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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 8h

This is bravery.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

Broadview.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 10h

I have now picked up her medication and it specifies she should be careful operating any vehicles after taking it

Small perfect fluffy yellow dog inside a car. She is sitting in the backseat and looking out a window that’s off camera.

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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 13h

Recently developed a framework for assessing your role, mapping your challenges and determining your strategic actions to build narrative power. w/my amazing colleague @linasrivastava.bsky.social

Email [email protected] to get the full framework

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6zqyu...

Narrative Infrastructure for Narrative Power: A Brief Introduction to the Framework Email info@transformationalchange.co to get the full framework to asses your role, map your challenges and determine your strategic actions to build narrative power.

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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 13h

Excellent piece by @judithmll.bsky.social

"narratives dont emerge in a vacuum...Dominant stories do not triumph because they are more persuasive or imaginative, but because they have the infrastructures that allow them to be diffused, repeated, & naturalized" judith-mll.medium.com/against-the-...

Against the obsession with narratives: A materialist critique

In recent years, political and cultural debate has increasingly turned into a battle of stories. Everything seems to revolve around…

judith-mll.medium.com

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 15h

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 1d

"People in Gaza have been released from the fear of death, but what of the life they now face? What of the thousands of orphans and the wounded or maimed children with no surviving families? It is not just infrastructure of large parts of Gaza that has been destroyed, it is also the social fabric."

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 14h

a dog talking on a cell phone with the caption " hello ? yes , this is dog "

ALT: a dog talking on a cell phone with the caption " hello ? yes , this is dog "

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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 14h

And now I have 8675309 playing nonstop in my head.

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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 14h

I still memorize phone numbers now...
... just in case something or other.

I feel so old.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 15h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 16h

Terrible news on Indigenous Peoples Day.

Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 19h

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) faces its deepest cuts ever under Trump's budget.

The $2.9 billion allocated to the 574 federally-recognized tribes will be cut to $1.7 billion, with more cuts to supporting programs on the way.

Read for free:
www.mesoscalenews.com/p/bureau-of-...

Bureau of Indian Affairs faces deepest cuts in US History

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day this year — a day that ought to be a moment of reflection, honor, and renewal of Indigenous heritage — the reality instead evokes mourning, shame, and questions of national ...

www.mesoscalenews.com

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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 1d

"People in Gaza have been released from the fear of death, but what of the life they now face? What of the thousands of orphans and the wounded or maimed children with no surviving families? It is not just infrastructure of large parts of Gaza that has been destroyed, it is also the social fabric."

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 1d

This is a great thread about the precarity people face and how that affects how they might engage in social action.

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1d

Every time someone drops into my comments asking about a general strike, I have to remind folks that unlike in Europe we have at will employment here allowing essentially anyone to be fired at any time for any reason, and health insurance tied to employment.

The amount of organizing

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

this is a great piece and it absolutely sucks that the outlet went for the ambiguous headline rather.

The idea that you can remain on X and "influence opinion" is equally true for creating a new Stormfront account, or a 4Chan account, or a TruthSocial account.

Our job is to kills its influence.

Did the centre-left bit of UK politics Twitter make an error in decamping en masse to I Can’t Believe It’s Not Twitter? The old site, now remade as X, remains significantly larger than the new, and much of the political class have failed to make the jump. Did those of us who went let our desire for a comforting liberal bubble undermine our actual influence?

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

The story of social media in the last few years is not one of a self-righteous liberal flounce, but of fragmentation: network effects are a thing, and if most of the people you like to talk to switch platforms, there feels little point in remaining behind. If we have lost influence, that’s at least partly down to the government’s reluctance to use its convening power to reshape the information environment, and its odd commitment to a site owned by someone who wants Keir Starmer in prison.

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Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · 2d

the ending of THE GODFATHER, the best american movie ever made, doesn't work without diane keaton's final look --- at the realization of who she's married and what her life is going to become and what corruption lurks behind closed doors. unforgettable, inimitable work. RIP.

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Min. Foolish Farrakhan @uhohjaye.bsky.social · 2d

I am going to wear a crisp white button up, scarf and a wide belt around the house as I mourn.

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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 2d

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 2d

This is so beautiful.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 3d

I am so proud of this victory.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 3d

S tier. you win. (capers optional but hero status if included with this order)

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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 3d

I am honored!
I'll say hi from City Hall.

(I love capers but one or two always roll away... so I only order them if the bagel place knows to push them into the cream cheese.)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

I know I'm focused on the wrong thing here but "mansion boy"???

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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 3d

Everything bagel, scallion cream cheese, red onions, tomatoes, lox. Will people vote for me?

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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 3d

The Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan is the kind of organization that *should* receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Absolutely fantastic work that should be a model for civil society and humanitarian work everywhere.

Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 3d

we were wrong about the Nobel peace prize but here’s some more about the emergency response rooms anyway news.un.org/en/story/202...

Youth-led ‘emergency rooms’ shine rays of hope in war-torn Sudan

With the war in Sudan triggering widespread violence and instability, youth-driven emergency response rooms (ERRs) are among a growing number of community-led initiatives reaching vulnerable civilians...

news.un.org

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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 3d

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 3d

Giving the Nobel Peace Prize to someone who enthusiastically supports the first extrajudicial massacre by Trump and his apparatus of her countrymen in small boats is bleak.

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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 3d

To wit:
bsky.app/profile/leah...

Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3d

Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:

María Corina Machado ©
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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
8:34 AM • 10/10/25 • 30K Views

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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