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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 10h

Update: My eyes are too irritated. Been trying to get them sorted for stream, but I am going to rest them so I can be on my game for TACIS tomorrow. See you all tomorrow. 💖

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 11h

Late show tonight. Getting my ass kicked by allergies.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14h

What will you say you did in this moment, with our democracy on the line? TOMORROW: No Kings is training Americans across the US how to protect our votes. Sign up and let's get to work. ➡️ bit.ly/nkep101

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David Moore @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 22h

Corporate powerhouses and billionaires are flooding politics with money to shape policy—and to pick their favorite next legislators. Sludge and The Lever are uncovering how this influence works—now you can get full access to our scoops, two for the price of one. 🤯

Sludge headline: Health Insurers Are Paying Third Way as It Targets the Left (08-10-26)

https://readsludge.com/2026/08/11/health-insurers-are-paying-third-way-as-it-targets-the-left/

Lever News headline: The Billionaire Building The Democrats’ New Machine (08-27-26)

https://www.levernews.com/the-billionaire-building-the-democrats-new-machine/

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 19h

The modern day Gestapo must be dismantled and every agent and bureaucrat and admin leader prosecuted for their crimes against the American people.

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 19h

Keep up the pressure, Ohio friends. The Equality Caucus must also hold Amy Acton accountable.

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 20h

I am begging people to ask why ultra wealthy people keep dropping huge amounts of money into making it harder for people to vote.

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We are covering a bunch of the recent political debates! Moore vs Cox, Collins vs Jackson, Beverly vs Hilton! GET IN THE BOAT!! www.youtube.com/live/lQel4Ys...

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i'm not a "both parties are the same" person, that's obviously not true, but it is true that everyone in the federal government exercises class solidarity with each other to some degree, and for SCOTUS that degree is something in the neighborhood of 99%

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The president should never joke about American cities getting bombed. Don’t normalize his constant pathetic, insane, and completely unhinged behavior.

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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇

Part 1 of an open letter of resignation by Arienne Childrey, stepping down as Vice Chair and member of the Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) Pride Caucus. She states that party leadership treats the caucus as a recruitment and sales team rather than a representative body. She cites an incident where the ODP censored and denied permission for the caucus to post a letter by two trans leaders addressing harmful comments made by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton. The State Party Chair reportedly called the letter an "unwelcome distraction," which Childrey notes demonstrates how little party leadership values the voices and dignity of LGBTQ+ Democrats.

Since that decision, every Caucus plan, every potential post, and every path forward has been filtered through a lens of strict compliance and ODP approval. That may very well be the party's rule, but following those rules right now is a dereliction of our duty to the LGBTQ+ community.

For me, any rule that silences advocacy for the trans community during this time is an unjust rule, and I see no obligation to follow it. In alignment with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail:

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

We are living in incredibly dangerous times for the trans community. We are in an era where the GOP has so thoroughly weaponized trans lives that even some formerly self-professing allies within our own party have fallen prey to the rhetoric. Looking at the national trend towards Democratic anti-trans triangulation, as well as our own internal conversations, it is clear to me that this shift is much more than a simple coincidence.

We have to speak up—loudly, strongly, and unapologetically—or I fear what our 2028 choices may look like. The ODP would like everyone to believe they are a "big tent" party. However, their successful efforts to silence even the Pride Caucus—even in cases where we are simply begging our candidates not to trade on our lives for perceived electoral advantage—has proven otherwise. The tent hasn't gotten any bigger; it has simply shifted, leaving many trans individuals, progressives, and allies out in the rain.

I will continue to advocate, organize, and fight for our community with everything I have. But I can no longer compromise my own moral principles by remaining part of a caucus that appears more interested in party approval than in true, defiant advocacy.

Sincerely,
Arienne Childrey

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've got a LOT of ground to cover on the show today, so we are starting VERY early. We are talking Trump weighing the nuclear option in Iran, Brazil's elections, the continuing implosion of the GOP polling, and a whole lot more. GET IN THE BOAT!!

