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Librarian. Theater lover. Queen of databases.

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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
My sign at the May 1 protest:
A hand-lettered sign saying No More
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Donald Trump And The Speckled Band open.substack.com/pub/ser1897/...
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Donald Trump And The Speckled Band
A locked door mystery
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"Trump’s version of manhood is a drag show, a veneer as thin and unconvincing as the layer of makeup covering up the bruises on his hands. " How MMA defines the Trump administration open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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How MMA defines the Trump administration
It's a movement of insecure men trying to show how manly they are.
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Berlatsky speaks the truth. AIPAC Does Not Control the Democrats open.substack.com/pub/noahberl...
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AIPAC Does Not Control the Democrats
Overstating AIPAC’s influence only helps AIPAC
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS 3 Arlington Heights, IL 10am-12 noon” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS 3 Arlington Heights, IL 10am-12 noon · No Kings
**We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.** What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading fr...
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Trump Has No Idea What Antifa Is, Designates It 'A Major Terrorist Organization' Anyway www.wonkette.com/p/trump-has-... I need a shirt: "My dad and uncles were Antifa." Dad was in the Navy (first in the Atlantic, but mostly in the Pacific), my uncles in the Army (North Africa, France, Italy).
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Trump Has No Idea What Antifa Is, Designates It 'A Major Terrorist Organization' Anyway
That should end well.
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS RALLY/MARCH - ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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NO KINGS RALLY/MARCH - ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL · Mobilize
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Makes perfect sense to me.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/05/2025
May the fourth be with you, Illinois.
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
“Nature loves diversity, society hates it.” ― Milton Diamond Unfortunately for society, it needs diversity if it doesn't want to stagnate. I realize that, for some, stagnation is a feature not a bug.
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
"The combination of unbridled capitalism and racism is not some exceptional thing . . . but a pretty accurate summary of the history of the US. (. . . the far right is the true inheritor of the American tradition.)" Great, a new substack to follow www.unpopularfront.news/p/gold-and-b...
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Gold and Brown
Libertarianism, Fascism, and Democracy
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 22/01/2025
"The modern right messaging ecosystem...is not responding to a crisis of masculinity. It is creating a crisis of masculinity." www.liberalcurrents.com/swiping-left...
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Swiping Left on MAGA
The thing about a ‘no girls allowed’ treehouse is it doesn’t have any girls in it.
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
It's terrifying that this even needs to be said.
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Pres. Biden has been dealing with this mess and the morons on both sides for 15 months. Who else should get the credit? Trump is the type of person who sees a parade and runs to get in front of it.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
". . . we need to look no further than the simple corrupt backroom deals of strong men dictators around the world to see how the friends of leaders get sweetheart deals to sell their stuff at inflated prices (and, usually, inferior quality) while everyone else foots the bill." t.ly/V8Mz1
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Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
"They’re the direct result of a coordinated assault on education standards and independent journalism, fused with a campaign to fill the heads of the electorate with pebbles, mashed potatoes, and a rotating platter of ad engagement bait and distraction." www.damemagazine.com/2025/01/02/a...
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America’s Right-Wing Propaganda Problem Might Be Terminal | Dame Magazine
America’s descent into mass delusion isn’t happenstance. The demise of courageous journalism isn’t a happy accident. Its replacement with engagement-chasing infotainment and propaganda isn’t an error....
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Stephen Robinson get it. How 'The Twilight Zone' Unmasked The Polite Banality Of Fascism www.playtyperguy.com/p/how-the-tw...
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How 'The Twilight Zone' Unmasked The Polite Banality Of Fascism
A closer look at ‘The Eye Of The Beholder'
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Apologies if this has been posted already.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
"On H1-B visas, Trump picks Musk over MAGA. His voters should get used to this." My new hobby is watching loyal Donald Trump supporters get thrown under the bus by President-elect Donald Trump. It’s exhilarating! www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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Trump picks Musk's money over 'forgotten' Americans of MAGA. Sorry, xenophobes! | Opinion
My new hobby is watching loyal Donald Trump supporters get thrown under the bus by President-elect Donald Trump. It's exhilarating.
