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Brianna Chesser
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Not the character of the day 🫶 “That’s a matter between me and my grammarian”
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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · Jun 17
Arrests the right has been calling unjust government overreach for 30+ years
Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, being led out of his cabin by an FBI agent who looks like a rancher. No tactical gear, just a cowboy hat, and jeans. . The surrender of Randy Weaver, who was Ashli Babbitt before Ashli Babbitt. In a black and white photo, Weaver is holding his infant daughter and flanked by an FBI agent and aⁿ Idaho state trooper whom he appears to be holding hands with, though maybe they’re cuffed to each other. They’re all wearing jeans, and there’s some uniformed officers behind them. There are two people in the foreground, both civilians, one of them in his teens. The FBI agent is arresting a literal terrorist with what appears to be a cell phone on his belt, and a button-down, not a bunch of body armor. Weaver sold automatic rifles to Nazis, and also a federal agent. He was small fry, but he got most of his family killed by entering a standoff with the Feds—he told his middle school aged sons to fire on federal officers. For whatever reason (president was a democrat/they love Nazis), republicans thought that this was egregious government overreach, something they couldn’t claim about the idiot in Oregon because we all saw the video of him pointing a gun at cops, and heard the audio clearly. This was impossible for Babbitt because she was surrounded by a bunch of other screaming terrorists, allowing them to create their own fantastic narrative. .
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Diaspora2022 @diaspora2022.bsky.social · 6h
Read Pope Leo and no I’m not kidding (know you know,K): apnews.com/article/pope...
Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 2h
He’s been really awesome so far! I’m so impressed.
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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 2h
Most of our press bends over backwards to be neutral, making it milquetoast center-right. editorial pages may have a variety of perspectives or may feature mostly right or left leaning views.

Bipartisanship refers to our legislature

Screaming “both sides are the same” is right wing propaganda
a man with a beard is talking to another man in a room .
Alt: a man with a beard is telling another man, “congratulations, you played yourself” in front of a display of Nike air Jordan basketball shoes. .
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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 3h
Newsmax has got to sting
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 8h
Media outlets from WaPo, NYT, AP, and CNN to Newsmax are refusing to sign the Pentagon’s new gag-order press policy in a rare moment of total bipartisan media unity. This is the way. We can have different ideologies, but we must have a free press.
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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 3h
Jonah Hill has to be less than half his age
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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 3h
Maxwell
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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 3h
My most strongly held belief is that that is what sent us all off into the worst timeline.
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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 3h
Eichmann is a solid choice for the Nazi regime as well, and I agree with you about PayPal, genius.

Someone else would have bought the rights to or invested in Tesla, like John Doerr. Sand Hill Road has about a million VCs. Or maybe we import electric cars from China or Europe, whatever. Cars suck.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 4h
Many of y'all have heard me say this, but my answer for the "within your own lifetime" variant of this question is that I have a detailed and practical plan to time travel back to replace my past self to set up the conditions such that PayPal never achieves success because that fixes SO MUCH
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Danielle Gembala @ddmgembala.bsky.social · 16h
Over drinks with fellow archaeologists at a conference some decades ago, we discussed who we would hypothetically time travel to remove from history. Columbus and Calvin were the two universally chosen. Hitler was nearly unanimous but one person thought removing Goebbles was better.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 17h
ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.
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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 4h
Colbert is spreading the Frog Gospel

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5z...
A Message From The Frog Resistance
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 3h
We know what changes we need to make. A lot of good can come out of this.

New Supreme Court, president isn’t immune, no-barrier abortion on demand in all 50 states, nonpartisan election maps, DC statehood, restore the Voting Rights Act, protect LGBTQ rights, enroll ERA, expand labor rights, etc
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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 3h
Greatest elder millennial of all time
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Domestique @domestiquecycling.com · 4h
Even 🇸🇮 Tadej Pogacar can be beaten.

A day after winning Il Lombardia, he finished second in his own ‘Pogi Challenge’, unable to catch one amateur on the climb to Krvavec.

📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/poga...
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Earth.Org @earthorg.bsky.social · 8h
Vaccine Trials Underway in US to Protect Marine Mammals from Avian Flu
Vaccine Trials Underway to Protect Marine Animals from Avian Flu
The world’s largest marine mammal hospital has begun a vaccine trial to protect marine mammals from a highly contagious form of avian flu.
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Bryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 10h
Just so we’re clear…
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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 3h
I have the same question.
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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 9h
Seem to be ending every night this month reading some Twilight Zone comics.
The Twilight Zone #33 (1970). On the cover by George Wilson, a hunter is running away from three giant baboon heads, one of which seems to be shooting a laser beam at him with his eyes.
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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 3h
This is correct, though they also needed patrols to catch fugitive slaves and to enforce white supremacy in the South, which was majority Black by that time

Regardless, the militia would drill, and might store most arms in the town/city armory, rather than keep expensive, dangerous weapons at home
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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 3h
Yeah, soldiers in food lines on the news is bad, but O’Hare, Denver, DFW, Atlanta, LAX, LaGuardia, Dulles short-staffed…that’s utter chaos.

There’s already been thousands of cancelled flights. It’s going to affect cargo, too.
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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 3h
The third option is nonviolent resistance, and it’s much more likely to result in a successful democratic transition and consolidation.
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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 3h
Siri, why are millions of people displaced and turned into refugees every year?
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grimely.bsky.social @grimely.bsky.social · 7h
"The executive has usurped the power of the purse to pay for a standing army" is something that the Founders very explicitly wanted to prevent from ever happening but, ah, well, nevertheless
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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 9h
A Halloween-themed Gasoline Alley Sunday strip by Frank King from 1923.
Skeezix falls asleep in Walt’s arms and dreams of being taken on a flight by a witch all the way to the moon and back.
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RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 1d
This does seem to be a belief of a lot of reactionaries for centuries. Remember, a lot of modern conspiracy theories descend from the idea that the French Revolution was a Masonic/Illuminati/Jewish plot. Tsar Nicholas II believed every "real Russian" supported him unconditionally.
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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · 21h
Nandor the Relentless

It's spooky season, which means it's time to post my favourite vampires...

This was done in watercolour and acryla gouache, quite small at 4x6" or so I think?
A small portrait of conqueror "Nandor the Relentless", in his battle armor.
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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 3h
The inflatable costumes are doing so much good in the world right now
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BumboJumbo @bumbojumbo666.bsky.social · 13h
The average protester has been doing expert-level escalation management and the average ICE officer is threatening to murder ambulance drivers.
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