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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

this story is extremely (and unnecessarily) graphic, so please take care of yourselves as I see this making the rounds.

paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This needs to be repeated until fucking end of this world... because the state's abuse of children is the first ring of its' death knell.

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

i will never, ever forgive this. we failed these kids, over and over, the kids and their parents, we extended them a hand and then used the grip to drop them off a fucking cliff. the bleakest evil i have ever seen in my life.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

with alt text. this is so beautiful 💕

Dolly Partons IMAGINATION LIBRARY

Dear Imagination Library Graduate,

My, how time flies. It seems it was only yesterday when your family and friends read you your first story. You were just a baby. Now you're five years old and about to go to school. How exciting!
This may be your last book from my Imagination Library but you have to promise me you will keep on reading. If you go to your local public library you will find a great number of books just for kids your age. Every book is a treasure and every time you open one up you will meet new friends and take wonderful journeys to magical places.
I hope you have a great time in school. I bet your school will even have a library where you can check out books. You and all of your friends are very special. There is no limit to what you can do or how far you can go.

Just remember the lessons my family taught me - dream big dreams; learn everything you can learn; and care for all those who care for you. You do all of these things and you can be anyone you want to be.

You are terrific, and remember...
I Will Always Love You,
Dolly

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP Dolly Parton, your kindness, music, humor, feminism, humanist self made this world a better place.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

From an essay on the 1970s I wrote a while back:

grew up north of San Francisco in an atmosphere where, once you were twelve or so, hippie dudes in their
thirties started to offer you drugs and neck rubs that were clearly only
the beginning— and it was immensely hard to refuse them. There were
no grounds. Sex was good; everyone should have it all the time; anything
could be construed as consent; and almost nothing meant no, including
“no.” Those who remember feminists as being angrily anti-sex during the
1980s don’t recall the huge task they undertook— and undertook successfully— of pointing out that, like everything else, sex involves power; power is distributed unequally; and unequal power not uncommonly deteriorates into exploitation.
It was the culture. Rock stars were open about their liaisons with un-
derage groupies, and forty-something Woody Allen had cast underage
Mariel Hemingway as his love interest in his film Manhattan (1977). In
1978, Louis Malle released Pretty Baby, in which a then-eleven-year-old
and sometimes unclothed Brooke Shields played a prostitute. (Two years
earlier, Playboy Press had published nude photographs by the aptly named Gary Gross of a painted, vamping Shields at the age of ten in a book titled Sugar and Spice. In 1978, British photographer David Hamilton published Young Girl, a collection of prettily prurient photographs of half-undressed pubescent girls; as Hamilton’s stock-in-trade for years, these images were everywhere as posters and books. On February 1, 1978, forty-four-year-old film director Roman Polanski decided to skip bail and headed for France after being charged with raping a thirteen-year-old girl he had plied with champagne and Quaaludes. (His implied excuse was that everyone was doing it.) Some defended him on the grounds that the girl looked fourteen.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The language of rights for women and children, of unequal power, of the necessity of consent and when consent cannot be given: thank you feminism. We're still educating people but things are far different than they were in my own youth in the 1970s.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One thing I remember and hardly anyone seems to is that there's a sort of sexual revolution interregnum when all sex was good (seen from the adult male perspective, which it mostly was) including sex with children, which was publicly defended. Feminism, mostly, is what changed that.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I prefer the America where people care for one another.

The Artemis II, Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen, Reid Wiseman, and Victor Glover take time out for a group hug inside the Orion spacecraft April 7, 2026 on their way home following a trip around the far side of the Moon.

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This thread is killing me (laudatory)

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It's patently clear that the hatred of DEI initiatives was never based on a meritocratic ideal. These rancid mediocre idiots need misogyny, racism and ableism to stay on top of their enforced fascist food chain.. otherwise they'd have nothing else to sustain their stations in life.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Amnesty International put out a report called "The Growing Threat of Anti-Rights Organizations in the UK". It included a number of "gender critical" organizations threatening trans people. JKR threatened to bankrupt them, so they retracted it. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mafq8...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Elon Musk says that if people were dying because USAID was destroyed there would be news articles about it. Here are the articles.

gizmodo.com

These Are the Headlines That Elon Musk Says Don't Exist

The trillionaire insists that no one has died from the destruction of USAID.

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

We worked for over two decades to confront and almost eradicate one of the most dreadful infections, saving millions of lives.. thena handful of despicable people destroyed it within months

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I think it was the Liberal Currents crew who crystallized that at it's core fascism is about a corrupted nostalgia, a time and place that only exists in a mind stuck at the stage of juvenile development.... or everyone of these assholes are 12.

