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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 3h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 50m

Mamdani promises to deploy *hundreds* if lawyers to fight for trans rights, create a new office of LGBTQ affairs, and allocate millions of dollars to fund housing and healthcare for trans kids and adults

This is what fighting back looks like--elevating activists to materually support trans people.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

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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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 11h

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Lindsay Katai @lindsaykatai.bsky.social · 1d

Lol the Cashplaining on display here. One of the most popular artists of all time. Incredible find, my man!

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Lindsay Katai @lindsaykatai.bsky.social · 3d

It will be done!

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Lindsay Katai @lindsaykatai.bsky.social · 3d

I’m gonna save this motherfucking country one old timey soda fountain at a time.

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Lindsay Katai @lindsaykatai.bsky.social · 3d

Have we considered that teens’ whole problem now is not being able to get a chocolate sundae and dance with their peers in front of a jukebox? They have no meeting places anymore!

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Lindsay Katai @lindsaykatai.bsky.social · 3d

Considering becoming a pharmacist and opening an old timey soda fountain for wholesome teens.

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Lindsay Katai @lindsaykatai.bsky.social · 6d

I’ll do it. I’ll run CBS News.

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Lindsay Katai @lindsaykatai.bsky.social · 7d

I hope my reps who continue to arm Israel in this genocide will at least push back against Israel on this. How many war crimes will they tolerate? @friedman.house.gov @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 7d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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Melinda Magpie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 Free Link, free Palestine @melindamagpie.bsky.social · 11d

Miss Major, one of the mothers of the trans liberation movement, has been in the hospital for 10 days with sepsis and a blood clot. She has looked out for us for generations, now it’s time to look out for her. Donate if you can: fundly.com/missmajor

An older Black femme, laying in a hospital bed. She's smiling and holding a pink, lavender and yellow dragon stuffie.

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Lindsay Katai @lindsaykatai.bsky.social · 12d

Returning to Bo Burnham’s Inside, which somehow seems even better and sadder and more prescient in retrospect, even as it seemed so of the moment. youtu.be/k1BneeJTDcU?...

Welcome to the Internet - Bo Burnham (from "Inside" -- ALBUM OUT NOW)

YouTube video by boburnham

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Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 13d

Here’s an update on Barbara Marques from her husband Tucker May. If you’d like to help, contact your reps, especially if you live in California. There’s an easy script on this gofundme:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-barba...

This update just came in from Tucker: "Barbara was able to call me today — she is currently somewhere in Arizona but will be moved again soon (we are not sure where). She is being denied medical equipment needed for a chronic back issue and even ibuprofen. She and the other detainees she’s with are going 12+ hours without food. We know she is still in the US but not much beyond that. PLEASE help is in contacting local governmental reps (especially Rep Judy Chu, senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff and Governor Gavin Newsom) to demand action taken now to help these suffering detainees.”

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Lindsay Katai @lindsaykatai.bsky.social · 13d

I also need an explanation then.

Lindsay Katai @lindsaykatai.bsky.social · 13d

Wait… is the explanation not just… singer?

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jamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 13d

there is now a gofundme to support barbara’s family and friends:

www.gofundme.com/f/help-barba...

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Lindsay Katai @lindsaykatai.bsky.social · 13d

For visually impaired…

Screenshot of Facebook post. “My name is Tucker May. In April I married the love of my life, Barbara Marques. Right now I fear for her life.
A week and a half ago she was taken by ICE at our properly scheduled green card meeting at the Federal Building downtown. At the end of what we were told was a successful meeting, the officer used the excuse of a broken copier to trick her into walking away from our lawyer. Once separated from her legal counsel, she was arrested. The reason for her detention was a missed court date from 2019 which my wife was never notified about.
We have been working with lawyers since that time to correct the situation. The Adelanto detention center has actively been keeping my wife from correspondence with her lawyer by delaying in givina her documents that were mailed to the facility.”

“Last night, she was taken from the Adelanto facility to an undisclosed destination despite our lawyer having filed a temporary restraining order to stop this from happening. They could be sending her anywhere in the world and we have no way of knowing.
I'm asking for help in bringing to the attention of media and authorities these multiple lapses in due process and proper procedure through the unwarranted deportation of a woman whose legal marriage has been duly recognized as legitimate by immigration through the 1130 petition process.
Please, if you have any contacts who could help, send them this information.”
Accompanying photo of couple is of a, presumably, white man with a beard smiling and holding a not-white woman (not knowing them I hesitate to speculate her ethnicity) also smiling. An ocean and pier are in the background, with a parking lot and building.

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Lindsay Katai @lindsaykatai.bsky.social · 13d

Happy birthday!!

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Lindsay Katai @lindsaykatai.bsky.social · 13d

Screenshot of email I sent. “Hello. Thank you for taking down the AI art you used for your block party today from your website. I know it may seem like a small thing to some members of your staff, but I ask that you remember these generative programs are threatening the livelihoods of those in the community you aim to serve, as well as being soulless and derivative by their very nature. I work in animation as a writer and we are beset everywhere by changes to our industry. I was unemployed for two years and many, many people I know remain unemployed; the last thing we need is to see these generative AI programs in use when we’re out with our families for the very purpose of celebrating the art and contributions of actual human beings. A culture without the artistic contributions of real people is no culture at all. The Autry *a cultural museum* should be upholding that value, not choosing the easy path of using technological money pits that are destroying our environment and economy. And its staff shouldn’t be dismissive of anyone expressing this concern.

Thank you,
Lindsay Katai”

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Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 15d

Well don't I feel stupid

A headline about the James Webb Telescope potentially finding a new stellar object dubbed a black hole star

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Lindsay Katai @lindsaykatai.bsky.social · 15d

Ask your Member of Congress to support H.R.3565, the Block the Bombs Act, a historic bill to prevent the Trump admin from sending weapons to Israel to commit genocide against Palestinians. Write your Member of Congress here: blockthebombs.org

Block The Bombs To Israel

blockthebombs.org

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Lindsay Katai @lindsaykatai.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you to the many Microsoft workers who pushed the company to end its part in this.

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 16d

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com

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Lindsay Katai @lindsaykatai.bsky.social · 17d

Hahahahaha Lord help us. 🤡

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18d

"It looks like they’re pumping into a horse. You have a little child, a little fragile child, and you get a vat of eighty different vaccines, I guess. Eighty different blends, and they pump it in... So, ideally, a woman won't take Tylenol."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

They Pump So Much Stuff Into Those Beautiful Little Babies

So I’ve been waiting for this meeting for twenty years, actually. And it’s not that everything’s a hundred percent understood or known, but I think...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Lindsay Katai @lindsaykatai.bsky.social · 17d

Yes. It’s also like how every TV show I watch, I think I could do the main character’s job. Except The Pitt! I could never.

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Lindsay Katai @lindsaykatai.bsky.social · 17d

The trailer was bad though. I would like to speak to the trailer maker.

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