Arielle Silver
@ariellesilver.bsky.social
#music #books #yoga #democracy
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From @steveinskeep.bsky.social : If I understand this correctly, the US president has launched a trade war against the world, believes he can force the EU and China to meet his terms, is determined to annex Canada and Greenland, but is powerless before the sovereign might of El Salvador. Is that it?
April 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
From @steveinskeep.bsky.social : If I understand this correctly, the US president has launched a trade war against the world, believes he can force the EU and China to meet his terms, is determined to annex Canada and Greenland, but is powerless before the sovereign might of El Salvador. Is that it?
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At least 12 crosswalks in various Silicon Valley cities were hacked this weekend so that when you press the the crosswalk button you hear a message claiming to be from Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg. 🫢😁😁😁
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Hilarious resistance: Silicon Valley crosswalks hacked to imitate and mock Musk and Zuckerberg
Resistance to Trump and his oligarchs comes in many forms. Here’s a new one I just read about and it’s both powerful and hilarious. At least 12 crosswalks in various Silicon Valley cities were hacked ...
www.dailykos.com
April 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
At least 12 crosswalks in various Silicon Valley cities were hacked this weekend so that when you press the the crosswalk button you hear a message claiming to be from Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg. 🫢😁😁😁
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
@nightvaleradio.bsky.social thanks for playing What Really Matters in ep 265!
April 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM
@nightvaleradio.bsky.social thanks for playing What Really Matters in ep 265!
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Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
April 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
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Others have pointed this out already but the Booker's "stunt" is him literally Doing the Job - impassioned speechmaking is supposedly the main reason for Senators to exist and the only reason any of them from before the United States was established are remembered by name
April 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Others have pointed this out already but the Booker's "stunt" is him literally Doing the Job - impassioned speechmaking is supposedly the main reason for Senators to exist and the only reason any of them from before the United States was established are remembered by name
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Senator Cory Booker concludes his record-breaking Senate Floor speech after 25 hours
Massive applause for Booker
Massive applause for Booker
April 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Senator Cory Booker concludes his record-breaking Senate Floor speech after 25 hours
Massive applause for Booker
Massive applause for Booker
💥@booker.senate.gov 💥
April 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
💥@booker.senate.gov 💥
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It's not that what's happening in the US now is "like" the Holocaust: they're actually doing the exact same thing. Calling it deportation, doing it some place where the laws are more malleable, that's how the Nazis did it too. The same rhetorical and legal sleight of hands were used.
March 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
It's not that what's happening in the US now is "like" the Holocaust: they're actually doing the exact same thing. Calling it deportation, doing it some place where the laws are more malleable, that's how the Nazis did it too. The same rhetorical and legal sleight of hands were used.
Daily routine now:
Gratitude list. Coffee. Yoga. News. Inspiration to fight. Fantasies of flight (Spain? Canada?) Freeze. Gratitude list. Bed.
Gratitude list. Coffee. Yoga. News. Inspiration to fight. Fantasies of flight (Spain? Canada?) Freeze. Gratitude list. Bed.
March 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Daily routine now:
Gratitude list. Coffee. Yoga. News. Inspiration to fight. Fantasies of flight (Spain? Canada?) Freeze. Gratitude list. Bed.
Gratitude list. Coffee. Yoga. News. Inspiration to fight. Fantasies of flight (Spain? Canada?) Freeze. Gratitude list. Bed.
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Thank you for this @chenoweth.bsky.social Everyone should follow their important research on resistance
Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:
March 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Thank you for this @chenoweth.bsky.social Everyone should follow their important research on resistance
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I have said this from the start: the pace and scope of change in America resembles a post-coup situation.
Compared to Hungary, Turkey, Venezuela, Poland, Trump is moving MUCH faster, more aggressively, and with broader claim to power. We're not in danger of becoming those autocracies--we're very quickly surpassing them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook (Gift Article)
The president’s escalating conflict with federal courts is even more aggressive than what happened in countries like Hungary and Turkey, experts say.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I have said this from the start: the pace and scope of change in America resembles a post-coup situation.
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@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social
Authoritarianism scholar Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins WIRED to answer the Internet's questions about dictators & Fascism. This is excellent and well worth the time to watch.
Prof. Ben-Ghiat has the unique gift of concise specificity.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6f...
Authoritarianism scholar Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins WIRED to answer the Internet's questions about dictators & Fascism. This is excellent and well worth the time to watch.
Prof. Ben-Ghiat has the unique gift of concise specificity.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6f...
History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
www.youtube.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social
Authoritarianism scholar Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins WIRED to answer the Internet's questions about dictators & Fascism. This is excellent and well worth the time to watch.
Prof. Ben-Ghiat has the unique gift of concise specificity.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6f...
Authoritarianism scholar Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins WIRED to answer the Internet's questions about dictators & Fascism. This is excellent and well worth the time to watch.
Prof. Ben-Ghiat has the unique gift of concise specificity.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6f...
