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BiRdMaNsf67 🌈 @morrowjamesadam.bsky.social · May 19

If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?

But if I am only for myself,
what am I?

And if not now, when?

HILLEL THE ELDER

THIS MORTAL COIL /
SONG TO THE SIREN
[4AD] 1983
youtu.be/HFWKJ2FUiAQ?...

Standing on a patio chair in the back lot of the San Francisco Ferry Building, trying to get a good shot of the bronze Gandhi statue and Bay Bridge together

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 1h

A $20 box of KN95s can keep you and your family off of GoFundMe trying to pass around a collection plate to pay for your $75,000 ventilator that your insurance doesn’t cover and the weeklong hospital stay that will bankrupt your entire family

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Kenny Akers @keneakers.bsky.social · 57m

The same people who approve of this and say people are too sensitive these days are the same ones who have others fired for “quoting” Charlie Kirk's “own” words on the internet—Prove me wrong.

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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 57m

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

Democrats would be in danger of losing around a dozen majority-minority districts across the South if the court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act.

dlvr.it

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 21h

The ‘Peace President’ killed six more people off the coast of Venezuela this morning. We have no evidence other than his word that they were a threat to anyone, anywhere and also release the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention in this matter!

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BiRdMaNsf67 🌈 @morrowjamesadam.bsky.social · 54m

BiRdMaNsf67 🌈 @morrowjamesadam.bsky.social · 59m

The image of the ugly American always competed with the image of the generous American.

Now that the latter has disappeared, the only Americans anyone can see are the ones trying to rip you off.

ANNE APPLEBAUM

American culture is no longer synonymous with the aspiration to freedom, but with transactionalism and secrecy: the algorithms that mysteriously determine what you see, the money collected by anonymous billionaires, the deals that the American president is making with world leaders that benefit himself and maybe others whose names we don't know. America was always associated with capitalism, business, and markets, but nowadays there's no pretense that anyone else will be invited to share the wealth. USAID is gone; American humanitarian aid is depleted; America's international medical infrastructure was dismantled so quickly that people died in the process. The image of the ugly American always compet with the image of the generous American. Now that the latter has disappeared, the only Americans anyone can see are the ones trying to rip you off.

BiRdMaNsf67 🌈 @morrowjamesadam.bsky.social · 1h

👇 Anne 🎁
👇 Applebaum 🔗

All of these changes are part of a larger shift, a revolutionary transformation in the way Americans present themselves to the world, and the way they are therefore perceived by others. The most ubiquitous form of American culture nowadays is not jazz programming going out on shortwave radio across Eurasia, but the social-media platforms that pump conspiracy theories, extremism, advertising, pornography, and spam into every corner of the globe. After Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union for political dissent, the U.S. government facilitated his arrival in America. Now we have different heroes: The Trump administration went out of its way to rescue and welcome the Tate brothers, who had been arrested and briefly held in Romania, charged with rape in Great Britain. (The Tates deny the charges.) Instead of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, we now have the Conservative Political Action Conference, a kind of movable rent-a-troll event. Identikit nationalists anywhere-Hungary, Poland, Britain, Mexico, Brazil-can pay the CPAC team to come to their country and produce a MAGA show. Steve Bannon or Kristi Noem will show up, deliver a rowdy speech alongside the local talent, and help them make headlines.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Star Wars Explained @starwarsexplained.com · 3h

When you think of iconic movie posters, you think of his work. RIP Drew Struzan, you will always be the gold standard.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 13h

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 15h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 23h

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

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BiRdMaNsf67 🌈 @morrowjamesadam.bsky.social · 9h

The Trump administration is a criminal organization. It is the most corrupt presidency in U.S. history.

These people have no intention of letting go of power ever again.

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"So we are closing up Democrat programs that we think that we disagree with, and they’re never going to open again.”"

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 11h

October 14, 2025

The government shutdown, which started on October 1, is entering its third week.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood announces that immigrants will have to recite Beowulf in its entirety in Old English, without notes, before being allowed entry to the U.K.

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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 9h

Two years of genocide in Gaza showed the hollowness of the West vowing 'never again', as governments suppressed solidarity while enabling Israel's crimes, writes Daniel Lindley

The Gaza genocide has shattered the myth of Western morality

Two years of genocide in Gaza showed the hollowness of the West vowing ’never again’, as governments suppressed solidarity while enabling Israel’s crimes.

www.newarab.com

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BiRdMaNsf67 🌈 @morrowjamesadam.bsky.social · 9h

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

#blueskyartchallenge
#art #painting

18/20

Barbara Milman (1985)
is a writer and visual artist who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior publications include Light in the Shadows (Jonathan David Publishers), a book combining prints and text about Holocaust survivors, and Zoe's Journal: How to Become a Real Artist (Red Parrot Press) the fictional illustrated journal of a young woman artist. Barbara Milman has exhibited her artwork in many solo and group shows in the United States and internationally. Her work has received many awards, and can be found in numerous museums and public and university collections. Barbara Milman was a an attorney for 25 years, specializing in civil rights, criminal and public interest law, before becoming a full time artist and writer. She is a graduate of Harvard College and the Columbia University School of Law.
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Memory_Palace.html?id=SGg6tAEACAAJ&source=kp_author_description

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 1d

Australian researchers have linked a single fossil fuel project to climate impacts, modelling that Woodside's Scarborough project will cause 484 heat-related deaths in Europe.
#climatecrisis #gas #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

For the first time, scientists can show the impact of gas project emissions

Fossil fuel companies and governments argue it's not possible to link climate impacts to specific projects, but Australian researchers have done the numbers.

www.abc.net.au

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

California just banned employers from forcing workers to pay a debt, fee, or penalty to leave their job.

Bosses have increasingly been trapping workers with debts incurred in training and other exploitative fees.

Now that's illegal in the nation's biggest state.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Your free version of America has expired.

The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.

www.theatlantic.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23h

“Once rare, 7-year car loans are fast becoming the norm. They’re often the only way buyers can afford new rides, with average sale prices surging 28% in 5 years to approach $50k.”

Designed-in car dependency, surging car prices, longer loan periods with more interest.

Sound like “freedom” to you?

Cars are so expensive that buyers need 7-year loans

Once rare, seven-year car loans are fast becoming the norm. They’re often the only way buyers can afford new rides, with average auto prices nearing $50,000.

www.seattletimes.com

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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