petefarquhar
@petefarquhar.bsky.social
Artist, dog lover, and avid reader. That was the suggested text. I do love dogs
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No Kings Raleigh today. People up and down Capital Blvd. Had to do 3x speed to capture the whole thing in under 2 minutes #nokings #nokingsraleigh
June 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
No Kings Raleigh today. People up and down Capital Blvd. Had to do 3x speed to capture the whole thing in under 2 minutes #nokings #nokingsraleigh
It’s time to get into the streets!! Find a Hands Off event near you this Sat April 5th www.mobilize.us/handsoff/?ut...
Hands Off! Join the National Mobilization to Fight Back · Hands Off on Mobilize
Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with Hands Off.
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April 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
It’s time to get into the streets!! Find a Hands Off event near you this Sat April 5th www.mobilize.us/handsoff/?ut...
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I can’t emphasize enough that cynicism is a dictator’s best friend. Stay outraged. Believe in and work for democracy.
March 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I can’t emphasize enough that cynicism is a dictator’s best friend. Stay outraged. Believe in and work for democracy.
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A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. It’s like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity.
Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.
Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.
March 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. It’s like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity.
Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.
Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.
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Walmart called the police on a cis-woman using the women's bathroom.
Even after proving she's a woman, "one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she 'looked like a man.'"
😡 😡 😡
Even after proving she's a woman, "one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she 'looked like a man.'"
😡 😡 😡
Cis woman confronted by police officers in Arizona Walmart restroom for looking too masculine speaks out (exclusive)
“The only men in the women’s restroom were the cops,” Kalaya Morton said.
www.advocate.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Walmart called the police on a cis-woman using the women's bathroom.
Even after proving she's a woman, "one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she 'looked like a man.'"
😡 😡 😡
Even after proving she's a woman, "one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she 'looked like a man.'"
😡 😡 😡
The greatest tweet ever, and it was their first post on Bluesky.
February 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The greatest tweet ever, and it was their first post on Bluesky.
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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
February 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
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Take away my pronouns, my passport, my prison cell, my hormones, & my bathroom, I'm still trans. I'm still here. I'm not going anywhere. And tomorrow there will be more like me. I'm not scared, I'm fighting mad. You can't have my life. It's mine. Because we are #WhatTheFutureOfGenderLooksLike
February 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Take away my pronouns, my passport, my prison cell, my hormones, & my bathroom, I'm still trans. I'm still here. I'm not going anywhere. And tomorrow there will be more like me. I'm not scared, I'm fighting mad. You can't have my life. It's mine. Because we are #WhatTheFutureOfGenderLooksLike
Dunkin’ Donuts weaves a Web of Lies. Krispey Kreme forever!
class action against dunkin' for false advertising alleges "despite their names, & unbeknownst to consumers, the mango pineapple refresher contains no mango & no pineapple, the strawberry dragonfruit refresher contains
no strawberry & no dragonfruit," etc
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no strawberry & no dragonfruit," etc
truthinadvertising.org/wp-content/u...
truthinadvertising.org
January 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Dunkin’ Donuts weaves a Web of Lies. Krispey Kreme forever!
The man who Trump just endorsed to take Matt Gaetz’s seat— in Jan 2024 initiated bill to use $5M in Florida state funds for Trump legal fees floridapolitics.com/archives/654...
Jimmy Patronis touts bill to give $5M to Donald Trump for ‘political discrimination’
'The Left is really good at weaponizing the courts.'
floridapolitics.com
November 26, 2024 at 11:58 AM
The man who Trump just endorsed to take Matt Gaetz’s seat— in Jan 2024 initiated bill to use $5M in Florida state funds for Trump legal fees floridapolitics.com/archives/654...
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Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa.
I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
RFK Jr., anti-vaxxers, and a measles outbreak: Mehdi’s deep dive
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa.
I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
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“a better future isn’t possible” is explicitly a right wing view and everyone needs to do a better job rejecting it for themselves and drumming it out of younger people
IME every time I bring this up with young/young-ish people I get some variation on “lol I won’t live that long climate change will take me out before I’m 50” & it’s yet another example of how blackpilling throws sand in the gears of even trying to get anything done now.
November 25, 2024 at 1:17 AM
“a better future isn’t possible” is explicitly a right wing view and everyone needs to do a better job rejecting it for themselves and drumming it out of younger people
Good deep dive from PEW April 2024 www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
1. The partisanship and ideology of American voters
Registered voters are evenly split between the two parties: 49% are Democrats or lean Democratic, 48% are Republicans or lean to the GOP.
www.pewresearch.org
November 24, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Good deep dive from PEW April 2024 www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
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A lot of asymmetries in American politics are just downstream of the fact that self-identified conservatives badly outnumber self-identified progressives or liberals, so Democrats need to win self-identified moderates in a lopsided way to win elections.
November 24, 2024 at 11:14 AM
A lot of asymmetries in American politics are just downstream of the fact that self-identified conservatives badly outnumber self-identified progressives or liberals, so Democrats need to win self-identified moderates in a lopsided way to win elections.
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TIL that the CEO of Bluesky is legally named Bluesky
![Lantian Graber was born in 1991 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the daughter of an acupuncturist mother of Chinese descent and a math teacher father of Swiss descent.[1][2] Her mother grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution and emigrated in the 1980s, and named her "Lantian," meaning "blue sky" in Mandarin Chinese, as a wish for her to have "boundless freedom".[1] The similarity between Graber's given name and Bluesky is purely coincidental; Jack Dorsey had chosen the name "Bluesky" for the research initiative before Graber became involved with the project.[3]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:di7epi7naqi3rharpcogc5sf/bafkreib2fcljx3nqljyttkbf6dbvgf4yidz6eoittzgil6xkhulyt6o3du@jpeg)
November 22, 2024 at 10:38 PM
TIL that the CEO of Bluesky is legally named Bluesky