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Maturing toddler, irony enthusiast, emotional-support animal
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Congress Must Deny Funding for ICE in the New Budget Resolution
Text SIGN PJNONG to 50409 to send this to your officials.
https://resist.bot/petitions/PJNONG
27 days ago
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Resistbot
Text RESIST to 50409 to email, fax, or mail Congress, your state legislators, and local officials. Over 40 million messages sent. Be heard in two minutes.
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27 days ago
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AFGE President Everett Kelley Statement on Tragedy in Minneapolis
WASHINGTON – Following the tragic events in Minneapolis, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement: “Today, Alex J. Pretti, an AFGE Local 3669 member and a nurse at the Mi...
https://www.afge.org/publication/afge-president-everett-kelley-statement-on-tragedy-in-minneapolis/
27 days ago
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Silky
27 days ago
“not clearly established “?? it’s a brazen proven lie
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Tell the Senate: Not a penny more for ICE brutality | Indivisible 🇺🇸 ⚖️ 📱
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Tell the Senate: Not a penny more for ICE brutality | Indivisible
https://indivisible.org/actions/ice-out-senate/
27 days ago
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Find a Group Near You | Get Involved | Indivisible 🇺🇸 ⚖️
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Find a Group | Indivisible
https://indivisible.org/get-involved/find-a-group/
27 days ago
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Guardian US
27 days ago
Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research
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Man shot in Minneapolis by federal agents identified as VA nurse: ‘He wanted to help people’
Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/24/alex-pretti-minneapolis-minnesota-shooting?CMP=us_bsky&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1769292813-2
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The Guardian
27 days ago
Minneapolis shooting live: man shot by federal officers in Minneapolis has died – reports
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Minneapolis shooting live: man shot by federal officers in Minneapolis has died – reports
Shooting comes less than three weeks after Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE officer in the city A 51-year-old man shot by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis has died, a hospital record obtained by the Associated Press shows. CNN has also reported that the man shot during the federal immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis has died this morning. The Minnesota Star Tribune has also reported the man has been killed. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/jan/24/minneapolis-shooting-live?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Vicki Schuster
12 months ago
Just because…neat bookstore image. Three Lives & Company booksellers, NY.
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“It can be hard to imagine how to defend oneself against such an overwhelming force. But a few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.” 🇺🇸 ⚖️ 💻
#USPolitics
#AntiICEProtests
#USA
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How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE
A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice
about 1 month ago
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Amy Sedaris’ friends apparently had to have an intervention with her, at one point, and say she couldn’t buy any more paper flowers. 🌺 🌼
2 months ago
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Zohran Mamdani just quoted Eugene Debs right at the TOP of his acceptance speech. 👏🏽 ♥️ 🗽 🗳️
#politics
#NYCPolitics
#ZohranMamdani
#NYCElections
#NYCMayor
#USPolitics
4 months ago
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“Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet—All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online….” 🦋 💪🏽 ✊🏽 🛜 🌎
#Bluesky
#bsky
Ungated version:
archive.is/1yHkm
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Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet
All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.
https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-jay-graber-bluesky/
9 months ago
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑
10 months ago
The ACLU is no longer posting on Twitter. They have abandoned their 1.6 million follower account and are now posting on Bluesky.
bsky.app/profile/aclu...
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Here are five essential novels by the great Peruvian writer, and Nobel laureate, Mario Vargas Llosa. He died this Sunday at the age of 89. 📚 🇵🇪 ✍🏽
#books
#writers
#LatinAmericanWriters
#Peru
#PeruvianWriters
#novels
#BookSky
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Mario Vargas Llosa: Five essential novels
Wondering where to start with the new Nobel laureate? Here are five highlights
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/07/mario-vargas-llosa-five-essential-novels
10 months ago
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David Cantwell
11 months ago
Merle Haggard was born on this date in 1937 and died on this date in 2016. Here are a few of my favorite Hag mag and book covers (that last one especially!)
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Dr. Lucky Tran
11 months ago
100,000+ people marched at the
#HandsOff
rally in New York!
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This, in particular, has me feeling depressed lately…. 🌳 💚
#USGovernment
#USPolitics
#USA
#TreeSky
#nature
#NatureSky
12 months ago
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Guys, I drink these when I want to get wrecked... - Brevities Blog
Guys, I drink these when I want to get wrecked. 🍻 🚢
https://brevities.blog/posts/2025-03-02-guys-i-drink-these
12 months ago
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Velodus✨
about 1 year ago
"How can so many voters be so politically selfish?" asks left-of-center journalist class that refuses to stop using a degrading app run by an antisemite because they personally benefit from it.
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My radiator is really “generating steam heat” at the moment. 🎵 🥵 🥶
#Ramones
#BlitzkriegBop
#MusicSky
about 1 year ago
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Vinyl Every Day
about 1 year ago
The Raincoats - The Raincoats 1979 UK Rough Trade
#vinyl
#music
#NewWave
#Avantgarde
#PostPunk
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“The president once again found himself galloping ahead of reality’s leisurely pace.” 😂 ✍🏽 🛜
#McSweeneys
#comedy
#PoliticalHumor
#NewYorkTimes
#TheFailingNewYorkTimes
#USMediaFailure
#ObeyingInAdvance
#AnticipatoryObedience
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New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Lied”
“The president, offering no evidence, insisted upon his version of the story.” “The president extemporized with a blithe disregard for established ...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new-york-times-style-guide-substitutions-for-the-president-lied
about 1 year ago
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ACLU of the District of Columbia
about 1 year ago
The government can’t use its power to prosecute and silence disfavored opinions. We sent a letter pushing back on U.S. Attorney Martin’s message to Elon Musk about legal action against those who merely criticize, challenge, or “impact” DOGE employees’ work— an alarming threat to free speech.
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Paige McAllister
about 1 year ago
☎️ Call your reps daily, don’t stop calling until musk is held accountable You can call after hours & leave a message- fill up those voicemails NO excuse why we can’t call our reps daily We must outnumber maga, who calls their reps 10x more than us Specific scripts below ⬇️
5calls.org
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“Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse….” ✍🏽 📚 🗣️
#LosAngeles
#JoanDidion
#CaliforniaWriters
#BookSky
#2025LosAngelesWildfires
#SlouchingTowardsBethlehem
about 1 year ago
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For those interested in leaving dirtbag Zuckerberg’s 😡 Instagram who are confused by how PixelFed works (a la Mastodon) with the different servers and such… a short thread…. 🧵 📷
#PixelFed
#FederatedSocialMedia
#DistributedSocialNetworks
#DumpZuck
#DumpInstagram
about 1 year ago
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“If you are a musician or a music program based in the LA-area affected by the fires, please read below and click on APPLY NOW at the bottom. Requests will be accepted now through Feb. 28, 2025.” 🎵 🎸 🆘 🇺🇸
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Fires | Guitar Center Music Foundation
https://guitarcenterfoundation.org/fires/
about 1 year ago
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Huck Magazine
about 1 year ago
Subversive shots of Catholic schoolgirls in ‘80s New York
www.huckmag.com/article/cath...
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Subversive shots of Catholic schoolgirls in ‘80s New York
Catholic Girl — When revisiting her alma mater, Andrea Modica noticed schoolgirls finding forms of self-expression beyond the dress code. Her new…
https://www.huckmag.com/article/catholic-girl-school-80s-new-york-andrea-modica
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Good luck New Year’s Day meal with southern friends 😋 🍽️ 👶 📷
#NewYearsDay2025
#HoppinJohn
#MealsWithFriendsAndFamily
#food
#FoodAndDrink
#FoodSky
#HolidayMeals
about 1 year ago
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followfocus
about 1 year ago
Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan at Christmas time in THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER 📽️ 🇺🇸 🎞️
#film
#movies
#cinema
#FilmSky
#OldHollywood
#ClassicHollywoodCinema
#Christmas
#ChristmasMovies
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What if Luigi Mangione decides to pull an Anna Delvey and displays a dazzling variety of daily lewks at his trial? 🤵🏻♂️✨
about 1 year ago
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“Charles Burns loves a doomed romance. This has been true throughout his career as a graphic novelist, and it remains so in his remarkable new book, FINAL CUT. Burns tells this latest story using a visual style that he has honed over decades of comics, designs and album covers….” 📚 ✍🏽
#GraphicNovels
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How a Gen X Graphic Novelist Reinvented the Romance Comic (Gift Article)
To fully understand Charles Burns’s remarkable graphic novel, “Final Cut,” you have to look closely at the way in which it was rendered.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/18/books/review/charles-burns-final-cut.html?unlocked_article_code=1.a04.qUKa.RuTYbLZkN1Nc&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
about 1 year ago
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Listening to “Space Guitar,” by Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson 🎵 🪐 🎸 🎧
#NowPlaying
#JohnnyGuitarWatson
#PopMusic
#MusicSky
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Space Guitar by Johnny "Guitar" Watson
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.
