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Lisa Screaminger

@ohseafarer.bsky.social

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who is a Cleveland Browns fan and therefore hates football ✨️ she/her ✨️ fat & happy mid-40s midwesterner ✨️ interests include: hiking, birds, movies, road trips, mutual aid, strength training, no more fascists, and [see pinned post]

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Lisa Screaminger @ohseafarer.bsky.social · Jun 26

What if I only ever post here about Metallica recording a cover of "We Built This City" as a personal favor to me

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 2h

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 2h

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com · Feb 19

In a remotely functioning republic, he should be begging before Congress, for his life's sake, that they believe he was joking

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Lisa Screaminger @ohseafarer.bsky.social · 40m

God even in the promo materials and the OG video cover they stuck Loretta Devine off to the side and had her in frumpier clothes and body-minimizing poses

half her body is behind Angela Bassett in this group photo

she's in some kind of Canadian tuxedo while the other ladies are in lightweight elegant flowing outfits

another angle on the previous photoshoot, this time they're framed by candles on a coffee table that are clustered in front of Devine so your eye is drawn to the empty space in front of the other ladies who aren't blocked off

Lisa Screaminger @ohseafarer.bsky.social · 55m

I (and all my internalized fatphobia and body/self-image issues) am the product of how unbelievably wretched it was in the 90s so it's like galactic impact psychic damage to revisit things and see how many bodies I accepted as presented as grotesquely fat are just regular old perfectly good bodies

Lisa Screaminger @ohseafarer.bsky.social · 1h

Okay I need to go to bed because that post from Saeed made me think I should go watch some Gregory Hines being so hot but Loretta Devine's big hangup in that movie (and the advertising around it) was over how fat she/people thought she was??? THIS Loretta Devine? www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMaxJX8s/

#LorettaDevine had me cracking up with this scene😅🥰 #WaitingToExhale #fyp

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2h

“Waiting to Exhale” because of the film itself, the ensemble, the ideas the film and novel injected into pop culture AND because it gave us one of the best movie soundtracks of all-time. Also, Whitney’s best comedic performance AND Angela Bassett’s crash out scene.

*taps gavel*

🧛🏿‍♂️Count Niggula 🦇🇳🇬🇨🇩 @theigbobear.blacksky.app · Aug 24

Only One Movie Can Stay, Which One Are You Picking? #BlackSky #BlackSkyOver30 #BlackSkyOver40

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Lisa Screaminger @ohseafarer.bsky.social · 1h

I think all the time about the look on Loretta Devine's face when she makes that self-deprecating comment and Gregory Hines almost immediately hits on her

Lisa Screaminger @ohseafarer.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you for your service

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 3h

Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction.

My friends, they have lost the flag.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3h

I could kinda buy any other President pretending they’re shrugging off 7 million people hitting the streets to convey they hate him, but not the guy still beefing with Rosie O’Donnell.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 2h

Sure I was out there protesting fascism in my banana suit, but I think the greatest service I performed was afterwards when we walked past a very tired man with two small children being fussy and he said "Look! Peanut butter jelly time! Peanut butter jelly time!" and I did the dance.

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evelyn maguire @evelyn.fyi · 3h

This post is funny, but it just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the history of feminine labor and craft.

Spinsters dismantled the Spinning Jenny by hand. Suffragettes used acid and bombs to attack politicians. Militant textile workers went on strike by the tens of thousands.

Ian Robberson @microberust.bsky.social · 4h

The Venn Diagram of protestors today who would count as hardcore antifa that are ready to take up arms for the revolution and people whose primary hobby is quilting would be interesting to see.

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lentthinks @lentthinks.bsky.social · 7h

AND, they didn't make this announcement until THIS MORNING at 6 am local. Once you are in this standstill, there is no outlet except to go through. The only workaround adds 2 hours to the commute (from San Diego County to Orange Count) and is now, of course, backed up with traffic.

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Susie Bright @susiebright.bsky.social · 8h

I kid you Not: Trump/Vance closed the biggest freeway in California to fire live ammunition across all the lanes to their private patriotism party.

This is happening right now. There must be hundreds of thousands stuck.

Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 8h

HEADLINE: PRIVATE BEACH PARTY CLOSES I5 FREEWAY

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Joanna Grossman @joannagrossman.bsky.social · 9h

Four bull elk took time away from mating to join the No Kings protest in Estes Park, Colorado. That’s how serious this is.

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thekoolaidmom.bsky.social @thekoolaidmom.bsky.social · 6h

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

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Lisa Screaminger @ohseafarer.bsky.social · 4h

One detail I'm extra enjoying is being able to tell which reporters grew up with Muppets by whether they ask questions while looking at the animal's face or the mesh screen where the human's face is

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 4h

One day some kid taking the AP US History exam is gonna have to write an essay explaining WTF is happening here

Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 7h

MSNBC Live coverage: @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social interviewing a pink unicorn on live television is giving me life. #NoKings

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 4h

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

19thnews @19thnews.org · 5h

Our recent poll found that women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average. Nearly 80 percent of Gen Z women want abortion to be legal and seven in 10 want gender-affirming care to be accessible for trans adults.

Gen Z women are the most liberal group in the country

On issues like abortion and gender-affirming care, women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 4h

I don't think folks have any conception of how radicalized a lot of moms are becoming as they go through shit like "will my babysitter get kidnapped" and "will my child be able to get the measles vaccine"

Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 5h

every smug internet communist tweet about showing up to a No Kings protest with an abolish ICE shirt to scare the libs is getting completely mogged by the real-life winemoms showing up with slogans like "ICE will melt in hell"

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 4h

An urgent question.

According to the FEMA Daily Briefing a presidential disaster declaration was requested on October 16th. To the best of my knowledge it hasn’t been granted. Any event of this size should be an easy and immediate yes.

Bryce Maschino @bmaschino.bsky.social · 4h

Where is FEMA?

Western Alaska residents from storm-ravaged villages arrive in Anchorage by the hundreds

Kipnuk and Kwigillingok residents continued to land Thursday night in Anchorage, carrying backpacks and plastic bags filled with their belongings as they exited a military transport plane.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 4h

Absolutely. They’re trying to pass a law right now so student ID’s can’t be used to vote

Shivani T’gai Seth @shivaniswriting.bsky.social · 5h

Indiana flipped blue for Obama and I remember how wild it was. There’s a ton of voter suppression going on there too.

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Lisa Screaminger @ohseafarer.bsky.social · 4h

I mean, accurate, but I'm actually about to switch to this playlist that you might remember from a different ebullient weekend online open.spotify.com/playlist/4mO...

🥳🥳 It Happened 🥳🥳 (i'm pregaming)

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Lisa Screaminger @ohseafarer.bsky.social · 4h

I was cleaning up my Spotify playlists so I can jump ship when it's up for renewal and lolllllll my daylist rn is called "thrash metal metalheads saturday evening" but it's literally only Metallica for six hours

a screenshot of the playlist with the first three of its 50 Metallica tracks

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Lisa Screaminger @ohseafarer.bsky.social · 5h

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5h

Oh…oh wow.

"They say they're referring to me as a king. I'm not a king," Trump said in a Fox News interview that aired early Friday, before he departed for a $1 million-per-plate MAGA Inc. fundraiser at his club.

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