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Melissa
@mkverson.bsky.social
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Humanist, mom, earth lover.
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I learned who Helen Andrews is today after seeing the below post and I am leaning towards option 2 despite my deep dislike of the firearms.
Helen Andrews is misogynist and Charles Murray is too.
October 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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As Hemingway noted:
'BUT ARE THERE NOT MANY FASCISTS IN YOUR COUNTRY?' 'THERE ARE MANY WHO DO NOT KNOW THEY ARE FASCISTS, BUT WILL FIND IT OUT WHEN THE TIME COMES! - ERNEST HEMINGWAY -
October 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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No way to determine w/o context. If he’s talking about made up “originalism” he’s spot on. If he’s suggesting people who saw 60ish years of an appearance of “equal” liberties (we never fulfilled that) should “get over it”, then he’s in that transition described in that old Hemingway quote:
“BUT ARE THERE NOT MANY FASCISTS IN YOUR COUNTRY? THERE ARE MANY WHO DO NOT KNOW THEY ARE FASCISTS, BUT WILL FIND IT OUT WHEN THE TIME COMES!” - ERNEST HEMINGWAY
October 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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General Ben Hodges social media post warning of military folks bootlicking a fascist and murderous dictator, reposted with toddler-like snark by former Fox morning couch sitter, Pete Hegseth.
September 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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“Disappearance” only counts for former FBI chiefs.
At least 1200 detainees from the "Alligator Alcatraz" ICE concentration camp are unaccounted for, as desperate families try to track down their missing family members. Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be located. www.miamiherald.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Not a big military promoter, but this one always causes visible cognitive dissonance in the MAGAverse.

I too am antifa.
The Original Antifa: image of US and allied forces WWII soldiers on D-Day.
September 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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These public health coalitions will help. Here in NJ, this topic should be heavy in @mikiesherrill.bsky.social ad campaigns now that we have confirmation on RFK CDC official anti-science direction.
Map showing state membership in regional public health coalitions, including Northeast Public Health Collaborative and West Coast Health Alliance.
September 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Image of social media post by Donald J Trump calling for the firing of Jimmy Kimmel on July 22, 2025, mere months before Jimmy Kimmel was fired by ABC/Disney.
September 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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They all want the 80s back so bad.
Nantucket sewage reveals cocaine levels 50 percent above US average, according to data from health officials By Emily Sweeney Globe Staff, Updated September 5, 2025, 11:29 a.m.
September 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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I feel like we may be missing the possibility that this is the preferred outcome.
Nantucket sewage reveals cocaine levels 50 percent above US average, according to data from health officials By Emily Sweeney Globe Staff, Updated September 5, 2025, 11:29 a.m.
September 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
mkverson.bsky.social
Kirk wasn’t pure enough Nazi material. Read up on the groypers, groyper wars:
Wikipedia entry describing the “Groyper War” Wikipedia entry describing the “Groyper War 2”
September 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Framing ideas ➡️
Post by Anat Shenker-Osorio Words to Win By Thrilled to see growing consensus that Congressional Democrats not hand Republicans more rope to hang us with and instead make demands in the continuing resolution fight. To do this successfully, they must refuse the framing of "government shutdown" and instead engage on their own (accurate!) terms: "We will not be accomplices to turning the government into a weapon against the American people." "We will not vote to finance a war against Americans." "We will not be complicit in the abductions of neighbors, the stealing of healthcare from elders, and the snatching of food from kids." "This is a regime of the bullies, for the billionaires, by the bribes -- abetting the pedophiles -- and we want absolutely no role in green lighting their assault on America."
September 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Omg the belly up! This looks like our little girl when she was a pup. She’s an old lady now, and still camera shy 🐶 💗
Pup giving side eye as her picture is taken.
September 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Y’all telling on yourselves how aligned you are with the fascist MAGA movement given *elected* officials—actual political office holders—were assassinated this summer and MSM/political pundits/power stenographers were silent on it w/in days. You’re “shaken” because you view Kirk as an equal.
New York Times headline “Political Assassination Rattles Minnesota” on the politically motivated murder of Minnesota elected official Melissa Hartman and her husband, Mark.
September 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Check out @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social feed
September 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Another chart posted by @pbump.com indicates Hispanic women 🤷‍♀️
Employment charts by race from January to August 2025
September 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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We are living the Idiocracy prequel.
Dialogue from Idiocracy movie: Frito: Yah I know this place is pretty good, I went to law school here. Pvt. Joe Bowers: In Costco? Frito: Yah I couldn’t believe it myself, luckily my dad was an alumnus and pulled some strings.
September 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Deep dive with some considerations. Excerpt from linked article. www.lawdork.com/p/the-posse-...
Excerpt from article on Lawdork by Chris Geidner: “As I made clear on Bluesky, I have many issues with the way Bowser has handled and is handling all of this. I think the city needs a stronger leader in this moment. But, the characterization by the Post - the entire framing of the story — was irresponsible and inflammatory. It was also both exactly what Trump's team wanted and the most likely to create outrage at Bowser. It also ignores that 90% of what happened today is about the background. First, Bowser's order - and the Safe and Beautiful Emergency Operations Center - is pretty clearly an effort to minimize the chances of Trump seeking to extend the emergency, as he could seek to do through Congress under the federal law in question. Second, federal law enforcement, as opposed to the troops, are always here and there are limits, particularly in an antagonistic environment, as to how D.C. officials can address concerns about their use. Further, beyond the August order declaring the emergency in D.C., an underlying, earlier Trump order from March established the "D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force" - a federal task force that will remain in effect after the 30 days. With those two realities in mind, note what Bowser says is the purpose of the center being established in her order. It is "to manage the District's response to the Task Force, the Presidential declaration of emergency and on a continuing basis" and will "coordinate centralized communications; formulate post-emergency planning; formulate post-emergency operations; and ensure coordination with federal law enforcement to the maximum extent allowable by law within the District." It is far from ideal, but, if you look at the ongoing federal-led efforts with its task force and think about the limits D.C. government has in addressing federal law enforcement even in the best of times, it is not hard to see this as an effort to create a channeled engagement with federal officials that — at least, Bowser presu…
September 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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“Pro-worker” kinda like this
Social media post by: Facts They Don't Teach You August 31 at 2:29 PM Image of men squatting and cramped caged mining shaft “elevator” with no room to move or stand-up with the caption: “This photo was taken of miners at the end of their shift during the Gilded Age before they were unionized. Somewhere there were people at the top of the company who felt there was nothing wrong with this picture. This Labor Day remember the blood, sweat, and tears that those before us paid to give the working class the basic rights we enjoy today.”
September 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Everyone should rewatch Alex Garland’s Civil War, and take notes. We’re seemingly already beyond this moment in words, just not actions…yet ⬇️
Scene from director Alex Garland’s 2024 movie, “Civil War”, where a character who is a purported military soldier (man dressed in US military styled camouflage and holding a machine gun) is asking a character who is an American journalist “What kind of American are you?” to determine whether to shoot them or not.
August 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Guess you guys are all in on the concentration camps. To argue these (and many others in your banned word list—BANNED words!) phrases are some kind of activist terminology is grossly irresponsible, and vulgar to boot.
August 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Looking at the screen shot of some of their “banned” words & I get the distinct feeling many @thebulwark.com & Third Way folks are all in on fascist consolidation & the Concentration Camp Tendency (h/t @andreapitzer.bsky.social). These are not trendy words, these are essential & descriptive phrases.
List of words Third Way has banned from discourse, including some highlighted: privilege, violence, othering, systems of oppression, unhoused, food insecurity, person who immigrated, incarcerated people, involuntary confinement.
August 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Throw back. I think we can take an educated guess.
Andrew Lawrence @ndrew_lawrence Replying to @UrbanAchievr Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes? Con: LOL no...no not those views Me: So....deregulation? Con: Haha no not those views either Me: Which views, exactly? Con: Oh, you know the ones
August 22, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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I mean, others are pointing out this is republican propaganda, but also
August 10, 2023| truthout article Headline: “10 States Purged Over 19 Million Voters Between 2020 and 2022 Electoral Cycles” Lede: “This amounts to 8.5 percent of the registered U.S. electorate being prevented from exercising their right to vote.” Byline: By Brett Wilkins, COMMON DREAMS
August 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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'BUT ARE THERE NOT MANY FASCISTS IN YOUR COUNTRY?' THERE ARE MANY WHO DO NOT KNOW THEY ARE FASCISTS, BUT WILL FIND IT OUT WHEN THE TIME COMES! - ERNEST HEMINGWAY -
August 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM