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Margaret Johnston
@mjexlibris.bsky.social
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reader, cook, gardener, non-profit leader, political resister. pronouns she/her.

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Margaret Johnston @mjexlibris.bsky.social · 12h
Warren Zevon, "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner".

Reposted by Margaret Johnston

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16h
Politicians use their office to get rich. Those days have got to end.

No revolving door for lobbyists, no congressional stock trading, no corporate PAC money.

Reposted by Margaret Johnston, Stacy D. VanDeveer

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Valerie Bertinelli @wolfiesmom.bsky.social · 18h
The interesting thing about Elon‘s rocket car is that he’s a war criminal 

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Margaret Johnston

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 18h
Americans, please don’t worry about your child coming home from school a different sex. Worry about your child not coming home from school because they were shot to death.

Reposted by Margaret Johnston

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 21h
At first, the press secretaries were spaced by 24 weeks. Then 12, then 6, then every 2 weeks. The last one, Katie Zacharia, was less than a week. In 4 days we could be seeing a press secretary every 8 hours until they are coming every 4 minutes. We should witness a double event within seven days.

Reposted by Richard Waite, Margaret Johnston, Graham Webster , and 1 more

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22h
Merriam Webster out here fighting for its life
Merriam-Webster & @Merriam..•18h 'Goodbye' is an alteration of "God be with you." Sean Kress• @SKress7514 • 16h Do you have evidence to back this up? If so can you explain what "good night" , "good morning" and "good evening" are alterations of? Merriam-Webster & @Merriam..•15h what Sean Kress & @SKress7514 • 14h I was genuinely asking the question because the only thing I find on the internet is that it is basically a slur from the original.... I assumed there was a better explanation for it than that as it seems a little unlikely given the good night, good morning etc haven't been slurred into something else too. Sorry if you saw that as offensive. Merriam-Webster @ @Merriam...•14h S It is not related to 'good night/ day/morning.' The 'good' in those do not come from 'God.' Sean Kress @ @SKress7514 • 14h So the internet suggestion this it is just a slur is what you are basing that on too then? Readers added context they thought people might want to know Merriam-Webster's etymology follows established linguistic scholarship, not unverified internet suggestions of a "slur." "Goodbye" is an alteration of "God be with you"; "good" in greetings like "good morning" has separate origins unrelated to "God." merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goo… en.wiktionary.org/wiki/goodbye blog.oup.com/2022/02/if-god.. etymonline.com/word/good%20m Do you find this helpful? Rate it Context is written by people who use X, and appears when rated helpful by others. Find out more. Merriam-Webster & @MerriamWebster We are the dictionary.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
I hereby propose that Vance is short for Grievance. JD Grievance, vp of grifting and grudges.
Grievance is a key word. While high-profile right-wing men on the Internet, including Tate, Musk, Trump, and JD Vance, and right-wing pundits like Tucker Carlson claim to have all the good things in life—gobs of money, lots of power and influence, luxury goods—they radiate misery, resentment, grievance, sourness, whininess. At least since Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, the culture of the right has been driven by an emotional poverty, a stinginess and lack of empathy dressed up as a rational insistence that the rich and the state cannot afford to meet the needs of the poor, whose poverty is all their own fault anyway. Resentment is the recruitment bait; the manufacture of grievance is central to the marketing of all the rest of the package; the much-discussed crisis in masculinity is a for-profit operation, even if many of its operators sincerely believe in and embody its miseries.