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A Relentless Zebra

@relentlesszebra.bsky.social
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Wife, dog mom, runner, career nanny, chronic illness warrior, blue dot in a red state (for now). I love reading, fast cars, and Steelers football.

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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
You cannot simultaneously be mad that the Senate Dems caved when House Dems are holding the line and view Schumer as an effective leader, bc if he was an effective leader he would have kept his caucus in line, not helped them orchestrate this bullshit.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Actually me when this happened, lol.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Feels like both is possible, but the past several minutes make the Jones regression feel more likely, unfortunately, as a Steelers fan.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I will never stop screaming that gerrymandering (and voter suppression tactics, which Texas *loves*) and voter apathy are pretty strongly connected. When you gerrymander and make it hard for ppl to vote, over time you make them believe their vote doesn't matter.
Person 1: "I'll say it again. Texas isn't red, it's rigged."

Person 2, replying: "Gerrymandering is a problem in Texas but nowhere near a big a problem as voter apathy. It's not a red state or a rigged state - it's a non voting state."
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Ugh.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I don't even live in NY yet and I'm already livid with my soon-to-be senators 🙃
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
So..... 1. Holy antisemitism, Batman! 😳 2. Completely denying girls can be autistic? The idiocy, it burns!
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Amazing 😂
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Please make sure Gov Abbott knows how much we do NOT want him to do this!!!
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...
In the short time since Kavanaugh wrote that opinion, his assertions have been proved demonstrably, almost laughably false too many times to count. As Sherrilyn Ifill notes, the justice’s claims were already belied by the factual record in that case, which showed ICE agents violently harassing and detaining American citizens for extended periods simply because they are Latino. Now the agency, freed from constitutional restraints by SCOTUS, has stopped pretending to be engaged in anything other than racial profiling. Bovino’s admission only confirms what we already knew: These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience Kavanaugh described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous. Ifill and Anil Kalhan, a professor of law at Drexel University, have proposed calling these detainments “Kavanaugh stops,” a label that’s quickly catching on.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Jane Fonda: "I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers — but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked — time and time again — is solidarity." www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...
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Hundreds of celebrities relaunch a McCarthy-era committee to defend free speech
The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Pay. Attention!!!
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
1/ Today Boston senior federal judge William Young has issued a clarion defense of the 1st Amendment rights of non-citizens which may go down as the most notable decision of his 47-year career. It begins with an unheard-of preface *above the caption* which reproduces a threat he received in chambers
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Sari Beth Rosenberg @sari.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
It’ll go down in history as the Trump Republican shutdown of 2025. The same day they disrespected our military and Trump waged war on the American people.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
If they drop religious exemptions too, it will affect more than just black men but the affected groups will still not be white, so they won't care. The racist states of America y'all 🤦‍♀️
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Oh yes, this is clearly now.


A post on X by Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan
) expresses frustration, asking how anyone can read a definition of fascism and not be alarmed, emphasizing that it is happening now. The post includes a quote from Cody Johnston (@drmistercody
) from one day ago, defining fascism as a form of political behavior marked by an obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood, and compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity. The definition describes a mass-based party of nationalist militants working with traditional elites, abandoning democratic liberties, and pursuing redemptive violence for internal cleansing and external expansion without ethical or legal restraints.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
"Whoever forbids Antifa, wants fascism! Make Antifa Great Again!" - Bayern Munich fans on Friday, right behind the goal, so guaranteed to be in the broadcast worldwide.
"Whoever forbids Antifa, wants fascism! Make Antifa Great Again!" - Banner held by Bayern Munich fans on Friday, right behind the goal, so guaranteed to be in the broadcast worldwide.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
All. Of. This.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Effing brilliant! It opens with the line “No more great again,” adds “Don’t want soldiers on our streets” and “No more money to the fascists / The billionaire fascists” before returning to a harmonized refrain, “There’s big crime in D.C. at the White House.”
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
putting aside the trans rights issues specifically (lol), I think part of what has me so frustrated with the Newsom thing is that Pritzker, Walz, and Zohran are putting on clinics for a popular, progressive politics and we’re wasting time talking about this used car salesman ass goblin.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
reposted this today because the inverse is also true: if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period. if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Okay I get that I'm a nerd (and queer), but I use 1/3-1/2 of these words on a quasi regular basis and I'm not a political person nor part of academia. There aren't alternatives for some of these words and they're important ones, which then implies some think they should be ignored entirely.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Omg please, this. Just this.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
This is why you watch Pritzker above anybody else. He is not a revolutionary. No one with any honesty will ever think him such. But he is far too rich to need anybody, and he is from Chicago, and he likes to show it.
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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." —To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee #BookWormSat
media.tenor.com
a man and a little girl are sitting on a porch .
ALT: a man and a little girl are sitting on a porch .
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Oh my god this. All the time this. Our legacy media is actively complicit in this goddamn fascist coup bullshit, with few extremely limited examples. If you aren't following independent journalists in the US, you are almost certainly NOT getting full/accurate stories.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Doomscrolling break
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I have a friend with a trans child, who has tried to take her life 2x this summer, because being trans in America, in Texas particularly, is so painful. I will not give my support to any politician ever who views her right to live as an acceptable political sacrifice. Y'ALL DO BETTER!!
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
So if the best we as the left in America can offer up in 2028 is Newsom or someone like him, I will hold my nose and vote for him because fuck fascism. However I'm gonna fight like hell btwn now and then to get Dems to realize actual progressivism will win more votes than centrist ass-kissing
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The most insane part of this is that Burrows is viewed by a LOT of Republicans in the Texas House (and Senate, tbh) to be a RINO. He works (sorta) across the aisle, was elected Speaker bc Dems voted for him to an ultraconservative R from getting the job.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I agree with every word of this. Especially if you aren't a Dem/liberal/whatever in TX or a similarly GOP-ratfucked state, you do not get to judge those of us who are here fighting the best we can with whatever tools we have at our disposal.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
We have GOT to stop arguing about 2024 and start showing voters that Dem policies and ideas are what they want, they've just been convinced otherwise by culture wars. Period, full stop. substack.com/@amandasmild...
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Amanda Nelson (@amandasmildtakes)
Yet another left wing incumbent bites the dust amidst inflation. Right wing populists are rising in the polls across Europe, and the NYT reported today that the Democrats have bled 4.5 million registe...
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Yup. He's not perfect, nor is he anywhere near what i want in a presidential candidate. But right now, he's fighting hard and loud and dirty for our democracy and I can appreciate that while acknowledging his other issues.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
This was brilliantly done 👏
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
This is so well done.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I am America. My forefathers came here before the Revolution and settled in Appalachia where some still live. I had family on both sides of the Civil War bc West Virginia. I am a queer disabled Catholic woman. I believe we can be better than this and deserve better than this. I am America.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Say it again for the people in the back!
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I needed this today, and I suspect I am not the only one 💜
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The Trump administration is the biggest threat to international law.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/08/2025
💉🧵We know you have many questions about COVID-19 vaccine. Here’s what we know and our best guess as to how access will be restricted. TL;DR: best guess: COVID-19 vaccine is likely to be restricted (at least) to those 65+ and those under 65 with risk factors. www.cdc.gov/covid/risk-f...
This flowchart helps determine eligibility for COVID-19 vaccination based on age and health conditions. It starts by asking if the individual is 65 years or older or has a high-risk health condition, such as cancer, stroke, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, heart disease, HIV, or obesity. If they do, the chart indicates they should be able to get the vaccine covered by insurance. If not, the next step is to see if a doctor can diagnose them with a qualifying condition. If a diagnosis is possible, they should be able to get the vaccine covered by insurance. If they cannot get a qualifying diagnosis they can check for a professional organization recommending vaccination, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics. If such an organization recommends vaccination, they are advised to show this information to their clinician and insurance provider. If the clinician and/or insurance provider will not provide and/or cover vaccine, they may need to pay out of pocket for the vaccine or travel to receive it.
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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 20/08/2025
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
How bad slavery was? Well, yes, that should be a thing an American history museum discusses at length given the ownership by one person of another is quite literally abhorrent, first of all. And second, we literally fought a Civil War over it so kinda hard to gloss over it...
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 19/08/2025
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
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Political Design Therapy @mypdt.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
We are America!
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
My dad's family is from this town, has been there since pre-Revolution. I am HORRIFIED that this sort of behavior exists there at all, and is apparently tolerated 🤬🤬🤬
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
What a novel concept! /s
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The second amendment “rise up against government tyranny” folks are also real quiet.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Every accusation is a confession, or a warning of future misdeeds. Every. Single. Time.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Heaven help us. We'd damn near eradicated the disease through the very damn safe MMR vaccine, and now we're going back to the land of "how do we treat it?" 🤦‍♀️
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