Ivis Bohlen

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Black Lives Matter. Lived in London, Munich, & Fieberbrunn (Austria), now in North Carolina. Retired UNC Press. Episcopalian. Gardening, music, reading. she/her

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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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Matt Novak

Today is July 6. The debate was June 27. What's the shelf life on this theory? I realize Biden, like all of us, gets older each day. Trump gets older and espouses more vile ideas each day. Both are running for the presidency. Both aren't news?

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Exactly this.

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Four months ago, the Economist thought the country was being run pretty well.

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"

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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •www.blackpast.org On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the D...

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14 of the last 20 stories on your feed are Biden Old. 1 is a glowing profile of one of the fascists on the supreme court. none are about the end of the rule of law in america

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I will bring this one back every year

‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPRyoutu.be In the summer of 2020, the U.S. commemorated Independence Day amid nationwide protests for racial justice and systemic reforms in the wake of George Floyd’s ...

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The Washington Post's faltering performance in this week's competition with the NYT and Atlantic to pull focus from the emergent authoritarian has raised new concerns among friends of constitutional democracy as this nation heads toward the election.

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Give it a fucking rest! You are platforming actual fascists. You aren't doing news, you are engaged in propaganda ... just like in 2016. Driving chaos for clicks isn't "objective" it's embarrassing.

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One of the greatest moments in North Carolina history happened 30 years ago TODAY: A monster truck crossed the Currituck Sound. Here, for the first time, is the complete and wild story of how Grave Digger drove across 7 miles of open water. www.ncrabbithole.com/p/grave-digg...

The complete story of the time a monster truck drove across the Currituck Soundwww.ncrabbithole.com In 1994, someone asked if Dennis Anderson could bring Grave Digger to a July 4th celebration on the Outer Banks. Dennis said he could drive it there. Over the water. The rest is history.

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Three things that are true: 1) I did not support Biden in the 2020 primary 2) I thought Biden looked like a reanimated corpse at the debate 3) I have every confidence that he is fully capable of being President, and the New York Times and other outlets are fucking him to goose readership

I am just Some Guy but it definitely has compelled me to get way more vocally supportive of Biden in defense, just because of how obvious it is that this is ratfuckery from the bad guys and their painfully stupid patsies in the press

Has anyone else noticed how "blame the woman" (Jill Biden) has crept into the discourse?

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For anyone doing this: USPS prices are going up on July 14th. Postcard stamps are going up from 53¢ to 56¢, & regular stamps are going up by 5¢. I think you can order them at the old prices from USPS until the 13th. USPS sells one variety of 'forever' postcard stamp: store.usps.com/store/produc...

I just signed up to write postcards to get out the vote in swing states. You can, too! www.turnoutpac.org/postcards/

Postcards to Swing States - Progressive Turnout Projectwww.turnoutpac.org Voters who receive handwritten postcards are significantly more likely to vote. We proved it in 2020.

@gregdoucette.bsky.social Please what does this mean? "Jordan Porter, 25, was released from the hospital on Friday. Porter was scheduled to appear in court Monday for the first time after the May 27 crash, but his case was continued after his attorney waived the appearance." WRAL didn't explain. TIA

Well, after many years I canceled my @nytimes.com subscription online. I also have a subscription to The Athletic which I couldn't find any way to cancel. I don't feel proud or virtuous, but I stopped reading their political coverage years ago and today's front page was the last straw.

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Trump: I would like to see televised military tribunals in which my enemies like Liz Cheney are tried for treason and then put to death. New York Times Politics page 18 hours later: Democrats are in disarray!!!

I'm sorry to be so ignorant (see gray hair in photo) but is there a way to stop reposts from someone you follow? I don't want to completely mute them... Pretty sure I used to be able to do that at the other place. TIA

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every time I see someone complain about unions I think about how unions were the consensus alternative to the previous system of burning the factory owner alive inside his house

Not making any threats here, just thinking out loud as a historian — do they people brazenly pushing for impunity for the wealthy elites not know what traditionally comes next?

My god, clicked on the @nytimes.com this morning...they really are trying to get Trump elected aren't they? 😡

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President Biden and Donald Trump faced off on Thursday in the first presidential debate of the general election. We fact-checked their policy claims, personal attacks and their records in office. See our full fact-check from the debate here. nyti.ms/3L2U6uP

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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

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@theradr.bsky.social I'm a queer Muslim married to a queer Jewish person. I made a comic about a queer Muslim superhero teaming up with a queer Jewish boxer in a lighthearted romp promoting interfaith unity. Your support would mean the world. www.kickstarter.com/projects/jam...

Kobra Olympus Issue #2 "Robot Rumble!"www.kickstarter.com New adventures of trans lesbian Muslim superhero, Kobra Olympus, as she battles robots and makes queer friends!

[email protected] So happy to see "are forecast" instead of "are forecasted" which seems to have taken over everywhere else. I'm old, I don't understand how this happens.

Dangerous levels of heat are forecast across the U.S. this week, including the Northeast, South and Midwest. See how hot it will feel in your area.

Tracking Dangerous Heat in the U.S.www.nytimes.com See detailed maps of the latest heat index forecasts in the United States.

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God damn it this is not wrong

i think we should stop giving our ai bots female names (alexa, siri) and give them names from the old white boys club (john, james, chad) in honor of how overconfident and annoying they are even when they’re completely wrong or making stuff up