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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 1h

"Protesters are expected to absorb violence but never inflict it—to function as shock absorbers to be acted upon, whose sympathetic value is nullified by any deviation from that standard ... under capitalism, 'peace' is the maintenance of violence on the state’s terms."

Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · Sep 8

"If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because 'violence' is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as 'peaceful' are, in reality, quite violent."

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j d i @j-t-r-o-n.bsky.social · 1h

Tonight's videos include autumnal frolicking, practical security measures, unpopular sports, and dubious bestiary

Fuzzbox DJs @fuzzboxdjs.bsky.social · 1h

Tonight!! COMMENCE TO JIGGLIN'!! 9-2 Central twitch.tv/fuzzboxchicago

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 6h

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5h

Part of the reason the right aggressively demonizes George Soros is to dissuade any other left-of-center wealthy guys from doing actual politics the way every right wing billionaire happily does.

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 6h

rightist plutocrats are doing politics. liberal plutocrats are doing charity. it’s an entirely different mindset.

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Rootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · 5h

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 6h

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h

We already tested this extensively during Covid and BLM and found that police refused to enforce masking requirements or business closures for ideological reasons and brutalized protesters despite orders not to. What's left to test? bsky.app/profile/book...

haunted jorbo 👻 @bookenj.bsky.social · 7h

not disagreeing with you, but we should actually test police oversight for the same reason one should test their backups. i would rather find out everything is broken while there is still time to do somethig about it

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 15h

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13h

*guy sticking up a gas station* why have I not been named Employee of the Month

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15h

This is like writing about someone hoping to get a Best Actor Oscar despite not appearing in any films

D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 22h

One of the more bizarre stories I've ever read in the NYT. I don't remotely understand what its thesis is.

And it has a world-historic "to be sure..." graf in the 26th paragraph.

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Particularly Miffed @miffedinparticular.bsky.social · 5d

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12h

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 9h

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 14h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8h

The court wins we're seeing in Chicago this week are great news, but also make me worry about what Trump might do in response (disregarding the courts, escalating differently). I'm glad these suits are happening, but sometimes, even things that have to happen can be a prelude to shit you don't want.

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 10h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 6d

The right employs a two-track strategy to win the war of persuasion: to liberal audiences that hate your ideas, push the “open inquiry, everyone’s voice must be heard” to work your way in, but to conservative audiences do whatever is necessary to prohibit liberal views.

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Bobo Chimpan (A-Z) @bobochimpan.bsky.social · 21h

If Sasha Bordeaux doesn't dump Rick Flagg, Sr. for Mr. Terrific we riot

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 1d

Not my original saying, but no one becomes a better person behind the wheel of a car.

Peter Kaufman @inklake.com · 1d

Cars turn people into a*holes. It's a syndrome.

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1d

this is so good. throw em some bones if you can. (the goal is to buy street vendors out of their merch so they can still support themselves but not have to be out on the streets where they’re vulnerable.)

Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social · Sep 6

We’ve officially launched! Lots of ways to support this new initiative that supports street vendors from 🧊 we keep us safe!

Interest form and flyer below! #BikeChi

forms.gle/dY931Sxzs6V9...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

www.mediaite.com

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 2d

another week of the portland frog guy clowning ice and i think stephen miller might actually stroke out

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Bobo Chimpan (A-Z) @bobochimpan.bsky.social · 21h

Oh shit

CALLED IT!

Bobo Chimpan (A-Z) @bobochimpan.bsky.social · Aug 29

Me watching Peacemaker s2: "whoa, who's the hottie? OH SHIT THAT'S SASHA BORDEAUX!"

Man, deeeeeeep Rucka cut

And also Max Lord... is Gunn setting up for Checkmate?!

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 1d

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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