Samuel ✡️ 🗽
@bluelion70.bsky.social
History teacher, Yankee Fan, Board-gamer.
Unapologetic Liberal, Environmentalist, Democracist, Zionist.
Unapologetic Liberal, Environmentalist, Democracist, Zionist.
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Samuel ✡️ 🗽
@bluelion70.bsky.social
· Nov 13
This is going to be very nuanced and very divisive. I hope you will do me the courtesy of reading the whole thing and digesting it before commenting.
Okay?
Good, here goes:
I think many people in our party misunderstand what a congressional leader is.
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Okay?
Good, here goes:
I think many people in our party misunderstand what a congressional leader is.
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This thread is very poignant and worth every minute of the time you spend reading it.
I’ve been guilty of the vibes-based demand-making described here in the past and it can be a struggle for all us to acknowledge & understand other peoples’ perspectives. We could all stand to do that more often.
I’ve been guilty of the vibes-based demand-making described here in the past and it can be a struggle for all us to acknowledge & understand other peoples’ perspectives. We could all stand to do that more often.
That would be a great policy, and it’s hard to argue that it wouldn’t be feasible for public schools and public libraries to coordinate in this way.
I ask my students every year how many books they have in their homes and how often their parents read to them, and the answers would break your heart.
I ask my students every year how many books they have in their homes and how often their parents read to them, and the answers would break your heart.
"Schools could help reverse this trend by giving students local library cards. Public libraries have larger catalogues than individual schools, so library cards would allow students to explore additional genres and authors to find books more suited to their personal tastes.
Public schools should automatically give students public library cards | New University | UC Irvine
Public libraries are an essential aspect of America’s social safety net, yet their patrons are predominantly white, wealthy and urban. For libraries to have their intended benefits, a program giving…
buff.ly
January 31, 2026 at 4:04 PM
That would be a great policy, and it’s hard to argue that it wouldn’t be feasible for public schools and public libraries to coordinate in this way.
I ask my students every year how many books they have in their homes and how often their parents read to them, and the answers would break your heart.
I ask my students every year how many books they have in their homes and how often their parents read to them, and the answers would break your heart.
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I am annoyed by all the polymarket posting on if Trump will bomb Iran. Trusting shitty gambling sites on what will happen in this world is about as insightful as reading the future out of the entrails of a gutted chicken.
January 31, 2026 at 1:53 AM
I am annoyed by all the polymarket posting on if Trump will bomb Iran. Trusting shitty gambling sites on what will happen in this world is about as insightful as reading the future out of the entrails of a gutted chicken.
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as an expert linguist Chomsky understood that technically it was hebephilia.
January 31, 2026 at 6:04 AM
as an expert linguist Chomsky understood that technically it was hebephilia.
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Oh hey it’s the feminist hero you were all just welcoming to the resistance.
MTG wouldn't know real journalism if it kicked her in the face... ‘Real Time’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Says “I Completely Support” Don Lemon’s Arrest: “That’s Not Journalism” deadline.com/2026/01/real...
‘Real Time’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Says “I Completely Support” Don Lemon’s Arrest: “That’s Not Journalism”
Amid her resignation from congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene provided her input on Don Lemon's arrest during an onscreen appearance.
deadline.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Oh hey it’s the feminist hero you were all just welcoming to the resistance.
You can’t “critique power” when your side actually wins and gains power.
They're exceptionally useful when we elect ***enough of them to form majorities.***
We tend not to do that because of morons who run around constantly whining that Dems are "useless."
So thanks for doing your part to support the fascist regime.
We tend not to do that because of morons who run around constantly whining that Dems are "useless."
So thanks for doing your part to support the fascist regime.
January 31, 2026 at 3:49 PM
You can’t “critique power” when your side actually wins and gains power.
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Ukraine’s MoD says ~35,000 Russian troops eliminated in December alone, aiming for 50,000 per month by summer.
That pace strains the Kremlin’s manpower pipeline and pushes it toward mobilization.
Source:
@Blomberg
Ukraine’s MoD says ~35,000 Russian troops eliminated in December alone, aiming for 50,000 per month by summer.
That pace strains the Kremlin’s manpower pipeline and pushes it toward mobilization.
Source:
@Blomberg
January 31, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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Ukraine’s MoD says ~35,000 Russian troops eliminated in December alone, aiming for 50,000 per month by summer.
That pace strains the Kremlin’s manpower pipeline and pushes it toward mobilization.
Source:
@Blomberg
Ukraine’s MoD says ~35,000 Russian troops eliminated in December alone, aiming for 50,000 per month by summer.
