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Merrill Schleier

@merrillschleier.bsky.social
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I am a professor of Art and Architectural History and Film Studies. I write on the intersection of gender, race, and class in cinema. I am a feminist, anti-racist, green resister who votes Blue. I love films, books, museums, hiking, and nature.

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Blue Horizon @phds2.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Blistering, scathing editorial about the Felon’s Presidency from USA Today! Must read! www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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Trump's presidency is crumbling. The GOP will as well. | Opinion
Donald Trump's lies have stopped working, rendering him impotent against collapsing poll numbers and setting his party up for a midterm disaster.
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This is important!
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Blue Horizon @phds2.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Jackson wrote that she expected the appeals court to act “with dispatch.” Had Jackson denied the request, the Justice Department could have gone to another justice. Most importantly, by issuing the order herself, she was able to set the limits. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...
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Justice Jackson temporarily blocks SNAP benefits order to allow appeals court to rule
DOJ asked SCOTUS for a stay as USDA said it was completing its process for making full payments. Update: Jackson's order came a little past 9 p.m.
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Merrill Schleier @merrillschleier.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
This has been the plan all along.
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Blue Horizon @phds2.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Is this our frightening future, purge, merge, surge? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
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Purge, Merge, and Surge
Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state
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L.P.K. @patigrl.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
8000 jobs lost at Hyundai. Mazda & Nissan will leave USA. Subaru will no longer build cars in USA. Are we winning yet?
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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 18/09/2025
Thought I'd leave this here.
Herr Goebbels Angered By Anti-Nazi Wit

Comedians Banned For Humorous Remarks on Leaders

RERLIN, Feb. 4 (U.P. When Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels yesterday he called it "society rabble and intellectual shobs," for laughing at comedians who make Nazi leaders the butts of their jokes.

Goebbels turned his anger upon nouncing that five German actors had been banned from the stage for publicly rediculing Nazi party and state functionaries. He denied that there was any lack of humor in Nazi Germany, but said that it must be kept "good- natured, decent and clean."

"There is plenty of humor in Germany, more than enough," he said in a three and one-half column editorial in the Nazi party's newspaper Voelkischer Beobachter. "But we do not per-

mit ourselves to be ridiculed." ner Finck, actor-author; Pete Sachse, vaudevilie comedian, and Helmut Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi, the latter three members of a vaudeville combination known as "The Three Rulands." The five were said to have been warned re- peatedly to stop making jokes about the Nazis.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Hiding the truth.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Yes, release the Epstein files!!!
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Merrill Schleier @merrillschleier.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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Merrill Schleier @merrillschleier.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
If Repubs win back Congress, they will convert original Medicare to “voucher support.” Beneficiaries will purchase private insurance at a higher rate and be at the mercy of corporations who can deny care and charge more based on age. An A1 program is now in use in some states to determine coverage.
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Blue Horizon @phds2.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Build a 200 million dollar gold ballroom while killing cancer research, destroying rural hospitals and taking away Medicaid for millions of children!
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
I have made ZERO transfers to pedophiles. The leader and Messiah of the Republican Party has made 4,725 transfers to the world’s most notorious pedophile.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
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Merrill Schleier @merrillschleier.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Merrill Schleier @merrillschleier.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The VA terminated 360K union contracts for, which represents a loss of 2.5% of all union members in the US. The labor movement needs to take action.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
This man is a danger to us all.
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Health Experts Speak Out After RFK Jr. Eliminates $500 Million In mRNA Vaccine Contracts
He is a danger to us all.
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🇺🇸💙💙🤔🤨CJ🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 @cnice59.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I Second This Statement…. Looking guilty as hell! 🔥🔥
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
The guy who claims he has a 90% approval rating fired the government statistician who keeps employment numbers because he doesn’t agree that her numbers are honest.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The Department of Justice is pretending it needed to talk to notorious liar Ghislaine Maxwell to know the truth about Jeffrey Epstein, when it is concealing thousands of documents about him that don’t lie. It’s a sick farce.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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LGBTQ Syracuse @lgbtqsyracuse.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
What could possibly go wrong here?
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50501 New York @50501newyork.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Our taxpayer dollars are going towards paying for white supremacists to cosplay as soldiers in Los Angeles for photo ops that are designed as propaganda for the Trump regime so they can convince their Fox News followers of a lie that the United States is under “invasion” and ICE is their savior.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Why are folks mad at the working mom with kids on Medicaid and SNAP rather than companies like Walmart that refuse to pay her a living wage and provide health insurance?
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Merrill Schleier @merrillschleier.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Patriots July 4th protest in El Cerrito, CA.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
pretty weird how there's always billion dollars just lying around whenever ICE needs concentration camps but there's never any money when children need healthcare or a simple school lunch. oh well just one of those things I guess
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Listen to @warren.senate.gov! If you want to keep your healthcare, #KillTheBill! 🚫
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Blue Horizon @phds2.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office the Senate tax bill will cut 930 billion dollars from Medicaid. This is 130 billion dollars more than the House bill. The Republicans don’t represent us! It does not include cuts to the Affordable Care Act! Source: Aaron Parnas
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"Peace president."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/06/2025
Brilliant. 10/10. No notes.
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Blue Horizon @phds2.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Narciso Barranco, a father to 3 U.S. Marines was brutally beaten by 7+ 🧊 agents, before being thrown into an unmarked car. The video is disturbing so if you are sensitive to violence please don’t watch it. However, the violence of 🧊 needs to be widely distributed. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjv4KpTm/
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ICE agents caught on camera-brutally beating local gardener during arrest in Santa Ana. Multiple reports of ICE raids "swarming" landscaping crews. Even leaving lawnmowers running after grabbing men r...
TikTok video by daily1st
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Life and Liberty @libertyandlife.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Section 527 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118-47) mandates that the Department of Homeland Security cannot prevent Members of Congress from entering facilities for oversight purposes, and this oversight does not require prior notice.
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Blue Horizon @phds2.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Make America Gruesome Again!
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Juneteenth calls us to understand the realities of our past, celebrate the resilience and achievements of Black Americans, and align the course of our country toward its founding creed of liberty and justice for all. Wishing everyone a meaningful Juneteenth!
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