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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 1h

I’m so sorry. What a horrible breach of trust.

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 23h

cop, lying: Me and my friends, who are troops, will delete Candy Crush if Zohrani 'Hussein' Mamdani is mayor of New York City. We are the most active users on the platform and this could affect the stock market

Bari Weiss: Chilling. And not the cool weed kind of chilling. This week on 60 Minutes

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 4h

Logan Heights is something like 90% Latino.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

‘Wait, this is happening to ME so we need to do something about it.’ -ancient Republican mantra

onion person @junlper.beer · 14h

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 4h

Highly recommend the film called Even the Rain.

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 5h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 16h

“More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation”

Daniel Ducassi for Florida Bulldog

More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation

By Daniel Ducassi, FloridaBulldog.org - More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts missing legally required public documentation.

www.floridabulldog.org

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h

I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt.

This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25

"Every day at 6 am, Bilma boards a bus that shuttles her to downtown Los Angeles’s Fashion District. When she reaches the garment factory an hour later, she starts working immediately, without punching in. Like thousands of other garment workers in the United States, Bilma’s wages aren’t tethered to the clock but rather to the quantity of operations she executes. Three cents for a zipper or sleeve, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt before she passes it onto the next sewing operator in line. Assembling an entire dress earns her a mere 15 cents. Bilma toils away on garments primarily for fast-fashion labels such as Fashion Nova, Lulus, and Lucy in the Sky, who prioritize quickly stocking on-trend items over the quality of materials. These companies peddle things like $80 maxi dresses, $25 poplin dress shirts, and $5 crop tops, all modeled by beautiful people and bedecked with the tantalizing promise of low-cost glamor."

"This worker payment system, known as “piecework” in the garment industry, is how US-based manufacturers can sidestep labor laws that require companies to pay at least the minimum wage. Rather than compensating Bilma for the exhausting 12-hour shifts—a regimen that, according to LA County’s minimum wage requirement, should yield $202.80—her pay is determined by the individual tasks she performs, which can fluctuate daily. Despite her adept handling of hundreds of garments a day, Bilma’s earnings typically linger around $50 per day. That’s $300 weekly for the standard six-day grind and $350 if she opts for Sunday labor. Doing what she can with this modest income, Bilma spends $400 a month to live in a two-bedroom apartment with six other people, some of whom are day laborers. In this crowded arrangement, two occupants squeeze into each bedroom, while two more lay claim to the living room. Bilma sleeps in the corner of the bustling kitchen."

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 1d

Reading Plato's The Symposium. People might be surprised by how much of it is just a drunk guy complaining that Socrates won't fuck him.

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 1d

The Rev. Jesse L. Douglas Sr. organized the Selma-to-Montgomery marches www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Jesse L. Douglas, Aide to King in Marches From Selma, Is Dead at 90

www.nytimes.com

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not a meme, but I always think of Bill Hicks joke about the waitress asking him, “what you reading for?”

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 1d

I am DECEASED.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

Really would like people to shift their thinking to the point where they see themselves and the people around them as the people who will collectively navigate through this moment.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone know who is working on countering ICE recruitment of people of color? I'm wondering if there's a current issue campaign focused on this that has also enlisted artists and cultural workers.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective supports organizations led by Sudanese civilians: including emergency response rooms, mutual aid, labor and farmers’ unions. Please give what you can and/or share.

Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 2d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

sudansolidarity.com

Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective

Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 1d

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The omniforce is accountable only to Trump: they ignore state and local guidance, or court decisions. Forget about knowing the identity of the official. Now you may not know which agency he works for, or even if he is an agent of the state.

two men wearing American flag facemasks and tactical gear.
Look at the picture above. One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in an violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 1d

CalCare is the true solution. Quit yanking our chain.

power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 2d

www.reuters.com/investigates...

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 2d

This is the carceral state. Period.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 2d

I need y’all to understand how little funding public health gets in the first place.

Questiin: amount of funding for public health historically

• Overall growth, with a decline in public health's share: Total national health expenditures have risen dramatically, from $74.1 billion in 1970 to $4.9 trillion in 2023.
However, public health's share of that spending has decreased, falling from a high of 3.18% in 2002 to 2.65% in 2014, and is projected to decline further.
• Federal funding fluctuations: While the federal government allocates billions, funding for specific agencies has often been flat or decreased. For instance, core funding for the CDC between 2011 and 2021 remained between approximately $6.5 and $8 billion before recent increases and subsequent decreases.
• Cuts to dedicated funds: The Prevention and Public Health Fund, established by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), has been subject to significant cuts and redirection of funds to other legislative proposals, despite being intended to be a stable funding source.
• State and local funding decline: Public health funding at the state and local levels has also been cut significantly, with a decline in per capita spending between FY 2008 and FY 2012

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 2d

This is (1) undermining and mocking the despicable claim that the anti-Trump protests are terroristic AND (2) quietly reclaiming frog symbolism from the alt-right. Our amphibian friends deserve better than the notoriety of perpetual Pepe.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 2d

I love this image.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 2d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 2d

Link.

Spamerooni @spamerooni.bsky.social · 2d

Link

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 2d

Link.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 3d

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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