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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

To all the single moms out there, you are heroes. i don't know how you do it! I've been solo parenting for a week, and it's just so hard!

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

i'm going need someone to explain to me how a kid can be sick for like 5-6 hours and then be fine.

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

am i the only one who really wants to buy a bunch of american flags and burn them today? EOs are not law, burning the flag is our right.

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

just programmed my new Half Marathon training plan. I adapted it from one i used 10 years ago to break 1:40. Now i'm trying for low 2:00s but really just need some consistency and ass kicking.

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

my elder kiddo just said, apropos of the younger one suggesting we watch My Little Pony: I think i need to take a little break from the ponies.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

bragging about being a giant pussy is integral to the conservative mindset

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

first week back running, after a 3-week depression break. 15 miles, slow as hell, and feeling W.O.L.D. but it's a start.

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

today i bought myself two books, my partner one book and a bird watching fold out, and one of my kid's a book. i love our local bookstore because we went in to get one book for the kid and ended up stumbling upon the rest.

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

literally don't know how to be sane and happy in an insane and miserable country. though i do love nyc. just wish i could afford it a little more.

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

i literally do not know how to do this anymore. having terrible mental health before the country was falling apart was one thing. it's so much worse now. (am not suicidal, just don't know how to function in this society)

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

i'm never on here anymore, because my feed is just overly news and negative stuff. but i've officially passed my qualifying exams and i'm a doctoral candidate in epidemiology. now, off to write a dissertation filled with "banned" terms.

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

i'm not starting to look at jobs in other countries. nope. not one bit. by the way, if you know anyone hiring senior level biostatisticians and epidemiologists, in europe and canada, let me know.

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

listening to the Bangles, eternal flame on repeat before my second day of my DrPH qualifying exam. do you feel the same? #PublicHealth #bangles

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

tomorrow is day one of my qualifying exams for my DrPH. It's the Epidemiology concentration day. 6 hours of time to do 4 of 6 questions that i haven't really studied for. I think i'll be fine, right? right?

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

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Dana Gould @danagould.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Dear Sen. Schumer / Rep. Jeffries. Whoever suggested the best way to project strength & illustrate the bulwark between sanity and madness was a bunch of people holding ping-pong paddles needs to resign. You are not meeting your moment.

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

@thedemocraticparty.bsky.social I just unsubscribed from your emails. Everyday you ask for money, yet provide no plan or strategy to fight the coup that is presently happening. you don't even have the courage to call it a coup. piss off.

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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Yeah. Apparently Biden could have canceled all the student loans, stolen a bunch of state money for rightwing religious private schools and told the courts to pound sand. The worst that could have happened is the Supreme Court affirming once and for all that impoundment is illegal forever.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

WAY surpasses Watergate. It’s the most serious constitutional crisis since 1861.

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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

At Cabaret yesterday, Cliff said his line “…if you’re not against all this then you’re for it. Or you might as well be”. The audience interrupted the scene to applaud that line so strongly it stopped the show. Doing a show about the onset of fascism right now is. . . chilling.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/02/2025

Massive protest happening in Union Square right now to defend trans youth from President Trump’s attempts at eradication.

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

just wrote my abstract draft and sent to co-authors. it has many banned words, per the new federal guidelines. omg, social determinants of health? scary.

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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Share if you agree! Rep. McGovern: "Maybe before coming after USAID, Republican should look at the billions and billions of dollars of tax breaks and subsidies they give to oligarchs like Elon Musk. You want to save some money? Let's start there."

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 04/02/2025

Elon Musk has taken control of government employees’ private data by having his cronies illegally install a commercial server at the Office of Personnel Management.

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Elon Musk Installs Illegal Server to Seize All Federal Workers’ Data

Elon Musk’s DOGE henchmen are helping him make his most terrifying power grab yet.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/02/2025

NEW: Archived tweets for Gavin Kriger, Musk's 20-something DOGE employee wreaking havoc inside USAID, shows that Kriger has retweeted multiple neo-Nazis including Nick Fuentes, leader of the so-called Groyper movement, and another popular explicit Nazi account recently unmasked by @travisbrown.dev

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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

What if there were a coup, the US government fell to a drug-addled oligarch who seized control of our money, secrets, and levers of power, and Corporate media did not report on it?

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 03/02/2025

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

1. BREAKING Several of Elon Musk’s associates installed at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — including two recent high school graduates — have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees.

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Musk associates given unfettered access to private data of government employees

The Musk-connected political hires include two recent high school graduates

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

pretty much, the only time i left bed this weekend was to run a 10k in 15 degrees. i'm not sure what any of this says about my mental health, but i don't think it's good.

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

do republicans not realize they are hydra? also, let's call a coup a coup. This is a coup and congress is letting it happen.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This is a constitutional crisis: the President doesn't have the power to cancel funds appropriated by Congress. Also, the math is insane; there is NO way to cut $4B/day by getting rid of "fraud". Cuts of that magnitude will dangerously undermine the core functions of government.

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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

There has never been a larger gap in my (admittedly quite short) professional life between how lay folks and law profs are talking about what is happening in government right now. So much of what Trump is doing is just blatantly illegal — often in several ways at once.

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Dumb Beezie @dumbbeezie.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Feeling very weighed down by the emotional burden of not being able to kick people in the teeth

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Turns out the secret to a coup is just do it on Friday. The opposition will make strongly worded posts and see what they can do about it on Monday

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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

On the bright side, this excellent from the CA Dept of Education: "our offer is this: *nothing.*"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/02/2025

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

DO NOT COMPLY IN ADVANCE. DO NOT COMPLY IN ADVANCE. DO NOT COMPLY IN ADVANCE.

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Listening to W. Guthrie, rereading www.archives.gov/founding-doc... wild how evergreen this document can be whenwe interpret "all men" as every person. We are endowed by our creator to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That seems to go against this current government. Weird.

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Declaration of Independence: A Transcription

Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling a...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Yeah, it's one of those days where I'm listening to a very specific Stephen Sondheim musical and Woodie Guthrie. Not sure what sparked that.

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

i'm not going to even entertain whether it was or was not a nazi salute. it was. #nazisinthewhitehouse

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

i just read the executive order on gender and whatnot, and I can confidently say that i'm dumber now. the EO stipulates that sex refers to someones "immutable biological classification as either male or female" yet does not define the criteria for determining this immutable characteristic. 1/x

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monkistan (They/Them) @monkistan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

if you are counting down until the midterms or the next election, you are not being helpful. we need to do everything we can to oppose this administration, every single day we are able. we CANNOT wait two years, and expect a new government to save us.

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