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Sheridan Stewart @sheridanstewart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Obviously, this take is monstrous, too, but if people deny empathy to the victims of these crimes, maybe they can at least recognize the reverberations that reach the people whose lives they do value?

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Sheridan Stewart @sheridanstewart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Many people are saying there are parallels between not having red lines for sons or fraternities and not having red lines for armed wings of ethnonationalist projects

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 1h

just a morally sick society, in constant need of the death-fix that will stave off that sickness for another few hours

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1h

There's a through line between the celebratory footage of detainee abuse from CECOT, the boat strikes videos, and this planned snuff film of the Nidal Hasan execution.

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 3h

need so badly for everyone in the country to understand that whatever they do to people like Nidal Malik Hasan, they would also do to you.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 2h

despite the well-known propensity of the dictatorship for Nazi memorabilia and ideology, and despite their deployment of classic antisemitic tropes. The reasons why are clear: 1) the victims were left-wing; 2) memorializing them does not in any way aid the project of dispossessing Palestinians.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 2h

During Argentina’s “dirty war,” the military dictatorship killed or disappeared tens of thousands of people. Somewhere between 2-3000 of those were Jews, about five to ten times more than their share of the population. This was not called “the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust…”

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 4h

Peak America.

Whether Major Hasan, who uses a wheelchair, will be shot sitting down or strapped upright to face the firing squad is unclear.

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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The feckless complicit corporate Dems have been doing bipartisanship while the fascists have been stripping the country for parts the last 18 months. Y'all think they're suddenly going to go all Reign of Terror on their "esteemed colleagues"?

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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

When/If the Democrats win the mid-terms, we are going to see the biggest Pivot to A Time To Heal Division we've ever seen in history. It will make Nixon's pardon look like child's play.

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Joyce Carol (p)Oa(s)tes 😱 @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 5h

God I fucking hate these people. Here’s my whole spiel again defector.com/a-blue-wave-...

When I was coming up through undergrad as a poli sci major (ended up switching to IT for grad school and career, thank god) in the first Obama term, we - and I mean liberal staffers-in-training - were taught to view American politics as unfailingly stable and basically liberal, with three facts offered as proof. Not even proof! They were, you must understand, clearly articulated, immutable laws of political physics:
1.) The federal bureaucracy was vast, heavily unionized, and basically permanent below the cabinet level. This ensured continued function of government even after big election swings.
2) Voters would actively revolt with tremendous force against any party which threatened, even obliquely, to cut entitlements — Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP. Once you gave people a treat you couldn't take it away without consequences.
3.) The Supreme Court would never overturn its precedents (could you imagine the disrespect to history?), and would slowly over time only serve to enshrine more and greater civil protections as constitutional guarantees.

was the resilient machine of government, these things would never change, and not only was it absurd but it was kind of dangerous to act as though they might - because of the gerontocratic systems of seniority and patronage in professional politics, the Democratic leadership was rife (and still is rife) with people who were present to get their asses kicked so hard by Ronald Reagan, they came to believe his basic perspective on America and government had to become the starting point for any position. If you wanted better funded public works, higher taxes, less policing, whatever, you were insane, and you were going to get schooled again by the right. You had to go a third way: Government that does more with less.
It has been the great grim spectacle of my life to see each of those assumed laws - the fundamental safety nets beneath neoliberal governance - systematically, directly, completely destroyed. The precision and thoroughness has been breathtaking. The Democrats are in their version of hell, now.
And I believe the Democratic Party drummed out all capacity to even imagine a world beyond those tenets long ago. They still cannot believe that what is happening is happening, and they're more hostile to the suggestion that it is than they are to fascists (history, here, repeating itself. They - congressional Democrats - see themselves essentially as customer service managers; they do not lead and they do not build. Their job is to make sure the government works without voters ever having to think about how or why. They certainly don't want to be noticeable.

I think a lot about why Schumer remains Democratic leader. The bleak probability is that nobody else wants the position; you could say that's because it's a thankless one, but I think the more plausible reason is because leadership in the legislature necessarily implies a forfeiture of any ambition to be POTUS.
If the party thinks you have juice as a leader, the legislature serves as a finishing school first and foremost: You'll be funneled toward a senate seat for one or two terms and be given important committee assignments to lend your presidential campaign some legitimacy (pure shitheel Elisa Slotkin is in the middle of this process currently). But if you're still there after 12 years, you've probably fucked up. No self-respecting model UN geek who went through the party's pipeline is going to throw in that towel unless they are well and truly washed.
And Schumer is the most washed of them all.
It's ironic, one of the romantic ideas they sold us about American politics was that, unlike parliamentary systems in Europe and elsewhere, we're supposedly quite stable - but only in the sense that in the UK, for example, the parties are far more willing to give leadership the boot if they fuck up (because the PM is meaningfully the executive as well as legislative party leader).
What's clear now, obviously, is that American liberalism wasn't more stable, it was just more complacent, more willing to buckle.
And it has.

Anyway as sympathetic as l am to calls for "no amnesty", the prosecution of all these Nazi ghouls, and the packing of the SCOTUS, I am no fool. Chuck Schumer would literally lay down his life before he admitted, through impeachment and legal proceedings, that his grand and amiable Team of Rivals dream has died.
His Democratic Party already ushers through Nazi federal judges regularly, they will Respect The Court and bow to its legitimacy.
He will absolutely keep the chairs warm for the next fascists. The fascists we have will go on to make lavish amounts of money on TV and speaking circuits. He and his leadership will continue to yearn for bonhomie with them, more than anything else. Impunity, impunity, impunity. They cannot and will not be part of any forward motion in this country.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5h

lmao this is such a sick way to conclude that COVID school closures were a mistake www.kuow.org/education/20...

