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Alex @namesaregone.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
That would be great to see, but caving at this point is definitely not a good look unless they’re able to get some real guarantees
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Alex @namesaregone.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I’d love to be pleasantly surprised if it works that way, but it’s hard to be optimistic considering everything
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Alex @namesaregone.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I’m only here for your food content
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Alex @namesaregone.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
That’s what I figured at the time
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
"If we throw minorities under the bus, Republicans will stop calling us too woke" is the same logic that got us Clinton's welfare cuts and Obama's immigration crackdowns. You can't policy your way out of a right-wing propaganda problem.
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Alex @namesaregone.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Yup
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Are you disgusted and want to help? Read this. Digest how evil it and Cuomo is. Send it to every New Yorker and person with a platform that you know. Add a note on top from you. There are many monsters in the world right now. We can beat this monster now. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/n...
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Andrew Cuomo for Mayor? His “First Accuser” Says New York City Deserves Better
Taxpayers have paid millions defending the former governor and top aides against accusers’ allegations.
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Alex @namesaregone.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
you’re better on a bad day than some of these folks on their best day
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Alex @namesaregone.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
the video is excellent tho
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Alex @namesaregone.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I’ve been thinking this all day
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Americans root for people who stand up for themselves, whether they do it in a newsletter, at a press conference, through an influencer, or on social media. But they won’t root for a pushover, just because he happens to be on TikTok. www.offmessage.net/p/democrats-...
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Democrats Need A Battle Plan—And A War Room
They shouldn't "roll over and play dead"—they should understand what their advantages are, and seize them.
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Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER APP IS JUST A PRETTY DISPLAY OF NOAA DATA Ppl seem to think that "NOAA weather forecasts" means climate-, boat-, or "in addition to my app"-weather. But the weather forecasts *we all use* are made from the NOAA data *we all paid for* Make that part clear when you ⬇️
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 27/02/2025
"to conceive of robots as ‘human-like machines’ (& thus consider their rights)means to first perceive humans in machinic terms: complicated biological info processing machines. Once we see ourselves as machines, it becomes intuitive to see machines as ‘in some sense like us" arxiv.org/pdf/2404.10072
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WIRED @wired.com · 27/02/2025
"It’s worse than you think because by the time the courts catch up, the damage will already have been done. It’s worse than you think because the people running the government seem to have no higher mission than to watch it burn," @brbarrett.bsky.social writes:
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The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think
What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
As to the substantive goal, if you want Trump to comply with the law, you can't just say "we really mean it" or accept a GOP pinky swear. You have to make him comply at the outset, and then fund the government in short bursts so he knows he can't easily renege. www.offmessage.net/p/its-crunch...
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
To win public opinion, though, it has to be clear Republicans are begging Dems for votes (because they're too dysfunctional to govern alone), without providing any reason to believe Trump will honor a deal (because they know he won't). At least for now, that means dropping the filibuster threat.
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It's Crunch Time To Save The Rule Of Law
Democrats have gotten the message, but need a game plan.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Full explanation in the piece. If Dems stick to that line, they'll know and we'll know that they did all they could. If they don't, it'll be a turning point in history. www.offmessage.net/p/its-crunch...
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Alex @namesaregone.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
It’s taken way too long for a lot of supposedly smart people to even start to understand this reality
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Erica Stanley @ericastanley.com · 25/02/2025
All of us to @msnbc.com
Ta-Nehisi Coates appearing on MSNBC show "AYMAN" and reacting in shock in real-time to a racist take on his new book with, "Wow, that was really racist."
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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Hey physicians, now is actually the exact time we need to all be talking about racism and health equity. Everything that is happening is going to worsen disparities. Silence is not an option.
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Arrests have a cost yall: - time in jail - bail - dealing with lawyers / courts - no contact orders - employment - travel restrictions Civil disobedience with the intention of provoking arrest has a time and a place. It's best done as part of a widespread, dedicated campaign supported by normies.
