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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
REP. POWELL: “THE CALL OF THE GOVERNOR IS ILLEGAL… what are our laws if we can come in here and break them??” (As speaker Sexton kicks out an actual CROSSVILLE resident from the gallery) #Memphis #JimCrow @GovBillLee
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Sean Parker @seanforfive.com · 03/04/2026
elect socialists, get results
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Matt Shoemaker 🇵🇸 @mattshoemaker.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Reminds me of “Generalization is tyranny's oxygen supply. Specificity cuts it off.” @daviddark.bsky.social
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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Preferred headline: Tennessee's Republican Supermajority hates God.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
🔥 HASAN: "Every election Dems go, 'We have to become more racist, more transphobic’ — No, we want them to vote for us because we're offering something to every American unconditionally. Medicare for All is a great example… racists need healthcare too.”
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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Holly McCall @jhollymc.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Whaddya know.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
GOP is Chernobyl except with Bible verses & slower.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
In case anyone at the DOJ reads my feed, I want to offer a little patriotic help to you in your search for the headquarters of Antifa. It's in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I'm so disgusted by this senile, evil, sentient pile of shit. But I'm repulsed, down to my bones, by the people standing around him just letting him go on about Somalis. Someone could have interrupted or walked out or done anything but stand there like fucking morally bankrupt cowards.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Stay quiet everyone, that’s how change happens
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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"America can’t have nice things, like cures for cancer & welcoming public schools, because Republicans in Congress took the money used to pay for those things and gave it to Stephen Miller to use to invade America’s neighborhoods." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/18/t...
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The United States Can't Afford the Opportunity Cost of Stephen Miller's Bigotry - emptywheel
Americans can't have nice things -- the nice things they used to have -- because Republicans in Congress gave much of money spent on government employees who give you nice things and instead gave it t...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/11/2025
I think Americans are realizing that democracy is a participation sport, and the the government is ours if we want it to be. I feel like we got complacent and hoped some other third party would do the work for us. Seems like we have to learn that lesson every generation.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
This is an astute point. Ladies, your voices matter. Thank God for your voices. May every man who ignores those voices or tries to minimize them repent.
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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
A perfect video to post today
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Matt Shoemaker 🇵🇸 @mattshoemaker.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I heard this today. “Allyship or advocacy should never be transactional. You do it because it’s right. You do it to uplift people.”
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Neil's comment is the kind of logic that not only has led to women being stepped on, but enables abuse. Feminism is NOT the opposite of patriarchy. It is not a "leadership" paradigm. Feminism is the acknowledgement that women have the same agency, voice, and value as men.
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
this is a GOOD speech
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Shane Claiborne @shaneclaiborne.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
“When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood!” -Isaiah 1:15
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Stephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 13/09/2025
I repeat: Floyd’s murder was state violence, and originally the police presented the killing as justified. Kirk’s killing was immediately declared a murder and his killer will face justice.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
🔥 “it’s not about left vs. right, it’s about top vs. bottom — we will not be conquered” Amazing launch video
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
we all love Saving America by horsetrading the lives of marginalized and vulnerable populations who are merely Cultural War signifiers and Objects of Policy rather than flesh and blood human beings or mature, rational, and realistic political Subjects like ourselves
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Matt Shoemaker 🇵🇸 @mattshoemaker.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
youtube.com/watch?v=q0Ee... @daviddark.bsky.social @prestonshipp.bsky.social have y’all seen this?
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RITCHIE TORRES Talks Zionism, LGBT, The Bronx
YouTube video by The Adam Friedland Show
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 27/08/2025
Isaiah 1:15-17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 When you stretch out your hands,
    I will hide my eyes from you;
even though you make many prayers,
    I will not listen;
    your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
    remove your evil deeds
    from before my eyes;
cease to do evil;
17     learn to do good;
seek justice;
    rescue the oppressed;
defend the orphan;
    plead for the widow.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
so men don't have a built-in biological edge over women, got it
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Matt Shoemaker 🇵🇸 @mattshoemaker.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I miss the candy Runts. “Yo, can I get a banana?”
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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
There are so many ways to hate God. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump Cuts Off Medical Visas from Gaza After Laura Loomer Meltdown
Donald Trump stopped all visas from Gaza, including for humanitarian and medical aid, after Laura Loomer freaked out about children getting care.
