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M. Kelly

@emkelly.bsky.social

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Unapologetic feminist. Trans ally. Black Lives Matter. Background biology/math. Special fondness for cephalopods, mycology, astronomy, & animals. Hobby cook & baker. I'll miss the country we never actually were but fuck it we ball.

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M. Kelly @emkelly.bsky.social · Nov 8

Tbc, I'm blocking all fake leftists who refuse to grapple with our country's well established racism & misogyny & hide behind "economic anxiety," which it was never about, not in the 1930s, 2016, or 2024, & I'm not putting up with anyone who pretends otherwise. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2h

Yesterday, millions of us affirmed the foundation of the common good. That solidarity is stronger than Trump and his lapdogs. Our determination is more powerful. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-in-solidarity

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Sara Bethell @sarabethell.bsky.social · 21h

Careful at those #nokings rallies. I hear they’re full of radical Antifa thugs.

93-year-old woman with big sunglasses and a walker with a sign that says RADICAL ANTIFA THUG in Beverly, Massachusetts

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 7h

My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22h

A gentleman holds up a “no dictators” sign next to Pikachu and Cartman

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Tim Edwards @timzero4.bsky.social · 20h

No Kings - Boston 😮

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h'Owl @empowlr.bsky.social · 13h

All this AND Triscuit and Hydrox got adopted together today! They are a bonded pair who came to Austin in the flooding aftermath.

Two small dogs wearing bandanas smile at the camera. One is black and one is tan.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."

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M. Kelly @emkelly.bsky.social · 1h

Similar to her ideas about free speech, which she has, unlike the people criticizing her.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 3h

in bari’s world, “whistleblowers” are represented by the alliance defending freedom

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

In a specific way, Weiss tells the same story as Chris Rufo: I am exposing how rotten the institutions are. This is a very selective worldview that protects lots of institutional corruption by your billionaire sponsors. The contradictions are even harder to maintain when you run the institutions.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

At the University of Austin, students are told to follow Chatham House Rules. But if you are an employee at an org with trans policies you object to, or DEI employees Trump has not fired yet, the Free Press wants you to betray the confidences of your colleagues. www.thefp.com/p/us-mint-co...

EXCLUSIVE: Inside the U.S. Mint’s Scramble to Conceal DEI Personnel

The bureau hid its five DEI staffers from Trump—and then covered their trail, a whistleblower tells The Free Press.

www.thefp.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

As a reminder to everyone, a key part of the Bari Weiss origin story is her livetweeting editorial meetings.
In the institutions she critiques she treats leakers (including herself) as principled dissenters. In the institutions she controls, she expects loyal silence.

Bari Weiss tweeting about the civil war in the NY Times

Another NY Times employee says: "I am in the same meeting that Bari appears to be livetweeting"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2h

This is what solidarity looks like. Together, we will win.

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crash @404evr.com · 3h

Not sure if it's redundant, but I also found & subbed to this one to magaBot-block
(the dumbasses found out they were getting nuked so they generated bot accounts to auto-share posts 'for visibility,' & in doing so, revealed they have no clue about how bluesky works)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 18h

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 21h

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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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's federal agents shot Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, multiple times for allegedly menacing them with her car in Chicago. Only hours later, Kristi Noem and DHS started spreading disinformation about the shooting.

Now the official line is crumbling. 1/

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newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged.

As the official Trump administration line about the shooting of a Chicago woman crumbles, Senator Chris Murphy is asking pointed questions about what really happened here. Will we ever get answers?

newrepublic.com

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Stella Parton @sweetstella.bsky.social · 4h

I may not like the situation we find ourselves in at the moment but I feel good knowing I’m on the right side of history.
My grandson Liam will remember his Yia Yia standing up for his rights in America.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 5h

Hard not to think of this framing as compensation for Trump’s poorly-attended July 4 military parade with the squeaky tank, and on a day of massive peaceful pretest against the Trump administration all over the country (with millions, not “thousands” attending)

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 6h

This is quite a hed/subhed.
1) Start with Vance. Use strong action verb. Accept the autocratic premise that the “Marines’ Might” are Vance’s to flex.
2) Mention the protest second and absurdly describe them as in the thousands
3) Treat Trump’s strong man use of the military as a partisan scuffle.

Vance Flexes the Marines’ Might as Thousand Protest Trump’s Agenda
VP JD Vance’s trips o a military base in California illustrated rising tensions between the federal government and Democratic leaders

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 13h

@nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @cnn.com are you going to write about the president of the United States posting a clip of himself literally dumping shit on Americans, or is it nbd?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress nearly a month ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in. Why the delay? Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 5h

19 October 1923 | A Polish Jew, Józef Weinstok, was born in Radom.

In #Auschwitz from 30 January 1942.
No. 26155
He was shot in the camp on 4 September 1943.
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Watch a short video about Block 11 and its yard where shooting executions were held: https://youtu.be/3hjDCsqgGY0

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 5h

Arnold Schwarzenegger went on Bill Maher and said that Lincoln gave "the blacks" the right to vote.

"Lincoln made sure that the blacks got the right to vote. The Republican Party made sure that the blacks become citizens of the United States."

Not enough people know Lincoln was fucking racist.

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