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@heathr.bsky.social
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Heather Gold @heathr.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I still don’t get it. What is a snacking cake? How is it different from just cake?
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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Has anyone let him know about the 1.8 billion dollars available for weaponization
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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It is almost as if Donald Trump thinks he has immunity from prosecution
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Heather Gold @heathr.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Have corn nuts continued to have a life in some kind of region?
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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
🏅
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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 21/05/2026
This is on the Boring Internet is exactly right and very well written. Read the whole thing terrygodier.com/the-boring-i...
The platforms will keep mutating. The feeds will keep filling. The slop will keep rising. The grief is real and you are not wrong to feel it.

But the actual internet — the protocols, the federated services, the plain-text commands, the open feeds, the small servers, the personal sites, the things people built when user and developer were sometimes the same word — is still right there.

It was not demolished.

It was buried under a louder layer for a while.

Now the louder layer is thinning out.

You do not have to wait for someone to rebuild what you lost.

You are standing in it.
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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This thread breaks down why the majority of Black folks side eye White leftists and populists. We can’t trust them.
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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
🧵
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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Yes
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The Missouri Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in three challenges to a Republican gerrymander that aims to not only flip a congressional seat to the GOP, but also to override the will of Missouri voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Missouri Supreme Court hears challenges to GOP gerrymander
“The referendum right is the people’s veto. It is their check on the legislative power, and bills cannot go into effect until they have the opportunity to approve them once the referendum is invoked.”
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Breaking: South Carolina Senate rebuffs Trump, declines to take up redistricting before midterms, preserving Jim Clyburn's majority-Black district South Carolina State Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey: "We are the most gerrymandered Republican state in the country already"
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Heather Gold @heathr.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
A crisis.
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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 13/05/2023
To Heather Gold and her How to Tummel talk - how we connect youtu.be/zJb0l0J6h40 Is Heather not here yet? Damn send me more invites
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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
A recent vote in PA has been going viral. PA Dems passed a bill to block the creation of whites-only housing communities. It was introduced to stop extremists using housing loopholes. It passed 101-100. No Republicans supported it. It still has to pass the PA Senate. www.pahouse.com/InTheNews/Ne...
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Legislation to prevent white nationalist housing communities in Pa., including Fairness Act protections, passes Pa. House and heads to Senate
HARRISBURG, April 28 – A bill to block the creation of whites-only housing communities in Pennsylvania passed the state House today 101-100.House Bill 2103, introduced earlier this year by Rep. Ben Wa...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
🚨BREAKING: The NAACP filed an emergency lawsuit Thursday seeking to block Tennessee’s new congressional gerrymander, arguing the GOP’s rushed effort to dismantle the state’s lone majority-Black district. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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NAACP sues to stop Tennessee GOP gerrymander that dismantles majority-Black district
For over five decades, Tennessee law explicitly prohibited congressional redistricting between census cycles.
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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Oy vey
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Tim Weiner @tim-weiner.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The president wants a sham prosecution of the former CIA chief John Brennan. I'm not sure the American intelligence establishment can survive this regime much longer. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...
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Prosecutor Withdraws From Trump Team’s Investigation of Ex-C.I.A. Chief
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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Always read Barb... congrats and looking forward
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Julie Zebrak @juliezebrak.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
WSJ Editorial Board: Tuesday’s results in Wisconsin are another warning of a potential Democratic wave. www.wsj.com/opinion/wisc...
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Opinion | Wisconsin Swings to the Left
The GOP loses another court seat and the Waukesha mayor’s race.
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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We improved the GA-14 margin by like 25%, flipped a mayoral seat in a stronghold in WI, & (bluntly more importantly) finally widened control of the judiciary in WI so it’s not constantly a 4-3 court we have to panic about so future elections there should be immediately secure. The sky’s not falling.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Chris Taylor, a Dane County state appeals judge, has secured a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in a major win for Democrats heading into the midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Liberal Chris Taylor clinches Wisconsin Supreme Court seat in a win for voting rights
“Wisconsinites showed up in droves to elect Chris Taylor because they know every election is an emergency,” chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, said.
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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The only way to have checks and balances is to elect more Democrats. It is that simple.
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Heather Gold @heathr.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Chag Sameach!
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Heather Gold @heathr.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
In smaller font below: enablements and sundries
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You Must Remember This @rememberthispod.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Remembering Billy Wilder, who passed away on this day in 2002. Listen to our episode of The Old Man is Still Alive on Wilder's work in the 60s and 70s: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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Billy Wilder 1961-1981
Podcast Episode · You Must Remember This · S20 E238 · 1h 4m
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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I’m tired of the daily crying pretending Schumer isn’t good at his actual job as if CHIPS & Science & the IRA didn’t require rug-pulling the GOP, as if he didn’t get 235 judges through, as if Senate Dems don’t largely hold the line when it matters, & as if recruitment this cycle hasn’t been stellar.
