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faineg.bsky.social
I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings.

These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.

Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.
October 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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phillipspobrien.bsky.social
One of the most remarkable things of the last 9 months is how many Americans seem to believe the President is all powerful and Congress has no say.
Actually Congress has been ineffective by choice. It has immense power if it had the courage to use it.
September 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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amaditalks.bsky.social
This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.
August 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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sachacoward.bsky.social
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
August 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
This is hands down the best, most enjoyable, and far-ranging discussion that I have had in recent memory. Katie brought so much to this interview about vibecessions, “finance guy” memes as politics of social reproduction in casino capitalism, Bama Rush and DSA.

moneywithkatie.com/status-power...
6.25.2025 | A Masterclass on Status, Power, & the Economy with Tressie McMillan Cottom — Millennial Money with Katie
moneywithkatie.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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esqueer.net
Zohran winning tonight is the opening salvo on a corrupt gerantocratic democratic establishment. Primary all of the old establishment and let the next generation take over.

This is how we take on the oligarchs controlling the Democratic party.
June 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants
June 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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theonion.com
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American people wouldn’t notice them. “Don’t make any sudden movements, or they’ll spot us,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said out of the corner of his mouth, […]
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June 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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amandalitman.bsky.social
Answering some of the Qs about Cuomo's campaign, one by one...

First: What about the sexual harassment charges? Aren't they in the past? (Spoiler: No, and especially not since he's shown no interest in change or repentance.) amandalitman.substack.com/p/the-case-a...
I just have such good memories from him during COVID. Remember Cuomo-sexuals? I do remember! But really: Andrew Cuomo is a terrible person. For starters, he’s been credibly accused of sexual harassment by at least 11 women. No, yeah, I know. I’ve heard about that. Not great. You’ve probably heard that in passing, but it’s worth actually looking at what the reports say. There’s a long documented history of young women saying Cuomo groped them, made them feel unsafe, went out of his way to humiliate them. Throughout his time as governor, there’s story after story of him preying on young vulnerable women whose only crime is that they wanted to serve New Yorkers in government. That is horrible. But that stuff is all in the past. Don’t we need a way of people to come back? Shouldn’t there be room for some sort of redemption? Sure. Of course. But any story of redemption has to involve change and repentance. And by all accounts, that is not Andrew Cuomo’s arc. Instead he’s waged an unrelenting scorched earth campaign against his accusers. He’s suing many of them, dragging out long legal disputes, and bankrupting them with legal fees. The City, in their deep dive into Cuomo’s “trench warfare”, called his tactics “in many ways unprecedented, wearing down and financially depleting not only women who have accused Cuomo of harassment and brought their own suits but others who never planned to enter a courtroom at all.” If that’s not bad enough, Cuomo is using the fact that he was employed by the state as governor when these accusations took place to force taxpayers to pay his legal fees! New Yorkers like you and me have already paid over 19 million dollars to his lawyers to defend him in the sexual assault cases alone (in addition to another $40 million in legal fees for other corruption & miscellaneous cases). I want my taxes going to libraries, not his lawyers. Look, I get it. But #metoo was a long time ago. Some people might even say it went a little far, you know? Remember Aziz Ansari? LOL, not really, no. But let’s stay on topic. Reasonable people can disagree about #MeToo, or about what should happen to people accused of sexual harassment in the workplace, but the fact is that the sexual harassment is completely of a piece of how Andrew Cuomo does business. He’s a bully. The stories of him screaming at others, intimidating people who work for him, and holding nasty petty grudges are the stuff of legend. In their exhaustive look at the subject, The New York Times quotes one person who worked with Cuomo as saying, “his primary tool for governing is to create fear.” One lawmaker, whose father died in a nursing home during COVID (a subject we are going to talk more about in a bit), has publicly said Cuomo threatened to “destroy him” if he ever criticized the governor.
June 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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petridishes.bsky.social
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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bfishbfish.bsky.social
Really, really good @rtraister.bsky.social piece on Cuomo’s impending return substack.com/inbox/post/1...
This is the guy who, along with his top aides, has spent in the neighborhood of 20 million dollars of New York taxpayers' money waging a lawfare campaign against the women, many of them young, who came forward to describe the way he treated them. He has since worked tirelessly to defame and degrade the women who spoke up (even the ones to whom he originally extended apologies) exhausting their spirits and their funds, subpoenaing their phone records and former college interns, working to reveal their identities even when ordered by the court to desist. It is very worth reading this account in the City of how both inside the courtroom and out, Cuomo's "attorneys and some family members have battled to rehabilitate his image by helping shred that of any perceived detractor they targeted."
June 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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erinoverbey.bsky.social
holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign…

guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant
The Cut article from 2018: Cuomo halted investigation into Weinstein case after $25K donation from his former lawyer
June 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.
June 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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parkermolloy.com
Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.
An editorial cartoon of MLK standing in front of chaos and wreckage with the words, "I plan to lead another non-violent march tomorrow"
June 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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edburmila.bsky.social
The big reveal is that this - what you’re seeing right now - is in fact *exactly* how businesses are run; chaotically and at the whims of sociopaths who think they know everything, actually know nothing, and run away with a golden parachute to leave others to clean up their mess.
purplechrain.bsky.social Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · May 8
People constantly claim that the appeal of Republicans is that they are ‘successful’ businesspeople who will “run the country like a business”, but in reality they’re so incompetent at even the most basic tasks that they can’t even prepare a legally-mandated budget request on time.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 8
MURRAY: It was due last week. By law.

PATEL: I understand.

MURRAY: You're not gonna follow the law? ... And you have no timeline?

PATEL: No

MURRAY: Hmm. We're not having a budget hearing without a budget request. So where is it?
May 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social
if you'd like to see a wide re-release of Hundreds of Beavers in theaters this year, one night only, in thousands of cities — repost this. we've got some doubters.
May 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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mikerose.bsky.social
Hi Bluesky, could really use your help 🙏🙏

We just launched our latest game Starless Abyss - the exact week that Oblivion was shadow-dropped. Which has been *not fantastic* for our launch

If anyone can spare a RT, that would be so, so helpful ❤️❤️

Find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3167970/...
April 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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threnody.bsky.social
so, stephanie turner—the fencer who took a knee & went on a media tour about it—cost a trans girl the chance to participate in society & did it for $5,000 cash, in addition to, i assume, paid speaking gigs with folks like riley gaines.

this is grifting. turner is a grifter. also a garbage person.
April 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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voicesbyzane.bsky.social
It's Reagan. It's always Reagan. All of *gestures* this stems from our modern philosophy of "rich people are smart and good and the government should do whatever it can to enrich them regardless of how much the working class suffers" and that shit was because of Reagan.
itsmimie.bsky.social Mimie @itsmimie.bsky.social · Mar 12
What do yall think was the nexus event that created this branch in the timeline?
I’m torn between the Cats movie and when people were licking gallons of ice cream in the grocery store and putting it back.
March 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM