Courtney O’Hara
@rvamom.bsky.social
the oldest millennial. in my mom era.
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It's not hypocrisy, it's power.
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
It's not hypocrisy, it's power.
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I tire of the culture that asks us to classify and pathologize every personality quirk or idiosyncrasy. At the same time, I recognize how we live in systems that require us to identify our “deficiencies” in order to get support. Exhausting, all of it, really.
December 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I tire of the culture that asks us to classify and pathologize every personality quirk or idiosyncrasy. At the same time, I recognize how we live in systems that require us to identify our “deficiencies” in order to get support. Exhausting, all of it, really.
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The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
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People younger than Gen X didn’t live through even the remnants of the red scare but they have lived through the collapse of the middle class and the birth of a new Gilded Age.
It’s been honestly funny watching the socialism and communism scare-words fall flat after working for three generations.
It’s been honestly funny watching the socialism and communism scare-words fall flat after working for three generations.
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
People younger than Gen X didn’t live through even the remnants of the red scare but they have lived through the collapse of the middle class and the birth of a new Gilded Age.
It’s been honestly funny watching the socialism and communism scare-words fall flat after working for three generations.
It’s been honestly funny watching the socialism and communism scare-words fall flat after working for three generations.
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A spitfire of truth by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social that all should read.
“Poor people can be self-determined. They prove it every day, mostly by surviving while being poor in a country that is mean and nasty and hostile to them.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
“Poor people can be self-determined. They prove it every day, mostly by surviving while being poor in a country that is mean and nasty and hostile to them.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
A spitfire of truth by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social that all should read.
“Poor people can be self-determined. They prove it every day, mostly by surviving while being poor in a country that is mean and nasty and hostile to them.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
“Poor people can be self-determined. They prove it every day, mostly by surviving while being poor in a country that is mean and nasty and hostile to them.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
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Things Giving Me Hope:
(1) Chicago middle schoolers handing out whistles & tips to deal with ICE.
(2) Mutual aid efforts to support families impacted by SNAP cuts.
(3) Women on dating sites/social media flagging ICE agent so no one will date them. 
We will care for our communities!!
#Momsky
(1) Chicago middle schoolers handing out whistles & tips to deal with ICE.
(2) Mutual aid efforts to support families impacted by SNAP cuts.
(3) Women on dating sites/social media flagging ICE agent so no one will date them. 
We will care for our communities!!
#Momsky
October 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Things Giving Me Hope:
(1) Chicago middle schoolers handing out whistles & tips to deal with ICE.
(2) Mutual aid efforts to support families impacted by SNAP cuts.
(3) Women on dating sites/social media flagging ICE agent so no one will date them. 
We will care for our communities!!
#Momsky
(1) Chicago middle schoolers handing out whistles & tips to deal with ICE.
(2) Mutual aid efforts to support families impacted by SNAP cuts.
(3) Women on dating sites/social media flagging ICE agent so no one will date them. 
We will care for our communities!!
#Momsky
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Even if the House was fully functional, they're in session for an avg of 147 days and out for 218.
Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of the last 97 days, and he still won't swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva.
These are the people who demand Work Requirements.😐
Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of the last 97 days, and he still won't swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva.
These are the people who demand Work Requirements.😐
October 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Even if the House was fully functional, they're in session for an avg of 147 days and out for 218.
Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of the last 97 days, and he still won't swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva.
These are the people who demand Work Requirements.😐
Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of the last 97 days, and he still won't swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva.
These are the people who demand Work Requirements.😐
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Probably two things:
1. The authoritarianism that runs through the birth-rate discourse is inconsistent with limiting bosses' control over workers; and
2. A lot of the birth-rate worriers want mothers to quit their jobs, rather than balance work and parenthood
1. The authoritarianism that runs through the birth-rate discourse is inconsistent with limiting bosses' control over workers; and
2. A lot of the birth-rate worriers want mothers to quit their jobs, rather than balance work and parenthood
Work-from-home increases birth rates, but firms seem to hate it. So despite a pro-fertility coalition growing in US politics, no politicians openly supports work from home
www.nber.org/papers/w30569
via Mike Konczal
www.nber.org/papers/w30569
via Mike Konczal
The Covid-19 Baby Bump: The Unexpected Increase in U.S. Fertility Rates in Response to the Pandemic
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
October 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Probably two things:
1. The authoritarianism that runs through the birth-rate discourse is inconsistent with limiting bosses' control over workers; and
2. A lot of the birth-rate worriers want mothers to quit their jobs, rather than balance work and parenthood
1. The authoritarianism that runs through the birth-rate discourse is inconsistent with limiting bosses' control over workers; and
2. A lot of the birth-rate worriers want mothers to quit their jobs, rather than balance work and parenthood
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The Republican Party’s efforts to entrench its power despite unpopular policies expose how deeply its strength depends on undemocratic institutions and on a brazen disregard for the very norms that sustain democracy itself.
Breaking News: North Carolina state senators approved a new congressional map that could give Republicans an extra seat. The state House is expected to pass it.
North Carolina State Senate Approves New Congressional Map in Effort to Add a Seat
The Trump administration has pushed Republican leaders to redraw House district maps before the midterm elections next year.
nyti.ms
October 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The Republican Party’s efforts to entrench its power despite unpopular policies expose how deeply its strength depends on undemocratic institutions and on a brazen disregard for the very norms that sustain democracy itself.
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ICE is Trump’s domestic military. Mark my words. When it is time for this man to leave and he doesn't want to because, he wants to enjoy his new ballroom, ICE is going to be the military he uses against citizens who dissent because they will obey an unlawful order.
October 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
ICE is Trump’s domestic military. Mark my words. When it is time for this man to leave and he doesn't want to because, he wants to enjoy his new ballroom, ICE is going to be the military he uses against citizens who dissent because they will obey an unlawful order.
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“Indeed, throughout modern society, the availability of statistics is often mistaken for the availability of knowledge and deep meaning.”
Todd Gitlin in 1979 with a line that feels profoundly prescient for our outsized contemporary worship of computer scientists and MBAs.
Todd Gitlin in 1979 with a line that feels profoundly prescient for our outsized contemporary worship of computer scientists and MBAs.
October 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
“Indeed, throughout modern society, the availability of statistics is often mistaken for the availability of knowledge and deep meaning.”
Todd Gitlin in 1979 with a line that feels profoundly prescient for our outsized contemporary worship of computer scientists and MBAs.
Todd Gitlin in 1979 with a line that feels profoundly prescient for our outsized contemporary worship of computer scientists and MBAs.
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Higher learning
September 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Higher learning
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A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.
September 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.
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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
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My mother always told me that if I was feeling bad about myself, I should go help somebody. I’ll have to tell her about these findings.
Self-care is overrated—helping others has the biggest benefits for everyone involved
A new 2-week intervention finds that helping others improves well-being more than "self-kindness", with benefits for depressed mood, anxiety, and loneliness due to social connection psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
A new 2-week intervention finds that helping others improves well-being more than "self-kindness", with benefits for depressed mood, anxiety, and loneliness due to social connection psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
September 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
My mother always told me that if I was feeling bad about myself, I should go help somebody. I’ll have to tell her about these findings.
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oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
man. if Eric Schmitt's speech to NatCon isn't a sign of the times, i don't know what is
!["America is not a 'universal nation.' ... [American] principles are not abstractions. They are living, breathing things — rooted in a people and embodied in a way of life."
Senator Eric Schmitt got a standing ovation at Nat Con DC for saying America as a nation is the property of a distinct ethnic people.
Americans are a mix of “the most adventurous, the most courageous, the most curious and innovative” of the English, Scotch-Irish, and continental Europeans, who came as settlers and have spent hundreds of years building, fighting, and dying for "a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"We’re a nation of settlers, explorers, and pioneers — born on the ocean waters that carried the first ships to our shores and forged in the crucible of a wild frontier. Our people tamed a continent, built a civilization from the wilderness, and wrote our nation’s name in history.
"Our ancestors were driven here by destiny, possessed by urgent and fiery conviction, by burning belief, devoted to their cause and their God."
