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Velvet Violet @msvelvetviolet.bsky.social · 3h

I am sure he won't. This feels like typical performative bluster

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Karissa Barrows @sjbsmama.bsky.social · 13h

Do not take your eyes off Gaza just because ceasefire” is being thrown around. Israel is STILL systematically targeting journalists and content creators and still killing civilians. They are trying to remove our visibility into Gaza so they can start right back up with full operations.

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Velvet Violet @msvelvetviolet.bsky.social · 6h

All of the art you've posted is killer. I love your style!

Velvet Violet @msvelvetviolet.bsky.social · 6h

This place (or me, at least) misses your presence

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18h

“Cease” fire

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire, saying a group had approached its soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 16h

People who side with the monsters who do this are monsters themselves

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Karissa Barrows @sjbsmama.bsky.social · 15h

I don’t trust Indivisible or 50501. I have them both blocked & recognize both for the centrist lib grifts they are.

I also recognize they’re getting normies out en masse for protests.

Will I consider them comrades? Absolutely not. But our goals are aligned & people are acting & that’s a good thing

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Velvet Violet @msvelvetviolet.bsky.social · 1d

Blergh stupid fumbles

Velvet Violet @msvelvetviolet.bsky.social · 1d

The Commander's defense is so bad fml

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Velvet Violet @msvelvetviolet.bsky.social · 1d

That Unusual Kraken looks awesome. Well, they all look awesome, but the kraken especially so

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

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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Dan Larson @danlarson.bsky.social · 8d

I got the email notification about this from Spreadshirt last week and promptly deleted my account. If you have one, you should too.

Michael Dashow @mdashow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Warning to anyone who has their art on Spreadshirt.com: They now have a feature where anyone can remix your art and it's impossible to opt out unless you just leave the site altogether.

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI

Spreadshirt is an online print-on-demand store. You can sell T-shirts and mugs and so on. My wife Arkady Rose is an artist as well as a musician, and had a pile of designs on Spreadshirt and Redbub…

pivot-to-ai.com

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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 1d

So... the main difference is that YP welcomes transphobes, and has the dodgy whiff of islamophobia (because the only reason #YourParty are welcoming transphobes is that the transphobes are telling them it's normal for Muslims to be bigoted)?

Sort your house out.

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 3d

Great discussion at TWT on how the left must unite — Your Party and the Greens — to keep Farage out of Downing Street.

But unity isn’t uniformity. Your Party will be truly anti-imperialist: no diplomatic ties with a genocidal, apartheid Israeli state and no greenwashing NATO.

Join us: yourparty.uk

Photo of Zarah, Zack Polanski, Amna Abdullatif from We Deserve Better and Abubakr Nanabawa from The Muslim Vote

Zarah speaking to a packed room at The World Transformed

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 1d

right. this seems to be getting completely ignored by white leftists, mostly men, when they're propping up 'your party' and corbyn.

chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 1d

So... the main difference is that YP welcomes transphobes, and has the dodgy whiff of islamophobia (because the only reason #YourParty are welcoming transphobes is that the transphobes are telling them it's normal for Muslims to be bigoted)?

Sort your house out.

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 3d

Great discussion at TWT on how the left must unite — Your Party and the Greens — to keep Farage out of Downing Street.

But unity isn’t uniformity. Your Party will be truly anti-imperialist: no diplomatic ties with a genocidal, apartheid Israeli state and no greenwashing NATO.

Join us: yourparty.uk

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 1d

if I were Gov Pritzker and I actually opposed Trump instead of just bring a meme candidate, I would simply order my state troopers to stand down and not defend ICE.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 1d

What y’all gonna do when the next Democrat gets into office and starts stealing from the Treasury and insider trading openly and doesn’t bring back any of what we’ve lost?

Shrug your shoulders and say “well at least they arent Trump?”

I hate yall.

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Velvet Violet @msvelvetviolet.bsky.social · 1d

Talking to her, talking to her, talking to her

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · May 12

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3d

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 2d

having a hard time understanding the difference between Newsom and Trump these days!!!

Governor Newsom Launches New Operation to Improve Public Safety and Target Fentanyl Trafficking Rings in San Francisco
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Building on a new partnership to combat fentanyl trafficking in San Francisco, today Governor Newsom is launching a multi-agency enforcement operation and assigning California Highway Patrol and California National Guard personnel to improve public safety in the city.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Velvet Violet @msvelvetviolet.bsky.social · 2d

Literally what I came here to post

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Adam P. Knave @adampknave.com · 3d

I get ppl like the Jem'Hadar but we all know that the Misfit’Hadar songs were better.

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Velvet Violet @msvelvetviolet.bsky.social · 2d

It is really made for a specific audience (I played it for like 7 years and worked for them for 2)

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