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Hello @support.bsky.team
I heard from Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social that her account was suspended.
Can you please look into this and reinstate her account? She’s a published author and scholar on authoritarianism. Her presence here is valuable.
cc:
@jay.bsky.team
@aaron.bsky.team
I heard from Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social that her account was suspended.
Can you please look into this and reinstate her account? She’s a published author and scholar on authoritarianism. Her presence here is valuable.
cc:
@jay.bsky.team
@aaron.bsky.team
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Hello @support.bsky.team
I heard from Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social that her account was suspended.
Can you please look into this and reinstate her account? She’s a published author and scholar on authoritarianism. Her presence here is valuable.
cc:
@jay.bsky.team
@aaron.bsky.team
I heard from Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social that her account was suspended.
Can you please look into this and reinstate her account? She’s a published author and scholar on authoritarianism. Her presence here is valuable.
cc:
@jay.bsky.team
@aaron.bsky.team
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Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.
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The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
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every news outlet and journalist who calls trans rights a losing issue should be forcefed soap and their own regrets
November 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
every news outlet and journalist who calls trans rights a losing issue should be forcefed soap and their own regrets
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the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.
November 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.
The sheep in Alien Earth deserves and acting Emmy. #alienearth
September 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The sheep in Alien Earth deserves and acting Emmy. #alienearth
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It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
July 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
😩🤢
I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset.
I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.
I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.
July 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM
😩🤢
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Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 109 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
No one has heard from you in 109 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
July 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 109 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
No one has heard from you in 109 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
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The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
June 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
These 75 Democrats joined Republicans to "express gratitude" to ICE agents and call for greater local and state collaboration with ICE.
jonathancohn.medium.com/a-tale-of-tw...
jonathancohn.medium.com/a-tale-of-tw...
June 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
LA showing up for their community. 💕
The peaceful protest group has arrived on Alameda and is on its way to merge with another protest group. It is expanding larger and larger.
June 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
LA showing up for their community. 💕
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Kat just said "Just because Stephen Miller wants to hit his quota of brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't make this okay" about the LA protests on MSNBC. I wish I knew how to clip these things.
June 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Kat just said "Just because Stephen Miller wants to hit his quota of brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't make this okay" about the LA protests on MSNBC. I wish I knew how to clip these things.
This is the start.
The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers.
That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.
That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.
June 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
This is the start.
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Well said by @natashadevon.bsky.social
Gen Z Women are Being Written Out of the Story of Their Generation...
...Why?
substack.com
May 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Well said by @natashadevon.bsky.social
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HERE WE GO:
Federal judge orders Rümeysa Öztürk's released immediately, finds she has made a "substantial claim" her constitutional rights were violated.
"The reason she has been detained is simply and purely the expression that she made in the op-ed in violation of her First Amendment rights."
Federal judge orders Rümeysa Öztürk's released immediately, finds she has made a "substantial claim" her constitutional rights were violated.
"The reason she has been detained is simply and purely the expression that she made in the op-ed in violation of her First Amendment rights."
May 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
HERE WE GO:
Federal judge orders Rümeysa Öztürk's released immediately, finds she has made a "substantial claim" her constitutional rights were violated.
"The reason she has been detained is simply and purely the expression that she made in the op-ed in violation of her First Amendment rights."
Federal judge orders Rümeysa Öztürk's released immediately, finds she has made a "substantial claim" her constitutional rights were violated.
"The reason she has been detained is simply and purely the expression that she made in the op-ed in violation of her First Amendment rights."
!!!
I see the already historically unpopular president is exploring how to get the military invovled in “assisting” local law enforcement just a few weeks before the real shortages caused by his inept economic policy start hitting. Probably nothing to worry about.
April 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
!!!
WTH
NEW: Per multiple sources, the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors has been entirely disbanded.
April 29, 2025 at 4:08 AM
WTH
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MAGAs are tracking autism, menstrual cycles, criticism of Trump, criticism of Israel, Trans people, & anyone who even dares whisper DEI—but NOT vaccination rates, measles, COVID, firearms, firearm deaths, climate change, or food regulations.
This is an unholy recipe for fascism & national disaster.
This is an unholy recipe for fascism & national disaster.
April 22, 2025 at 4:38 AM
MAGAs are tracking autism, menstrual cycles, criticism of Trump, criticism of Israel, Trans people, & anyone who even dares whisper DEI—but NOT vaccination rates, measles, COVID, firearms, firearm deaths, climate change, or food regulations.
This is an unholy recipe for fascism & national disaster.
This is an unholy recipe for fascism & national disaster.
This!
"It's time to fight everywhere and all at once" Pritzker says, blasting "the do nothing crowd" of Dems in response to Republicans:
"We have to abandon the culture of incrementalism that has led us to swallow their cruelty and their callousness with barely a cowardly croak."
"We have to abandon the culture of incrementalism that has led us to swallow their cruelty and their callousness with barely a cowardly croak."
April 28, 2025 at 5:23 AM
This!
We gotta get organized.
Lots of great details in @semaforben.bsky.social's latest; extremely helpful for mapping out who is influencing whom on the right. Have been thinking for a while that private groupchats are at least as crazymaking as public social media, and much harder to study.
The group chats that changed America
A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.
www.semafor.com
April 28, 2025 at 5:18 AM
We gotta get organized.
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It's not normally discussed this way, but I'd argue the Biden era was a moment of marginal steps towards a more pro-worker, anti-corporate economy.
There was a real backlash amongst capitalist elites (from tech, media, Wall Street, etc) as the result of compression, and decrease in inequality.
There was a real backlash amongst capitalist elites (from tech, media, Wall Street, etc) as the result of compression, and decrease in inequality.
Extremely cool FEDS Note that links consumer sentiment data to actually spending at the respondent level and shows that the disconnect between sentiment and spending post-COVID was extremely unique and driven by inflation perception not real incomes.
Tracking consumer sentiment versus how consumers are doing based on verified retail purchases
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.
www.federalreserve.gov
April 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It's not normally discussed this way, but I'd argue the Biden era was a moment of marginal steps towards a more pro-worker, anti-corporate economy.
There was a real backlash amongst capitalist elites (from tech, media, Wall Street, etc) as the result of compression, and decrease in inequality.
There was a real backlash amongst capitalist elites (from tech, media, Wall Street, etc) as the result of compression, and decrease in inequality.
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Fun facts about milk regulation: before we had it, milk often carried tuberculosis and other infections and killed literally thousands of children every year. To make it seem drinkable producers added plaster dust, liquefied calf brains, and formaldehyde. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
The 19th-Century Fight Against Bacteria-Ridden Milk Preserved With Embalming Fluid
In an unpublished excerpt from her new book The Poison Squad, Deborah Blum chronicles the public health campaign against tainted dairy products
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 15, 2024 at 3:19 AM
Fun facts about milk regulation: before we had it, milk often carried tuberculosis and other infections and killed literally thousands of children every year. To make it seem drinkable producers added plaster dust, liquefied calf brains, and formaldehyde. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...