Jane O'Boyle
@janeoboyle.bsky.social
PhD, Comms Prof. Book publishing. Writer. Detroit, Ann Arbor, NYC, Charleston, Elon University #GoBlue.
TIL that Mamdani's mother is film director Mira Nair. I mean. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
Mamdani Walks Offstage to Bollywood Song After Victory Speech
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November 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
TIL that Mamdani's mother is film director Mira Nair. I mean. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
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So the next time people want to appeal to the right, it’s because they are right wing themselves. Because the proof is in the pudding after what happened last night.
November 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
So the next time people want to appeal to the right, it’s because they are right wing themselves. Because the proof is in the pudding after what happened last night.
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Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.
"Racism is not a natural condition of poverty but a political weapon that rich men use to constrain poor people’s political power. [Hard politics for Dems is] not wanting, even for a second, to be confused with the people who would do that." @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
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October 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
"Racism is not a natural condition of poverty but a political weapon that rich men use to constrain poor people’s political power. [Hard politics for Dems is] not wanting, even for a second, to be confused with the people who would do that." @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
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Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
October 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
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Why are credible news platforms still platforming these kinds of lies and liars who tell them?
CNN: Do you really believe that the 7 million attendees who participated this weekend hate the United States of America?
REP. LISA McCLAIN: Well, look at what they're standing for. They're standing for communism. They're standing for antisemitism.
REP. LISA McCLAIN: Well, look at what they're standing for. They're standing for communism. They're standing for antisemitism.
October 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Why are credible news platforms still platforming these kinds of lies and liars who tell them?
Just gonna add a giant olive on a bamboo skewer and Jerry's all set for Halloween @darthbluesky.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Just gonna add a giant olive on a bamboo skewer and Jerry's all set for Halloween @darthbluesky.bsky.social
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South Carolina Democrats win nearly 45% of the vote yet hold just 1 of 7 congressional seats. That’s not balance, that’s a rigged system.
We stand with Rep. Clyburn in fighting for fair maps and fair representation.
#SCDems #SCPOL #FairMaps #SouthCarolina
We stand with Rep. Clyburn in fighting for fair maps and fair representation.
#SCDems #SCPOL #FairMaps #SouthCarolina
October 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
South Carolina Democrats win nearly 45% of the vote yet hold just 1 of 7 congressional seats. That’s not balance, that’s a rigged system.
We stand with Rep. Clyburn in fighting for fair maps and fair representation.
#SCDems #SCPOL #FairMaps #SouthCarolina
We stand with Rep. Clyburn in fighting for fair maps and fair representation.
#SCDems #SCPOL #FairMaps #SouthCarolina
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everyone on that stage went along with pardons for jan 6 participants
Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."
October 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
everyone on that stage went along with pardons for jan 6 participants
Brown pelican nests at Crab Bank Seabird Sanctuary, Charleston. SCDNR video 🐦🦉
October 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Brown pelican nests at Crab Bank Seabird Sanctuary, Charleston. SCDNR video 🐦🦉
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Understand what they are doing: using the massive power of the state - including military power and the power to imprison - to carry out a campaign to eliminate their political opposition.
It's growing in seriousness by the hour.
It's growing in seriousness by the hour.
October 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Understand what they are doing: using the massive power of the state - including military power and the power to imprison - to carry out a campaign to eliminate their political opposition.
It's growing in seriousness by the hour.
It's growing in seriousness by the hour.
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“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated."
-Anne Frank
-Anne Frank
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt
37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.
www.cnn.com
October 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated."
-Anne Frank
-Anne Frank
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Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl show, freighted in all manner of bracing and defiant political symbolism, was the most-watched performance in history, with 133.5 million viewers.
Democrats need to listen for the roar of the crowd.
Brilliant @mollyjongfast.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...
Democrats need to listen for the roar of the crowd.
Brilliant @mollyjongfast.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...
Opinion | What Chuck Schumer Can Learn From Bad Bunny
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October 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl show, freighted in all manner of bracing and defiant political symbolism, was the most-watched performance in history, with 133.5 million viewers.
Democrats need to listen for the roar of the crowd.
Brilliant @mollyjongfast.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...
Democrats need to listen for the roar of the crowd.
Brilliant @mollyjongfast.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...
Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl show, freighted in all manner of bracing and defiant political symbolism, was the most-watched performance in history, with 133.5 million viewers.
Democrats need to listen for the roar of the crowd.
Brilliant @mollyjongfast.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...
Democrats need to listen for the roar of the crowd.
Brilliant @mollyjongfast.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...
Opinion | What Chuck Schumer Can Learn From Bad Bunny
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl show, freighted in all manner of bracing and defiant political symbolism, was the most-watched performance in history, with 133.5 million viewers.
Democrats need to listen for the roar of the crowd.
Brilliant @mollyjongfast.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...
Democrats need to listen for the roar of the crowd.
Brilliant @mollyjongfast.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...
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I’m becoming more and more concerned that people at high levels of public discussion cannot identify the difference between a genuinely viral conversation vs a bunch of bots making noise.
“Bots or likely bots authored 44.5% of X posts mentioning Cracker Barrel in the 24 hours after the new logo gained attention on Aug. 20, according to research for @WSJ by PeakMetrics. That number rose to 49% among posts calling for a boycott.”
Bot Networks Are Helping Drag Consumer Brands Into the Culture Wars
AI tools have made coordinated attacks targeting corporations much more common, researchers say.
www.wsj.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I’m becoming more and more concerned that people at high levels of public discussion cannot identify the difference between a genuinely viral conversation vs a bunch of bots making noise.
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Class is in session.
Fun fact about disinformation: In order to change actions, you don't always have to convince someone something is wrong. You might just have to convince someone that something might not be right.
The friction of uncertainty can stop someone in their tracks.
Fun fact about disinformation: In order to change actions, you don't always have to convince someone something is wrong. You might just have to convince someone that something might not be right.
The friction of uncertainty can stop someone in their tracks.
September 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Class is in session.
Fun fact about disinformation: In order to change actions, you don't always have to convince someone something is wrong. You might just have to convince someone that something might not be right.
The friction of uncertainty can stop someone in their tracks.
Fun fact about disinformation: In order to change actions, you don't always have to convince someone something is wrong. You might just have to convince someone that something might not be right.
The friction of uncertainty can stop someone in their tracks.
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If this deeply degrading, wasteful and dangerous stunt proved anything, it’s that the best thing Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace.
Immediately.
Immediately.
September 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
If this deeply degrading, wasteful and dangerous stunt proved anything, it’s that the best thing Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace.
Immediately.
Immediately.
@nhannahjones.bsky.social: Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & racist throwback views about Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
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September 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
@nhannahjones.bsky.social: Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & racist throwback views about Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
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It is really frustrating to see these narratives develop around with the administration without people pointing at the pardons for Jan 6 and saying, "you pardoned people convicted of assaulting officers. You literally do tolerate violence."
Bondi: "Under President Trump's leadership, there is ZERO TOLERANCE for political violence and domestic terrorism. I am deploying federal agents to ICE facilities around the country. If you so much as touch one of our federal officers, you will go to prison."
September 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
It is really frustrating to see these narratives develop around with the administration without people pointing at the pardons for Jan 6 and saying, "you pardoned people convicted of assaulting officers. You literally do tolerate violence."
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A great example of the divide in America. It seems to me that the president of the red states of America is the great divider.
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A great example of the divide in America. It seems to me that the president of the red states of America is the great divider.