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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 3h

Just assume every surveillance tool available is being used in Portland right now

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 3h

“Although warrants are required to operate cell-site simulators, the devices can be used without judicial authorization in certain circumstances, such as when there is an immediate threat to national security.”
san.com/cc/exclusive...

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower likely surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

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Northern Lights Audio @northlightaudio.bsky.social · 2h

We will make this world a reality done day

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Northern Lights Audio @northlightaudio.bsky.social · 2h

Can we create an industry of memorial toilets for people like him

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Northern Lights Audio @northlightaudio.bsky.social · 2h

Can’t wait to see Ian Watkins canonized as a saint by the far right and get mournful thoughts and prayers from liberal leaders. I’m sure Reform will find a way to make him an anti immigration martyr while Labour use his legacy to attack trans people for some reason.

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Lina Morgan @alinaisyou.bsky.social · 4h

Mamdani standing up for transgender people living in America is a huge part of why he is dominating the mayor's race in New York City.

Giving a shit about trans people, immigrants, and the unhoused is a winning strategy. I hope that reminds you of what Trump wants you to forget:

People are good.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

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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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 1d

Also the Biden ambassador to Israel and a Biden USAID appointee conspired to kill the Famine Early Warning Systems Network report that confirmed famine conditions in the north. Oops!

Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 1d

Noteworthy that the North has been cut off via the Netzarim Corridor for most of the last two years. There were no GHF distribution sites in the North, and famine conditions have been confirmed in North Gaza since at least October/November of 2024 (who was President then 🤔🤔🤔)

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 1d

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Gaza residents are returning to north after the partial Israeli withdrawal.

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Northern Lights Audio @northlightaudio.bsky.social · 9h

Man, if we’d elected a real leader instead of a Democrat in 2020, he’d have been in prison before the midterm. Never forget that Biden failed to convict him or act on the Epstein files. For 4 years he was a clear and present danger, but Dems expanded his power, funded genocide and gave him the keys

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Jason @nickmotown.bsky.social · 9h

Both Cream and The Jam were going to reunite for gigs in Devon and Cornwall this year, but the venues couldn't agree about who should go on first.

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Northern Lights Audio @northlightaudio.bsky.social · 9h

The problem is, they do respect the speaker and the republicans are their friends

Samira Ahmed @samiraahmed.bsky.social · 1d

At the very least, the very least, I'd elected Dems to stop saying shit like, "with all due respect to the Speaker." Or, "our friends across the aisle."

Words matter. I don't care if it's petty. They're destroying democracy, stop acting like anything requires normalcy or decorum.

Be a petty bitch.

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Northern Lights Audio @northlightaudio.bsky.social · 16h

There’s no such thing as bad music, only bad taste. Except for Kid Rock, he has bad music and bad taste

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 23h

For the record, mockery is a perfectly effective form of resistance against ICE.

They want us to be violent so they can put pictures on Facebook and justify a forceful response with their base. They can't do that with an inflatable unicorn costume.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 22h

The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.

If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.

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Rick or Treat! @theotherrickfox.bsky.social · 18h

See? Always in the house of the people who try to go after and monitor this shit.

Anytime anyone tries to do anything that's against pornography, that's a HUGE red flag and they should be thoroughly investigated.

Bonus points if there's also something about "keeping kids safe" in the rhetoric.

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 23h

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 21h

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...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 23h

They have to have a backup plan to the "dangerous immigrants" narrative. They have one. They've literally created a "terrorist group" out of thin air. I mean, you can't be having free and fair elections with "enemies from within," like the "Antifa Terrorist" group running around. It's a pretext.

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Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · 1d

Mother fucker! The House has been in session only 15 days since July.

Its October!

GOP are loser slackers! Imagine if you only showed up to your job 15 days in 4 months.
They get 175k a year in salary.

#GOPShutdown

House Recess Extended to Oct. 19 As Government Shutdown Continues

The House clerk reads a communication from Speaker Mike Johnson designating October 14 to 19 a district work period for members, meaning that the House will be in recess except for pro forma sessions ...

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 1d

A couple of years ago, the Democrats in the Oregon legislature passed a domestic terrorism law over of the objection of civil liberties advocates, environmentalists, and ordinarily reasonable Oregonians who told them this would only be used against the left.

It fits right in with Trump’s strategy.

emily @soupmuse.bsky.social · 1d

This is why we collectively needed to reject the terrorism framework long ago. There is no equivalent to the counter-terror framework in eroding rights and legal norms.

Every “counter-terror” response has been an act of overreach that paints an entire community as guilty.

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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AWOOMINATI RECORDS @awoominatirecords.com · 21h

From the ashes of an aborted rock opera, @suburbandeathmarch.bandcamp.com 's "Deny Defend Depose" is a heavy exploration of the absurdity of current events.

Dripping with atmosphere, emotion, and intensity, it's well worth a listen.

Out now!

suburbandeathmarch.bandcamp.com/album/deny-d...

Deny Defend Depose, by Suburban Death March

10 track album

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 21h

Remember after 2016 when liberals kept trying to contrast "pragmatic moderate" Bernie with the "radical utopian" socialists in DSA?

And how they immediately pivoted and went back to war with Bernie during the 2020 primaries?

That's what they're doing with Mamdani now. They'll turn on him ASAP.

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 23h

I find it bleak that ChatGPT now has more users than Wikipedia. Many people would rather be spoon-fed information by a machine than read and research for themselves. Tech isn't just making us dumber. Worse than that: it's killing curiosity itself and the desire to learn.

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EMPTYSET / FOR ALL @emptysetart.bsky.social · 21h

Is there anyone fluent in Japanese that could assist me with translating a few lines of dialogue? I don’t need the kanji. Just the Latin-character translations.

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Northern Lights Audio @northlightaudio.bsky.social · 1d

If we where being serious today, we’d have the common sense to understand that Obama droned civilians and sent the national guard to clear out protesters for a foreign oil company on native land, and got a peace prize, its not crazy for Trump to think he’s entitled to the same for the same crimes

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❤️GOJII❤️ @gojiimusic.bsky.social · 1d

its a long shot but the jobsearch has been super grueling so i am opening for music event poster commissions.
6 slots. 125$ each.

you provide character/band artwork and information.

DM me and i can get started this week.

#furry #furryart #commissions #design

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Northern Lights Audio @northlightaudio.bsky.social · 1d

America loves God so much that we shoot priests for following his example

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