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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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teekay 👻 @iamtkp.bsky.social · 18h

Happy National Coming Out Day!!!

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Psymposia @psymposia.bsky.social · 16h

For the past year, we've analyzed hundreds of primary sources spanning nearly a decade—emails, transcripts, texts, recordings, slides & other materials—revealing how a group of Silicon Valley elites sought to capture the psychedelic industry.

Out now: "The Psychedelic Syndicate”

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 19h

This is Dave. He has a smile that could light up a room. Only smiling with his bottom teeth right now so he doesn't blind you. 13/10 very considerate #SeniorPupSaturday (FB: jeffreybergstedt)

a close-up photo of a white dog, named Dave, staring into the camera with his mouth slightly open. there reveals approximately five teeth shining brightly.

our final photo of Dave who is no longer looking into the camera, but is now happily leaning his head back with his eyes closed.

another close-up photo of Dave staring into the camera, but this time his tongue is covering his prized pearly whites.

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GOVERNMENT SLUTDOWN @lovedrugslaw.bsky.social · 16h

A case of “He Thought He Was So Clever”

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Reveal @revealnews.org · 19h

Hundreds of Haitians came to Greeley, Colorado, looking for a place to stay and a good job at JBS, the largest meat producer in the world.

Instead, they found squalid housing and an unsafe workplace.

Now, they’re being deported.

Haitian immigrants went to Colorado for the promise of jobs. What they found is being called human trafficking.

Haitian immigrants moved to Colorado on the promise of a good job and a place to stay—only to be mistreated. Now, they could be deported

revealnews.org

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GOVERNMENT SLUTDOWN @lovedrugslaw.bsky.social · 16h

He’s so good he clocked the queer community for not being historically supportive of trans folks and demanding a better future. Damn.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

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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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · Jun 11

Abolish

a man in a leather jacket is standing next to another man in a hat and talking to him .

ALT: a man in a leather jacket is standing next to another man in a hat and talking to him .

media.tenor.com

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GOVERNMENT SLUTDOWN @lovedrugslaw.bsky.social · 17h

At least there’s good Thai food where you live 🥺

GOVERNMENT SLUTDOWN @lovedrugslaw.bsky.social · 17h

They were wilding out with these commercials lol

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 18h

Jenny Nicholson tweet continues to not miss

@JennyENicholson

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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GOVERNMENT SLUTDOWN @lovedrugslaw.bsky.social · 17h

Finally

GOVERNMENT SLUTDOWN @lovedrugslaw.bsky.social · 1d

Kavanaugh becoming the next Hans Frank was totally on my bingo card

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GOVERNMENT SLUTDOWN @lovedrugslaw.bsky.social · 1d

Some light Friday reading

Neşe Devenot, PhD @neselsd.bsky.social · 1d

Announcing: "The Psychedelic Syndicate: How Silicon Valley Used Veterans to Hijack the Psychedelic Industry"

Now on @Psymposia's website in four parts.

www.psymposia.com/psychedelic-...

The Psychedelic Syndicate: Executive Summary

A year-long investigation reveals how a small group of Silicon Valley elites sought to capture the psychedelic therapy industry — using a network of affiliated organizations to scapegoat critics whi

www.psymposia.com

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 1d

Amazing work by @neselsd.bsky.social and the rest of the @psymposia.bsky.social team reporting on SV hijacking of psychedelic research initiatives via takeover of nonprofits

This is your archetypal right wing tech-money influence network, documented with tons of primary sources

Neşe Devenot, PhD @neselsd.bsky.social · 1d

Announcing: "The Psychedelic Syndicate: How Silicon Valley Used Veterans to Hijack the Psychedelic Industry"

Now on @Psymposia's website in four parts.

www.psymposia.com/psychedelic-...

The Psychedelic Syndicate: Executive Summary

A year-long investigation reveals how a small group of Silicon Valley elites sought to capture the psychedelic therapy industry — using a network of affiliated organizations to scapegoat critics whi

www.psymposia.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

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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GOVERNMENT SLUTDOWN @lovedrugslaw.bsky.social · 1d

1 if it’s dry-aged, 2 if not

GOVERNMENT SLUTDOWN @lovedrugslaw.bsky.social · 1d

The devil works fast but I’m faster

A Wikipedia submission to canonize a kavanaugh stop

Specifically: “A Kavanaugh stop in the United States allows immigration officers to briefly detain a person based on
a person’s “apparent ethnicity” as a “relevant factor” when deciding whether to arrest or detain them.
[1] Previously, when immigration officers stop and search a pedestrian, they were prohibited from
considering physical appearance and language use, among other factors, when deciding to stop and
question people about possible immigration law violations. [2] Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s separate
concurrence in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo suggests that the Fourth Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution permits race-based immigration policing, otherwise colloquially known as "racial
profiling." [3] The Fourth Amendment allows government officials to briefly stop and question
someone without first obtaining a warrant based on “reasonable suspicion” that the person is
engaging in illegal activity. The official “must be able to point to specific and articulable facts which,
taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant that intrusion.”
In a dissenting opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown
Jackson, wrote that the court’s order permits government officials to target people who “look a certain
way, speak a certain way, and appear to work a certain type of legitimate job that pays very little." [1]”

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

You break it, you own it. Kudos to @akalhan.bsky.social.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The MSM does not interview community organizers. It's part of why they miss so much of what happens at the local level.

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GOVERNMENT SLUTDOWN @lovedrugslaw.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I see folks freak out about this my first thought is usually “the cops do this all the time!”

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 4d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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GOVERNMENT SLUTDOWN @lovedrugslaw.bsky.social · 1d

I mean they’re selling everyone’s data 🙃 it’s basically a tech company harvesting health data

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

Oh lord this is a scorcher

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 2d

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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