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@tightrope-tabby.bsky.social
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Recovering snob, snark enthusiast, once and future writer. In my offline life, I run a small farm and listen to multiple audiobooks a week. She/her

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The focus on body cameras after ICE murders someone reminds me of the focus on helmets or high-viz after a driver kills someone. The lack of body cameras isn't why ICE is murdering people, just like helmets and high-viz aren't the reason cyclists and pedestrians are killed.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/07/2026
I just saw someone say that hindsight is 20/20 on Graham Platner, and let me just say that if you did not see this coming, your vision for such things needs to be checked.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/04/2026
I agree that there's no place for political violence, which is why I think we need to abolish ICE and the CPB.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/04/2026
If I never have to read some person saying "what happened to innocent until proven guilty" about why some guy should still be elected to one of the most powerful positions in the country despite numerous sexual assault allegations it will be too soon
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b. wolo @bwolo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 23/03/2026
seeing all these "the Lindy West situation shows that Millenial feminism failed" takes, and like, folks, Millenial feminism didn't fail, it was stabbed, repeatedly, by literally everyone else across the left and right
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I mean this is the most church counselor way of putting it, but intelligence by itself is nearly worthless. wisdom and prudence and discernment are necessary qualities for intelligence to be useful. innumerable religious scriptures have tried to explain this but yr tech bros aren't big on books
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.
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Tabby @tightrope-tabby.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
"Tabitha, Fire has gone to far, which is why we're introducing common sense reforms like the mass distribution of lighters with child safety locks."
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The price of ground beef just hit a record high. We haven’t had a chance to post about it yet because we’re too busy talking about how you’re executing American citizens in the streets.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
They expect - they NEED - the people they threaten to fall in line, like the law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress did. If you say “No, make me,” they simply do not have a Plan B. TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO MAKE YOU.
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Tabby @tightrope-tabby.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I cancelled my NYT subscription a couple years ago and subscribed to the Boston Globe. I have not been disappointed by their coverage and I have been just delighted by how unapologetically Boston it is. Last spring, the food critic reviewed all the foods on the Dunkin menu 👌
Boston Globe online shows a blue pop-up box that reads “We’re Blowing Past Climate Limits. What Now? Read Our Report.” Below that, a screenshot of an SNL skit featuring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Jimmy Fallon. Headline reads: “Watch: Affleck, Damon, and Fallon go full Boston while naming every Massachusetts city and town.”
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Tabby @tightrope-tabby.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The year is 2026. Roving bands of radical wine moms are pushing congress to adopt the extreme left position “Extinguish Fire.” My senator, sitting smugly at the kitchen table as it is engulfed in flames: “Tabitha, under Trump, eggs are $6/dozen— but don’t worry Democrats are fighting back.”
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Nobel Please Prize
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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Tabby @tightrope-tabby.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Not a day goes by that I don’t read the news and see the president insulting wide swaths of the electorate and think about how Ezra Klein unironically argued (to a black man, no less!) that republicans are in power because of that one time Hillary called republican voters “deplorables” in 2016.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/01/2026
Notice how the murder of a woman by an immigrant (with like, one example) is a horrific violation that requires the entirety of ICE to be mobilized to fight this, and then when ICE murders a woman it’s like “that lesbian bitch had it coming for her”?
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/01/2026
If you want to end this regime, you need to upend the structure of caring, and the way you do that is by caring about the people who are being abused.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/01/2026
Female vulnerability only ever exists in this power structure to uphold the status quo, never challenge it.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/01/2026
I will start to take our leader’s resolve seriously when they start shouldering the burden of courage they are demanding of us.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Just wants to give the 250th anniversary that sense of verisimilitude
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Forgive my shortness but I’m over “leaks” and “whistleblowers” violence happening to people was accepted because we thought they deserved it We keep. Waiting for something to be leaked like just … not accepting that level of harm for ANYONE wasn’t an option
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
“No one knew this was coming” bsky.app/profile/blac...
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Tabby @tightrope-tabby.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Always on my mind, the unwavering courage of normal people with everything to lose.
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Tabby @tightrope-tabby.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
One side of my family is Sicilian, and I swear all the stereotypes are true, because I run a small business, and my second cousin who I see once a year and who lives 100 miles away learned we have an online store at Christmas Eve a year ago and now is one of our top customers.
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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Government accounts just post like this now and that’s how policy is made
An old tweet of mine from 2021 saying “We used to have Gingerbread Men in this country. Nowadays all we have is Gingerbread Them. Retweet if you support nuclear war with China”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Being right about trump was boring, tedious, partisan, ideological. Being wrong about trump? Heterodox, contrarian, free thinking.
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Tabby @tightrope-tabby.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
So that whole time they were saying “don’t tread on me,” they were talking about their feelings, huh?
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
A term like "immigration crackdown" is no longer sufficient to describe what's happening in Minneapolis. We're seeing a state terror campaign being waged by the regime's paramilitary forces.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The issue with ICE is not training, the issue with ICE is that it fundamentally should not exist. The violence is the purpose
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Tabby @tightrope-tabby.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
These are times of incredible cowardice (institutions, the elite) and stunningly incredible courage (normal people).
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functional moron @fiveburger.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
cannot stress enough that they are abducting legal observers left and right and people are hearing about this happening to other people and still immediately going “alright where can i go to help now”
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
*covered in blood* Only I have the sage wisdom to declare that really, both sides are the same.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
But we're going to have a beautiful police state and it'll be very brutal. And you'll be free, perhaps more free than ever before
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Tabby @tightrope-tabby.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Award winning levels of tone deaf. This is good messaging if it’s 2016, hell maybe even 2024. But it’s 2026, and people are being kidnapped and shot on the streets by masked state-sanctioned thugs directed by a megalomaniac misogynist party of racism and greed hellbent on conquering the continent.
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Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The everyday courage of normal people is breathtaking
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Tabby @tightrope-tabby.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
There are times when I appreciate Liz Warren as my senator, but oh my god, 20 posts about *affordability* the very week when ICE explicitly demonstrates that it will murder citizens in broad daylight? Like, really? That’s what we’re going with? Are we in an SNL skit about reading the room?
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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
in what world is knocking on everyone’s door and getting in everyone’s business to inquire on whether or not there might be some undocumented people around conservative,personal liberty, small government, and freedom and all the right wing BS they talk about
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Ghostly Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭ @truthaddictvt@masto.ai @truthaddictvt.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Conservatives who complain about liberal/leftist family/friends cutting ties with them need to understand that a lot of us bent over backwards excusing and rationalizing their bullshit, gave them plenty of chances to be human
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 08/01/2026
"They were doing their jobs" It's a bad job... Fuck that job
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
she’s lying, obviously. we can see the video with our own eyes. but it’s so interesting that they’re suddenly so willing to believe a car is a deadly weapon when they ignored the 100 documented instances of right wingers hitting protesters with their cars in 2020.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 07/01/2026
Evergreen: The first thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
We should all sit with this ICE murder. Any one of us could be executed by ICE, and our government wouldn’t bat an eye. Instead they’d just lie about us to the world.
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
nobody good is applauding a woman being deliberately murdered by the state
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
We are seeing why video is so important. The government lies even about things we can see. Imagine how ridiculous their lies are about things that aren’t on tape.
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