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Former President Jimmy Carter had died. He was a true mensch. May the memory of the righteous be forever a blessing.
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Leon Skum is offering $1 billion to re-name Wikipedia Dickipedia. He's pissed that they have a $50 million DEI and safety budget. Wokepedia is another term he used. And he's telling his followers not to donate to them. I just sent Wikipedia money.
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Gettin' our chag urim sameach on.
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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. "Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—" YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. "So we can believe the big ones?" YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
As promised: "A letter from polio in support of RFK Jr., co-signed by natural selection." You're welcome. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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A letter from polio in support of RFK Jr., co-signed by natural selection | Opinion
A letter from the highly contagious viral disease polio, written to members of the U.S. Senate in support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation.
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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
frasier: apparently the gunman wrote deny, defend, depose niles: i believe those were maris's wedding vows
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Regimes seem solid until they are not. Every resistance act matters because often regimes are crumbling from within from corruption and yet good at hiding that fact. cc: Russia
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
There seem to be a number of Americans who don’t know what to do if they find a book they don’t like at the library. For them, we wrote this handy step-by-step guide. action.everylibrary.org/what_do_i_do...
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What do I do if I don't like a book at the library?
A handy step-by-step guide.
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
O. Henry would have loved this story. I certainly did. mockpaperscissors.com/2024/11/28/a...
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A Thanksgiving Tale
[This is the annual reprise of a story I posted a few years ago; it remains a site favorite. I’ve been asked if this is a true story, you people doubt me? For shame! We’ll keep this on top to…
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Katy's Shit Cartoons @cartoons.katymontgomerie.com · 28/11/2024
Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions
Pie chart:
74% hydrogen
25% helium
1% other (in tiny font)
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
"This" in my first Thanksgiving post refers to a Wonkette post: www.wonkette.com/p/eating-of-...
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Eating Of The Last Sweet Bite: Your Poem For Thanksgiving 2024
It's not specifically about the holiday, but it's about kitchen tables and families of all kinds.
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Part 1 of 2 This made me think back on previous Thanksgiving. They used to be large -- over a dozen people. But kids have grown up and moved away, parents and friends have died, others are unable to make long distance trips. And one couple moved to Nevada and became Trumpers.
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Diogenes @diogenes-of-sinope.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
“Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.” ― Charles J. Chaput
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 27/11/2024
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 27/11/2024
Me: "Alexa, turn on Fox. I want to hear the news." Alexa: "You'll have to choose one or the other."
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Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I’m rereading The Great Gatsby, and I’m happy to see that even in 1920s literature, “rich white football player” was synonymous for “huge piece of shit”
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I Starred in ‘Cabaret.’ We Need to Heed Its Warning. History is giving us another chance to confront the forces that “Cabaret” warned us about. The question is: Will we listen this time, or will we keep laughing until the music stops? tinyurl.com/JoelGreyCaba...
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Opinion | Joel Grey: ‘Cabaret’ Was a Warning. It’s Time to Heed It. (Gift Article)
Much has changed since the show debuted on Broadway in 1966, but it’s what hasn’t changed that should worry us.
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” ― H.L. Mencken, In Defense of Women
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
If I lower my expectations for the upcoming administration's cabinet and agency picks any further, I'll hit the molten core of the Earth.
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
From a poster on Disqus: ”Knowledge is power”—Francis Bacon “Real power is fear”—Donald Trump Therefore: Real MAGAs fear knowledge --Woofer05
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Some on the right seem to be confusing the phrase "a room without Nazis" with "echo chamber."
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What Fresh Hell 📚 🖥 @researchgirl.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I need to start crocheting again. Listening to my Clash albums and watching The West Wing along is not going to get me through the next 4 1/4 years. Any suggestions on how to get my tush in gear? #crochet
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