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Briana L. McGinnis
@brianamcginnis.bsky.social
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Northerner settled in the Deep South; scholar of exile, punishment, and (usually dysfunctional) political community. Future breast cancer survivor. More thoughts than patience. She/her

All posts in my personal capacity only.
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jdcmedlock.bsky.social
How it started // How it’s going
September 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
So cool they discovered the cause of autism on basically day they guessed they would. I’m also glad they are withholding this information for a few days to prep for a WrestleMania-style announcement. This is how science works.
September 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
August 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Horrific

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
August 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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evanbernick.bsky.social
Du Bois on what these assholes were really like
The Southern planter suffered, not simply for his eco- nomic mistakess-the psychological effect of slavery upon him was fatal. The mere fact that a man could be, under the law, the actual master of the mind and body of human beings had to have disastrous effects. It tended to inflate the ego of most planters beyond all reason; they became arrogant, strutting, quarrelsome kinglets; they issued commands; they made laws; they shouted their orders; they expected deference and self-abasement; they were choleric and easily insulted. Their "honor" be- came a vast and awful thing, requiring wide and insist- ent deference. Such of them as were inherently weak and inefficient were all the more easily angered, jealous and resentful; while the few who were superior, physically or mentally, conceived no bounds to their power and per- sonal prestige. As the world had long learned, nothing is so calculated to ruin human nature as absolute power over human beings.
July 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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libraonfire.bsky.social
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Trump sent ICE to raid parks in LA today

but still hasn’t sent federal support to help find the missing children from the Texas floods.

Families are grieving.
Kids are gone.

& instead of rescue teams, we get fear tactics.

This is beyond disgusting.

#TexasFloods
#TedCruz
#Republicans

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July 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Read news, op-eds, and analysis, not AI summaries. Create your own art (even if it's messy) or hire an artist to do it. Do your own homework. Talk to people, not chatbots. Keep your thinking and skills sharp and cherish our messy humanity. That's the new punk rock.
July 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
we have an elite impunity problem (globally, but the US is certainly no exception) and nothing will get better until we deal with this
spacetwinks.bsky.social Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · Jul 7
so much driving motivation in people in even the slightest position of power, regardless of where they find themselves on the political map, is "i should never have to feel bad, feel regret, feel shame, or otherwise reconsider my decisions" and every choice, policy and personal, falling from there
July 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Republicans just took away your healthcare so they can fund their secret police: newrepublic.com/post/197612/...
Congress Gives ICE More Money Than It Could Have Ever Imagined
It’s impossible to overstate how much power ICE just got from Trump’s budget.
newrepublic.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
me interviewing every animal to see if their politics align with mine before raising money for an animal shelter
July 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social
They finally made the milk from that hotel
a ½ gallon of neutral milk
July 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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jamellebouie.net
I continue to be struck by this language of “in accordance with the president’s priorities,” which treats the executive branch as an extension of the person of the president, and not a mechanism for instituting the will of Congress
July 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
Every word of this is depraved beyond belief.

ICE abducted a six year old with leukemia, threatened him with a gun such that he wet himself, and has denied him medical treatment.

I don’t know what to say.

www.tpr.org/border-immig...
"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying," Mukherjee said. "The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours." The family was then transported to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas, where they have been detained for several weeks. The 6-year-old boy has been diagnosed with leukemia and has missed a medical appointment to be treated for worsening symptoms, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in San Antonio by the Immigrant Rights Clinic and The Texas Civil Rights Project.
June 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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ufw.bsky.social
We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well.

We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.
A placard with the following text NO ICE ACCESS IN THIS OFFICE PRIVATE PROPERTY - ENTRY RESTRICTED BY LAW NOTICE TO ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT & IMMIGRATION AGENTS: This is a private workplace. You are not permitted to enter non-public areas of this office (including offices, break rooms, storage areas, and staff-only areas) without a valid judicial warrant signed by a federal judge or magistrate An ICE administrative warrant (Form I-200 or 1-205) does not authorize entry into private areas of this office. You may not question emplovees or search the premises without proper legal authorify. All employees and visitors have the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney. IF YOU ATTEMPT TO ENTER THIS OFFICE WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT, YOU WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE. IF YOU PRESENT A JUDICIAL WARRANT, PLEASE NOTIFY MANAGEMENT AND LEGAL COUNSEL IMMEDIATELY BEFORE PROCEEDING. IF YOU ENTER, YOU ARE TRESPASSING, AND WE WILL SEEK LEGAL RECOURSE. This policy is in compliance with: U.S. Constitution, Fourth Amendment California Government Code $ 7285.1 California Labor Code $ 1019.2 Immigrant Worker Protection Act (AB 450)
June 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Yet again America is bombing the Middle East and yet again we the American people are given a very lame excuse as to why.
June 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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jessehawken.bsky.social
Chuck Schumer about to write the President a sternly-worded thank you note
June 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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utopia-defer.red
They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”
June 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
I am begging people not to look to the NYT for coverage of what's happening. The BBC, Le Monde, Ajazeera and others will have more truthful coverage.
June 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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elienyc.bsky.social
The New York Times is, sneakily, one of the most anti-trans organizations in the country
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jun 19
1. After the Skrmetti decision, the New York Times has published 6 articles dancing on the graves of trans youth and spreading disinformation on care.

It was cited 7 times in the ruling.

Read my latest on what will be a black stain on the NYT for a generation.

Subscribe to support my journalism.
After Getting The Ruling It Wanted, New York Times Publishes 6 Anti-Trans Articles
The paper has lost all claim to objectivity on transgender people.
www.erininthemorning.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.
June 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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bartenderhemry.bsky.social
Was consumed all day at work by the fact that trump tweeted "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!" at Iran, which from any normal president would be hugely consequential and it wasn't even a story because the media has just sort of deformed itself into nihilistic acceptance of the fact that he's insane
mosheroperandi.bsky.social Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · Jun 18
Worse, the entire media basically knows this. They incredibly low standards they display for him are obvious. And yet they rarely highlight this as the disqualifying truth it is.
June 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
It's pretty obvious that a lot of US mainstream media either doesn't recognise authoritarianism or doesn't want to call it out. Either way, it's an excellent way to destroy trust in your institution.
June 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM