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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 11h

(That one also links into our current cultural aversion to even minor or temporary discomfort, which means folks gravitate more toward less effective, passive tactics. I regret to inform you that making social and political change is gonna involve knocking on doors and talking to strangers!)

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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 11h

Too many of us have wedded ourselves to a set of abstract beliefs about how change happens, then view the change we witness through that lens. It's much more useful, in my experience, to observe change and draw conclusions about what is/isn't working to address a particular problem, and then adjust.

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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 11h

It's Mariame Kaba's "knowing who to be mad at is praxis" and more. Knowing who to be mad at IS praxis. Then you gotta know what moves the person you're mad at to do things differently. You gotta know who THEY listen to, and how to get to them. Anger alone isn't a vision, strategy, tactic or goal.

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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 11h

In addition to the broader literacy crisis, we're also in a power literacy crisis. Many folks deeply misunderstand how political power works, who has it, and how to build it. And all of that is happening while more folks are using the language of organizing without grasping its most basic tenets.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 10h

Stop paying the police to commit crimes

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ryan @rywig.bsky.social · 14h

We love to see it!

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Joseph P-M @josephpmathews.bsky.social · 14h

I am excited to be baptizing someone on Baptism of Jesus! We are going to work through the Catechumenate from the Book of Occasional Services. I am looking for a short book akin to Ben Myers' THE APOSTLES' CREED for giving when the Our Father is given. Help? 📕

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h

You’ve got to be kidding me.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

His brain thinkd the Tories must have lost because they chose an Asian and black leader - calling voting for Badenoch "liberalism" (black right-wing Tory) This is an absurd hypothesis about 2019!-24. How does he explain Sunak starting more popular than the party, converging down. Badenoch above.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

anyway sullivan is such a classic case of a guy driven insane by being outperformed by a black person

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

andrew sullivan getting the facts wrong while regurgitating braindead racist memes? crazy

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17h

Dude committed crimes on camera then signed his name to them online.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It didn't take much googling to learn that Nic Kristof is, once again, full of shit: The ACLU and Planned Parenthood don't support child marriage, much less because of "child rights"; they opposed a bill last year for fear of driving abuse further underground (and PP supported a 2026 bill)

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Opinion | How Is Child Marriage Still Legal in the U.S.?

Children are still allowed to marry here in the United States because of zealots on the left and right alike.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

i simply want democrats to be the version of themselves that steven miller conjures in his nightmares

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Pete Hegseth should be impeached and removed from office today because he clearly hates the U.S. Constitution. He’s made that clear before, he made it clear last week, and this is just the latest example.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

They are so out of juice they’re not even trying any longer.

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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 14/10/2026

The Social Reckoning is an interminable, immiserating exercise in fart-sniffing profundity and made for TV mediocrity designed to absolve well-meaning liberals of their continued use of Facebook.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Let me fix that: “I think I gave ICE too much money to hire far too many officers under a president who I knew would insist on deploying them without adequate vetting and training.”

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is going to make a Scaramucci look like an extended period of time in government employ.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"fiery" is a misspelled word.

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Memento Mori Kira @kmaustinyoung.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A Very Cool Thing about liberals is how, in calling out the misogyny of Shane Gillis' SNL monologue, so many resort to insulting his body shape and size.

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you liked “Get Confident, Stupid,” you’ll love “Smoke Yourself Thin.”

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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Testimony was that there's absolutely no urgency whatsoever. "Why did no one...raise their hand and say, hey...maybe we should take a beat so we don't chop down hundreds of trees when the court has said repeatedly that she's gonna trust us to act in good faith?"

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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

FL: D.C. Safe and Beautiful we've really worked hard to turn this city around. JR: Name me another project within a week FL: Have to go back and think JR: I've got all the time in the world. Why don't you sit back and think about it

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There is a dangerous tendency of some to call something “the truth” based on an incomplete picture of reality. Too often, people take what has happened in a few high-profile cases — and even then, it’s often more complicated — and insist that there is an across-the-board fact of noncompliance.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I said this in a thread last night and in a thousand threads before it, but you really are doing the work of those who would destroy democracy and the rule of law when you are a doomer. You can be aware of — and vigorously oppose — the lawlessness of this administration without insisting on doom.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

For those complaining that this isn't enough. Stop it. I'm sorry that actual judges understand the importance of doing what they're doing correctly because these things, inevitably will be appealed. Judge Reyes is doing an incredible job of immediately obtaining a robust record here.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This “news” story might have some good information inside of it, but I couldn’t get there because it literally leads with a fraud case that led to a conviction and then uses the bullshit framing below to propel the story forward. www.wsj.com/world/uk/uni...

