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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 2h

This is something I've been saying for ages re: how centrists treat the left. If left-wing positions aren't popular enough to win elections, then left-wing voters can't lose an election for you. If left-wing voters can tip an election for you, their positions need to be accommodated.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

come 2028 vance will be cutting ads specifically denouncing his in-laws for coming to the united states

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Them: You can't criticize AI unless you use it constantly. Someone who uses AI constantly: Finally a replacement for the tiresome ordeal of showing love to my child.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When I marched in Take Back The Night rallies a couple decades ago, I couldn’t have imagined this turn out. Hell fucking yeah to these students.

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Durham County Department of Public Health (DCoDPH) @durhamhealthnc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's that time of year: lots of people will be sick, and many won't know what sickness it is. It's a good idea to get tested, but even if you don't know what it is, *please* stay home as much as possible, get plenty of rest to help yourself recover, and wear masks if you have to go out while sick!

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I really know this isn’t the point, but seeing “covid mask” instead of “n95” or “respirator” or something makes me want to pull my hair out, that we can somehow be this many years into this and people still haven’t learned what a mask is or that it protects from multiple things

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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 08/10/2026

"Most people’s understanding of lethal injection—as a humane alternative to more overtly brutal executions of yore—is in stark contrast to the actual barbarism behind the procedure. This misconception is no coincidence: it’s by design." #MsReads via @motherjones.com

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Everything you've been told about lethal injection is a lie

Death by drugs is brutal—and designed for political optics. Christa Pike's failed execution pulled back the curtain.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I feel strangely optimistic that the billionaires rebranding AI suggests they know that we know AI is fucking terrible and won’t accept a lot of it

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sending me a picture of my own house along with a homeowner’s insurance quote… is this a threat?

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hope you get lots of rest and heal quickly and thoroughly

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also is the implication here that we shouldn’t be worried about a potential 1 in 29 people dying from an illness? That’s over 3 percent!

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Kids housebound or bedbound with Long COVID created superheroes inspired by their experiences with chronic illness and disability. Their heroes find strength in resting, asking for help and compassion. The characters now feature in a 72-page full-colour comic, Long Covid Superheroes. #LongCOVIDkids

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Kids with Long COVID co-created their own superhero comic book - The Sick Times

Long Covid Superheroes showcases the bravery of asking for help, resting, and being compassionate with yourself and others.

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New America @newamerica.org · 05/10/2026

Policy expert Richard Davis Jr. breaks down what our research w/ @evictionlab.bsky.social at @princeton.edu indicates about housing insecurity among parenting students. 🏫 Learn more about @educationwork.newamerica.org's Student Parent Initiative: go.newamerica.org/student-parent-in…

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If the other side’s ideology is fascism, it’s bad to hang and have lunch with them actually. Do not normalize these people.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I worked at an arts college where a leader told me their campus community was “naturally progressive” so sexual violence and racism weren’t really problems there (while I provided direct support to students who regularly reported sexual violence and racist incidents to me)

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What’s worse, is a school administrator today would never even acknowledge that something happened to the student like in this (horrifying) letter

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’d like to see a lot more work on How do we get good jobs + fair working conditions for all, + a lot less on college vs trades. Also, despite this framing of trades as a separate option from college, going to community college IS going to college. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

theatlantic.com

Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer

College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer

College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

every time one of my parents call during the work day, I pause what I’m doing and answer because I think someone died. And every time, they just forget that I have a job and are utterly heartbroken that I cannot at that moment, shoot the shit with them.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I hope the survivors who came forward years or decades ago know that they are the reason the Cornell case is resonating the way it is. Every single one of you helped pave a path for people to understand the harms of rape and institutional betrayal. Thank you. I know it’s hard. But thank you.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

for higher ed will be catastrophic (not to mention the dystopian environment of federal grants to higher ed, etc) The only recourse in my view is sustained fighting for ed as a public good, alongside the same for social safety net programs We cannot have nice things if we don’t invest in them

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1/2 This is a good read. One thing Dem politicians have failed at (because many have bought into right wing anti higher ed propaganda) is messaging the harmfulness of federal/reconcilaition budget cuts to higher ed The downward pressure SNAP and Medicaid cuts put on state budgets to cut funding

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I dare any fucking man to say this shit to me

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Two years ago i caught a cold and was stuck in bed unable to work upright barely able to get myself to the bathroom or to make food for 13 weeks. And guess what I didn’t enjoy losing 1/4 of my year.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Honestly I have news for the people who think AI does pretty good at that stuff. That just means those people are pretty bad at that stuff. We all think their slide deck or q2 presentation, whether they did it or AI did it, is garbage.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ok but isn’t it mostly centrists + liberals against leftists? lol

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It will never cease to amaze me the dumbass things people will hold against others that have nothing to do with competence. What we wear, what we drink, etc. Expecting people to learn an ever evolving, ever stupider social code just so you can feel superior or keep a class of people out of jobs

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026

I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pointing and laughing at people who created a community to try and protect the disabled and chronically ill is not allyship actually.

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Education & Work @educationwork.newamerica.org · 23/09/2026

ICYMI: It’s #StudentParentMonth! ⏯️ Here, our policy expert @stephabaker.bsky.social breaks down why #ChildCare can be such a barrier for parenting students and how better policies can better support this student population—and help the families they raise, too.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Such a pleasure hearing you read your book with my kid at bookfest, thank you! Best annual event there is, come back and see us again

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Covid in 98% of airport air samples. A reminder that you can wear an n95 when you travel, even if you don’t wear one all the time, and why wouldn’t you want to avoid getting sick while you’re on a trip?

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sometimes I forget that we kidnapped another country’s President fairly recently

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm serious when I say I've lost track of all the recent revelations of literal Nazis working in high-level positions in Republican congressional campaigns and I would very much appreciate a journalist who took the time to detail as many of them as can fit into an article.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yet his family thinks it’s fine someone can get a sniper to do this

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The response to these questions about trans kids playing sports is very simple: “Stop bullying literal children, you freaks.”

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I swear adults have regressed in basic public health decency since Covid. Someone came up and hugged me then told me they vomited this am and don’t know why. Adults rolling their eyes at me when I ask that folx wash hands before sharing food. Leaving the bathroom without washing hands.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I wish. My partner killed one with their hands in our house, an enormous amount of human blood emerged from the mosquito’s body + dripped onto our kitchen island, + we realized we didn’t know if the blood belonged to one of us or a complete stranger. Since then killing mosquitos feels pretty gross.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

To be honest I think I’d like to read more political analysis and see more public shaming of folks from Ms. Rachel

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That’s a hell of a statement from Macklemore

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When Democrats attempt to triangulate on trans rights, it's my sense that many liberals and people in politics don't understand why many trans people are so upset. I wrote about the differences between then and now, what trans people have lost, and what we still stand to lose

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This Is Not A Love Song

Explaining the “maximalism” of trans rights

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We are just fucking cooked if we don’t stop this unregulated technology from being unleashed on us by the ruling class

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you're trying to propose to people with trans children in their lives that their lives are a worthwhile sacrifice for other Democratic priorities, consider whether you'd be convinced that your children should be sacrificed for the greater good of someone else's family.

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