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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3h

Good morning.

Democrats have no obligation to vote for a budget that funds corruption and totalitarianism.

Trump is willing to do whatever it takes to destroy our democracy and pad the pockets of billionaires.

People don't want Democrats to wilt. They want us to fight.

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Slowtalking @slowtalking.bsky.social · 3h

Johnson has an interesting relationship with the 9th Commandment

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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 14h

This policy is evidence-based. COVID-19 ↗️ risk of complications such as blood clots, diabetes,& heart disease.

Vaccination is required for all transplant recipients to optimize health before & after surgery.

Organs are a scarce and we want to ensure they are used to achieve the best outcomes.

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Slowtalking @slowtalking.bsky.social · 14h

« But that way of relating to the land is no longer in vogue. For many Americans, our wild spaces are a solace, a refuge—cathedrals indeed. America has succeeded in becoming more Indian over the past 245 years rather than the other way around. »

Slowtalking @slowtalking.bsky.social · 14h

« The parks enshrine places, but they also emphasize and prioritize a particular way of interacting with the land. In the nation’s mythic past, the wilderness may have been a dangerous environment, something to be tamed, plowed under, cut down. »

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Slowtalking @slowtalking.bsky.social · 14h

« Our survival hasn’t mattered only to us: As the efforts to assimilate us largely failed and we remained, mostly, in our homelands, Americans have gradually assimilated to our cultures, our worldview, and our modes of connecting to nature. »

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Slowtalking @slowtalking.bsky.social · 14h

In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Return the National Parks to the Tribes

The jewels of America’s landscape should belong to America’s original peoples.

www.theatlantic.com

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Slowtalking @slowtalking.bsky.social · 15h

Hallelujah !

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16h

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Félix the Rover @therovercomics.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating and important interview of @oliviermannoni.bsky.social by @edwyplenel.bsky.social, or how the nazi language has spread into Trump's rhetoric, but also in the far-right all over Europe.

English-speaking friends, there are automatically translated subtitles available on yt, go watch it.

Mediapart @mediapart.fr · 1d

Traducteur de l’allemand, Olivier Mannoni interroge, à partir du laboratoire nazi, la brutalisation de la langue qui accompagne les fascismes. Il nous explique comment Trump parle comme Hitler, et Poutine comme un gangster.

« L'échappée » est à voir sur Mediapart 👉 https://l.mediapart.fr/gmI

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

gene kelly is antifa

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 22h

The Atlantic’s journalists will not sign the Pentagon’s press policy. Statement here from editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg:

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22h

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 23h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Slowtalking @slowtalking.bsky.social · 23h

A very good article on cocci. What stands out for me is: 1 amazing work by UA, ASU and Banner, 2 a rich state which invests so little in prevention and surveillance of a serious endemic disease, and 3 dominance of real estate development interests over public health and labor protection.

Grist @grist.org · 1d

In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies.

What one doctor’s quest to stop valley fever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.

grist.org/health/valle...

#PublicHealth #Health #Fever #AZ #Arizona

In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies

What one Arizona doctor’s quest to stop valley fever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Slowtalking @slowtalking.bsky.social · 1d

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DHS Lied About a Veteran They Wrongfully Arrested (w/ George Retes)

Tim Miller is joined by George Retes, a U.S.

www.thebulwark.com

Slowtalking @slowtalking.bsky.social · 1d

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Stephen Miller’s “Plenary” Freeze — A CNN Insider’s Account of What Happened - A Deeper Look Exclusive (!)

For the past two days, online speculation has swirled around a strange moment in Stephen Miller’s CNN interview — the one where, in the middle of discussing presidential power under Title 10, he began...

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Slowtalking @slowtalking.bsky.social · 1d

OK now I need to go find a copy of your book. The excerpts are great - and I agree with your take on the NYC mini-panic.

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Slowtalking @slowtalking.bsky.social · 1d

No sign of it yesterday at ABQ either

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

frogs > kings

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