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"The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
'T is not too late to seek a newer world."

We need not always mourn what is dying.

Fairly erudite. More than fairly iconoclastic.
I adore Jade.
Pinned
The default position of the democratic coalition has to be this:

Everyone. Gets. To. Be. Free.

Everyone.

We do not throw members of our coalition to the fashy wolves.
We do not concede that some state-sanctioned bigotry is okay.

Nope.
None of that shit.

We. All. Get. To. Be. Free.

That's it.
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Ready to call them concentration camps yet?
February 19, 2026 at 2:34 AM
I hate, hate, hate that the arts have to go begging wealthy patrons for operational funding.

Like, it's fucking gross that professional ballerinas have to make themselves available for catered after-parties with donors.

How do I know these are a thing? I've been to them... and it's fucking gross.
February 19, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Yo, if you never fly on a private jet, then you'll never accidentally fly on a private jet that's used for child-sex trafficking.

Seems pretty fucking simple.
February 19, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.
This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.
February 19, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Universities shouldn't need to go beg obscenely super rich people to donate money to them for buildings or programs.

The public should be able to access publicly-funded universities easily and cheaply...

and there shouldn't BE obscenely super rich people at all in a functional and free society.
February 19, 2026 at 2:35 AM
You don't know what your university admin actually DOES, do you?

I mean, like, besides getting paid way too much and raising your tuition.

It's a trick question. That's really all they do.
February 19, 2026 at 2:29 AM
(claps with every syllable)
We. Do. Not. Compromise. Anyone's. Freedoms.

We all clear on that?

Everyone. Gets. To. Be. Free.

That's the rule. That's the baseline for everything we do.
This is why "Let's give in on some of the trans stuff because it'd be a popular compromise and you have to meet people where they are" is not only immoral but politically stupid.

Republicans were never going to stop there. They stop when you stop them.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...
With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans
www.nytimes.com
February 19, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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the president of my alma mater canceled all the diversity scholarships bc of this and I showed up at a fancy event he had in Georgetown and got in his face about it and told him this is how it would end up

pretty sure he just wanted to do it anyway
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
February 19, 2026 at 12:23 AM
This is child abuse, and the right-wing bastards subjecting kids to this barbarity should be driven from society with switches of infernal fire.
McMahon’s Department of Education wants to leapfrog the whole school voucher conversation and just feed your kids to Grok.

mashable.com/article/ai-a...
February 19, 2026 at 2:19 AM
If you work at or attend a college or university, especially a traditionally prestigious one, it's more than likely that the administration of your institution deserves some version of public humiliation for kowtowing to the fashy regime before getting ignominiously fired and chased from campus.
February 19, 2026 at 2:14 AM
This "socialism" they keep screaming at me about sounds pretty fucking awesome, not gonna lie.
Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"

Social Security - "That's socialism!"

Debt free education - "That's socialism!"

Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"

Billions for ICE, refurbishing Trump's Qatar jet, and tax cuts for the rich...

"That's just how it is."
February 19, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"

Social Security - "That's socialism!"

Debt free education - "That's socialism!"

Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"

Billions for ICE, refurbishing Trump's Qatar jet, and tax cuts for the rich...

"That's just how it is."
February 19, 2026 at 1:01 AM
The President of the United States is a child rapist, and the government of the United States is doing its damnedest to cover up his child-raping.
NEWS: The FBI interviewed an Epstein victim who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was underage not once — but at least FOUR times. But the document that shows those additional interviews appears to have been deleted from the DOJ website. substack.com/home/post/p-...
DOJ Removed Record of Multiple FBI Interviews with Underage Trump Accuser, Epstein Data Shows
The FBI spoke at least four times with a woman who credibly accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor, Epstein files show. That document is no longer accessible on the DOJ website.
substack.com
February 19, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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NEW
Epstein files reveal a data center on Little St. James, the same island visited by powerful figures across finance, politics, and tech including Sergey Brin and his ex wife, who survivors named as people they met on the island. The public deserves to know the purpose of that data center.
February 18, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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February 18, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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There’s a lot to investigate and report on from today’s stunning deposition of Les Wexner. But here’s something I can’t get over.

I asked Mr. Wexner if the DOJ or FBI ever contacted him to ask him about Epstein and his crimes. He said NO. That’s outrageous and unforgivable.
February 18, 2026 at 9:58 PM
This "teacher, author, and poet" can't possibly be serious as any of the fucking three.
Meanwhile, on threads, which actually is like what people on twitter think bluesky is like, a "teacher, author, poet" speaks...
February 18, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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There are 28 Republican members on the House Oversight Committee.

None of them showed for Les Wexner’s deposition on Epstein.

Cowards.
February 18, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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propaganda works. I suspect it probably works better on people who think they're immune to it
X's algorithm is in fact doing what you think it's doing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 18, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Met Sasha Grey in line for Pirates at Disneyland.
Obviously couldn't explain how I knew who she was.
Ok Bluesky, what are your most low key celebrity interactions? I once shared a lift with Tim Finn and put drinks in Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward’s fridge. My husband sold cheese to John Cleese and my mum delivered groceries to Gough Whitlam. Go!!
February 18, 2026 at 8:39 PM
If you're a journalist, and your reaction to the world is "I need to be popular" rather than "I need to burn down the secrets of the powerful," THEN WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU EVEN DOING?

Go be a birthday party clown or something, where you get the applause you need without fucking over the rest of us.
February 18, 2026 at 8:27 PM
By having humans stop watching movies written by AI.

On both the supply and the demand side of the AI grift are human beings.
Yes and how do we keep making movies out of books if Hollywood stops buying books from humans?
February 18, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Impeach the child-rapist and all his child-rapist-hiding goons.
February 18, 2026 at 8:21 PM
@nicktimeraos.bsky.social, the economic correpspondent for the Wall Street Journal, just complained that BlueSky doesn't give him the same reach and feel as Twitter because here everyone wants to "block everyone."

When I quotetweeted him and asked journalists to have more integrity, he blocked me.
February 18, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Journalists: "But I stay on Twitter because I want to feel popular."

The rest of us, out here fighting fascism with our nails and teeth:
a picture of yoda with the words that is why you fail below him
Alt: a picture of yoda with the words that is why you fail below him
media.tenor.com
February 18, 2026 at 8:12 PM