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Jessica Sleeth
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Prodigal daughter back in VA after almost 2 decades in Maine. She/her
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Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
August 25, 2026 at 6:50 PM
An extraordinarily bright light has gone out. May we all strive to be better in her memory 💔
August 25, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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A handful of guys asserting the right to pillage all human knowledge and creative labor to sell it back to people they've convinced not to value human knowledge and creative labor in order to amass personal wealth and power is not only gross, it's profoundly uninteresting.
July 26, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days.

ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
July 14, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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This ICE flight believed to be carrying Afghan, Syrian and Iranian asylum seekers to the Central African Republic is underway.

Omni Air International, may you rot in infamy and shame.
June 12, 2026 at 2:23 AM
My eyeballs got a serious workout, but I’m proud (?) of this score (if one can be proud of the ability to differentiate colors lol).
What's My JND? 0.0016
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
What's My JND?
Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?
www.keithcirkel.co.uk
March 12, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
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worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Another thing I learned in the town hall is that the events in Minneapolis are being well-documented because of the thousands of people who trained to become legal observers after the murder of George Floyd
We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it
January 25, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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I'm done mourning my comforting, childish hopes for what this country might be, and I'm ready to accept who, what, and where we really are

Now there can only be grim determination for whatever must be done to once again reach a place where we can afford hopeful, flattering thoughts of ourselves.
January 24, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
October 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.
August 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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If you're looking for a tipping point to conclude "OK, the U.S. is now authoritarian," this seems like it.
Trump signs an executive order tasking Hegseth to establish "specialised units" within the National Guard to "deal with public order issues" across the US.

Using the US Military against the American public.
August 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be
August 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Jesus Christ. Just horrific levels of crimes against humanity happening every day in Gaza. Our country keeps supplying weaponry to the perpetrators of this atrocity, which makes us equally culpable. May all those involved never know peace.
June 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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"The nation’s forecasting agency is in tatters as what could be a destructive hurricane season nears. Several current and former agency meteorologists told CNN they are concerned forecasts and life-saving warnings are not going to be issued in time." www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...
US weather forecasting is more crippled than previously thought as hurricane season nears | CNN
Several current and former agency meteorologists and staff told CNN they are concerned warnings won’t be issued in time as hurricane season nears.
www.cnn.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:40 AM
April 26, 2025 at 4:14 AM
This is the most backward, irredeemable administration of evil fuckwits… your standard dystopian fiction could never. This plot would have been deemed too heavy-handed and juvenile by even the most cut-rate publisher.
March 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps

block the path
March 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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A reminder that women’s sports are kept separate from men’s not to protect women from always losing to men, but rather to ensure that no man ever loses to a woman.
I’m not making this up; that’s literally the reason.
March 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
“Democrats need to decide whether they want to fight for the things they believe in, or spend the rest of their days chasing polls but never catching them.” Hell yes, @notalawyer.bsky.social excellent newsletter today!
March 7, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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the thing about genAI is if it was actually useful or benefits the end user in any capacity, you'd have to pay for it. it'd be locked behind so many gates as a use privilege

but instead opt-outs are virtually impossible and it's force-fed down your throat like ducks being prepared for foie gras
February 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM