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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"

This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

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Pavithra Suryanarayan @pavisuri.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of ways to understand the contemporary moment but one is the role of owners of immobile assets - oil, gas, coal and land- who want to ensure they can continue to extract rents (and pollute) and who prefer an authoritarian set up to do so. Their threat perception rises with every new eco tech

Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 1d

This is a hell of a contrast to news that BLM has canceled a solar project in Nevada that would have delivered 6.2 GW of power. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...

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մրլ @morls.bsky.social · 2d

Do you get consent from people to take their pictures and post them online?

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 3d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 3d

He said this deliberately because he is a Nazi and he wants you to know he's a Nazi who you can't touch. He also wants other Nazis to know they can be open about the fact they are Nazis too.

This isn't an oversight, a fumble or an opportunity for a "heh, well actually, dummy" zinger.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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մրլ @morls.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah that sounds right. Fingers in ears “financial power doesn’t matter if there’s enuff love! :-)”

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 4d

I mean, in fairness, crypto wasn't a thing when Hunter was in the game. But Kushner just literally opened a bank account for the Saudis to deposit $2bn in, and Trump's kids opened a private club so all the dirty deals can get hashed out among friends.

But still, you can almost see Hunter sweating.

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · Sep 9

Think they buried the lede here:

"And then, last Wednesday, the two men found each other face to face at the kickoff dinner for the Executive Branch, a members-only club in Georgetown started by the president’s eldest son and a few of his allies."

Trump’s Treasury Secretary Threatens to Punch Housing Official in the Face

www.nytimes.com

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մրլ @morls.bsky.social · 3d

Anyway you’d think enough ppl would have experienced how fucked it is to have one’s mother be financially dependent on a man and how evil men can be but I guess not!!!

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մրլ @morls.bsky.social · 3d

I didn’t realize women’s participation in labor force peaked in ‘08 and seemingly hasn’t recovered since (per BLS data going to 2023)…..

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 4d

I honestly can’t bring myself to read this but I do think it’s very important for people in the US to remember that this is happening right now because of our government.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 4d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 4d

fucked up that this is all just landlords swatting their own buildings to get rid of all the working class residents so they can raise the rent or sell to a developer who'll flip them into high end condos or w/e

like it's a real estate scam! it's a fucking land grab! a fire for the insurance money!

I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 4d

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Lars @lpeds.com · 3d

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A paragraph from a news article discussing a new rule affecting H-2A farmworkers. It reads: “In addition, the new rule allows farm employers to charge H-2A workers for their housing, which was not allowed before. ‘It’s a way for employers to continue to house workers and also charge them, and bring down effective wages,’ said Marcos Lopez of the Labor and Community Center at the University of California, Davis.”

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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 4d

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.

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մրլ @morls.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah no kidding. Same w/ some of the campaign donations I see, like rly politician? You’re capitulating for that little money?

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 5d

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 4d

fwiw count me in the continuation of a trend camp. trump is going down the path set by reagan, bush, mccain and romney. i think of them as the raptors testing the fence and trump being the one who finally realized that the power has been cut off and he wont get shocked when he charges the fence.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 4d

One reason former Republicans have been better at opposing Trump than many progressives is because they correctly understand that the GOP’s descent into fascism represents a dramatic shift, and is therefore scarier, where the latter groups feel the need to argue it’s just a continuation of trend

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մրլ @morls.bsky.social · 5d

As a woman, this is kind of creepy

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 5d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 5d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 5d

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մրլ @morls.bsky.social · 5d

Per her wiki, an art historian/critic suggested her “Decide to Boycott Women” project signaled Lozano’s “rejection of patriarchy” ?????????

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մրլ @morls.bsky.social · 5d

What the fuck

մրլ @morls.bsky.social · 5d

I once accidentally got melon instead of red bean and it made me so sad…

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մրլ @morls.bsky.social · 6d

🙄🙄🙄🙄

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