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The Star, Sheffield @thestar.co.uk · 6h

If you do just one thing today, please make sure it's this

www.thestar.co.uk/news/heidi-h...

Stem cell donor drive today in aid of Heidi, 9, who desperately needs a match

A Sheffield dance studio is asking “everyone who can” to turn out today and register as a stem cell donor in a desperate search to find a match for nine-year-old Heidi Howson.

www.thestar.co.uk

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Stuff I found @stuffifound-backup.politicalmemes.org · 6h

And remember: you don't hate Monday, you hate capitalism! #sunday #Cocoon #monday #capitalism #anticapitalism #eattherich #feedthepoor #mentalhealth #selfcare

Image of a person rolled up in a blanket, on the couch. Caption: Sunday you have to cocoon so you can morph into a productive member of society for the coming week

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 20h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Jul 12

How about when JoAnn Jansen wrote a drama about her experiences during the Cuban revolution then Harvey Weinstein bought it and had the script completely rewritten, removed her as a character, the political situation, the plot, and every word she wrote and called it Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights.

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 12h

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Edie Falco on 30 Rock:
I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.

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Remember Gaza @remembergaza.bsky.social · 12h

In memory of:

Noura Ahmed Jalal Abu Hasna / نورا أحمد جلال ابو حسنه
Age: 8

We will not forget you.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 15h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13h

don't forget! fuck the salvation army

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h

so many kids are just never going to get a chance because of these people

unconscionable

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h

the official policy of this administration is "be born neurotypical and healthy, never have anything bad happen to you, you're completely on your own"

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20h

⚠️ USAToday reporter confirms the office in charge of special education funding has been “decimated”:

Zach Schermele
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NEW: The Education Dept. layoffs continued overnight, w/ the main office in charge of special ed funding being
"decimated," as one person described.
"They cut just about everyone that works with IDEA funding," said another.
"I'm not sure how these programs exist moving forward."
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 15h

After ordering people out of the street, ISP cleared the entire “free speech” zone into the street before “curfew.”

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gryphoneer @gryphoneer.bsky.social · 28d

that's the kind of anarchist indoctrination i like

The Emotion Engine (The Emotion is Fear) @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 29d

My daughter (age 5.5) wanted to listen to Taylor Swift and I realized that she has no idea what Swift’s music sounds like so we’ve just been listening to the 1997 album Tubthumping by Chumbawumba instead

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 15h

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Velvet Dragon (COMMS OPEN) @velvetthedragon.bsky.social · 13d

Genuinely Mormonism needs to be destroyed it's more evil than scientology

Ciara RayneCloud @ciararaynecloud.bsky.social · 13d

Hey so... did you know that the Mormon Church filed an amicus curiae brief on the 19th of September? Me either...

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

In short, "Giving trans people rights hurts us because it ruins our religious freedom to be bigots!"

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15h

Wow.

Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 16h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 15h

There's probably some historical precedent somewhere for ICE's strategy of arresting people's children for the sole purpose of drawing their parents out of hiding to come rescue them but I sure as fuck can't remember ever seeing anyone else do it

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 21h

the idea that freedom is in our DNA is just a misinterpretation of the fact that we’re a nation of finicky whiners who don’t like to be personally inconvenienced

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 21h

At least we no longer have to hear about freedom being in Americans' DNA or whatever. Turns out we love to eat shit and bow to some bloated halfwit like any other people throughout history

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Jeremy Youde @jeremyyoude.bsky.social · 15h

I love my city.

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 1d

If this reminds you of an extremely famous book you might have read in high school… yes.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 15h

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 16h

It continues to be wild that Dems require you to do their messaging for them

They're fighting a political negotiation on the battleground of optics at the moment and I've not seen them do any signalling

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17h

🧵 regarding the shutdown:

The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.

If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

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John the Ghost 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @johnbrojomojo.bsky.social · 18h

They say the left is too easily offended while getting easily offended.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20h

Fashy Cinemasins

That's what this is, the effect the proliferation of "anti-woke" youtube grifters have had on their audiences as a whole, stunting their ability to engage with media and training them to look for "DEI sins" to call out, atrophying their ability to enjoy the games they're playing.

No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 2d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 20h

“Captain, the leopard sensors are spiking. They are showing levels of faces being eaten we previously assumed impossible.”

“On screen, Mister Data…”

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