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Freelance illustrator and sewing enthusiast. 🏳️‍🌈💕

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Now, under the court’s new regime, de facto racial gerrymandering will be blessed, under the new standard established by the court’s Republican justices, so long as it is presented with the fig leaf of having merely partisan intent. That racial gerrymanders can be disguised as partisan gerrymanders, because in many states there are deep partisan divisions between voters of different races, is the reality that allows this bad-faith pretext to be passed off to the American public in a vulgar display of cynical faux-neutrality. It is transparent, disingenuous sophistry to pretend that racial gerrymanders can be hidden behind mere partisanship, just as it is transparent, disingenuous sophistry to pretend that the 14th amendment, which was enacted in the aftermath of slavery, and the Voting Rights Act, which was enacted to end Jim Crow, were meant to prohibit any state acknowledgement of race at all, rather than to end the oppression of Black Americans by white ones. The court’s opinion makes these claims because they are transparent, disingenuous people, and because they think that the American people are stupid.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.
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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
HAPPY TASKMASTER PREMIERE DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)
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Simini Blocker @siminiblocker.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Trying to make and effort to join a local queer book club. But they keep choosing very sad books. This month is Song of Achilles and I don't think I can continue as they head off to this stupid stupid war. Where is the book club for Heated Rivalry fanfic? that's about where I am, emotionally.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
finding joy despite the world in 2025 is like this lol
A line of Ramona Quimby, a young girl with a choppy bob cut. She has a furious frown. 

The text, by Beverly Cleary, reads: 

"I am too a Merry Sunshine," insisted Ramona, but she got down from the table and ran out of the room.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 19/03/2026
it’s incredibly blackpilling to me that it takes rising gas prices and rising gas prices alone to have people turn against the war in iran, and not the american government murdering thousands of children and civilians in iran. americans are incredibly selfish
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Natalie @heartimecia.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
85 schoolgirls. just one is a world, a future of infinite possibilities, a universe. that america has done this atrocity to 85 of them, that it will continue to do even worse... i don't even know what to say. i condemn this with every fiber of my being, but that doesn't feel like enough.
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James Brandt @jamesbrandt.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
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Publius Maximus @publiusmaximus.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
With alt text:
IF YOU'RE A CHURCH POSTING

PRAYERS FOR PEACE AND UNITY TODAY

WHILE MY CITY BLEEDS IN THE STREET,

MISS ME WITH THAT SOFTNESS

YOU ONLY WEAR

WHEN IT COSTS YOU NOTHING.

DON'T DRESS AVOIDANCE UP AS HOLINESS.

DON'T CALL SILENCE "PEACEMAKING."

DON'T LIGHT A CANDLE AND THINK IT SUBSTITUTES FOR SHOWING UP.

TONIGHT AN ICE AGENT TOOK A PHOTO OF ME NEXT TO MY CAR,

LOOKED ME IN THE EYE AND TOLD ME, "WE'LL BE SEEING YOU SOON."

NOT METAPHOR.

NOT HYPERBOLE.

A THREAT DRESSED UP IN

A BADGE AND A PAYCHECK.

PEACE ISN'T WHAT YOU ASK FOR

WHEN THE BOOT IS ALREADY

ON SOMEONE'S NECK.

PEACE IS WHAT THE POWERFUL ASK FOR WHEN THEY DON'T WANT TO BE INTERRUPTED.

UNITY ISN'T NEUTRAL.

UNITY THAT REFUSES TO NAME VIOLENCE IS JUST LOYALTY TO THE ONES HOLDING THE WEAPONS 
STOP USING SCRIPTURE LIKE CHLOROFORM. STOP CALLING YOUR FEAR "WISDOM." STOP PRETENDING JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED BECAUSE HE PREACHED GOOD VIBES AND PERSONAL GROWTH.

YOU DON'T GET TO QUOTE SCRIPTURE LIKE A LULLABY,

WHILE INJUSTICE STAYS WIDE AWAKE

YOU DON'T GET TO ASK GOD TO "HEAL THE LAND"

IF YOU WON'T EVEN LOOK AT THE WOUND.

THERE IS A KIND OF PEACE

THAT ONLY EXISTS

BECAUSE IT REFUSES TO TELL THE TRUTH.

THAT PEACE IS A LIE. AND LIES DON'T GROW ANYTHING WORTH SAVING.

THE SCRIPTURES YOU LOVE WEREN'T

WRITTEN TO KEEP THINGS CALM.

THEY WERE WRITTEN TO SET THINGS RIGHT. AND SOMETIMES THE MOST FAITHFUL THING YOU CAN DO IS STOP PRAYING AROUND THE PAIN AND START STANDING INSIDE IT.

IF THAT MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE- GOOD.

GROWTH ALWAYS IS.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 24/01/2026
A lot of people don't understand how the 2A supporters are so okay with this, and the answer (as brilliantly explained by Carol Anderson in her book "The Second" ) is that the 2A has never been about protecting everyone's right to bear arms, but rather protecting white people's property USING guns.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“There is no remedy but abolition.”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 07/01/2026
I don't mean to get earnest on main but I've watched so many shot for shot breakdowns of this show and a very simple reason in addition to everything Tal laid out is the show took the source material seriously. And so much stuff that takes romance and puts it on screen doesn't
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
one thing thats nice about getting through the existential tailspin and dread generative ai puts everyone through eventually is youll see other people finally go through it and think "ah yes more soldiers for the army, excellent"
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Simini Blocker @siminiblocker.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I want to do something productive tonight. But then also I just want to continue my re-read of Heated Rivalry. Decisions.
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Simini Blocker @siminiblocker.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Obsessed with the hockey boys. There are not enough episodes of the hockey boys 😭
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 13/11/2025
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
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Simini Blocker @siminiblocker.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Feeling sick about not having ACA option. My current day job is very likely to last a few more months. And it feels even more unlikely that I’ll ever be able to go back to freelancing. These fucking senators.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 09/11/2025
Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/11/2025
Find your senators at reps.fyi or call 202-224-3121
graphic in the mamdani font/colors saying:

