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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 · 09/10/2025
media.tenor.com
a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .
ALT: a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .
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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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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Possibly in fact the entire planet or solar system. Ewwww.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
My family on both sides is from different parts of WV for generations back (like, pre-Revolutionary War on my dad's side lol) and I don't disagree with your argument.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I was gonna say, bluegrass has never been a cultural preserve for conservative values, and it still isn't. Loads of old and new music in the genre just eviscerating politicians and societal problems.
Text of image: I like punk because it says there's still something to fight for. I like goth because it says even when things get dark, beauty can exist within it. I like Appalachian bluegrass because it says pick up your banjo and hit a politician with it.
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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...
npr.org
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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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Ppl have been showing up outside my MAGA rep's office in DFW regularly all year, as well as those of other GOP reps in the metroplex.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
2 minutes of searching and I found photos of protests outside events Thune hosted or attended in SD this year. Johnson was protested during a stop in Monroe, LA. Considering they both represent deep red areas, ANY protest is notable.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Thune and Johnson are refusing to have town halls and Johnson told all GOP reps to stop having them to avoid angry voters. Ppl are showing up to protest outside private events they're having in their districts and just outside their offices. Why claim this isn't happening when it's easy to disprove?
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
You say you're not here to villify him while dismissing his continued work around the world on account of what you presume to know about his reasons for moving etc, nevermind what he is or isn't doing to help fight American fascism from wherever he is. Sure 🤨
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
What part of "he left before the election" is not processing? And what, exactly, would you him do from Yale that he can't do from Toronto? He is still speaking out just as loudly about the ass in the WH and everything else as he did before he moved, and likely doing more behind the scenes.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/04...
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SNYDER: On leaving Yale
I did not leave Yale because of Donald Trump, or because of Columbia, or because of threats to Yale — but that would be a reasonable thing to do and that is a decision that people will make.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Who? Snyder? He's a well-respected scholar of authoritarism and democracy who had been pursued by the University of Toronto for years (along with his wife), and they were finally persuaded last year, for personal and family reasons. He's repeated said he is not running from Trump.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
He got and accepted the university position in Canada before the election and has repeatedly said he would have taken it regardless of election outcome because of the opportunities it presented for his family. Stop trying to make it something it isn't.
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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 · 27/09/2025
As do I. Then I get to be pleasantly surprised if they produce a good ruling with sound explanations.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
John Oliver said it quite well - if you give the bully your lunch money, he doesn't go away for good, he just keeps coming back meaner and hungrier.
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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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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I live in a red state (for now, about to move to a blue one) and I ask this constantly. Most of them are glaring examples of what NOT to do when in control of government.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Norms and decorum are part of what GOT us here tbh. The ratchet effect in American politics is a real thing and Dems have played their part quite well to the nation's detriment. larryshockey.com/the-american...
larryshockey.com
The American Political System and “The Ratchet Effect.”
"Well, we're giving a little more to X [the Republican], naturally, 'cause he's got a better chance of winning. But we've given a lot to Y [the Democrat], too. In fact, I think we may be his biggest s...
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I am capable of doing more than one thing at once. I absolutely blame Republicans for what they are doing to this country. 1000%. I also expect Dems to do more than write sternly worded letters in response. I know they're the minority party but norms and decorum won't save us here.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
So we should expect Murphy and Sanders to get booted from their Senate committees any day now right? Because Murphy has been attacking the corruption and authoritarianism of this admin since day one and I'm pretty sure I heard Sanders call it fascist the other day during a speech.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Not saying they need to copy Newsom's trolling but I mean, cmon y'all, call this what it is. Very few of them are willing to go there and it is entirely depressing.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
And they would be replaced by another Dem because that's how committee assignments in congress work as I understand it. If they aren't willing to risk their committee seats to push back harder against Trump crowning himself king, wtf are they doing there?
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Call and write his office and thank him for speaking out so bluntly and braving so often (he's been doing it all year), donate to his campaign fund or charities he supports, etc. And tell your reps at all levels you'll do the same for them when they're as outspoken as Pritzker is being rn.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
If we can't call something what it actually is, how the hell do we ever address it? For literal ages, any women's health issue was just "hysteria" and no one bothered to figure out what was wrong or how help. A symptom, ironically enough, of our patriarchal society 🙃
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Congestive heart failure
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
My Catholic university was (and is) definitely led by conservatives. Its one of several reasons that they don't get a dime of my money no matter how pleading their alumni fundraising emails are. If Vance would be more comfortable there than the Pope, that says everything I need to know.
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A Relentless Zebra @relentlesszebra.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
I had to take 4 semesters of philosophy as part of my undergrad degree (liberal arts college ftw) and it absolutely boosted my critical thinking skills even if I wanted to lob some of those books into the sun at the end of it all, lol.
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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
Thank you!
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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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