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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 2d

You’re not poor because you’re bad with money, you’re poor because everything is too expensive and your job doesn’t pay enough.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 3d

What is "plenary authority" and why is it a big deal that Miller said that Trump has it over the national guard?

4 frame comic where Miller slowly blinks. Text reads. A few hours ago, speaking on cnn about Trump's plan to send the national guard into us cities, Miller said : under title 10 of the us code, the president has plenary authority, has... He then fully stopped talking and just blinked at the camera, as if he realized that he said the quiet part out loud. "Plenary authority" means "complete power over a particular area with no limitayions". It is equivalent to ruling by decree, which us how Mussolini, Stalin or Hitler governed. Having "plenary authority" over the military would mean that Trump can just use the national guard as he pleases, no matter what the courts say. It's a power grab.

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drakonous7 @drakonous7.bsky.social · 4d

Echoing the quote below, and adding: /this/ is who so many liberals are hanging their hopes and dreams on? /Really/??

Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely fuck this man.

News article with the headline: Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, hasn’t signed other trans protections

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 4d

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drakonous7 @drakonous7.bsky.social · 4d

I read this comic back when it was still "Cheap Thrills", and it was good then. The author has only improved in time, and I adore everything about it. AND NOW IT COMES IN PRINT!

S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 9d

In the hopes of getting more eyeballs on Rigsby WI: Burn it Down leading up to the print edition's Kickstarter launch, I'll be posting Burn it Down pages in this thread over the next few days! If you havent read it, check it out ⬇️
KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...
Webcomic: rigsbywi.com

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 4d

Ways to resist fascism

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 6d

Thinking about the @lindsayellis.bsky.social video where she noted how white nationalists co-opted American history X and all these other “strong” critiques but can’t handle “Springtime for Hitler” because of how ridiculous it makes them look

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 6d

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 6d

Portland never stops being Portland.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11d

The HUD website… 😔 yes, it’s a violation of the law.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 12d

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 12d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 13d

Sent this to my partner and now I hear him in the other room making all sorts of delighted noises

Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · 15d

Timeline cleanser 🐈

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debs 🏴‍☠️🩸 @edstede.bsky.social · 14d

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 13d

Who would have imagined, watching the third episode of Andor (on Ferrix), that only 3 years later in the United States citizens must organize to protect their community by warning each other.

Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 13d

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

Bright orange individually packaged whistles, stapled to English and Spanish literature designed by Pilson Arts Community House in Chicago. They are placed inside a little free library in my neighborhood: Avondale in Chicago.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 13d

A useful glossary for 2025.

4 frame comics. in the first frame theres a MAGA hat. text reads : fascism is a "cult of the leader
who promises national resto-
ration in the face of humiliation
brought on by supposed commu-
nists, Marxists and minorities and
immigrants who are supposedly
posing a threat to the character
and the history of a nation."
(j. stanley, 2018)
2nd frame we see Trump's silhouette. text reads : authoritarianism is a
political system that revolves
around a central figure, a
party or the military. it rejects
political pluralism and the
rule of law.
in 3rd frame we see the Texas proposed congressional districts. text reads : An illiberal democracy is a
governing system that "hides
its nondemocratic practices
behind formally democratic
institutions and procedures"
(bonet & zamorano, 2021) while
suppressing opposing views.
4th frame we see Curtis Yarvin. text reads : the neo-reactionary movement,
or dark enlightenment, is an
anti-egalitarian ideology advoca-
ting for a return to monarchy
and a dismantlement of the
state. yarvin, its founder, is
backed by peter thiel and an
influential friend of jd vance,
as well as the thinker behind
elon musk's d.o.g.e..

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 14d

In less that one year, Trump's economy has taken almost everyone down at least one level in Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

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Dr. Jane C @janecragun.bsky.social · 15d

Same goes for public schools, colleges, and universities.

divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 16d

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 19d

BREAKING: Our opposition and upset over Jimmy Kimmel being taken off air have led to Kimmel coming back. Let's organize that much noise for reporters like Mario Guevara detained (despite being here legally) for filming police & ICE:

Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 19d

Mario Guevara has been detained for 100 days, after being arrested while filming a protest in ATL while in the US legally. Dozens of human rights, press freedom, free speech groups are calling for his immediate release. Join us in the fight for his freedom: #FreeMario www.freedomformario.com

#FreeMario – livestreaming is not a crime.

www.freedomformario.com

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 19d

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 24d

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

WGA Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 24d

Speaking truth to power

4 frame comic. The author is looking at her phone ; Jimmy Kimmel is doing an intro to his show ; a cricket; the Kennedy Center with a Trump banner. text reads : Exactly two months after Colbert was fired and Trump said that he was next, Jimmy Kimmel's show was pulled from the air by Disney because of his comments about the death of Mr. Kirk. The joke that got him fired wasn't even about Charlie Kirk : We had some new lows over the weekend with the maga gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything else than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it. Right wing entertainers have been crying about the death of free speech for years because they couldn't disrespect minorities without consequences. Where are these people now? Free speech, as the foundation of democracy, isn't about being able to disparage trans people freely, it's about being able to speak truth to power. And once you can't do that, you've lost it.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 24d

If you're considering RSVPing to a demonstration to protest the regime that is currently asserting it's about to crack down on "leftist groups" I encourage you to just not fucking do that. Go to the protest, yes. Put your name on a list, absolutely the fuck not.

The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 25d

I've looked at Indivisible's privacy policy. It is...not the most user-protective I have seen. (For starters, they can "share" your data with other groups.)

If you are considering RSVPing, I strongly encourage you to read it and make sure you know what you're signing up for.

The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 25d

It's always good to be cautious about providing personal data, both off- and online.

When someone asks you for personal data - eg, by signing up for an event - it's always a good idea to ask yourself, at a minimum, "why do these folks need my data, and what are they going to do with it."

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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 26d

dragon

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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 26d

And every fucking time sex workers tell you, "This law will not solve the problem and also it will make it so much worse for the poor trafficked people you claim to care about," y'all:

1) Don't listen
2) Don't care
3) Don't notice how much worse it makes things for them

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 26d

And sex workers have been dealing with all of this bullshit every day for so long! We have ideas, we have experience, we have knowledge. Nobody wants to hear it. They say including us will make their movements look bad. Back into the oubliette we go.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 27d

We could be 5 to 10 years from toothpaste that can regrow tooth enamel.

The scales are beginning to tip in favor of Mars once sustaining life. We’ll potentially know for sure by 2040.

The blue macaw is up to 160 individuals from an all-time low of 7, and confirmed to be breeding in the wild.

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Sep 11

Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.

I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 29d

The Groyper Wars

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 29d

Sharing my favorite cloud/storm of all time for #CloudAppreciationDay.

Hard to believe its already almost the two year anniversary of the Ada, OK storm.

A supercell thunderstorm at night with pancake-stacked structure and lightning protruding out from the clouds in a few directions. A clear, starry sky sits to the left, and a gravel road extends out to the horizon.

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