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Erika with a K

@imaginaryerika.bsky.social
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Corny as Kansas in August. Flibbertigibbet. Manic pixie dream crone. Crafty. Old at heart. Trying to get by in the PNW with my dog Jazmine and my cat roommates Julip & ZsaZsa.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The first on what will be the very long list of Things We Did Not Mention to Attorney Generals When Negotiating the Merger
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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If Kamala Harris had won the 2026 election we would not be at war with Iran right now. If Al Gore had won the 2000 election we would never have invaded Iraq. Half of this site will scream at you that this isn't true.
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Erika with a K @imaginaryerika.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Every so often I think I should embrace my natural hair texture, forgetting that my natural hair texture can best be described as “lady in a wig going through it”/“Nick Nolte mug shot.” So anyway, today I look like Rosanne Rosannadanna.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 17/09/2026
Promoting your restaurant with AI pictures of food is very confusing to me
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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For those who aren't paying attention to this enough, a Black woman is fighting to protect the integrity of this country. Again.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not sure if people know Wakefield was trying to sell a competing measles vaccine when he made up his fraudulent study about the MMR. It was only after that failed (because he is a complete fraud) that he started grifting off opposing all vaccines. It’s all just a grift. Antivaxxers are their marks.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Still can’t quite get past the absurdity of Trump having a tantrum because he wants to add his name to another president’s memorial.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The building is crumbling! Quick, put my name on it!
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Kennedy Center was in such dire shape when Trump took office the only solution was to appoint a board of cronies and crony spouses who have absolutely no experience with a major arts institution.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's never not a shock hearing Matthew Rhys's Welsh accent. I swear his entire posture changes
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Googling these days
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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Children as young as 5 are being introduced to AI tools at school. There is no research to back up introducing AI this young, The New Yorker’s Jessica Winter says, and studies on adults show that AI can lead to cognitive atrophy: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
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On the Media
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
and after the union wins? you go back and you tip hard and you show the company it was the workers who made them their money, and that they're nothing without the workers! super simple equation! Solidarity with Starbucks Workers United, 12,000 strong and growing!
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Sang As It Ever Will Be @sanguinarynovel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I feel a lot of different ways that the only time artists are given decent pay is when it's fascism related. Its good that we're, as a group, are a moral bunch. But this also shows how much capitalism *knows* what good artists of all mediums are worth and how much they take advantage of passion
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alessandro fillari @afillari.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I really hate this gross trend of big tech trying to co-opt role of storytellers and artists to conjure up some phony authenticy for companies.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Flock is trying to recruit ARTISTS on job recruiting sites. I saw this while helping an artist friend look for part-time jobs and nearly vomited. “Visual storytelling” — What in the Leni Riefenstahl is this shit?
The whole nauseating post:

Creative Director
Flock Z • 4.0 *
Job details
• $200,000 - $250,000 a year
Stock options
• Full-time
• Remote in Los Angeles, CA
Full job description
The Problem
Flock's creative group is expanding as the company raises its standard of visual storytelling and campaign execution across brand, film, and digital experiences. This momentum creates a need for unified creative leadership to turn complex technology and public safety outcomes into compelling, human-centered narratives.
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His Bark Materials🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌌 @oneiriccanid.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Why even hope” is one of those things said by someone who just wants company in their misery. Yes it sucks that a Democrat in Texas said things which sound like throwing us under the bus, but you don’t get to drag everyone into your pit of despair with you. That’s just emotional crab bucketing.
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His Bark Materials🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌌 @oneiriccanid.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“The Democrats want us dead too” is the kind of insane, suicidal bullshit you get from people who are completely poisoned by online trans discourse mixed with panic and hopelessness and don’t care about the party’s actual record on trans rights.
Ashley Schofield is looking for...
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there is an uncomfortable truth that i think a lot of people like to avoid because it makes political discussions over trans people fall apart
and it is that the 'progressive' parties (labour, dems etc) aren't abandoning us for political points
they just want us dead too
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it is depressing. it's horrific. it's also true
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good question! please let me know when you find an answer. i haven't.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Elon Musk is bankrolling an ad campaign to get you to check your voter registration through an innocent-sounding website. But his real goal is to collect and sell your personal data to advertising companies, Big Tech, and other Republican PACs.
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The hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org
The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What's notable is that this is a phrase you mostly come across in Europe, not the United States. Just goes to show that the federal government is infested with hardcore Nazis since the Republicans took over. Anyhow, wonder what Hasan Piker is up to?
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doctors and engineers - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is yet another telling example of the Trump regime’s racism. There’s no pretense here of targeting criminals - the usual excuse for mass deportations. DHS is specifically encouraging Haitian “doctors, lawyers, scholars and engineers” to leave. Any decent society would value these people.
DHS encourages “doctors, lawyers, scholars and engineers” to leave with some sort of $3,000 payout, its naked racism.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2026
always ironic that the people with these attitudes are children who have accomplished nothing other than been born at a time when their skin color was a social advantage
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2026
i think it is cool that neo nazis run government social media accounts
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painesvillain 🏴 @painesvillain.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There's certainly something to be said for medical professionals being dismissive of patient concerns, but if that were the main driver, MAHA would be dominated by Black women and trans people. It very clearly is not. FFS can we go one day without coddling white people causing harm?
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Samantha Burns @cheesecakechik.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The medical establishment is incredibly sexist. It’s also incredibly racist. And transphobic. And ableist. You can call that out without babying fascists for being women. And it’s insulting to actually downplay the harm they’re perpetrating by claiming they had no other choice
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I mean for goodness sake. You’re multi millionaires. You never need to work again. Protect the human craftspeople and you would win so much goodwill right now.
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Getting a bit tired of very rich actors and directors saying ‘AI is here we have to learn how to use it’ instead of ‘I am wealthy enough to dedicate myself only to projects which employ talented human beings because anything else is an existential threat to human storytelling’
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
MAHA has been in power for two years. They have decimated basic science, gutted food safety surveillance and kicked millions of people off food stamps. *That* is their ideology, not their polite platitudes about corporate control of the food supply.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“A lot of them don’t believe that their fight is partisan, and it’s not.” Yes it is. MAHA is overwhelmingly a right-wing movement with right-wing goals. The reason they make “progressive” arguments is to trick mainstream figures into working with them — exactly as AOC seems to be doing.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Also, social shame is an important motivator! There is a real contingent of men who think age of consent laws should be repealed. The reason that 'movement' has never caught on is that they are immediately labeled freaks and perverts if they ever bring it up in public.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I don't think the 'cult deprogramming' argument works for public figures! If you're a regular person, listening empathically to your anti-vaxx aunt is fine. If you're a public official speaking to millions, though, the message has to be "MAHA is killing kids," not "MAHA has some good points."
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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Well, this is really gross. tl;dr: It's likely that the tariff-free beef is coming from Brazil. The EU has just banned Brazilian beef because it's not meeting their safety standards, and the biggest meatpacker in Brazil is a big Trump donor. Beef - it's definitely NOT what's for dinner!
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The basic Republican pitch to young people is, “Isn’t owning the libs better than owning a home?”
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Feminist theory remains undefeated in explaining the weirdest parts of the Trump administration. I'm just going to keep posting this skeleton-key-to-MAGA passage, written over 40 years ago, until everyone gets it.
"To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory
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sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
oh no. what a loss, what a legend. RIP dolly parton, our only collab was brief and also you weren't aware of it, but i'll never ever forget it
screenshot of an old tweet from me, rob dubbin

