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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1h

They did this to a child. Shameful.

Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 13h

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ICE abducted a 15-year-old autistic boy during a bathroom break and kept him hidden for nearly a week.
His mother thought he was missing. Even local police couldn’t find him because ICE never told anyone they had him.

He was selling fruit with his mom when he asked to use the restroom.

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 14h

ok "the stephen miller door" is a solid bit

3 panels of Ted Lieu and Sarah McBride walking around the capitol. They look in a little door near the speakers office for Stephen Miller. He is not there.

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Bobbie Myers ☭ @blmyers.bsky.social · 1d

Doing my comfort watch.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

Wow! Interesting

Nothing to see here for sure

However, following the
announcement, many have started to point out that the 58-year-old is a strong ally of Israel and openly backs the country's decision to bomb the largely unarmed civilians of the Gaza Strip. While there is no known evidence to argue that she supported the one-sided attack on the Palestinian civilians, Machado is undoubtedly an ally of Benjamin Netanyahu. In the past, the centrist-right leader had even declared that if she gains power, she will restore diplomatic relations with Israel.

In 2020, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner's party, Vente Venezuela, signed a cooperation agreement with Likud to cooperate on "political, ideological and social issues ... strategy, geopolitics and security." For the unversed, Likud - National Liberal Movement is the right-wing Israeli political party whose chairperson is Benjamin Netanyahu. "The struggle of Venezuela is the struggle of Israel," she had said on X in 2019.
There is a claim that in 2018 Machado sent a letter to Netanyahu asking for the use of "power" (possibly including military intervention) against the Venezuelan government. She had

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Mar 24

But while W.E.B. DuBois was in Ghana, the State Dept refused to renew his passport, effectively annulling his U.S citizenship.

The American civil rights icon became a Ghanaian citizen and died there in 1963.

Glad to see the honorable scholar welcomed with such warmth, flowers, children dancing..

W E B Du Bois visits China in 1959, celebrating his 91st birthday in Beijing.

Documents W. E. B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois's trip to Peking in 1959 sponsored by the China Peace Committee and the Chinese People's Association for Cultur...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

i feel like everything bari weiss does is treated like she's a network exec in 1973 when she's really just a LARPer at the helm of a particularly irrelevant brand while TV news is dying.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Bobbie Myers ☭ @blmyers.bsky.social · 2d

The answer is no, you absolute fucking dipshit.

Bobbie Myers ☭ @blmyers.bsky.social · 2d

Just gonna be the video played on repeat.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 3d

1. In a devastating new Pew Research Survey, only 3 in 10 transgender adults report being accepted by their parents.

And only 1 in 10 say they are accepted by their extended family.

This is the lowest number ever found in surveys asking similar questions.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents

The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Bobbie Myers ☭ @blmyers.bsky.social · 2d

Do y'all all have one talking point?

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 2d

These liberal politicians are you enemies they are not your allies. If you demanded workers rights they’d send cops on you too. If you demanded the right to housing and control over your own labor they’d shoot you too. Get this through your head as quickly as possible.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

Not sure why there's suddenly a complete freakout on the far right about bloodlust from liberals for revenge come 2029. Could be mirror propaganda to stir up preemptive crackdowns or just a realization of how hated these people are.

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 2d

It seems... less than ideal... that a random woman in New York who is not elected to anything appears to be dictating what LGBTQ+ people can do in public in communities she does not live in

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Bobbie Myers ☭ @blmyers.bsky.social · 2d

"Tyranny of the proletariat" is a crazy line.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 2d

177 years of indoctrination that is woven into our lives from the earliest possible age, and at every opportunity?

it is honestly an impressive statement of capitalism’s violence that any of us turn out to be communists at all

Nexus @nexusspacey.bsky.social · 3d

I still do not get why Americans are so afraid of communism in a country so well made for it

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Bobbie Myers ☭ @blmyers.bsky.social · 3d

What kinda bullshit account is this? Foh.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

donald trump is a fascistic leader who has surrounded himself with people who are explicitely pro-fascistic that want to end democracy as we know it and punish anyone who dissents. pretending otherwise leads me to believe you agree with them doing this

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 3d

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Terrifying!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Bobbie Myers ☭ @blmyers.bsky.social · 3d

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s video of the incident

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Bobbie Myers ☭ @blmyers.bsky.social · 4d

Reagan would have loved this shit.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Sep 2

Also a pretty fair guess that someone who talks about "the West" and any threats to it is a big racist.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · Sep 2

Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.

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