mlidard.bsky.social
@mlidard.bsky.social
Journalist and furious typer
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Why did not a single male reporter who were standing next to the president and the female reporter he called "piggy" say a word to the president about this and call him out then and there? Those who keep quiet in these moments are part of the problem.
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Who needs Halloween when America is an actual horror-show?
October 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Instead of talking to MAGA or each other, focus on winning the hearts and minds of the unaware and undecided. The best signs tell people what we stand for and do it simply.
The Big List of Protest Signs for #NoKings 10/18
Instead of talking to MAGA or each other, focus on winning the hearts and minds of the unaware and undecided.
open.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Not to be overly dramatic but don't ever say what happened to Khashoggi can't happen here. We've had a lot of things happen here already that "can't happen here"
October 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
October 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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People saying the fascism we’re seeing is unprecedented, unimaginable etc miss the larger point.

We‘re not experiencing anything new. We‘re experiencing an *expansion* of existing realities targeting Black people especially. Until we get that, we’ll miss how to fight US fascism at its core.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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The near daily barrage of deadly mass shootings in America feels like low level warfare against normal citizens who just want to live in peace. And because people keep electing Republicans who won’t do anything about it there’s no solution in sight.
September 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there
September 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Evil
September 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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it's absolutely fucking crazy that "retroactively legalize Watergate" and "exclude Black people from literally every area of public life" are the two primary a objectives of the chief justice and yet he is never reported on like the vicious gutter racist he is.
September 24, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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It's important to remember when GOP Reps and Sens are yelling about the 'violent left' that they routinely tell reporters and colleagues how theyre afraid to do this or that because their own supporters routinely threaten violence agains them.
September 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".
September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.
September 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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September 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This is shameful. As a proud alumna of the Merrill College of Journalism, my college self would never believe that the paper responsible for exposing Watergate and publishing the Pentagon Papers would punish, and attempt to silence, an OPINIONS editor for stating the truth.
September 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Welcome to Trump’s America, where they fire Karen Attiah and Matthew Dowd for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s right-wing extremism and applaud Brian Kilmeade for suggesting we murder the homeless.
September 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
September 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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My senior Senator is just consistently on point.
September 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Charlie Kirk’s death can’t distract us from the scandal that Trump wants to go away. Violence has no place in a civilized society, but the violence is ongoing to the Epstein survivors. Young girls were sex trafficked and not believed. They’re still looking for justice. Release the #EpsteinFiles
September 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).
September 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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This week's news:

* many male elites approve of & participate in raping girls

* POTUS is a pedophile serial rapist voters chose TWICE over more qualified women

* he wants to decriminalize domestic violence bc it's so common it's driving up crime stats

Male pundits: "Misogyny is a side issue."
September 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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better things are possible!!!!
September 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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just sitting here thinking about the courage and determination of E. Jean Carroll compared to the abject craven collapse of the pretty much every silicon valley CEO
September 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM