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Tammy
@tmykpersists.bsky.social
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Lover of Democracy, Life-Long Learner, Bluebonnet in the Red C of Tejas, #resistance, OG Apocaloptimist, OG Antifa, FREEDOM = Choice, Ally, Anti-Racist, Anti-CRAPitalist, #overturnCitizensUnited, Pro-DEI, Equity NOT "Equality", RIGHTS/Right - Wrongs/WRONG
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Tammy @tmykpersists.bsky.social · Sep 27
tmykpersists.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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girardinl.bsky.social
"quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically"

Let's all make that a 2026 goal!
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d
Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.

We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.

Our members keep getting papers.
Hey there Onion members, This is Ben Collins, CEO of America’s Finest News Source™. I am writing today, as we have arrived at a precipice in American life, to thank you. Our government is employing masked oafs to kidnap our neighbors, ziptie our children, and play Call of Duty: Burger King Edition in several American cities. The White House, otherwise occupied with taping an episode of HGTV’s “Help I Wrecked My House,” is hellbent on politically mandated starvation of the indigent. Worst of all, America’s airwaves have been taken over by dull throbbing moans only recently identified by scientists as something known as “Morgan Wallen.” In short, it is not a good time out there, and our captured media has been too scared to call that out. But, because of you, none of that is true at The Onion. For reasons we don’t like or understand, our work has become increasingly important. You and your contribution over the last year have allowed The Onion to thrive in this precarious moment — to take risks and to say sentences mere moments before those thoughts become criminalized. We need your help in the next year to bolster that fight as things get precipitously worse. Because of your support, The Onion is now the 11th-most distributed newspaper in the United States, sandwiched between The Boston Globe and The Chicago Tribune. In the next year, our goal is to crack the top 10, and to surpass the circulation of the propaganda project of a notorious space pervert, Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post. We’re confident we can reach this goal with your help. Unlike other publications, which all appear to have a fetish for caving to an increasingly maniacal and unpopular authoritarian government, The Onion remains unafraid to print the truth, straightforwardly and without favor. Due to your patronage in the last year, we have: Published 13 newspapers since the relaunch of our print edition in September of 2024. Over the summer, by popular demand, we increased the size of the paper by half. Took out a full-page advertisement in the New York Times “calling upon lawmakers in Congress to sit back and do absolutely nothing,” then sent this op-ed to every member of the House and Senate and all 54,000 of our subscribers. Thankfully, they took our advice, and now people are starving. Drove the Onion Newsvan in front of protests and ICE detention centers, blaring headlines about ICE’s one true love: teargassing elementary schools. Released Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile in over 40 cities across North America and later on YouTube, and let independent theatres keep the ticket sales. It’s still unclear if we can write this off. And, a year ago this week, we successfully bid on InfoWars at a bankruptcy auction, before the judgment was overturned by a judge for — and I’m paraphrasing here — being too cool. Yes, despite a legal bill that rivals the GDP of West Virginia, we are continuing work to acquire InfoWars and evolve it into an galactically sized depot of lies, scams, and miracle cures for all of the world’s awesome new and untracked illnesses. The Supreme Court — yes, this Supreme Court — denied Alex Jones’ appeal just last month, a last gasp at evading justice, and we’re hoping this clears a path to reinventing the dumbest site on the internet very soon. So ahead of this holiday season, please consider subscribing to The Onion for yourself, your friends, your parents, or your infant. People love getting something great in the mail every month amidst their requisite bills and death threats. Look, we’re an independent company, we don’t use AI to write headlines and make art, and we’re one of roughly three publications who are up for the fight. Unlike other places, The Onion is quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically. Are you? If so, I hope you’ll continue to be an Onion member, get the paper, and help us deliver ulcers to those who deserve it. Thank you, and Tu Stultus Es, Ben Collins CEO | The Onion
November 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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allenanalysis.bsky.social
Friendly reminder: JD Vance and his brother grew up on food stamps while their mother battled addiction.

He made it out and instead of using that story to lift others up, he’s using it to justify ripping SNAP away from families like the one he came from.

The hypocrisy is generational.
October 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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wikimediafoundation.org
What AI creates depends on what humans have already documented, verified, and made available to everyone.

That’s why @wikipedia.org’s role as the backbone of all knowledge on the internet has never been more important. #Wikipedia25

Learn more ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia-va...
Text says: In the AI era, Wikipedia has never been more valuable. What machines learn begins with what people write – and verify – together.
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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jonathankarl.bsky.social
Tonight on the Late Show — me and Pete (and Colbert too)
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
tmykpersists.bsky.social
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KERA's Think
A.I. is becoming smarter without much help from humans, and that should worry us all. Nate Soares, president of Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what hap...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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laurenleharper.bsky.social
The bill only forces the release of unclassified information.