That pace strains the Kremlin’s manpower pipeline and pushes it toward mobilization.
Source:
@Blomberg
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Russian combat losses in Ukraine are accelerating.
European assessments say lethality has spiked, not just casualties.
More dead, fewer wounded.
The driver: Ukrainian drones finding targets faster than Russia can replace men.
Russian combat losses in Ukraine are accelerating.
European assessments say lethality has spiked, not just casualties.
More dead, fewer wounded.
The driver: Ukrainian drones finding targets faster than Russia can replace men.
January 31, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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Russian combat losses in Ukraine are accelerating.
European assessments say lethality has spiked, not just casualties.
More dead, fewer wounded.
The driver: Ukrainian drones finding targets faster than Russia can replace men.
Russian combat losses in Ukraine are accelerating.
European assessments say lethality has spiked, not just casualties.
More dead, fewer wounded.
The driver: Ukrainian drones finding targets faster than Russia can replace men.
Excellent. Let’s see more of this.
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Russian combat losses in Ukraine are accelerating.
European assessments say lethality has spiked, not just casualties.
More dead, fewer wounded.
The driver: Ukrainian drones finding targets faster than Russia can replace men.
Russian combat losses in Ukraine are accelerating.
European assessments say lethality has spiked, not just casualties.
More dead, fewer wounded.
The driver: Ukrainian drones finding targets faster than Russia can replace men.
January 31, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Excellent. Let’s see more of this.
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Brutal column in the Kansas City Star about a local real estate company trying to avoid public scrutiny for selling ICE a property for a massive prison camp:
www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...
www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...
January 30, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Brutal column in the Kansas City Star about a local real estate company trying to avoid public scrutiny for selling ICE a property for a massive prison camp:
www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...
www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...
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Jeffrey Epstein sent a link to the white nationalist podcast The Right Stuff, whose core hosts played an active role in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally. He did so in February 2016. Before TRS made national news, really.
Genuinely bizarre.
Genuinely bizarre.
January 31, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Jeffrey Epstein sent a link to the white nationalist podcast The Right Stuff, whose core hosts played an active role in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally. He did so in February 2016. Before TRS made national news, really.
Genuinely bizarre.
Genuinely bizarre.
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so do all the dickheads that quote Chomsky want to speak on him chatting about racist theories with a pedophile in 2016?
Jeffrey Epstein sent a link to the white nationalist podcast The Right Stuff, whose core hosts played an active role in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally. He did so in February 2016. Before TRS made national news, really.
Genuinely bizarre.
Genuinely bizarre.
January 31, 2026 at 5:27 AM
so do all the dickheads that quote Chomsky want to speak on him chatting about racist theories with a pedophile in 2016?
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Never ever ever trust leftists on civil rights.
so do all the dickheads that quote Chomsky want to speak on him chatting about racist theories with a pedophile in 2016?
Jeffrey Epstein sent a link to the white nationalist podcast The Right Stuff, whose core hosts played an active role in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally. He did so in February 2016. Before TRS made national news, really.
Genuinely bizarre.
Genuinely bizarre.
January 31, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Never ever ever trust leftists on civil rights.
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"If Dick Cheney told me to get out of the road because a runaway car is headed right at me, I would smugly chuckle as they scraped my remains off the asphalt, proud that I never did what that asshole said to do"
January 28, 2026 at 12:56 AM
"If Dick Cheney told me to get out of the road because a runaway car is headed right at me, I would smugly chuckle as they scraped my remains off the asphalt, proud that I never did what that asshole said to do"
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"Republicans have done X, Y, Z, 1, 2, 3, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, A, B, and C because not enough people voted for Democrats. Here's why the Democrats should take blame for it," is certainly a strategy. Not, like, a good one in any way, though.
Democrats may think they are softening the message when they say things like "Abolish Trump's ICE" but this is a mistake.
The qualifier of "Trump's" shows a deflection of Dem responsibility for perpetuating this agency and funding it.
The qualifier of "Trump's" shows a deflection of Dem responsibility for perpetuating this agency and funding it.
January 28, 2026 at 1:12 AM
"Republicans have done X, Y, Z, 1, 2, 3, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, A, B, and C because not enough people voted for Democrats. Here's why the Democrats should take blame for it," is certainly a strategy. Not, like, a good one in any way, though.
