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alicia @justliketheweather.bsky.social · 1d

While our justice system is predicated upon the notion of the presumption of innocence until the establishment of guilt, there should be limits to what a highly visible figure can do to establish that innocence outside of the court of law. There aren't, though, not really. - Roxane Gay
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alicia @justliketheweather.bsky.social · 1d

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alicia @justliketheweather.bsky.social · 1d

There is perhaps no force so strong in the public conventions of twentieth-century American courtship as nostalgia, the lure of an imagined past. - Beth Bailey
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alicia @justliketheweather.bsky.social · 1d

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alicia @justliketheweather.bsky.social · 1d

Government by bootlick bureaucracy cannot work. - Timothy Snyder
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alicia @justliketheweather.bsky.social · 1d

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alicia @justliketheweather.bsky.social · 1d

It's time we knew whether a durable democracy is possible-one whose laws are not just guidelines. One where individual rights cannot be ignored by the powerful. - Daniel Suarez
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alicia @justliketheweather.bsky.social · 1d

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alicia @justliketheweather.bsky.social · 1d

One of the most frustrating parts about being human is that the person who is the worst will be universally lauded for being the best. - Marie-Helene Bertino
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alicia @justliketheweather.bsky.social · 1d

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alicia @justliketheweather.bsky.social · 1d

Always the same blunt strategy, Paavo thought, to keep us so concerned with staying alive, we forget about living. - Anne Michaels
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alicia @justliketheweather.bsky.social · 1d

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alicia @justliketheweather.bsky.social · 1d

almost all conservative regimes are so intent on its preservation (though few ask why something so natural, so inevitable, requires such laborious propping up). - Becca Rothfeld
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alicia @justliketheweather.bsky.social · 1d

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alicia @justliketheweather.bsky.social · 1d

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art the art of words. - Ursula K. Le Guin
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alicia @justliketheweather.bsky.social · 1d

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alicia @justliketheweather.bsky.social · 2d

and our hopes such as they are
invisible before us
untouched and still possible
- W. S. Merwin

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alicia @justliketheweather.bsky.social · Sep 19

Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era | The Daily Show

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · Sep 18

Nobody talks about his hard it is to be both a people pleaser and a committed curmudgeon

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · Sep 17

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · Sep 17

Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years.

Speaks for itself.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Aug 23

You don’t need to send me a story about how it saved you an hour at work or helped you solve a math riddle or even self-diagnose a medical ailment. My thinking will be the same. That is nice and it is still not worth the societal costs.

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · Aug 12

"You work in healthcare? What's the craziest thing you've seen?"

I don't know man, but it's probably RFK Jr and this administration cutting vaccine funding, firing top health officials and scientists, linking fake studies to support "wellness" BS, letting children die of measles, shall I go on?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jul 10

i just think if sean duffy can be NASA administrator that i should’ve at least been considered at the conclave

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alicia @justliketheweather.bsky.social · Jul 4

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Mark Snow, ‘X-Files,’ ‘Ghost Whisperer,’ ‘Blue Bloods’ Composer, Dies at 78

Mark Snow, the veteran television composer who turned "The X-Files" theme into an unlikely chart hit in the 1990s has died. He was 78.

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