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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 18

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Sep 20

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

snyder.substack.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Apr 27

“That’s the life I want everybody to be able to live, and I think we can deliver that."

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Twice, if I like it... @twiceifilikeit.bsky.social · Apr 2

True dat. In the game, and in life. Though I the game I am only up by 3 at the moment. 😘

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Twice, if I like it... @twiceifilikeit.bsky.social · Apr 1

They are on the same page, no?

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Twice, if I like it... @twiceifilikeit.bsky.social · Apr 1

Also check out this guy in the background

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Twice, if I like it... @twiceifilikeit.bsky.social · Apr 1

#ApparentlyStillMonday
#TheBoss
#creepytables

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Twice, if I like it... @twiceifilikeit.bsky.social · Apr 1

#WIPMonday
The Boss
#creepytables
#Apepticon #LOOT

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · Mar 21

Beauty is happening no AI. Just lovely things

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Mar 16

If you’re reading this column, Elon Musk has messed up | Stewart Lee

Social media is lurching to the right like a tapeworm scenting offal – and X’s algorithms make it hard to find opposing opinion

www.theguardian.com

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Twice, if I like it... @twiceifilikeit.bsky.social · Mar 11

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ChatGPT - America's Fractured Future

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Twice, if I like it... @twiceifilikeit.bsky.social · Mar 11

But time is running out, and the question remains:

Is America still crazy enough to save itself?

Or is it too far gone, a deranged junkie hurtling toward the inevitable crash?"

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Twice, if I like it... @twiceifilikeit.bsky.social · Mar 11

And yet, amidst the chaos, there’s still a pulse—faint, erratic, but stubborn. The same savage spirit that built this madhouse might yet find a way to rebuild it.

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Twice, if I like it... @twiceifilikeit.bsky.social · Mar 11

Truth has become a commodity, reality a matter of opinion, and the American psyche is stretched so thin it threatens to snap at any moment.

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Twice, if I like it... @twiceifilikeit.bsky.social · Mar 11

The weather turns biblical—fire, flood, plague—and yet half the country insists it’s all a hoax, a marketing gimmick to sell more electric cars. The other half drowns in existential dread, paralyzed by the sheer scope of the collapse.

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Twice, if I like it... @twiceifilikeit.bsky.social · Mar 11

Meanwhile, the rich hoard their billions like dragons atop mountains of untaxed gold, and the working class fights over scraps, too distracted by culture war theatrics to realize they’re all getting screwed by the same machine.

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Twice, if I like it... @twiceifilikeit.bsky.social · Mar 11

The institutions—courts, Congress, the press—have been hollowed out, their legitimacy pawned for short-term gains.

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Twice, if I like it... @twiceifilikeit.bsky.social · Mar 11

The political landscape is a grotesque carnival, a rotating freak show of grifters and zealots, all jostling for power while the audience, half-drunk on rage, cheers and jeers from the stands.

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Twice, if I like it... @twiceifilikeit.bsky.social · Mar 11

The country is high on its own supply of misinformation, mainlining paranoia through the veins of the internet, while a dwindling middle class clings to the last shreds of the American illusion—home ownership, dignity, a future.

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Twice, if I like it... @twiceifilikeit.bsky.social · Mar 11

The dream, once a glistening neon promise, now flickers like a busted Vegas sign, half-lit and buzzing with the dull hum of betrayal.

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Twice, if I like it... @twiceifilikeit.bsky.social · Mar 11

"The great American experiment teeters on the edge, a bloated, thrashing beast riddled with self-inflicted wounds, staggering under the weight of its own contradictions.

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Twice, if I like it... @twiceifilikeit.bsky.social · Mar 11

I asked ChatGPT to describe the current state of America from Hunter S. Thompson's point of view if he was alive, and it nailed it... 🧵

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Just George Oh 🦃🍂 @timmytwoshirts.bsky.social · Feb 26

you have to
snap out of it
remember who you are

this can't be
what destroys
you

not after everything
you've survived
not after how hard you've worked

not this
not you
not now
not ever

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Twice, if I like it... @twiceifilikeit.bsky.social · Feb 18

Sommelier?

Nay.

SommlYAY!!!!

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Jan 6

Happy You Don't Actually Get in Trouble For Inciting An Armed Rebellion You Get Rewarded Day for all who celebrate

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