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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 2h

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 14h

My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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aran 🏳️‍⚧️ @aranaya.bsky.social · 15h

Just make sure to press the "correct result" key instead of the "wrong result" key on the magic calculator

a cartoon character says " why didn t i think of that "

ALT: a cartoon character says " why didn t i think of that "

media.tenor.com

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 18h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 16h

No one but Palestinians have ever been entitled to Palestinian land. No one else has deserved any say in what happens there. Not in 1948. Not in 1967. Not in 2023. Not in 2025.

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 1d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 15h

Rubin once retweeted someone calling for Palestinian children to be fed to sharks and has described herself as an "Andrew Cuomo Democrat."

Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 18h

Unconditional support for the Israeli government is counterproductive for both countries. If Trump can get tough, why not Congress and every potus? The Israel right-or-wrong position AIPAC, right-wing Christians, and some US Jews have held is no longer unassailable. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

What now for Israel and Gaza?

No one will be the same.

open.substack.com

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GreenAlienLawyer @bluecollarlawyer.bsky.social · 1d

I've met few cops in my career as a public defender who saw themselves as anything other than a brotherhood who put themselves first, justice a distant second, and the public good a distant last.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 16h

Two separate internal reports at State and USAID found that Israel violated Section 620i of the Foreign Assistance Act and that at least 800m in military assistance to Israel should have been immediately suspended. That is the law.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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.
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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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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 22h

bus with one depressed and one happy character. the depressed one says the world is harsh cruel and unforgiving and is wearing clown makeup. the happy one, wearing a doctors coat, says great clown pagliacci is in town yay

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 1d

cop, lying: Me and my friends, who are troops, will delete Candy Crush if Zohrani 'Hussein' Mamdani is mayor of New York City. We are the most active users on the platform and this could affect the stock market

Bari Weiss: Chilling. And not the cool weed kind of chilling. This week on 60 Minutes

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20h

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 22h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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nrxia 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nrxia.bsky.social · 1d

GVH irl
#gvh

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 21h

Trump to the Israeli parliament today, gloating about U.S. weapons supplied to Israel over the past two years:

"You obviously used them very well."

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Guardian headline: "Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead"

The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims"

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 22h

And you fucking bombed a sewage plant as you left, you fucking lying pieces of shit. Go fuck yourself.

EVERYONE KNOWS ISRAEL BREAKS CEASEFIRES.

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 22h

#JUST_IN | Israeli Minister Israel Katz:

"Hamas's announcement about the expected return of 4 bodies today is a failure to meet commitments.

Any delay or deliberate avoidance will be considered a gross violation of the agreement and will be responded to accordingly."

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 23h

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 1d

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16d

ICE is doing forced labor and sexual assault of transgender people in their detention centers, reads a new complaint.

ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program: Complaint

A federal complaint accuses the warden of creating an ad hoc work program used to demean trans detainees.

www.newsweek.com

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🎃Pumpkinwave🎃 @spiralrings.blue · 1d

they're all that guy from family guy s1

guy who stabs himself and discovers it hurts and decides he deserves to be punished for hurting people

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aran 🏳️‍⚧️ @aranaya.bsky.social · 1d

America had Why Fascism Is Bad video tutorials in the 1940s; guess it didn't stick
youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4?...

Don't Be a Sucker

YouTube video by US National Archives

youtu.be

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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aran 🏳️‍⚧️ @aranaya.bsky.social · 1d

(not taking into account that if you're importing the fabric, roll dice to figure out what tariffs you're paying today)

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