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murkydistantsafety.bsky.social
@murkydistantsafety.bsky.social
I do things. I know some stuff. I lament into the void.
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i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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I'm going to float this nuclear take: maybe students are increasingly turning to ShitGPT and other deskilling devices because the structure of the modern university has made it impossible for them to acquire skill in a deep way.

Let me paint a picture for you.
December 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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So old I remember when it was considered a political liability to hand out a presidential pardon to your son in law’s drug dealer buddy who went on to commit crimes of violence and sexual offenses. nypost.com/2025/11/11/u...
LI drug dealer freed by Trump now convicted of molesting his kids’ nanny and threatening synagogue congregant
Braun was first busted in 2010 for orchestrating a major cannabis distribution ring, smuggling millions of dollars worth of weed from Canada to New York.
nypost.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A critical step in avoiding the next attempted fascist takeover, is learn the lessons from Trump & Nixon. You can’t let these guys run around like this then just walk away. They must feel the wrath of the society they’ve wronged. commensurate with their involvement they must be shunned or charged.
The author(s) of this memo will come out and they should be shunned the rest of their careers in the law. (Seeing as how John Yoo is a law professor, I’m not getting my hopes up)

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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again i am perfectly fine with locking every one of Jeffrey Epstein's friends in prison, Democrat, Republican or Whatever.
Lest there be any insinuation that Dems spared their own. It would be tough for Kathy Ruemmler—Obama’s WH Counsel from 2011 to mid-2014—to come off looking worse in these docs the committee Dems released. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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“We’re in an existential fight so let’s band together with cowards who sell everyone else out at the earliest opportunity” isn’t exactly the St Crispin's Day Speech
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
It’s so annoying that the capital class thinks we’re all stupid enough to keep falling for this.

It was idiotic and insulting 10 years ago when it was millennials and it is idiotic and insulting now.

Becoming an adult does not and cannot mean abandoning all joy for the sake of survival
“At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending…”

archive.ph/2TI8J
October 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
These mother fuckers are going to re-lead the gas aren’t they?
Sean Duffy: "We are gonna save billions of dollars by getting rid of the fuel economy standards that are set way too high, that no combustion engine can meet, costing each car to the tune of thousands of dollars for the end consumer. We're in the process of getting rid of those rules."
October 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news
October 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.
We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
October 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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This could be a powerful dissuasive unified message: doesn’t matter if you’re a low-level agent; if you participated in crackdowns on speech and unlawful arrests, we’ll fire you, investigate, bring charges. There’ll be commissions, special prosecutors. As long as it takes, we’ll pursue every person
October 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The democratic leaders are trying to figure out how to lead while ignoring this democratic leader!
This is how it's done!
Lifting up, not selling out the trans community.
Building trust in good faith.
The world is watching his actions and yours.
Fight for them damnit! They've fought for everyone!
I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
October 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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CBS News will now be a megaphone for the country's most vicious crusader against free speech, and the most relentless propagandist of far-right disinformation.

Cancel Paramount Plus, call every CBS advertiser until their only remaining ads are for MyPillow and Daily Stormer.
October 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.
September 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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JD Vance is now using the term "blood libel" to describe criticism of ICE, saying, "The Democrats and the media — because they so hate the idea of a real border — are engaging in a kind of blood libel against ICE agents."

Somewhere, our ancestors wept.
September 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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And remember, the reason he wanted separate vaccines wasn't due to any science, but because *he'd filed a patent application for a single measles vaccine*. It was just grifting.
Wakefield taking a victory lap.
September 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.
September 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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ned is exactly right. the challenge is reconnecting the democratic party to a mass constituency and building real affinity between voters and the party. it would be more worthwhole to put $10 million into piloting democratic clubs and associated newspapers bsky.app/profile/resn...
This is the whole thing right here. All these tired fights about whether Dems should moderate are ways of dancing around the real problem, which is the that political parties no longer have any mass constituency.
In many countries, (esp. white, male) workers increasingly vote for radical right parties. Still, a sole focus on right-wing ideology only captures a narrow part of working class consciousness. Most workers, including many right-wing voters, are politically demobilized and distant from all politics.
September 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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National political reporters: consult your gaming desk. You likely have a massively blind spot — this isn’t a dig at anyone, because I have this blind spot too b/c I’m not a gamer and am trying to adjust for it in real time — covering this very important moment if u don’t game & don’t know the memes
September 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
lol this has been the exact electoral strategy of the dems as long as I’ve been alive. Obama in 08 is the closest they came to challenging it and he cleaned house.
August 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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As someone who has run an actual non-ridiculous independent media operation for over two decades which has lost multiple sponsors due to our public "we're against fascism" stance... to hear that Weiss might get $200 million for basically justifying and whitewashing fascism... is... frustrating.
FT Exclusive: Weiss has met with David Ellison, the incoming owner of CBS News, over a potential deal to sell her three-year-old media company, according to several people familiar with the matter. https://on.ft.com/4eZ6WbM
July 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Hey Democratic house members, guess what I’m gonna be expecting from you from now on?

(this is why I protested knowing I’d be arrested. you need to fucking FIGHT, and this is a good start, but I want MORE. the American populace wants MORE. fucking FIGHT)
Politico & Punchbowl report House Republican leadership is shutting down the Rules Committee - which is essential for moving party-line bills on the floor - for the week rather than vote on Democratic amendments on the Epstein files.

Dems have effectively halted Republican legislation in the House:
July 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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fire the person covering up for pedophiles by direction of a pedophile president to then replace her with a pedophile! great idea
July 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM