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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 18m

THIS is how you Member of Congress, @repricklarsen.bsky.social - this is what it would take to actually *earn* my vote, rather than just resting in your securely “blue” seat.

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 2h

I’m a day late to this observation but man is it on point.

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

well that’s just charming… Chapter 678,910 of white guys with loads of $ getting away with whatever… many years ago I was proud to have the 49ers as my hometown team… this is ultra cringe

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Matt @nosoupforgeorge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

While Sophie Cunningham fans and bigots are focused on "protecting girls" from transgender athletes who aren't even playing in the WNBA, men like the Cornell 7 are on the loose. I wish Republicans could find it in themselves to care about real issues that actually harm women.

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think it’s important that more opinions like this one appear in mainstream discourse. This is a salient observation.

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

shout it from the rooftops: What The Everlasting Fuck?!?!!!

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Note that in two articles today, WaPo describes a "sale" of bombs to Israel. This is extremely misleading. The reported $2.bn package is 100% funded by US taxpayers via the Foreign Military Financing grants for Israel to buy US weapons.

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ditto, and squared since I’m from San Francisco (“from” there, not just “used to live there”)

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The apocalypse has only two horsepersons: Death and Enshittification

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

the sum total of Sam Alito’s jurisprudence on voting adds up to “You have the right to vote for a Republican and if you aren’t likely to vote for a Republican, then Republicans are allowed to disenfranchise you.”

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Justin Fox @byjustinfox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Here's the much shorter list of agencies and subagencies that have added more than 2,000 workers since January 2025 (the Interior Department consolidated a lot of back-office tasks of individual subagencies into the secretary's office) www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Nondefense agencies with 2,000+ employment increase since Jan. 2025
Agency or subagency Employment change Percent change
Office of the Secretary of the Interior (reorganization) 8,648 284.8%
Immigration and Customs Enforcement 8,267 40.1%
Customs and Border Protection 3,839 5.8%

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Justin Fox @byjustinfox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What the Trump administration has been doing to the federal government, in one chart. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Nondefense agences with 2,000+ employment decline since Jan. 2025
Department, agency or subagency Employment change Percent change
Internal Revenue Service -29,985 -29.4%
Veterans Health Administration -26,347 -6.2%
Social Security Administration -7,934 -13.8%
Forest Service (since July 2024) -7,268 -17.8%
Transportation Security Administration -6,481 -9.8%
Federal Emergency Management Agency -5,759 -22.1%
Bureau of Land Management (since July 2024) -5,274 -47.6%
Veterans Benefits Administration -5,198 -15.0%
National Institutes of Health -5,052 -23.5%
Agency For International Development -4,739 -95.4%
Food and Drug Administration -4,700 -22.4%
Army Corps of Engineers -4,563 -11.8%
Environmental Protection Agency -4,476 -26.4%
Department of Energy -3,976 -24.8%
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention -3,649 -28.6%
Small Business Administration -3,480 -40.6%
National Park Service (since July 2024) -3,469 -15.4%
Department of State -3,158 -21.8%
Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA) -3,002 -25.3%
Fish and Wildlife Service (since July 2024) -2,803 -30.8%
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. -2,575 -20.8%
Geological Survey -2,572 -30.5%
Citizenship and Immigration Services -2,514 -11.0%
Public Buildings Service (GSA) -2,452 -43.8%
Census Bureau -2,436 -18.3%
Agricultural Research Service -2,325 -32.7%
Bureau of Reclamation -2,207 -38.0%
Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System -2,175 -6.0%

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

More of this, please!! Rational thinking coupled with sensitivity, empathy, and self awareness. What paradise we could live in if as many of us as possible could practice that recipe!

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Found this posted by historian @drdragases.bsky.social lacking alt text - so I stole to repost accessibly, hoping to disappear a tiny bit less.

HOW WE DISAPPEAR

I am in the store touching things.
Linen napkins, a blue bowl.
The world is on fire and I am choosing
between two kinds of soap.

Everyone here is doing this, filling carts
with small comforts while somewhere a child
goes to bed hungry, while the earth heats,
while men make decisions about who gets to live.

I know what this is, this careful arranging
while everything collapses.
This is how we survive.
And also how we disappear.

Alessandra Olanow

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The tragedy of an individualistic rich society is that people think they can insure themselves from anything, but when collective crises happen, people will be desperately looking for public help that will have depleted because of the past hyperindividualism

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

“It was never about immigration enforcement. It was about exerting power over a Muslim and Black community that has become too visible economically and politically.”

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

this is solid thinking and I’m for it

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

another day, another super troubling headline news story about the alarming behavior of Cabinet officials that most Americans won’t notice at all, nor have any curiosity about www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

latimes.com

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin refuses to commit to following court orders

Mullin faced the Senate Appropriations Committee amid scrutiny over the agency's budget and immigration enforcement ahead of the World Cup.

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

alt txt: black & white photo taken from ground level looking upward, a tabby striped and white cat is in the foreground staring dubiously into the camera lens, a bit behind him and to the left stands an older gentleman in a hat, light colored shirt dark trousers with a cane or walking stick, 1/2

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/05/2026

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

This NEEDS to happen. Include the “Freedom” Foundation

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Just waded through another thread of comments fixated on “Trump’s diaper” and how bad he must smell, etc etc. I guarantee that the U.S. president’s incontinence, if it exists, is 100% the *very least* abhorrent thing about him.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Extremely disappointed not to see my Congressperson Rick Larsen on the list of supporters. That needs to change. @repricklarsen.bsky.social

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This looks like a good thread to boost amongst us non-scientists. People who study stuff tend to know more about it than the rest of us.

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Absolutely egregious, Israel is a pariah state

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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 08/04/2026

Pakistan: Lebanon is part of the ceasefire Iran: Lebanon is part of the ceaefire US: Lebanon is part of the ceasefire Lebanon: Lebanon is part of the ceasefire Israel: We bombed Lebanon 100 times in 10 minutes

Screenshot of a twitter quote post:

Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب
@chehayebk
Israeli military says it targeted what it said was “over 100 Hezbollah command and control centers and military sites” in 10 minutes in #Beirut, Beqaa, and southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah has not launched any attacks on Israel today, insists Lebanon is part of the US-Iran deal.

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب
@chehayebk · 14m
Panic across Beirut.

At least 10 Israeli airstrikes rocked Lebanon, including several parts of central Beirut. Busy residential and commercial areas with no warning.

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

While Trump and Hegseth suck all the air out of public discourse in the US, Israel proceeds to annihilate its neighbor. I hate how self absorbed my country is.

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Danny Plainview @nhinca.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The media needs to quit breaking down the content and just focus on the fact that he's deranged. When someone is inebriated and spouting nonsense, you don't break don't the merits of their argument. You just say "that dude is drunk." Same applies here - everything stems from his derangement.

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Wayne Fryback @waynefryback.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

It's fucking bullshit that we were subjected to weeks of panic about Joe Biden's debate performance, and yet nothing will come from this. Just fucking bullshit, all the way down. 😪😡

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

wtf?!?! where are all national media on this?!?! Is Fortune mag really the only news organization on this story??

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Fascinating topic, heretofore completely unknown to me, about my home city’s defunct port.

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Youthcrush John Taylor (bass, Duran Duran)

Tiger Beat style teen heartthrob portrait of Duran Duran’s John Taylor in the early-mid 80s, wearing a white blazer with a black n white striped teeshirt, with. ridiculous reddish dye job and bedhead hairstyle with long fringe almost obscuring his eyes. Hubba-hubba, said 13-14 year old me!

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I’ve been disappointed lately that many I follow, whose posts are of high interest to me, limit commenting (to mutuals?) - there are comment threads but I can’t participate at all. So much commenting is toxic bullshit so I understand in a way, but the practice really dampens engagement.

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Jeffrey Harharwood @jeffreyharharwood.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Conservatives literally do not understand *anything* and this isn't even an exaggeration. Have you ever talked to one? It's wild, it's like after 4-5 years old their bodies kept growing but their minds stopped being curious

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

👇🎯 Not once has the national media asked a GOP politician about affording ICE the way Biden/the Dems were asked about the cost of student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I don’t know whether this is more egregious, or heinous. The for-profit model of government prevalent in my country sucks shit, to put it mildly.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 25/01/2026

"Why is it so normal for law enforcement — those who are supposed to be keepers of law and order — to kill Americans? And why is the only question at the end of the day how much their victims deserved to die?" Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...

Verge headline: It doesn't matter if Alex Pretty had a gun
by Sarah Jeong

Photo by Steven Garcia depicts several masked law enforcement agents soaked in red light at night

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

We have reached the point where any statement made by a Trump administration official must be assumed to be a lie until proven otherwise.

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