra & Iraq 2003 got us here.
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Why are any democrats (not counting Fetterman, he's an asshat and doesn't count) voting for ANYTHING brought to the floor by the fascist regime? Every time it's like a knife to the back.
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Thank goodness we have Jack Posobiec to inform us that grown men trading mean tweets is how "high agency males" communicate with each other <checks notes> directly. Because that's not what I would have called it.
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
But "due process" isn't important if you're innocent.
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
They really and truly want us dead. www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...
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Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Somebody please explain to me why ANY Democratic Senator would vote yes on ANY nomination brought by the fascist regime? FOLKS. JUST. SAY. NO. (this question is not in search of answer, as they will only infuriate me)
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Every store, retailer, service provider, outlet—every entity involved in commerce should display the tariff cost of their wares and services.
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
The kids are all right
Letter published in Portland Press Herald:

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Please read this principled and beautiful refusal to become complicit “in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging” from @alondra.bsky.social time.com/7285045/resi...
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This is very not good. Like super duper not good.
Image from @iampoliticsgirl insta reel with excerpt from GOP reconciliation bill that reads as follows:
(1) In general—Except as provided in paragraph (2), no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10-year period beginning in the date of the enactment of this Act.
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I wish I was living 50 years from now and reading about how the word "trump" completely reversed its meaning starting in the mid 21st century, switching from "to win or override" to "to destroy with mindless incompetence and venal purpose" That CEO really trumped his company didn't he?
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
It astonishes me how many unqualified people he has access to: it's like an endless ladder of the Peter Principle
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Big Pharma: $1.6 trillion "Wellness" industry: $6.3 trillion One relies on science, research, trials, and data. One... does not.
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Would be nice if the coverage, you know, covered
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This is astonishingly true
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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
New Rat Pope is the name of my other band
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Nothing to see here. Just @emilyjaynef.bsky.social being forcibly removed from NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler's town hall tonight for having the temerity to act like a citizen of the United States. Hero.
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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Philosopher Jersey Flight @jerseyflight.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
This creates a pseudo-legislative foundation for a police state—'pseudo' because executive orders aren’t technically law. This distinction can become irrelevant if law enforcement, military, intelligence agencies choose to enforce them law, regardless of their constitutional validity.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
He's also the president who killed things like this. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
What the fuck? Seriously. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
Tweet from Lindsey Graham's official account: 
"I was excited to hear that President Trump is open to the idea of being the next Pope. This would truly be a dark horse candidate, but I would ask the papal conclave and Catholic faithful to keep an open mind about this possibility!
 
The first Pope-U.S. President combination has many upsides. Watching for white smoke…. Trump MMXXVIII!"
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Russell Riley sums it up.
Excerpt from WaPo opinion:

We are just now approaching the end of Trump’s first 100 days — so there remains ample time for the scales of government to rebalance. But this is unlikely to happen without the insistence of Congress — which Trump narrowly but effectively controls for the moment. The hesitancy by lawmakers to play their assigned role would have puzzled the Constitution’s framers, who gave pride of place to the legislative branch in the first article of the Constitution.

Thus the only certain check on a president who claims that “I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want,” is a Congress firm enough to assert in reply, “Yes, but we have Article 1.”
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Hmmm. Odd he's not calling for "strongly worded letters"
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Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
So gd accurate
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Trying to think of any government registry of people's medical and private information that was a good thing....
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Nobody is safe. Nobody.
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g @gillian07.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
If we survive him, it's going to take decades to recover. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Beyond Showerheads: Trump’s Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cause Chaos
Donald Trump has long railed against everything from low-flow showerheads to LED lightbulbs. After failed attempts to undo appliance regulations in his first term, he may have found a new end-run to a...
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/04/2025
Auchincloss: "This issue about the Maryland man is not about border security or immigration. It's about freedom. Freedom in the US means that if your feet are on American soil, you get to stand in front of a judge on an equal basis to the awesome power of the state and put forward the facts."
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Not the same indeed.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/04/2025
This is some sick shit
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Mike Madrid @mikemadrid.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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