Here’s an idea: Rogue government has installed itself in the US capital. 100,000 federal workers from the former US are unemployed. Sounds like there are 100,000 highly skilled experts looking for a new job could be a good foundation for a new nation…
March 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Here’s an idea: Rogue government has installed itself in the US capital. 100,000 federal workers from the former US are unemployed. Sounds like there are 100,000 highly skilled experts looking for a new job could be a good foundation for a new nation…
Seems Vance is getting off scott free. For now on: Trump-Musk/Vance. Credit where credit’s due.
March 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Seems Vance is getting off scott free. For now on: Trump-Musk/Vance. Credit where credit’s due.
To digest it all, I literally hand-wrote in my journal the entire timeline outlined in this Canadian Mugsy Margarit’s recount of WTF has been happening with Canada/US.
I stand with Canada. 🇨🇦
It’s chaos down here, and this cuts through.
All below is from the link in the first🧵
I stand with Canada. 🇨🇦
It’s chaos down here, and this cuts through.
All below is from the link in the first🧵
March 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
To digest it all, I literally hand-wrote in my journal the entire timeline outlined in this Canadian Mugsy Margarit’s recount of WTF has been happening with Canada/US.
I stand with Canada. 🇨🇦
It’s chaos down here, and this cuts through.
All below is from the link in the first🧵
I stand with Canada. 🇨🇦
It’s chaos down here, and this cuts through.
All below is from the link in the first🧵
Vaccines for chickens. Oh to be a chicken. 🐓🐓🐓
February 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Vaccines for chickens. Oh to be a chicken. 🐓🐓🐓
Friends keep emailing me with news about the coming of an #asteroid...
Glad to have a song for the moment. 😂
ICYMI, the music video: youtu.be/BEAwGnTaisc?...
Glad to have a song for the moment. 😂
ICYMI, the music video: youtu.be/BEAwGnTaisc?...
Asteroids And Chaos | Arielle Silver | LYRIC VIDEO
YouTube video by Arielle Silver
youtu.be
February 26, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Friends keep emailing me with news about the coming of an #asteroid...
Glad to have a song for the moment. 😂
ICYMI, the music video: youtu.be/BEAwGnTaisc?...
Glad to have a song for the moment. 😂
ICYMI, the music video: youtu.be/BEAwGnTaisc?...
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We are the builders
We find the truth and tell the truth
www.wethebuilders.org
February 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This, too, is our work: to not turn insensitive to sweetness and love. TY for the reminder @nytimes.com
#poetry #books
#poetry #books
February 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This, too, is our work: to not turn insensitive to sweetness and love. TY for the reminder @nytimes.com
#poetry #books
#poetry #books
Slogan should be MTUI: “making the unimaginable imaginable.”
Two for today:
1. Even in #OC - a public library?
2. Me posting anything about a %footballer.
Really, though.
Unbelievable, Huntington Beach Central #Library
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...
Two for today:
1. Even in #OC - a public library?
2. Me posting anything about a %footballer.
Really, though.
Unbelievable, Huntington Beach Central #Library
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...
Chris Kluwe Is Arrested After Protesting MAGA Plaque in Huntington Beach
Chris Kluwe, a former punter for the Vikings, was arrested after speaking at a City Council meeting in Huntington Beach, Calif.
www.nytimes.com
February 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Slogan should be MTUI: “making the unimaginable imaginable.”
Two for today:
1. Even in #OC - a public library?
2. Me posting anything about a %footballer.
Really, though.
Unbelievable, Huntington Beach Central #Library
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...
Two for today:
1. Even in #OC - a public library?
2. Me posting anything about a %footballer.
Really, though.
Unbelievable, Huntington Beach Central #Library
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...
At the height of a historic moment of sweeping and unchecked austerity measures, the loudest and wealthiest people in the room have built a movement that culminated in this: an executive order that establishes a precedent to strip funding away from #womeninsport.
www.theguardian.com/sport/commen...
www.theguardian.com/sport/commen...
Trump singled me out for ruining women’s sport. This is my response to him | Austin Killips
The president talks about trans athletes ‘invading’ women’s sports, while doing nothing at all to elevate, fund or support women athletes
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
At the height of a historic moment of sweeping and unchecked austerity measures, the loudest and wealthiest people in the room have built a movement that culminated in this: an executive order that establishes a precedent to strip funding away from #womeninsport.
www.theguardian.com/sport/commen...
www.theguardian.com/sport/commen...
Needed a break from #coup talk with a few minutes to journal on this question:
If were the last day on Earth, what would you be grateful for?
Feeling better.
Also: Anyone know the artist of this graphic?
#thursdaythoughts #yogaeverydamnday #maryoliver
If were the last day on Earth, what would you be grateful for?
Feeling better.
Also: Anyone know the artist of this graphic?
#thursdaythoughts #yogaeverydamnday #maryoliver
February 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Needed a break from #coup talk with a few minutes to journal on this question:
If were the last day on Earth, what would you be grateful for?
Feeling better.
Also: Anyone know the artist of this graphic?
#thursdaythoughts #yogaeverydamnday #maryoliver
If were the last day on Earth, what would you be grateful for?
Feeling better.
Also: Anyone know the artist of this graphic?
#thursdaythoughts #yogaeverydamnday #maryoliver