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K @appiah.bsky.social · 19h

I had to read the website of a British newspaper to find out about something that happened in my country *nearly a year ago* t.co/bdkkMJ2hWh

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/postal-worker-stroke-death-lawsuit-minnesota-b2843493.html#

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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 23h

IRS layoffs are costly for the U.S., redistributing wealth to the top 1% (who lie on their taxes at jaw-dropping rates).

The bottom 99% generally pay their taxes. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

Taxes evaded as a percent of taxes owed from a study showing that the 99th wealth percentile and above evade significantly more taxes than everyone else. The richest evade 25% of the taxes they owe on average. The bottom 95% evade less than 3% of their taxes on average. While these data are from Scandinavia, similar patterns are likely in other countries, including the U.S.

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Ketracel Black @ketracelblack.blacksky.app · 22h

Another example of why we need to replace the police with real emergency responders. People trained to provide medical care rather than pass racist judgement.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 1d

Mariners win

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K @appiah.bsky.social · 1d

I said this nearly an hour ago. It’s the bottom of the 14th lmaoooo.

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K @appiah.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao

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K @appiah.bsky.social · 1d

This entire game has been a mindfuck and a half.

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K @appiah.bsky.social · 1d

Thank god

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ACLU @aclu.org · 2d

We must end the death penalty, once and for all.

On this World Day Against the Death Penalty, add your name to the growing number of people calling for an end to capital punishment.

Abolish The Death Penalty Now

Capital punishment is a moral stain on our nation: Add your name to the growing calls to abolish the death penalty now.

action.aclu.org

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ACLU @aclu.org · 2d

The government has executed more people in 2025 than any year in over a decade — and there are five more executions scheduled over the next week.

Just a handful of states are responsible for these executions, and they’re increasingly out of step with public opinion.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve got “Too many Italians on the staff” as the 2/1 odds-on favorite for Eagles Fan Theory as to why they’re ass right now

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K @appiah.bsky.social · 2d

lmao

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K @appiah.bsky.social · 2d

Holy shit summer camps are a WASP invention?

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K @appiah.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think I’m watching another baseball game for as long as I live.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

This is actually what is going to happen.

That’s already what’s happening in Lebanon. Israel kills regularly, violates the ceasefire agreement on an hourly basis.

It’s just not on the news anymore.

This is why pressure against Israel mustn’t just continue, but increase.

The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

theonion.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

DropSite receives confirmation that Hamas has agreed to a finalized version of the ceasefire framework and is prepared to sign it tonight

BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire Framework

“From our side, yes,” a senior Hamas official told Drop Site News.

www.dropsitenews.com

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K @appiah.bsky.social · 3d

“I’m not a fucking communist.”—Vladimir Putin, somewhere in Russia, upon being made aware of this article’s existence.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

K @appiah.bsky.social · 4d

I’ll believe it when I see it.

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 4d

👀👀👀👀

K @appiah.bsky.social · 4d

I only went through something resembling conversion therapy once, nine years ago, and it was to make me a born again Christian. It did not work.

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K @appiah.bsky.social · 4d

Far, far, far too many still operate under the notion that the Second Trump Administration is some sort of profound aberration. That’s far from the case. This thread by @wihorne.bsky.social is vital for us to understand the reality in which we are inhabiting.

Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 4d

We really need to be thinking abt the current regime through the lens of the Second Klan, which helped to nationalize systems of Jim Crow state & vigilante violence & exploitation while creating an explicitly white nationalist immigration system. They even paraded down Pennsylvania Ave.

A 1926 klan parade marching down Pennsylvania Ave. The front of the column holds banners that read Connecticut & Rhode Island. Original available via the Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001706338/

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 5d

Game-winning touchdown

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K @appiah.bsky.social · 5d

I was really, really fucking hoping that Dave Roberts would have just disregarded said person. Alas.

Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 5d

SOMEONE IN THE DODGER DUGOUT: you know you have Sasaki, right

DAVE ROBERTS: oh, RIGHT.

Eric Stephen @ericstephen.bsky.social · 5d

oh now Roki Sasaki is available and warming

K @appiah.bsky.social · 5d

Should….should I rejoin DSA?

Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 5d

For the first time in history, DSA has 80,000 members in good standing! Tens of thousands of new members have joined the last year alone. In the face of rising fascism, a US-backed genocide, and an escalating climate crisis, socialism is the only path forward. 1/3

DSA Members in Good Standing -- 80K and Counting! Join today! dsausa.org/join Line graph showing number of members in good standing rising from 50,000 in October 2024 to 80,000 in September 2025.

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K @appiah.bsky.social · 5d

This is the way.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

While we were sleeping:

A federal judge in Oregon has blocked the Trump administration from deploying any federalized National Guard—Texas, California, the state’s own—in Oregon.

That’s big news. Even bigger: She’s decided to hold a trial on the merits. That is: She’s putting people under oath.

Screenshot of court order, which reads in part:

“A combined hearing on the preliminary injunction motion land a trial on the meries
under Rule 65(al(2) is set for October 29, 2025l before the Honorable Judge Karin J. Immergut, in Courtroom 13A, beginning at 9:00 a.m.”