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Cory Johnston @skepticalleftist.bsky.social · 12h

Propaganda can turn cruelty into honor. With enough cropped footage and repetition, someone who built their career on hate can be presented as a serious thinker or even a hero, until the distortion hardens into accepted truth.

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Rural Anarchy @ruralanarchy.bsky.social · 12h

If you can help, my friend Juno could use some help. And even if you can't, sharing and enjoying her incredible journalism work matters. And if you love music, you have to double what you planned on sending!

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 15h

hey

can i have some money ?

$3.00 and a share from everyone would be super rad

love youuuuu --- i am a transgender journalist, and it's that time when you can help people like me in history ---

venmo.com/u/junostump

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 17h

“The grown-ups don’t like it. I can’t help myself—I’m just putting out a record I would like to listen to at home. Of course, they want another Nevermind, but I’d rather die than do that. This is exactly the kind of record I'd buy as a fan.”

--- Kurt Cobain

junoryleejournalism.com/2024/08/23/g...

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Cosmic Surfer - Antifa Orca Command @cosmicsurfer.bsky.social · 12h

ICE Pins Chicago TV News Producer to the Ground, Hauls Her Off in Unmarked Van www.commondreams.org/news/ice-chi...

ICE Pins Chicago TV News Producer to the Ground, Hauls Her Off in Unmarked Van | Common Dreams

WGN producer Debbie Brockman forcefully arrested by ICE agents in Chicago. Video shows aggressive tactics used in the arrest.

www.commondreams.org

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 12h

The soldiers who have caused this terror will have to run from justice for the rest of their lives.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 16h

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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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 12h

Miriam Margolyes is just a warrior woman. That's the post.

She said it all.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 10h

🙏for the alttext

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 12h

Screenshot of a post by "From a Comrade" that reads: "The reason the right thinks that antifascists are funded by some powerful source, is that they themselves don’t know how to do grassroots organizing without a rich backer and can’t fathom people risking arrest or harm for something they believe in without being paid. The idea that many thousands of people would keep a movement alive with their own time and money because they believe in something like “not having fascism come back” is foreign to them."

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 12h

"Thirst for nature" by Artez in Gurjaani, Georgia for Tbilisi Mural Fest 2025.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 10h

the AP “was the only western news agency able to stay open in Hitler’s Germany, continuing to operate until the US entered the war in 1941. It thus found itself in the presumably profitable situation of being the prime channel for news reports and pictures out of the totalitarian state.”

pay your respects to the vultures @cathoderituals.bsky.social · 12h

Journalists have a historical responsibility to challenge power, not compromise truth and integrity to maintain a friendly relationship with it

Revealed: how Associated Press cooperated with the Nazis

German historian shows how news agency retained access in 1930s by promising not to undermine strength of Hitler regime

www.theguardian.com

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 11h

More. Of. This. Any city that allows a corporation to build a data center will be unlivable within a year of construction.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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Cupid's Molotov @cupidsmolotov.bsky.social · 11h

The libs celebrating in the replies have literally no idea.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

BREAKING: For her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

María Corina Machado of Venezuela wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Opposition activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key figure in unifying Venezuela's political opposition.

bit.ly

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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 11h

Kevin Pyles was arrested on felony charges related to violent threats he made towards a Phoenix synagogue. This briefly hit local news following his arrest but, thanks to court record requests and some digging, we were able to confirm Pyles’ affiliation with the neo-Nazi group Goyim Defense League.

LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 11h

NEW from LCRW: @azrww.bsky.social covers a Phoenix-area neo-Nazi AI slop-poster obsessed with Goyim Defense League agitprop who's facing charges for threatening a local synagogue.

COURT RECORDS: GOYIM DEFENSE LEAGUE FANBOY ARRESTED FOR THREATS ON SYNAGOGUE | Left Coast Right Watch

A Phoenix area neonazi fan of the Goyim Defense League is set for a hearing next month after being arrested for threatening to target a local synagogue

leftcoastrightwatch.org

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 10h

my Lily has excellent hearing yet since yesterday she’s ignored the command “come”. after 4-1/2 years, it’s time to put that training collar on (i don’t need turn it on but she doesn’t know that)

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Luka Grafera @grafera.zone · 9d

Defense Fund PDX is doing a street fair this month to raise money for the bail fund. It's gonna be fun! Flyer downloads available here ↓
🔗 grafera.zone/archive/illu...

An event flyer that reads "Defense Fund PDX Street Fair— October 18, 2-7PM on Clinton St & 25th— Music, Vendors, Raffle, Family Friendly— All Proceeds to the Bail Fund." The flyer is lettered in a vibrant graphic style on a yellow background, with an illustration of three fists raised to break through prison bars, contained in pop-up tents, with an iron front flag flying from the corner of the central tent.

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Scott Campbell @susurros.bsky.social · 10h

"At least 36 people, including journalists, were injured in attacks by Israeli military forces and illegal settlers in towns near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry."

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Attacks by Israeli army, illegal settlers injure 36 in occupied West Bank

Journalists among the dozens of Palestinians wounded amid escalation in Israeli violence during olive harvest season.

www.aljazeera.com

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 10h

We love you Chicago 🫶

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h

A tow truck is bringing an ICE/CBP vehicle back to the facility—and its back window has been completely smashed out.

Front driver's side window is cracked, too.

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 10h

📍
::up the print fund::

October Goal: $180/500

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

📍
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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.
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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.
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 13h

“MIT rejects the mafia's offer!! This is good news as it gives other universities who were afraid more permission to assert themselves--and makes them look like worse collaborators if they don't.” ~ assemblag.es/@inquiline/1...

MIT Rejects Proposed Federal Compact

MIT is the first institution to reject a proposal by the Trump administration that would trade preferential treatment on federal funding for far-reaching changes.

www.insidehighered.com

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 13h

“So Mike Johnson has shut down the House for like weeks now to prevent a vote on releasing the Epstein files. You might not think that Trump is a serial child sex trafficker, but Mike Johnson thinks he is.” ~ social.treehouse.systems/@PallasRiot/...

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 13h

“Nigerian activist Okey Vitalis Nnorom (Michael), who joined the Omar Al Mokhtar Flotilla, is still detained by Israel. He’s held with 5 others.”

Global Sumud Flotilla Commentary (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 video 🚨 Nigerian activist Okey Vitalis Nnorom (Michael), who joined the Omar Al Mokhtar Flotilla, is still detained by Israel. He’s held with 5 others. Raise to voice and demand their re...

mastox.eu

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 20h

49 members of the Thousand Madleens freedom flotilla remain in Israeli custody for trying to deliver much-needed aid to starving people in Gaza. Whatever Trump says about a "ceasefire," the lives and liberation of Palestinians still depend on international solidarity.

crimethinc.com/SailingforGaza

A banner hangs from a building at night, reading "Free the flotilla fighters—free Palestine."

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 13h

Machado has long publicly supported the legal rationale the Trump administration uses to defend the mass deportations of Venezuelan migrants currently in the U.S. as part of her claims that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is the functional head of the Tren de Aragua”

i’m always learning

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 14h

i know! we live in California where everyone drives badly but Texas is particularly special that way

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 14h

of course

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 14h

he loved Alabama & Mississippi! he said the truck stops were bigger than our nearby Walmart & the people were amazing - polite, gracious & drivers knew how to drive

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