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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 5h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t know about you, but the more they talk like this, the more I want to march.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Bumblejack @bumblejack.bsky.social · 3h

South Bend, IN

The Well's window was shattered this week.

The past 3 years their drag shows have been targeted by far right extremists (including Michiana Proud Boys) w/harassment, physical intimidation, and violence.

Community members held a craft night following the attack to show support.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 19h

the most unsurprising thing in the world is now every rightwinger, all yhe way up to JD vance, have explicitely defended this and the statements made by those in this group. and that’s by design, every single rightwinger is now an extremist nazi

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

these people know how extreme they are

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Cupid's Molotov @cupidsmolotov.bsky.social · 1d

This is the TT in question

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

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#SaveSpeech

If you're like me and you are struggling to contact your senators re: KOSA via their phone lines this week, I recommend attempting to send physical letters or emails in the meantime.

Here is a script you can use to contact your reps!

www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [LOCATION]
I'm messaging to demand [SENATOR] oppose S. 1748, the Kids Online Safety Act, also known as KOSA. This broad legislation does not protect anyone and instead will be used to block any speech that the Trump administration’s partisan FTC disagrees with. It pushes the “duty of care” onto websites and social media platforms to remove content that is “harmful to children”. It would lead to overcompliance, mass censorship, and remove access to crucial information re: everything from mental health, LGBT topics, substance abuse, eating disorders and more.
Additionally, while large, corporate platforms like X can shoulder the weight of “duty of care”, smaller websites cannot, leading to greater and greater concentrations of power online into giant corporate platforms rather than small and medium sized businesses.
KOSA will not make kids safer. It will make the internet more dangerous for anyone who relies on it to learn, connect, or speak freely. Lawmakers should reject it, and fast.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
IF SENATOR COSPONSORED KOSA: Additionally, I want to remark on [SENATOR]’s cosponsorship of this bill. I think it is shameful that [SENATOR] has backed a bill as transparently bad as KOSA. This will not keep kids safe, it is an excuse to censor the free and open internet. I will not be voting for nor donating to [SENATOR] in any future campaigns if they do not drop their co-sponsorship of this bill, and I will encourage everyone in my life to do the same.
Do the right thing.

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alt-dea @alt-dea.altgov.info · 18h

www.thedailybeast.com/ice-barbies-...

ICE Barbie’s Goons Allegedly Threatened to Shoot Ambulance Driver

Medics say federal agents blocked a hospital run as an officer screamed, “I will shoot you.”

www.thedailybeast.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 19h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 23h

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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James West @jamespwest.bsky.social · 1d

We just dropped a major new investigation with partners @lighthousereports.com and a dozen other international partners, uncovering a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries, including the US.

WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWy...

This Secret Tech Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You

YouTube video by Mother Jones

www.youtube.com

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Tealful Eyes @tealfuleyes.bsky.social · 1d

Various local elections across the US are coming up, but the Governor positions for New Jersey and Virginia in particular are up for vote November 4th. Deadline to register for NJ is today October 14th and for Virginia it is October 24th. Check your respective states election department for details.

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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 1d

Capitalism. Workers are expendable. 😭

"Sixteen workers were incinerated in a US weapons plant—the largest mass death in an industrial disaster since the 2010 Upper Big Branch mine explosion—and the networks and other corporate media simply moved on."

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

16 workers killed in Tennessee explosion: Industrial carnage followed by media cover-up

Sixteen workers were incinerated in a US weapons plant—the largest mass death in an industrial disaster since the 2010 Upper Big Branch mine explosion—and the news networks and other corporate media s...

www.wsws.org

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Part of the reason many Germans supported the Nazis was that there really was a lot of violence in the streets & they wanted order. But much of that violence was carried out by the Nazi paramilitary SA.

So the Nazis presented themselves as the solution to a problem they intentionally created

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

n.pr

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Taxpayers aren’t supposed to deduct losses from something that has no hope of being a profitable business.

But billionaire-owned operations that look like expensive hobbies, like race horses, rack up business deductions by the tens of millions of dollars.

(Published 2023)

Private Planes and Luxury Yachts Aren’t Just Toys for the Ultrawealthy. They’re Also Huge Tax Breaks.

What’s the only thing better than having your own Gulfstream jet? Why, getting to claim millions in tax deductions for it. All you have to do is make a case you’re using it for business, which turns o...

www.propublica.org

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The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa @americanjeagle.bsky.social · 1d

Close enough

Torch Antifa Network @torchantifa.bsky.social · 1d

rt if you are the founder of antifa

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

“Total destruction”

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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.bsky.social · 2d

If you live in these states make damn sure to not give a second of peace to them, make their phones ring and their mailboxes bloat daily.

KOSA must be pushed against with full force.

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 5d

#SaveSpeech
Democrats that need to be reprimanded for cosponsoring KOSA:

J. Hickenlooper- CO
A. Klobuchar- MN
B. Lujan- NM
B. Schatz- HI
M. Hirono- HI
G. Peters- MI
J. Fetterman- PA
R. Blumenthal- CT
C. Schumer- NY
M. Hassan- NH
M. Kelly- AZ
P. Welch- VT

[more names + links continued below]

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa @americanjeagle.bsky.social · 1d

Columbus was a rapist and a mass murderer who delighted in torturing and killing native peoples. In addition he was a weird dumbass who believed the Earth was shaped like a pear with a “succulent nipple” at the top.

But since Nazis love celebrating murderous weirdos they can have him.

M-AAAH!!!-tty 👻 @mattythemouse.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus sucked. He didn’t discover America. He didn’t discover America for “the west” or whatever. He was just a genocidal maniac with a messiah complex, and the fact that people still pretend he was anything else because they were taught a nursery rhyme in preschool is fucking sad, lol

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Knockoffthotep @knockoffthotep.bsky.social · 2d

Hey you, go make your calls today.

We don't stop fighting until we know these bills are dead on the floor in one of Congress' chambers.

But if I may be so bold, I'd like to say something in the posts below this.

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 5d

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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krad @kradeelav.com · 2d

There's a UK adult games creator on reddit who's been rejected from 36(!) and counting UK banks and unable to process the earned £90,000. Debanking for adult creators continues to be a real threat.

reddit.com/r/UKPersonalFinance/comments/1o5nw74/i_develop_adult_video_games_on_steam_i_cant_find/

From the UKPersonalFinance community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the UKPersonalFinance community

reddit.com

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d

Its the work week!

If you havent called yet, now is an extremely important time to contact your reps and demand they OPPOSE KOSA!

if your rep is a cosponsor, demand they drop their sponsorship!

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 5d

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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