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Here for fandom and politics. Mister Rogers is my life coach. Older than my handle suggests. We can build a better world than this. She/her, cis, white.

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sdw @sdwolfpup.bsky.social · Aug 18

Reintroduction thread:
Name: sdw or sdwolfpup
Pronouns: she/her
Location: PacNW
Hobbies: Music, reading, hating/loving F1, watching TV, fandom stuff, family stuff, trying to keep up w/politics, being busy all the time at work, getting Angry about random things, believing the best in people

PT | Mariners truther @prettythief.bsky.social · Aug 18

Reintroduction thread:
Name: PT/peetee/peet
Pronouns: she/they
Location: Kentucky
Hobbies: reading/listening to audiobooks, running, hiking, training my dog, yelling at my TV about Atlanta Braves baseball, occasionally actually going to ballgames, writing and talking about fanfic!

Mallory 🚀 ⚔️ @wildlingoftarth.bsky.social · Aug 18

Reintroduction thread:
Name: Mallory
Pronouns: she/her
Location: Indianapolis
Hobbies: reading/listening to audiobooks, Crossfit, online window shopping, hanging with my family, reading and (occasionally) writing fanfic

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Bodhi Boo🕊️🩵🤘 @bodhiboo.bsky.social · 20h

Johnny Cash
1932-2003

"It's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people."
JOHNNY CASH

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libby watson @libbycwatson.com · 1d

honestly so chilling to receive a no-subject email from burger king

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Sarah (she/her) @shoesforall.bsky.social · 46m

#uspoli

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1h

There's a lot going on here, but I'm fascinated by the blatant framing of "not only are immigrants workers [and so have value in our society] they are also consumers! [the other form of value in our society]" Workers, consumers ... we'll get to "people" a few paragraphs down.

We're so cooked.

CNN @cnn.com · 2h

The economic fallout from deportations is typically focused on the impact to industries with large unauthorized immigrant workforces, such as construction and agriculture.

But undocumented immigrants aren’t just people who go to work each day. They’re consumers, too. https://cnn.it/4olziQX

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sdw @sdwolfpup.bsky.social · 42m

#uspoli Good. Now someone has to make them though.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2h

BREAKING: Immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other actions against protesters, a judge rules.

'Startled' judge orders agents in Chicago area to wear body cameras after violent clashes

A judge says federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other aggressive steps against protesters.

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1h

The world is so filled with beauty and wonder and I feel very strongly both that it should be a kinder place to live in and that it is within our power to make it as such

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sdw @sdwolfpup.bsky.social · 1h

#uspoli

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 4h

Instead of "This is inappropriate!" Democrats - especially those who might run for president - should say right now "Anyone who participates in this should know: You are committing a crime, and in the next administration you will be prosecuted."

That will change the frame of the story.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 2h

A story in three parts

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2h

There was a 48 hour period on tiktok where the youth were being propagandized to support Osama bin Laden... there were facts... but no context....

If you believe professors are simply human fact machines... you are severely misunderstanding Comprehension and cognition...

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 17h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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sdw @sdwolfpup.bsky.social · 15h

There’s still a chance. #Mariners

sdw @sdwolfpup.bsky.social · 16h

Ms I know you like chaos ball but it would be great to get it together here.

sdw @sdwolfpup.bsky.social · 17h

I know Cal is not mad about the Gold Glove snub but I will be mad enough for both of us.

(Not to mention only ONE Mariner on that whole list. Julio deserves it but literally no one else? Gimme a break.)

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sdw @sdwolfpup.bsky.social · 17h

Julioooooooooo

sdw @sdwolfpup.bsky.social · 17h

#uspoli just because he signed a memorandum doesn’t mean it’s actually a real thing he can do. Jfc.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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sdw @sdwolfpup.bsky.social · 17h

#uspoli

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING via WSJ

The Trump administration is planning sweeping changes in criminal division at the IRS.

Full Story: on.wsj.com/3LbVFtK

The Trump administration is preparing sweeping changes at the Internal Revenue Service that would allow the agency to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups more easily, according to people familiar with the matter.
A senior IRS official involved in the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said.
The undertaking aims to install allies of President Trump at the IRS criminal-investigative division, or IRS-CI, to exert firmer control over the unit and weaken the involvement of IRS lawyers in criminal investigations, officials said. The proposed changes could open the door to politically motivated probes and are being driven by Gary Shapley, an adviser to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

sdw @sdwolfpup.bsky.social · 18h

#uspoli

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 20h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

sdw @sdwolfpup.bsky.social · 18h

#uspoli

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19h

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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sdw @sdwolfpup.bsky.social · 1d

#uspoli

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 1d

*10/15/2025 noncooperation thread*

[con't]
The only way to guarantee that your phone & what's on it stay safe is to not carry it. Some people leave theirs at home.

If you're bringing your phone (I am), there are ways to make it safER. Good resources in this+next post.

*
Safer passwords PLEASE!
2/

Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · May 9

Time for another musical digital security PSA. This one is for the 90s kids who need to make their passwords stronger

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

listen...

you do not have to be smarter than your intimate partner

you dont have to make more than them

or have a greater social status

The purpose of the relationship is not to reinforce your ego

The purpose of the relationship is care

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 2d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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sdw @sdwolfpup.bsky.social · 1d

#uspoli

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 1d

I always say that everyone who attends a protest is marching for 10 people who can't.

Are you one of those 10 people? Can you spread the word? Pack lunches for friends who are going? Donate? Make zines? It's all The Work!

AND! There are a lot of things to do that AREN'T specific to this Saturday ⬇️

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

If you can’t attend a protest, there are many other ways to resist:

• Get connected to the resistance: fiftyfifty.one

• Get trained on noncooperation:
nokings.org/rise

• Get engaged in politics:
pol-rev.com

• Get started:
Choosedemocracy.us

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