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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Last chance to register is tomorrow by 8 pm ET. This is in person. We will be masked. Come at 12:30 pm for lunch. Register here: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversi...

Flyer for "Communiversity: Grassroots Fundraising for Organizers" facilitated by Mariame Kaba. Event on Oct 11, 1–4 PM in Brooklyn. Includes illustration of people, event details, QR code, and fundraising workshop info.

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Roma Panganiban @romapancake.bsky.social · 1d

Don't you hate when you're cooking potstickers and they stick to the pot

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2d

So your version of a "ceasefire" is, in your own words, that you'll invade your neighbors whenever you feel like it, and they'll just...let you

The Israeli goal is actually "Lebanonization" — but not in the original 1980s sense of armed militias. Rather, it's the modern version: an active ceasefire in which Israel operates from the air to eliminate threats, and on the ground beyond the international border.

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Roma Panganiban @romapancake.bsky.social · 2d

We got anti-capitalist American Pope before GTA 6

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 4d

It's banned books week and so I'm legally obligated to bully you, a person who has ever had their name on a book, into joining @authorsabb.bsky.social.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We fight the source of book bans with calls to action, partnership w everyone in the game, and offer training.

AABB Author Sign-Up Form

Hello! We're Authors Against Book Bans, a group of authors who’ve come together to protect and promote the freedom to read on both the national and local levels. We’re creating a network of authors to...

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Keith Rosson @keithrosson.bsky.social · 4d

At some point after publication, a book's kind of out of an author's hands. Events, social media are still important. But ultimately it has its own life.

With that in mind, THANK YOU ALL for how you've pushed COFFIN MOON. Reviewed it, lauded it, told your friends. I wouldn't be here without you.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 4d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 4d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 4d

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 4d

We’re about zero days from major news outlets accidentally posting AI videos they think are real

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

"We're gonna crash some planes if you don't fund ICE."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Sean Duffy says the safety of the air traffic control system will start being impacted next Sunday if the shutdown continues

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 5d

hot take: while they don't contradict on the micro scale, honest journalism on a macro scale can't actually 'make sense of a noisy, confusing world'

because the world is noisy and confusing. sometimes shit doesn't make sense.

and that point on this list is about creating particular narratives

Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 5d

This list could easily be condensed to five items

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 6d

I have been saying for a few years now that people really need to take a seriously long look at the center of that venn diagram where the circles are marked "AI Culture" and "Disregard For/Violation Of Consent." The whole "AI Actress" situation is more of why.

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Witnit @witnit.bsky.social · 7d

What also gets me is this is the exact kind of risky and brave non-violence that gets touted as the only form of resistance that should be employed. But if that happens, then suddenly it is "performative". Okay then, sure.

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🏴‍☠️commadork69🏴‍☠️ @commadork69.bsky.social · 7d

feel like the most performative ppl you know are the quickest to throw that label around

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Roma Panganiban @romapancake.bsky.social · 6d

It's so easy that the original poster never said it and still isn't.

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Jessica Yang 🍊 @jamteayang.bsky.social · 7d

Queer kidlit editor here! 🫡🌈 I edited a sapphic dystopian YA book titled You Pierce My Soul by audio drama writer @jesserbest.bsky.social and I just think everyone should preorder it and/or request it at their local library!

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/799767...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 8d

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

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Roma Panganiban @romapancake.bsky.social · 7d

"Most Americans" don't disapprove enough to do anything to stop "this kind of thing," so if you're not worried, you simply don't care enough about the people who have every reason to be worried.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 8d

all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 8d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Roma Panganiban @romapancake.bsky.social · 9d

This is going to piss off the military wives now, and that's a move he's REALLY going to regret

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Roma Panganiban @romapancake.bsky.social · 9d

"The royals loved the show" 💀

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 9d

i am very sick of pretending conservatives have an argument that should be respected

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