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@knitwitch.bsky.social
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New here. I’m old and weary. I knit, travel, and despair of the state of the world.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
"When Scott walked into their bedroom, Graham was face down in bed, her body cold when he touched her. The two men pulled her down to the floor to start CPR, but it was too late. SJ stood in his crib, silently watching as they realized."
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A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion.
In a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
It is important for us to acknowledge every death caused by #ICELawlessness. This includes the murder of Keith Porter, Renee Good, Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, and at least 33 others who died in #ICE detention.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Listen.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The Prime Minister of Albania came up to Macron and Azerbaijani President Aliyev and joked about how Trump had resolved the conflict between Albania and Azerbaijan.
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tmel1219.bsky.social @tmel1219.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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David Blight @dblight.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Honor US soldiers at Wounded Knee? Take down 30 images about slavery at Harpers Ferry? Indict your political enemies in worse abuses of law and Constitutional norms than Watergate? Historians and everyone who cares - fight back! We are beyond simply saving democracy; we have to stop a TYRANT!
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David Blight @dblight.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
The emperor has no clothes and he is spreading hatred, ignorance, and corruption all around. We have to convert despair into a fighting spirit! Save the American republic!
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...
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National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe
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Wanda Monroe @wandamocats.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last". Winston Churchill
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
If you’re scared of what comedians have to say about you… You’re weak.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
“…this is America, where you can do anything with your body unless there’s a uterus in it.”
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democracydefendersfund.org @democracydefendersfund.org · 02/09/2025
BREAKING: Victory for AmeriCorps grantees—funding withheld by the Trump-Vance admin has been restored after lawsuits from DDF & partners. A major win for national service & the communities they serve. Read HERE: www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/9.2.25_2...
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Press Release | State Democracy Defenders Fund
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Shannon @ Yarn Baby @yarnbaby.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Hi! I’m an indie dyer located in Colorado. I’ve been dyeing and selling yarn since 2013. I can be a source for quality yarn! I ship all over the USA. There are lots of is small business yarn dyers, and I can assure you, we would all appreciate your business. Especially now. ♥️ Shannon
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The family of Virginia Giuffre responds to the Maxwell prison move: "President Trump has sent a clear message today: Pedophiles deserve preferential treatment and their victims do not matter."
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
If my taxes don’t pave my roads or fix my bridges or keep my schools open 5 days a week or pay local teachers a living wage or help keep my hospital open or help my neighbor’s kid eat lunch or fund public television or my healthcare… Why the f’ck should I pay taxes?
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This is on Trump’s head. Should be headline in every paper
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 26/06/2025
I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.
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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with  Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
You can’t keep Rick out of the streets
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
💅 #PA #LancasterPA #RESIST
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Dr.Mr.Ed @drmred.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#NoKings peaceful protest on #YorkPA
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
In case you missed it (I did), What We Will Use As Weapons, quilt of school supplies teachers will use for defense in a school shooting--profound art and winner of MQG Best in Show 2024 www.quiltfolk.com/journal/one-...
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One Year After an Uncomfortable Choice for Best in Show - Quiltfolk
One year after winning Best in Show at QuiltCon 2024, teacher and artist Ginny Robinson reflects on the impact of her powerful protest quilt, What We Will Use as Weapons: A List of School Supplies. In...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Stephen Miller represents everything vile about this administration and drawing more attention to him will (a) make it harder for the administration to pretend this isn't creepy white nationalism in action and (b) likely make Trump jealous to the point he shitcans him like Elon. Win-win.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
More people should be talking about the utter freak that is Stephen Miller and his white nationalist worldview. He's the architect behind most of this chaos as Trump is golfing, falling asleep during meetings, making money of memecoins and tripping while climbing stairs.
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Shea Couleé @sheacoulee.com · 09/06/2025
Where is Joe Biden? Where is George W Bush? Where is Bill Clinton?
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 06/06/2025
The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?
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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 31/05/2025
Yes, you did vote to deport moms.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
For this week's POP STYLE OPINIONFEST podcast, we flipped on the mics and tackled the end of the #Hacks season and the beginning of #AndJustLikeThat. PLUS: Celebrity gossip! And why Miss Patti LuPone needs to keep her mouth shut (click for more) tomandlorenzo.com/2025/05/pop-...
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Pop Style Opinionfest: HACKS, AND JUST LIKE THAT... and The Celebrity Stories of the Week - Tom + Lorenzo
We're back! And you just know we have a ton of things to get off our manly chests; not just about the final two episodes of the season for Hacks and how
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
It's hard to explain how bad these dogs were on the streets of Thailand. Seeing them has been the highlight of my trip. Moritz, Eve, Olive, Hope and little Rodney! ❤️
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2025
seems like the administration is objectively pro plane crash www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...
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FAA suspends work of independent panel reviewing air traffic control
The FAA ordered an independent panel hired to recommend ways to strengthen oversight of its air traffic control operations to stop work.
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Indivisible Bucks County @indivisiblebux.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Folks, WE HAVE A DEM CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS for PA-01! Please head over to Commissioner Bob Harvie's Facebook and other social media presences and give him a follow, and help however you can. Let's do this, people. Fitz has got to go.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 02/04/2025
Today, we are being liberated from the burden of economic prosperity and growth! Happy Liberation Day! (Remember: we have always been allies with Eurasia… George Orwell)
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Brad Schimel: * supports the 1849 abortion ban * is “honored” to have a case named “Planned Parenthood v. Schimel” * won’t protect reproductive freedoms in Wisconsin Btw: in that case, Susan Crawford rep’d Planned Parenthood urbanmilwaukee.com/2024/06/06/m...
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Murphy’s Law: Brad Schimel Is Mr. Anti-Abortion
Conservative candidate for state Supreme Court a national leader in pushing to ban abortions.
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📎Hope🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🪬🟦 @crickettehkm.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Rinse and repeat.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️ @zhizhu.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2025
Does the Foreign Emoluments Clause Apply to Elon Musk? Musk has wide-ranging #business entanglements that could produce emoluments from foreign states. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/does-t… " #Musk should […] [Original post on newsie.social]
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The Foreign Emoluments Clause creates a broad prohibition on accepting emoluments, which—according to the first judge to interpret the term in a 2018 case against Trump (District of Columbia v. Trump)—include “any profit, gain, or advantage, of more than de minimis value, received by [the President], directly or indirectly” from foreign governments...