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Kim Wood @drkimwood.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes *worldwide* because of USGS.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The Trump-Musk assault on disability rights is monstrous on its own but also the start of a wider assault on other vulnerable populations. Pay attention.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 20/02/2025
Read the op-ed from @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and @ezralevin.bsky.social in @thenation.com. 👇
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How to Organize Our Way Out of the Trump-Musk Putsch
A plan to harness grassroots energy—and to hold Democratic leaders accountable
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Dr. Nicole Lee Schroeder @nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Organizing spaces and community spaces have said "in person is the only way." Disabled people may not be forcibly institutionalized right now (though RFK has plans for that) but we are isolated because others refuse to keep us safe. 18/20
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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
If you are a cis person *please* take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.
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Alex @namesaregone.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Yup. We all rise and fall together
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Alex @namesaregone.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The awkward mentions of her own Bsky account have been real delightful
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20/02/2025
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.
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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Dear @wegmansofficial.bsky.social We really appreciate you continuing “Black History Month” in your stores. It just made me shop there more. And you KNOW you can run up some money at the Wegmans! Keep up the good work!
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Alex @namesaregone.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Agreed
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Alex @namesaregone.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
That’s some Olympic level contortion going on
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Excited to learn all the new ways lawyers can phrase "the federal government can suck my dick" over the next four years
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
If Dems decide regrouping after 2024 means striking an optimal balance between Obamaism and Bidenism, they will march into 2028 with a playbook for a discontinued game. All these recriminations over the best face of liberalism is navel gazing until fair play and the rule of law are restored.
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There's More To Life Than Obama And Biden
Should the next Democratic president be an Obama-style "neoliberal" or a Biden-style "post-neoliberal"? Probably neither. Do these categories even exist? Barely.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
"VERY unlikely" is being generous
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
happy presidents’ day everyone i wrote about DEI and how the anti-woke brigade loves eugenics www.theverge.com/politics/613...
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The war on DEI is a smoke screen
MAGA’s attacks on “wokeness” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” are a thinly veiled attack on the Civil Rights Movement itself.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I am worried this is going to become the conventional wisdom over the next four years: If those pesky college students and activists and SJWs hadn't over-reached, Trump II never would have happened. It is nonsense.
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howdydo.bsky.social @howdydo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
They don’t understand the programming language…
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 17/02/2025
X is blocking links to Signal, a secure messaging platform used by federal workers
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X is blocking links to Signal, a secure messaging platform used by federal workers
Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) is blocking links to Signal.me, a URL shortener used by the private messaging app Signal that allows users to send out a link that’s used to contact them directly through the service. The blocks, which impact direct…
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/02/2025
There is simply no legal architecture that would allow Musk, the richest man in the world, to remake the entire federal government without running afoul of criminal conflict of interest laws.
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There's no way Elon Musk’s job is legal
"Checks and balances, at the moment, seem to be neutralized.”
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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
At the request of the Trump Admin, the Ntl Park Service removed references to trans people in this essay w/o consulting the writer, historian @wendylrouse.bsky.social. Read it here as Prof Rouse intended (and as the NPS published/maintained it until now). 🗃️ drive.google.com/file/d/1p-rQ...
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The Very Queer History of the Suffrage Movement (U.S. National Park Service).pdf
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Ali Faruk @alifarukrva.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
“Those in power rely on this disillusionment, using economic coercion, legislative gridlock, and suppression of dissent to maintain control. But these institutions still depend on us—our labor, our spending, and, most critically, our compliance. We hold more influence than we are led to believe.”
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Alex @namesaregone.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Do you have any secret way for the minority party to do that, what with them not having the ability to control anything in the house or the senate? I agree they need to do more, but that isn’t even close to how it works
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
the richest man in the world decided that you don't deserve safe drinking water
Reddit post from a terminated federal employee: "The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer."
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
A screenshot of an email notifying Spotsylvania parents that funding for a program for youth with disabilities has been canceled
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941
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