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Patrick Mandeville

@patrickmandeville.bsky.social
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Filmmaker in Portland, OR

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 25/08/2026
"Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks--no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."
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Representation: James Madison, Virginia Ratifying Convention
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
From The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I once wrote Dante had Beatrice; Orwell had Stalin; for political writers their muses are not the good things. Wrote this in one sitting today.
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Pod Save Patriarchy (or Whatever That Sorry Platner Spectacle Was)
For at least a decade we have been told that this and that and the other thing must be tolerated in pursuit of the elusive vote of the working class or the white working class which often means the wh...
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 25/05/2026
It is 1993. I am 14 years old.
The President of the United States was born in 1946.

It is 2008. I am 30 years old.
The President of the United States was born in 1946.

It is 2026. I am 47 years old.
The President of the United States was born in 1946.
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Lauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Carl warned us
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
one required, but sadly enormous, shift in the way americans view things: recovering an understanding that a democratic government is a collective enterprise that should deliver tangible services and benefits to people
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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"... the treatment of heroes in the Iliad and the Odyssey is one of our earliest warnings against egoism and relying too much on ‘big men’. Each epic explains the separation between the worlds of gods and mortals and why heroes are also bad for us." neoskosmos.com/en/2026/04/0...
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How "heroes" destroy civilisations
Joel P. Christensen shares a provocative reflection linking modern geopolitical rhetoric to ancient Greek myth, exploring how hubris, heroism, and “main character” thinking continue to shape war, leadership, and the fate of civilisations.
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much like your posting @mlyp.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Perfect
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Ryan Wilson @ryanwilson.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"We're just athletes"
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!
One of those latecomers was a 46-year-old documentary filmmaker named Chad Knutson. On the morning after Good was killed, he was at home with his two hound dogs, watching a live feed from the Whipple Building, where ICE is based, a five-minute drive from his house. A protester had laid a rose on a makeshift memorial to Good. As Knutson watched, an ICE agent took the rose, put it in his lapel, and then mockingly gave it to a female ICE agent. They both laughed.

Knutson told me he had never been a protester. It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt. But when he saw those ICE agents laughing, something broke inside him.

“I grab my keys, I grab a coat, and drive over,” Knutson told me. “I barely park my car and I’m running out screaming and crying, ‘You stole a fucking flower from a dead woman. Like, are any of you human anymore?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.
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Margie @mjclayman.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
From The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Rosemary Sullivan. #booksky
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 13/11/2025
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
New — I wrote about Zohran's victory, the challenge of celebrating wins in a broken world, and reconciling the competing realities of profound hope and festering fear:
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Mayor Mamdani redefines what it means to hope
His victory has created a harsh contrast between the world we want and the world we have.
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Patrick Mandeville @patrickmandeville.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Proud of my home state of Virginia for electing Spanberger and my home for nearly a decade for electing Mamdani
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing."

John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."
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War-ravaged hellhole Enthusiast @unlawfulassembler.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
#Portland: ICE sighted at Por Que No 🚨 3524 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR 97227, USA #fuckice
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clyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
terrible things are happening outside. poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. families are torn apart. men, women, and children are separated. children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.

diary of anne frank, january 13, 1943.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 07/09/2025
I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.
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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward. Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything. www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
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There Is No Trolley Problem
We actually aren't constrained into atrocious premises by thought exercises. Obstacles are a reason to fight, not an excuse to quit. Our friends and neighbors aren't distractions..
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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
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Defector @defector.com · 16/08/2025
"The moment I had long dreaded finally arrived: the day I’d have to dismantle my childhood." defector.com/living-throu...
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Living Through This, Again | Defector
The moment I had long dreaded finally arrived: the day I’d have to dismantle my childhood. I suppose I should consider myself lucky. It took 43 years to get here, to this spring day in 2025, standing…
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/07/2025
The babies who were conceived during the famine and whose mothers were undernourished while their brains were being built—those brains were smaller. When those people were adults, their brains were wired in a different way.
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How famine and starvation can affect Gazans for generations to come
Research on WWII's Dutch “Hunger Winter” has terrifying implications for the region's children—and for their children.
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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Anyways, Colbert’s show getting canned in this manner the same day public media gets defunded by congress is fascism 101 in case anyone thinks we’re not already living in a fascist state
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Patently absurd that the Democrats spent most of last week going after Zohran Mamdani instead of focusing on rallying against the bill
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
When people say that LLMs are not actually capable of doing the work that they’re advertised to do, this is a good demonstration of what they mean
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
How about if we decide military benefits need to be fully funded 30 years out and start cutting things to make the numbers work
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Robert Andrew Powell @robertandrewp.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I may have context for this! Last night WPBT in Palm Beach broadcast the 1979 Clint Eastwood film "Escape from Alcatraz."
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
They're building concentration camps for political dissidents
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11/04/2025
"The combination of interest rates soaring amid a slump and the currency plunging despite rising interest rates isn’t what we normally expect for advanced countries, let alone the owner of the world’s leading reserve currency. It is, however, what we often see in emerging-market economies."
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The Third-Worlding of America
How to destroy 80 years of credibility in less than 3 months
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Kurt Vonnegut man
Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:
"Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man.
You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?
And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.
I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by.
And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around
And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.
And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."
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Chris Rifer @chrisrifer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Everybody romanticizing about the heyday of American manufacturing needs to carefully listen to one (1) Bruce Springsteen song.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 25/03/2025
boy is this true. the media have convinced themselves that the rules don't apply to Trump, which is a self-fulfilling prophecy
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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Maurice Pearl @mpearl88.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Hmmm this guy is on to something
America first. Dr. Seuss
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
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Dr. Ashok Karra @akarra.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Wrote on the beautiful definition of love bell hooks uses and how it can change our politics. We really do have to move on from a notion of electoral politics which refuses to see our humanity: encouragement.ghost.io/bell-hooks-l...
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bell hooks' Definition of Love and our Present Political Moment
If we're going to have a better politics, someone has to stand for something real.
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 15/12/2024
""We flock to IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE because it’s our therapy, a culturally endorsed, holiday-approved balm for all the miseries and disappointments that pile up around us with each passing year." - @chadperman.bsky.social
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It's a Wonderful Life? - Bright Wall/Dark Room
We flock to 'It’s a Wonderful Life' because it’s our therapy, a culturally endorsed, holiday-approved balm for all the miseries and disappointments that pile up around us with each passing year.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15/12/2024
I genuinely hope people really begin to grasp they’re not suffering under a spate of particularly bad people but a context that rewards bigotry. There are assholes of a particular sort but they’re empowered by the context which rewards those assholes with money and import.
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish
excerpt reads: "I hear stories about directors who scream at actors, or they trick them somehow to get a performance. And there are some people who try to run the whole business on fear. But I think this is such a joke -- it's pathetic and stupid at the same time. 
     When people are in fear, they don't want to go to work. So many people today have that feeling. Then the fear starts turning into hate, and they begin to hate going to work. Then the hate can turn into anger and people can become angry at their boss and their work.
     If I ran my set with fear, I would get 1 percent, not 100 percent, of what I get. And there would be no fun in going down the road together. And it *should* be fun. In work and in life, we're all supposed to get along. We're supposed to have so much fun, like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. It's supposed to be great living; it's supposed to be fantastic."
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