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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I agree with @jvl.bsky.social. Dems would do well to conduct serial impeachments. First Heggy (if he is not convicted in Dec, after he IS impeached in House), then RFK. Then prioritize based on what will either gain support among Senate GOPers OR embarrass them. www.thebulwark.com/p/impeach-th...

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Impeach Them. All of Them.

Hegseth is only the beginning.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Published Tuesday; living it Sunday: aqi is so bad thanks to a local fire I have to close all the windows in a high-desert house with no air conditioning. "...the smoke, dangerous to breathe, hangs in the air, dimming the view, changing the very color of sunlight into something grimly unsettling.

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We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

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Dimitra Rizou @ahoyuniverse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Solutions to all the world's problems #cartoon

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Congress works 140 days a year and earns $174K annually, plus full benefits. How can anyone survive on that without a few stock trades and a little insider trading? They get 225 days off a year and think it’s okay to hold the federal minimum wage at $7.25 an hour for 17 years.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The problem of Labour abandoning socialism and now being the Starmer-Party. #Reform

The Reform party have made big gains in the UK.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Folks, pls don't share photos godforsaken Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social thieves circulate. Screenshot of a tweet looks like crap. No credit to photographer, a Black man. Support @nashvillebanner.bsky.social! Credit: Martin B. Cherry/Nashville Banner nashvillebanner.com/2026/05/07/t...

Justin Jones holding a burning paper Confederate flag inside state Capitol building. A state trooper is standing behind him.

Caption: Rep. Justin Jones (D-Nashville) burns a paper replica of a Confederate flag as he walks through a state Capitol hallway on Thursday. Credit: Martin B. Cherry / Nashville Banner

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Since the New Deal, the right edge of the conservative movement has been committed to the goal of eliminating all facets of the federal government that do good in the world, leaving behind only a war machine and a surveillance operation capable of containing the “internal leftist enemy.”

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Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

"When Musk & Hegseth argue that a racially diverse nation is inherently weak, they're not returning us to some long-established American tradition from which we've recently strayed. They are, instead, parroting the exact same propaganda that Nazi Germany promoted against America during World War II"

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

#Darwinday Sir David Attenborough talks to Brian Cox about his admiration for the achievements of Charles Darwin, and how On the Origin of Species inspires him in his work in the natural world. Sir David Attenborough on Charles Darwin 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yEX...

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People of Science with Brian Cox - Sir David Attenborough on Charles Darwin

YouTube video by The Royal Society

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I agree that concentration camp is the correct term for sites that imprison immigrants. I also find it interesting that the term concentration camp fell into disuse during Biden’s presidency while the camps themselves remained…

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

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Neil Shooter @neilshooter.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Trump’s Republicans are doing everything they told us the Democrats would do. Every accusation is a confession.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them.” Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter. He's got to go.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

If I sent a letter saying I would continue to inflict violence and murder on a community unless that community made legal concessions to me, I would go to prison. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Read Bondi’s Letter to Minnesota’s Governor

Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota on Saturday that blamed him and other Democratic officials for allowing “lawlessness” in the state. It was not immediately clear ...

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Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

There is a line in the book “Is Paris Burning?” where General Dietrich von Choltitz, who disobeyed the order to destroy the city, says, “Hitler is mad. Are you blind? Didn’t you see him at Berchtesgaden?” I think you could write a modern version: “Didn’t you see him at Davos?”

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless.

The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence.

ICE isn’t that. Not even close.

ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse.

You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do.

But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize.

In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses.

That difference matters.

Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with.

And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”

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Gabe Valentine ~ hiatus ~🐬🌊🏝️🧜🐳 @poetguygabe.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

"The disordered society is full of loyal patriots." Tao Te Ching, Ursula K. Le Guin translation

Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell translation

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Genevieve Cogman @genevievecogman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

As Pratchett said:

“They avoided one another's faces, for fear of what they might see mirrored there. Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest, and then I'll murmur agreement, not actually say anything, I'm not stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard...
No one said anything. The cowards, thought each man.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

He really is doing all of it.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

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Boo-face Sicko @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

It's striking that progressives like Tim Walz and Zohran Mamdani evoke the middle American attitude that, "Yes, we can fix these social problems because we're Americans and it's the right thing to do!" While the "America first" right only emulates failed and failing nation-states elsewhere.

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Angela @angelt.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I still recommend this dramatisation every year since its launch. The sound design is magnificent so worth listening on headphones. Interested in discovering any other winter listening rituals that others have. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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The Dark Is Rising - 1. Midwinter Eve - BBC Sounds

This night will be bad. Tomorrow will be beyond all imagining

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Greenmantled @greenmantled.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Just finished this and it’s one of my favorite books on Tolkien ever. Deeply insightful and a little heartbreaking.

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Josh Renaud @kirkman.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

This piece by Michael Drout is outstanding. I have felt the "great black wave of anguish" of losing a child he describes; the disappointment that there was no eucatastrophe, no miracle that awful morning. Yet we still find hope amid sorrow. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o... #tolkien #lotr

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Opinion | Why I Keep Returning to Middle-Earth

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons… To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.

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Greenmantled @greenmantled.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Thanks so much. For me it’s caffeine, and I find it impossible to give up coffee 😣

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Greenmantled @greenmantled.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Well thanks. I’m still struggling with it

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Greenmantled @greenmantled.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Mind if I ask what this regime is?

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/12/2025

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Book Cover of the Day:

OLD
CHRISTMAS
WASHINGTON IRVING
Green cover, gold lettering and decoration
Holly as border, Christmas cake, mistletoe and party scene with dancing and music.

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Fine. Give us the Epstein files in Times New Roman, then.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 05/11/2025

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 18/10/2025

Just remember when they make false claims that #NoKings hates America - it's because they think THEY represent America. Demographically, that's 100% false. In 2016, John Cena teamed up with Love Has No Labels for their We Are America campaign. 👇🏼 I'm sure the stats are even more diverse today. ✊🏼🇺🇸

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 17/10/2025

I found it pretty charming to learn that after Roger Taney died, sitting lawmakers called his death a "victory for liberty and the Constitution," suggested that he was probably burning in hell, and joked (?) that they'd rather hang him in effigy than do literally anything to honor his memory

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Roger Taney’s Contemporaries Hated Him As Much As You Probably Do

Ordinarily, members of Congress do not publicly suggest that recently deceased Supreme Court justices are burning in hell. But Roger Taney was no ordinary Supreme Court justice.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Frank was Antifa.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola. Fuck Columbus.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

People are following federal agents around DC w/the Imperial March. 😘 CHICAGO!! Will add some basic ICE melting🧊 resources below. Plz add other resources/ideas, & let’s get sub threads by city, so eg one person can start a Boston reply thread and everyone can add stuff to that thread — ? 🧵

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/09/2025

People literally bled & died fighting against corporate interests, robber barons, corrupt local & state politicians, cops & hired killers, & the federal government & US military for better working conditions for the rest of us so reflect on that today for just a bit while you're doing whatever else.

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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