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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

www.freefunder.com

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René #FreePalestine 🟥🚩 @rcmoya.bsky.social · 8d

This is intolerable. How are we allowing this to go on?

Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 9d

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 15d

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 15d

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.

We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

-Assata

Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 15d

Still have my copy from college, 30+ years later.

The cover of the memoir Assata, an Autobiography, by the legendary Black Liberation Army revolutionary, Assata Shakur.

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René #FreePalestine 🟥🚩 @rcmoya.bsky.social · 24d

Everyone who tried to have it both ways, who equivocated, who didn't stand up for a literal genocide from the start helped set the stage for a moment where our collective shrug could be turned back against us back home

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René #FreePalestine 🟥🚩 @rcmoya.bsky.social · 24d

I stand by my thinking that Gaza was the final push that pushed this country over the edge. The extremity with which *liberals* joined in stifling speech, leaning on private donors and corporations to enforce compliance from universities and people, set the stage for all of this

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 24d

I know people sometimes dismiss posts about how Trump “can’t do this” by arguing that Trump will just ignore the law and do whatever he wants, but I think the fact that there’s no legal infrastructure in place to enable this kind of thing really does matter.

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 24d

There is no legal category as “major terrorist organization.” It does not exist. And he can’t do this.

Just an administration of posters, basically.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 24d

I get the opportunity to talk with newly radicalized people and it is such a joy.

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René #FreePalestine 🟥🚩 @rcmoya.bsky.social · 24d

Boycott this rancid state-dictated mourn fest.

And protest the shit out of this fascist company.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24d

Sinclair said its ABC stations would air a special about Charlie Kirk's life this Friday — in Jimmy Kimmel's normal time slot

Sinclair Calls For More Action On Kimmel

www.huffpost.com

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René #FreePalestine 🟥🚩 @rcmoya.bsky.social · 24d

It's deeply unfortunate he's saying this obvious truth now given his previous positions

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 24d

David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel: "This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."

René #FreePalestine 🟥🚩 @rcmoya.bsky.social · 24d

I'm sick of the rhetoric and orientation, so common in the online left, of counselling a paralysing self-care (good intentions or not; yes, some people are more vulnerable). We don't need everyone tending to their gardens when their gardens are being paved over. We need people to be brave!

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René #FreePalestine 🟥🚩 @rcmoya.bsky.social · 24d

With respect: No. The most important task for everyone right now is to ask themselves what they're willing to do to defend their vanishing civil liberties. We have a choice between quiet self-preservation or fighting back. Otherwise, the road to dictatorship is already clear.

onion person @junlper.beer · 24d

the most important thing for everyone in this country right now is to practice self preservation. they are entirely rolling back the first amendment and the ability to protest, be careful

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24d

It's important to realize what precipitated this was Nexstar announcing they pulled showing Kimmel on their affiliates. They're currently waiting for the FCC to loosen restrictions to enable their massive merger. This was as much pay to play by a corporation as it was censorship.

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Screenshot of a news excerpt. It reads:

"On August 19, 2025, Nexstar announced its intent to acquire Tegna for $6.2 billion; the acquisition would give it 265 stations in total, serving 80% of U.S. television households. In an interview with CNBC, Sook stated that the purchase was a move to '[play] offense and defense to maintain a vital industry for America and a vital resource for information,' and place Nexstar 'on a level playing field with Big Tech' in a 'fragmented and rapidly evolving marketplace.' Sook stated that in the 35 markets where this would create duopolies, Nexstar planned to keep station operations 'autonomous.' The agreement comes ahead of a possible loosening of FCC ownership limits by the second Trump administration."

The words “CNBC,” “Big Tech,” and “second Trump administration” are hyperlinked. There is a reference marker [127] at the end.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 24d

good fucking night and good fucking luck

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 24d

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Sep 11

Namecheap and Squarespace are enabling a website that far-right extremists are using to target people they feel have said the wrong things about Charlie Kirk’s death.

If you’re looking for more companies to boycott.

Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · Sep 11

I’m officially scared.

Because of this ONE tweet being afraid of potential reverberations of right wing political violence from this — something many others have said — I’m now the first result on a website called “charliesmurderers.”

This is putting me in genuine danger.

What the fuck do I do

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Tom Moore @thmoore.bsky.social · Sep 11

Don’t ever let the Trump Administration tell you they support the First Amendment. This is a shocking violation. The United States Government has no authority to tell people in this country what to say or not say.

State Department warns immigrants not to mock Kirk's death

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau posted the warning on Thursday.

www.axios.com

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · Sep 11

NEW: Senate Republicans trigger 'nuclear option,' changing rules to speed up Trump nominees

The vote is 53-45, with all GOP senators voting in alignment.

Details on the new rule, and what it means >> www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Senate Republicans trigger 'nuclear option,' changing rules to speed up Trump nominees

The new rule, established by the GOP on party lines, will enable them to confirm Trump nominees in groups, rather than individually. It's the latest move to erode minority powers.

www.nbcnews.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 11

The right side of Trump's face was drooping during a 9/11 commemoration today (Getty)

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · Sep 10

No elected official Democratic party will be as cruel about Kirk's death as Mike Lee was about the death of Melissa Hortman.

wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/17/s...

Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah took down X posts Tuesday making an apparent connection between Gov. Tim Walz and the man accused of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, and blaming “Marxists” for the murders. The change comes after blowback from Sen. Tina Smith and her staffers as well as Minnesota Democratic and Republican lawmakers.

One X post said “Nightmare on Waltz Street,” with pictures of Boelter, who is accused of killing Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and shooting Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in the early morning hours of June 14. Boelter also went to the homes of two other state lawmakers that night; one house was empty, and at the other, a police officer pulled up to the house shortly after Boelter arrived, so Boelter left.

Another Lee post read, “This is what happens When Marxists don’t get their way,” with a picture of Boelter.

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · Sep 9

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich

Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians

www.theguardian.com

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 8

In L.A. tomorrow, protest Amy Coney Barrett who today joined in licensing ICE to stop brown and Spanish speaking people and demand their papers simply because of those attributes. https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/837659/

Demonstration to greet THE LYING JUSTICE AMY CONEY BARRETT · Mobilize

Amy Coney Barrett is coming to the Reagan Library to sell her book. Let's greet her with some signage and BOOING. September 9th at the corner of Olsen and Presidential Drive. Parking is ample across the street in the Woodranch Shopping Center. 4:30-6 p.m.

www.mobilize.us

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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · Aug 27

Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:

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Yasha Levine @yashalevine.bsky.social · Aug 7

We got a great ep with Greg Grandin about the end of American Myth — from Clinton to Trump to how America is going through its own end of the USSR moment…it no longer believes in itself.

www.nefariousrussians.com/p/cannibalis...

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