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Darcy Conaty
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Old queer nerd, recently retired. Books, games, currently LOTS of politics
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tusk81.bsky.social
“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
Interactive AIDS Quilt
The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...
www.aidsmemorial.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.

If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.

www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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astrokatie.com
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
kendrawrites.com Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 8h
I'm so tired of measles.

I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.

Show what measles looks like.
datareport.bsky.social Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 8h
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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moryan.bsky.social
If you want to get active & help re ICE/BP, look to local orgs doing the work, take Know Your Rights & other trainings if you can. I highly recommend @mskellymhayes.bsky.social's
newsletter for not just info/links/organizing tips, but thoughtful counsel when things are hard organizingmythoughts.org
Organizing My Thoughts
Kelly Hayes writes about things you should know if you want to change the world.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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leahgreenberg.bsky.social
Republicans are FREAKING OUT about how close this race is. We can elect @aftynbehn.bsky.social and send a massive message to MAGA - help GOTV here:
indivisible.org Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d
It’s clear that Republicans are very worried about the upcoming special election in a Tennessee district that Trump won by double digits.

Help us GOTV for @aftynbehn.bsky.social (a state representative and former Indivisible organizer) before Election Day on Tuesday: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Scoop: Trump and Johnson to hold tele-rally for GOP in tight Tennessee House race
Should Republicans lose — or win narrowly — it would further expectations that the party is heading toward a perilous midterm.
www.axios.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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usatoday.com
A grassroots group of seniors protests Ohio county's cooperation with ICE. Only retirees are free to attend daytime commissioners' meetings, they say.
In Trump country, suburban grandmas push back against ICE
A grassroots group of seniors protests Ohio county's cooperation with ICE. Only retirees are free to attend daytime commissioners' meetings, they say.
bit.ly
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
So, no lie: I just need 69 more paid subscribers to reach my 2025 year-end goal!

And, great news! Today, you can get a paid Law Dork subscription for 15% off for your first year. That's $51 for an annual subscription or $5.10 a month. That sale ends today, so go for it! www.lawdork.com/blackfriday
Subscribe to Law Dork
The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
www.lawdork.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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leahlitman.bsky.social
Chris's independent media outlet - Law Dork - does such important work democratizing information about the courts.

It is a worthy cause to support - so get a paid subscription if you can!!
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h
So, no lie: I just need 69 more paid subscribers to reach my 2025 year-end goal!

And, great news! Today, you can get a paid Law Dork subscription for 15% off for your first year. That's $51 for an annual subscription or $5.10 a month. That sale ends today, so go for it! www.lawdork.com/blackfriday
Subscribe to Law Dork
The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
www.lawdork.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
It would be nice if @cnn.com acknowledged this story was broken last week by The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-emplo...
In mid-November, one of the FEMA workers received a termination notice as the others remained under investigation.
December 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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lawfaremedia.org
The Trump administration has been pursuing third country removals for noncitizens in the United States since coming into office, sending migrants to unknown countries. @mboaz.bsky.social explores how these removals likely violate due process for these individuals.
Due Process in Third Country Removals
The administration’s use of ad hoc procedures to send migrants to countries with which they have no connection likely violates due process.
www.lawfaremedia.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2:
1. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that when a 36-year-old writer is asked on a network news show about the Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community particularly in regard to the Well-Known Preponderance of Homosexuals in the Arts she replies that if you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture you would be pretty much left with ''Let's Make a Deal.'' The interviewer's lack of response compels her to conclude that he has no idea what she is talking about and she realizes that soon many of those who do know what she is talking about will be what is generally regarded as dead. 2. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that on New Year's Eve Day… …a 36-year-old writer takes a 31-year-old photographer to get a chest X-ray and listens to him say with what can only be described as a certain guarded hope, ''Maybe I just have lung cancer.'' 3. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer has a telephone conversation with a dying 41-year-old book editor whom even the most practiced verbal assassin has called the last of the Southern gentlemen and hears him say in a hoarse whisper, ''I'm sorry but I just hate old people. I look at them and think, 'Why don't you die?' '' 4. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that an aspiring little avant-garde movie director approaches a fairly famous actor in a restaurant and attempts to make social hay out of the fact that they met at Antonio's and will undoubtedly see each other at Charles's and Antonio's and Charles's are not parties and Antonio's and Charles's are not bars and Antonio's and Charles's are not summer houses in chic Tuscan towns - Antonio's and Charles's are funerals. 5. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer is on the telephone with a 38-year-old art director making arrangements to go together the following morning to the funeral of a 27-year-old architect and the art director says to the writer, ''If you get there first sit near the front where we usually sit and save me the seat on the aisle.'' 6. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 24-year-old ballet dancer is in the hospital for 10 days following an emergency appendectomy and nobody goes to visit him because everyone is really busy and after all he's not dying or anything. 7. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer takes time out at a memorial service for the world's pre-eminent makeup artist and a man worth any number of interesting new painters to get angry because the makeup artist's best friend and eulogist uses a story that she has for years been hoarding for her book which she can't write anymore anyway unless she writes it as a historical novel because it's about a world that in the last few years has disappeared almost entirely.
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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stephanieburgis.bsky.social
Happy December! If you're in the US, you can snap up my cozy-spooky gothic rom-com novella A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience for just 99c, today only: www.amazon.com/Marriage-Und...

