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MJ Lindberg

@mjlindberg.bsky.social
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Was Chicago, now Vermont. Progressive. Theater. Books. Art. Science. Writes sometimes. Current president of the League of Vermont Writers. She/her/hers. Blog: competitivemalaise.wordpress.com

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 19h
Quick question, is this the same Cornell president that ran over a pro-palestine student protestor's foot with his car this year, or
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 18h
Also deported pro Palestinian grad students , and fielded calls from the North Star about challenging folks immigration
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Apache Trout @apachetrout.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gov Phil Scott is quite vulnerable. Two polls released in past week indicate Scott is in trouble, even though the Vermont Public poll shows a 10 point lead. 1) Scott's support was consistent in both polls. For a historically popular governor, support below 50% should raise flags.
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 19h
I am always intrigued by people who think Idiocracy is a prediction of the future rather than a critique of the present
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026
You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The climatologist 
told me 
the problem 
is we don’t see 
people far away 
as real people. 
The programmer 
told me 
the problem 
is we don’t see 
people online 
as real people. The ethicist 
told me 
the problem 
is we don’t see 
other people 
as real people.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone is so tired. Exhausted. And I'm talking to so many friends and colleagues who are hoping for a functional institutional power to come along and take care of them, take the annoying work and worry away. An employer, a publisher, a big funder, an elected leader, etc. I think it's just us.
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Q. McLamore @ghawinriver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This. And while we're on the subject, you wanna talk about "changing stories," let's talk about DA offices and cops in general, eh? Imagine what reporting would look like if the press treated known liars with the same level of skepticism and scrutiny that they treat victims.
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
meanwhile people have been telling us since 2025 that we have to vote for him in 2028
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
Ok what’s the real story here? Union busting? Trying to get higher paid people to quit?
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you live in Illinois, please support the campaign to demand that @govpritzker.illinois.gov pardon Keshia Golden. Read Holly Krig's piece in my newsletter about the case: prisonculture.substack.com/p/prisons-pr...
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Prisons, Prose & Protest - #43
Rants, Musings and More
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 01/10/2026
Still on plane. We do not know if they will let us off. Atmosphere getting feral. Maybe I will be in Dallas. Maybe they are taking us somewhere else. But I did get this photo.
Trump’s stupid plane
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 25/09/2026
Get their asses
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 28/09/2026
Masterful gambit with gas prices what they are. Perfect closing argument.
Trump Sharply Scales Back Fuel Economy Rules for New Cars
The move marked the final step in the administration’s efforts to dismantle policies aimed at speeding the shift to electric vehicles.
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you have no concept of how people engage with music
nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.
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Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 01/10/2026
Corporate media is hostile to you and your way of life. It must be left behind. All of it.
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Why were these men allowed to “pursue their education in a secure and nourishing environment” and she was not? Why was she not informed of the outcome of her own Title IX investigation? Who benefited from the 23 months of elapsed time when the public knew nothing?”
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
J.D. Vance has been a breathless supporter of Neo-Nazis at home and abroad, promoting their fascist ideas and ideology to a jaw-dropping degree. But he has the fucking nerve to say someone tied to *socialists* doesn't belong in America. *You* are the un-American ideologue, you goose-stepping dork.
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Lee 'the J is for Jillinois' Carter @carterforva.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just a reminder that all of this is happening because Joe Biden didn't put Trump in prison. Normal countries put coup leaders in prison. This isn't a normal country.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s not just the tech. It’s the culture of a tech that allows for arbitrary personal vendettas as a way of creating a permanent underclass That everyone justifies because “Men should have dominion over women” “Black people commit crimes” Based on data designed to prove that
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
After nearly two years of claims on Fox News that Trump’s deportation operations were targeting the “worst of the worst,” the administration acknowledged that it's attempting to go after every person it thinks is in the U.S. without authorization.
