iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Maddie Machine @theuglymachine.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

It's more important than ever to be something outside of everything else, a ledge to hang on to

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Jared "the wolfman" Mason @jthewolfmanm.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Based on all the creation myths I've read, I figure the two most human instincts are to be and to create.

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 09/05/2025

this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people

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Wellstonian @wellstonian.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

@chrislhayes.bsky.social @allinwithchris.bsky.social on May 1st there will be rallies by lawyers across the country in defense of the rule of law in almost 50 cities across the country. Learn more at www.LawDayofAction.org and I can connect anyone from your team with the national organizers.

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National Law Day of Action

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Jess @jazerac-jabberwock.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Sometimes even voids need to smell the roses

Tuxedo black cat smelling red rose petals in an ash tray of gold-plated filigree

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Jess @jazerac-jabberwock.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Oh how the ocean has carried me through grief with its warm waters, its endlessness. My head above, the sounds of water lapping, the seagulls' cacophony of bark-whistling screeches, begging for food. Dipping my head below the waves, sound becomes muted and I swim away a sea turtle.

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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 21/03/2025

Original oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Awake" 16"x16" oil on canvas (2023). Painting of a coastal marsh underneath an orange-toned sunrise sky. Light from the sky is reflected in the water below, and bounces off the marsh grass.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

AOC said earlier that more than 30,000 people showed up for this Denver rally; three times larger than the rally the Sanders campaign had in the park when he ran for president. Sanders: “We have never ever had a rally as large as this.”

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Jess @jazerac-jabberwock.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

George Orwell's 1984 anyone??? And to look for the beauty, take a look at "Orwell's Roses" on how Orwell and others lived through times like these🌹 Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/03/2025

The Democratic Party is planning an extensive series of town halls in Republican-held districts in all 50 states to draw attention to the Republican leadership’s recent warning that GOP lawmakers should avoid such open forums.

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Democrats Plan Nationwide Blitz of Town Halls in Republican Districts

A series of events in all 50 states aims to capitalize on a recent warning from Republican leadership that its lawmakers should avoid such public forums.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I had a conversation with @Anand Giridharadas this morning he dubbed "The Stupid Coup" after what I've been calling it. If you would like me to be cheerfully intransigent about the clown-authoritarians, here we go: the.ink/p/the-stupid...

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Rebecca Solnit on the "stupid coup"

Rebecca Solnit on the silver lining of this chaotic, incompetent authoritarianism. Plus: resistance, coalition-building, purity politics, hope, gathering, and roses

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 14/03/2025

Republicans’ partisan spending bill turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk. It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.

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✺ 𝕸𝖔𝖙𝖍 ✺ @mothsprout.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Here’s a pic I got of the moon last night. It was a full blood moon !! AKA the “Worm Moon”

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ALOK @alokvmenon.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

the burden of inauthenticity

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I realized some of you might've missed this @propublica.org story because you — understandably — have certain words or phrases muted. But y'all need to know what financial and bookkeeping shenanigans Trump 2.0 is looking to test, starting with HUD. Read the full story: propub.li/41IkxPH

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is considering taking a first step to using crypt0 currency, according to a meeting recording and other materials reviewed by ProPublica and three officials familiar with the matter. Two officials told ProPublica they believe the initiative may be a trial run for the use of crypt0 across the federal government.

The proposal at HUD indicates a new way that the administration may seek to bolster the industry: by incorporating block chain and possibly crypt0 currency into the routine spending and accounting practices of federal agencies. It’s a move that would align with the apparent desire of Trump adviser Elon Musk to use the block chain to monitor federal spending.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 07/03/2025

Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4

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Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events

Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 08/03/2025

Pro-tip for university administrators: when the government illegally cancels your grants, your first response shouldn't be "you kind of have a point."

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Quiznatodd Bidness @dhoodson.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Nyx doesn't do much but he can do this lol I don't even know how he learned to do this.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/03/2025

Reading Powers and Thrones and Medieval history and it’s wild how crusades went from Christians getting their butt kicked in the levant to calling everything a crusade to justify power grabs. Funny how words used to justify violence become devoid of all meaning historically and today.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Liberty Lake is basically in Idaho. This is militia country, from the old school Aryan Nation freaks to Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. Dani has never organized anything before, but she stepped up to lead a #teslatakedown action. Look what happens when one person has the courage to step up!

