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History educator in the woods. She/her.

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𝔻𝕒𝕟 🏈🍻💀 @danmynrd.bsky.social · 15h
is 2000s Pop-Punk the True American Art Form? some say thats riduculous. Others would say those people are cowards without a heart
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Three years of nightmare, and it doesn't end. It doesn't end. We are all irreversibly damaged.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“I think what they’re really concerned about is that left politics *will* resonate — and you’ll have progressives and democratic socialists in office demanding that the Democratic Party leadership actually do something.”
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The Democrats’ “Woke” Panic and the Left’s Response
The victory of left-wing candidates in Democratic primary elections shows that voters want a different path. But party leaders don’t.
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Count Draugula @artd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the abolitionist's dilemma
venn diagram
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some people need their ass beat
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punishment does not transform people
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
all this is both foolish and unnecessary
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 01/10/2026
waking up every day in 2026 like:
a construction sign on the side of the highway that says "IT'S COMING IT'S BAD"
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"
Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.
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Em @roseforemily.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Maybe one reason I am feeling like shit again this week is that there's yet another story in the zeitgeist of a woman being brutally assaulted and I get to see all of the equally horrific responses to it, "ha ha ha"
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i agree with the key point here and will add to it that there IS a reward, it’s knowing you did one right thing instead of walking around plagued by the nameless shame that afflicts all men who are determined to live the most frictionless lives possible
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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We get a TV show based on Mariana Enriquez’s short stories???????
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Em @roseforemily.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pleasantly surprised to discover that through two small twists of fate I will now be spending two weekends in October by the sea (Rhode Island and Massachusetts, respectively). Looking forward to the autumnal maritime vibes.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
AI is the Gyges' ring of student work: it offers perfect concealment of wrongdoing. If Glaucon is right, then everyone will use it to do injustice (cheat), & will be wise to do so. If Socrates/Plato is right, then doing so also harms the wrong-doer, whose soul will be malformed into misery by it.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
ICE are currently chasing and kidnapping immigrants in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a town that is at this point probably most famous for being the starting point for Ishmael’s journey in the great American novel Moby-Dick, which portrays a multiracial crew including many immigrants, working together
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 21/09/2026
lol when a military coup polls better than the president
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u... Don't have time to fully comment on this article, but I would love to see a parallel article about the much more plausible assertion that the Republican party, from the President and the VP on down, has been captured by right-wing extremists.
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Republicans, Facing Midterm Peril, Try to Brand Democrats as Communists
Communism, in the president’s hyperbolic telling, is a graver threat to the country than the Pearl Harbor or 9/11 attacks were. Whether this midterm strategy works is an open question.
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Em @roseforemily.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Have honestly been such an overwhelmed mess lately but largely keeping it under wraps because it is both awkward and time-consuming to say things like "my job is constantly under threat of fascist nonsense" & "my friend is probably dying and I'm trying very hard to take care of him from states away"
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lone Progressive Dissenters have the highest batting average of being correct in history, yet that does nothing to change the widespread conviction that today’s Lone Progressive Dissenters must be crazy wackos.
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Em @roseforemily.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I wasn't expecting anyone to be normal today, but cops protecting a bunch of Nazis in NYC on the day Rosh Hashanah starts feels particularly bad, ya know?
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is the "Charlie Brown had hoes" of the center now. You didn't experience this. It didn't happen. This wasn't real.
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Em @roseforemily.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Incredibly telling, in my opinion, that Alpha is pushing so hard in schools in an "empowerment zone" governed by a board of directors, some of whom are already part of the district (like the superintendent) and some of whom are appointed from spaces outside of public education.
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Em @roseforemily.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This woman has not met a bad opinion she didn't love
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Liz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
people think annie abrams was posting in praise of alpha school? i feel like none of you understood what she was saying at all and it's kind of nuts how far the attacks went. she was saying that the AP system feeds scams like this because it encourages "teaching" to get 5s on AP tests.
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Em @roseforemily.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Grateful for Reddit, the only part of the internet that still works.
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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
“Look at them now,” an old man beside me kept saying. “Just look at them now.” —Philip Hamburger, reporting from the execution of Mussolini and his lieutenants, New Yorker, May 19, 1945
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Em @roseforemily.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's probably good that I can't get to the actual parts of my job because I have to keep responding to broad, open-ended parent requests for curricular materials for the entire year, right?
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 01/09/2026
Every time they dig up some "shocking" old tweet from Abdul El-Sayed I keep clicking through to see if there's a part two before realizing yet again that it's just something Muslims aren't allowed to say
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 01/09/2026
i don't think i should be required to work hard and do a good job when everyone with power over my life barely works and does a bad job
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

Jennifer Nelson
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The saddest girl to ever hold a martini @lifeisterrible.bsky.social · 01/04/2024
DOLLY PARTON PET PEEVES
1. NOBODY NOTICES
I'VE GOT
GREAT ASS
TOO
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
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Em @roseforemily.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
WHAT THE FUCK
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
We can fit so many fucking justices on that bench you won’t believe it
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Em @roseforemily.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Yet another beginning of the school year meeting full of platitudes and no acknowledgement of the situation in which we find ourselves.
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Em @roseforemily.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Asking a quizzo question where the answer is Flock and the whole packed bar starts booing before it's done lmao
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 19/08/2026
moby dick is about whale facts
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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Sunday plans 🎨 Kristina Kemenikova
Illustration of a mouse lying in a bed inside a burrow.
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Em @roseforemily.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
People die in the Whites literally every year thinking that they'll be fine because the hikes are "short" and the elevation "isn't that much." Idk man just enjoy your hikes safely and appreciate that we have access to this kind of beauty at all.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Real America is sick of movies with no trans people in them, ignore them at your peril Hollyweird
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Em @roseforemily.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
At least if I had to return to the U.S. from CDMX it's to Mamdani's New York for a few days
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 21/07/2026
Marvin, one of the people profiled in Brian’s book ‘There Is No Place For Us’, died suddenly this week in a workplace accident. What we’re doing this morning is making sure Marvin’s family knows they’re not alone. Get in here.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Viva España
Lamal waving a Palestine flag
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Andrew Hammond @ahamm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Happy for this guy.
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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The Anishnabek Nation is collecting donations for the Namaygoosisagagun First Nation members displaced in these fires: an7gc.ca/donate/
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DONATE - Anishinabek Nation 7th Generation Charity
Individuals who support the goals and vision of AN7GC can make a donation. The ways to donate: call us, mail your donation, use Paypal or CanadaHelps.
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