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@rissako.bsky.social
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Swing state voter🇺🇸💙 Currently living in 🇨🇦 Will always be a New Yorker at heart🗽

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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Lesson #13 from @timothysnyder.bsky.social: Practice Corporeal Politics. "Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them." Watch this. Then join us outside nationwide on April 5th: handsoff2025.com. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
i have eaten all the ice cream that was in the freezer and which was probably intended to last several days forgive me everything is fucked
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/01/2025
How Musk is being radicalized by his own "For You" feed, which is providing him false information from @financialtimes.com: "he had not been relying on conversations with a UK source for his information, but preferred to do his own research online" www.ft.com/content/8e91...
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How a handful of X accounts took Elon Musk ‘down the rabbit hole’ on UK politics
Tech billionaire’s posts about grooming gangs scandal have elevated issue
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
France’s President Macron stated that Elon Musk is "directly intervening in elections, including Germany" and "supporting a new reactionary international." At least 3 other European leaders Olaf Scholz, Keir Starmer & Jonas Gahr Støre have called out Musk in last 24 hours.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 29/12/2024
The former President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100. Read Lawrence Wright’s recollection of the late President’s life and career.
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Remembering a Visit to Jimmy Carter in Plains, Georgia
The late President’s priorities were remarkably prescient, and his personal qualities offered a dismaying contrast to so much of the present state of American politics.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 13/12/2024
If you’re in a blue state, there are many ways your local lawmakers can mitigate the harm of Trump 2.0. Use our toolkit to push your elected officials to take action on the looming threats to our rights: indivisible.org/resource/democrats-safeguarding-democracy-blueprint-blue-states-prepare-trump-20
NBC News: “Democratic governors could be the party's future — and how they react to Trump could set the tone”

