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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If Americans view, clip, share, and permanently enshrine an American public killing in a million ways on the internet, we will move towards fascist rituals of violence. snyder.substack.com/p/four-wrong...

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Four Wrongs of a Public Execution

Psychological, Historical, Political, and Ethical (Video and Text)

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

For #nationalhandbagday, this joyous, silly remix of Dame Edith Evans someone created about 19 years ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVAd... #handbag #ahandbag

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A Handbag feat. Edith Evans

YouTube video by T-Burn

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Pretty much how I feel about . . . well, just about everything.

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Livestreaming an execution, what?!

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 09/10/2026

Holy shit, is this where Trump got the idea?

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The number of people willing, eager even, to offload their brains . . . it's terrifying.

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Part of me today just can not.

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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

High-quality child care is one of the best tools we have to make life more affordable for families. In the richest nation in the world, we should invest in child care like public infrastructure. That’s why I’m leading the charge on delivering child care for Americans.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Historian here UT Austin has eliminated courses on slavery, civil rights, the Holocaust and women from its core curriculum. We know the kind of people who have censored history in the past. www.statesman.com/news/educati...

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UT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classes

The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Off to see the opening of Boston Lyric Opera’s William Tell this evening. In the words of the late Mame Dennis, “I can’t wait to hear that overture!” 🤣

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The movie ROPE came out on this day in 1948, and newspapers really struggled with how to explain that the main characters were, you know,

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Rep. Scott Peters @repscottpeters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Science shouldn’t be political. Researchers need stability to develop the cures and treatments patients rely on. President Trump’s repeated attacks on research funding will lead to fewer scientific breakthroughs happening in America. In San Diego, it means fewer jobs and more economic chaos.

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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Over 40% of recent inflation is a direct result of Trump's Iran war—per the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. End Trump's war. Lower costs.

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is a dance off. If you see this post a dance.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 18/09/2026

Presidents with nothing to hide don’t ban reporters. But this President is historically corrupt—so he has a LOT to hide. Stand up for the Free Press. Every leader should condemn this.

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 17/09/2026

listen, Americans you guys have a pretty neat country but every day you’re finding a new way to pour lighter fluid all over your pants

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Poor queen! so that thy state might be no worse, I would my skill were subject to thy curse. Here did she fall a tear; here in this place I'll set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace: Rue, even for ruth, here shortly shall be seen, In the remembrance of a weeping queen." — Richard II, III.iv

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Why shd we in the compass of a pale Keep law & form & due proportion, Showing...our firm estate, When our sea-walled garden, the whole land, Is full of weeds... Her fruit-trees all upturned, her hedges ruin'd, ...her wholesome herbs Swarming w/ caterpillars?" — Richard II, III.iv @shakespeare.lol

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Current musical obsession: Hello Again “This all will pass, this ship of dreams. This world will disappear. My life will pass! But ’til it does, I’d like to live the rest of it right here, and drink to us, and toast to you, and toast myself, myself, myself, myself!” www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce9Z...

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Listen to the Music (Scene Six: The Husband and the Young Thing)

YouTube video by John Cameron Mitchell - Topic

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Etiquetteer @etiquetteer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

19th-century #etiquette advice: "All differences and quarrels must be forgotten in the house of mourning...personal enemies who meet at a funeral must treat each other with respect and dignity." Now, that means not rising to the bait laid by provocateurs. Save your online arguments for another day.

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Will no one think of the children?

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Well, will it be Rocky Horror or Clue tonight? #timcurry

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is not government FOR the people. Speak out!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/08/2026

We obtained 3,000 pages of emails sent by execs asking that their facilities be exempted from Clean Air Act rules. As of mid-July, the White House has approved ~200 requests. Tomorrow at 4 pm ET, join us for an event exploring the impact (w/ @chicagotribune.com @deepsouthtoday.org @latimes.com):

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Clean Air Act: Dismantling One of the Country’s Bedrock Environmental Laws

Join us for a discussion about the rollback of the Clean Air Act and what it means for public health in communities across America.

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We all know her music, but I hope this will be her most enduring legacy, her Imagination Library.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Here's Dolly singing one of my favorite hymns with her family. May we all meet in that sweet bye and bye. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAjM...

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Dolly Parton sings "In the Sweet By and By" with Family/the Partons | Live on The Dolly Show 1976

YouTube video by RY-laxing with R: Relaxing Sounds

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/08/2026

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says RFK Jr. offered federal help after two unvaccinated people died from measles, the first U.S. deaths this year. Shapiro declined, saying PA could handle it, and confronted Kennedy, telling him: “There’s real life consequences to spreading misinformation.”

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And this is why Dolly Parton represents what is best about America.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Visiting Berlin for the first time, and it just happens to be Christopher Street Day today, as #Pride is known here. Saw this yesterday at the Schwules #Museum, the local LGBTQ history museum, as part of their Love at First Fight — LGBTQ Activism since Stonewall. Fantastic show. #lgbtqhistory

Blue T-shirt, hanging on a hanger, with the words "I can't believe I still have to protest this shit" printed in white.

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jondmaas.bsky.social @jondmaas.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Happy Phyllis Povah's Birthday!

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jondmaas.bsky.social @jondmaas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It looks like someone's producing Follies on the Love Boat.

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Well, I guess Graham Platner is more of a lady than Mitch McConnell . . . he finally knew when to leave the party (but he could have left earlier).

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A lady always knows when to leave a party, and Mitch McConnell is no lady.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Since this is paywalled, here is my most important take: Says historian @ProfMSinha “It is a big sign of undemocratic, authoritarian rule when you question the legitimacy of your opponents to even exist, and you question the legitimacy of the citizenship of the people you don’t like.”

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Democrats are communists in the same sense that Donald Trump is a Christian: They are not.

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Well, do you believe in fair play or not?

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

As Mae West so memorably said in Myra Breckinridge, "God HELP America." #FourthofJuly #America250

Mae West serving side eye as Leticia Van Allen in Myra Breckinridge.

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Etiquetteer @etiquetteer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

With #IndependenceDay tomorrow, this feels like a good day to reshare this column on Best #Society. "There is comfort and reassurance in assembling around a dinner table or coffee table or kitchen table, or holding up the bar, with people who share your values." www.etiquetteer.com/columns/2025...

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How to Rally One's Best Society, Vol. 24, Issue 9 — Etiquetteer

“We mustn’t despair. Above all things we mustn’t despair.” — Charles Coburn as Sir Simon in The Paradine Case (1947) To say that Perfect Propriety has taken a beating in the last few weeks would b...

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Terrifying for the performers, and should be terrifying for everyone.

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

As Jean Harlow so memorably said to Mary Astor in Red Dust, "You'd better drink your pineapple juice before it starts cooking." #heatwave

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has balanced New York City's budget. Governor Gavin Newsom has balanced California's budget. Donald Trump has increased the national debt by over 40%. Republicans make vague promises about fiscal responsibility, but Democrats get shit done.

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This is such incredibly good news, that this knowledge is still going to be available.

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Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The words of Margaret Chase Smith ring in my ears: "Have you no decency?" Swatting at all is an indecent act, but to do so in a way that would compromise the well-being of children . . . it's unspeakably evil.

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