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Sophierose

@sophierose729.bsky.social
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She/Her. Born in the middle of the 20th century. Love old movies, #TCMparty, jazz, the Great American Songbook. Devoted staff to one cat. Reside in Sonoma County. Progressive. No DM's

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Men who commit this kind of violence with this kind of rhetoric are not protecting women and girls; they are trying to legislate which men have the right to harm women and girls (and of course it's men like them and not those other men).
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James M. Thomas (JT) @insurgentprof.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Making sure every person can cast a ballot is more important than the speed at which they can be counted
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
THURSDAY ART SHOW! If you are a working artist (i.e. you depend on income from your art) just respond to this post with your non-pornographic, non-violent, non-Al generated CAT-RELATED art/crafts and I will repost! From now until 7:30 pm EDT. Include any relevant links like your website or etsy!
Photo of my fluffy white cat Francie meowing at the camera with her little pink, toothless mouth open looking like the cutest lil gremlin. The words art show are written in sloppy digital crayon above and below her face.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I'm not a Buttigieg fan, but I'll say this - this is how I would hope to see every Democrat who was even thinking of running for prez in 2028 talk to have even a chance of reversing course after a trump.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I tried to warn everyone what the Roberts Court was about almost ten years ago www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Supreme Court Is Headed Back to the 19th Century
The justices again appear poised to pursue a purely theoretical liberty at the expense of the lives of people of color.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A bit of cheerleading for you: Even some gerrymandered seats are not 100% certain to go the way the GOP wants in a wave election. In the last five midterm elections, the incumbent's party lost 9, 13, 30, 40, and 63 seats. Do you know how many turnovers Democrats need to flip the House? Three.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 01/05/2026
If you’re mad about Louisiana, you can do something to help us in Louisiana. I literally grant write and fundraise alone so I can put women & girls through school, pay their rents, & provide them menstrual products. Don’t talk about us in Louisiana like we’re dead. tpfwoman2woman2026.funraise.org
$2,842.04 raised
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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
"But we have to welcome people willing to change!" Sure. We can welcome them. They can put boots on the ground and do the work. Their lack of judgment says they should not be elevated to leadership positions. Not without a massive track record with clear lessons learned. That's not Platner.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Re the dystopia of normalization:
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Was it another staged piece of theatre to draw sympathy for a very unpopular asshole who only understands stage-craft, not state-craft? Is it another “lone wolf” sacrificial lamb who the FBI doesn’t bother to investigate? I don’t give a fuck what happens to that guy, but I, for one, am absolutely
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
We’ve become way too inured to the constant violence because of all of the people in power who revel in it. What a joyless, artless, sexless, rudderless country we became so fast.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
so a rando pulled off what dozens of reporters were unwilling to do: get this shit canceled
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Is there someone dead in the lobby or is there someone in custody? Was the person armed or not? Did he make it into the ballroom or not? Usually there should be a pretty wide grace period on finding this out, but there are literally hundreds of reporters in the room and nobody knows shit.
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Tim Williams Art @timwilliamsart.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I highly recommend this book. It's amazing. If you guys ever start a Bluesky Book Club, please tell me about it.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
"no nazis" and "no sexual predators" is not purity testing, it is the minimal standard for humane conduct.
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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
On this day in 1880, Frances Perkins was born. As FDR’s Secretary of Labor, she played a vital role in the enactment of Social Security & the minimum wage. Through it all, she kept a file labeled “Notes on the Male Mind,” with strategies for dealing with sexism. #WeTheMen www.npr.org/2009/04/16/1...
Frances Perkins
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Anti-Trumpism @forabettertomorrow.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
From a post: “Told my wife to have dinner ready by 6 or I'll obliterate her entire civilization. So anyway, she now charges me a fee to use the bathroom that used to be free, and I didn't get any dinner, but I'm pretty sure I won that exchange.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Wrote about how Hegseth’s effort to resegregate the upper ranks of the US military ties into the larger MAGA project to restore hierarchies of race and gender: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The result has been something like an inverse caricature of Republican complaints about diversity, equity, and inclusion, a system in which the incompetent rise not because of their abilities but because of their sycophancy. Authoritarian regimes behave as the Trump administration is behaving—optimizing for political loyalty rather than competence. Merit, in short, has little to do with it.

Hegseth is a prime example. Deeply unqualified for the job and convinced that brutality provides an easy path to victory, he has led the United States to the verge of a strategic defeat with a weaker adversary in Iran. The current cease-fire leaves Iran with a more hard-line government than before, one in total control of a shipping lane crucial to the world economy. The Islamic Republic is arguably in a stronger position today than it was when the war started, and probably in a stronger position than it was before Trump, in his first term, scrapped the Obama-era nuclear deal.

