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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If Americans view, clip, share, and permanently enshrine an American public killing in a million ways on the internet, we will move towards fascist rituals of violence. snyder.substack.com/p/four-wrong...

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Four Wrongs of a Public Execution

Psychological, Historical, Political, and Ethical (Video and Text)

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s all gas, no brakes for our people-powered campaign! Right after our State of Education press conference at Cafe Resistance in Jacksonville yesterday, folks grabbed their phones and got to work phone banking. Join our crew at AngieNixon.com/Volunteer! #AngieForFlorida

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are paying CNN and MS NOW to run ads for Donald Trump right before the midterms. You and I are paying for them. And CNN and MS NOW are taking the cash while their hosts and guests say the scheme is illegal. That is the current state of corporate media in America.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

25th Amendment? We can’t even get network news to air it or even mention it. It’s a massive national media coverup to hide the fact the we have an addled president.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now Ashley Moody. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love this woman. Chuck Schumer, you need to wake your ass up and realize you got an actual boss running for the Senate in Florida. Send her campaign more money immediately.

Tweet from Florida State Rep. Angie Nixon: “Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR”

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amid outcry, NY prosecutors have reopened the criminal investigation into the 7 Cornell gang rapists, a case that was covered up 2 years ago. These assholes would’ve been punished if they had written “free Palestine” instead of “free p*ssy.” Cornell leadership should be investigated too.

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4 million trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming NYC mayor. Mamdani just made them pay $131.5 million in wage theft settlements to 264,000 delivery workers. This is why they fear working class solidarity. It comes with accountability.

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Susan Collins has voted to confirm 60+ anti-abortion judges in her time in the Senate, and now she's voted for 3 more just since last week. Nice to see Senator Collins was able to take a break from lying about corruption to give a lifetime appointment to another anti-choice judge.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque.

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Eleanor Martinez @northstar1939.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Perfectly states what I've been saying for some time, now.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A reminder for Democratic Party leadership: New research from Yale found that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. It's no surprise why the majority of Americans — including 90% of Democrats — support it.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 15/08/2026

Important to understand that the purpose of these laws is to convert unhoused people into slave labor for the prison system. That's not a side effect, or an unintended consequence. It's the main reason these laws exist.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

When the banks needed help, they called it “stabilizing the economy.” When airlines needed help, they called it “protecting jobs.” When corporations got tax breaks, they called it “pro-growth.” When working people need health care? “SOCIALISM.”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 27/07/2026

Austin police killed a 17-year-old Black child who called 911 while in distress. Three cops fired more than 20 rounds, killing him, because they thought he had a gun. It was a water bottle. The child was unarmed. Austin PD is calling it "suicide by cop." No, it's murder in cold blood by cop. 1/2

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Wolfers: For nine out of the last 10 presidencies, if you’d said, “How much should we blame the president for what’s going on with the economy right now?” I would have said that the president is just one factor among many. That’s what I would have said nine out of 10 times. This is the 10th time.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Black kids protecting their Latino neighbors from ICE

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

A dark money campaign is offering influencers $1,500 per post to attack Abdul El-Sayed and support Haley Stevens. Same exact dollar figure that was paid to attack @katmabu.bsky.social (Nobody ever found out who was paying for that campaign.) Gross, lazy and above all cynical shit.

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Secret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate race

Rep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I don't think we should mince words. Transphobia and hatred killed May Pollard. The Idaho legislature killed her as surely as if they'd pointed a gun at her head and pulled the trigger. Anti-trans laws were the gun. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.

The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.

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Victor Harshman @eaglefern.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Liz Oyer former U.S. pardon attorney, testifies about Todd Blanche firing her over restoring Mel Gibsons gun rights.

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Senator Peter Welch @welch.senate.gov · 16/07/2026

Career pardon attorney Liz Oyer declined to recommend letting a convicted domestic abuser and friend of President Trump buy guns again. Todd Blanche fired her for it. www.youtube.com/shorts/VqlvuC0sqmA

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

i had no idea this would become so literal

tweet https://x.com/patdubois/status/1590006089541914624?lang=en
from @patdubois
reads "as a Canadian, this is how it feels watching American elections these days"
along with an image reading 50.1% "Everyone Gets A Puppy" vs 49.9% "Diarrhea Forever"

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Ohwoisme @kmohwoisme.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

One day, our grandchildren will read about this with the same horror we read about 1930s Germany.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/07/2026

I really wish trans allies would fight as hard for us as those who hate us fight to eliminate us from society. The disparity there is why they're winning.

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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This is how you do it. This is what we should be talking about rather than “no one’s doing anything,”

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This narrative during Pride month was absolutely intentional. The corporate media is fully in for fascism and desperate for you to agree.

Slate: Was the LGBTQ+ Movement's pursuit of Visibility a mistake?

NYT: is it time for a new sexual revolution? One that brings men and women together.

The Walrus: Are there any straight women left?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/05/2026

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

FRANCIS: Putin can stop the war any time he wants cause he started it and perpetuates it. Ukrainians are defending themselves against him. And Putin is now saying "I think this war is coming to an end"? He doesn't have to think, he can just end it. The whole thing is a charade.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

YouTube has removed one of my videos because I reported that women can still access abortion pills. I shared *factual & medically accurate* information about women's health—yet the platform says I'm "facilitating the sale of illegal drugs"

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

These two editorials by the Washington Post expose how the Republican Party and Democratic Party are held to completely different standards by the media. Texas gerrymander: “Not a threat to democracy.” Virginia gerrymander: “Power grab by Democrats.”

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

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Anne @anneb.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

And now @captnamy.bsky.social is an Instagram celebrity thanks to @equalityfl.bsky.social

Artemis II was called a “textbook mission” by scientists — a historic success made possible by leaders like Amy Lendian. Amy served as the Systems Engineer Manager for Artemis II, helping oversee the rocket and mission that carried humans around the moon and back. She’s also a transgender woman who lived in Florida most of her life and worked at Kennedy Space Center.

Last year, Amy and her wife made the difficult decision to leave the state after a wave of anti-trans laws made them feel unsafe.

“Lendian had been a fire suppression systems engineer who landed at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center in 2020. But last year, she and Barela, both trans women, moved to Chicago amid a rash of anti-trans laws that made them feel unsafe. With the launch taking place the same week as Transgender Day of Visibility, she said it was ‘a big deal.’ ‘All my trans siblings can do whatever they want to and be a part of something important like this,’ Lendian said.”

Congratulations to Amy! Her leadership, brilliance, and contributions are helping shape the future of space exploration.

#TransJoy #TransExcellence

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Equality Florida @equalityfl.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The DeSantis Administration is targeting @aidshealthcare.bsky.social after they fought to protect lifesaving HIV medication for 10,000+ Floridians. This isn't about public health — it's retaliation. Our full statement: eqfl.org/retaliation-...

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING

Choose your leaders

with wisdom and forethought.

To be led by a coward

is to be controlled

by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool

is to be led

by the opportunists

who control the fool.

To be led by a thief

is to offer up

your most precious treasures

to be stolen.
To be led by a liar

is to ask

to be told lies.

To be led by a tyrant

is to sell yourself

and those you love

into slavery.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 05/04/2026

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The founders believed that if a madman became president, members of Congress would serve the country’s interest and remove him from office. That seemed a reliable system to safeguard the republic. Boy, did they screw up.

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Graham A. Yeates @grahamyeates.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I'm not claiming to be a hero, but with every Cadbury MiniEgg I eat, that's a dog not getting chocolate poisoning. I've saved so many dogs.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 31/03/2026

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

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