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@vt-vagabond.bsky.social
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Reading, procrastinating, and occasionally living out of a backpack in places both familiar and foreign, though it's (still) a damn pandemic. Mercenary educator. She/her.

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I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Flu is not only here early, but I somehow managed to pick it up despite precautions that have kept me NOVID (afaik). I’m gonna keep torturing myself trying to figure out how the hell I caught it, you go get your flu shot ASAP.
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I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When my older brother applied to colleges, he and his best friend (jokingly?) focused on schools with a ratio of more women then men. When I applied, the first thing my mom did was look up the rape stastics at each school *and* its surrounding town.
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I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Their poblano soup is life-changing. Plus, during operation midway blitz the owner would sometimes close the doors in order to best protect her employees. I’ve only ever found upsides to giving them my dollars.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Once again: anyone who thinks rape victims come forward for any reason except telling the truth at great fucking cost to themselves is a brainwashed bastard
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I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One night in college I ended up very drunk in a sketchy situation behind a locked door in a frat house. Luckily for me, on the other side of the door another frat member raised HOLY HELL and would not rest until that door was unlocked and he walked me safely home. Thinking of him a lot today.
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I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This particular social experiment led to an argument with a purported friend who managed to back himself into a Brock Turner apologist corner. Suffice to say, we did not remain friends. But even among the men I did stay friends with, most couldn’t actually handle the *volume* of my experiences.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I just said in my discussion at the IWPR event on women’s economic policy: asking “why am I hearing this and why I am hearing this now” is good praxis for the moment.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Teach your son to wait. Teach him that other people are as important as he is. Teach him to apologize and go back to the end of the line if he made an entitled decision. Teach him that girls and women deserve respect in *all* scenarios—not just during sex.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“The administration is able to essentially hide a multiplied ICE force not only in unmarked cars, and not only behind masks, but also within local law enforcement through the 287(g) program. I call it the invisibilizing of immigration enforcement.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
One family, after the capture of a loved one, found out about it from activists and took steps to move other loved ones to non-287(g) jurisdictions. Another family still had no idea about why their loved one was captured until I told them about this and took steps to protect others that day.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe.
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I had no idea about this guy.
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Late Little Caesars founder quietly paid Rosa Parks’ rent until her death
Following the death of Little Caesars founder and owner Mike Ilitch, several acts of kindness have surfaced, including his assistance toward civil rights icon Rosa Parks.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I received an EXCELLENT education at City College where I received my MA in Sociology. And I was debt free. I attended PT while working FT. I'm a ride or die for the CUNY system. Once again, one of the best parts of NYC.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
People sleep on CUNY but it is one of the absolute JEWELS of U.S. Higher Ed and has been for decades. And what's the thanks the system gets??? It has to fight for its life every single year because it has been systematically defunded.
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
god this is good
flight of the concords scene with murray, brit and jemaine. 

"How's this, then? Ed Sheeran, beloved by all, left without an opening band at present. Enter you two."

"What if we want a free Palestine, Murray?"

