The Dancing Bluebird
@thedancingbluebird.bsky.social
Lover of the arts, dance, fitness, books, science, education and travel. Happily married and proud to live in the solidly blue state of MA. 💃🏻🍽 🌎📚🚴🏻♀️🎶💙
"Sometimes fascists and liars harm each other in their scramble for power, but that doesn’t mean you should sympathize with any of them."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoNew in PN: The weird rise and spectacular fall of Katie Zacharia "Zacharia is not a victim. She is a lying conspiracy theorist who desperately maneuvered herself to attract the attention of an image-obsessed fascist in hopes that she could gain money and fame by lying on his behalf."
This is such an important point! 👏👏
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.TAFOYA: All of the legislation that has led to this debt, 77% of it has been bipartisan. It's gonna take bipartisanship to get us out of it. FLANAGAN: Even time we have zeroed out the debt, it has been Democrats. So we need to send Democrats to DC.
BREAKING: We just sued Jared Kushner for unlawfully acting as one of the country's top diplomats without undergoing Senate confirmation or filing financial disclosures. It’s abundantly clear that he should be blocked from performing this outsized role: www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action...
I know we will work hard to restore and strengthen what we can, but it hurts to think about how much we will never be able to recover both on a human scale and an environmental one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Despair after 200-year-old ‘grandmother’ tree toppled for Trump’s border wall: ‘It crushes your heart’
Protesters spent months occupying an ancient cottonwood. Then a tense standoff with US border patrol came to a head
theguardian.com
Thanking the invader & villainizing the nation being bombed. You couldn’t write a russian state tv script any more shameless than this.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoWow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.
Honestly, the brilliance of Mamdani is less about his improvements in city services (modest, but important) than it has been about highlighting the services that city government provides (and in some cases always has). He makes sure government is seen. That’s really, really important.
Massachusetts, I love you, but what the hell is this?!? 😠 apps.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/spot...
Outside chains like RegalCare transformed Mass. nursing homes. Quality fell.
RegalCare and other nursing home chains have rapidly expanded in Massachusetts. The Globe Spotlight Team found widespread problems and little state intervention.
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So love this! What a great idea from this lovely teacher. Happy travels, kiddos!
KayElan7ISO64🇨🇦🇪🇺@kayiso64.bsky.social · 4w agoWarms my heart! This is so cute.♥️♥️
A good commentary discussing the disservice done by the near constant use of the far-right lens in reporting. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Look again – there’s more to Germany’s election trends than far-right success | Cas Mudde
Defeatist narratives abound. Yet Germany’s latest elections suggest voter dissatisfaction is benefiting the left as well as the right, says the political scientist Cas Mudde
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Through resilience and the kindness of others we can carry each other forward. Kudos to this young rider's success. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
Afghan cyclist who disguised herself as a man to evade Taliban wins Asian Games silver
Fariba Hashimi, who is based in Italy, powered home second in the women’s road race near Nagoya in Japan, calling the triumph ‘something special’
theguardian.com
The ultimate question for every country where the extreme right has gained a foothold: "And why, by now, are there no working structures against the rise of right-extremist movements, parties and agendas – but somehow still a system that lets them flourish?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I know why many east Germans vote AfD. And no, it’s not an inherited longing for dictatorship | Carolin Würfel
Grievance politics has grown in the east of the country where I was born. But west Germans have hard questions to answer too, says writer Carolin Würfel
theguardian.com
A Far-Right International Is Assaulting Democracy MAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵
A Far-Right International Is Assaulting Democracy
MAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism
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9/11 is a day I’ll never forget. Rather than sharing the horrific photos, I’d rather share an image in memory of what once was. 🙏
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
We just finished watching the Turkish crime series called "Graveyard" on Netflix. It's original title in Turkish is "Mezarlik". It does a pretty good job revealing many of the prejudices against women & has strong female characters. The lead character played by Birce Akalay is particularly notable.
These attorneys racing to help these children are heroes in my book. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Revealed: attorneys rally to free children held in US immigration custody
Trump administration has indefinitely stranded hundreds of kids and lawyers from over 50 organizations are fighting for their release
theguardian.com
🕊️Born March 25, 1934, in Toledo, Ohio, Steinem became one of the most recognizable organizers, journalists and public intellectuals of second-wave feminism. She opened doors. She built bridges. We carry the torch. #Pinks
Shoutout to the poll workers holding it down today. During a time when the right to vote feels under attack like never before and public trust in our elections is under fire, these public servants are showing up with integrity to make sure their neighbors get to make their voices heard.
Amazing!
Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 2mo agoBefore we had silicon chips, we had needle and thread. In the 1960s, NASA didn’t ‘upload’ code; they sewed it. To get Apollo 11 to the moon, skilled weavers (often called ‘Little Old Ladies’) literally hand-stitched software into physical objects. Original post
The cruelty of it all is unreal. Not surprising but disgusting nonetheless. www.huffpost.com/entry/uss-li...
He Waited For His Son To Return From The USS Lincoln. Then Border Patrol Arrested Him.
Immigration authorities arrested Luis Manuel Aviles, a handyman with a work permit whose son was serving as a sailor on the carrier at the time.
huffpost.com
Your regular reminder that if not for the Trump and Bush tax cuts, federal revenues would keep pace with federal spending indefinitely. Instead, these tax cuts have added at least $10 trillion to the debt. The so called "party of fiscal responsibility" is full of it.
For those of you following the turmoil at the BSO due to the ham-fisted and sudden firing of Andris Nelsons, this is an interesting take. I couldn't gift the article unfortunately but in case some of you can see it, here is the link: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/21/o...
BSO’s War of the Roses gets an unlikely hero - The Boston Globe
A retired corporate exec and classically trained musician crunches the orchestra's numbers.
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