https://song.link/us/i/1455399049
about 1 year ago
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📚 🇺🇸 ✍🏽 📝
#BookSky
#poetry
#poets
#writers
#writing
#books
#NikkiGiovanni
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Nikki Giovanni, Poet Who Wrote of Black Joy, Dies at 81
Ms. Giovanni tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was a celebrity poet and public intellectual who appeared on television and toured the country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/obituaries/nikki-giovanni-poet-who-wrote-of-black-joy-dies-at-81.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
about 1 year ago
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Radical Graffiti
about 1 year ago
"Educate yourself so you don't become a fascist like me” Poster spotted in Bologna, Italy
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Support Local 2179!!! 📚 ✊🏽 🗽
#BookSky
#books
#labor
#WorkersOnStrike
#NYC
#StrandBookStore
#UAW
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 year ago
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The great Honus Wagner speaks! He’s almost 60yo in this footage ⚾️ 📽️ 🎞️
#baseball
#MLB
#MLBHistory
#HallOfFamers
#HonusWagner
#MLBSky
www.instagram.com/reel/DDQlBBG...
about 1 year ago
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"Could you write what you write if you weren’t so tiny, Joan?"—Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972 📚 🇺🇸 ✍🏽 🌴
#writers
#WomenWriters
#BookSky
#AmericanWriters
#CaliforniaWriters
#quotes
#literature
#LiteraryQuotes
about 1 year ago
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“In a media landscape crowded with bloodless casualties, where heroes… kill either with self-righteous certainty or dignified reluctance while villains fetishize death for its own sake, BARRY deglamorizes violence by showing what it actually is: a tool people use to try to solve problems.“ 📺 ✍🏽
#TV
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This Insubstantial Pageant | Barry (HBO) | Bright Wall/Dark Room
Barry is about the lies we tell to live with ourselves, about characters caught between the truth and the stories that keep them safe.
https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2020/08/19/this-insubstantial-pageant/
about 1 year ago
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Listening to Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side,” on BBC Radio 2 🎵 📻 🎸 🎧
#NowPlaying
#LouReed
#LouReedTransformer
#MusicSky
#music
#RockMusic
#PopMusic
about 1 year ago
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Murder most necessary – why Agatha Christie justified killing 📚 🇬🇧 ✍🏽 🔪 🩸 “In the mid-20th century, British crime novelists wrestled with the trickiest puzzle—can it ever be right to kill a fellow human being?”
#books
#writers
#WomenWriters
#crime
#fiction
#mysteries
#UK
archive.is/2024.05.19-1...
about 1 year ago
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Make America R E A D Again
#politics
#USPolitics
#HealthCare
#USHealthCare
about 1 year ago
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“Trump is in touch with the impulses and desires that run counter to social norms, and he invites his audience to put aside the usual internal barriers to acting on or voicing them. This moment is an opportune one for a revival of Freud, whose work, with its signature focus on subterranean….” 🧠 📚 ✍🏽
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Another Theory of the Trump Movement
Who else but Sigmund Freud to help explain?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/11/maga-trump-psychological-appeal/680722/
over 1 year ago
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“To Freud, crowds on their own can be dangerous, but they only constitute a long-term brutal threat when a certain sort of figure takes over the superego slot in ways that are both prohibitive & permissive….” 🧠 📚 ✍🏽 *article from 2006 | via Dave Pell 2024
#politics
#Freud
#psychoanalysis
#fascism
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Freud and the Fundamentalist Urge (Published 2006)
Mark Edmundson article on Sigmund Freud's political writings, particularly his perception that the crowd wants absolute leader to handle conflicts, much as ego seeks intoxication of wine or erotic lov...
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/magazine/freud-and-the-fundamentalist-urge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bU4.tU_e.1wVKZROnCn2g&smid=url-share&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
over 1 year ago
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Leftist Whine Mom
over 1 year ago
“Find the biggest bitch in town and start a band with her.” — Kathleen Hanna
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🥩🍕 Food - Planes - Etc. ✈😍
over 1 year ago
Lemon Butter Lobster Risotto - OH MY GOODNESS... 🍽️🍜
#food
#foodsky
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The David abides…. 📽️ 🇺🇸 🎞️
#film
#movies
#cinema
#FilmSky
#DavidLynch
#politics
#USPolitics
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over 1 year ago
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“Arthur Russell’s music took on a mystical quality in record stores, where clerks would mete out recommendations that transmuted into personal lodestones for those willing to take a risk on a record they’d never heard….“ 🎵📚
#music
#PopMusic
#books
#ExperimentalMusic
#AvantPop
#ArthurRussell
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The Kinetic Spell of Arthur Russell | Richard King’s Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, a Life
By Sam Hockley-Smith
https://southwestreview.com/the-kinetic-spell-of-arthur-russell/
over 1 year ago
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David Hering
over 1 year ago
Jean-Paul Sartre with his cat, which he named ‘Nothing’
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