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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 12h

Sure, fascism sucks ass, but at least it’s funny sometimes.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15h

Despite Alligator Alcatraz’s shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country—everything from the “Cornhusker Clink” to the “Speedway Slammer”

Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz

Despite shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 20h

🚨🚨🚨University of Arizona students, staff, and faculty are speaking out against Trumps demands in exchange for money. Let’s boost their voices! 1/2

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 18h

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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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Louis Porter Jr @lpjdesign.bsky.social · 20h

Experienced #Comic #writer only! Stories will focus on #superhero genres: #ScienceFiction, #Mystery, #Crime & #Drama. Minimum: 3 Published Works, 8-page stories, Pay: At least $25 per page.

#Marvel #DCComics #imagecomics #indiecomics #makingcomics

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yes Chicago

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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CaptainTono @barkiologist.bsky.social · 2d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @thedailyshow.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

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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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

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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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 3d

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Laura Knapp @lauracknapp.bsky.social · 4d

Hilarious…

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 4d

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's neo-fascist guru—plans to Flee USA.

“I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.”

www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-cur...

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's guru—plans to flee USA

‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’

www.thenerdreich.com

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Laura Knapp @lauracknapp.bsky.social · 4d

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2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

apnews.com

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Laura Knapp @lauracknapp.bsky.social · 4d

What am I not seeing more about Italy on Bluesky right now?

Laura Knapp @lauracknapp.bsky.social · 4d

We’ve got to do something about these f@*king losers…

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 4d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 7d

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Stephen Colbert responds to JD Vance previously mocking the democrats, with a meme of his own of JD getting amorous with a couch, wearing a sombrero on his a$$. Make sure you share far and wide, we are sure JD will just love it, and will find it hilarious.
youtube.com/shorts/QI959...

Stephen Colbert Mocks JD Vance With Raunchy Meme

YouTube video by Newsweek

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 5d

Look at those human-like, soulful eyes.

Haters_gonna_hate (Princess Kim K) @princesskim.bsky.social · 5d

Sweet Jack is not having fun on this #SundayFunday bc he’s set 2b euthanized #nycacc and his reposts are low! That’s a death sentence! He has a RESCUE THAT WANTS HIM - but no foster and low reposts =death! Pls repost! #dogsofbluesky #resisters #fuckTrump #footballSunday

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🦋 Frankie 🦋 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 5d

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 6d

You have to admit it’s hilarious that literally 6mos ago Argentina was the country MAGA was saying was gonna dunk on all the neolibs and show them how to run a proper economy and now they’re literally begging for (and getting!) a handout from American taxpayers.

Clown ideology. 🤡

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Laura Knapp @lauracknapp.bsky.social · 6d

Assholes who in the end are cowards…

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 6d

Would you open the door to men who approached you like this?

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6d

ICE officers stopped a family at gunpoint and smashed the car window on top of the newborn baby. “I was screaming that there was a baby,” cried the mother. “But they didn’t care,” and covered the baby with their bodies, fearing that the glass would hurt him.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 6d

President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE

YouTube video by WION

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 6d

The New York Times doesn't tell you why the alleged murderer said he sent pizzas to the victim's house just before he ran down the girl and her best friend. He said on video that he was getting revenge for social media comments about death of Charlie Kirk.

2 Teen Girls Died In a Hit-And-Run. Another Teen Faces Murder Charges.

www.nytimes.com

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LaDarrion Williams @itsladarrion.bsky.social · 7d

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Please support Rayvnn K. Stringfield’s book.

An epistolary story of a Black girl navigating academics, love, and digital spaces.

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