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Dennis Goris | Cartoons @dennisgoris.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
One of these things is not like the other #washingtondc
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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
From @jaymallow.bsky.social in his newsletter yesterday. Man, this is hard to argue with.
This is where I fear much of the obituary of American Evangelicalism will end when the history books are ultimately written: An obstinate, arrogant, and fearful ideology that rejected science and the witness of victims. A contentious, constantly divisive spirit that consistently looked to ostracize rather than include. A veiled racism that sought no reconciliation and that viewed social justice as a theological flaw. An overt misogyny that didn't just turn a blind eye to sexual and child abuse it enabled it. A cult of celebrity that couldn't relinquish power even when feebly old and terminally ill. A "gospel" that ultimately was about slavish obedience to a god that looked very much like the angry man in the pulpit. A culture obsessed with political power and dominance. Institutions that crumble and wane in years if not months.
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Emily Joy Allison @emilyjoyallison.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
White evangelical Christians who spent a generation touting purity culture & abstinence & courting & True Love Waits & the evils of divorce and homosexuality, in this moment, exposed the bankruptcy & emptiness of their supposed beliefs. Those of us raised in it took it seriously but they never did.
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Emily Joy Allison @emilyjoyallison.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This morning I am thinking about the Christians cheering the ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, cheering the dead bodies of beloved trans children, cheering the destruction of life. I am thinking about the Christians obsessed with the genitals of minors while they call us "groomers" and predators.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
You don’t need a think tank to figure this out. Every single person in the world wants to be safe and comfortably afford housing, groceries, and healthcare. It’s really that simple.
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Preston Shipp @prestonshipp.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
For Franklin Graham, Pete Hegseth, and the millions of other white Christian nationalists, “God” and “Jesus Christ” are nothing more than bloodthirsty battle cries of their hate-filled, homophobic, anti-immigrant, white supremacist cult.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
If you take anything away from my post, I hope it's this:
I will scream this until my lungs collapse: Trans people aren’t the problem. Immigrants and refugees aren’t the problem. Progressives aren’t the problem.

The problem is that the majority of Americans can’t afford a $1000 emergency expense. The problem is that most of our paycheck goes to rent and if we have appendicitis, we call an Uber instead of an ambulance. The problem is that we have leaders who see us, the voters, as abstract concepts and not as individuals with our own lives, families, traumas, passions, and priorities.We are all somebody’s child but when representatives forget that, when they start to only view their district from the window of their Capitol office, we become ants. Our votes become numbers in a game. And our struggles become hindrances to our representative’s job security.

Removal from reality is most often an accident. It’s just a common side effect of our political culture. Congress should be a job like any other, but the pomp and circumstance gives our elected officials an excuse to detach. The ones who haven’t fallen into that trap have only managed to do so through purposeful planning and frequent trips home. They treat empathy like a muscle, flexing it as often as possible to ward off apathy. But this should be the norm, not the exception. If not for moral reasons, then for strategic ones.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Shot from Ski Free with a pixelated skier and a pixelated big grey monster behind themShot from Ski Free with the monster now trying to eat the pixelated skier
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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Senator Schiff, please reflect publicly on your decision to give Marco Rubio power over us before offering guidance. I want to hear from you, but I want to hear about that first.
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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Thank you, Senator Schiff. If you regret placing Secretary Rubio in his current position, please say so now.
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Nashville Resist 🗳️ Against Authoritarianism @nashvilleresist.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Trump getting ready to spend 10s of millions of dollars - after saying we can't afford scientists, epidemiologists and firefighters. Outrageous. washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7618...
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Trump Will Get His Showy (And Likely Expensive) Military Parade in D.C.
Trump’s 2018 plans for a parade of military tanks and planes down Pennsylvania Avenue NW were scuttled. But this year no one will stop him.
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Preston Shipp @prestonshipp.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
My Aunt Sara. Thank you, @daviddark.bsky.social, for boosting my attempt to amplify her righteous signal. daviddark.substack.com/p/a-moral-ca...
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A Moral Calling
Editor’s Note: Pictured above is Nashville’s beloved Sara Harwell who passed over in late February.
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