Ushi
Ushi
@ushims.bsky.social
I am a left-of-center Democrat with a German husband and two tweenagers. Glutton for punishment. Here for Carl Sagan quotes and keen observations.
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I installed #SimplyFilterSMS on my iPhone just so that I could block all political texts including the word “Texas.” Now I need to block all emails from the effing @newyorksun.bsky.social
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Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside act.indivisible.org/sign/dem-sen...
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shame on junior officers for applauding his claptrap, and for their bosses not giving them appropriate instructions in advance www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.
Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.
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New in PN: Retire in peace "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national government?"
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Horrific though unsurprising report from @propublica.org: Ectopic pregnancy deaths have basically doubled since the end of Roe
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Absolutely right. My second book underwent not one but two pretty radical reframings as a result of what I found (and did not find) in the archives.
One of the best parts of being a historian? Changing my mind. Sometimes one letter or one newspaper article sends me back to rethink everything I thought I knew. That's not failure. That's good history. 🗃️
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This is obviously true and yet never occurred to me. Even when I was in the Sistine Chapel looking up.
Oh, and the idea that God looks like Zeus in Renaissance paintings (see: The Sistine Chapel and everything else) is quite literally the result of the era's infatuation with Greek culture and aesthetics and the decision to render the Big Bigness like actually literally Zeus and it's poisoned us
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It’s inaccurate to describe the yellow areas here as ‘his businesses’. Everyone knows it’s bribery.
In 2017, most of the revenue President Trump’s businesses generated came from his domestic golf and real estate portfolio. By the first year of his second term, his business holdings had transformed and expanded in areas where he wields immense power. Take a closer look. trib.al/313eKiF
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@mbta.com idea! Please ask @emilysweeney22.bsky.social to create audio recordings announcing #T next stops and destinations. Guaranteed crowd pleaser.
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