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Fox News has spent almost two years claiming Trump’s deportations are targeting “the worst of the worst.” The administration just contradicted that narrative.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 01/10/2026
Truly, the generation of dipshit bros born after the Vietnam War is very determined to get us right back to the mindset that lost that war.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christa 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.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Everyone 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
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 01/10/2026
The scars of residential schools will forever linger on the landscape. I'm glad Denise Boucher is finally with her ancestors.
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She Died in a Residential School and Was Buried in Secret | The Walrus
It took eighty-three years to bring Denise Boucher home
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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
somebody please check on white supremacists
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
christ this infuriates me. ACA bridged the gap between my divorce (with loss of spousal benefits) and medicare eligibility. without it, I would not have had access to health care for eight years.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Much love + blessing to all the guys just figuring out how bad it is wrt sexual violence + invite them to consider how basically none of the women (and many folks of other genders) out there are surprised in the slightest by these stats or details bc it's always been this bad + it never changes
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
People whose "potential" does not preclude us from abandoning, imprisoning, or killing them because of an actual or perceived misdeed encompasses basically everyone but privileged young white men: black people, women, queer and trans people, addicts, the homeless, Gazans, poor people, etc., etc.
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The thing that gives the game away about protecting young white men from the consequences of their behavior in the name of their "potential" is that it only applies to them
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William Lane @williamjtlane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's hardly unique to musicians to view women as frivolous or undeserving of success of course, and the idea of 'man = working class, woman = middle class' is still deeply socially ingrained. Still it's rare to see a male figure positioned as entirely frivolous in the same way.
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Spook-ass, Christ oh boo! boo! @loukas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'll add another thing to this thread about 'invisible' misogyny: a lot of the time it also presents as chivalry. Putting women on a pedestal, 'yearning' for them; all part of a misogynistic othering of women which can likewise explode in 'surprising' ways.
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Spook-ass, Christ oh boo! boo! @loukas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And this may not be a popular take, but so many male musicians seem to have a really nasty vein of misogyny running through their songs about women. It feels weird saying it, because no one else seems to say it but, for example, Leonard Cohen.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/09/2026
Women Are Bourgeois theory holds true
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Archaeologist here and someone who just wrote an entire book chapter ln the history of communication. Maybe if dude had spoken to a linguist or an anthropologist he would not have shown his taint to the entire universe. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I just finished reading Nnedi Okorafor's *Death of the Author* and it is all that and a fist full of beer nuts. Fantastic book. I'm also a bit of a sucker for a nove-within-a-novel, as in this. Recommended.
Cover of the book *Death of the Author* by Nnedi Okorafor; features a Black woman's head in profile.
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Patriarchy makes everything a competition, about hierarchy. You don’t work with others, you dominate them or lose to them. Who does that most sound like, btw. Yeah. He’s GOT to go. Seriously. That’s not how humanity modernized. Human beings evolved when we learned to work as a community.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/09/2026
The imagined influence of the algorithm controls all language, which is the same thing as controlling thought, ultimately. And the generation that’s grown up saying “unalive” doesn’t even know they’ve been muzzled all along.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/09/2026
It’s a very minor point amongst the far greater injustices of the situation, but the Cornell case has also just reminded me how much all of society seems to have just accepted the fact that big tech won’t allow people to use the word “rape”. (Or at least people *believe* so — nobody knows!)
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Harvest Moon (Golden Hare) by Tamsin Abbott, English stained glass artist. #HarvestMoon is the #fullmoon closest to the autumn equinox #WomensArt
Stained glass artwork in gold and black featuring a hare lying down amonst grasses under a golden full moon
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Should be reposted every month....
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Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Let’s say it again for the people in the back. If your publishing company “needs” to dip into author royalties to stay afloat then you do not have a functioning business and you need to go out of business and pay off your debts in the process. You aren’t a special case. You are just a thief
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/09/2026
it did a little oopsie woopsie! we had nothing to do with it!
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 26/09/2026
It is impossible to overstate how totally sociopathic it is for @rahmemanuel.bsky.social to have turned Chicago into his personal political corruption machine and now depict himself as the 2028 presidential candidate leading an anti-corruption movement.
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Daleys are not hated enough by Chicagoans
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