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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

No one is coming to help. This woman was assaulted and illegally detained by unnamed, unbadged goons. Yes, we've got their faces on video. No, no one will dare to prosecute them. Not in Idaho, not at the FBI or DOJ. We're on our own. This is Trump's world now, and this is how we'll live in it.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Shock and awe tactics rely entirely on momentum. But momentum is very easy to lose. Because they don't have any mass behind them -- law/ facts/people are NOT with them -- Trump + Elon depend on stunning velocity and the dull inertia of Americans to launch their agenda. This is their entire plan. /1

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

FAFO. Unfortunately, it's the kids who are at the mercy of their parents' stupidity.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I paid for college with Pell Grants, Stafford loans, and California state scholarships -- and became a semi-expert on the rights guaranteed by IDEA while raising a neurodivergent kid. The Dept of Education touches every household in this country, even the ones without kids.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

At the rate they're torching the Constitution (about one article or amendment per month so far), it seems plausible that I will not be voting in the 2028 election. And no other women will be, either. They'll get to the 19A sooner rather than later.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Really grateful to 2004 me for having the foresight to get Canadian permanent residency back when it was still possible.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Why is YouTube serving me video of the "City and County Mayors Joint Statement on Solid Waste" from Murfreesboro TN? Town dump vids from the other side of the US may be fascinating to a certain kind of wonk -- but I'm not that wonk. It's proof that my plan to confuse the algo is def working, tho.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Give him Rachel's chair when her 100 days are up.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

So much for "don't be evil." I've lived an almost entirely Google-free life for years now. It's doable -- almost everything they offer can be found somewhere else,

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Sold our Model S last week. No more overhyped Nazimobiles for us. For the record: FSD is a lie, Tesla "service" is total fiction, and I'd much rather have a car that runs CarPlay than Tesla's OS. It was a blast to drive. But I won't miss it. Replacement will be a Volvo XC60 plug-in hybrid.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I've logged out. Gonna live without FB for a week and see how it goes. And I invite everyone to join me here instead.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Not posting much because we're moving house(es), and getting everything packed up and ready in time is taking every waking moment we have. We've lived here 13 years. It's a lot of stuff. This is our Death Cleaning. Dumping two lifetimes of crap is glorious! Back in the 'sky after the 17th.

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

During his first term I attended a surreal city council meeting where they gave a beloved member of the community an award just after he’d gotten a deportation order. Guy had American kids and owned a restaurant the employed 5 people. It closed and nothing has opened in that space since.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbably beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings.” - Mary Oliver "2025 will not be that year." - Sara Robinson

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

A reminder: be careful with block lists. I just learned that a lot of you aren't seeing my posts because someone I follow is in such bad odor here that even their followers are being blocked. So much for Bluesky as our new liberal haven for free speech. The Twitter-style witch hunts are ON. Sad!

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Dee (She/Her) @dabitty.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

TFG is one deplorable MF!

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The very last concert of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour is about to begin in this arena. Photo taken from the balcony of our new place in Vancouver. Girls in sequins EVERYWHERE on the street below

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

"Those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." -- JFK

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Catching up on my re-posts of Evan Robinson's Chad Mitchell resurrection project. Enjoy!

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

@theframelab.bsky.social - let me be the first to welcome you to bluesky! Framelab subscriber -- follow me back!

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Evan's been doing a daily post of the Chad Mitchell Trio -- a classic early-60s political folk group that was more biting than Tom Lehrer, and more harmonic than the Limiters. I'm going to start re-posting them. They're an important part of our liberal heritage -- and they're FUN.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

There's something deeply, deeply wrong with us. Two weeks in Europe has just brought that home, hard. So did this article from the excellent Jess Piper.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

In Switzerland, Santa tours on a Harley. Because if you're in the toy biz, why not have the best toys the world has to offer? Seen on the Bahnhofstrasse, Zurich. I believe Santa is, in fact, drinking Swiss cocoa, which is also the best the world has to offer.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

While we're all going for the fake throw on the pardon, Biden's doing some real stuff that will make life a lot harder for Trump's crusade against his endless list of "enemies." And of course, nobody in the media is talking about this. www.404media.co/email/de59fc...

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FTC Bans Location Data Company That Powers the Surveillance Ecosystem

Venntel is a primary provider of location data to the government or other companies that sell to U.S. agencies. The FTC is banning Venntel from selling data related to health clinics, refugee shelters...

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The corporate media is now proving on an almost daily basis that they can no longer be trusted with their essential role in our democracy. We need to start creating new info channels worthy of the nation we seek to build.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The Biden pardon reaction is every damn thing I hated about Twitter. This story isn't important (unlike, say, Trump pardoning Stone). It's BORING. But BSky is flipping the fuck out. It's chum in the water, and you're biting. What a waste of a bunch of smart people's attention. Let's move on.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

You're celebrating your 30th anniversary this week. You're doing this in Zurich, the watch capital of the world. Hmm...what would make a good anniversary gift? The Cartier shop on the Bahnhofstrasse came up with an answer: a classic Tank Americaine....

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I arrived in Silicon Valley in 1984, and can thus attest that this sense of arrogant omniscience was ALWAYS there. The Smartest Guys In The Room tend to assume that their brilliance extends to all domains throughout time and space. They’re never surprised enough at how often they assume wrong.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Battered woman should not quit abusive marriage, pastor says. "The answer for victims is not to disengage"

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Millions of Americans have this same heartbreaking story. The worst were the COVID deniers, the dads who died alone in wards where reconciliations weren't possible. It's a story we need to keep telling. The grief is so widespread and profound. And it could happen to any of us with living parents.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Bald truth. There are no brakes this time.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

That’ll make us a beacon of health for the whole world, for sure!

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

It's already Thanksgiving here on the Rhine. Christmas market in Koblenz today; dinner tonight at the captain's table. Don't know if they'll have turkey for the Americans on board. We're happy and snug on the Scenic Crystal, giving thanks for our family and 30 years (next week) together.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Other first-tier countries aren't making this mistake. We're on our way to becoming a bottom-tier nation when it comes to public health.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The biggest reason we're gonna get these tariffs is that Musk is scared witless of cheaper, better-built Chinese EVs, which are already taking over the global market. The big player is BYD. I caught a ride in one in Amsterdam this morning. As a Tesla owner: Musk is right to be worried.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The boat where it happened. IYKYK

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

#DaveJohnson, who lives in the UK, has been hollering about this non-stop. The Brits can't seem to kick austerity, even when they elect Labour governments to lead them out of the morass. Thatcher's long shadow now extends into its fifth decade. It's time to abandon this discredited ideology.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Anybody got a line on a way to suck down your FB posts and photos so you can bail without losing 15 years of personal history?

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

"This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time." -- Churchill

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Current power outage status: nearly 500K households in greater Seattle are without power. It's 9pm on Tuesday. Seattle City Light now says we probably won't get our lights back until Thursday afternoon.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Here comes the bomb cyclone...and there goes the power. Gonna be a long, dark, stormy night.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

That sound you hear is my printer, working hot to print out 67 saved NYT recipes. Don't want to lose them just because I cancelled my sub today. "No man is above the law, but Trump is no ordinary man"? No. Just no. I don't support media that doesn't support democracy. The NYT is dead to me now.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Rick Wilson writes what should amount to Bluesky's unofficial manifesto on what constitutes a blocking offense. As long we all follow these rules consistently, this place will remain pleasant and civil for a long, long time.

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Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Helping folks find frameworks to think about the future is my day job. This article is one I've been coming back to in recent weeks -- it offers a good frame for shifting expectations in the new horror we're living through. medium.com/@cascio/faci...

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Facing the Age of Chaos

We are in an age of chaos, an era that intensely, almost violently, rejects structure. It isn’t simple instability, it’s a reality that…

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