"I reckon you'll get lots of things for free when you're proper rockstars. This might be your ticket."
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026
For all that anti-AI folk get accused of "cope" (often and regularly) with regard to AI, I think a lot of the AI boosterism is cope, and much worse cope. The world is getting worse quickly and nobody wants to make hard choices. So now they're like "hey give us money and we will make magic god."
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/
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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
THE PREMISE IS THAT THE MUPPETS ARE PUTTING ON A SHOW CALLED THE MUPPET SHOW
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You have to call these people what they are: Fascists. You have to call these attacks on trans folks what they are: Nazi-level scapegoating—genocidal villainy.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If I were running for office against an anti-trans Republican candidate, that’s how I’d handle it. “You’re a weird freak and a bully and I’m trying to give people healthcare and take on corporate greed and corruption.”
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m just going to keep saying it: The answer to attacks on transgender people is simple: You’re bullying children. Stop bullying children, you fucking freaks. We’re trying to focus on real issues. You’re bullying kids. Shame on you. You’re an adult who is bullying kids. Do you feel big?
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trans right are human rights. There is no medical debate about transgender existence. There is no scientific or medical justification to discriminate against transgender people. Good people let trans people live. If you’re anti-trans, you fucking suck.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You can’t reason with this. You can’t compromise with it. You can only fight it head-on, make it embarrassed and afraid to be spoken publicly, and overwhelm it at the ballot box.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It genuinely blows my mind the degree to which people in power do not grasp (or just refuse to acknowledge) that encampments are preferable to shelters for a whole lot of people, for a long list of reasons.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/09/2026
we keep having this debate on whether AI is a real problem or a bunch of marketing schemes in a trench coat. but we SHOULD be focused on the resource drain: we don’t need LLMs! we need water! we need energy! we don’t need datacenters running diesel generators to make dancing pug videos!
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Your academic future should not be dependent on a bizarre patronage model that doesn’t even give the benefits it once did (your patron calls someone in their network and gets you a job)
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
To go back to the well again, the PhD advisor model is fundamentally broken.
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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Literally Chicago this week
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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Actual Star is currently $3.99 on ebook. Go git it!
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Deal: The Actual Star: A Novel
The Actual Star: A Novel
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 31/08/2026
There's this concept in Feminist Theory called Marked/Unmarked. Women are marked. Men are unmarked. In plainer English: women are the exception; men are the default. Notice they never want to preserve men's sport from trans men who are literally controlling the amount of testosterone they have.
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I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We will never be forgiven for what we - as a country - are allowing to happen right now. Nor should we.
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I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I haven’t seen Coyote vs. Acme yet, but this sure seems like Canada is trying to lure Trump into some sort of Looney Tunes-style trap.
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
my mom was going to submit this crop art for the state fair but she got her days mixed up and missed the deadline, so anyway here it is
Crop art that says "VOTE HOPE"
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I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The good news: Have unlocked new range of motion in my back stretches The bad news: Pushing myself into it uses entirely new muscles all of a sudden. And now I need to stretch more because now *those* are sore. A viscous cycle if I’ve ever seen one.
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I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
*One Seat Wander
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I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Be the change you wish to see in the world. (Unsurprisingly, it’s, “bussin’,” as the children say.)
Smoked whitefish spread tops an onion & garlic bagel on a brown stoneware plate from the 70s. A single bite has been taken. 

The tablecloth is a tapestry-esque paisley pattern in blue, maroon, and tans. The plate is flanked by an iced raspberry matcha and Sarah Smarsh’s “She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs”. A plant is spilling out around a small lantern-style table lamp in the background.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's not KARMA, it's A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION. Yes, even Milo Y deserves human rights. Once you start slicing off who deserves them, WE ALL LOSE THEM. Christ. This isn't hard.
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I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
While accepting that most Midwest bagels miss the mark, Bagel places here should offer smoked whitefish spread as a cream cheese-topping option. It would absolutely dominate as a uniquely Midwestern version of cream cheese & lox.
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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Okay pals help me out: somehow recently someone told me about a book by a trans woman author, the second book, I think, about how humans aren’t individual organisms but are actually complex multi organism systems Does this ring a bell? Who is the author and what’s the book called please?
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I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Other side of this coin, When I first read Baldwin (If Beale Street Could Talk), I was *incensed* at how much drivel I had been forced to consume in high school when the curriculum could have been stacked with relatable and stunning works of art like that instead.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 28/08/2026
Yes, your government is still kidnapping your neighbors.
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I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
WOW
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I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Wrap it up. Best one.
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SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Lake Ontario renamed to “Lake Forever, Problems For Now”
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I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
FUCKING PUMPED
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I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Do you know about crop art? You should know about crop art. Then you, too, could be just absolutely SOBBING at 5am in awe of the power, courage, and resilience of the people of the Twin Cities. (Click on “Crop Art Tributes to the Minnesota Resistance”) www.cropart.com
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Crop Art
Crop Art, Seed Art, Folk Art, Seed Pictures, Seed Mosaics, Seed Mosaic, Seed Pictures, Minnesota State Fair, Minn. State Fair, MN State Fair
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