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Jane S.

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“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” Thomas Paine Twitter: @regalbutojane Threads: @janeholidaymaker

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
When art speaks. #BlueWaveIn65Days
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026
strive to live your life in such a way that your freedom doesn't depend on being in good personal standing with laura loomer abcnews.com/US/milo-yian...
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Milo Yiannopoulos, far-right British commentator, detained by ICE
Far-right British political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos was detained by ICE on Friday, according to an ICE detention database.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026
it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 28/08/2026
me, a liberal [makes choice easily]
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
First they came for the avocado toast, and I said nothing.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
YES HENLO
An enormous floofy Bernese mountain dog on the top of a Wisconsin mountain
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The entire reactionary centrist case is that leftist politicians must distance themselves from Piker to neutralize him as a electoral issue. But when they *do* distance themselves, reactionary centrists still write articles making the link and criticizing their exact wording.
Several leading Democrats, including Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, issued statements denouncing Piker’s ugly warning to the Jews as a barely veiled anti-Semitic threat. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat running for Michigan’s other Senate seat, trod more carefully. He issued a statement “in response to Hasan Piker’s comments” affirming that “all Americans deserve the right to advocate for what they believe without fear of violence” and denouncing anti-Semitism, but the statement itself did not say whether Piker’s comment qualified as anti-Semitism. El-Sayed instead dismissed Piker as a distraction, saying at a recent rally, “The effort to make this race about a streamer in L.A. is actually kind of laughable.”
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It is not a "grim choice" to support either a psychotic Republican or a mainstream center-left politician.
he Michigan Senate election has presented liberals with a grim choice. The Republican candidate, Mike Rogers, has pledged support for a corrupt, racist, authoritarian-minded administration. Rogers hasn’t made even the tiniest concession to Donald Trump critics. But supporting El-Sayed means accepting a strain of anti-Semitic politics that to date has had no place within the Democratic Party.

What’s more, El-Sayed has already said that he intends to use his victory as a platform to reshape the party. Him winning could invite a future in which the United States has not just one party that is open to bigots but two.

Although El-Sayed has never said anything nearly as inflammatory as the sorts of comments Piker makes routinely, his mixture of anti-Zionism and populism treats pro-Israel activism as a nefarious and all-pervasive force. He has denied that any Democrat who believes in human rights could have any motive other than money for holding a position on Israel different from the one he prefers. El-Sayed tends to depict nearly all opposition to his candidacy as financially driven, but when applied to Jewish political activity,  this charge becomes even more conspiratorial.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This only "becomes a political and moral crisis" if reactionary centrists relentlessly frame it as one. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Abdul El-Sayed’s Hasan Piker Problem
In Michigan, the Democratic Senate candidate’s alliance with a hard-left streamer has become a political and moral crisis.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Dolly Parton's publicist says she died at a Nashville hospital after a brief battle with cancer.
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
damn straight "Roberts is antidemocratic to his core, and he’s been happy to help Trump hasten the death of the constitutional order. He should be forever reviled for it"
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 25/08/2026
Ah, god, not Dolly Parton. We’re going to need another pillar to hold up the universe.
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
(2/2) gave her and recognized the value of giving children a chance to love music as she did. To this end, she frequently funded uniforms, flags, instruments, and even multiple team travel budgets. Her only stipulation was to not have her name attached. She didn't want to distract from the kids.
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
(1/2) Since I haven't seen anyone else mention this one... It was an open secret that Dolly Parton secretly funded a massive number of southern high school bands, most especially predominantly Black high schools. A marching band member in her youth, Dolly never forgot the joy that playing snare drum
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Even the BBC is leading the evening news with Dolly Parton. An international icon.
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Andy “voice of Brak” Merrill. 🎅🏻🤡🐒💩 @amerrill2.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I revere Dolly Parton much as I do Fred Rogers. They’re people who made it their life goal just to be gentle and kind to everyone that they met. They are prime examples of how we all should behave and live our lives.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It's so weird that Dolly Parton used her money to help ordinary people in a thousand different meaningful ways *and* lived an incredibly happy fulfilled life, almost like there's some sort of connection between the two. Anyway, let me read about another AI CEO poisoning a town for shits and giggles
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton used her gift for music to highlight the challenges of poverty, inequality, and struggle in ways that uplifted and inspired working people. “And I told 'em all the story / Momma told me while she sewed / And how my coat of many colors / Was worth more than all their clothes”
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026
Petition to rename mRNA vaccines to “Dolly shots”
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“She was the voluptuous embodiment of empathy,” Jane Fonda writes about her friend Dolly Parton. “That’s something of hers she’d want us all to take with us.” "To her gay and trans fans, I want you to know that she loved you. You know that without me telling you.” www.justjared.com/2026/08/25/j...
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Jane Fonda Pays Tribute to '9 to 5' Co-Star Dolly Parton, Sends Message to Her 'Gay & Trans Fans'
Jane Fonda is mourning the loss of her 9 to 5 co-star Dolly Parton. The 88-year-old actress released a statement moments ago after learning of the news of
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One more great thing about Dolly. She was a paid-up union member — American Federation of Musicians, Local 257, Nashville. And she had been for 58 years. www.afm.org/2026/08/afm-...
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AFM Statement on the Passing of Dolly Parton
Today, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist…
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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Someone should do a survey among law professors about attitudes towards the use of AI in legal scholarship. Which uses are okay, which are not, whether disclosure changes the picture, and by generational cohort. It’s easy for tenured people to ignore it, but a mistake.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's honestly so crazy to me that we're facing a technological revolution that could displace millions of jobs in the middle of a housing affordability crisis and every day we talk about whether a trans woman is playing sports or if someone has a non-Anglo name.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
EVERYONE knew that RFK Jr. would do this. Anyone who paid attention to what he said for the past two decades knew he would do this.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
And was later feted by the White House press corps.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
the manliest
trump hid in catering cart
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
1.3 million Michigan voters have cast their ballots as of 10 am, about 300,000 more than those in the 2024 primary, according to Michigan Secretary of State's Office
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 28/07/2026
with occasional and refreshing exception the Democratic party has spent decades being decorative and not at all load bearing this has been violently exposed by authoritarianism and the first step of rebuilding requires a lot of these folks and their supporters to start being honest with themselves
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 28/07/2026
just spitballing here but have you considered replacing all the corrupt and feckless geriatrics with younger, hungrier, and smarter good faith progressive populist reformers who openly advocate for things people actually like
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Inside the Phone-Throwing Drama at the Troubled, Broke Democratic Party (Gift Article)
The Democrats should be well positioned to make gains in this year’s midterms. But inside party headquarters, every week brings paranoia, worries about money and, on occasion, emotional eruptions.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Nobody is inclined to believe a word he says, either. This is the guy who said a five-dollar apple is worth it. He's not trying to move votes here. He's playing the old song one more time trying to turn out his base. But many will not turn out.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
They are going to try what they try. But they are not smart people, nor are they coordinated, and a real plan would be five years in the making. Remember what you're dealing with.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I want to get ahead of this speech tomorrow. You are going to hear a lot of cries of the sky falling. Remember: the President of the United States does not control elections. States and localities do, and even if you say "he has the military," there aren't enough in the 48 states to make a dent.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."
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Inside RFK Jr.’s push to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy
Insider accounts reveal the scale of the health secretary's ambitions to curb childhood immunizations and unearth a link between vaccines and autism.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 11/06/2024
HAVE A NICE WORDLE LIFE EVERYONE
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/07/2026
it is very funny the number of people who have replied to my column on lindsey graham with some version of "but he was a nice guy!" yeah, who cares.
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Every word of this. Lindsey Graham's misogyny - he repeatedly sponsored national abortion bans - has been overlooked. He hated women. And it was on full display at the Kavanaugh hearings.
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Jane S. @savvyjane.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Watching CNN coverage of hearing on increased security for Supreme Court. Just saw 87 year old Steny Hoyer. Currently, 83 year old Rosa DeLauro. I’m a Democrat but TOO OLD. Term limits please. @davidhogg.bsky.social
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/07/2026
roberts et al have a mental model of racism as being defined entirely by the most atavistic mania of the jim crow south. if it isn’t that, if it wears suits and ties and speaks the language of national security and executive authority, then it not only doesn’t count, *it’s not racism*
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
please enjoy this video of Mabel doing another outstanding river sploosh.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham was ashamed of what he should have been proud of and proud of what he should have been ashamed of.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life in public service as a US Senator, trying hard to be remembered as an enemy of the Constitution who worked to destroy American democracy and exhibited occasional signs that he knew why that was bad but kept doing it anyway. I will honor his choice.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Indeed. We are not forcing upon Graham the memory of him being a villain, a coward, and a malignant presence in the country; that was the legacy he chose again and again. He earned our contempt, as has everyone else on his path.
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Jane S. @savvyjane.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Mitch McConnell: “Lindsay Graham still lives.”
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If the US hit the school bc they were relying on 10-yo intelligence, how many important targets did they NOT ID bc they were relying on 10-yo intelligence. edition.cnn.com/2026/07/07/p...
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Exclusive: US commanders bypassed warnings about outdated intelligence ahead of strike that hit school in Iran, sources say | CNN Politics
Senior US military commanders bypassed warnings in critical databases that intelligence about potential targets in Iran was severely out of date and approved some strikes — including one that hit a sc...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026
funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
a constitutional violation the size of a jumbo jet
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 14/06/2026
zohran begins his 10,000 year regime today
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