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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 10h

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

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10h

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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WIRED @wired.com · 12h

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11h

One of my fave emails ever (sent from a burner account, of course 🐔) was a random, two-sentence sneer that informed me I would never make anything of myself in comics, and was doomed to fail.

Can you still see me all the way up here, from all the way down there, bucko? 😘

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 12h

Dedication in PG Wodehouse’s autobiography, 1957

To Who
J. Alastair Frisby
Who
Told Me I Would Never Have A Book Published
And
Advised me
To
Get a job selling jellied eels
SUCKS TO YOU, FRISBY

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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 19h

ICE out of Portland!
#abolishICE #resist #PDX

A digital drawing of a frog standing on a bright red background. The frog is holding a sign that says “ICE out of Portland”. The frog looks mad.

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M.O.T.A.Z @motaz-aarchitect.bsky.social · 15h

STOP A MOMENT🚨

This campaign is all I have left to provide food for my family💔

Donations have decreased a lot & my campaign needs your support now more than ever😭

Please keep supporting my family & me so we can have daily food

Please🙏🏻Share & Donate
🔗 gofund.me/4851238e8

✅ @mommunism.bsky.social

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Selamander/Grizz @selamander.bsky.social · 1d

I could use some help making ends meet as a transmasc fella with an NB partner in Florida! ;v; thank you for offering a light in his place

Selamander/Grizz @selamander.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry to keep using the old promo post but have not had the spoons to make a new one. Also don’t get paid till 6 PM tomorrow and would love to be able to get groceries before upcoming bills take most of my paycheck ✌️ #mutualaid #transartist #plushies #ko-fi

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · Aug 13

We are not trivialising LLMs.

Copyright theft is not trivial.

Environmental damage is not trivial.

Unreliability is not trivial.

Risk to human cognition is not trivial.

Ignoring consent when shoving it into every fucking thing while making us pay our hard-earned money for it is not trivial.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Friday afternoon folks. Here be some leaf sheep wishing you a lovely day 🌊

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

Platner is a proponent of a Medicare for All health care system, a position that 72% of voters in Maine support.

He has also voiced support for a billionaires tax, which is supported by 79% of Mainers.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

Platner is a military veteran and oyster farmer making his first run for public office.

So far, less than half of voters polled have heard of the 40-year-old newcomer.

The 45% of voters who have heard of Platner, however, feel overwhelmingly positive about him.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Democratic oyster farmer Graham Platner is the candidate best positioned to defeat Susan Collins in Maine's Senate race, according to a poll of likely voters conducted by Zenith Research for More Perfect Union.

Poll: Platner Best Positioned Maine Dem to Defeat Susan Collins

After respondents were shown short biographies for both candidates, Graham Platner leads Sen. Susan Collins by 14 points, while Gov. Janet Mills leads Collins by 8 points.

substack.perfectunion.us

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Umbire @umbire.blacksky.app · 2d

Wolf was one of many people to stand ten toes down regarding Gazans even when the position was at its most unpopular, well before October 2023, and it'd mean so much to me if you could help them and their child in their time of need.

please look at pinned post 🔻⭕️ - ذئب @habibiwolf.bsky.social · 6d

So here are the days I’ll go w/no pay before summer hits & then the pay disappears for 3 months again 😞

I wanted to finish our 2025 goal in 2025 but it looks like it’ll spill into 2026💔

I’m very close to my bachelors too & am trying to finish that for a small pay bump @ work. Plz, PLZ help us 🙏

A screenshot of our school calendar and I have highlighted the days that I will not get paid for throughout the year or I guess throughout the school year since it’s not an entire 12 months. Some months I go many days without pay and others. It is anywhere from 1 to 4 days but altogether it adds up and takes away a lot of money from my son and I, which is why I am doing this one time larger fundraiser for us.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

imagine never having to hear hakeem jeffries talk again. he could campaign on that alone.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 2d

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Cyrus, Goober Unicorn 🦄💙💜 @gooberunicorndad.bsky.social · 1d

Boyfriend and I were talking last night about why the Portland Frog protests have been so effective and I believe it's all tied back to the same thing.

Why calling them weird worked
Why they go after comedians
Why a stalled escalator is devastating

To them, Humiliation is worse than Death

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Clocky {Wolf} @mcmonstructuk.bsky.social · 2d

I might colour this later but I felt it was too silly not to share now so my bsky followers get to see this before I render it and post to tumblr giggle

This was made as a joke response to a friend's piece of art but. I ended up liking it a lot

#greatgodgrove #gggking #ggggodpoke

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 1d

If Democrats said that Republicans refused to pay the troops in order to prevent the release of the Epstein files, Republicans would have to deny it. Just saying.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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@wscotgrey @wscotgrey.bsky.social · 1d

See your politicians suffer! Donate now to the internet dunk tank that is to make a Kat Abughazaleh 24 hour livestream happen!

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

I made a horrible decision last night and told chat that I’d do a 24-hr livestream if we raise $100k with these streams by the 19th.

So if that’s an incentive to tune in… there you go.

Joe McKirdy @joemckirdy.bsky.social · 1d

. @katmabu.bsky.social
promises to do a 24 hr livestream if her campaign reaches $100k in donations. If you want an unapologetically pro-democracy Congress, please consider donating. If you want to see her stream for 24 hours, please donate to the stream specific url.

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Matt @xenomatt.bsky.social · 23h

World octopus day, you say? Very well, then... here is an octopus (possibly a male argonaut). No clue what the jellyfish is. The jellyfish is swimming down to try and get away from the bright flashing lights.
Pic from a blackwater dive in Balayan Bay, Anilao.

🦑🌿 #Invertebrates

A jellyfish, upside down because it's swimming downwards. On top of its bell is an octopus; it is translucent/white with some visible brown organs.

#Nature #Wildlife #Macro #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #UnderwaterPhotography

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22h

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 22h

I was born and raised in CAs Central Valley and I'm voting #YesOnProp50. Farm workers and people of color are suffering under this administration's racial profiling. Prop 50 gives us the opportunity to fight back on the power grab that TX Republicans and Trump are attempting.

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temmie @tuyoki.bsky.social · 1d

tem make cake (carrot)

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 1d

Frogby is a fan of the Portland frogs

my little frog Frogby in the style/colors of the Portland protest inflatable frog costume, his eyes are red, he has a lighter belly and darker spots on his arms and legs and is smiling

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