CALL YOUR SENATORS
and TELL THEM NO SHUTDOWN DEAL WITHOUT ACA FUNDING
202-224-3121
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.” www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 26/10/2025
If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
You can find your local food bank here! www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
feedingamerica.org
Find Your Local Food Bank | Feeding America
Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and mobile pantries in your community.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 22/10/2025
34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/
Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean
Total reported killed: 34 people
Notification Date	Number Reported Killed	Approximate Location	Notification URL
September 2, 2025	11	“in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago)	View
September 15, 2025	3	
“in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters	View
September 19, 2025	3	“in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic	View
October 3, 2025	4	“in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela”	View
October 14, 2025	6	“in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela”	View
October 16, 2025	2; 2 reported survivors	“in the Caribbean”	View
October 17, 2025	3	“in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility”	View
October 21, 2025	2	“in the Eastern Pacific”	View
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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 12/08/2023
I'm back on my bullshit~ The bullshit: trying to convince kidlit imprints that five years to illustrate a 200-page graphic novel is a fully reasonable and actually excellent time frame considering publishers neither offer artists health insurance nor pay enough for artists to live on.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Wrote a thing. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
The CSIS report declares, “Radicals will argue that peaceful politics will inevitably fail and that only violence will make a difference,” but I have no idea who these radicals are because in my 40 years around direct action organizing, I’ve only encountered theoretical enthusiasm for violence from the sidelines and the occasional young hothead (almost always white and male) in movements whose vast majority and leadership are committed to nonviolence. I do know someone who was part of a violent group in the early ’70s and then became wanted fugitive; he’s since become an ardent advocate of nonviolence.

What too often gets described as left-wing violence at protests is property destruction, which can be dangerous and intimidating and is usually opposed by protest organizers, but should be regarded as distinct from harming human life. For example, at the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, the Black Bloc, a small cadre among the 50,000 protesters smashed a lot of shop windows quite spectacularly. But there are no reports of activists harming human beings. Police, on the other hand, used tear gas; pepper spray; rubber, plastic, and wooden bullets; concussion grenades; and armored vehicles against protesters bystanders  resulting in many injuries. Nonetheless, for years afterward, mainstream media outlets portrayed this event as an occasion of shocking activist violence.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/10/2025
Every part of this sentence describes an abomination before God. People are going to hell for this.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Kendra P @hagofbolding.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The federal govt wants to rescind the Roadless Rule, which would open 45 million acres of public land for private interests - disrupting wildlife habitat, destroying carbon sinks, and imperiling outdoor recreation in the places we love TODAY is the last day for public comment - file yours now!!
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok
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Simini Blocker @siminiblocker.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Was reminded I needed to cancel by Hulu subscription by *waves hands* and hmm the cancel button is not working.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Fucking finally. Fight back against the bullshit framing that tries to make Dems responsible for everything. The GOP is *choosing* to create this kind of societal environment. They could stop it at any time. They have agency as well. They’re not fucking children (except when, well, you know)
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Simini Blocker @siminiblocker.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Just realized I've been thinking Charlie Kirk and Kirk Cameron were the same person this whole time.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/09/2025
Fuck RFK jr and fuck this administration
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Surely this makes techbro claims of 'training' their generative AIs on illegally obtained copyright work inaccurate to the point of lying. 'Training' implies retention of knowledge/skill. If genAIs retain nothing and search copyright work afresh for every query, that's ongoing use and exploitation
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 21/08/2025
“The daily cost of the D.C. troop deployment is more than four times what it would cost to operate affordable housing for D.C.’s entire unhoused population.” interc.pt/45PvcJf
A photo of District of Columbia National Guard members arriving at Union Station in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 15, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "Price Tag for Trump’s D.C. Military Surge: At Least $1 Million a Day" and the DEK, "An analysis conducted for The Intercept found that the militarization of D.C. could end up costing hundreds of millions."
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Kendra, normal version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Thinking about the Cave of Hands, some of the art dating back to 7,300BC, where 25% of the hand prints are thought to be that of children. Imagining those people gently holding their child up to the cave walls, and using their tiny little hands as a stencil. Art = love = the human soul
A photograph of the Cave of HandsAnother photograph of the Cave of Hands, featuring warm terra cotta and cream and brown stenciled hand prints on a rock wall
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 03/07/2025
People are absolutely going to Hell with a capital H for what they've done to this man and everyone else who's been sent to these concentration camps.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Remember: your job is not to change their minds. That's no one person's job. By joining a wave of calls, you're doing your part to help. That's the beauty of collective action.
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Screaming Pectoriloquy @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 27/05/2024
Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
“You are an abolitionist, ain’t you?”
“As to that, I cannot so readily answer. If by abolitionist you mean a zealot, I am none; but if you mean a man, who, being a man, feels for all men, slaves included, and by any lawful act, opposed to nobody’s interest, and therefore, rousing nobody’s enmity, would willingly abolish suffering (supposing it, in its degree, to exist) from among mankind, irrespective of color, then am I what you say.”
“Picked and prudent sentiments. You are the moderate man, the invaluable understrapper of the wicked man. You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right.”
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Seems like Trump’s most powerful advisor being a white nationalist should inspire greater alarm than the possible mayor of new york being pro palestinian rights
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