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Emily Pela

@soundimpressed.bsky.social
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a poster's spirit and a lurker's heart getting on here, trying to be normal she/her

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
After decades of awareness raising, people have generally come to accept that someone they are close to has been raped. They remain largely unwilling to consider the fact that they have likely been and may still be friends with a rapist. We are a nation of rape without rapists.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 04/08/2026
and look - I’ll take a boy who has mildly annoying takes on modernist novels, noise bands, and Leonard Cohen over a boy who cares for no one and nothing but meme stocks and anabolic steroids ANY day
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Literally manifesting a united front against the will of their own constiuency with a swiftness and vigor they could not muster to even feign resistance to open fascism
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/06/2026
(in the seventh month of defending a candidate who has slowly revealed himself to be a werewolf) so actually I think most guys get worse under the full moon
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Can’t stress how much it just can’t be Harris, Newsom or Emanuel in 2028
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Not one for theories of everything (other than the housing theory of everything, duh), but I do think "we undermined the material basis for patriarchy without destroying its grip on the collective imagination, thereby driving many people insane" is a sort of skeleton key to most of what's happening.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
lying about it happening on april fool's day: mean-spirited, hurtful, not funny at all it actually happening on april fool's day: possibly the funniest thing of all time
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Emily Pela @soundimpressed.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
the way Gerry Rafferty says "woman" in Right Down the Line sounds like how the Internet makes dogs say "hooman". it's awkward but I kinda like it
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Michael Snydel @snydel.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
You can stream two of the best movies of last year, The Secret Agent and It Was Just An Accident, on Hulu today. www.hulu.com/movie/4545bc...
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It Was Just an Accident
An unassuming mechanic has a chance encounter with a man he suspects to be his former sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, he kidnaps the presumed captor and rounds up a few of his fellow ex-prisoners...
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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.
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Emily Pela @soundimpressed.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
is twin peaks: fire walk with me required viewing before starting the return?
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Emily Pela @soundimpressed.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
please help us find the Eleanor Rigby "joyce carol oates" tweet, Google is no help
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/02/2026
Our capitalists don’t envision automation as a bridge to human prosperity, otherwise they’d advocate for the types of fundamental societal changes that would make that possible such as UBI or investment in infrastructure through taxing their income. Their vision for automation is a robot with a whip
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/02/2026
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
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Emily Pela @soundimpressed.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
PTAs best work uses surrealism, a period setting, and a careful balance of psychological and sociological richness to explore the contradictions of modern life. OBAA plays too much at Political Sophistication and comes out uncanny. I liked it but it won't hold up; it barely holds up now
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Also for those who want to talk about affordability more than anything else, your compromise is that ICE has $85 billion now. All of that money could go to people who need it!
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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Seems like a societal inflection point that the Trump administration absolutely gutted FEMA and gave hundreds of billions of dollars to ICE www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/w...
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Winter storm leaves over a dozen dead, prolonged power outages and brutal cold | CNN
The massive winter storm that dumped snow and ice across the US left behind over a dozen deaths and at its peak knocked out power for over a million electric customers amid bone-chilling cold.
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Seeing some ‘it doesn’t matter if Bovino is out the real issue is [Miller, Horman, Noem]’ and I think that simultaneously downplays the importance of pushing out any one of them while also underestimating the institutional issues.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"Nothing matters until Miller is gone" is the wrong way to frame things. The right way to frame a people-led victory like this is "Everything matters until Miller is gone."
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/01/2026
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
2025 and 2026 not disabusing me of my underlying stance that anyone who wants to be an American should be one and that we should defend them
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
This is an emergency of the gravest kind. “We can do it again. Nobody can stop us” he said. It is the absolute and solemn duty of Congress to impeach and remove Trump from power immediately.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/12/2025
the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport
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Emily Pela @soundimpressed.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
why don't we just let Planter become the Joe Rogen of the Left and then find another candidate under the age of 70, boom fixed it
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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
If you want people to believe something, you should say it clearly, directly, & repeatedly. If you’re saying something else, you are failing to move people in your direction. Even worse, you are moving them in another direction, shifting the Overton window away from where you want to be.
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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
When you give time and attention to something, you are teaching people that thing is important. That doesn’t mean you should never tackle an opponent’s strengths, but you need to do it thoughtfully, in a way that doesn’t just emphasize how much worse you are.
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Emily Pela @soundimpressed.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
absolutely. it's too about itself. the Main Character has just been "Blue Sky" every day for the past week, same as it was last year
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
"Dems will get blamed for a shutdown" as opposed to what, all the friendly coverage and positive credit they'd get for caving yet again? This whole premise is built on a delusion about what the alternative is. There's no cowering in the corner and being so inoffensive they won't still attack you.
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divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
“On Friday, west suburban Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson had a clear message for Russell Hott, director of the ICE Chicago field office: “It has to stop.”
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Broadview mayor says ICE is ‘making war on my community’ after latest protests at immigration facility
Federal officers again fired rubber pellets and chemical irritants into a crowd of protesters gathered Friday outside the fenced-off compound.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 17/09/2025
I think one of Ezra Klein's big problems is that when he says "doing politics" what he actually means is content creation
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We unlocked each new level of Internet by playing through the game. These kids are getting access to all the bosses and weapons from the start and they don’t have enough XP to handle it
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Wallace @wallace.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
First they came for Bill Clinton, and I said, yes, that man is a sex pest, get him
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
It's such a strange, revealing argument. Why should any of us give a shit about protecting people in Epstein's files? Why do they think we do? Since when is the most sacred tenet of society "privacy for relationships of the rich & powerful with the pedophile child trafficker"? Reveal them all.
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
people used to read magazines to learn about cool and interesting things from people they assumed were cooler and more interesting and more informed than themselves. now the roles are reversed, and why would anyone want to read something reiterating the obvious
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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
if you are looking for solid on the ground reporting in Chicago, I recommend: - @unraveledpress.com - @mulchy.bsky.social - @pgoyette.bsky.social please do not amplify people who have no record of posting accurate or timely information about events in Chicago
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Emily Pela @soundimpressed.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
this is so Twitter After Dark coded - incredibly fun but tomorrow we are most likely??? going to pretend like it didn't happen ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 28/08/2025
really good piece by three of my favorite reporters. when you cut funding for services temporarily a lot of them don't come back
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
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🖖 @truedrew.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
People act real shocked when they learn Mississippi has Buddhist, Hindu, and Sikh temples, highest % of Black people in the US at 1/3rd the population, native Choctaw communities, Chinese and Vietnamese communities that go back generations, and LGBTQ Pride events in several towns across the state
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
You’re telling me this guy is not a more desirable guy to promote than Gavin Newsom
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
if you can't sell the american public on the idea that federal troops in the streets is fundamentally unacceptable then you have no business being in politics. and if you do not forcibly believe this at your core such that you can't shut up about it, that goes double for you
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Emily Pela @soundimpressed.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The Americans, The Leftovers, The Other Two
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
One of these newspapers is doing straight reporting of the facts with appropriate context. The other is editorializing in its news coverage to normalize authoritarianism
Donald Trump’s tariff blitz brings US levies to highest levels since 1930s
Washington has locked in tariffs on almost 45% of American importsTrump Is Winning His Trade War. What Will That Mean for the Economy?

The president’s vision for reshaping global trade is falling into place, but he is embarking on an experiment that economists say could still produce damaging results.
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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
this tension is inevitable and emerges from each belief's role in society: liberalism is the tonic you give bureaucrats so they can sign off on imperial conquest without thinking too hard, and to generously hand out the spoils. conservatism is how you discipline or kill anyone who tries to stop it.
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