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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

Watching the news report on the president's greasy little grift as a customer satisfaction story and not, you know, This is Deeply Unconstitutional and Also Fucking Embarrassing as Hell

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1h

Say what you will about being terminally online, but at least when we see that photo, we know the sitrep is: Man in chicken suit.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

Collect a claim from one side, collect a claim from the other, present them both to the reader with an awkward shrug and a "who can say?"

And the photo choice -- Noem's looking down ... on what? The reverse angle showed a small crowd and a quiet street. But can't show that, it's biased to one side!

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 2h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Mx. Fee - BRING LINK BACK @mxfee.bsky.social · 1h

💜 Straight up support, no hesitation. The world needs more Zohrans.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1h

“Both judges stated that the government offered no reason for their detention and that keeping them detained violated their rights to due process.” elpasomatters.org/2025/10/02/e... #HomeIsHere

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1h

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2h

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2h

The biggest source of "this isn't fun anymore" on social media is actually not "dedicated harasser decides to make your life miserable"! It's "constantly running into people from a social/behavioral cluster that has radically different norms than you want to deal with".

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 4h

like seriously team, I know y'all are working on both improving Discover and on better reply sentiment filtering and all, but it's going to take a while to tune it properly and a "never show my post on Discover" setting would be a 10 minute fix that would get 65% of why people want private accounts

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 18h

I had a post reach the Discover feed today and was once again reminded of how many people on this site are not house trained.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 3h

an affirmative case for trans rights as a pillar of good democratic governance

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 2h

This -- seeing the books that are being targeted most NOW really makes what is being done hit harder. It actually undercuts the real threat to show books that are famous and still selling fine.

Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 2h

A call to bookshops when setting up banned books displays. Feature alive authors who could be struggling due to this. Yes, Stephen King gets banned but he's doing ok financially. So many others are not.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 2h

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 2h

"It would be powerful if folks from Dallas stand up for Chicago and folks from Chicago stand up for Dallas, so that narratives like 'Texas invades Illinois' can't take hold. Cities are not invading each other. The federal government is attacking Americans."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Hilarie Ashton @hilarieashton.bsky.social · 2h

Yup! Abolitionists also describe it as a tactic: it's one part of what needs to happen to build a safe world for all of us. In some ways, it's one of the easier parts.

Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 13h

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13h

Should’ve defunded the police like we instructed smh

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2h

I think people are being weird re OOP. We're talking about representative democracies in highly advanced divisions of labour; it's not childish magical thinking to expect the people who have sought office to have superior insight into core aspects of their roles, it's the entire basis of our system.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 18h

Holy cow. This screenshot is like saying “because I have an idea it must be possible.” The plumber analogy is instructive but wrong. It’s more like if she had a plumber over and asked her to make her laundry do itself. It’s not something a plumber can do. It’s not something anyone can do.

Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 19h

This is basically magical thinking. It is the thought process of a small, frightened child who just wants mommy to make the pain stop and is getting angry that she can't.
The issue is that this is a grown adult, not a small child, and also when the Democrats do things it's never good enough.

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Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 3h

This video breakdown from Andrea Pitzer is also what I meant bsky.app/profile/thef...

Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 12d

I listened to that podcast you all talked about yesterday during a very long flight and I realized that Klein and Coates are not having the same conversation Klein thinks they’re having.

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Le Caghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 2h

I love that huge grin so much

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Madame Brie-ota 🔮 @briesmith.xyz · 2h

Seeing this amazing woman being a professional in halls I’ve walked before inspired me that I could do it myself.

I know that my coming out has inspired a couple of people to start coming out themselves, and I feel so honored to have helped.

Don’t be afraid to be yourself. It’s worth it.

A depressed, unhappy Brian, trying to feel good about how he looked and failing miserably

Brie, smiling and happy to be alive and living as herself

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 18h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 2h

The specifics of the RIFs I’ve seen in group chats have been staggering. Bracing & reminding myself these are specifically intended to cause fear & distress.

Please share URLs for any good trackers you seen as they emerge. (I want more than OMB’s version) fedscoop.com/trump-federa...

Table of how many federal employees have been laid off in the latest RIF (Reduction in Force). This is from an OMB legal filing from Oct 10. For each agency, it lists number of fired employees, RIF notice date, and whether the administrations has recalled any of those employees to do work. Total headcount is 4,100 across 8 agencies. Treasury (1446) and HHS (1200) are the most affected. EPA (30) had the fewest layoffs this time.

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 3h

Want to take a minute over the weekend to draft these emails and leave these messages to protect against utility shutoffs and push for better policies?

Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 3d

Here's your guide to fighting utility shutoffs this winter. W/o the gov't open, few to no states will have funds for emergency bill payment program LIHEAP. This doc has scripts, state context, contact info for governors & commissions, everything you need. Please call! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

NO UTILITY SHUTOFFS scripts by state

🚨 WE NEED AN EMERGENCY BAN ON UTILITY SHUTOFFS DUE TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN 🚨 TAKE ACTION: ONE E-MAIL OR PHONE CALL! ⚡ Hello! Welcome to our crowdsourced effort to campaign for ending util...

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🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 3h

This is such a niche joke hahahahahaha

ᵀᴴᴱᴍ̴ᴇ̵ᴏ̵ᴡ̷ᴄ̶ʜ̸ᴇ̴ᴍ̶ɪ̵s̵ᴛ̶ ̵ @catpope.gay · 12h

heeeeeeeeeeeeeehehehehehe

not what im called meme but its calling a fourier transform a furry transfem

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 14h

When writing alt text for an image of text, it's not enough to just write "screen shot of text from article." Sighted users get to know what is in that screen shot, so why don't blind users deserve the same? The alt text should include all the actual text in the image.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 14h

If you haven't already: Start weight training.

You don't have to gym rat out, or even buy equipment. Just put together some body weight exercises and do them regularly.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 8d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 15h

I 100% get why Link did the mutual aid Fridays.

Like, every time someone replies by telling me the need is met is one less person struggling in the world.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 15h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Deb @debramayberry.bsky.social · 15h

So I was looking at inflatable squirrel costumes, and look at what the upsell was.

Frequently bought together is the text; picture shows inflatable squirrel + inflatable frog costumes side by side. Tempted.

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