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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Be careful of using “always” and “never” in your skeets, folks. Black-and-white comments feel satisfying but often don’t benefit conversations.

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I swear to G*d, Apple TV on Roku, will it kill you to put a box around the show I’ve selected rather or doing something really obvious than making the icon subtly brighter???

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’m quite confident that if everyone read this book, social media would be a very different place and probably better for everyone’s mental health and society at large. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722989...

The photo is of a book with a blue and white cover that in black and white print says “Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most” by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen.

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“Plexiglass cases, like boarded up stores, send a powerful message of a society under siege, even when the real message should be not to trust everything we hear.” This piece is well worth the read!

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Very interesting #research study that raises important questions about scalability and whether the tech tools that ushered in #misinformation problems can help fix them.

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Our entire presidential administration and its allies are people who’ve spent decades enjoying criticizing and tearing government down. They never understood how much harder it is to actually build and/or maintain things. And we are all paying for their ignorance and hubris.

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Well, so much for my TED talk. 😕

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Alicia @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Of the 68 cases of voter fraud prosecuted in the last 30 years, all were perpetrated by republicans. If republicans are so concerned about voter fraud, they just have to stop doing it. Problem solved.

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Imagine if a Democratic president said Praise be to Allah. It’s a useless thought exercise given that we can do it a 1000 times a day & still not have it lead to any negative repercussions for this prez, but I can’t help myself from doing it and shaking my head in disbelief at least once a week.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/06/2026

On a fundamental level, US politics has not made sense to me since 2015. I no longer understand the basic criteria, values, or rules. I don't know why people do things or don't do things, or how people evaluate things. It's profoundly disorienting and alienating. I don't know how else to put it.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Most of us can't conceive of how much money $1 billion is. One person having that kind of money is obscene.

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Ngl, about 5 episodes in to #Andor and am not loving it, which I expected to. Did others find it slow to get into, or is it more likely just not my cup of tea?

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I want every single American—but especially white Trump supporters and white GOP voters and legislators—to see this. Shame on all of them!!!

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

“Supremacy is an unnatural fever that makes those least infected do the suffering and dying for those who are most infected … but which eventually comes for us all.” A thoughtful piece that comprehensively describes the maladies of our time and culture but also the treatments.

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The absolute right response to sex pests

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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

If everyone got a receipt for their taxes breaking it down like this, I think our country would look totally different

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

⚠️ Senator Mark Warner telling @maddow.bsky.social yesterday that he has “lost a lot of faith that my Republican partners in the Senate will stand up for our basic fair voting and democracy.” ⚠️

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

“We have an economic problem masquerading as a political problem,” says @anatosaurus.bsky.social. “We’re not going to vote our way to democracy.” Lots of important points in this podcast by @andreapitzer.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

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The Science of Partying Against Fascism

Podcast Episode · Next Comes What · March 26 · 38m

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

“A second Gulf source said the Iranians believed Mr Vance would stick to his word” Hoo, boy. If the Iranians really think this, they’re in for a rude awakening.

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I resisted this principle for so long bc I just couldn’t understand people who I know are smarter than me (elites/journos) wanting such an obvious moron as Trump to succeed, but I now see that as my failure, not @mtsw.bsky.social’s, to accept the most obvious conclusion from the evidence.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

For my entire life, the people protesting US wars have always been ultimately vindicated and that being right is completely forgotten when the next war comes.

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

This whole thread is correct and important to the future of ordinary people.

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Making furtive plans to run errands tomorrow during Seahawks-Patriots game like a woman secretly trying to read novels during the 18th century to avoid being sent to an insane asylum.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The Trump Administration wants us to think of Trump's racism as a character flaw grandpa sometimes sadly lets express itself too aggressively, when the reality is that the white nationalism is the governing, organizing logic of his administration that all Republicans are complicit with.

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Berta Massaro 💙🌊 @bertadmassaro.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I think that the way people define "courage" is changing, and it's about time. Bullying? Not courage. Threatening? Not courage. Coercing? Not courage. Overt masculinity? You guessed it. Not courage. Standing up for human values? Courage. Being there. Being supportive. Speaking up. Courage.

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I know the thin blue line is a thing, but at some point local law enforcement is going to have to choose whether they are there to protect and serve the public, or each other, against the brutality and lawlessness of the feds under Trump.

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The good news is all the brazen, cartoonish corruption makes it easier to run on an anti-oligarchy, good government platform. The bad news is you still need candidates who want to do that

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 26/01/2026

ICE has killed 9 people so far in the first 25 days of 2026. Alex Pretti Renee Good Keith Porter Heber Sanchaz Domínguez Victor Manuel Diaz Parady La Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres Geraldo Lunas Campos They all deserve remembrance and justice.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The 50/50 polling on ICE not driving our electeds to condemn, defund, and vow to dismantle ICE is haunting me. I don’t know how to get through to my electeds that this is a time to LEAD PUBLIC OPINION, not follow polls.

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ceej @ceej.online · 22/01/2026

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I would love to stop having to worry about politics and the well-being of my fellow Americans 24-7. I am aging in dog years, thanks to the rabid dog in the presidency. 25th AMENDMENT. NOW.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I keep thinking about the toxic, pervasive mythology of "rugged individualism" as a driving force in American culture, and how the collective efforts in the Twin Cities right now are proof that the only way through hard times is together, as a community.

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

“[T]he vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval.”

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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Administrations don’t drag citizens out of their homes and cars at gunpoint or shoot people in the streets. Regimes do that. And the words we use to describe what’s happening in this country right now matter.

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Sick in bed so am blasting Rage Against the Machine “Killing in the Name” in solidarity with all ICE OUT FOR GOOD protesters. 💪🏼💪🏾💪💪🏻💪🏿

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Pixie Thinks🧚🏽‍♀️ @pixiethinkss.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink. Two Americas.

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