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BuffaloGal @zuzus22.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@smartbitches.bsky.social
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Franklin Habit @franklinhabit.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Wildflowers don't care where they grow." 💔
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 25/08/2026
A Life of Many Colors - a cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨 WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: You have the right to declare a national security emergency for elections. If you do this in the next month, we will get photo ID, proof of citizenship, and a limit to mail ballots TRUMP: Let me just say stranger things have happened. I'll leave it at that
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/08/2026
Trump takes a break from fear-mongering about communism to brag about seizing the means of production: "We had a problem with Intel. And we settled the problem. They gave us 10% of the company. That was worth $12 billion."
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BuffaloGal @zuzus22.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I’ve sat with this news all day and still can’t resign myself to it. So much talent snuffed out so unexpectedly. RIP, Glen.
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Nathan Nun @nathannun.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Here's "Many Furs, One Working Class," a cat poster based on an historical anti-fascist poster from 1937. If you like my work follow me here for more and visit my print shop at nathannunart.etsy.com Thank you, Cats of Yore, for the show!
A cat poster in the style of a 1930s soviet propaganda poster. The poster is black and white except for a large, red flag held up by a black cat. It reads "Many Furs - One Working Class." Below the black cat, in a row looking forward, are four other cats of various types and fur colours with arms forward and claws out in an aggressive stance. Behind them is a statue of two cats holding up a star. The text below the image reads "United against capitalist domination and fascist barbarity we can make a world belonging to all." Small print at bottom reads "Third Socialist Cat Congress" and "United Upright Cats International (UUCI)". Nathan Nun 2019
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor, and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both, to deceive and overawe the People.” ~Eugene V. Debs, 1918. Image: zinnedproject.org.
This black and white photo shows a bald man in a suit—Eugene V. Debs—gesturing while speaking to a crowd of people.
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Astronauts For America @astronauts4america.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
In the words of American engineer W. Edwards Deming, as it reads outside of Mission Control in Houston: ‘In God we trust; all others must bring data.’
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/07/2026
For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚
A drawing of Elizabeth Bennet, a lovely young woman with her long hair tied up nearly under a ribbon and wearing what is most likely a neo-classically inspired dress, looking pensive, two letters in her hand. Meanwhile Darcy, a handsome but stern-looking fellow, looks longingly at her. Also there is me, a little gremlin in big round glasses, skulking about in the background and hoping that they kiss. 

The accompanying text reads “Trung reads Pride and Prejudice for the first time, somehow.”
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BuffaloGal @zuzus22.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I know just enough about the issue to have giggled at this interpretation. Enjoy!
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Bob @definitelyjustbob.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
And, not that it should matter, but he wasn't an "illegal alien." He was here legally. He had a valid Social Security Number. ICE agents murdered him and lied about it.
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Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy Independence Day
A drawing of Patience and Fortitude, the  stone lions that guard the entrance to the New York Public Library. Between them is a quote from Kurt Vonnegut: "The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Stop, Fox News! I *already* like the Democratic Socialists. You don't need to keep selling me on them.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 03/07/2026
hey go over to auction.romancingthevote.com and buy some fun shit and all the money goes to voting rights, a thing we need more than we need pedantic weirdos!!!! yay voting rights!!!!
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Romancing the Vote 2026
Silent auction 'Romancing the Vote 2026' hosted online at 32auctions.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I spoke to Teddy Roosevelt this morning and he said you guys can leave work early if you need to catch up on your shows
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Romancing the Vote @romancingthevote.com · 01/07/2026
I (Courtney) just sent my newsletter to thousands of people, so we'll see how many of the Sam Alito is a whiny pissbaby tickets remain once they find out about it. If you want this, you should get it. www.32auctions.com/organization...
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Samuel Alito is a whiny pissbaby
Auction item 'Samuel Alito is a whiny pissbaby' hosted online at 32auctions.