Like Trump, Musk has wide-ranging business entanglements that could produce emoluments from foreign states. For example, Musk’s  Tesla is heavily reliant on China—in recent years, Tesla received  a $521 million loan from Chinese-state owned banks and a lower-than-standard corporate tax rate from the Shanghai government. Musk has met with prominent Chinese officials in various business dealings, and analysts have speculated that Musk’s lobbying in Congress was behind the decision to remove hostile provisions to China from a December 2024 bipartisan spending bill. 

Beyond China, Musk’s company SpaceX is actively negotiating a $1.5 billion deal with the Italian government, and Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has received investments from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, the latter of which also helped finance his buyout of X, along with Saudi Arabia. 

Given this laundry list of foreign dealings, there is clearly the potential for Musk to receive further payments directly or indirectly from foreign governments.
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody. We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Free Mahmoud Khalil.
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Claudia Koerner @claudiakoerner.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
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Det. Vera, CSI @veradarkmatter.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Have courage Stand up to bullies Be like President Zelenskyy
a tabby and white cat is pictured sitting on her haunches, looking directly at the camera. Behind her is her is the blue and gold Ukrainian flag.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/02/2025
cannot overstate the level of contempt i have for vance
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Logging on here in the morning is like - bubonic plague hitting elementary school kids hard this year - Musk demands all schoolbuses be cybertrucks - RFK Jr outlaws Advil, recommends "perineal tanning" as solution to chronic pain - Trump plans eradication of birds - that thing you love is now dead
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