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Rosemary A. Joyce

Rosemary A. Joyce is an American anthropologist and social archaeologist who has specialized in research in Honduras. She was able… more

Rosemary A. Joyce

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 1h

Agree entirely! But the true believers are often tiresome in demanding a mass movement but not the actual one underway, one with the right analysis… like the evil twin of Dsvid Brooks in the Atlantic.

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 1h

I suspect just not showing up as a virtuous act. But the last No Kings I went to was filled not by activists but by families and gray haired women and men, so I doubt they will depress the turnout this time.

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 1h

It’s not like we are facing an existential crisis with the deconstruction of democracy or anything. Much more important to keep ideological purity.

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 2h

"The anti-capitalist left should go to the no kings protests....to rebut them!" is peak. Pack it up, we're done

And if socialists and communists want to show up I think they should but I think they should try to use their signs and chants to make it clear it's not kings it's capital and capitalists.

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 1h

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1h

This is a devastating account of what ICE is doing to our friends, neighbors and fellow US citizens. Incredible work by @propublica.org.

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

But that is far from the reality many citizens have experienced. Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. One of those women had already had the door of her home blown off while Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem watched.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 2h

To @DaveWeigel.bsky.social’s point, it’s never once been “no,” and everyone in Trump’s government is refusing to answer what happened to the $50,000 in taxpayer money that Homan never denied taking inside a paper bag.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 2h

Talking Points Memo is turning 25 and I wrote a little encomium to early blogging, which I sometimes miss: talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...

What Made Blogging Different?

Whether I like it or not, the first line of my obituary...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 2h

I'm sure on Bluesky this will get a lot of "of COURSE" or "no duh" responses, but: at least out there in the real world, pointing out to people that ICE makes *every* man who loves tacti-cool and operator culture look like a Fucking Coward is...helpful.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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Dawn Alene @dawnalene.bsky.social · 2h

I was already terrified by all of this before I read the summation.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 2h

"The anti-capitalist left should go to the no kings protests....to rebut them!" is peak. Pack it up, we're done

And if socialists and communists want to show up I think they should but I think they should try to use their signs and chants to make it clear it's not kings it's capital and capitalists.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 4h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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theonyximpact.bsky.social @theonyximpact.bsky.social · 5h

The harm is real: Black workers pushed out of jobs, HBCUs stripped of resources, Black mothers and fathers denied healthcare, and neighborhoods left without protection from floods, asthma, or poisoned water.

📖 Read the full Blackout Report now.
#BlackoutReport #OnyxImpact

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h

Someone just asked me what this might look like. Well, I suggest Dems could go into these cultural spaces and say, "Look, we have an alternative. We don't have to live this way. All of you chafing under this jackbooted thuggery have an ally in us." Like this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 6h

Remember the Year of the MOOC from a decade ago? The one where tech bros predicted the end of all but 3-4 universities because who needs campuses when everyone can just take MOOCs and learn everything? Hits a little different now after pandemic pedagogy, huh? The tech hype cycle is a helluva drug.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7h

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Neither Silence nor Compliance Will Save Harvard From Trump. Resistance Might. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Now is the time for the richest University in the world to live by its principles, to draw a line and stand its ground, while it might still make a difference.

www.thecrimson.com

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 12h

—Alison C. Rollins, “The Library of Babel”

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 12h

While there is still some light
on the page, I am writing now
a history of snow, of everything
that has been and will be thought.
When a blind poet says I need you
to be my eyes, they are asking to see
through your mouth.

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 13h

I think it’s a proud day. It’s a propaganda shop and listening to them isn’t reporting news. These are talented people who are now free to develop real reporting.

Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 20h

NEW for @washingtonpost.com:

Pentagon reporters exited the building in unison Wednesday after turning in their badges, having refused to sign the Defense Department's press policy.

@nancyayoussef.bsky.social called it a “sad day for those who support a free press.”

