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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What an honor it was for Mahmoud Khalil to start his book tour here in Baltimore this evening, for @redemmas.org to host it, and for @premthakker.bsky.social to moderate such an inspiring conversation for us to witness

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Anyone who has a chance to go to @astra.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social book tour for End Times Fascism needs to go. As someone who’s been catching Naomi’s book tours for almost two decades now, the way they can weave our various crises into a cohesive throughline is just unmatched

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The thing is—Tim Curry did, in fact, teach me it was ok to be weird

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Designers with $250k+ salaries quoted in a 500-word Fast Company piece: I think it was his typeface choice that put Abdul over the top

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

There's a cruel irony that every player in the organization—and probably every staffer in the warehouse too—is subject to performance-based metrics assessments that determine their worth solely by data, except for the GM and his own staff, who are never dispensable no matter how many times they fail

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'm thankful that—during the Adley era—I was invited to write the Orioles' 2023 season essay for @baseballprospectus.com and all my warnings about Mejdal/Elias's over-reliance on spreadsheets & prospects as the cornerstone for building a World Series team will be in print for as long as print exists

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Real sickos remember this era. Ghouls like Lindsey Graham were popular in a pre-2016 liberal media landscape because he’d do interviews everywhere and they’d just say “Sir I disagree with everything you just said but you made me laugh. We’ll see you next time” www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pto...

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Going Deep with Lindsey Graham - Between the Scenes: The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Well, you obviously react to new information, and this is new information. Allegations this credible and horrifying, there's no way Platner can stay. I believe in second chances and continue to believe in imperfect candidates, but too many strikes against and you're out. He's run out of chances.

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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 04/07/2026

July 4th is nothing to celebrate. 20% of all book sales today, in the store and online, will be donated to the legal support funds for the Prairieland defendants and the Minneapolis 15. Bookstore and cafe open until 4pm today, come through if you are feeling unpatriotic!

Post text over a picture of the algae filled dc reflecting pool

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Caught the last half of that ARG/Cape Verde match

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Jaylen Brown was—to my knowledge—the only player who put “Liberation” on those jerseys they had that one season post-George Floyd. It was a hollow NBA brand exercise to tamp down demands for actual change, but you have to appreciate how far JB took it compared to everyone else. Forever my fave.

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

One of the bright spots to your baseball team sucking is its always silly hours on the radio broadcast

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The storied history of the Harlem Renaissance—born out of the Black Socialist movement, A. Philip Randolph and The Messenger, Castro's visit to Harlem and meeting with Malcolm X at Hotel Theresa is quite well known. But if Tish needs a history lesson we'll be glad to provide one for her

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Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Two years after Darializa Avila Chevalier took part in the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University, she is now set to represent the district in which the university is located in Congress.

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Representatives Goldman and Espaillat really should have moderated their extreme views on Israel-Palestine policy, views which are increasingly out of step with their constituents and American voters in general. The price of not getting out of your “ideological bubble”

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I've been a registered Democrat since 2008. Also,

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Making Hakeem Jeffries the AIPAC/crypto/tech/finance lobbyist he always wanted to be is priority #1 next cycle.

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Bold, Daring, Risk-taking, Movement-Building Socialism > Incremental, Academic/Nonprofit Progressivism

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

In 2023 they said you could *never* touch The Israel Issue. You couldn't challenge Israel's stranglehold over party politics. It was impossible, unmovable. I think of all those weak-willed naysayers when I see a staunch Israel supporter kicked out of his own district within an hour of polls closing.

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Crickets from AOC on the MAGA-level hatred, racism, and sexism leveled against a DSA challenger by an entitled AIPAC-backed incumbent in a neighboring district of hers, huh

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

You have to hand it to the Times. They're still innovating in the field of pushing insufferable capitalist propaganda and they'll surprise you sometimes. Didn't expect "Worrying about AI will cause a crash like the Great Depression, which happened because of bad vibes," but here we are.

