Reposted by Livia ScottAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 06/10/2026meanwhile, over on twitter dot com 122987139
Reposted by Livia ScottMac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Crying laughing at this 413423
Reposted by Livia ScottChantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026Yo, I am not liking how the r word came rearing back with a vengeance. We had cleared that word out of polite society! It was established, it's an ableist slur that makes you look like the asshole to use. It's everywhere now! And Black people use it too in dialect! I was called it in the psych ward. 311729
Reposted by Livia Scottgeoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors 723989788
Reposted by Livia Scottsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I despise seeing what’s really going on stuffed into a “but critics say” clause. 271427266
Reposted by Livia ScottTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026[edit] The book Venn I am going to suggest: This is WHO: American Oligarchs by Andrea Bernstein + This is WHY: Caliban & Witch + This is HOW: Capital Is Dead by McKenzie Wark anyone you see missing in that formulation is in: Golden Gulag. 542969
Reposted by Livia ScottTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The book Venn I am going to suggest: American Oligarchs by Andrea Bernstein + Caliban & Witch + Capital Is Dead by McKenzie Wark 329521
Reposted by Livia ScottTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026They aren’t just stealing everything that is left they are making sure only men can hoard it. I don’t know what else to tell you. 259897
Reposted by Livia ScottTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026He isn’t old. He isn’t out of touch. He isn’t confused. He is choosing who will rule. Men — even those who love men — are citizens and everyone else isn’t. Thats it. 6779106
Reposted by Livia ScottTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Stabs this whole interview with a copy of The Caliban and The Witch. 131074213
Reposted by Livia ScottOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026People act like politics is hard and then they allow dumbasses like Bush and Trump to run circles around them. Politics isn’t hard, you just have to try. 4606
Reposted by Livia ScottOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Call it the GOP data center kickback and run on repealing it 17917
Reposted by Livia ScottOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026All you have to do is talk about these things and the public becomes politically inspired and active. It’s called leadership. That’s what you do instead of rushing to follow the polls and endorsing horrible shit while salivating over votes 540677
Reposted by Livia ScottJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...nytimes.comLucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south. 131703504
Reposted by Livia ScottEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The NYT story is a great example of NYT making informing readers subordinate to pushing their agenda. If you read it carefully, it's clear that Democrats have largely decided to counter attack by saying Rs are obsessed with trans issues and neglecting things that impact ordinary Americans. 240186
Reposted by Livia ScottMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is actually a good story by the New York Times' Peter Baker. But as usual, the editors ran it through their Euphemism Desk so the headline talks about Trump "moving ethical lines" instead of saying flat-out that the president is deeply corrupt and is putting your money in his pocket.nytimes.comHow Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits (Gift Article)The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms. 49737251
Reposted by Livia ScottSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 04/10/2026MAY HIS MEMORY BE A REVOLUTIONARY BLESSING 💗 115826
Reposted by Livia ScottSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Incarcerated women report rampant sexual abuse by guards and the guards retaliate by spraying them with chemical agents and sending them to the hospital as a warning. Rape culture and brazen misogyny from the highest institution to the lowest. 4653296
Reposted by Livia ScottBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail. 22997243100
Reposted by Livia ScottTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026a lot of money and yet probably still undercounts. It’s making me queasy. 330042
Reposted by Livia ScottTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources 7939341
Reposted by Livia ScottThe Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Disturbing 🧵 I work in DC, but it's part of my job that I don't speak to journalists; I prep people who do. One of the things that I've noticed is a significant deterioration in basic standards of practice, including respecting off the record communication and porting quotes from other contexts. 214332
Reposted by Livia Scottroterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Remember Tucker is literally a neonazi who would have liked Hitler to win World War 2. All his other opinions run from that insane viewpoint. 45311
Reposted by Livia Scottbubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026social media is a nightmare these days, but i just need to say: the way you talk about strangers’ experiences of sexual assault tells the survivors in your real life whether or not you can be trusted with their stories and their safety. and there *are* survivors in your life, so don’t fuck it up. 0773169
Reposted by Livia ScottOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/08/2024"First, said veteran Democratic numbers man Geoff Garin, summarizing [the pollsters'] analysis, stop saying, “We’re not going back.” It wasn’t focused enough on the future, he argued. Second, lay off all the “weird” talk — too negative." these fucking guys, man www.cnn.com/2024/08/18/p...cnn.comInside the fast-moving launch of Kamala Harris for president | CNN PoliticsThree weeks into her presidential run was the first time the Biden campaign’s pollsters — now hers — held a deep-dive call with Kamala Harris’ inner circle to discuss what she’s been saying on the stu... 54812111
Reposted by Livia ScottOlivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him. 18181431773
Reposted by Livia ScottJson Momoa @jotatx.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026One of the issues highlighted here on this piece is how Marco Rubio diverted 1 million usd to a campaign to smear and dismantle the trust in the Brazilian supreme court and interfere in our elections, with more resources from untraceable channels expected to follow suit. clear US aggression here.theguardian.comTrump administration diverts human rights funds to push far-right agenda abroadSupport such as for white Afrikaners and anti-communism reveals how US is redefining what qualifies as human rights 818266
Reposted by Livia ScottI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026*watch your party run roughshod over every vulnerable community for a decade* “Can’t we all just get along?” 35896115
Reposted by Livia ScottWagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026you can't train the misogyny out of people. esp when the people getting trained commit rape at a rate higher than the general population 223431
Reposted by Livia ScottWagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026whenever we get close to seeing a systemic problem with policing, media rushes to frame it as a training problem. however, police culture is at the core of its mistreatment of victims and rape cases. policing is a tool of white supremacy AND *male* supremacy 5859257
Reposted by Livia ScottAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026"There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction." WOW. 🥹 Grateful to The IMPACT Magazine for the kindest profile of #TheDoubleTax and me. Black-owned media FTW. #blackskytheimpactmagazine.comThe Cost of Being a Black Woman in America Is More Than a Pay Gap: Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman Is Measuring the Double TaxThere are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction. A doctoral candidate … 7694188
Reposted by Livia ScottPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening. 111292407
Reposted by Livia ScottMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026it’s good to remind people today we aren’t going to trauma-inform our way to “more humane” forms of caging and execution 1738138
Livia Scott @livialand.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Step back from political hostility" literally means "let Republicans do whatever they want" 👍 000
Reposted by Livia ScottAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 01/10/2026Spencer Cox has mastered the art of media capture, and he is not the only one. Small-d democrats should take notes and prepare an appropriate multi-pronged response during Reconstruction 3.0 16010
Reposted by Livia ScottAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 01/10/2026This guy literally packed the courts because Utahns passed an anti-gerrymandering referendum and the state Supreme Court justices, many of whom he appointed, repeatedly sided with the people over him and his fellow Republicans. Spare me the white man tears www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...nbcnews.comUtah governor signs bill adding justices to state Supreme Court as redistricting appeal loomsOnce the new seats are filled, Gov. Spencer Cox will have appointed five of the seven justices. 9445106
Reposted by Livia ScottCasey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 30/09/2026Just a reminder that you can have a PhD and also be an idiot 2953473
Reposted by Livia ScottBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The other thing that Gov. Cox “expanded” is the Utah Supreme Court, adding two seats after his political party lost a big redistricting case. 1639593
Reposted by Livia ScottJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Cox has also banned fluoridation of water and packed his state supreme court so Republicans can gerrymander at will. Thoughts and feelings ass motherfucker. 530648
Reposted by Livia ScottGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I love living in a country where a politician can sign a law banning the health care I need to live and be greeted as a hero of comity and good sense 321420258
Reposted by Livia ScottEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It’s deeply frustrating to me to be 10, 15 years into this and routinely have to remind some liberals that the New York Times is not your fucking friend and is not going to do the job of the Democratic Party for it. 11543108
Reposted by Livia Scott🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Everyone keeps trying to change racism/ sexism/ misogynoir etc into ”left vs right” ideology with no respect for history because they don’t want to admit DEI “fixed” a lot of these problems If only by fundamentally exposing that people would rather implode the world than have sustainable equity 05519
Reposted by Livia ScottPrincess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Apparently people are trying to doxx Cornell’s Jane Doe. I have never felt so concerned about a Jane Doe in my entire life. I am shaken. It is so incredibly difficult for women to pursue justice. Sexual assault causes higher PTSD rates than war. This excerpt is by Rebecca Solnit. 17252122
Reposted by Livia ScottJohn Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 30/09/2026New today: An ex-NYPD cop has pleaded guilty to posing as an ICE official and threatening to deport a woman who rebuffed him romantically. "ICE will come get you and your family and you will always live poor. Matter of fact I will make the phone call myself." www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/30/e...nydailynews.comJilted ex-NYPD cop admits posing as ICE agent, threatening woman with deportationAtickul Islam, 30, threw away his police career and possibly his freedom with text messages he sent, threatening to call ICE on the woman, then pretending he was the agency’s New York field office dir... 64629
Reposted by Livia ScottJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Also, AI creates cognitive decline, so fuck that. 9131158
Reposted by Livia ScottJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 119115832877
Reposted by Livia ScottMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Reading, and writing, are holy. I love reading novels because they tell me something. They say: "this is what someone believed enough to dedicate months or years of their life to say." This is just as true for the trashiest pulp as it is for the highest literature. 6669177
Reposted by Livia Scottevy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026whenever you feel like you’re too small to change anything know that citizens from small towns and cities that speak up against flock and axon cameras in their communities (and sometimes get arrested for it) are fighting and sometimes succeeding against this 8896301