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Beth Boyle Machlan

@bethmachlan.bsky.social

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Essayist, educator, Zillow stalker, hockey fan, pet pic poster. Usually tired; probably mad. Words at The Common, Catapult, Avidly, River Teeth, NYT, The Rumpus, Guernica. CFA-UAW she/her https://linktr.ee/bethmachlan?utm_source=linktree_admin_share

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 8d

What happened at the ICE facility today?

Well the brownshirts got mad at a group of axolotls doing the hokey pokey, who were then relieved by a set of fluorescent macaws who spent the night dancing the collected works of Martha Graham.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 9h

Satisfying pro bono work.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10h

If you were out in the streets today, thanks. If you left feeling inspired, please seek out local ways that you can keep organizing with others.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 10h

As ever... the vast, vast majority of people don't want the hellscape the right is forcing on us. they really are the minority viewpoint. vocal? yes. powerful? unfortunately, yes. But there are so many more people who don't want to live in the world they're trying to make.

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Beth Boyle Machlan @bethmachlan.bsky.social · 10h

I think your mind is made up, so not sure why I’m bothering, but no one here was bored. behind the line were tents to sign up for activism in specific areas — climate, free speech, and absentee voting, a referendum in ME this year. So please don’t generalize. I think it’s ok to find some joy.

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Beth Boyle Machlan @bethmachlan.bsky.social · 10h

What are you even talking about? Who is Molly? I took this picture (with permission) this morning in Maine, and both of us were very much there, thanks.

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Beth Boyle Machlan @bethmachlan.bsky.social · 10h

THAT IS NOT ME! But I took the picture :-)

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HELL-azear @lazear.bsky.social · 13h

Wow they found a way to get new Yorkers to willingly go to Times Square.

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Beth Boyle Machlan @bethmachlan.bsky.social · 14h

Is everyone checking to make sure they spelled “fascist” right or is that just me?

Poster board sign that says “if you’re against antifa(scism) maybe you’re a fa(scist)”

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

Dodger organist Dieter Ruehle plays “Jesus Christ Superstar” as Shohei Ohtani leaves the mound after one of the greatest single game performances in MLB history.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 1d

BOOM!

After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe,

UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH!

✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾

M.I.T. ☑️
BROWN ☑️
PENN ☑️
USC☑️
UVA ☑️

This is People Power in Action.

#DefendHigherEd

Big crowd with signs reading “Don’t Fold”

“Don’t Surrender”

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

State troopers in riot gear just plowed into the crowd, started arresting protesters and clergy.

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Beth Boyle Machlan @bethmachlan.bsky.social · 2d

Can’t believe this asshat is now meddling with Maine. Please, boo him til he cries.

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Once again threatening us with what we actually want.

New York Magazine @nymag.com · 2d

Newly surfaced internet comments made by Graham Platner — he once identified as a Communist, and railed against police — present the Maine senate candidate with his first real test.

Graham Platner’s Honeymoon Is Over

Newly surfaced internet comments made by Graham Platner — he once identified as a Communist, and railed against police — present the Maine senate candidate with his first real test.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 2d

There’s not being prepared for the job interview and then there’s flaunting you do not care about understanding the medium you are taking over because you have benefactors.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2d

“Two sources say Weiss has said to others that she doesn’t own a television herself.”

Inside Bari Weiss’s First 10 Days as the Controversial Head of CBS News

After a softball Netanyahu interview, newsroom sources tell Zeteo the start of Weiss's tenure at CBS has been chaotic and has underscored her own pro-Israel biases.

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 2d

That said, if you’re working multiple jobs simultaneously, have a side hustle, etc., I’d love to chat with you, especially if you’re an earlyish career worker. (Though this definitely doesn’t just impact young workers—it’s across the board.) DMs open, email [email protected]

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Beth Boyle Machlan @bethmachlan.bsky.social · 2d

I’m in Maine. Platner signs everywhere. Nobody up here wants Mills. They respect her time as governor but time to retire. And please, Chuck Schumer, GTFO of our business.

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It’s all just content to them.

Beth Boyle Machlan @bethmachlan.bsky.social · 2d

In which posing nude comes back to bite me.

Alive and Ticking

I really, REALLY hate ticks.

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago judges: absolutely NO gassing and beating people, especially press

Ice: ok

(5 minutes pass)

Chicago judges: did I just see you beat and teargas everyone including the police

Ice: no must have been somebody else, probably immigrants

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Beth Boyle Machlan @bethmachlan.bsky.social · 4d

Chuck Schumer get out of my life FFS

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 5d

For my newsletter today, I wrote about the American police state and how Democrats are going to have to kill it if they have any hope of rebuilding from the authoritarian Trump regime. www.burnsnotice.com/democrats-mu...

Democrats Must Kill Their Inner Cops

Who needs the National Guard when your state troopers are perfectly willing to crack protester skulls all on their own? Listen, Illinois governor JB Pritzker is not perfect, but he's my guy. Or at le...

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 8d

Katelyn Burns is, in my opinion, one of the most effective writers when it comes to clearly establishing the stakes of our moment in history in easily understood terms, and I'd strongly encourage you to support her work.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 8d

It's been awhile since I've done a serious paid subscriber drive on here. I came into this year with 509 paid Patreon subscribers and set the ambitious goal of hitting 1000 by the end of this year. I'm a little behind pace on that now at 802. patreon.com/katelynburns

Katelyn Burns | Patreon

creating LGBTQ journalism

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 8d

damn did I wake up and get milkshake ducked by the Nobel Prize Committee

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