New York Times: We Have to Stop Freaking Out About A.I. with animation of a person afraid of digital spirits under his bed

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

On Bluesky, The Civility App™, people are currently dogging on accounts who ask for mutual aid while tone policing accounts for being too mean to Keir Starmer

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

There's a huge problem with generalizing demos in political discourse—an entire population share gets the blame of what 30% of it does, etc. However, a shit ton of rich white libs *still* voted for Cuomo in the general, but go off I guess

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I can see based off the reactions why all the Libs were so easily hoodwinked by Lin Manuel Miranda into thinking Hamilton was a good guy. Same liberals who read Hillbilly Elegy and took Vance seriously (and made him famous) btw

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Liberals have the mind of goldfishes. Give it 15-20 years and they won't remember all the criminal things Trump did either

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onion person @junlper.beer · 18/06/2026

democrats continue to attack trump from a hawkish pro war position and continue to appeal to no one. why not criticize trump for starting this war? why not criticize trump for willing to cause shock to the global economy and energy systems? why should we not want a good deal for iran? they won!

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

While many of you are chanting "Go Mexico!" or "Go Korea" I am watching a livefeed of BBC off an ipad with a VPN while my boyfriend reads the platform of Lord Binface outloud to me as we await the Makerfield byelection results

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I have to love that Muriel Bowser's awful legacy of vapid, idpol, voters-be-damned neoliberalism ends in radicalizing all of DC into electing their first socialist mayor. Good riddance to all of that

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

there's replies here giving the (correct) answer that these things do not happen primarily because the democrats do not want them to happen, and i'm always amazed by how delusional some democrat voters are in arguing with that

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

More like Andrea LaFlammeout, amirite Bluesky

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Me: why don’t the people who only care about The Tattoo spend time understanding why they’re so out of step with the polling and why Platner’s uber left platform is resonating with voters who clearly don’t care about the tattoo Them: tattoo tattoo tattoo tattoo tattoo tattoo tattoo tattoo tattoo

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

An absolute treat to have @thrasherxy.bsky.social talk about his new book here in Baltimore with @lisasnowden.bsky.social at @redemmas.org on a random Wednesday evening. I so wish this convo was recorded!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/05/2026

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Trying To Draw Foul While Shooting Free Throw

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Call it incompetence, sure—better to call it deception at this point. Not a big leap from this to conclude that the party simply didn't want any spotlights digging around the consultant class and the over $1 billion spent, and they miffed this intentionally to protect their lucrative contracts.

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

“We fucked up. Let’s commission a report to figure how how we fucked this up so badly” “Ok so we fucked that up too”

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Reggie Miller calling Alex Caruso “Captain Chaos” reminds me of when Hillary tried to make “Dangerous Donald” a thing

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Fun fact: In 2024 Justin Pearson and the other two members of the Tennessee Three were scheduled to speak at the DNC that final night before Kamala spoke, but she bumped them for... former CIA Director/Defense Secretary/85-year old warhawk Leon Panetta

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 06/05/2026

Certainly not. Harris took milquetoast, Republican-friendly positions on major issues or avoided them entirely. I voted for her but please don't pretend she was anything she wasn't cssh.northeastern.edu/kamala-harri...

headline from a Newsweek story, November 2024: Kamala Harris goes quiet on student loan forgiveness

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Thembo @thembo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I think it's bad for the head of T&S to be publicly liking posts by one of the site's most toxic abusers very publicly laying out the case for why it's okay to harass people as long as you run it through a crybully filter.

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Bernie’s two presidential runs almost single-handedly flipped the number of self-identifying socialist Gen Z and Millennials and you’re still wondering how a nationally visible campaign covered everyday in the press helps downballot and local efforts?

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Thank you Ted Turner for teaching my 20 yo self that there could occasionally be one good rich guy out there as I did my little earnest student art project about media consolidation, inequality, and the Iraq War

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Who wants to bet this person surely called out the cruelty of all Liberals and Progressives on here who gloated to Dearborn families “they got what they voted for” when Trump continued bankrolling and supporting the bombing on Gaza that his predecessor Biden happily bankrolled and supported.

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Does anyone know a good therapist

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Once again, liberals love to deny toxicity/bullying culture when they themselves or their allies do it. It’s why Bluesky is an epidemic of hall monitor cancel culture. They think they can root out toxicity and create a utopia that will never exist because it’s selectively enforced against the left.

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