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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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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Can a human body endure what’s happening on earth?
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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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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
“Will pay any amount” to “private firefighters.” This mentality is why the US is so fucked up.
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Most of the MSNBC shows have a podcast version that posts after the broadcast.
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
He was president when I was born, and we have not had a better one since.
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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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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
If he and big tech really valued foreign talent, he would sponsor them for permanent resident status not temporary visas.
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
My household watched it 3 times on Christmas. My daughter’s friend is here for a play date and I’m like, “Have you seen the Beyoncé halftime show???” because I need an excuse to put it on again. 😂
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Have you watched Fleishman Is In Trouble? I had a moment of, “Oh no, am I watching Angela Chase’s so-called midlife crisis?”
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Yes! My people!
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Is “expat” still being used? I thought it had been dropped because of the implicit classicism?
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
My favorite comments have been from the French asking if we need advice for our revolution.
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Maybe we should ask the owner to crack down on disinformation… oh… never mind. 😒
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Interesting. I’m genuinely unsure how I feel about that? A chance of lesser of evils taking control of GOP? Or something insidious that I’m missing?
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Right now, he’s just governor of Mar a Lago.
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Same. I might have less than a year, but doubt the process will be done in time to vote. But this is motivation to get my ducks in a row to do it as soon as I’m eligible.
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Makes me think of this quote, whether real or misattributed, the sentiment stands: “when Churchill was asked to cut funding to the arts in order to support the war effort in WWII, he responded, ‘Then what would we be fighting for?’” winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/the-arts-wha...
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The Arts: “What are we fighting for”?
Frequently ascribed to Churchill, this famous expression about safeguarding the arts cannot be ascribed to him, though he shared the sentiments.
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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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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I hate that now I have to make a pleasant phone call to Mitch McConnell’s office on Monday to show my support. 🙃
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Moved to Canada 6 years ago, I still walk up to the front desk at the end of the appointment and stare at them, they stare back… until I awkwardly ask, “Do you need anything else from me?” More awkward staring until they tell me to leave. At least I don’t do it with my wallet in my hands anymore.
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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
Time for us to contact our Senators. Mitch McConnell survived polio. He’s not the party leader anymore, but he still may be able to influence colleagues on this.
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Question: can Congress create legislation to prevent this?
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Wow, the judge set her bail at $100,000. 😮
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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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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
This really is the best discussion about #luigimangione so far.
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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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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Putting aside my social justice lens & the obvious authoritarian red flags, wouldn’t this weaken the military? Imagine what this would do to morale, camaraderie, and recruitment numbers.
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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 · 30/11/2024
Just listened to the episode of This American Life that features you. Glad you’re doing this work. Going to subscribe now!
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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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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The studies are confirming what most of us have experienced. It was really nice to have a couple of winters with no colds.
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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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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
It’s delusional.
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
That is a problem, but this could be used against pro-democracy groups, civil liberties groups, human rights groups, student groups, etc. Threatening to strip them of tax exempt status is how they can silence dissent and suppress activism.
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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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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Did you read any of this? It’s not about the overall goal of 20 million, it’s about their first priority group that they’ll be targeting.
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rissako @rissako.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This is completely fucked and I am screaming along with you. 😫
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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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