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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 11h

“The very machinery designed to guard the homeland ended up treating Black dissent as a domestic threat…America has recast its gaze and fear to a new subject: the immigrant…

Black People Knew This Would Happen

Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us.

theintercept.com

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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 2d

Treat your energy, your deep knowledge, and your skills as priceless treasures—not something you throw at every gate to see if it opens.

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Garfield and Friends Screens @garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 1d

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Big Tex @btactual.bsky.social · 1d

PSA in this week's FW Weekly from the Fort Worth Society of Friends.

PSA from the Fort Worth Quakers:

STOP US TAXOCELARS SUPPORTING GENOCIDE IN GAZA

Over $22 Billion US tax dollars since 2023 spent in military support of Isreal leading to:

• Over 57,000 Palestinians directly killed in Gaza, with estimates of the number of people killed as a result of both the direct and indirect impacts of war rising as high as 300,000.

In Gaza, at least 17,000 children killed, more than 35,000 injured, over 50,000 children lost at least one of their parents. Between 3,000 and 4,000 children in Gaza have had one or more limbs amputated - the highest figure for child amputees globally.

• Nearly 10,000 Palestinians held in Israeli military detention, over 3,500 of them without any charge or trial, and in facilities where they are regularly subject to violence, sexual abuse, torture, and killing.

• Over 200 Palestinian journalists killed.

• Deliberate mass starvation through the systematic obstruction of food, water, and medicine.

The destruction of over 70% of homes.

Over 1,450 recorded attacks on health workers, patients, hospitals, and medical infrastructure with at least 1,500 health care workers killed and over 85% of hospitals bombed or besieged. Remaining facilities are systematically denied fuel and electricity - cutting power to incubators, dialysis machines, and operating theaters, directly causing preventable deaths.

Forced displacement of 1.9 million people amid calls to erase Gaza and for the ethnic cleansing of the population.

State-sanctioned dehumanization and incitement by officials with Palestinians called "human animals" and with politicians, media, and soldiers celebrating killings of civilians.

Article II of the UN Genocide Convention defines genocide as acts

Society of Frends (Quakers) Meeting for Worship. 11:00am on Sundays Broadway Baptist Church 305 W Broadway. room 302
Fort Worth TX 76104

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 2d

NEW from LCRW: @azrww.bsky.social covers a Phoenix-area neo-Nazi AI slop-poster obsessed with Goyim Defense League agitprop who's facing charges for threatening a local synagogue.

COURT RECORDS: GOYIM DEFENSE LEAGUE FANBOY ARRESTED FOR THREATS ON SYNAGOGUE | Left Coast Right Watch

A Phoenix area neonazi fan of the Goyim Defense League is set for a hearing next month after being arrested for threatening to target a local synagogue

leftcoastrightwatch.org

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 2d

Very serious person Andy Ngo has now been reduced to pleading with his audience to please please PLEASE take the dancing antifa muppets seriously

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

woke sinners in the hands of an angry god pastors when

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 2d

I ended this article with a section called "AltNPS Can't Change." In it, I argue that the account owes its surge in popularity to its manufactured image as a rogue government operative, and that it has trapped itself in an endless cycle of needing to maintain this image. Hence, all the plagiarism.

The "Alt National Park Service:" On Plagiarism, Part 4

A series of pivots, and a glimpse at the future.

open.substack.com

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Big Tex @btactual.bsky.social · 2d

One interesting tidbit lost in the deluge: Mormons raised $200,000 for the widow & children of the murderer.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Donations pour in for family of gunman in Michigan church attack

Thomas Sander was killed by police in the arson and shooting attack on the church during a Sunday service. Four people died and eight were injured.

www.bbc.com

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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 2d

A Chance for Healing, 170 Years After a Lakota Massacre

Dozens of personal belongings from the Rosebud Sioux tribe find their way home after spending decades in the Smithsonian collections

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Big Tex @btactual.bsky.social · 3d

a man in a suit and tie is screaming in front of a stone wall .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is screaming in front of a stone wall .

media.tenor.com

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Big Tex @btactual.bsky.social · 3d

Remember when a right wing guy shot 12 people at a church and burned it down and we just never heard about it again?

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Cozca @cozca.bsky.social · 3d

I like how everyone is cracking up about DHS arresting "the ex girl friend of the founder of antifa" when she is a real person with real federal charges and yall just going to abandon her too?

Why won't anyone do a story on any of us getting railroaded?

Silenced.

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 3d

People are making light of this, and I get it, but some of my most profound experiences of something bigger than myself have been my times with migrants. I am not a religious person, but I have spent time with Jesuits, Sikhs, and Friends who serve migrants and we had a great deal in common.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 3d

Go woke, go Pope

Pope Leo says faith and love for migrants are connected

In his first major document as leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo urges nations and believers to care for the poorest in society.

www.npr.org

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Quaker News @quakernews.bsky.social · 3d

A Portrait of a Collective of Migrant Mothers in San Diego — and How They Build Community Together
https://afsc.org/newsroom/portrait-collective-migrant-mothers-san-diego-and-how-they-build-community-together

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Big Tex @btactual.bsky.social · 4d

"Pacifism can offer false moral clarity if you don’t think hard enough about it. Eschewing violence does not just risk martyrdom. It risks passivity, even complicity."

wisdomofcrowds.live/p/calling-al...

Calling All Part-Time Pacifists

Gemma Mason on violence in America.

wisdomofcrowds.live

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 5d

DON’T SCARE US LIKE THIS, FREIDA www.wsmv.com/2025/10/08/i...

‘I didn’t mean to scare anyone’: Dolly Parton’s sister says after asking for prayers

Dolly postponed her first Las Vegas residency in more than 30 years late last month, saying she was dealing with health challenges.

www.wsmv.com

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 5d

the Godzilla toilet paper holder would fix me

Japanese magazine ad for a wall mounted toilet paper holder shaped like Godzilla

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Big Tex @btactual.bsky.social · 5d

I once met Dr. Akçam and was fascinated by his tales of escaping not one but two Turkish prisons, but one thing he told me has been seared in my mind.

He said "Autocracy begins slow and happens overnight." I think about that a lot.

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Big Tex @btactual.bsky.social · 5d

"We developed a certain theoretical way to explain the violence. We either considered it as a historic necessity for a limited period of time, unwanted human action, or we totally denied it. Denial emerged as a consequence of this approach to violence."

mediamax.am/en/news/inte...

Taner Akcam: Every generation has the right to redefine its position towards history

mediamax.am

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 5d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Big Tex @btactual.bsky.social · 5d

Feels relevant to note the sheriff quoted in this article has four charges against him and has been allowed to continue working as sheriff.

www.fox4news.com/news/johnson...

Johnson County sheriff arrested by his own deputies, now faces new charge for lying to grand jury

Johnson County Sheriff Adam King, who was previously arrested by his own deputies on sexual harassment and retaliation charges, now faces a new felony charge of aggravated perjury for allegedly lying ...

www.fox4news.com

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 6d

One legal expert called SB 8 “the most plainly unlawful, undemocratic legislation I’ve seen in recent history, It tries to shut down the basic right of every citizen to seek relief in our courts, which is one of the basic principles of American democracy."

How the Bathroom Bill Weaponizes Transphobia Against Public Institutions

A legal expert called the new anti-trans Texas bathroom law “the most plainly unlawful, undemocratic legislation I’ve seen in recent history.”

www.texasobserver.org

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Big Tex @btactual.bsky.social · 6d

Columbo rules

a man in a suit and tie is smoking a cigarette and says one more thing .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smoking a cigarette and says one more thing .

media.tenor.com

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