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WhatSaraSaid
@whatsarasaid.bsky.social
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Abortion advocate, researcher, utility infielder for bodily autonomy. Roots in Ohio, branches where the sagebrush grows. We're going to get the government out of your doctor’s office, because freedom is for every body.
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this footnote alone is worth the price of admission, thinking of sleeping on the steps if the hearing will be opened to the public
3 The fact that § 12406(2) is not the only federal law that refers to “rebellion” is reason enough not to adopt such an expansive and unusual definition of that term. Such a definition might have significant implications when applied to, for example, Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment and the criminal provision prescribing a ten-year sentence for engaging in or assisting “any rebellion,” 18 U.S.C. § 2383.
October 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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OTD 1987: Gay activists protest state laws letting cops break in your bedroom & cite you for having sex illegally. The Supreme Court had recently validated these laws as compatible with the Constitution in 'Bowers v Hardwick'. 10/11 March on DC of 250K Americans & 1st display of the Names Project
photo of people sitting in circles on plaza in front of SCOTUS, waiting to be arrested, Oct 13 1987
October 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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I mean if they are willing to do it at all…
Post saying CVs is not great at giving vaccines followed by post describing measles outbreak in SC
October 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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this is a Hatch Act violation that's also a complete lie, so double points I guess
screen cap from the Forest Service, a USDA agency Alarmed triangle with exclamation point at the start of a rare twofer, a Hatch Act violation (partisan politics from a federal employee doing her job) that is also a complete lie, Republicans control Congress and can pass a budget anytime they choose. Text reads "The Radical Left Democrats shut down the government."
October 3, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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hang out on the skyline, learn economics:
tired: what causes inflation
wired: who does inflation help
inspired: what is money, though
screen shot of exchange downstream of the not at all surprising report that on 26 Sept 2025, more investment dollars were committed to AI than dollars that exist in the world, raising the question, what IS money & getting the accurate reply 'a symbolic token backed by enough violence' @scosky.bsky.social Depending on who he installs at the FED after firing powell, he'll just print more to bail them out and blame the inflation from that bailout on democrats since that seems to work for 77 million or so. @edzitron.com • yeah but real money is still needed @scosky.bsky.social which is what? @drawerknob.bsky.social any symbolic token backed by enough violence
September 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Poem of the day: Adrienne Rich, speaking to us from 1969

‘It wasn't completeness I wanted
(the old ideas of a revolution that could be foretold, and once arrived at would give us ourselves and each other)
I stopped listening long ago to their descriptions
of the good society’
October 12, 1969: reports of the tear-gassing of demonstrators protesting the treatment of G.l. prisoners in the stockade at Fort Dix, New Jersey) This is how it feels to do something you are afraid of. That they are afraid of. (Would it have been different at Fort Dix, beginning to feel the full volume of tears in you, the measure of all you have in you to shed, all you have held back from false pride, false indifference, false courage beginning to weep as you weep peeling onions, but endlessly, for the rest of time, tears of chemistry, tears of catalyst, tears of rage, tears for yourself, tears for the tortured men in the stockade and for their torturers tears of fear, of the child stepping into the adult field of force, the woman stepping into the male field of violence, tears of relief, that your body was here, you had done it, every last refusal was over) Here in this house my tears are running wild in this Vermont of india-madras-colored leaves, of cesspool- stricken brooks, of violence licking at old people and children and I am afraid of the language in my head I am alone, alone with language and without meaning coming back to something written years ago: our words misunderstand us wanting a word that will shed itself like a tear onto the page leaving its stain wanting a word that will shed itself like a tear onto the page leaving its stain Trying every key in the bunch to get the door even ajar not knowing whether it's locked or simply jammed from long disuse trying the keys over and over then throwing the bunch away staring around for an axe wondering if the world can be changed like this if a life can be changed like this It wasn't completeness I wanted (the old ideas of a revolution that could be foretold, and once arrived at would give us ourselves and each other) I stopped listening long ago to their descriptions of the good society The will to change begins in the body not in the mind My politics is in my body, accruing and expanding with every act of resistance and each of my failures Locked in the closet at 4 years old I beat the wall with my body that act is in me still No, not completeness: but I needed a way of saying (this is what they are afraid of) that could deal with these fragments I needed to touch you with a hand, a body but also with words I need a language to hear myself with to see myself in a language like pigment released on the board blood-black, sexual green, reds veined with contradictions bursting under pressure from the tube staining the old grain of the wood like sperm or tears but this is not what I mean these images are not what I mean (I am afraid.) I mean that I want you to answer me when I speak badly that I love you, that we are in danger that she wants to have your child, that I want us to have mercy on each other that I want to take her hand that I see you changing that it was change I loved in you when I thought I loved completeness that things I have said which in a few years will be forgotten matter more to me than this or any poem and I want you to listen when I speak badly not in poems but in tears not my best but my worst that these repetitions are beating their way toward a place where we can no longer be together where my body no longer will demonstrate outside your stockade and wheeling through its blind tears will make for the open air of another kind of action (I am afraid.) It's not the worst way to live.
September 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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what a way for Elon to find out he's being sent home
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
In a post on X on Thursday morning, the deputy secretary of state, Christopher Landau, wrote that "foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country" and said he had directed
September 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Talk to your doctor about whether sleeping in a pile of straw with a bell on your head is right for you
(Text of an historical marker with a photo of a bell) Each month, at the end of the first quarter of the moon, the sick gathered on the north bank of the Pool and immersed themselves in the waters of the Holy Pool, the women in the upstream section and the men in the downstream section, while their relatives prayed. Before they left the water they had to collect nine stones from the riverbed. Once they were back on the bank, they had to walk clockwise three times around each of three cairns set up on a mound behind the rock, dropping a stone each time (there is no trace of the cairns). As well as the stones, they would drop a piece of clothing that was most associated with their ailment. The patient was than transferred a mile downstream to the ruins of the Priory at Kirkton. In the centre of the floor was a flat stone under which the saint was said to be buried. In front of this was a wooden rack-like structure known as St. Fillan's "Bed", to which the patient was lashed. Their head was placed in the font, and the arrangement was completed by placing the Bernane Bell over their head. The patient was then covered with hay and left overnight. The next morning their relatives would return, to check the ropes. If they were loosened, the patient would recover. If the ropes were still tied, they would just have to try again. Daniel, G. (1981) Strathfillan - A Place in History
July 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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What do we do? Act up fight back
Crowd in Oakland with signs. Inverted Us flag & Ca flag waving
June 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Further U.S. historians specializing in June 12 2025 have to further specify Article I or Article III
Seeing a lot of you condemn DHS for violently detaining Senator Alex Padilla, but have you considered... Chris Cillizza @ @ChrisCillizza Both sides were wrong in this. Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner... • 31m BREYER: "Does the court have any role in considering whether these conditions existed?" • Anna Bower @annabo... • 33m Judge Breyer moves on: What I'm facing today is 2 ["rebellion"] and 3 ["unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States"] The president did cite "rebellion" in his memorandum, Breyer observes. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBJECT: Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Numerous incidents of violence and disorder have recently occurred and threaten to continsen response to the enforcement of Federal law
June 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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@djinnandtonic.bsky.social made this, we're ready
June 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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brb looking up how California's legislature can enter an emergency session to pass laws same day
June 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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A US Senator asked a question, at a press conference, federal LEOs assaulted him, pushed him from the room, then they wrestled him down and cuffed him? We will not accept this.
Gadsden flag + California Republic flag, bear is roaring
June 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Mama bears are out
June 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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I was worried about whether we had enough people who would recognize the moment. Blessings for the skater kid, the doodle walker & the biker out for his century ride who knew when to stand.
June 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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You can't compromise with bigots. It's not easy but it's simple. 16 years ago: www.dailykos.com/stories/2009...
They didn't want us fenced out of marriage, they demanded state discrimination against our families. Today they don't want trans kids out of sports, they demand trans people disappear.
I have been fighting these retrograde fantasists for 15 years, and I know them. Some of them are nice enough people, who want every child to be born healthy to two married, church-going parents. That's a fine thing to want, and they're not wrong to want it. But it's not going to happen, regardless of what laws we pass about marriage as they conceive it being special and holy. And anyone who is asking for the state to single out my family to be mistreated, because their God doesn't recognize my marriage, is engaging in discrimination of the foulest kind. They've identified our families as acceptable to stigmatize, unlike single parents, divorced parents, adoptive families or infertile couples--all of which are equally debased by extreme interpretations of Christianity. That is who we're dealing with, and that's why I don't have to reject your compromise--they will. Once they get a federal law that indicates Congress's intent to legislate the dissent in Lawrence By proposing compromise with the extremists, you've conceded that Scalia's opinion in both Bowers and Lawrence was correct--that indeed there is a gay exception to Constitutional protections, because some people find gay sex icky. As long as they deeply believe that God agrees with them, they have a point, according to the logic you've adopted. Where do our efforts to enforce existing employment protections at the state level go from that point--let alone the movement for ENDA? Housing protections? Where does this slippery slope end? Because political history indicates that we're close to a win--we can reverse the federal DOMA and within a decade will get our Loving--this compromise would be outdated even if the claims against civil marriage equality were being made in good faith, which they aren't.
May 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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If you say so
Picture of a woman who ‘gets her music from radio, her food out of a can and her children from a foundling asylum.’ with her poodle mix dog, photo credit, child from foundling asylum
May 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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this app has everything I need in one place
screen shot of Bluesky's best poster Darth: is every thing just fuckin insane I am just asking reposting a map showing airplane path with skeet asking Did the New England Patriots team plane just fly to Gitmo reply: Darth can I just ask "what" and also follow that up with my second question which is also "what" next post in my feed is @bcdreyer.social: man oh man do these people need to be nuremberged asap
April 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Truly, it’s a mystery why white rural people keep voting for the party that promises they can keep improved material conditions without changing their social status. Who wouldn’t want broadband at the expense of woke bike commuters who live near Blacks & immigrants who don’t even speak English?
April 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Today: we’re going to stop deporting Venezuelan refugees to a 3rd country prison camp.

Prediction: birthright citizenship case goes 5-4, with the 3 who believe the Constitution exists joined by the 2 parents of children they adopted in other countries (Roberts & CB).
April 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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I got you, Mount Holyoke Special collections

francesperkinscenter.org/learn/her-li...
April 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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They’re testing an illegal tactic, forcing people who have a right to be in the US to leave, on recent asylum seekers. If they are allowed to do this to them…
The initial names are limited to people the administration says are convicted criminals and “suspected terrorists,” the documents show. But officials said the effort could broaden to include others in the country without authorization. Their “financial lives,” Leland Dudek, the Social Security Administration’s acting commissioner, wrote in an email to staff members, would be “terminated.”
April 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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If you're posting to complain that these people didn't protest about issues they didn't think affected them (as if that's a character trait, not a solution handed to organizers by aggressive yet stupid authoritarians) please: go talk to someone who doesn't know what a land acknowledgment is. Please.
whole lotta furious white old ppl in front of the Sedgwick County Courthouse & Civil War monument Erected A.D. 1912 by the People of Sedgwick County, Kansas in memory of the Union Soldiers and Sailors of the Civil War The Union is perpetual Abraham Lincoln Let us have peace Gen. Grant If any man attempts to haul down the American flag shoot him on the spot John A. Dix
April 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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"not to mention the aerial photography"

there really were 5 police officers and 3 police cars

they did not praise anyone for being so brave & honest on the telephone, nor was anyone immediately arrested, so it worked out OK to be cringe and earnest
Pictures taken from the 3rd floor of the downtown Y, crowd with signs excoriating Trump & Musk, demanding KS GOP stand up to destruction in DC. Background, Old Sedgwick County Courthouse. Foreground left, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, inscribed: Erected A.D. 1912 by the People of Sedgwick County, Kansas in memory of the Union Soldiers and Sailors of the Civil War The Union is perpetual Abraham Lincoln Let us have peace Gen. Grant If any man attempts to haul down the American flag shoot him on the spot John A. Dix
April 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Uhh I may have some bad news about upcoming actions from this White House
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
April 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM