Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com

5 hours ago

Florida government sides with the Pulse shooter

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social

6 hours ago

Workers under cover of night removed a rainbow crosswalk outside of the former Pulse nightclub, apparently as part of state and federal transportation officials’ aim to wipe “political banners” from public roadways. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/21/r...

Rainbow crosswalk outside Pulse nightclub removed overnight

“We did everything according to state law, everything was compliant,” said Patty Sheehan, the city’s first openly gay elected official. “FDOT never moves that quickly with anything.&#82…

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social

7 hours ago

the idea of a) believing in ideals beyond profit and power b) caring about people who you can't immediately and fully relate to is just fundamentally alien to the entire conservative world view

the beastly fido @theophite.bsky.social

9 hours ago

the reason that the right believes that the left is entirely astroturf funded by USAID and USIP is that this is how their own institutions work

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social

10 hours ago

i think regularly about how the standard polisci measure for authoritarian-ness is approval of corporal punishment

Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social

11 hours ago

If you’re not from the evangelical world, you probably don’t know who James Dobson was, but he’s a household name for them. Every family I babysat for had copies of his books. And many of them also had dedicated paddles or wooden spoons for hitting their children.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net

12 hours ago

just thinking about it makes me so angry. the worst kind of open race baiting in american politics since george wallace.

whet moser @whetmoser.com

12 hours ago

the "cat eating" fake story was the worst thing i've seen in politics in my lifetime

Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social

23 hours ago

The maddest someone has ever gotten at me was when I talked about the child sized manacles Jefferson had at Monticello for 9 year old children. They could not cope with the idea that a child the same age as their child had been enslaved. And it made them angry that I made them know facts

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social

1 day ago

Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social

15 hours ago

There’s a thin line between staying as informed as you should and making yourself anxious in a way that is completely unproductive and every single day the news is trying very hard to push you over into the latter

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social

21 hours ago

I say this extremely seriously: one of the main skills children have to learn to be adults is to do things they don't find interesting. This is both because many necessary things in life are boring and because sometimes interesting things take time and effort first.

Hannah Posts @hannahposts.bsky.social

1 day ago

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