Maggie Nickson
@maggie-nickson.bsky.social
Animal lover/skeptic/realist/minimalist/nullifidian. Believing doesn't make it true. I might be a nihilist. Memento Mori.
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"All religions are superstitious nonsense except, of course, yours."
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This video is excellent and you should watch it
Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...
So I’m in the Epstein Files
Transcript: Look. I know that on this channel, I often criticize prominent people for actions that I find detestable: accepting dark money and failing to disclose it, producing propaganda for Big O…
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November 20, 2025 at 2:11 AM
This video is excellent and you should watch it
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November 20, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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What we’re seeing is the triumph of a movement defined by being opposed to human progress in all things.
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
What we’re seeing is the triumph of a movement defined by being opposed to human progress in all things.
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It's a good thing President Obama killed Osama Bin Laden because otherwise Trump would be inviting him to the White House for some goddamn hors d'oeuvres
November 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors...
PS. - Justice Hugo Black
PS. - Justice Hugo Black
November 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors...
PS. - Justice Hugo Black
PS. - Justice Hugo Black
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BREAKING: A federal judge blocked Arkansas from enforcing a set of laws designed to suppress ballot initiatives — including ID checks, reading-level rules and a so-called “cool off” period for canvassers.
The judge found the laws were already creating a climate of fear and intimidation.
The judge found the laws were already creating a climate of fear and intimidation.
Federal Court Shuts Down Arkansas Crackdown on Ballot Initiatives
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
BREAKING: A federal judge blocked Arkansas from enforcing a set of laws designed to suppress ballot initiatives — including ID checks, reading-level rules and a so-called “cool off” period for canvassers.
The judge found the laws were already creating a climate of fear and intimidation.
The judge found the laws were already creating a climate of fear and intimidation.
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This is a real image of a real thing that exists in the universe! And because a bunch of humans decided to get together and build a space telescope, we get to see it! 🤯
Very excited to share the NASA/ESA/STScI press release of our team's work on Apep! It's a terrific writeup, complete with a brand new beautiful visualisation of the nebula geometry.
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Webb First to Show 4 Dust Shells 'Spiraling' Apep, Limits Long Orbit - NASA Science
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust, one expanding
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November 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is a real image of a real thing that exists in the universe! And because a bunch of humans decided to get together and build a space telescope, we get to see it! 🤯
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This government is basically function on a “la la la can’t hear you” approach with information they don’t like.
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Ya LYING Girl!
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November 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This government is basically function on a “la la la can’t hear you” approach with information they don’t like.
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Every now and then I remember this tweet, and am thankful these people are so incredibly fucking stupid.
November 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
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GOP ❤️ terrorists
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
GOP ❤️ terrorists
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Yeah...
Huge @tinanguyen.bsky.social scoop: Trump is preparing to try and ban all state AI laws, going so far as having Brendan Carr’s FCC pull rural broadband funds from states that try to regulate AI www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Here’s the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws
Trump is launching an all-out broadside against states with strict AI regulations.
www.theverge.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Yeah...
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When a government expands its capacity to make war, but reduces its efforts to educate its young citizens, it’s a bad government.
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
When a government expands its capacity to make war, but reduces its efforts to educate its young citizens, it’s a bad government.
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It looks like Lindsey Halligan misled a grand jury, prosecutorial conduct equivalent to committing perjury, in order to manufacture an indictment against James Comey for…
wait for it…
perjury.
wait for it…
perjury.
November 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
It looks like Lindsey Halligan misled a grand jury, prosecutorial conduct equivalent to committing perjury, in order to manufacture an indictment against James Comey for…
wait for it…
perjury.
wait for it…
perjury.
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The orange poopskitch's plan to dismantle the dept of education has unfortunately moved forward with a move to shift educational offices to other departments in a move that makes no logical sense from an educational standpoint & is profoundly concerning.
#Pinks
#Pinks
November 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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So the über rich thought we'd just say it's ok.
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
So the über rich thought we'd just say it's ok.
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“Like critical race theory and “wokeness,” “gender ideology” is both a bogeyman for the right and a reactionary backlash to social progress. The expression is generally used to scorn the idea that gender is a social construct different from biological sex”
MAGA learned from global autocrats the language needed to push fear.
By using the term "gender ideology," the right seeks to cast gender identity not as something you are, but as something dangerous that you believe.
By using the term "gender ideology," the right seeks to cast gender identity not as something you are, but as something dangerous that you believe.
How the right uses "gender ideology" to blame trans people for everything
MAGA learned from global autocrats the language needed to push fear.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
“Like critical race theory and “wokeness,” “gender ideology” is both a bogeyman for the right and a reactionary backlash to social progress. The expression is generally used to scorn the idea that gender is a social construct different from biological sex”