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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Govt workers are generally good ppl doing a good job efficiently w/ limited resources. They aren't your enemy. A bureaucracy that isn't entrenched is not going to be able to work for everyone's benefit even handedly and following rules. Should be obvious it would be ripe for abuse by the powerful.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 25/05/2026
NJ Senator @andykimnj.bsky.social pepper sprayed at Newark ICE detention center, which is owned by for-profit corrections company GEO Group. Feel like this should be a big thing. www.nj.com/news/2026/05...

U.S. Sen. Andy Kim receives first aid after he was caught in a cloud of pepper spray during a clash between protesters and ICE agents in Newark, New Jersey on Monday, May 25, 2026. Jelani Gibson
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🍁 Danimac67 🍁 @danimac67.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
"You cannot follow both Christ and the cruelty of kings. A leader who mocks the weak, exalts himself, and preys on the innocent is not sent by God. He is sent to test you, and many are failing." — Pope Leo XIV
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Astronauts For America @astronauts4america.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
We’re not here to advance any party's agenda. Our mission is patriotism: defend democratic values, support principled leaders, and safeguard our republic before we lose it for good.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
“If heaven went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.” ~Mark Twain. He wrote this just weeks before his death on Apr. 21, 1910 (116 years ago today). Image: Public domain.
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BuffaloGal @zuzus22.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Zombies, Run! and its siblings The Walk and Zombies, Run! 5K motivated me to run to the point where I (eventually, over many years) completed 19 half-marathons. Fabulous news that @naomialderman.bsky.social has reclaimed it. Hoping my lifetime membership rate is still valid. 🤞
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BuffaloGal @zuzus22.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
@smartbitches.bsky.social
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Coding interviews of technologists who were purged from government under DOGE, and the sense of trauma is really palpable. Compared to the private sector orgs like Amazon, the jobs meant more and the way they were treated was way worse. It "felt like our leadership hated us just for existing."
I just think it's also important to, like, remember how, how bad it was like, as someone said to me recently, like, I don't know whether we'll call this trauma with a capital T or trauma with a lowercase t, but it definitely like it was to have everyone crying in the office all the time. People had so much anxiety that we would kind of like have to take turns working for. The last few months I was there to be like, All right, you can't handle Today. Today. I'm okay. I can handle today, but you might have to handle tomorrow for me, because I might not be able to handle tomorrow. Like, I've never seen such a thing. You know, one of our younger designers had asked, because it was their first job out of grad school. Like, is this what it's like in the private sector too? Because this is so terrible. And someone's response who worked in the private sector was that, no, like, I've been terrible places, like I've worked at Amazon, I've worked other places where they didn't care about us, but we never felt like our leadership hated us just for existing. And that's what those months felt like, like, not our direct leadership, but anyone above that, and especially the highest levels, just hated us for existing, and that was really hard when, like our we had committed our careers to serving the citizens public.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/04/2026
The Boy Scout's motto is "be prepared." But I was a Girl Scout for 13 years, and I'm inclined to prefer their (unofficial) motto, "always have cookies."
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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I like how Easter is about Jesus but we celebrate it by stuffing unborn chickens with mustard, naming them after Satan, and consuming their flesh
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 29/03/2026
We bow down to no one! No kings! No tyrants! We all need to dig deep, be strong, and keep standing up for what’s right 💪🇺🇲
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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/03/2026
Watch our full ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ ad now.
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The Beat featuring Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. | ACLU
YouTube video by ACLU
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/03/2026
I see we're doing "such-and-such protest accomplished nothing" discourse. Every time I see someone saying "Well, that protest accomplished nothing, we are still here and little has changed" my answer is always to glance at the timeline for women's suffrage and say, "nothing has changed YET."
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Dr. Kara M. Million @darterdancer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
First rule of darter fight club is... nah, we're totally going to talk about darter fight club right here in our new paper!! I'm pleased to share the latest from myself, @izziehb.bsky.social , @tamramendelson.bsky.social, and two brilliant undergraduate co-authors! #FishSci #FishSky 🐟❤️ 1/
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Assessing the dual utility of nuptial patterning in the rainbow darter (Etheostoma caeruleum)
In this study, we assessed the possible dual utility of nuptial color patterns in male rainbow darters (Etheostoma caeruleum) in the context of male-male territorial interactions and female mate ch...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21/03/2026
Nicholas Brendon, an actor best known for his role as a loveable underdog sidekick on the hit television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," has died.
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'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' actor Nicholas Brendon dies at 54
Nicholas Brendon, an actor best known for his role as a loveable underdog sidekick on the hit television series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” has died. He was 54.
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BuffaloGal @zuzus22.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I’d like the “pro-life” folks to explain to me why they stayed silent when the USAID budget was cut.
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BuffaloGal @zuzus22.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The so-called SAVE America Act grossly underestimates your average poll volunteer and/or Town Clerk’s ability to resolve citizenship and ID claims. Federal employees who process passport applications receive months of training to do this properly. Vote no @hassan.senate.gov and @shaheen.senate.gov
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I feel like it should be more widely unpopular that in the past year we’ve witnessed the creation of an American Stasi required to meet arrest quotas who utilize an AI technology created by a company run by a sweaty raisin of a billionaire who thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.
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Nathan Nun @nathannun.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
One of the first and most powerful of the international unions, the Biscuit Makers (est. 1904) was at the forefront of struggles for dignity and justice in the lives of working cats. Its message resonates through the many worlds: "The kneads of the people come first!" #digitalart #catart #union
A cat poster in the style of a mid-century soviet propaganda poster. A grey and white cat in work overalls has his arms outstretched kneading a large pillow shaped clump of dough. Behind him is another cat that holds a bowl of baked biscuits. They stand in front of a huge red flag behind which is a graphic of rows of conveyor belts of biscuits in a biscuit factory. There is a logo for the "International Union of Biscuit Makers" and bold text at the bottom which reads "The Kneads of the People Come First - Full Bellies! - Food For All!" In smaller type various credits.
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BuffaloGal @zuzus22.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
In case you don’t know by now, DOGE was a scam.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Your Presidents' Day reminder that patriotism isn't about attacking immigrants, cutting taxes for the rich, or dividing us by race & faith. True patriots don't pander to divisiveness or hate. They work to confirm the "WE" in "We the People of the United States."
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
Image of Charles Darwin quotes, with the recipient of the letter and the date the letter was written. He said "I hate every wave of the ocean" to W.D. Fox on 15 February 1836, "Oh my God how I do hate species and varieties" to J.D. Hooker in 11 March 1858, "I am very tired, very stomachy, and hate nearly the whole world" to Thomas Huxley on 10 September 1860, "I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything" to Charles Lyell on 1 October 1861, "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" to John Lubbock on 3 September 1862, and "I am languid and bedeviled and hate writing and hate everybody" to J.D. Hooker on 23 June 1863.
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Lake Superior @lakesuperior.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Ya'll need to spend less time gawking at celebrities and more time gawking at trees.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/01/2026
What is obvious to me is that a lot of people deeply care about their neighbors and this country. They didn't think we would. We do.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/01/2026
‘I was simply luckier’: Holocaust survivors warn against forgetting Nazi atrocities
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‘I was simply luckier’: Holocaust survivors warn against forgetting Nazi atrocities
People urged to stand up against populism and antisemitism as the world marks International Holocaust Memorial Day
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The Trump regime got rid of 10,109 PhDs in science and related fields, representing 14% of the total number of PhD scientists in the federal workforce.
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/01/2026
Realism is knowing that we are strongest when we are all here and all together, not waiting around to realize that there's nobody to stand for you anymore because you bargained away their existence.
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The Organization of American Historians @oah.org · 24/01/2026
We condemn the removal of the Freedom and Slavery exhibit and firmly reject “federal actions and the systemic efforts to distort the historical record and impose through executive orders and actions a narrow vision of the American past.” Read our statement: ow.ly/rNTq50Y2T9v
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
When I say I'm tired I don't mean I need sleep, I mean my jaw has been clenched since 2001 and every time I look at my phone I understand less about a world I used to know and I am TIRED
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