Bard spotting on Bluesky 26 February 2025

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

I also would like to know why this is

G. Willow Wilson (@gwillow.me):

Real q: why are modern American progressives so bad at building coalitions? The right wing is this ideologically incoherent hodge-podge of unrelated or even oppositional causes, yet they manage to work as a bloc. By contrast, liberals + leftists spend a huge amount of energy fighting w each other.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

We tend to stop to evaluate whether an individual or organisation really is the best fit for [role].

We believe that the goal of the alliance may not be reached if we don't have the best and the brightest, and we take care that equity and justice be served in the process.

Which is to say —

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

America itself was a coalition towards certain goals.

It has now been overtaken by another coalition with other goals, who learned to entertain & to terrorise, to persuade people to hand over the levers of power, rather than persuade of the best fit for the actual legitimate ends of govt.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

We're not bad at coalitions. We're bad at 21st century media strategy.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I criticise the "America is not so dumb as to re-elect Trump", but I let myself believe that.

Now I know it's not about smart vs dumb, merely about communication and mobilisation

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I guarantee every single MAGA person you personally are acquainted with hates cold calls and robocalls. Now you can tell them "Trump make telemarketer phonecalls OK"

David Sirota (@davidsirota.com):

NEWS: The Supreme Court just gave scammers and robocallers the legal right to endlessly spam your phone and harass you.

https://www.levernews.com/musks-empire-is-reaping-2-million-per-day-from-trump/

Mara Jade1 (@marajade1.bsky.social):

Thank you. I'll be using this often.

Sarah Posner (@sarahposner.bsky.social):

The farmer stories are not an opportunity for schadenfreude but for organizing, what is wrong with so many of you

Lindsey M (@lindseymorris.bsky.social):

Yes! I'm seeing this in response to people losing healthcare or paying more for medications like insulin also. I understand the knee jerk reaction, but we need to keep our humanity and work together. We're not going to survive this otherwise.

(@miltonjames.bsky.social):

Why should we extend a hand to those who hate us? MAGAts literally want liberals dead.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Forgiveness is not for the sake of the forgiven, but for the sake of the forgiver, so that the trauma doesn't turn them into a wretch.

You don't have to be a doormat but it helps to keep the door unlocked.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

And as always: there will never in our lifetime be a way to substantiate the claims of Anon "NSA Whistleblowers" because everythig they do is compartmentalised and classified.

So Rufo et al are free to invent any bullshit they want

Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net):

It's so explicitly clear that this is propaganda to manufacture consent to purge all trans employees from the federal government.

This is a campaign of eradication.

Jacob Wolf Lefton (@watermosaic.bsky.social):

I think it's also wild the philosophy that somehow 'our adversaries don't deserve human rights.' That cruelty is baked into this statement through and through.

ellie lockhart (she/they) (@eleanor.lockhart.contact):

if Stargate SG-1 was real, would they be able to successfully shuffle their funding to avoid Trump's purges

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

There was an episode / arc beginning with the Season 7 opener "Inauguration" where Kinsey tries to shut down the program, IIRC

Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social):

BIG NEWS: A Fifth Circuit panel holds that Planned Parenthood has immunity for its attorneys' actions (because the attorneys, too, have immunity) in a long-running False Claims Act case over Medicaid claims, ordering the district court to rule in favor of Planned Parenthood on the affected claims.

James Geluso (@atlemar.bsky.social):

If the Fifth Circuit rules in favor of Planned Parenthood, the District Court was WAY over its skis. checks to see if it was Kacsmaryk

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

It was Kacszmaryk

James Geluso (@atlemar.bsky.social):

He's so bad at judging

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Oh my gosh this is incredible

Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social):

BIG NEWS: A Fifth Circuit panel holds that Planned Parenthood has immunity for its attorneys' actions (because the attorneys, too, have immunity) in a long-running False Claims Act case over Medicaid claims, ordering the district court to rule in favor of Planned Parenthood on the affected claims.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

This has been going on since before Dobbs was decided at SCOTUS, and is effectively the Heritage Foundation et al trying to lawfare Planned Parenthood into bankruptcy through billions of dollars of fines and penalties

p o t z {er} - 🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@potzer.xyz):

Share one of your favorite animated series from the 90s

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a cartoon of a purple monster sitting on a couch in front of a tv

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Let me grab my spear. Tonight we hunt Isz

I am certain you do not wish to argue that several years ago you assaulted me at Tanglewood Forest. Several of your fellow company members have chased me and thwapped me with Amtgard -legal boffer weapons on Company Road while I was making announcements on behalf of Kingdom Officers.