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Ed Bejzak @masteredtc.bsky.social · 2d

Why is anyone listening to anything David Brooks says at this point?

Ed Bejzak @masteredtc.bsky.social · 2d

I was today years old when I heard of #ZadieSmith. I feel like I've been missing someone significant.

“Something that is colonizing your attention, manipulating the way it’s directed, is not neutral,” Zadie Smith on mind control and freeing one’s attention
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Zadie Smith on mind control and freeing one’s attention

‘Everything online has been talked about as if it’s not ideological, as if it’s neutral...But something that is colonizing your attention, manipulating the way it’s directed, is not neutral,’ Smith.

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Ed Bejzak @masteredtc.bsky.social · 7d

We had tickets to see #mandypatinkin in Wilmington, DE last night. We had trouble finding which venue it was in. Then were told the show was cancelled. Unable to find any information other than #VividSeats showing it rescheduled for April of '26. Hope MP & family are well @mandykathryn.bsky.social

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 12d

Reposting this.

To outshine the White House demolition news grab.

Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 15d

Washington, D.C.’s No Kings protest is converging on a rallying point just west of the Capitol building. This was one of several locally-organized feeder marches just before merging with an even bigger crowd on Pennsylvania Avenue 👇

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 15d

SEVEN MILLION. WOW.

Nice work everyone, especially @leahgreenberg.bsky.social @ezralevin.bsky.social and the whole team at @indivisible.org.

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15d

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

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Truthout @truthout.org · 17d

"When you’re face to face with somebody in person, you are just more able to really lean into their humanity and also be much more willing to share your own."

Making Things Together: Zines, Strategy, and Survival

“We’re going to need a lot more in-person opportunities for us to expand our humanity,” says organizer Mariame Kaba.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18d

“The most patriotic thing that you can do is say no kings.”

Jean Smart is asking you to join us in the streets on Saturday. Let’s make No Kings Day the biggest and loudest peaceful protest in modern American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Indivisible Central Delaware @indivisiblecde.bsky.social · 19d

The place to be. 10/18/25
#nokings #DoverDE

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19d

Saturday is going to be huge, boisterous and joyful: “It doesn’t matter if you’ve never protested before. This is a place for you if you believe we don’t do kings in this country.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social to @maddow.msnbc.com

Please join us on No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19d

Saturday is going to be huge, boisterous and joyful: “It doesn’t matter if you’ve never protested before. This is a place for you if you believe we don’t do kings in this country.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social to @maddow.msnbc.com

Please join us on No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Marc Maron @marcmaron.bsky.social · 20d

Today is the final episode of the show! wtfpod.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20d

Israeli settlers continue to wage war on Palestinians in the West Bank and elsewhere. They are breaking into people's homes, stealing their stuff, trashing their homes and sometimes kidnapping and killing people. This is happening NOW. People should know this.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 21d

The thing that is most devastating to me about the ongoing evisceration of the public health infrastructure in the U.S right is how little awareness of what's going on the majority of people in the general public have and the impact this will have on their health and safety.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20d

NO KINGS, y'all! October 18! Find a rally near you and GO!

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22d

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
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No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23d

But that’s no excuse for not showing up.

Show up to a protest on the 18th. It’s a way to stand up and be counted for the proposition that what these people are doing to your country is not right, not acceptable.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 26d

The early part of this episode (and transcript) covers some of the resistance that has been happening on the ground here, in terms of protests, rapid response, ICE patrols, and mutual aid.

Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship

“There is no neutral ground in this moment. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Oct 3

Speaking for all physicians and healthcare providers here. When we see patients in need of care especially in an emergency room we do not leave them for dead. We do not care about their immigration status, we treat them because that is what we took an oath to do and is also basic human decency.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 3

Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."

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Ed Bejzak @masteredtc.bsky.social · Sep 24

@cliffhillis.bsky.social Nice work with Dennis Schocket on pop, girls, etc. Quite delicious.Thank you for the gems.

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Marc Maron @marcmaron.bsky.social · Sep 21

Tomorrow is Christopher Guest day on the show!

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 16

‘This country’s gonna fall on its face. There’s nobody coming to save us’: Boston punks Dropkick Murphys take on Maga

Videos of frontman Ken Casey confronting rightwing provocateurs at the band’s gigs have gone viral, attracting new fans and new safety worries. He wants to lower the temperature – and see other bands speaking out

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Sep 16

The problem with USB-C is that you don't experience the joy of getting it right on the first try like you do with USB-A.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · Sep 15

in case you haven't seen the news today: the terrible people are doing more terrible things and the media is broadly saying it's good they're doing that

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · Sep 15

“I certainly won’t be gaslit into performatively pretending that Charlie Kirk was some sort of saint in death when he was actually just a truly awful person in life.” — W. Kamau Bell

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