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules

After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 13h

Not “expanding his authority”. Illegally claiming authority. Why can’t they report clearly?? [rhetorical question no tedious responses needed]

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13h

A large ice sculpture of the word “Democracy” was placed on the National Mall on Wednesday morning in direct view of the U.S. Capitol as a vanishing reminder of rapidly eroding rights and an existential threat to the freedom on which America was founded.
https://wapo.st/3J8Q46P

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 13h

Landscape near Antwerp by Georges Braque, 1906
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137398

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Thannhauser Collection, Gift, Justin K. Thannhauser, 1978

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13h

There’s 1,000 times more chatter about the Maine senate race in a year than about Maine’s ballot measure in 3 weeks that’d bring voter ID and crack down on mail voting… maybe let’s start there??? boltsmag.org/maine-questi...

A Ballot Measure Targets Mail Voting in Maine - Bolts

Question 1, on the November ballot, would set up a barrage of new restrictions on absentee ballots that would considerably affect older voters and people with disabilities.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 13h

Sources:

www.governor.ny.gov/news/governo...

www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/15/c...

www.govsforhealth.org

Governors Public Health Alliance

The Governors Public Health Alliance is a nonpartisan, non-profit coalition of governors that works together to protect public health.

www.govsforhealth.org

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 14h

From:

Direct Action
An Ethnography

By David Graeber

cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Book cover in slate blue with gold writing:

DIRECT ACTION
An Ethnography
DAVID GRAEBER

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 14h

It’s probably the Democrats’ fault, in his lifetime they’ve only enacted Medicaid, Medicare, and the ACA. They didn’t even bother to put universal healthcare into their platform until 1972, the man was already nearly an adult by then!

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 14h

“It’s often difficult to determine how much any given action should be seen as…a performance meant to make an impression on an outside audience, and how much it is better seen as a collective ritual meant to educate, inspire, entertain, and transform the sense of possibilities of the participants…”

Direct action aims to confront what it sees as an unjust or illegitimate form of authority in a way that, in its very internal structure, suggests a viable alternative to it. Actually, the same is probably true, in some sense, of protest in general. The result, as we've seen, is that it's often difficult to determine how much any given action should be seen as primarily a performance meant to make an impression on an outside audience, and how much it is better seen as a collective ritual meant to educate, inspire, entertain, and transform the sense of possibilities of the participants themselves. Certainly, there is always a little of both. But some types of action lean much more heavily towards one than towards the other.
If picket lines lean very much in the first direction —they are primarily about communicating a message of defiance to specific opponents, and convincing a broader audience to act in solidarity-street parties might be said to represent the opposite extreme. While they are certainly intended to make a political statement or achieve a political end, they are also designed to afford participants every possible opportunity to enjoy themselves. That element of pleasure—above all, of collective, social pleasure—is really the main point. Even insofar as those taking part in a street party are trying to impress an audience, they are doing so in such a way as to blur the boundaries, not to draw lines in the sand. Onlookers are offered a show, with music and jugglers and clowns. The ideal is for the pleasure of the experience to become infectious, so that the audience spontaneously finds itself drawn in, to either mentally or, better, physically enter the festival.
This element of pleasure is considered a crucial to what makes new forms of protest new—almost as much as principles of self-organization and autonomy.
Large actions always tend to be represented as "festivals of resistance" or "carni-vals against capitalism"; their organizers always explicitly c…

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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 14h

They’re going after ActBlue
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/big-tal...

Big Talk: Treasury Secretary Declares New War on Terror Against the Left

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that his department is in...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 14h

what did he think trump was gonna do, exactly. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Longtime Florida insurance agent Alan Reynolds, 65, predicts many of his customers will allow their policies to lapse when the price hikes become clear. An independent who leans conservative, Reynolds, of Port St. Lucie, called the Affordable Care Act flawed but said he favors the continuation of the enhanced subsidies “and not pulling the rug out from under people.”

His family is also affected. The loss of his wife’s subsidy means she is likely to pay about $1,200 or more each month, up from about $500 in 2024, he said. “I voted for Trump,” Reynolds said. “I didn’t expect this.”

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