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@criticalemi

Books, yarn, and cats are all enjoyable topics. Christian Nationalism is the trainwreck I can't look away from. I'll be posting about it and related politics. Even though books, cats, and yarn are better.

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"He is a horrible human being." .. (ex colleague Olivia Troye) .. (cartoon Rob Rogers)

12.03.2026 17:25 πŸ‘ 2125 πŸ” 626 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 18
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12.03.2026 01:50 πŸ‘ 6081 πŸ” 2901 πŸ’¬ 349 πŸ“Œ 217
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U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

β€œThe Feb. 28 strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by the U.S. military.”

At least 175 were killed, many of whom were just little children.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

11.03.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 2404 πŸ” 1132 πŸ’¬ 248 πŸ“Œ 81
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The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made β€œlethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

NEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations.

But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made β€œlethality” a top priority.

By @hannahallam.bsky.social

10.03.2026 21:25 πŸ‘ 1858 πŸ” 1142 πŸ’¬ 92 πŸ“Œ 107
"Transgender people are not welcome in Iowa" (lawmaker slams new discrimination bill)
"Transgender people are not welcome in Iowa" (lawmaker slams new discrimination bill) YouTube video by Bleeding Heartland

Today Iowa Gov Kim Reynolds signed a bill banning local govts from protecting transgender residents against discrimination in civil rights ordinances.
Last week, @repaime.bsky.social spoke forcefully against what she called the "enhanced civil rights removal act." www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFuY...

10.03.2026 23:33 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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Receipts:

10.03.2026 18:08 πŸ‘ 3170 πŸ” 430 πŸ’¬ 98 πŸ“Œ 20

Satisfying to see @davidjbier.bsky.social absolutely dogwalk Sen. Kennedy here.

Kennedy is so far gone he doesn’t even seem to realize the β€œBlue-ski” posts he’s reading are the consensus view of most Americans and not some Marxist smoking gun or something.

10.03.2026 19:23 πŸ‘ 1423 πŸ” 286 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 18

Something to hide?

🎢Huffines... Has it! 🎢

I know a few of y'all hear it.

10.03.2026 05:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gabe Rench is a member of Christ Church Moscow and his brother co-owns Canon Press with Doug Wilson's son.

Donald Trump Jr. is in communication with people at Christ Church Moscow and attended a PAC in Boise with them.

This is bigger than you think.

Christian Nationalism *is* our government.

06.03.2026 13:52 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Every time a woman runs for president I hear that she’s too emotional and unstable to make wartime decisions, unlike the men in charge who make really reasonable decisions like bombing kids to death, starting water wars, and poisoning the entire planet

08.03.2026 14:53 πŸ‘ 4398 πŸ” 1046 πŸ’¬ 64 πŸ“Œ 39
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What a shameful exercise in performative religiosity and piety 😳

08.03.2026 05:07 πŸ‘ 6362 πŸ” 2115 πŸ’¬ 535 πŸ“Œ 175

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

08.03.2026 02:19 πŸ‘ 25326 πŸ” 8112 πŸ’¬ 781 πŸ“Œ 327

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

07.03.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 6641 πŸ” 1984 πŸ’¬ 448 πŸ“Œ 94
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Slyngstad always gets it right…

07.03.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 761 πŸ” 252 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 6
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RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

06.03.2026 19:01 πŸ‘ 8433 πŸ” 2267 πŸ’¬ 138 πŸ“Œ 127

You have the right fellow in this case. He's also very New Apostolic Reformation (NAR))/ Seven Mountains Mandate too, if you follow those things

07.03.2026 09:05 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads:

The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same...

- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

28.02.2026 17:18 πŸ‘ 19235 πŸ” 8224 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 122
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Marjane Satrapi, autora de "PersΓ©polis"

03.03.2026 07:58 πŸ‘ 339 πŸ” 208 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 8

The kid who died was in the car with his best friend... Who himself died in a car crash last month before being able to give testimony? Fuuuck that's awful. These two young men had so much ahead of them.

Also yeah, the fuck did Mom think she was voting for? But it's easy to attack her. Abolish ICE

06.03.2026 18:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oof $100? What's the chance it's AI slop as opposed to human made slop?

06.03.2026 08:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If war is hell, we ought not make more hell on earth.

06.03.2026 07:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The fuck kind of answer is this

06.03.2026 02:37 πŸ‘ 14467 πŸ” 4848 πŸ’¬ 2046 πŸ“Œ 701
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Noem busy designing the logo for this nonsense to go with custom vehicles and outfits. It will be a whole new thing we have to pay for.

06.03.2026 01:46 πŸ‘ 2022 πŸ” 455 πŸ’¬ 404 πŸ“Œ 49

Your statement is true, but we've got a few generations now of home/private school kids that were explicitly taught that's a lie. Laws are only as effective as the people who enforce them.

06.03.2026 00:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's a lot faster to say god did it than it is to acknowledge all the human efforts and freak accidents that got us here. It's the stupidest tldr/tlwr.

06.03.2026 00:29 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

More of this, hold her accountable!

05.03.2026 21:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Neguse demolishes Noem (2/2)

04.03.2026 18:05 πŸ‘ 6090 πŸ” 1720 πŸ’¬ 307 πŸ“Œ 261
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PETITION: Don't Let the Federal Government Regulate Your Reading Not one country's freedom and liberty has ever been increased by banning books.

The Federal Book Ban bill uses funding threats to pressure schools to remove books.

Federal control over local policy - and federal control of reading, writing, and publishing - is unacceptable.

Sign the petition to stop it. action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

04.03.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 1793 πŸ” 900 πŸ’¬ 102 πŸ“Œ 54

I fully believe that. It's been a long time since I cast a ballot in Texas, but mostly I remember a machine a small booth with no descriptors or information about any of the issues. I felt so blind, like I should just guess. Texas doesn't seem to want voters.

04.03.2026 18:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0