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I'm so tired of people who never gave a fuck acting like Gaza was the singularly biggest thing to ever happen in human history solely so they can be smug about Democrats losing without admitting they wanted Trump to win
January 27, 2026 at 10:07 PM
I'm so tired of people who never gave a fuck acting like Gaza was the singularly biggest thing to ever happen in human history solely so they can be smug about Democrats losing without admitting they wanted Trump to win
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I love how all the quote posts don't even deny it. They're all just like "Yep. We hate the party that agrees with us 90% of the time more than the party that agrees with us 0%, so we'll keep complaining about the former while happily letting the latter win." 🙃
January 31, 2026 at 3:53 AM
I love how all the quote posts don't even deny it. They're all just like "Yep. We hate the party that agrees with us 90% of the time more than the party that agrees with us 0%, so we'll keep complaining about the former while happily letting the latter win." 🙃
They don’t even bother to keep it a secret, they’ll gleefully and openly tell you so.
I think far leftists hate Democrats more than they do Republicans. 🤪
January 31, 2026 at 3:09 PM
They don’t even bother to keep it a secret, they’ll gleefully and openly tell you so.
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Fuck yes Mikie get ‘em
Mikie Sherrill, the newly inaugurated Democratic governor of New Jersey, said that her administration would soon begin collecting images of federal agents interacting with the public, cementing the state’s growing opposition to Trump’s [fascist] crackdown.
Sherrill Urges New Jersey Residents to Record ICE Action on Their Phones
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Fuck yes Mikie get ‘em
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ok so just for the record Will Stancil is back out there chasing ICE with a different group, which is to say they took his badge and gun but couldn’t take him off the case goddmait
January 31, 2026 at 1:58 AM
ok so just for the record Will Stancil is back out there chasing ICE with a different group, which is to say they took his badge and gun but couldn’t take him off the case goddmait
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And she doesn’t have a Nazi tattoo.
Stay safe Gov Mills🙏
Stay safe Gov Mills🙏
"I will defend you with everything I have. If you seek to harm Maine people, you will have to go through me first."
Mills' First TV Ad In Maine Senate Race Takes Aim At ICE
Mills' First TV Ad In Maine Senate Race Takes Aim At ICE
www.huffpost.com
January 31, 2026 at 3:23 AM
And she doesn’t have a Nazi tattoo.
Stay safe Gov Mills🙏
Stay safe Gov Mills🙏
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Was gonna write about something else before this person replied to me. But. Hey white americans. Where did the term owned come from? Who started it? What is it attached to? And most of all. Why would white allies use the term? Knowing it's history.
January 31, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Was gonna write about something else before this person replied to me. But. Hey white americans. Where did the term owned come from? Who started it? What is it attached to? And most of all. Why would white allies use the term? Knowing it's history.
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⚡️ Zelensky rejects Putin's Moscow invitation, signals possible delay in peace talks.
"I can just as well invite him to Kyiv, let him come. I'm openly inviting him, if he dares," Zelensky said during a briefing with journalists.
t.me/RBC_ua_news/...
"I can just as well invite him to Kyiv, let him come. I'm openly inviting him, if he dares," Zelensky said during a briefing with journalists.
t.me/RBC_ua_news/...
January 30, 2026 at 10:07 AM
⚡️ Zelensky rejects Putin's Moscow invitation, signals possible delay in peace talks.
"I can just as well invite him to Kyiv, let him come. I'm openly inviting him, if he dares," Zelensky said during a briefing with journalists.
t.me/RBC_ua_news/...
"I can just as well invite him to Kyiv, let him come. I'm openly inviting him, if he dares," Zelensky said during a briefing with journalists.
t.me/RBC_ua_news/...
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The father of 30-year-old Reza Asadi cries looking at his portrait during Reza’s funeral.
He was shot and killed by the Islamic regime’s security forces on January 9th for protesting on the streets of the city of Gorgan for a free Iran.
Rest in Peace Reza
He was shot and killed by the Islamic regime’s security forces on January 9th for protesting on the streets of the city of Gorgan for a free Iran.
Rest in Peace Reza
January 31, 2026 at 2:13 PM
The father of 30-year-old Reza Asadi cries looking at his portrait during Reza’s funeral.
He was shot and killed by the Islamic regime’s security forces on January 9th for protesting on the streets of the city of Gorgan for a free Iran.
Rest in Peace Reza
He was shot and killed by the Islamic regime’s security forces on January 9th for protesting on the streets of the city of Gorgan for a free Iran.
Rest in Peace Reza
Why is Australia just packed to the brim with fucking Nazis?
January 31, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Why is Australia just packed to the brim with fucking Nazis?