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John Stange

@stange.myatproto.social

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Social Justice Artificer, raw-dogging the collapse of civilization. Occasional paid theatrical word-sayer and body-mover Token Straight on the producer team of https://shakespeareinthe.pub he/him/that MFer over there

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John Stange @stange.myatproto.social · Dec 17

Me and mine like to desecrate classical (read: royalty-free) plays in bar readings. Dildo props, inebriated actors, you get the idea.

We perform at a bar around Capitol Hill, so we, uh, decided on a theme for this year. Our leadoff play is as close to President's Day as we could get it.

An black-and-what image of John Brown, wearing a (color) fez, captioned "Shakespeare in the Pub" and "2025" with a list of plays as follow:

Our American Cousin
Titus Andronicus
Julius Caesar
Gallathea
Hamlet

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

This really fucking sucks!!! I’m not even paid to be here by an outlet, so doing this is just fucking me personally!

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John Stange @stange.myatproto.social · 55m

My left leg hasn't stopped hurting for a week and a half, I guess I'll give it this week off (from 100yd sprints and leg day)

John Stange @stange.myatproto.social · 59m

workouts complete for the week, let's see how my joints are doing

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 11h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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John Stange @stange.myatproto.social · 1h

ICE complains about violence that hasn't happened to them, because they know in their hearts that they deserve an angry mob

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 3h

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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Deontological Warfare But She's A Skeleton Or Something @clockworklady.bsky.social · 2h

My "don't post about potential federal crimes online even if you don't actually intend to do it" shirt is raising a large number of questions already answered by the shirt.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 2h

red car crosses frame, green shirt person starts filming — watch how quick those weapons get holstered

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

Trump’s ice goons pull guns on an unarmed guy on a bike in Rogers Park. Terrorizing neighborhoods

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 2h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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John Stange @stange.myatproto.social · 2h

The bastards already got Party City with a leveraged buyout

F in the chat

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Tom Fowler @tomfowler.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps my greatest work?

My version of the predator meme but with Kermit and Fozzy’s arms clasped.

“Fozzy, you son of a bitch!”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6h

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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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6h

There are, of course, ways to save money in this business. Many US clothing factories run on what's known as a "piece rate" system, where workers are paid per operation, not by the hour. This system allows factories to skirt minimum wage laws.

It's also how we get US sweatshops

A garment worker peeking out behind some sewing equipment.

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 3h

More updates when I can but it got pretty brutal down at ICE. Multiple arrests and looked like maybe even some dearrests. So many pepper balls roof cops even shot other DHS agent in the head

Feds piled on top of someone on the ground

Fed getting shot in head with pepper ball by roof cop

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 3h

Right as I finished filming the video from first post the word naked bike ride arrived with at least a thousand people. I watched them ride thru for 5 minutes straight and they were still coming in in the pouring rain

Someone’s back says ICE eat my ass with their ass out

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 3h

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 13h

516.

Screenshot of aeschlus-stan account

“I hate it when I’m trying to look up a good golem recipe and the rabbi prefaces it with ten paragraphs about his life in 17th century Prague. Like, I feel for you, Maharai, but there are anti-semites going unsuplexed while I’m searching for the ingredient list.”

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 4h

ERO/ICE agents crossed the street into the crowd to grab this protester. Agents on the roof shot pepper balls at the crowd.

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Just some guy @rocinante.bsky.social · 4h

That stupid epic handshake meme I like just a bit too much:

Left hand: “Why lookst thou so?" "With my crossbow
I shot the albatross.”

Right hand: “tonight’s ballgame”

They meet: “mariner v bird”

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5h

There’s basically one set of conditions where shining lasers at aircraft is a good idea, and that’s when the aircraft in question is actively attempting to kill you and the laser is the best thing you’ve got. We aren’t there yet, you do not want us to get there. Don’t shine lasers at aircraft.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5h

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 4h

The Salvation Army sending out food trucks to feed the cops who are brutalizing immigrants really does tell you all you need to know about the Salvation Army

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 9h

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

Screenshot of text:

Not now but soon enough, there will be major stories about The Free Press being the creation of three female founders who constructed a hugely successful digital business out of whole cloth.

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Dorothy Parker Fucks @dorothyparkerfucks.bsky.social · 4h

around two years ago i made the point that genAI technologies were a fascist project designed to undermine facts, truth and history and so here is some slop machine humiliating a hero of the american civil rights movement

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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