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The GOP Bloodbath Deepens, Trump Eyes A Nuclear Strike On Iran, Brazil's Trump 2, & More

YouTube video by Riverboat Jack

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Less than 1% of major party nominees for Congress are working class. It is one of the most fundamental ways that Congress is not representative. And their views, e.g. on unregulated gambling websites, are apt to be different. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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Why Working-Class Candidates Are Almost Never on the Ballot

Less than 1% of major-party candidates competing for a seat in the US Congress have a background in manual trades or service industries.

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Subtlety is dead and we have killed it.

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026

This is genocidal rhetoric, if you're keeping track. This is the kind of thing they go for in the "Heterodox" community.

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I keep rolling over to fall asleep and lose consciousness again, hoping that when I wake up there will be something better in the news. But every time I blink awake, there is just more of this tsunami of hatred. I am exhausted and sad.

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just the world's richest man calling for my doctors to be executed for helping me. Cool cool cool cool cool.

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He banned beards in the military.

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's so cool that the guy in charge of our military is out here using slurs for people like me while being objectively terrible at his job and no one seems to care at all. 🙃

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CNN @cnn.com · 02/10/2026

National Republicans are starting to make major moves to divert resources away from the North Carolina Senate race where GOP candidate Michael Whatley has long been trailing in polls. cnn.it/4AMEHaP

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am existentially sad about waking up today in a world that has grown more hateful, spiteful, and small for trans people. I don't really want to be cognizant at all.

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just wrapped up one of the least pleasant streams I have done in a long time. I feel like utter shit, lol.

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hot take: Freedom of religion shouldn't include the freedom to kill your own children.

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah, the boat on that sailed with the current admin, so hopefully some form of accountability returns after the midterms. It's bleak.

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Jessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Exactly. I am tired of seeing the “I always knew”/“their work was actually bad” takes whenever allegations emerge. Sometimes—often, actually!—bad people find their way into good spaces and make good things. And you’re not better than the folks who were taken advantage of for “always knowing”

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They have a speech and debate clause that gives them legal immunity for anything they say while on the floor in Congress. The GOP weaponized that to make false allegations against people testifying without legal consequence and be dicks. We need to hold them to higher standards, not lower ones.

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You know what's NOT frictionless? Greta Garbo spinning in her grave at a company using digital necromancey to puppeteer her likeness to sell products to AI data centers.

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Pay Like It's 1919 — With Your Energy Savings. Starring Greta Garbo.

YouTube video by SKF Group

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He's not beating the allegations that his dad was in the KKK.

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No stream tonight. Being sick sucks. I appreciate your patience. I'll probably have to go extra hard when I return to make up for lost time.

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you want pure political schadenfreude, you need to watch Glenn Beck crash out for almost 30 minutes straight about the midterms:

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Glenn Beck Is CRASHING OUT Over The Midterms

YouTube video by Riverboat Jack

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Environmental storytelling

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Holy shit they actually cooked

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh, good, the world's richest Nazi, the most embarrassing weapons manufacturer, and a complicit dolt are teaming up to lead the future of US military endeavors. I hate it here.

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Grant Stoner @supercrip1994.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Friendly reminder that Sharma is responsible for completely obliterating the accessibility division and its community goodwill at Xbox.

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They would stand there for a full 30 minutes if he just died in front of them.

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York just rejected several of the Trump administration’s key rationales for withholding an Office of Legal Counsel opinion that it is using to justify its ongoing extrajudicial boat strike campaign, which has murdered more than 230 people.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cornell. Didn’t. Refund. Her. Tuition. THEY DIDNT EVEN REFUND HER TUITION. I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR ONE SINGLE BLIP ABOUT TRUST IN HIGHER EDUCATION UNTIL WE TEAR DOWN THE SYSTEM THAT MADE THIS BOTH POSSIBLE AND A COMMON OCCURRENCE.

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I hate the "cute" avatars they are trying to hide AI behind.

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They are trying to steal the entire US GDP with this nonsense attempt at rebranding.

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