Pass it on.
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Noem is mad about the whistles. Good job everyone.
November 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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durbin.senate.gov
This is deeply alarming.

Senior FBI officials receive some of the most sensitive information in government.

Signing personal waivers to appoint unqualified senior officials puts our national security at grave risk.
judiciarydems.senate.gov Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 18d
This is so damning for Dan Bongino and Kash Patel.
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

transition2025.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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awkword.bsky.social
WE’RE SHUTTING IT DOWN!

“Blackout The System has called for a nationwide boycott, urging participants to refrain from working or spending money from Nov. 25 to Dec. 2 as a protest against a damaged government and economic system.”

www.blackenterprise.com/economic-bla...
November 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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johnfugelsang.bsky.social
One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan.

I never made it out of the House.
November 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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bluskypolitics.bsky.social
📌 Brava Congresswoman ‼️

This is a brilliant bill 💯

Grateful for your leadership 🇺🇲

This is a real gem 💎🐥⤵️ ✊🏾✊🏻
October 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
tmykpersists.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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mayraphotography.bsky.social
I know I’m not alone on this.
January 31, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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ralphpoppy.bsky.social
It took more than 200 years for the national debt to hit one trillion. The national debt just increased by one trillion dollars in the past 70 days. There are no brakes on this train. None. @LibertyLockPod
October 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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reasonstobecheerful.world
What if you were charged by how much — or how little — you throw out? “Pay-as-you-throw” systems for household waste are continuing to gain traction across the world.

reasonstobecheerful.world/pay-as-you-t...
October 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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iandsmith.bsky.social
Theresa Searcaigh @TSearcaigh Banning abortion is banning equality. Men break condoms, have 1-night stands with strangers, change their mind about parenthood, etc. Forcing a woman to follow-through while men are incapable of the same physical accountability is the epitome of sexism,
October 30, 2024 at 5:53 AM
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reasonstobecheerful.world
Welcome back to #StatsSunday — your statistical fix, pulled from this week’s stories. Read the story behind this stat here: reasonstobecheerful.world/geothermal-g...
October 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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onthemedia.bsky.social
Show's up!

- @andykroll.bsky.social on Russell Vought, Trump's "Darth Vader."

- @benlorber8.bsky.social on Nick Fuentes’ plan to lead MAGA down an increasingly white nationalist path.

- Gregorio Olivares Gutierrez on student journalists standing up to their administrators.

lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
October 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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rustincenter.bsky.social
Bayard Rustin mapped the March
Black Queer Pioneer
Led the Movement to Nonviolence
Begat the Freedom Riders
Spoke "Truth to Power"
Angelic Troublemaker
Lost to history due to who he loved
Who he was
It cannot & will not happen again
This is our work
This is our Dream
www.rustincenter.org
Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice
Non-Profit Queer Safe-Space, Social Justice Community Activist Center & Educational Bridge for our LGBTQIA youth, intersectional families & all marginalized folx across the spectrum dedicated to prese...
www.rustincenter.org
November 13, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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reasonstobecheerful.world
Supporters of a recovery program launched by author Barbara Kingsolver to heal a community devastated by the opioid crisis want to expand it.

reasonstobecheerful.world/appalachia-o...
October 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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yoweishaw.bsky.social
more about me: i used to host/make the npr podcast invisibilia and now make a show called proxy, one of apple's favorite shows of 2024 (www.proxypodcast.com). happy to answer any qs and tell you more about what i'm working on. thx for considering!
Proxy with Yowei Shaw | podcast
Proxy with Yowei Shaw is a podcast about answering niche emotional questions through conversations with experts and strangers with shared experience.
www.proxypodcast.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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suzette.bsky.social
BTW, Bruce Lindner was a long time FB friend of mine, wish he’d join us here. He also happens to be Jewish & very familiar with Israel from visits there, over the years. Super good guy.
larrytenney.bsky.social Larry Tenney ❌👑 @larrytenney.bsky.social · Oct 13
THIS!!!

A letter to Benjamin Netanyahu
October 14, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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jonathanstea.bsky.social
I have three degrees in psychology, an academic appointment, and over a decade of full-time clinical experience in a hospital—which I now regret because I could’ve just watched three Rumble documentaries about how health professionals and scientists are all trying to poison me.
October 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM