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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 56m

If you didn't know republicans were racists in the 1990s, that's because from your POV they were at an acceptable level of racist. There was enough breathing room for you to maybe deny it in public. But yeah, today they just have swastikas hanging up in the office, that's harder to deny, fair enough

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Chaos Cherub @biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 2h

More like her constituents finally feeling the consequences of their actions and turning the heat up. All that racism and xenophobia can only keep attention from the fact that pockets are getting tight for so long. And we heading into the holidays? Ell oh ell.

Liberal Librarian, Emotional Support Cuban 📚 🌿🕓 @liberallibrarian.bsky.social · 2h

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?? ARE PORCINE CREATURES ALOFT??

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lisa @lisa.myatproto.social · 26m

I know the world is on fire and all but am I supposed to know this? Is this new information?

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Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 55m

I never knew what Katie Porter did. I just knew one day people didn’t care about her lil whiteboard anymore and I had bigger fish to fry.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2h

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social · 21h

good news! we've successfully addressed the problem where people were getting too emotionally entangled with our chatbot. we're happy to announce you'll be able to fuck it soon

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1h

There’s more of us than there are of them. They can’t control us. They can’t stop us from voicing our dissent. Thugs and thuggery is not a winning future, even if they think so. See you at No Kings.

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redherringbear @qutzupalotl.bsky.social · 18h

You know what makes a city look like a war zone? armed soldiers.

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PKMN Prof. Hawthorne @pokethorne.standingintheodds.com · 13h

I hate the misanthropic liberal clade that wants an asteroid to wipe out humanity

Fuck you, try having enough of a spine to improve things

It's cool to give a shit and to love eachother

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 3h

nice to see white ladies call out the "purity test" and "circular firing squad" rhetoric as total bullshit

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 44m

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.

YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

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Chaos Cherub @biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 18h

Chileeee. I've gotten really good at letting convos die until they revive them and leaving if it flatlines for too long. I want entertaining, curious, stimulating conversation without always being the entertainer, stimulator, and curiousity.

Meron @meronmonroe.blacksky.app · 18h

it’s really frustrating feeling like I’m always the one driving conversation with men 😵‍💫

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Dr. Jess 💓✨ @spicygemini.bsky.social · 51m

“I like a story that has some concrete structure but also holds abstractions. Life is filled with abstractions, and the way we make heads or tails of it is through intuition”

- David Lynch
(Capricorn Sun, Virgo Moon Scorpio rising ruled by Cancer Mars conjoining Saturn)

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1h

I think a lot of white people are discovering in real time how many other white people only have a problem with direct slurs and politeness

Not actual discrimination

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 4h

The dominant business plan these days seems to be let’s turn everyone into slaves, who famously never revolt

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 1h

Brown is out! They had to do more dancing in their letter because they previously capitulated and needed to reference their previous agreement but, at its core, this reiterates MIT's letter.

The clock is now on for all other institutions.

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

www.brown.edu

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 5h

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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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 7h

I think the idea of "cancel culture" persists mainly because it conveniently is some outside force acting on someone rather than them torching their reputation all on their own

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Confusing Fall Warbler @plumicorns.bsky.social · 17h

Saw a youth on tiktok asking "why didn't anyone tell me that Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face?!" We are failing to pass down the lore to younger generations

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catie611.bsky.social @catie611.bsky.social · 7h

You can start at newborn stage… once you start 2am googling swaddling you get accounts on bed sharing… then 3 scrolls later its at vaccine skeptical

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khaake.bsky.social @khaake.bsky.social · 8h

We also need to talk about how Microsoft is complicit in this. The “news” it chooses to display by default is not news. You can try to customize it by blocking all of the junk sites it will otherwise display, but it’s impossible to block them all. There are just too many.

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Keith @kdb150.bsky.social · 7h

Weakening public education feeds parents into this low trust feedback loop, which is part of the reason Republicans want to keep making it worse.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 8h

Gotta wonder if racism and fear of children being near kids from other backgrounds is also a factor, as ever.

Many parents talk about schools pushing "an agenda".

As private schools become financially more out of reach, wonder if this is the fallback for mid income.

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Oh hey Chels! @chelsisright.bsky.social · 8h

There is some very specific context that should be added to this.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 8h

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

ICE targeted an apartment building near my home. Masked agents in unmarked cars. I've said this before. Democratic Governors & Mayors need to order their local police depts to arrest any & all unidentified & masked alleged ICE agents.

This anonymous denial of due process is deadly.

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