U.K.
The Welfare State Is Crushing Britain
The soaring number of people on disability and sickness benefits is blowing up the country's welfare bill and imperiling its long-term financial stability
By Max Colchester and David Luhnow | Photography by Dominic Whisson for WSJ

It's also a litmus test of a pressing question facing the West: Is it possible for political leaders to rein in spending on ever expanding welfare states?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

bigotry aside: imagine having to design an enforcement policy for this. what are we doing y'all?

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Boston Globe's billionaire-run editorial board editorializes on drivers killing people by blaming victims Talks about pedestriams about as a distinct, rogue species who must be tamed with heavy policing & "jaywalking" tickets Never once mentions automatic camera enforcement for drivers

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Why do we tolerate so many preventable pedestrian deaths? - The Boston Globe

Over the past 25 years the annual number of pedestrian deaths in Massachusetts hasn’t much budged.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.

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Joe @seppdecker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Said David Brooks,

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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Fellow fat people/people who wear plus sizes: what would real solidarity from your thinner friends & family look like for you? (Once again, asking thin & midsize people to sit this one out & just listen. Take notes & take action!)

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Joseph P-M @josephpmathews.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“Death is the last weapon of the tyrant, and the point of the resurrection, despite much misunderstanding, is that death has been defeated. Resurrection is not the redescription of death; it is its overthrow and, with that, the overthrow of those whose power depends on it.”

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Joseph P-M @josephpmathews.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This week is a little on the nose for my favorite quote from NT Wright:

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Fascist Newsom

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

yeah man, no way this will go wrong

Elon Musk • X @elonmusk •45m
To buy stuff, you can just take a picture of your credit card, drop it in the chat and Grok @Bot will scour the Internet for the best deal on the item you want and order it

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“we could have done it and even had the people already but you know it was cheaper”

DuVernay continued, "When I went to the artists who were doing our photoscoping, and our parallax, and our animation process-there'seome of that technology that is in their tools. It creates a similar effect to the stereoscope. That was the goal for that, and that's why we used i!."

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

As I said to someone else recently, I eagerly look forward to a time when I never need to think about Rahm or Gavin again. (I get that, as governor of California, that’s not an option right now as to Newsom.)

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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Survived the 243rd Diocesan Convention; my resolution condemning novel gambling media passed by a comically wide margin. As did a resolution condemning the telecasting executions.

Banner-of-arms of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania: argent, a cross gules with three ducal crowns in pale; a bordure sable with ten plates.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

you know it's a good cartoon when everything is labeled, there are arrows pointing everywhere, and it includes the explanation, "this is not a joke" love that the lower 50% is represented by a schlubby white guy when low-paying jobs overwhelmingly are held by women of color

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Getting a piece of the American pie is out of reach for most

The top 10% has 67.5% of U.S. wealth.

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

we saw it! we remember it! we also remember that he had a 50-year federal political career and we measure him by the totality of all 2,600 weeks of it, not just his actions in the final three! bsky.app/profile/tmbh...

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"but Biden commuted all the death row sentences in his final month in office!!" okay, and? what did he do for the entire rest of his career leading up to that point? anything that fed the carceral state?? any thoughts???

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Scott Gunn @scottagunn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

But to the wicked God says: * “Why do you recite my statutes, and take my covenant upon your lips; Since you refuse discipline, * and toss my words behind your back? When you see a thief, you make him your friend, * and you cast in your lot with adulterers.” Psalter 🔥 today. ⚓️

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Memento Mori Kira @kmaustinyoung.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’m trying to imagine the confusion and fear and anger of thinking you were going to die and then waking up in a hospital. How is this not cruel and unusual punishment?

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