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Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley) @joshcrowley.bsky.social · 6h

The Trump administration announced plans to dig up a bunch of WWII soldiers to put them on trial posthumously like Pope Formosus for antifa terrorism

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Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley) @joshcrowley.bsky.social · 1d

This also really lays bare that the point of journalism under capitalism—like the point of everything under capitalism—isn’t to do journalism but to generate profit.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 9d

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 9d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley) @joshcrowley.bsky.social · 1d

Around 100,000,000 eligible voters don’t vote in every Presidential election but Democrats keep acting like the only voters there are to win over are Republicans and it’s colossally stupid at best.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

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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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 1d

The internet loves democracy duck, the duck fighting for democracy in Venezuela

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 2d

I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 2d

Charlie Kirk was a terrible person, but his prowess at organizing was astonishing.

Democrats, progressive and moderate, are using tactics from the 1970s.

Republicans spend hundreds of millions on networking, jobs, and outreach every year. Democrats waste their money on obsolete stuff.

flux.community @flux.community · 2d

Charlie Kirk was a religious extremist and an advocate for mass censorship of academics he hated.

But as a political organizer and creator of opportunities for his comrades, there's much that can be learned from what he did. @matthewboedy.bsky.social discusses on the latest Theory of Change

What Charlie Kirk knew

The slain co-founder of Turning Point was a masterful political organizer—and a religious extremist

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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 1d

Ms Rachel schools Obama on why he really should stop using dehumanizing language.

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Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley) @joshcrowley.bsky.social · 1d

🎹 Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss
Every morning you're beastly
Small and white, not so bright
You should be a nobody… 🎵

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

boy it would be nice to have an opposition party reacting to this in a way that suggests there’s going to be justice for it someday

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley) @joshcrowley.bsky.social · 2d

Hmm yes you’re right, Internet Dumbass #449,313,774, when you think about it the real fascists aren’t the open racists rounding up immigrants into camps and trying to re-segregate schools but are actually the people who are opposed to that. Fucking astute analysis, as always!!

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Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley) @joshcrowley.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is all the result of everyone being conditioned to view everything as a vehicle for profit. They can’t imagine the reward of creation because in their minds any creative venture is measured by how much profit it yields, and is done solely for that reason. Capitalism is a neurotoxin.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 3d

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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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

it always blows my mind when these people act like “the left just calls everyone nazis” these days and it’s like no. we’re calling nazis nazis! there just happens to be a lot of them in and around the government these days!

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 3d

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley) @joshcrowley.bsky.social · 3d

Big hugs. There are services that let you publish tracks to all the major platforms. Is it recorded already or do you need help laying it down?

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race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 4d

this is who bsky banned for life

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 5d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

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Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley) @joshcrowley.bsky.social · 4d

“Israel Remembers October 7” as if the last 2 entire goddamn years haven’t been a genocide following a decades-long campaign of ethnic cleansing since 1948 that’s entirely and solely responsible for the events of 10/7/2023.

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Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley) @joshcrowley.bsky.social · 5d

As I raise my camera to capture a beautiful moment with my two young children, I pause and remember that our country is wrenched in turmoil. "Not right now, Josh," I say to myself, and fire up Bluesky to remind people that everything but constant recognition of agony is a waste of our precious time.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 5d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 5d

Biden doesn't get enough shit for naming Harris his running mate to begin with. That's the kind of thing someone with no care for the future does. She was already well established as a bad politician and a weak national level candidate by then.

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Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley) @joshcrowley.bsky.social · 6d

Load-bearing "could"

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 6d

Uhhh, no, you can’t have
any of my money... Try
getting a real job, like
inheriting
a big bag
of money.

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Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley) @joshcrowley.bsky.social · 6d

"Woof, what an embarrassing thing to say out loud."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 6d

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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