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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 8h

npr: so, no kings

tyrannosaurus rex: yes

npr: how shall I put this

trex: this interview is over

Virginia Sapiro @vsapiro.bsky.social · 12h

A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.

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Sean Kelleher @ssk7.bsky.social · 10h

Great Barrington is such a good town: amazing farmer’s market, plenty of rainbows, and multiple movie theaters.

Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 10h

Great Barrington, Mass. No Kings protest much larger than first go around, with broader age range. The town was targeted by a militarized ICE raid earlier in the year, which is wild given the town’s pretty hardcore chill vibe.

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Virginia Sapiro @vsapiro.bsky.social · 12h

A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.

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Sean Kelleher @ssk7.bsky.social · 10h

No complaints about the DC protest - it was full of positive energy - but it feels a little unfair that some people get to oppose fascism in such scenic conditions.

Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 11h

No Kings, San Diego H/T @paleofuture.bsky.social

Overhead photo from a high rise vantage point of crowds for No Kings protest in San Diego.

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Sean Kelleher @ssk7.bsky.social · 11h

The energy was very positive; my favorite sign honored the Monarch butterfly.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 14h

Looks like people showed up in DC

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16h

Singer, songwriter, musician Joni Mitchell is also a painter and has created works featuring fellow musicians, the Canadian and US landscapes and many self portraits. Self-portrait (2000), used as cover art for her album 'Both Sides Now' #Genius

Painting featuring the upper half of a white woman leaning on a table on which a glass of red wine is sited, the subject with long blonde hair is wearing a green jacket and holds a cigarette, she looks out to the viewer with a strong thoughtful gaze

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Sean Kelleher @ssk7.bsky.social · 1d

3/3: Lastly, I don’t think Searchlight’s dichotomy between Republicans being perceived as focused, and Democrats as scattershot is obvious in the charts. But, in any case, that’s a subjective interpretation, not an analytical conclusion.

Sean Kelleher @ssk7.bsky.social · 1d

2/3: Overall, for independents, Dem’s are ahead on the polled issues relative to GOP; additionally, Dem voters are a bit more aligned with their own party that Rep’s are with GOP.

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Sean Kelleher @ssk7.bsky.social · 1d

1/3: My takeaway from the charts in the Searchlight piece is that this presentation of their data is much more favorable to Dem’s than the original breakdown of their information which was highlighted by SIN some time ago.

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Sean Kelleher @ssk7.bsky.social · 1d

This is true.

And it’s reason for hope.

There’s still time to try to improve things.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

as I keep saying, if you were actually living under this level of threat imagined by some posters - and you may yet! - you wouldn't be posting on bluesky.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

I guarantee you that more than half the lunatics yelling about opsec in response to this post have published something on a public social media site that, according to their own standards, should get them disappeared.

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Justin @ediparolev.bsky.social · 1d

Paul Cézanne ~ House and Tree, 1873

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Sean Kelleher @ssk7.bsky.social · 1d

I wouldn’t vote for him. Or the AG candidate in VA.

And it’s not just about the bad things that they said; it’s also about their failure to be honest about their own lives.

Lack of transparency is a red flag for voters who want ethical government.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Maine Senate candidate downplayed sexual assault concerns in deleted posts

Democrat Graham Platner disavowed the comments in an interview with The Washington Post, saying, “I don’t want people to judge me off the dumbest thing I said on the internet 12 years ago.”

www.washingtonpost.com

Sean Kelleher @ssk7.bsky.social · 1d

2/2: Moreover, its toxicity has arguably diminished over time.

Today is bad, and it could easily get much worse, but it remains a far cry from past versions of America where bigotry translated much more freely into lawful discrimination and oppression.

Sean Kelleher @ssk7.bsky.social · 1d

1/2: In a way, this is encouraging. Protesters tomorrow will be peacefully resisting an old, and often popular evil, not a new one.

And while that evil has never gone away, it has been rolled back successfully for long periods of time.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Plus ça change …

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

Fun part of buying used books is the environmental storytelling, like me finding a Turkish bank bookmark about Austrian writer Stefan Zweig in a book that had absolutely nothing to do with Turkey, Austria, or Zweig

A picture of a Turkish bank bookmark showing a photo of Stefan Zweig

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Sean Kelleher @ssk7.bsky.social · 2d

“But from April to August 2025, the median protest county in the U.S. cast more votes for Trump than Harris in 2024.”

Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 2d

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:

The resistance reaches into Trump country

As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.

wagingnonviolence.org

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 3d

Cato filed an amicus brief in RAICES v. Noem, the case challenging Trump's Border Dictator order that purports to suspend all immigration law because it is "ineffective." Our brief describes how the government's arguments are baseless www.cato.org/legal-briefs...

RAICES v. Noem

The government’s assertions are based on either misinterpretations or tortured readings of the data, attempting to find justification for a spurious legal argument in facts that simply are not there.

www.cato.org

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

"A collage full of nature 🌱🌷" from Gemma Matthews, contemporary embroidery artist who creates free hand pieces #WomensArt

Textile artworks show in a grid of sixteen squares all reflecting different embroidered garden flowers and plants

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4d

One Republican who frequently spoke out about the danger of right wing extremism inside the GOP was Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield. This article is from 1981.

Oregon Territory, Sunday, October 11, 1981 - 9G
Mark's Bookmark
Misconceptions about New Right thinking
By Mark Hatfield
Following the election of 1980, in which the Republican party won the presidency, 12. Senate seats, 34 House seats, 4 governorships, and 220 state legislative seats, spokesmen for the "New Right" claimed that 90 per cent of the candidates that it had supported had won their races. Immediately, a new target list of incumbent senators was announced, and fund-raising, campaigns were launched to begin early attacks via television.
Many of the claims of the right-wing groups are highly exaggerated because they confuse the public's yearning for change with support for their dogma.
One of the earliest case studies of a liberal Democratic senator, Tom Mcin-tyre, who succumbed to a well-orches-trated 1978 campaign against him is recounted in "The Fear Brokers" written by the senator in collaboration with John C. Obert, now published in paperback by Beacon Press ($7.95). Edmund Muskie wrote a commentary for the book, and I was privileged to write the foreword.
Because the 1982 campaigns are already under way, excerpts from the foreword may assist to help recognize and understand the mentality and' tactics of the doctrinaire right wing.
ONE OF THE emotional issues before the United States Senate during my
tenure has been the Panama Canal trea-ty. Millions of dollars were raised to fight ratification. Sen. Mcintyre of New Hampshire presented a disquisition on the Senate floor which was both profound and courageous. He confronted squarely an issue far more crucial than the outcome of the treaty itself, namely the atmosphere of personal intimidation and vengeance of the Right which had not only come to dominate the debate but also threatened to permeate the American political climate with calumny and fear.
"My concern", he said, "is the desperate need for people of conscience and good will to stand up and face down the bullies of the radical New Right before th…

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EDC 🇺🇦🇮🇱 @simplyedc.bsky.social · 4d

This amazing Covered Bridge #Photography was taken by Gerry Hudson.

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🎻 Sophie Rose Music 🎹 @sophierosemusic.bsky.social · 4d

MacPaint is just iconic 🎨👩🏻‍🎨

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Anne McKinnell @annemckinnell.bsky.social · 4d

Let it go. Let it fall. Make some space.

The trees know when to embrace change.

I always have a hard time saying goodbye to summer - the long days, the boating and the ocean. And yet, here comes fall with its wild fire of colour, stealing the show 🍁 📷

#autumn #naturephotography #fallfoliage

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Sean Kelleher @ssk7.bsky.social · 4d

If maga keeps going for a few more years these people will be fine.

Politico @politico.com · 4d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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ivy @askylitocean.bsky.social · 6d

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Pixels&AlchemyPhotography @pixelsandalchemy.bsky.social · 5d

Fireworks
I JUST got back from a LONG walk because the sun is out! 😎
I believe this is a #Sweetgum #Tree.
#FallColor #PNW #Photography

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