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I hate having to bring nuance to a conversation about someone's passing but the way we talk about the deceased is also a reflection of how we see ourselves. People are saying how amazing and nice Jason Collins was as a person, and that was true, one of the most compassionate and thoughtful person.

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

What these privileged idiots don't realize but those of us who grew up in the rank corruption of the social contract that this mentality creates is that, this shit will hinder your ability to live a full life.

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Always true never more so than the present

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Andrea LaFlamme @andrealaflamme.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Maine. Seriously. Andreaformaine.com. Sign up for one of my virtual town halls. I’m more than happy to prove why I’m the best person to take on Susan Collins.

andreaformaine.com

MAINE SENATE 2026 | Andrea LaFlamme For Maine Senate

Support Andrea LaFlamme for Maine Senate 2026. Committed to health, social justice, and community well-being, focused on creating a better Maine for all.

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Henceforth this phenomena shall be called Chotinered-by-proxy

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I would like to thank @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com for helping me keep my sanity in these rage-baiting hard times.

Twitter post from Lauren saying "I'm bog falling for that hoy take. That's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. I refuse to participate in that kind of perversion.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 09/04/2026

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

The white flag, aka the official flag of the Confederacy

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

This is the problem, whether it was blustering to negotiate or rhetorical, it is still a serious problem when someone clothed with enormous power can recklessly utter those words. There must be consequences for this, otherwise there's no way anyone can trust the US after all this mess.

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I'll be honest, I've dismissed the probability of US launching any nuclear weapon on Iran because all evidence points to the use conventional precision bombs to achieve and leave immeasurable destruction and devastation on Iranian civilian lives and significantly raises threats to American lives.

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

It took me years to learn this lesson I had to keep convincing people who are, ostensibly, in the business of keeping their citizens alive and healthy, that a) women and girls are citizens with rights to live healthy alives,and b) comprehensive reproductive health is life-saving, life altering...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

WHAT IS THE DEAL?? WHAT WOULD THE DEAL BE?? I feel like I'm going insane every time I read one of these. WHY WOULD IRAN MAKE A DEAL WITH THE GUYS WHO MURDERED THE LAST PEOPLE WHO NEGOTIATED WITH THEM???

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Thisbis what comes from never suffering any consequences for a lifetime of failures and crimes.

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Another significant data point on the diminishing of US leadership. The vast majority of Americans won't understand the implications until we suffer the consequences. We need an opposition to clearly signal to the global community how they will repair this damage.

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Thi isn't just damaging to US leadership in foreign policy, it's endangering Americans.

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

As someone who comes from a "high achieving" immgrant family and went to an ivy-adjacent uni, its been difficult figuring out how best to advise the next generation. They all want to follow in our path but it's way more competitive than it was for us.

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

These sre not the leaders for this moment.

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Los Angeles Bluesky, I need your help. I just learned that on Saturday at the protest at the downtown Metropolitan Detention Center, a friend’s 18-year-old son was shot in the eye with a pepper ball by DHS, permanently blinding him. He needs justice. If you were there and saw anything, please… 1/5

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

It seems to me that he's doing it for kids, specifically black kids with Tourette, but I gotta say, it feels wrong that folks who face intersectional discrimination like Mr Williams have to be put in this situation to explain the indignities they are facing. Place all the blame on BAFTA organizers.

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

How are we in a world were gender-affirming care for trans folks is demonized and these kids with body dysmorphia + eating disorders are valorized for abusing gender-affirming care?

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mechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 08/02/2026

No Kings includes Draft Kings

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

There are just not enough words to describe the wretched transphobia and utter cowardice of a "liberal" government responsible doing this...

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Abso-fucking-lutely not! You do not get to go gently into retirement after playing dollar store Himmler. There should be enough records to drag you throughthe courts for every single civil rights violation.

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

This where we need people on the inside to keep tabs. And we need congressional dems to setup impenetrable protections and publicly state that it's there to mitigate risk so whistleblowers can come forward.

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

When I considered myself a person of faith, liberation theology made me a stronger believer and a better christian.

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We've been guilty ever since we ignored the first T administration. Now we have, exponentially, more blood on our hands. Every single entity - organization down to the individuals involved, must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law *and* persecuted for the rest of their existence.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

once again saying: our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse.

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paxsante.bsky.social @paxsante.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Not to take away from Dr Christie's absolutely legendary life but the key part for me is that he saw small acts of kindness as key to his long-term goal of dismantling SA's nuclear program.

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

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