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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Anyway, it was a great privilege to have worked on this with @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social Maggie Murphy and the rest of the Audible team. If you never read the Mueller report, or would like to honor the man with a refresher, give a listen. It’s free! www.audible.com/pd/The-Muell...
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The Mueller Report
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The wait is over. After a two-year investigation, the results of The Mueller Report have been released to the public. Now listen to an audio version of one ...
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Heather Gold @heathr.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
We studied who went over the Falls and who crossed it on a tightrope and visited the Sir Adam Beck hydroelectric plant.
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Maria Bamford @mariabamford.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
‼️ EDMONTON, ALBERTA ‼️ Grab a ticket to my show at the Horowitz Theatre for September 27th before it's too late! EDMONTON IS ON MY VISION BOARD! 🎉  Get info and tickets at www.showpass.com/maria-bamfor...
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Heather Gold @heathr.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Wow what a moment. Finally.
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Heather Gold @heathr.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Watching the Oscars is different once you’ve walked through the mall and sat in that theatre.
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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Always listen to Fiona Hill h/t @heathr.bsky.social youtu.be/QInWfOUOK3k?...
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What's going on in the minds of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin? | The Global Story
YouTube video by BBC News
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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
We are living in such dark times
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
"The suit also takes aim at Intel’s lawyers on the deal, Skadden, claiming the firm 'simultaneously represented the Department of Commerce as a result of a similar shakedown by the Administration'."
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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
🧵 Y’all want to see a cautionary tale of exactly what Black Folks have been trying to warn y’all of for years? This guy Sef Casim ran as a young progressive candidate against a BW and all the usual suspects lined up behind him. After he won the caucus/primary a bunch wjla.com/news/electio...
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Dem nominee faces bipartisan calls to quit over racist, misogynistic social media posts
Va. Dem candidate Sef Casim faces bipartisan pressure to drop out after old posts using racial slurs and misogynistic language surfaced online.
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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I’m not understanding why this is controversial… If your plan was to win the primary without the Black Vote then you should have thought about the possibility of having to win the general without the Black Vote. Why is that controversial…other than reality now sinking in?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 08/03/2026
The Trump administration keeps using Putin's language. from Anton Troianovski @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...
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How Trump’s War in Iran Has Echoes of Putin and Ukraine
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Oh snapppp! Rev. Dr. Jamal Bryant at the memorial service for Rev. Jesse Jackson: "The service wouldn't have been this long if were able to go to the Capitol, but the Capitol is now only reserved for pedophiles and podcasters." 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 05/03/2026
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.
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Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died
Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
🚨BREAKING: The White House confirmed Friday that President Donald Trump is pressing Congress to add new provisions targeting transgender people to the SAVE America Act — a sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump is adding anti-trans provisions to SAVE America Act
Trump appears to be using culture-war issues, which are popular among Republican voters, to increase the pressure on Republican lawmakers to back the bill.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"
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‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat
The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.
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CBCC🔜NYCC @cbccpodcast.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
HELLO KITTY comics from @idwpublishing.com......... ....... WRITTEN BY MARIKO TAMAKI!?!?! #comicspro26 - yer cookin!
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Heather Gold @heathr.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Important data in the conversation below this post. @pithywidow.bsky.social
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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Any of those big platform “allies” and Talarico supporters speaking out about Texas voting shenanigans affecting Black voters there or nah?
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
NEW: The Department of Justice will soon abandon its defense of President Donald Trump’s retribution campaign against law firms that challenged his political agenda or represented his political opponents over the years, according to the Wall Street Journal. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Report: In win for rule of law, DOJ drops defense of Trump orders targeting prominent law firms
Trump’s orders were a direct assault on the country’s adversarial system of justice.
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Heather Gold @heathr.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Also the leader of CAIR SF but you generally have to read Jewish press to learn about such things www.timesofisrael.com/california-m...
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California Muslim leader warns about ‘polite Zionists,’ drawing rebuke from ADL
Activist Zahra Billoo tells pro-Palestinian conference to monitor 'Zionist synagogues'; Anti-Defamation League calls speech 'vile, antisemitic, conspiracy-laden garbage'
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Heather Gold @heathr.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Sadly unsurprising. Mayor of nearby Richmond is openly antisemitic… a lot of the propaganda and slur framings now widely seen started in the Bay well over a decade ago, see SFSU, SJP and standwithus.com/news/standwi...
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StandWithUs Calls on UC Berkeley to Investigate and Address Antisemitism by Hatem Bazian - StandWithUs
(Los Angeles, CA – September 2, 2025) – StandWithUs calls on UC Berkeley to investigate the lengthy record of antisemitic statements by tenured Professor Hatem Bazian to determine whether they have cr...
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Heather Gold @heathr.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
What an opportunity he gave them. So now he’s got -public fear of Epstein accountability -check from SCOTUS conservatives on tarrifs -sending head of the FBI to help him advertise his fear of strong women, giving an already massively popular team even more press www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
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U.S. Women's Hockey Team declines Trump's invitation to the State of the Union
President Donald Trump invited the men's and women's hockey teams after both won gold medals in overtime games against Canada.
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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Great ROI on Melania bribes and tanking WaPo
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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
A yellow what now
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