MY MAN: (comes home)
ME: (nervous) how was the stoer
MY MAN: fine
ME: oh thank g —
MY MAN: ran into jolene
ME: oh no
MY MAN: she mentioned you left kind of an intense voicemail
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Erika with a K @imaginaryerika.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Also “Snag Nab It” is a quality pun name!
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Another example of ICE targeting the most vulnerable among us. Loreto Javar has stage 4 cancer and has a valid green card. ICE grabbed him in June and he’s missed multiple chemo appointments and suffered a blood clot. They will kill this man if they don’t release him.
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ICE kidnaps 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer at citizenship interview
Loreto Javar has missed cancer treatments, developed a blood clot and suffered rapid weight loss during more than two months in ICE’s Tacoma concentration camp.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
All I ask is one mainstream story about Elon Musk funding Republicans foreground his actual, well documented beliefs.
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We The Action @wetheaction.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We're here for lawyers ready to take action to help safeguard free and fair elections with just a few hours of their legal expertise. Join the Democracy Legal Defense Network to connect with a pro bono project and defend democracy today: wetheaction.us/democracy
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We The Action - Voting Rights and Fair Elections
We The Action connects volunteer lawyers with nonprofit organizations. Together, they advocate for a more equitable, inclusive, and just society.
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Paul A. @paul.ofthenorth.ca · 02/09/2026
There is a reason why it would be illegal to have them there. They will intimidate even if they are citizens ICE will arrest citizens and then release them after polls close. If you're stopping eligible people from voting, you're doing democracy wrong.
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Fire Marshal Bill @firemarshalbill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Why would immigration agents be needed in a location where everyone has already proven their citizenship?
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BK? @whitesox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My “We Operate Under U.S. Law” ad is raising a lot of questions already answered by the ad.
DC metro car ad: 
KALSHI RULE #4
WE
OPERATE UNDER
U.S. LAW
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Joe "Radical Left Scum" Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The 25th anniversary of the single worst attack against America - AND THE JACKASS IN CHIEF ISN'T ATTENDING! All other former POTUS will attend as SILENT ATTENDEES... Donnie will spend the day, at our expense at his "memorial golf ceremony" in Ireland...
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Another day that ends in why is anybody on X?
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Elon Musk opening up the checkbook is always framed as a problem for Democrats, never as an ethical quandary for Republicans.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2026
deeply surprised and concerned that the guy hired for murdering a homeless person on the subway is a braying idiot
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026
strive to live your life in such a way that your freedom doesn't depend on being in good personal standing with laura loomer abcnews.com/US/milo-yian...
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Milo Yiannopoulos, far-right British commentator, detained by ICE
Far-right British political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos was detained by ICE on Friday, according to an ICE detention database.
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Erika with a K @imaginaryerika.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I really need things to stop being so fucking stupid.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
An executive order is not a law. An executive order is not a law. An executive order is not a law. An executive order is not a law. An executive order is not a law. An executive order is not a law.
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