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Merilyn Jackson

@merilynjj.bsky.social

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Xiter. #Writer, #poet, #dance critic, #non-theist 25 yrs @PhiladelphiaInquirer, Fjordreview.com, tanz Berlin. I'm channeling the Nike of Samothrace, years ago. NO Crypto, bodybuilders, Anime, sellers & beggars, or GOD STUFF #PrimeGlib.com

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Merilyn Jackson @merilynjj.bsky.social · Jan 20

Moving on from this dark day forward to #Valentine's Day. Let's all make #love while the rest of the country eats it's own insides. Autocannibalism. #Booksky #Writing #Poetry #PolishPoetry 📖🇵🇱📚🖋️

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 14h

As Republicans attempt to whitewash history, it's the librarians who are defending the truth.

Director Kim Snyder’s new documentary “The Librarians” is incredible. We talk about the film & why targeting the truth-tellers is just the tip of the authoritarian iceberg.

youtu.be/S4HWSDjSI-A?...

Trump ERASES American HISTORY With UNHINGED CRACKDOWN!!

YouTube video by Katie Phang

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Merilyn Jackson @merilynjj.bsky.social · 17h

horrible

Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 18h

Remember when this kind of thing would have been unthinkable? How many other unthinkable things will become the new norm.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18h

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

A government that targets citizens against fascism and dictatorships, isn’t a government worth keeping.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21h

Expand the Supreme Court.

It's corrupt and rancid and taken over by right-wing hacks groomed by billionaires.

What more do you need to see?

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Merilyn Jackson @merilynjj.bsky.social · 21h

what could be more serious? you fucking dog.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 23h

The American people deserve a public health system that puts science before politics.

That's why California and 14 other governors are joining forces to launch the Governors Public Health Alliance to protect communities and guarantee decisions are rooted in data and health.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 21h

UK energy bosses sound warning over rising household bills on.ft.com/3J5V7VN

UK energy bosses sound warning over rising household bills

Octopus Energy, EDF and E.On executives challenge Labour’s pledge to reduce energy costs

on.ft.com

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 22h

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Wait one damn minute‼️

I know Lisa Murkowski isn’t up on her high horse talking about the lack of trust between Republicans and Democrats after she cast the deciding “Yes” on the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill and slipped in backroom deals for Alaska.

She’s part of the problem & needs to own it!

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

Talk about indoctrination…

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Kudos to dozens of airports across the country that are refusing to play state propaganda.

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Kodiak149 @kodiak149.bsky.social · 2d

Saturday October 18
Be there

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

THIS: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

reasonsvoice.bsky.social @reasonsvoice.bsky.social · 2d

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RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · 3d

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Daryl Elliott @darylelliott.bsky.social · 3d

Bulwark's Tim Miller on Speaker Mike Johnson: "That Little Twerp!" 1min
www.youtube.com/shorts/yG9gl...

People are very pissed at Mike Johnson and for good reason!

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Vance: I’m sure that in the course of his life he has been paid more than $50,000 for services. The question is did he do something illegal.

Stephanopoulos: I’m asking if Homan accepted the $50,000

Vance: Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services? Low income women can’t get food

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Merilyn Jackson @merilynjj.bsky.social · 3d

Mash up bands:

The Moody Who

ballerinaX @ballerinax.bsky.social · 4d

Mash up bands:
Yes Leppard

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 4d

Mash up bands:

Deep Purple Floyd

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ballerinaX @ballerinax.bsky.social · 4d

Mash up bands:
Yes Leppard

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 4d

Mash up bands:

Deep Purple Floyd

Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 4d

Mash up bands:

Van Fighters

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ballerinaX @ballerinax.bsky.social · 3d

Google is useless.

That is all.

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ballerinaX @ballerinax.bsky.social · 3d

Timely

Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 3d

Interview with Cory Doctorow by @zoecorbyn.bsky.social

(TIL we are deep in the enshittocene era)

#TheNerve

www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

‘The platforms got worse because we let them!’: Cory Doctorow on his fight to save the internet from enshittification

The author and cyber-activist argues that the tech giants have ruined life online. The only thing that can save the virtual world now, he tells Zoë Corbyn, is its users

www.thenerve.news

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

She called it. Kamala Harris laid out Trump’s vengeance agenda before it even happened.

One line that stuck with me most from 107 Days was when she wrote that during the debate, Trump was “unburdened by the truth.”

He’s also unburdened by threat of accountability, thanks to the Supreme Court.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.

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Merilyn Jackson @merilynjj.bsky.social · 4d

my fucking god. no wonder she could only get to the WH through what's between her legs. If there's a smidgen of brain matter in that slut, that's where she stores it. She has only animal instincts of survival. No morals

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

Children that were kidnapped by invading Russian barbarians, not displaced.