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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 34m

🚨 MUTUAL AID REQUEST 🚨
A good friend on the West Coast has been going through some health issues and needs rent assistance this upcoming month. If you can spare a few bucks, it would help out a whole lot. (I personally vouch for this fundraiser and would really appreciate a boost.)

Comrade Survival Fund

By SoCal Mutual Aid Network

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 2h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 1h

How long before they call him a terrorist?!

NPR @npr.org · 7h

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 5h

On Roblox, extremists are turning games into propaganda tools. The teen-led “Blueshirts” stage virtual neo-Nazi protests, recruit children, and use Discord to coordinate harassment and radicalization campaigns.

Read more:

Online Neo-Nazi Group Using Children’s Video Games For Recruiting And Propaganda

A disturbing trend is emerging on Roblox, a platform with tens of millions of young users: online white supremacist groups are using children’s video games to recruit and spread propaganda. The “Blues...

globalextremism.org

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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 3h

Desperately needed the lightheartedness lately. It's also a shame that it took this for people to listen to a protester.

I've seen a couple of accts grumbling about "yOu'Re nOt dOiNg eNoUgH." Diversity of tactics includes breaking up fake narratives. And standing out from the crowd takes bravery.

John Breen’s Body @acab.dad · 4h

I love the frog costumes. We need more people being creative, having fun, and making our movements more legible and understandable (and funny)

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Kristofer Goldsmith @krisgoldsmith85.bsky.social · 18h

Republicans shut down the government because they refused to cancel cuts to health care. Now millions of troops, veterans, and military families are paying the price. #shutdown #gop #republicans #veterans #militaryfamilies

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 1d

Now with #AltText

A black background has white text at the top that says “amphifa.” Two flags over each other, common antifa flags, have a black flag and a green one. An image of a green frog facing left with a blue ascot sits on the black flag. Circling the flags is the text, “amphibians against fascism.”

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Tony the Antifascist Swan is sick of Twitter @tonyyvce.bsky.social · 11h

A violent terrorist for sure. 🐸

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 9h

♥️

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 17h

A story indistinguishable from those depicted/dramatized in all the WWII / Holocaust movies and plays and novels we grew up with

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 23h

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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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 17h

The thin blue line lol

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 1d

Some folks can't see the fascism, and so they have false optimism that causes them not to act against it.

Other folks see the fascism, and they feel so hopeless that they don't act against it.

What we need is a combination of the ability to see things honestly as well as to be empowered.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 18h

@wgntv.com did an excellent job on the segment– carefully done, not exploitative.

It's never possible to get a full picture of violent events instantly. Later interviews + video will show what happened. And, WGN house policy to protect identities is appropriate.

Most important: no charges brought.

WGN employee detained amid ICE activity on Chicago’s North Side, later released — WGN News at 6 p.m.

YouTube video by WGN News

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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 19h

I like it but the color scheme is giving me flashes of another certain bumper sticker 😭 It took me a second to notice the red in there. I like the concept of it

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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 1d

Now we're seeing confirmation of the NSO acquisition.

Mark my words, this is the path through which Pegasus gets put on Americans iPhones & Androids.

This dictatorship-in-a-box belongs nowhere near our constitutional rights.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Spyware maker NSO Group confirmed to us that the company has been acquired by a U.S. investment group.

NSO's spokesperson said the group "has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership," but declined to say who is behind the investment.

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

techcrunch.com

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 1d

antifa bogeyman in nutshell: label whomever opposition is "antifa" — in this case Resistance 2.0 "No Kings" folks — creating pretext to target them w/ state/vigilante violence

also sews division, w/ moderates fretting abt appearing too extreme, making them punch left, undercutting solidarity

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 1d

📍
::up the print fund::

October Goal: $130/500 💸💸

donate now so our community can benefit from our prints, free of charge

we are funded by supporters like YOU!

Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 1d

📍
::up the print fund::

we fundraise in advance so we can distro to others at no charge.

>support the PWAR print fund<

October Goal: $0/500

We will update as our goals our met.

Support the Pride Was A Riot print fund.
We like to distribute our literature & flyers at no cost. We believe charging for our materials creates a barrier between our work & those who can benefit from it.
We lead online fundraisers like this to remove that paywall and ensure our community can benefit from our radical material, free of charge.

Consider sharing or supporting the Pride Was A Riot print fund. Our goal is $500 for the month of October. Donations of $5, $10 and $20 go a long way to creating a more radical Sacramento community.
You can create the community you want to see, and today, we need your help to do it.
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SeditionSleuth @seditionsleuth.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

Gift link!

Inside Billionaire Peter Thiel’s Private Lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

By Nitasha Tiku, Elizabeth Dwoskin and Gerrit De Vynck

@nitasha.bsky.social @gerritd.bsky.social

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 1d

“The truth is that antifa groups have been responsible for some of the most prescient & impactful organizing countering the far-right during the last decade”

Amazing corrective to liberal punditry abt antifa from Matthew Whitley (& basically the thesis of my book) theintercept.com/2025/09/27/t...

What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.

theintercept.com

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

officers just came out and seized a handful of people. some of them it was for standing on this piece of sidewalk that is not sidewalk, it’s part of the property so they’ll nab you if you stand there

Photo of a facility from google maps, showing a strip of concrete next to the gate that looks like sidewalk but it runs along side a planter perpendicular to the sidewalk

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 1d

The Mark Bray situation is so completely fucked right now and if you're a journalist you need to start saying how it's fucked because you're fucking next. They won't stop at academics.

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