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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Marcus P. @reluctantaxe.bsky.social · 13h

A Redditor made a graph of the percent of population of US and Canada metro areas over 1 million that live in a given density. When they ordered them by average density the lowest ranked Canadian metro area, Edmonton, was ranked 14th between Miami and Washington. 6 of the top 15 were Canadian metros

Graph of Canada and US metro areas with a breakdown of percentage of people that live in density density bands

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 18h

#AlexAlott was charged with allegedly assaulting a federal officer with an umbrella. Yesterday, she was exonerated because VIDEO disproved the accusation. But Daniel, who attended the trial to support her, was detained the same day that the trial finished.

THIS IS FASCISM. FILM EVERYTHING.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 12h

“Free speech curfew” is one of the most authoritarian and dystopian terms I think I have ever heard.

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Fat fox in your area! @rowelandfox.bsky.social · 3d

I and millions of other queer people found each other, realized we weren't alone, and didn't kill ourselves

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Minneapolis for the Many @mplsforthemany.com · 13h

Frey cannot be trusted to deliver on public safety if he can’t even be honest about MPD. All we’ve gotten from Mayor Frey is broken promises and misdirection when there are valid questions about his failures.

On November 4th, we're going to elect a mayor accountable to and honest with us.

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 1d

go the fuck outside. find a goth club. go there on a kink / queer night. go even if you think “you won’t fit in” (cheat code: just wear black).

be friendly. give yourself time. repeat as necessary. you will make exceptional friends.

life is for the living. do it scared.

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DGK 🦖 @dontgetkettled.bsky.social · 13h

The only people who can be reached by good faith tactics are people already engaging in good faith. Anyone reasonable enough to be on your side is already there.

You cannot reason with someone whose entire purpose is to be unreasonable.

They’ll shoot you in a frog costume.

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james. @abacadabber.bsky.social · 13h

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DGK 🦖 @dontgetkettled.bsky.social · 13h

When are liberals going to realize that telling people to “not engage” with a violent fascist state is the same as telling a domestic violence victim to just be quiet so their abuser doesn’t have a reason to hit them anymore

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

Note: it's not even curfew yet.

State police just started pushing people off the business park corner. Here in the road, a brave group of demonstrators are attempting to hold their line.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14h

A small number of demonstrators attempted to protest/march in the street.

Massive number of ISP troopers in riot gear responded by blocking 25th, threatening arrest, shouting into megaphone about an unlawful assembly.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 13h

No straight up it's the creation of a monarchy

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 15h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 13h

I can explain why this happens!

It is because all forms of government require people at the top. Over time, often quickly, these people form a new political alignment; the controlling class.

Without strict oversight & promise of consequence, this is the outcome of any form of government.

pekaschmitt.bsky.social @pekaschmitt.bsky.social · 1d

Communist/Socialist politicians have failed comprehensively on the time-line of history - without exception! - ending up as police states and dictatorships costing masses of people their lives!

The pendulum swings this way and that way - but peace and prosperity generally happen in the middle.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 13h

To paraphrase Christopher Hitchens speaking of Henry Kissinger, these ICE dudes really make you wish Hell existed because there's no earthly punishment that can really do them justice.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 15h

The amount of grief, information overload and unease we are all experiencing in cycle after cycle is affecting us all in different ways.

Fascism is incredibly cognitively invasive and manifests in waves through our lives.

We must learn to treat ourselves with grace as the noise increases.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 16h

This year, I've had so many productivity issues. Whole days lost, deadlines completely blown I've been trying to figure out what's wrong with me

Yeah, so for the last 48 hours I decided to tune out the news and concentrate on an article and surprise surprise: it was the fascism this whole time

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 23h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 14h

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 14h

"The walking away is not nihilism, it's not cynicism, it's not doing nothing—it's a form of engagement more honest, more soul-affirming, than anything the system was every prepared to offer."

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 14h

"The idea that walking away is childish & unproductive is predicated on the inability to imagine anything but a walking away from, never a walking away toward—never that there might exist another destination."

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14h

Making people afraid to be affiliated with antifascism—making people afraid to be associated with groups and people that actively oppose fascism—is some bleak shit.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18h

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 18h

It was @sarahjeong.bsky.social and we’ve been pounding this drum for years - especially since all the promises of metadata to prove images are real have gone nowhere www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24...

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 18h

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 18h

chat is it a good idea to try and use the military to crush dissent while not paying them and also making them food insecure?

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 19h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 20h

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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