#romancelandia
The header and footer at the top of the image read: “Kindle Daily Deal” and “99c today only!” In the center of the image (which has a background of lush crimson rose blossoms) is the front cover of Stephanie Burgis’s A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience, which shows an ominously closed entrance-gate at the top of the cover and a bat with its wings outspread at the bottom, all framed by climbing roses. Four arrows point at the cover with four chunks of text, reading: “Beauty and the Beast, but he’s a vampire” “She’s brilliant, and he loves it” “Tea is very important” and “She *really* loves libraries.”
December 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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wikipedia.org
Candlelit corners, warm blankets, and quiet moments have their own special word in Danish.

“Hygge” describes a cozy, contented mood created by comfort and conviviality. 🧵⬇️ (1/3)
A person relaxes in front of a fireplace with a cozy blanket, socks, and a book titled The Little Book of Hygge. Text says: Hygge is the Danish and Norwegian practice of creating warmth with candles, blankets, and simple pleasures. It celebrates the little joys that make everyday life feel meaningful.
December 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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bmhughes.bsky.social
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Read @juddlegum.bsky.social on the ties to RU and Ukrainian oligarchs Steve Witkoff is hiding.

popular.info/p/top-trump-...
What is missing from Witkoff’s federal disclosure One of the primary purposes of the federal disclosure form is to ensure that the filer is in compliance with the conflict of interest provisions of federal law. All forms must be reviewed by a federal ethics official within 60 days of filing. The federal official then signs the form, certifying that “on the basis of information contained in this report, I conclude that the filer is in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.” But while Witkoff signed his form on August 13, the version posted to the White House website remains unsigned. This is not an oversight. On November 17, Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter to the White House Counsel and the Office of Government ethics noting that “no agency ethics official signed the form… even though the 60-day deadline for an ethics official to review his form passed in October 2025.” The Senators say the form “appears to have inaccurate or incomplete information.” One issue is that Witkoff’s form does not provide full transparency about what financial assets Witkoff currently owns.
December 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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matthewhodson.bsky.social
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Me on a candlelit vigil for AIDS in 1987. Me last week. Looking pretty healthy for 58 (28 years living with HIV).
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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resistrebelrevolt.net
Savage! 🎄 Lake Street Church of Evanston creates a nativity scene with gas masks to remind us that Jesus was a refugee.

"This installation is not subtle. The crisis it addresses is not abstract. We ask viewers to confront the disconnect between professed religious or moral values & immigration."
Mary with a gas mask Jesus wrapped in the thermal blankets they give children in ICE facilities An ICE agent This installation reimagines the nativity as a scene of forced family separation, drawing direct parallels between the Holy Family's refugee experience and contemporary immigration detention practices. By placing the Christmas story (Christianity's central narrative of refuge, sanctuary, and sacred family) within the visual language of immigration enforcement and detention, this work asks viewers to confront the disconnect between professed religious or moral values and immigration policies. The emergency blanket references the actual materials used in detention facilities. The zip ties on the infant's wrists directly reference the children who were zip-tied by agents during a raid on a Chicago apartment building earlier this year, where most residents were U.S. citizens: a stark reminder that enforcement terror does not discriminate by documentation status. The gas masks worn by Mary and Joseph reference the documented use of tear gas and other chemical weapons deployed by ICE agents against peaceful protesters, journalists, and community members advocating for immigration reform and bearing witness to human rights abuses within the system. This installation is not subtle because the crisis it addresses is not abstract. We hope viewers will join the conversation about what sanctuary means when families fleeing violence are met with separation, detention, and dehumanization. We further hope that conversation will move people to action, regardless of faith or philosophical background. The Holy Family were refugees. This is not political interpretation, this is the reality described in the stories our tradition has told and retold for millenia. By witnessing this familiar story through the reality faced by migrants today, we hope to restore its radical edge, and to ask what it means to celebrate the birth of a refugee child while turning away those who follow in his footsteps.
November 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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flodebarre.bsky.social
Your yearly reminder that this Dec 1st date for the beginning of the pandemic is not correct: the case's symptom onset date was later corrected.

The case is well known, and there's basically no debate about this, even with hard-core leakers who have studied the data.

🖼️: 2021 WHO report, page 47
In the case with onset on 1 December, a 62-year-old man with past history of cerebrovascular disease was judged to have had a minor respiratory illness in early December, which responded to antibiotics. He developed a further illness with onset on 26 December 2019, which was later laboratory- confirmed to be COVID-19. This patient had no reported contact to the Huanan market, whereas his wife, who was admitted on 26 December with a COVID-19 compatible illness, reported close contact with the Huanan market. She was also later laboratory-confirmed to have COVID-19. This couple, together with their son, became part of the first recognized family cluster of COVID-19.
December 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?

KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
COVID myths are foundational to modern fascism.

Stuff like the lab leak BS or the idea that we “overreacted” to the pandemic, or the claim that dissent was “censored” by the “biomedical security state,” are narrative pillars holding up the fascists’ bizarro, contradictory worldview.

Understand?
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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sifill.bsky.social
To make common cause with this Administration is to support an affirmatively white supremacist vision of this country. Period.

Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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callmemeadow.bsky.social
If High Above Them All gets 101 downloads before the end of the year, that would be two games in two years that hit 2,000 downloads
And since it is one of my favourites that I've written...I would feel pretty good about that

Free to download, it's a world-building solo rpg
High Above Them All by Meadow
A solo exploration game based on Takuma Okada's Alone Among The Stars
callmemeadow.itch.io
November 30, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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evanbernick.bsky.social
Habba and her two siblings were born in Summit, New Jersey. Their parents were Chaldean Catholics who emigrated from Iraq to the United States in the early 1980s to escape persecution in their home country.
November 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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asharangappa.bsky.social
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM