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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

This “affordability” framework for a second reconciliation bill (i.e. a “Second Big Beautiful Bill”) follows the same structure as its predecessor: 1.)Making it harder for Americans to afford health care, food & groceries. 2.)Tax cuts for rich people. 🧵

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

402 signatures, over 100 a day. My goal of 500 by Monday is within our sights. Are you a supportive mum, dad, aunt, uncle, sibling, grandparent, extended family member, friend, neighbour, work colleague of a trans person? Take a look at the Transparent Pledge and help Transparent Action grow.

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 22/11/2025

@recurringdream.bsky.social I have thoughts and feelings about social media, but I there has never been another moment in history when a robot might encourage me to follow back "a disgusting feminist whore with a Jezebel spirit who uses filters in all of her videos and lives in rebellion to God."

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 22/11/2025

My son's special interests are airline disasters, forensic science, and the phrase "fun fact." I can assure that, while his facts may be factual, they are almost never my idea of fun.

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 15/11/2025

When it comes to serving takes that are clueless but also feel erudite @theatlantic.com does not disappoint.

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 13/11/2025

“Fucking magnets, how do they work?” #miracles

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 06/11/2025

“Even without these worst-case scenarios, simple passport revocation could temporarily or permanently prevent transgender people from leaving the country if, and when, life here becomes untenable.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politics...

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The Politics of Passports

The broad powers of the president to limit the freedom of movement of Americans.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

In the spirit of @karenattiah.bsky.social's post, sharing this picture a clerk at my local hardware store insisted on taking of me handily carrying two 40 pound bags of salt. #Swoletariat

I'm carrying two 40 pound bags of salt. My sweatshirt reads, "protect trans kids"

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 07/11/2025

What is Kavanaugh talking about? Genuinely, what "cost" has Sam Alito incurred for his values or opinions or whatever? People who already didn't like him before now like him even less? These people are such babies, man. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

When the questions turned to the criticisms and even death threats the justices themselves have faced, Kavanaugh said he tries to follow the examples of role models like the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who showed “what it meant to withstand withering criticism, what it meant to be fearless.”

Justice Samuel Alito, who was in the audience, has likewise displayed courage “and the willingness to stand up for principle even when it comes at a cost, a big cost,” Kavanaugh said.

More: Justice Alito still doesn't like court's gay marriage decision but said it's precedent
“If you don’t want to get criticized,” Kavanaugh said of being a Supreme Court justice, “this is not a good gig.”

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Strength training is political. We have a right-wing which has taken over physical fitness spaces, and hijacked “warrior culture”. We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want. Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 09/10/2025

This seems like something one might forgive as a slip in other circumstances. Here, however, it tracks.

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 03/10/2025

My son only caught parts of this episode, which I listened to while making dinner. Nevertheless, he made a detailed and persuasive case that Dale Carnegie was autistic. NB: My son is autistic.

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 30/09/2025

Source: Center on Budget and Inequality at Georgetown Law

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 28/09/2025

Is this a cursed headline? Obviously. Is this the most cursed headline of even just today? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

"Practice being brave now, don’t wait for some special moment at the end to be a hero." This is excellent. open.substack.com/pub/peaceful...

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Defeating Fascism The Easy Way

Fighting fascism when peaceful means may still be a possibility

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Hegseth fires general officers and JAGs, cracks down on dissenting views in military, orders killing civilians at sea without legal rationale, calls generals to Quantico to demand loyalty. Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities. "What are Trump and Hegseth up to? It's a mystery!"

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 28/09/2025

Men, if you’re wondering why you’re lonely: This is men.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

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Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 22/09/2025

My mom worked for the CENSUS Bureau. One of her long-term projects was a study about what people eat for the Department of Agriculture. I learned a lot from hearing my mom talk about that work.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Utah was the first state to allow open carry on campus. A would-be assailant could walk right onto campus armed as they please and nobody could’ve done a thing about it.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Do not be bullied, cowed, or shamed by bad-faith right-wing actors and MAGA that are blaming "liberals" and everyone who isn't MAGA for Charlie Kirk. Call them out for their hypocrisy. Go on offense. They are fine with political violence and mass shootings when it's against the rest of us.

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 19/08/2025

These are the folks building that white hetero housing development in the Ozarks. They seem like cool guys.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 19/08/2025

love to anthropomorphize my electromechanical slave, surely nothing bad will result from blurring the lines between how I treat humans and how I treat machines, I am a very serious philosopher

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 19/08/2025

Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s austere, well-cut, all-black drip really brings out the Hobby Lobby in the Oval Office.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

well that explains why trump showed the european world leaders his hat collection lol

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 19/08/2025

Oh, hey. This is my school district and I may be quoted in this article.

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janice v - division series edition @jdvalenzuela.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

there is no better time than the present to get to know your neighbors. go to community meetings. organize. look out for one another. all we got is each other.

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 18/08/2025

The goal of a broad anti-fascist alliance isn’t to agree on everything. It is to defeat fascism, so that liberals, neocons, progressives, and nationalists can disagree bitterly about everything else

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 17/08/2025

Dang. Even white people are coming around.

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 17/08/2025

100% No race should go uncontested. Even if a Dem has no chance of winning, people need to see Dems running. Republicans should have to fight for the ein and liberals and progressives need to know that they are not alone. Over the long haul, it makes a real difference and drives change.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

screengrab of a portion of new yorker interview with former simpson's writer john swartzwelder:
Mike Sacks: How much time and attention did you spend on these scripts? Another “Simpsons” writer once compared your scripts to finely tuned machines—if the wrong person mucked with them, the whole thing could blow up.
Swartzwelder: All of my time and all of my attention. It’s the only way I know how to write, darn it. But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue—“Homer, I don’t want you to do that.” “Then I won’t do it.” Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done. It’s like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I’ve taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.

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M. T. Anderson @mt-anderson.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

It cannot be easy to be a police officer in Sandwich, Massachusetts right now.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

A useful WaPo map of where Trump Storm Troops are actually operating in DC. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.

Map of DC showing federal troops mainly in tourist-heavy areas, not crime centers.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Why aren't there more support for Republicans among academics and scientists? We may never know.

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 16/08/2025

Thinking you're all tough and projecting strength while actually just humiliating yourself really is the foundational feature of MAGA masculinity.

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

this is like if a far side cartoon grew up to be a real boy

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 11/08/2025

I didn’t know I was hoping to never see this bish’s face again but apparently I was

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 11/08/2025

This gal really has her finger on the pulse

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