On Sunday, Trump posted on his social network a refrain that he and his toadies seem to think is insightful: “If you import The Third World, you become The Third World!” This archaic social Darwinism is the ideological mortar of the Trump project. It fuses Hegseth’s disdain for diversity in the military’s senior leadership and valorization of brutality with the administration’s attack on birthright citizenship and its deployment of federal agents to occupy American cities. It is a worldview that would assume an easy victory against a country like Iran, especially with America’s new, “unwoke” military. Bigotry isn’t just inefficient, as the U.S. military discovered in the 1940s. It also makes you stupid.
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Lindsay (Tired Version) @swiftchai.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Converting to Catholicism and then threatening the Pope with military action because you don’t like that he uh, *checks notes* is following Catholic belief is absolutely insane behavior
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/04/2026
NEW: Kentucky’s largest drug rehab center touts a Christian message and a selfless commitment to helping others. But internally, the organization prioritized money over the well-being of its clients and staff, interviews show. W/ @kentucky.com www.propublica.org/article/kent...
Image of a ProPublica headline that reads "They Needed Treatment for Drug Addiction. The Company They Turned to May Have Used Them to Commit Fraud." The headline is illustrated with a pair of hands holding a miniature rehab center. One hand is dropping a small human through the top of the building. From the bottom of the building, a $100 bill emerges.
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Like the Nazis did before Red Cross visits. "ICE caught frantically moving detainees from crowded cells before congressional visit" www.rawstory.com/ice-caught-f...
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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We Americans all agree today there is much less stress than yesterday, while we’re all still trapped passengers in a bus driven by lunatic with no driver’s license.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
"What we have learned is that local resistance works when it is persistent, scrappy, and deeply informed. This... fight has been built on facts, records, legal pressure, public health evidence, and relentless visibility..." blog.hagerstownrapidresponse.com/p/rachel-mad...
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Rachel Maddow on Stopping the Hagerstown ICE Detention Facility: This Is the Moment to Increase Pressure, Not Reduce It
Rachel Maddow tells her audience that Hagerstown Rapid Response may be the blueprint to stop ICE camps nationwide.
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Rep. John Garamendi @repgaramendi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I said what I said. We need to look at all options for removal immediately, including impeachment and invoking the 25th amendment.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/04/2026
these are the stupidest people to ever live
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.
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Iran
Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Add another one to the list #25A
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 07/04/2026
"Why don't Americans–" Motherfucker, I live in Minneapolis
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
A Secretary bird which is a bird of prey native to Africa.
A Secretary bird which is a bird of prey native to Africa.
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joelunchpail.bsky.social @joelunchpail.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Fun facts: 1) Ukraine now manufactures 82% of its own weaponry. 2) Ukraine just signed several interceptor and naval drone supply agreements with Gulf States. 3) Donny doesn't want Ukraine's help. The Gulf State allies feel differently.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
8 million No Kings protesters Zero police officers beaten Zero police officers killed Zero feces smeared on walls.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I was at a #NoKings rally yesterday and rather than writing another essay about why this matters I will just say that it is pure joy to meet the people who want to stand out and the people who are doing the work. Thank you.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I was hoping we'd grown out of this incredibly immature way of looking at the current movement, but I'm seeing it all over the place today. This is condescending misogyny. Doing it leftishly doesn't make it any less so
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I sincerely believe that people who say stuff like “neoliberalism and fascism are the same thing” could not coherently define either thing if called upon to do so And one ought to understand the things one is allegedly committed to fighting
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.
The marches had no shortage of skeptics.
In Oxford, Miss,, Cass Rutledge, a first-year law student at the University of Mississippi, walked through the No Kings protest and around the town square on Saturday and questioned why people thought Mr. Trump was acting like a king.
"He is, you know, a duly elected president who won the popular vote and the electoral college in a landslide," Mr. Rutledge said.
"And so I'm a little bit confused on how he's acting differently than any other president."
He pointed to the stalemate in Congress over the SAVE America Act, the Republican-driven bill to tighten voter identification and registration rules, which Democrats have called an attempt to suppress turnout based on false claims of voting fraud. Mr. Rutledge said that Mr.
Trump was "going through the process" to try to get the legislation passed.olemiss.collegerepublicans • Follow The University of Mississippi - Ole Miss
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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I protested with a neighbor of mine who had worked with the campaign against apartheid years ago. He was saying how a purpose of protests was to make people defending what we were protesting to have to defend the indefensible.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/03/2026
This is a nationwide phenomenon. The centrists and normies are more viciously angry than the socialists and anarchists, who gave up long ago on the illusion of a working system. Would encourage leftists of all stripes to take it seriously, welcome them in while they’re receptive.
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
One thing you learn by going to No Kings protests is that there are waaaaay more old white ladies who hate Trump and fascism than you might have guessed
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/03/2026
if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/03/2026
Can't make it to your local #NoKings3 rally? Visit the link below to watch the Official No Kings 3 Virtual & Accessible Rally on YouTube hosted by Stand Up for Science! #NK3AR #NoKings #SUFS www.youtube.com/live/DCi21Rh...
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Stand Up for Science! Live Stream
YouTube video by Stand Up for Science!
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The DC #NoKings march will be passing Ft. McNair, where Stephen Miller has been living in military housing. Rig Madden, who says he served in the US Army for 22 years, has a message for Miller.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The frog squad came to encourage protesters at #NoKings in Washington DC!
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
A predictable #NoKings take from Jeremy Peters: A small turnout will be ominous, a large one will be meaningless, all protests from the left are merely a "primal scream," and none of them mean much. The NYT has always loved protests as history but hated them as news. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u...
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A Challenge for ‘No Kings’ Protests, the Third Time Around
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Barbra Streisand @barbrastreisand.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Trump continues to try to slap his name on everything. The Kennedy Center and now a dollar bill. No living President has ever done this. He is not a monarch. Yet another reason to support the #NoKings rally tomorrow.
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Over 100,000 people here at the #NoKings rally in St. Paul Minnesota. This amazing crowd continues to grow. Our country belongs to all of us, not one person. Trump is forgetting this. He acts like he owns America. He does not. On this day from Alaska to Maine we remind him!
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 27/03/2026
Democrats caused the DHS shutdown about as much as Trump built Biden’s infrastructure projects, which is to say, not at all.
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
russia tried to erase us overnight. But here I am. Lying with my cat. Drinking coffee. Feeling that life, somehow, still exists. Because we’re still here.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
When twitter was perceived as liberal it was a bubble and people should not take it seriously. But now that it's a cesspool of right-wing propaganda it's the Soul of America and the libs ignore it at their peril
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