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Sam Bergman

@violanorth.bsky.social

musician, arts administrator, stress baker, Granite Stater; he/him "A curmudgeonly joy" — @doodlyroses.com "Fancy with an element of surprise" — @dalanie.bsky.social

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Okay, but that is Mike Huckabee

05.03.2026 02:23 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is the funniest shit ever , they come over here, get the red carpet treatment from the Stephen Miller squad, contribute nothing and complain about how awful American social services are, and the trump White House is like ah yes model resident, good stuff keep it up

27.02.2026 18:41 — 👍 133    🔁 32    💬 4    📌 1
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No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.

Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

04.03.2026 22:37 — 👍 3833    🔁 1575    💬 137    📌 152
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NWS: So look out for some nasty icy sleet in Cheshire County.

Us: got it, thanks

NWS: Also western Hillsborough County

Us: that makes sense, sure

NWS: And, uh, central Hillsborough

Us: ......OK. But not eas...

NWS: you're not gonna believe this

05.03.2026 01:47 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My dad's dad worked in a factory for 45 years, I think. My mom's dad was in the army in WWII, got into very early computing stuff in the '50s at IBM, and eventually did management/computer work at Tennant.

05.03.2026 01:21 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Glad to hear it.

04.03.2026 23:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Jesus. I hope everyone around (and above) you at work is taking the correct approach to this. Stay safe.

04.03.2026 23:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.so... • 3h
Who got us into "a situation like this?"

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com • 4h
Comer on "boots on the ground" in Iran:
"Sometimes that's unavoidable in a situation like this"

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.so... • 3h Who got us into "a situation like this?" Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com • 4h Comer on "boots on the ground" in Iran: "Sometimes that's unavoidable in a situation like this"

Sometimes one can only look at a post and marvel.

04.03.2026 19:16 — 👍 1064    🔁 137    💬 29    📌 6

say what you will about bluesky, it has unquestionably become the platform party elites will accuse of Not Mattering, which was twitter's label for most of the 10's

04.03.2026 19:15 — 👍 174    🔁 10    💬 5    📌 2

Once you start to see how many obvious answers unfurl themselves when you begin your analysis from "now how would this new development benefit white people and white supremacy *if that were the goal*?", it sure starts to look like the correct formulation for at least *most* questions.

04.03.2026 17:29 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In re: LRT, there are people who share some of my politics who love to say that you can't reduce every political question in America to race. That's probably correct in a technical sense, but I think it misses a much larger point about how our political systems and power structures are set up here.

04.03.2026 17:29 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🧵

04.03.2026 17:11 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The largest daily newspaper in Israel published an opinion piece by someone arguing for the total redrawing of the Middle Eastern borders— first by dismantling Lebanon and Syria and reconstituting them into half a dozen or more smaller, ethnic statelets.

04.03.2026 17:03 — 👍 153    🔁 50    💬 10    📌 16

The NFL is doing more at the NHL trade deadline than the entire NHL

04.03.2026 17:05 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you’ve arrived at the “doctors do medicine for money and therefore can’t be trusted” stage of your theory, they should take the sharp objects out of your house

04.03.2026 16:56 — 👍 613    🔁 83    💬 14    📌 3

this is why I got into Black feminist theory. the research on sexual violence was VERY white when I first started researching like 15-20 years ago. in the West, gender is VERY racialized

04.03.2026 12:01 — 👍 534    🔁 155    💬 3    📌 0

This is weirdly consistent for The Atlantic! Jesse Singal's 2018 article about kids being rushed into transition starts with an anecdote about someone *not* being rushed into transition. Literally nothing happened!

There is no other issue in prestige media that has editorial standards this low.

03.03.2026 21:57 — 👍 1676    🔁 186    💬 12    📌 5
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Most Reform members believe non-white UK citizens born abroad should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll finds Nigel Farage’s recent efforts to woo centre-ground voters may cause tension in party’s right flank, says Hope Not Hate

The term for that is White supremacy and any coverage of Reform that does not include that term is complicit in whitewashing White supremacy. Sometimes things really are that simple.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

04.03.2026 11:35 — 👍 245    🔁 100    💬 2    📌 9
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IRGC Destroys Second US THAAD System in Gulf, Wipes Out UAE Radar and $1.1 Billion Qatar Early Warning Shield — Iran Declares Missile Dominance - Defence Security Asia IRGC precision strikes reportedly destroy a second US THAAD system, its UAE radar, and Qatar’s $1.1 billion early warning system, exposing fractures in America’s Gulf missile defence architecture and ...

Sometimes I think about the gazillions of dollars we spend on always being ready to murder people around the world at a moment's notice while slashing food stamps and school budgets. And then I think about all the times I've been told that pacifism is "unrealistic."

04.03.2026 11:41 — 👍 60    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0

............huh

04.03.2026 02:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
03.03.2026 23:13 — 👍 1547    🔁 296    💬 12    📌 2

they should invent some mushrooms that make you see things rationally and with compassion

25.02.2026 23:05 — 👍 92    🔁 13    💬 3    📌 0

Welp I guess there’s no way to earn the votes of young men other than by courting and vocally backing the three fraudulent industries that are absolutely ruining their lives.

04.03.2026 00:31 — 👍 1384    🔁 278    💬 34    📌 2

This is becoming a panic point for so many people I know. Their thermostats are set at 55. They are wearing multiple layers. Blankets at their doorstops. These are not wasteful people. $600 electric bills. Insane. Unsustainable for my neighbors

03.03.2026 23:52 — 👍 213    🔁 62    💬 3    📌 2

Poilievre Advisor: Okay, just be cool out there and remember to clarify when referencing Robin Hood that you don’t mean the one that everybody knows

04.03.2026 00:09 — 👍 477    🔁 108    💬 66    📌 6

This case is horrifying. The man had deferred action, was on a full path to a green card, is a college grad magna cum laude, and ICE arrested him randomly while looking for someone else:

“What do we do?” said one ICE officer, to which another replied “We’re going to take him with us anyway.”

03.03.2026 23:19 — 👍 1282    🔁 549    💬 18    📌 9

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

04.03.2026 00:38 — 👍 7360    🔁 1489    💬 5    📌 71

Fucking TNT

04.03.2026 00:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Anyway, watching my Victoire on YouTube tonight. I'll probably conk out for the night before the Wild game starts lol

04.03.2026 00:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh, you're right! That's so weird - I keep getting a "cannot load site" error when I let my browser fill in the url from previous experience, but it comes up if I google the site and click the link...

04.03.2026 00:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0