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🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...

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violetandblue.bsky.social @violetandblue.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The blood thirst in this group is appalling. I shouldn't ever be surprised, but I am not a ghoul, so I am.

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Cat Winters @catwintersbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One easy but important thing you can do this Banned Books Week (or at any time of the year) is to write a postcard or email to your local librarians and thank them for supporting diverse books. This came up in a panel I was on tonight, and the librarians confirmed they don't hear enough of this.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pen, watercolor, black & white charcoal pencil.

Another featured piece from the Spooky Pants book.

A man in a sweater stands with his hands on his hips looking out of a large window with the curtains open. Things aren’t looking good outside, reader. A massive winged demon is emerging from the clouds as dozens of little ghosts and bone demons rip through the sky. On the ground below we see townsfolk running through the grass. Our man in the window is in no mood for this. He lets us know, “Oh, I am in no mood for this.” His dog looks out the window as well, wagging its tail.

Fantasia (1940) inspired drawing. I think I could’ve gone a little heavier with the chaos outside but we’ll try again with fresh drawings this October. I like how the clouds turned out. Trying to balance my sloppy lines with more detail can be tricky but I think we achieved a good result.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026

Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵

A group photo shows about 35 people, including Donald Trump Jr.; his wife, Bettina Anderson; Ivanka Trump; Jared Kushner; Tiffany Trump; and Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev.

Little Pipe Cay/Lux Hospitality Bahamas; Laura Gordon Photography via Instagram; Laura Gordon Photography

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

deranged behavior to just treat it like an anthology of established facts to be taken at face value with zero critical thinking, and honestly it says a lot about you as a person if you're hyped about a river of blood rising to the height of a horse's bridle drowning unbelievers. stay away from me

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

To complain about Apple's decison go here: www.apple.com/feedback/map...

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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Happening now in TX: Voters in battleground Tarrant County are telling GOP local officials what they think of their plan to cut 30% of voting locations this year “Nothing you can do can stop us from removing you in November”

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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Creative Activities building at the Minnesota State Fair is the best. Such a rich hub of cultural, social, and political expression. Lots of Minnesota resistance artwork throughout.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That's not how executive orders work and that's not how naming things work and this isn't how political reporting should work either. This event should be covered, yes, but as another sign of the president's steady descent into complete ineffectiveness and utter insanity.

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indiana

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentucky

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouri

iarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When we hate on these disgusting immoral evil billionaires it’s bc just look at everything Dolly did. They could be doing that. They could just be helping people and every day they choose not to help people. They choose to harm. And when they die, we’ll dance and laugh and be thankful they’re gone.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

cis Black women athletes are also VERY FAMILIAR with having their bodies policed by, or on screechy indignant behalf of, their white peers which is why we always say “scratch a TERF, find a racist”, and why the right is so motivated to downplay the very real solidarity happening across communities

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violetandblue.bsky.social @violetandblue.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Business cards related to a home project that you thought you were going to do, but then didn't, but still might. Maybe.

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violetandblue.bsky.social @violetandblue.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Two identical looking ball-point pens. One with dry ink.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It’s a Fair Question….. “Why is it that it takes 900 years and 5000 impact studies to build high speed rail but a 5 minute city council meeting is all it takes to approve a massive data center?”

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I had a visceral physical reaction to this story that is hard to describe. Just destruction of everything I hold dear. Monstrous garbage oligarchies.

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Scare Budd Dwyer @airbudddwyer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

[eleanor rigby voice] connecticut bigfoot hids in the woods outside Lyme but is spotted by rubes doesn't have boobs

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John Paul @johnpaulhi.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Pass it on: #WhereIsMitch

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violetandblue.bsky.social @violetandblue.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Beginning to think RFK has a diarrhea fetish

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This doesn't seem good. #cyclospora www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

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Rosa DeLauro @delauro.house.gov · 21/07/2026

This isn't suspicious at all (sarcastic)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Remember Harlan Crow, the GOP megadonor who took Clarence Thomas on luxury vacations? He just loaned three statues to be displayed in Trump's paved-over Rose Garden. What will he ask for in return? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Trump continues overhaul of White House grounds with new Rose Garden statues

A bronze Thomas Jefferson was installed as the fifth new statue last week. Three were provided by Harlan Crow, a conservative collector and political donor.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Just a reminder that Trump, the President and MAGA's "Daddy," is a rapist who was ordered to pay E. Jean Carroll $6 million this week. Totally normal in America, not even big news.

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

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violetandblue.bsky.social @violetandblue.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Our hummingbirds will sometimes tap on the window if we are late to fill the feeder.

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violetandblue.bsky.social @violetandblue.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Is this going to be an EZ-Pass type thing or Venmo or how are we going to collect this 20% toll fam?

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

YES. THIS.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Who could have guessed that when you gut the CDC and put a quack with no medical expertise in charge of American healthcare, diseases we had eradicated would come back and there would be explosive diarrhea situations happening. Just no way to know.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Good fucking morning we will outlive them

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chris “bluesky” poster @chrisrd19.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The corruption is endless. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

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violetandblue.bsky.social @violetandblue.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The Prison Libraries Act ensures that correctional facilities provide access to library services, trained staff, and materials. via @everylibrary.bsky.social bit.ly/4v5oE3C

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SEND AN EMAIL: Support the Prison Libraries Act!

Help support libraries across the country by taking action today!

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026

It’s really important to install an entire federal discrimination system so somebody’s cis daughter can finish 14th at her swim meet.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/06/2026

It’s weird to be clearly living through exactly what was warned about with global warming and still have the concept treated as a future event or hypothetical.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

none of this is true and the place where this is going is potentially very awful

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Washington Nat'l Opera sues the Kennedy Center alleging that the Center STOLE the opera's endowment. WNO had a longterm agreement where KC ran the opera's development back office, and in 2025 KC just ... stopped doing it and seized the funds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

49. On January 8, the Kennedy Center’s Chief Financial Officer sent an email to
WNO’s General Director and Board President asserting for the first time and, contrary to the terms
of the 2024 Agreement, that the funds in the WNO BSRF belonged to the Kennedy Center. In
addition, the CFO disclosed that the Kennedy Center had used those funds—funds that the 2024
Agreement expressly required to be held for the long-term benefit of WNO—to collateralize the
Kennedy Center’s own line of credit.
50. The next day, on January 9, 2026, the WNO Board voted to terminate the 2024
Agreement. WNO’s Board President and Board Chair immediately notified the Kennedy Center
of that decision in a letter to Mr. Grenell and requested that the parties begin unwinding the
affiliation.

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