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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 1d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 21h

all these people protesting today in groups of a few dozen on the main streets of small towns in deep red Trump country - where they will absolutely take shit from their neighbors about it at church tomorrow or at work on Monday or next time they go to the grocery store - are braver than the Marines

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besha (but spooky) @besha.bsky.social · 22h

Looked like about 50 and 40, respectively, but I wasn’t there at prime time!

besha (but spooky) @besha.bsky.social · 1d

Not only is there a No Kings protest in the town of 3500 where I went to high school, there’s also a No Kings protest in the one-stoplight town I’d drive through in my commute.

I need anyone who scorns normie organizing to understand how brave and also how angry you have to be to do this.

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besha (but spooky) @besha.bsky.social · 1d

Home northeastern Washington. It’s deep red country—the main economic activities are beef, logging, and white supremacist militias.

Before WA did primaries, my mom would host the Dem caucus for the county and bring a good book because she knew nobody else would show up.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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besha (but spooky) @besha.bsky.social · 1d

there the antic sits, wearing an inflatable frog suit, scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

The only thing that anyone ever needs to know about Bill Ackman is that he once joined a group of avid long distance bikers from NYC to Montauk and back without training or preparation, arrogant in his ability to "lead the pack" and ended up screaming in agony

The others fell in behind, at first struggling to keep up with the alpha leader. But soon enough Ackman faltered—at Mile 32, Ackman recalls—and fell way behind the others. He was clearly “bonking,” as they say in the cycling world, which is what happens when a rider is dehydrated and his energy stores are depleted.

While everyone else rode back to Loeb’s East Hampton mansion, one of Loeb’s friends, David “Tiger” Williams, a respected cyclist and trader, painstakingly guided Ackman, who by then could barely pedal and was letting out primal screams of pain from the cramps in his legs, back to Bridgehampton. “I was in unbelievable pain,” Ackman recalls. As the other riders noted, it was really rather ridiculous for him to have gone out so fast, trying to lead the pack, considering his lack of training. Why not acknowledge your limits and set a pace you could maintain? As one rider notes, “I’ve never had an experience where someone has gone from being so aggressive on a bike to being so hopelessly unable to even turn the pedals…. His mind wrote a check that his body couldn’t cash.”

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besha (but spooky) @besha.bsky.social · 1d

“infant costume oompa-loompa same day”

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besha (but spooky) @besha.bsky.social · 3d

I love thissssss

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besha (but spooky) @besha.bsky.social · 3d

Elle ask Schuyler about his latest project

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d

Extremely specific ask!

in search of leads for OREGON ONLY artists, crafters, creative practitioners for ArtsWatch story about protest art / art as protest. poets, knitters, muralists, anything. happy to anonymize you for safety if preferred!

ping me here: www.clairewillettwrites.com/contact-me

Contact Me! — Claire Willett

www.clairewillettwrites.com

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Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · 4d

In this authoritarian order, brute force blots out the importance of first response for human health: Federal agents blocked an ambulance and threatened the driver.

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 4d

Members of the Unpresidented Brass Band were bull rushed & brutalized in the middle of playing "Ghostbusters." One was sent to the hospital and another tackled, arrested, and taken across state lines where she is still being detained.

Read more about Sunday's protest in Portland here:

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besha (but spooky) @besha.bsky.social · 4d

My spouse gave Siri a text file of 300 dad jokes which can be summoned at will on the HomePods. If anyone is looking for a roommate in SE Portland, he’ll be looking for new housing soon.

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besha (but spooky) @besha.bsky.social · 4d

• hate any exercise that involves lifting over my head: turns out my rotator cuffs are basically cups o’ noodles

besha (but spooky) @besha.bsky.social · 4d

• sitting like a bisexual at all times: stabilizes various muscles, but also I have A Theory about hyperflexibility and queer people, and it is derivative of Eliza Gauger’s Floppy Nerd Theory

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besha (but spooky) @besha.bsky.social · 4d

• holding breath for no obvious reason: stabilizes the core temporarily

• walking with big toes bent up/back: stabilizes feet and legs, also wrecks shoes

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besha (but spooky) @besha.bsky.social · 5d

I have been doing hypermobility-specific fitness classes for most of a year now. I’m in much less pain now and I rarely sprain or sublux doing normal activities anymore.

I also keep finding more lifelong quirks that turn out to be due to hypermobility. A running list:

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

steady.page

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 7d

Massive escalation at the Portland ICE facility. Worst I’ve ever seen. More pepper balls than I can count. Teargas in the middle of crowd. Violent arrests. Some type of either noise or rubber bullet shotgun fired into the air then later aimed at protesters chests/heads at near point blank range.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 8d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.