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Mary Shurtz

@punkichu.bsky.social
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Cranky millennial progressive woman. Things aren't going great.

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Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 17h
Thank you for articulating something I have been feeling but not able to express. Specifically, us leftists are going to be asked to compromise no matter what, and we can accommodate that if it is for someone who is going to govern the shit out of this moment.
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Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
YES, getting to see the synthesis is the coolest part! It's the part I miss about teaching.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 13/10/2026
The Detroit Free Press allowed readers to submit their verdict on who won the debate between Dr. Abdul El Sayed and Mike Rogers— but the only two people who said Rogers won decided to include anti Arab slurs in their letters in addition to abject lies. So the DFP refused to publish them.
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Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Also J is 58 and looking amazing, I would be so lucky to age like that
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Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This video helped me learn what LL Cool J stands for and I am so happy (I was reading more Clausewitz in college than I was listening to hip hop, never stood a chance at being cool)
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Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Also even the dumb angle they take isn't even true enough to be interesting! Comey reopened the email investigation ELEVEN DAYS before the 2016 election.
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Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I am deeply bothered by this horserace reporting/Poindexter presentation of the situation. As if this is something a little beyond the pale, slightly breaking norms during the midterms. There was a juicier, more factually accurate way to present this: a thuggish abuse of power and intimidation.
Headline from NYT: Homeland Security Agents Search Home of Rep Ilhan Omar
Subheading: The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I think a lot of people have forgotten that Donald Trump entered the political conversation as a big voice in the Obama birther conspiracy
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Georgia O'Keeffe @gokeeffe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Dark Tree Trunks www.wikiart.org/en/georgia-o-keeffe…
Dark Tree Trunks
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Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My boyfriend is already a bit discomfited with how much I love old men, he isn't going to respond well when I inevitably send him this post as "food for thought"
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution
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Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thank you so much!
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Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm struggling to find a full version of the essay online, do you have any recommendations on a good resource for this? Would love to read.
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Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My friend and I started doing the research for a podcast idea where we feature historical impeachments and then pretty quickly went "oh shit, these were all undemocratic seizures of power by white supremacists"
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
they're all just lying, it is tremendous lying, but it is just lying
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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Peter Magyar is currently enacting a Liberal Currents fantasy where he amends the constitution to ban anyone associated with the old regime from ever holding office again and is somehow polling at 68% (he won with 53%) and I’m not saying that’s possible anywhere else but Dems should like, ask him
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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have staffers to know about sports and stuff so you don’t get embarrassed like this. The problem with hiring groypers is that all of their normal guy knowledge has been removed and replaced with theories about skull shapes.
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Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This was the article I have needed, weaving the different threads of corruption + int'l bullying to show the full tapestry of chaos that has been wrought. There are legit criticisms of how the US has always exerted power to "protect US interests" abroad, but the unmasked graft + fascism is NEW.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absolutely sympathetic to this poor woman, she is in an impossible situation and is being held hostage by at least one bad-faith actor (I am sure many of those who are advocating for the immunocompromised are sincere) ...also the article is hilarious. Clown college. Agents of the state. Hachi machi
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"You're making fun of queer people" I think most people are pretty sympathetic to the queer woman living out of her truck, $50k in debt, abandoned by her business partners, who thinks she is obligated to sit through 3.5 hour accountability sessions for the crime of wanting to keep the business open.
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Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ok but can we talk about how badass that museum is? I have enthusiastically recommended it to so many people going to New Orleans that just want to know good places to party.
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Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Also giving Star Wars VHS box set vibes, pre-special edition
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Jeopardy! but it’s one of those sex thrillers from the ‘90s starring, like, Stephen Baldwin.
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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026
Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”
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Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Politicians should govern, and not just play to prevailing winds. It isn't hard: have principles, speak eloquently and persuasively to them, and show they actually fucking mean something to you.
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Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sickening
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
it is remarkable that this has happened despite a near-unanimous effort from mainstream politicians and news media to prevent it from happening. there's some hope there
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Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Don't forget to get a covid and flu vaccine!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026
you ever see a graph that makes you just sit for a minute and contemplate how stupid everything is
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Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
MY SCHOOL ALSO DID THIS. Unhinged behavior.
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Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I absolutely agree, the Hague is honestly almost too kind. But I do think that this kind of study that asks people in a poll to give a percentage measurement mostly measures how bad people are at statistics. I *do* think he caught the thrust of trends so strong that there must be something there.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026
God upon hearing this:
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Talladega Nights: Don't Put That Evil On Me, Ricky Bobby!
ALT: Talladega Nights: Don't Put That Evil On Me, Ricky Bobby!
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Rupert Murdoch should be sent to the Hague
…and that overestimate sits alongside a third (34%) of the public believing there are “no-go” areas in London where Sharia law dominates and non-Muslims cannot enter. Virtually the same proportion (36%) disagree this is the case, while one in five (19%) say they don't know.
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026
Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit
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Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is the hill I will die on. The state I grew up in (Utah) was/is an absolute haven for unregulated supplement and essential oils companies with outlandish health claim. Our decades-long senator Orrin Hatch bent over backwards to keep them unregulated. It's a fixable issue, regulate it!
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I know this is a common belief, but it’s not true. If people went anti-vaxx/MAHA because they were excluded from the medical establishment, we would see sky-high rates among poor people, minorities and the uninsured. We don’t.
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Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's the little things
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I think people catching measles then dying is bad, and that the govt should see zero measles deaths as the goal—like America had until recently—rather than see measles as a positive, culling the population of people with other health conditions. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
1996: can't use the internet without your phone 2010: the internet stretches before you like the vast expanse of a new frontier. You dance through it, unhindered. Unburdened. You have never heard of 2-factor authentication. 2026: can't use the internet without your phone
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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The xenomorph in Alien (1979). She is doing so well: feeding herself, growing, maturing, the perfect organism, her structural perfection matched only by her hostility; a survivor, unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. And then Ripley just blows her ass out into space.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
When Hitler shoots Röhm it represents a meaningful authoritarian escalation, even though you can hardly be sad about Röhm being gone.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026
it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house
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Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ugh, if I ruled the world ...
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There will be many true and right words on her to come. Just wish I could read Kaleb’s.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
we lost an actual saint
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich
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