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Aleutian Stares @guasha.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

August 14, 1935 Creation of Social Security. Began as a measure to implement "social insurance" during the Great Depression of the 1930s, when poverty rates among senior citizens exceeded 50 percent.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

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Ava Ayers @avaayers.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

Officers have also struggled to meet their quotas because immigrants are refusing to open their doors when ICE officers knock. The enforcement teams generally do not possess criminal arrest warrants that would allow them to force their way into their targets’ homes. ICE officials say they can’t afford to leave teams of officers waiting around for targeted immigrants to exit their homes.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

In praise of complexity and beauty and all the times they're the same thing. Gate's poem is here. www.davidgatepoet.com/store/p/0vcw...

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Jess @jazerac-jabberwock.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Now that's what I call resisting

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

“The conduct of the Kootenai County Sheriff’s office and unknown security personnel at this Kootenai County Republican Central Committee meeting, that was open to the public, in a public high school, and billed as a legislative “town hall,” are unacceptable and un-American.”

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

FWIW: This is not the only supervisory official who I have heard is telling their teams they don’t need to do this.

Ken Dilanian
@KenDilanianNBC • 1h
The power struggles begin.
FBI Director Kash Patel tonight has instructed his employees to ignore @elonmusk's productivity inquiry, saying, essentially—we will evaluate our own people, thanks.
MESSAGE FROM THE
DIRECTOR
All,
FBI personnel may have received an email from OPM requesting information. The FBI, through the Office of the Director, is in charge of all of our review processes, and will conduct reviews in accordance with FBI procedures. When and if further information is required, we will coordinate the responses. For now, please pause any responses.
Thank you,
Kash Patel

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ALOK @alokvmenon.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

you get to be joyous now.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Federal employees are now being told they will be fired if they do not reply to a guy who does not respond to the Moms of his kids.

Musk saying that if federal employees receive an email from him they must reply

Grimes begging Musk on X to reply to her

Ashley St. Clair asking Musk to respond to her efforts to establish paternity.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Signs of life! (From a senator who has announced she is not running again.)

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

By the way, this is one of the issues where you might be able to make some headway with GOP reps if you live in a rural district. It has always been the heavily red rural districts that stopped them from destroying USPS in the past. Reps know their constituents depend on USPS.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/02/2025

10. Lastly, I am an award-winning transgender journalist covering LGBTQ+ issues every day. You can subscribe to support my journalism at www.erininthemorning.com/subscribe.

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News and discussion on trans legislation and life. Click to read Erin In The Morning, by Erin Reed, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Obviously this is bad and very stupid, but the tenor of this kind of Trump communique is very funny to me. It's a real HOA energy, just someone being annoying and small who knows they're being that way, and who more or less sees that as both their highest personal calling and the purpose of the job.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 19/02/2025

Scientists are now organizing events, called Stand Up for Science, on 7 March in Washington, D.C., and state capitals. So far, they have attracted more than 100 volunteers from some 30 states who are hoping to rally support for research as a public good. scim.ag/4328LAD

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‘I really wanted something to happen.’ The students behind the Stand Up for Science protests

New group hopes to turn out researchers for 7 March demonstrations against Trump administration policies

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This made me happy. What'd you call this gulf?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

We know who the villains are in this coup. But so many heroes are showing up to oppose them, and many of them are federal employees, including judges. I give you supreme boss-hero champion Judge Ana Reyes, telling Team Trump they don't know shit and schooling them in the facts about gender and sex.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/02/2025

After publishing this story, which features a picture of the protest at Children's National in DC, I have been informed that moments ago, Childrens National in DC has resumed transgender care. The hospital protests worked! Keep doing them!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/02/2025

Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional. This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on! Huge win for trans people in MT!

Leslie Halligan, District Court Judge
Fourth Judicial District
Missoula County Courthouse
200 West Broadway
Missoula, Montana 59802
(406) 258-4771
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY
SUSAN EDWARDS; MONTANA
TWO SPIRIT SOCIETY; KAEL FRY;
ANNA TELLEZ; EDEN ATWOOD;
SHANNON ALOIA,
Plaintiffs,
v.
THE STATE OF MONTANA; GREG
GIANFORTE, in his official capacity as
GOVERNOR OF MONTANA,
AUSTIN KNUDSEN, in his official
capacity as ATTORNEY GENERAL
OF MONTANA,
Defendants.
Dept. No. 1
Cause No. DV-23-1026
ORDER ON CROSS MOTIONS
FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
This matter comes before the Court on opposing motions for summary
judgment. Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment on Counts I, II, & III
(“Motion”) seeks to declare Senate Bill 458 as facially unconstitutional.
Defendants’ (collectively, the “State”) Motion for Summary Judgment seeks to
dismiss Plaintiffs’ claims arguing the absence of a case or controversy. The Court
has considered both motions, the parties’ supporting and opposing briefs, and the

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