"The Continental Army soldiers dying of frostbite at Valley Forge, Pilgrims struggling to survive in the hard winter soil of Plymouth, pioneers striking out from Missouri for the wild and dangerous frontier, [and] outnumbered Kentucky settlers, repelling wave after wave of Indian war band attacks from behind their stockade walls, would be astonished to hear that they were only fighting for a 'proposition.'
"They believed they were forging a nation — a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations.
"It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny.
"If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreif3x7re3lubuj7kzurj3ayotcnq2l46kwb2p5hp2zid2dagzth5nu@jpeg)
September 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
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The Civil War never ended. Traitors returned to their homes, created vigilante groups, wrote oppressive laws, broke laws, built monuments, rewrote history, glorified another flag, and murdered black people without consequence. J6 was just a continuation.
The Civil War never ended. Traitors returned to their homes, created vigilante groups, wrote oppressive laws, broke laws, built monuments, rewrote history, glorified another flag, and murdered black people without consequence. J6 was just a continuation.
The reason that J6 is STILL ONGING and the coup is STILL ONGOING and historically it will be noted as such
is because there was no will to actually end it. There was simply a desire by many on both sides, for a return to 'normalcy'.
The prosecutions that happened at all, were an uphill battle.
is because there was no will to actually end it. There was simply a desire by many on both sides, for a return to 'normalcy'.
The prosecutions that happened at all, were an uphill battle.
August 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
bsky.app/profile/tran...
The Civil War never ended. Traitors returned to their homes, created vigilante groups, wrote oppressive laws, broke laws, built monuments, rewrote history, glorified another flag, and murdered black people without consequence. J6 was just a continuation.
The Civil War never ended. Traitors returned to their homes, created vigilante groups, wrote oppressive laws, broke laws, built monuments, rewrote history, glorified another flag, and murdered black people without consequence. J6 was just a continuation.
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The first step towards crawling out of this deep dark hole is to recognize the truth: We are now living in a competitive authoritarian regime.
Only be being honest about where we are & how we got here can we fight to restore (& improve upon) the liberty we deserve.
#polisky #civmilsky #democracy
Only be being honest about where we are & how we got here can we fight to restore (& improve upon) the liberty we deserve.
#polisky #civmilsky #democracy
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
August 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The first step towards crawling out of this deep dark hole is to recognize the truth: We are now living in a competitive authoritarian regime.
Only be being honest about where we are & how we got here can we fight to restore (& improve upon) the liberty we deserve.
#polisky #civmilsky #democracy
Only be being honest about where we are & how we got here can we fight to restore (& improve upon) the liberty we deserve.
#polisky #civmilsky #democracy
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There’s not much left to tell people about what is going on. This is it.
August 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
There’s not much left to tell people about what is going on. This is it.
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Is the theme of 2025 giving people things they never asked for, don’t want, and will make life just a little bit worse?
Microsoft and Mercedes‑Benz are working together to let people access Teams from the car.
Benz is the first car maker to enable in-car camera use for Teams while a car is being driven.
The companies are also partnering to put Microsoft 365 Copilot into vehicles.
www.theverge.com/news/708481/...
Benz is the first car maker to enable in-car camera use for Teams while a car is being driven.
The companies are also partnering to put Microsoft 365 Copilot into vehicles.
www.theverge.com/news/708481/...
Mercedes-Benz will let you use an in-car camera in Microsoft Teams while driving
The all-new CLA gets this first
www.theverge.com
July 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Is the theme of 2025 giving people things they never asked for, don’t want, and will make life just a little bit worse?
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"Our healthcare system [was already] .. a bureaucracy of denial wrapped in the language of compassion .. extraction masquerading as benevolence .. rationing disguised as triage, exclusions justified by rigged cost benefit analysis.” @reallandsend.bsky.social blindarchive.substack.com/p/where-is-t...
July 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"Our healthcare system [was already] .. a bureaucracy of denial wrapped in the language of compassion .. extraction masquerading as benevolence .. rationing disguised as triage, exclusions justified by rigged cost benefit analysis.” @reallandsend.bsky.social blindarchive.substack.com/p/where-is-t...