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Miriam R Lewis

@scissorchef.bsky.social

Plays with sharp tools in the kitchen and in the costume shop. Digs into history down to the underpinnings.

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Spiderweb against a very dark background. Parts of the spiderweb are in focus and parts aren’t, due to large aperture setting on camera.

Spiderweb against a very dark background. Parts of the spiderweb are in focus and parts aren’t, due to large aperture setting on camera.

Spiderweb on tree. #photographersofbluesky #worldofmiriam

12.10.2025 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#YesOn50

09.10.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Not another word is needed.
Stop Trump now.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

09.10.2025 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 416    πŸ” 177    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

09.10.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 8112    πŸ” 3094    πŸ’¬ 133    πŸ“Œ 85
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The land of the brave

06.10.2025 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 561    πŸ” 229    πŸ’¬ 49    πŸ“Œ 42
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Four U.S. citizen children were detained in an ICE raidβ€”zip-tied, separated, held for hours.

Imagine if these were your precious little ones! Can you close your eyes to this depravity? Please don't.

Remember

If this could happen to these little kids, it can happen to yours.

Speak out now!

04.10.2025 03:41 β€” πŸ‘ 5780    πŸ” 2913    πŸ’¬ 288    πŸ“Œ 149
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As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

03.10.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 8900    πŸ” 3239    πŸ’¬ 233    πŸ“Œ 135
Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

01.10.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7664    πŸ” 1630    πŸ’¬ 206    πŸ“Œ 372

I will add: if you don’t want a neurodivergent kid, a disabled kid, a chronically ill kid… you probably shouldn’t have kids.

You cannot control any of those factors that can absolutely happen to your kid.

Also, queer kids deserve better.

01.10.2025 06:50 β€” πŸ‘ 208    πŸ” 83    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4

If they claim they haven't heard the quote, play it for them and ask for a response.

If they claim it's being taken out of context, play a longer version and ask for a response.

If they try to sidestep the issue, play it over again and ask for a response.

01.10.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 6277    πŸ” 1460    πŸ’¬ 255    πŸ“Œ 62

Jeffries gets it: β€œTrump and his Republican cronies have officially shut down the government.”

01.10.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1401    πŸ” 408    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 9

GOP lies are coming fast now. They didn't have a clean funding bill; they refused to keep government open unless $90 million in our cash was released for *their* security details. Dems said no, we're not putting ourselves first, we're putting the working class's healthcareβ€”which Trump trashedβ€”first.

01.10.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1334    πŸ” 462    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 7

BOTH TIMES UNDER DONALD TRUMP DONT FORGET THAT PART.

01.10.2025 05:12 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Raskin Statement on MAGA’s Government Shutdown Washington, D.C. – Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-08) released the following statement:

MAGA Republicans just shut the government down rather than reverse their savage cuts to the health care of our people.

Cut out the stupid racist videos & let’s pass federal funding which keeps the people healthy & our government going. My full statement:

01.10.2025 04:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1230    πŸ” 328    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 10
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Deep in the darkest heart of the kitchen… the evil potato lurks. #photographersofbluesky #worldofmiriam

01.10.2025 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Every paper in America should have 6" headlines demanding the "President" be removed.

Trump's is a danger to our safety, our freedom & our prosperity. He's acting like a lunatic.

Trump posting an obscene & racist deep fake of Democratic leaders Schumer & Jeffries is just the tip of the iceberg.

30.09.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 474    πŸ” 254    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 8

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are β€œused to it” but it is absolutely insane

01.10.2025 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 60441    πŸ” 17800    πŸ’¬ 1521    πŸ“Œ 792

Could have been an amateurish TikTok

30.09.2025 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

House Democrats are in Washington, ready to work. Republicans need to show up and do their jobs.

The government shouldn’t shut down because Republicans refuse to work for the American people.

30.09.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Newsom's Comms team is doing the Lord's work.

29.09.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5522    πŸ” 1510    πŸ’¬ 240    πŸ“Œ 79
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These were international crimes, committed by our military on the orders of our leaders.

30.09.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 129    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

If Congress shuts down and stops working, how will we be able to tell?

30.09.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 19507    πŸ” 4254    πŸ’¬ 908    πŸ“Œ 349

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

30.09.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 19115    πŸ” 6952    πŸ’¬ 541    πŸ“Œ 348

Today’s the last day of government funding and Republicans are doing NOTHING to make sure kids, families, and seniors have access to affordable health care and thousands of civil servants get paid while serving their country.

30.09.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s been retrofitted to run in gasoline

30.09.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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'Insane propaganda': Experts weigh in on 'unhinged' edit to government agency website A new edit to the homepage of the official website of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), published Tuesday, shocked political insiders on social media.HUD.gov now opens with a...

'Insane propaganda': Experts weigh in on 'unhinged' edit to government agency website www.alternet.org/hudgov/

30.09.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

He’s grabbing American democracy by the Posse Comitatus Act. When you’re a Republican, the Supreme Court will just let you do it.

30.09.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 688    πŸ” 186    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 2
Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

This whole section really.

28.09.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 9576    πŸ” 4285    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 114

For @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social @mcopelov.bsky.social or anyone else who's interested in the full exchange with Bannon, it's in the screen caps in this tweet below. It's quite something:
bsky.app/profile/greg...

27.09.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 421    πŸ” 139    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 4

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