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Alex

@minnabird.bsky.social

Californian with an appreciation of the Midwest. All posts are 100% mine. I speak for myself and never for any institution with which I might be affiliated.

178 Followers  |  210 Following  |  10 Posts  |  Joined: 11.11.2024  |  1.708

Latest posts by minnabird.bsky.social on Bluesky

We need to process

27.11.2024 03:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I love From obsessed

27.11.2024 03:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
backyard song Since it’s just me here I’ve found the back and stayed there most of the time, in rain and snow and the no-moon nights, dodging the front I used to put up like a yard gussied and groomed, all edged an...

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Diane Seuss is a trip and many of her poems are like traveling down a river you didn’t know existed and were astonished to find

25.11.2024 06:03 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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19.11.2024 05:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A colleague and I wrote this article after working on it for several years and unfortunately the interplay between reproductive oppression and mass detention during the period of Japanese incarceration feels more relevant than ever

19.11.2024 02:14 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | This Is the Dark, Unspoken Promise of Trump’s Return Liberal democracy offers moral constraints without problem-solving. Populism offers problem-solving without moral constraints.

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In which Trumpism is described as “morally unconstrained collective egoism” and Hungary is an analog

15.11.2024 22:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It is uplifting to see so many friends and fellow-travelers in the blue skies. Can someone point me to the regulation and moderation policies on this site? I want to the honeymoon to last a long time!

15.11.2024 20:02 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
One Art The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. It’s evident the art of losing’s n...

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In light of Tuesday

11.11.2024 20:33 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Late Echo Alone with our madness and favorite flower We see that there really is nothing left to write about. Or rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things In the same way, repeating the same th...

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Poetry will get me thru this at least some days

11.11.2024 19:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The election was won by Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, and Charlie Kirk. If 2016 was the alt-right social media fever dream, 2024 is the heyday of misogynistic influencers. Call Me Daddy couldn’t do the trick for Harris. I dread 4+? Years of Trump-bro-landia. I suspect many of you are with me.

11.11.2024 15:35 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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