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Ashley Lake

@ashleylatke.bsky.social

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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · Mar 13

Hey, porno creator, sick of going to Vegas or Miami to shoot content as red states get more insane?

We have a big gorgeous production house in happy healthy Massachusetts that we would love to rent you (w property release) at a fraction of cost - yes you can stay here too

[email protected]

Collage of winter film photos, 6 of them from top left: trees with snow on them, Vanniall crouched in snow, a view of a snowy scene through a window, another view from a deck, a picture of Ashley holding their camera in front of a house, a snow covered deck, bright windows with a snowy scene outside, a foggy scene through a window, night time snow illuminated by flash. All are disposable camera pictures.

A picture of a large house viewable through early fall foliage. It has an orange metal roof, natural wood siding, wrap around deck and huge a frame style windows on one side.

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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 3h

Ok finally found a no

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onion person @junlper.beer · 18h

we need to abolish this shit

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 11h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 7h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 4h

Jesus fucking christ the sadism of these people is insatiable

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 4h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h

The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants.

Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.

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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 4h

Jfc

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B. @nashbrian.bsky.social · 11h

Propaganda on display, except this “Latin Kings leader” was probably picked up in a Home Depot parking lot.

Bunch of fools they take us for.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13h

The US is a straight-up police state, more egregious than the vast majority of ‘totalitarian regimes’ we (in the Global North) grew up being warned about.

Picture the Feds took with supposed Latin Kings leader (whose wife says he’s being framed) is 100% inspired by the IDF

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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 4h

Can these corpos fuck off already

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Remember when Mike Bloomberg installed "free speech zones" at the RNC?

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 23h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 1d

The utter inability of legacy news media to be able to deal with being straight-up lied to is one of the primary drivers of this mess.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

"Arkansas is trying to save one of the most extreme book censorship laws in recent memory, one that would allow jailing librarians and booksellers for keeping materials on their shelves that fall under the statute’s broad definition of “harmful to minors.”

Arkansas wants to jail librarians. The First Amendment won’t allow it.

Arkansas’s Act 372 would let the state jail librarians for “harmful” books. The First Amendment won’t let censorship win.

www.thefire.org

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 2d

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

churchleaders.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 2d

I love this image.

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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 3d

lol

Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 4d

I just finally realized Lorde is named after Audre Lorde

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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 4d

A house party is organizing and you and your community deserve it

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5d

it’s odd that the rightwing has been able to monopolize “being fit” as an aesthetic online, even the whitehouse social media has in recent weeks dunked on “fat libs” because the average rightwinger in the united states is usually guys like this

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 5d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 4d

They come from Indiana just like the guns in NYC come from Virginia. It's an open secret.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4d

You can’t talk seriously about gun violence in Chicago without talking about where the guns come from. www.pbump.net/o/the-red-st...

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Rep. Steven Woodrow @woodrowforco.bsky.social · 4d

The media’s job is to make you think that the people who want to give you healthcare are just as crazy as the people trying to take it away.

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