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 5h

"A lot of people think, ‘oh, that’s probably long gone because of the advances that have been made,’ but there are stories about this resurgence of being able to be openly misogynistic, openly racist, from what I’ve heard from people behind the scenes."

hollywoodreporter.com

TV’s So White Again: Diversity Now Seen as “Optional”

After a couple years of major progress, creators of color are seeing “real regression,” the president of the TV Academy tells THR.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 20h

In Lochiel, Arizona, where people have been resisting the construction of the border wall, one brave activist locked down to construction machinery—and Border Patrol drove it away with them locked to it. "We're taking you to the middle of nowhere where no one can hear you scream."

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Char Lots of Blood @knaveryesque.bsky.social · 21h

Carefully coaxing a suspect into becoming dangerous. Grooming.

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Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It is hypocritical for cities to use AI for mass surveillance and then turn around and claim their technology is too outdated to fulfill public records requests about said mass surveillance. If you can afford these cameras, you can afford to tell the public about them.

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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I would again like to request a list of the people who are agreeing to fly these planes. Monsters.

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If your instinct towards protesters is anything other than “wow that’s an unfair fight, how can I support you?” then you probably don’t love democracy as much as you think you do.

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Sheridan Stewart @sheridanstewart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Resharing this thread from a year ago in response to revisionism that isn't going to help anyone understand American politics

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Sheridan Stewart @sheridanstewart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This whole thread, but especially:

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Sheridan Stewart @sheridanstewart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Further evidence of how little anyone will ever be held to account by the people whose job it is to distract us and fundraise.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

At any point my lifetime, the most extreme views you could find anywhere in the conservative universe became the mainstream GOP position within 5, 10 years. As reliably as the tides came in and went out.

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Voters keep flip-flopping because The Problems won't end, and they have no more analysis of The Problems and how they work than a big on-off switch, and it will continue until The Problems finally topple society

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🦅 Dan 🦅 @chase4hof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s been nearly a decade since this article was written and I think about the headline far too often

Screenshot of HuffPost article with the headline I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A very large number of people in the West still believe that Israeli occupation of Palestine and southern Lebanon and Syrian territory can be solved via Israeli elections, that majority of Israeli voters would choose peace. It's like expecting the war in Ukraine to end through Russian elections.

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Bryan Young @swankmotron.com · 04/10/2026

Borders are not worth this.

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Mama twins @hi-its-alaa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Netanyahu is irrelevant. If he wins or loses Israel will behave the same. Trump is irrelevant. If he wins or loses US foreign policy will be the same.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 04/10/2026

Per @legaldefensefund.bsky.social and @splcenter.org, there have been insufficient investigations into these Black people's deaths especially in states with histories of racialized lynchings. For example, local law enforcement that investigate have a long history of racial bias and violence.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

Imagine the largest football stadium you've ever seen. Imagine a child in every single seat, without exceptions. Now do that again. And a third time. That's how many kids the Israeli military has forced out of their homes under threat of death. Just in Lebanon. Just in 2026.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026

Put differently: how can a conservative movement that has worked diligently for decades to defund public higher ed, commercialize research, undermine the labor movement, and attack the study of culture as "woke" possibly have anything useful to say about the future of the American university?

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

When you don’t know any of these children, nor care to want to know any of them, it makes it easier to press the button, and still sleep soundly in your bed at night. “Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things” - Terry Pratchett

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh good more Nazi shit to watch everyone normalize

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Lené Colbert @lenecolbert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wonderful thread. I bet she will never be able to read something in future without wondering what they're NOT telling her. Excellent!

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Sheridan Stewart @sheridanstewart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Maybe we'd have institutions with less abhorrest values if people didn't so readily accept excuses to give time, energy, and money to the other ones?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/10/2026

Stop putting off that thing you wanted to do

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My "I drove over a student's foot but also I care deeply about threats to student safety" t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I read the ending and I wanted to koolaid man through a wall!!

Screenshot of article which reads: To restore a functioning and
pluralistic democracy in the United States, reversing over a decade of
democratic backsliding in the world’s oldest democracy, the thing to
“fix” is not polarization. Polarization is the country’s immune response
to an unpopular, antidemocratic, and intentionally divisive faction grabbing for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success,
reputation, and democratic self-government. Tamping down that immune response only allows this minority faction to have greater control.

Screenshot of article which reads: But the fury of the argument shows the importance of the outcome.
When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for ev-
eryone to quiet down and be “civil”—an outcome that benefits those
who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern
for legality or civility. When we see the problem for what it is, the
solution is to defend the most robust social progress in American his-
tory—progress that has already been codified into law and enjoyed
by everyone alike. U.S. democracy needs leaders who are willing to
defend those rights and voters who are willing to hold accountable the
leaders who will not defend them. It does not need everyone simply to calm down.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t think the roman helmet guys on musk’s csam emporium know this one (from josephine quinn’s how the world made the West)

By now the Roman imperial economy depended heavily on African agriculture, manufacturing, and trade, much of which was in the hands of Africans themselves. At the same time, local landowners attained great power and status in Rome: by the 180s CE nearly a third of Roman senators were of African origin.[33] These were men like Septimius Severus,

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Effin spooky 🦇 @effendancie.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

“So Tom Homan’s a liar?” “He is. He’s been saying some dumb shit. Like you.” 🔥 🔥 🔥

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone should read Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs to understand what it meant to constantly negotiate one’s sexual autonomy in a system of enslavement. Jacobs emphasizes that even “consensual” relationships were negotiated in constant fear of sexual violence.

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Sheridan Stewart @sheridanstewart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Many people are saying there are parallels between not having red lines for sons or fraternities and not having red lines for armed wings of ethnonationalist projects

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Sheridan Stewart @sheridanstewart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth" (Adorno)

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