“At their annual meeting, Democratic governors warned against letting Trump and his administration set the agenda as the party looks for a way forward.”
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
How many Gen X’ers were getting Legend of Billie Jean vibes during the #luigimangione manhunt? #fairisfair
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turbofunk @turbofunk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Fixed it for you
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 12/12/2024
BREAKING: The FBI should have done more to collect intelligence from its informants before the Capitol riot, watchdog finds. No undercover FBI employees were present at the Capitol riot, watchdog says, knocking down conspiracy theories. bit.ly/3ZQTEbB
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The FBI should have done more to collect intelligence before the Capitol riot, watchdog finds
The FBI should have done more to collect intelligence before the Capitol riot even though the bureau did prepare for the possibility of violence on Jan. 6, 2021, according to a watchdog report.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Someone should start a normie weightlifting podcast as an alternative pipeline for guys not to fall down the bro black hole
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
What can Americans learn from Yoon Suk Yeol's less-than-a-day dictatorship? snyder.substack.com/p/dictators-...
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Dictators for a Day
South Korea and America
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 03/12/2024
The reason the coup attempt in South Korea failed as quickly as it did is because South Koreans immediately rushed to the streets to say “we won’t let you do that” and force the military to decide whether they’d shoot their fellow citizens or not. Important for us remember over the next 4 years.
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This I what I had been trying to explain. Establishment vs anti-establishment. Improve the system vs burn the system down and start over. Either way you slice it, it feels like relative stability vs chaos or even normies vs trolls.
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
To President Biden and all elected Democrats: Stop playing by rules that no longer exist. At this point, it's not just spinelessness, it's complicity.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Lee: Why do predominantly conservative white men believe that the success of a black person or the opportunity or the access of black person is an existential threat to them?
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Anik Richard 🇨🇦❄️👸🏻 #IStandWithUkraineAndGreenland 💙💛🌻 🇬🇱 @anik-richard.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Reminder. Pierre Poilievre still refuse to apply for his Top Secret clearance. Why ? "China, India allegedly interfered in Conservative leadership races: report" www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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China, India allegedly interfered in Conservative leadership races: report | CBC News
Foreign actors from India and the People’s Republic of China allegedly interfered in more than one race for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada, says an intelligence report tabled in the House of Commons on Monday.
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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
i just wish people understood that there isn't a company in business that won't take dangerous shortcuts without regulations. that's why we have them.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I’m thinking tonight of all the people out there who are suddenly targets for suspicion, harassment, and worse. Citizens, permanent residents, visitors, on visas or undocumented—doesn’t matter. Trump’s policy makes it acceptable—even patriotic—to paint all Asians as outsiders and potential threats.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
As a personal example—I’m thinking about my teen, who is part Asian and conceivably could be “of military age.” Never set foot in China in his life. Any asshole on the street can decide he doesn’t “belong” here—what are his options? Carry his passport and birth certificate at all times?
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
“I’m not Chinese”—any Asian face will be suspect. “I’m a citizen”—this didn’t protect Japanese American citizens from internment camps, and it hasn’t protected others from deportation in the past. Carry your papers. But also remember how some refused to believe Obama’s birth certificate.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Racist assholes have stopped me on the street, all my life, to tell me to “go back where I came from.” Every Asian I know has experienced this. Now racists will feel even more empowered to go after ANY Asian, with the government’s blessing. Be careful out there, folks.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
“Undocumented immigrants from China who are deemed to be of military age will be among the first groups targeted for deportation by the incoming Trump administration, sources close to the campaign previously told NBC News, citing the potential risk to national security.”
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As sources say Trump could deport undocumented Chinese first, Asian American groups rush to prep
Sources previously told NBC News that undocumented Chinese nationals of military age will be among the first groups targeted for deportation by the incoming Trump administration.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 16/11/2024
Vaclav Havel's "The Power of the Powerless" describes everyday submission to totalitarianism. Social media sites run by dirtbag oligarchs are not the same as totalitarianism. But there is meaning in refusing to put out the sign at X, and watching others do the same hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/t...
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"The Power of the Powerless" - Vaclav Havel
Hannah Arendt Center News
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Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
We wrote about all the damage RFK Jr has done for Time in June 2023. It's only gotten worse since then. time.com/6292191/robe...
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The Conspirituality of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
"After rejecting scientific evidence on viruses and vaccines, what’s Kennedy’s actual plan?"
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Bluesky Community Defense Lesson #1 for Newbies We do not argue with trolls We block them On sight This is the Way, and the Way has saved me countless elevated heart rate episodes over the past year
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
the bid was sanctioned by the families of the victims of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit dedicated to ending gun violence that was founded in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting, will advertise on a relaunched version of the site
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The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This piece by @karlbode.bsky.social is excellent. TL;DR: How the creation of an alternate-reality universe filling voters’ heads w/ propaganda has been a decades-long project for the benefit of the right-wing and corporate interests. You should read it.👇 www.damemagazine.com/2023/03/06/a...
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America’s Propaganda Apocalypse Was Decades in the Making | Dame Magazine
Americans have always had a strained relationship with factual reality. From early efforts to redefine genocide as the justified expression of deity-sanctioned exceptionalism, to generations of market...
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Instead of banging our heads against the wall when they say Kamala was too this or too that, the Dems veered too center or too left, this is what we need to look at. When we kept asking, “How is this race even close?” and then it turned out to be worse than we had thought… this is why.
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America’s Propaganda Apocalypse Was Decades in the Making | Dame Magazine
Americans have always had a strained relationship with factual reality. From early efforts to redefine genocide as the justified expression of deity-sanctioned exceptionalism, to generations of market...
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 14/11/2024
Dear readers, he will not say no.
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Hope it's wrong, but I'm hearing through the grapevine about this bonkers plan: Trump would adjourn both Houses of Congress under Article Il, section 3, and then recess-appoint his Cabinet.
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Ed Whelan © @EdWhelanEPPC • 5h
As predicate for Trump's exercise of adjournment power, one House of Congress would seek other House's consent to adjourn and be denied. So Speaker of House would need to be complicit in evisceration of Senate's advice-and-consent role.

Ed Whelan • @EdWhelanEPPC • 5h
House Speaker Mike Johnson needs to say NO to this right away.
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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌
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Kait @kaitahrens.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The ACLU went so hard with this
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
If you’re not following @brennancenter.bsky.social , please do. Their work is extremely important for preserving democracy.
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Hey, n00bs. I wrote this easy to follow guide on getting things hopping here on Bluesky. With no algorithms, you gotta follow lotsa people or you’ll be crazy bored (or annoying to the 22 people you follow and ONLY engage with).
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Bluesky for Beginners
Very Basic Tips on Getting Going
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 12/11/2024
Follow the Brennan Center experts to keep up with the work that we are doing to protect and strengthen U.S. democracy.
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Need to feel useful? Do this.
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
In KY, students were part of the coalition that helped defeat Amendment 2, which would've allowed public dollars to fund private schools. Two students, Isabella & Luisa, wrote an op-ed about it for Teen Vogue: "Students are people too. We care about our education. [...] And we will fight for it."
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Kentucky Students Fought "School Choice" and Won At the Ballot Box
“This campaign proved the power of a united student voice. We weren’t just showpieces; we were crucial in decision-making.”
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