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Ann Gelder ❌👑 @anngelder.bsky.social · 4h

There was a time when I mostly posted about writing and cats and life’s little daily amusements. I would like to do more of that.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.

www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Ann Gelder ❌👑 @anngelder.bsky.social · 1d

A black cat sleeping with her paw alongside her head; her fuzzy tail is in the foreground.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

I love Tim Curry very much (Rocky Horror obv but also Clue is one of my very favorite movies ever) and I'm glad he is still doing stuff and enjoying himself

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Tim Curry Isn’t Done Yet

www.nytimes.com

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Splinter @splinternews.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump Administration Is Terrified of No Kings Protests www.splinter.com/the-trump-ad...

The Trump Administration Is Terrified of No Kings Protests

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 3d

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 3d

Wow this Bob Hicok poem, “All Together Now” (courtesy of All Poems Daily)

Wasn't Jesus an illegal immigrant?
He just arrived in Israel without papers or history or sex, so wouldn't He be deported today if He were mowing lawns in America? I bet Jesus would mow a mean lawn, and be really good at edging,
and pet your dog if it got loose in the yard and wondered who this stranger was.
And isn't shooting a priest in the head with a pepperball during a peaceful protest the equivalent, by proxy, of shooting Jesus in the head with a pepperball, which, by extension, is the same as shooting God in the head with a pepperball, which, for those of us who don't believe in God, is like shooting the sun, or the moon, or the air in the head with a pepperball, which is easy to do, including for me, even though I only fired a gun
once,
at a steel chicken, who was at a disadvantage and should have been given a head start.
The priest was telling the man who shot him, a federal agent on top of a building wearing a mask, the man, not the building,

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Alex Jungroth @alexjungroth.bsky.social · 10d

If you live in California, please write to Gavin Newsom in support of these five trans rights bills by Oct 12th.

All you need to do is write a one sentence comment to the effect of:

I support these bills and trans people.

Thank you so much for your support! 💙🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#trans #BlueCrew #CA #US

Action Needed: Urge Governor Newsom to Sign Five Critical Trans Rights Bills

TransFamily Support Services is proud to co-sponsor five critical trans rights bills that have officially passed the California Legislature. This is a major victory—one made possible through a powerfu...

transfamilysos.org

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 3d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Ann Gelder ❌👑 @anngelder.bsky.social · 3d

Damn Steely Dan earworm

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 5d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 5d

MIT showing the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Ann Gelder ❌👑 @anngelder.bsky.social · 5d

Just like the white tailed kite 🎶…(those eyes!) merlinbirds.org/species/whtk...

Here's my Bird of the Day - White-tailed Kite

Merlin Bird ID is a free app that helps you find more birds.

merlinbirds.org

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Ann Gelder ❌👑 @anngelder.bsky.social · 5d

Sigh. Oh well, onward…

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 5d

NOBEL PEACE PRICE COMMITTEE: WE GIVE THIS AWARD, FOR PEACE

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 5d

Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:

María Corina Machado ©
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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
8:34 AM • 10/10/25 • 30K Views

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Ann Gelder ❌👑 @anngelder.bsky.social · 5d

I love this story!

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 5d

Very happy to have new work forthcoming in @fabulistmag.bsky.social . I’ll post again when my ogre story is up. But here’s a link to my Pushcart-nominated story from 2020. #booksky #writingcommunity 💙📚💙

The Age of the Cuttlefish > The Fabulist Words & Art

This sly, wry, surreal, and vaguely Lovecraftian parable is an apt season closer for the apocalyptic summer of 2020, and an unnerving point of entry for the even more uncertain autumn that's still ahead.

fabulistmagazine.com

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Bulb Culture Collective @bulbculture.bsky.social · 5d

The light is on for Keiran Elden!💡

“hemianopia” is a visually stunning poem that flows through language and thought with aplomb.

Check out Keiran’s wonderful writing over at the site!

hemianopia - Keiran Elden — Bulb Culture Collective

i didn’t look in mirrors.

www.bulbculturecollective.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 5d

"I am not fearful — I am fearless."

HELL YEAH

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5d

New statement from AG James:

"This is nothing more than a continuation of the president's desperate weaponization of our justice system.

"I am not fearful — I am fearless."

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 5d

I give shit to Jeffries (and Schumer) when they suck, so it’s also important to recognize when they’re doing it right.

This is doing it right. More of this, indeed. *Everyone* involved in the corruption of this administration MUST face consequences for their actions.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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Ann Gelder ❌👑 @anngelder.bsky.social · 5d

I regret to announce that the changes in my short story recommended by my writing group, which I rejected repeatedly and adamantly, are in fact making the story much better.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5d

i feel like everyone discussing this on either side is doing so as if the CR is the only bite at the apple dems will get when it comes to appropriations, which is not true

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 7d

If Dems win the standoff and get their policy demands, yes they will have substantively helped millions of Americans (a good thing, to be clear), but also they will have kept Republicans from a self-inflicted wound in upcoming elections

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 6d

Mabel & I hope all our fellow Californians vote YES on Prop. 50!

#FightFireWithFire

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