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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 4h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4h

🔘yes
⭕no

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Page Fortna @pagefortna.bsky.social · 4h

Portland frog with a founding fathers wig and the text “give me ribberty or give me death”

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4h

once again asking simple question "does america have a free market in housing"

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 10h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 5h

river of truth, plant yourself like a tree, etc etc

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 5h

Places like this are a validation machine, where if you want to be a shithead, it can make you popular, and then you can curate your views so that you see like 90% people saying everything that you do is good and right no matter what it is.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6h

I really wouldn’t be shining lasers at helicopters if I were you. It’s illegal and could cause an aircraft to crash - and that could kill a LOT of people, in the air and on the ground.

And the ICE goons appear to be *salivating* at the chance to claim people that they arrest were doing this:

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 5h

don't take my word for it!

www.amazon.com/Hegemony-How...

Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals

www.amazon.com

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 5h

they're addicted to losing!

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 7h

keep going. your smoke too gentle. your swag too similar. your bitch too basic. they’ll love you.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 6h

the kind of attitude we need if we're going to fix this country

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 6h

God you gotta love Ulysses Grant

As for provisions, Grant remembered what he had learned after Van Dorn’s destruction of his supply base the previous December. This time he intended to cut loose from his base, travel light, and live off the country. Although civilians were going hungry in Mississippi, Grant was confident that his soldiers would not. A powerful army on the move could seize supplies that penniless women and children could not afford to buy. For the next two weeks the Yankee soldiers lived well on hams, poultry, vegetables, milk, and honey as they stripped bare the plantations in their path. Some of these midwestern farm boys proved to be expert foragers. When an irate planter rode up on a mile and complained to a division commander that plundering troops had robbed him of everything he owned, the general looked him in the eye and said “Well those men didn’t belong to my division at all, because if they were my men they wouldn’t have left you that mule”

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 7h

The problem people have is that they really want to get a hit of the bigotry juice and bask in the righteous surge of hateful energy it lends, but they're not willing to admit they're gutter bigots and ethnic nationalists calling entire demographics intrinsically fake and parasitic.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6h

yeah sure you can get some awkward moments at first but pretty quickly people learn that if they want someone to happen they gotta make it happen

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6h

i mean yeah if i'm running a one-shot on a clock it's a different story... but even then, i try to just tell my players the situation and ask them what they do. telling them a list of options discourages them from thinking up options themselves!

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6h

ah. leftists

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6h

every time i'm about to make a suggestion i remember to bite my tongue!

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6h

i try to do the opposite of that lol

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 8h

Feeding everyone at the DNC some gummies before my pitch meeting

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 9h

"no no you don't understand. we deploy OUR shitposters against THEIR aura farmers. WE farm aura with normies. but secretly our aura farmers all have normie alter egos--yes, like batman--who can actually govern after we reconquer the cathedral. no, the other batman"

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 11h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 9h

the complete departure of right wing men from actual sex and sexuality for a hallucinatory sexual politics of grievance and whining is really something

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 2d

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

Designed With
Gamers In Mind Designed With
Activists In Mind

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 9h

shit fuck supposed to be quote marks on this btw

bsky.app/profile/sjsh...

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 9h

The Frog is the best thing to happen to American politics all year, but the fact that politics has devolved into Posting is ultimately a bad thing.

www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 9h

sometimes i just wanna matrix-post constantly and other times i can't help but thinking that this is actually the historically-normal state of politics: unrestricted ideological warfare.

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a red chair

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a red chair

media.tenor.com

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 9h

"no no you don't understand. we deploy OUR shitposters against THEIR aura farmers. WE farm aura with normies. but secretly our aura farmers all have normie alter egos--yes, like batman--who can actually govern after we reconquer the cathedral. no, the other batman"

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 9h

The Frog is the best thing to happen to American politics all year, but the fact that politics has devolved into Posting is ultimately a bad thing.

www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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