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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 38m

I admit that I also feel worn out from having warned about U.S. policing for decades.

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 55m

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urbanobserver.bsky.social @urbanobserver.bsky.social · 1h

This helps explain why our popular culture & formal education systems remain so virulently anti-communist. The people who hold power must constantly convince us that Their Way of Life (capitalism) is good and natural, even as it burns us off the planet. Many more of us need to get unconvinced. Now.

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urbanobserver.bsky.social @urbanobserver.bsky.social · 1h

This article is exactly what I mean. There’s nothing remarkable about Peter Thiel. He’s not particularly insightful or even clever. He’s just a rich boy who rode a moving walkway into a thoroughly corrupt, self-dealing coterie of political and economic power.

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

www.theguardian.com

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urbanobserver.bsky.social @urbanobserver.bsky.social · 2h

On a side note, nothing says ‘I am a Blue MAGA dipshit’ like the random invocation of Vladimir Putin

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Samantha is the spectre haunting bluesky 👻 @bolshevikmilf.bsky.social · 1d

this is about how it's okay to post AI slop and claim it's real. 'oh so we have to be perfect now and can't just spread obvious and easily disproven misinformation??'

the liberals everyone!

Elizabeth Edgett @elizabethedgett.bsky.social · 1d

Trump will say that with or without me. I don't give a fuck what he says.

What you are doing is buying into the double standard that says the people have to be perfect while the fascist dictator can say or do whatever he wants and get away with it.

Trump loves it when you diss me. Putin too.

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ghost of malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 15h

Portland’s pandemic struggles interrupted rapid onset gentrification, leaving the city more affordable than SF & Seattle. a thriving scene of community groups is now dreaming big & centering BIPOC/immigrant communities in climate adaptation projects fueled largely by a climate tax on big box retail

ghost of malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 16h

Check out today’s volunteer depave for a subsistence community garden at the bike works community hub in east Portland 🧵

📸 That’s garden coordinator Corey Pierson giving his food forest vision to the crew, pre-depave stretching, and a depave demo from our volunteer crew leaders to kick off the day

Person stands on pavement and explains things

People making weird shapes ok they’re stretching in front of a cool mural

Guy in neon vest explains things to crowd

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urbanobserver.bsky.social @urbanobserver.bsky.social · 2h

Trump is a remarkably unimpressive human being, as are all his cabinet members. In fact, there is nothing impressive about any leading right wing figures. You have to question the sustainability of a political economy that so consistently elevates such mediocre pieces of shit into positions of power

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 17h

No matter how many hit clips you see from @govpritzker.illinois.gov, the fact remains that the Illinois State Police are actively protecting and aiding ICE in their terrorizing of our communities.

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urbanobserver.bsky.social @urbanobserver.bsky.social · 2h

The ‘advantage’ Europeans held over most of the societies they encountered was centuries of developing the ability and willingness to be ruthless murderers, thieves, and manipulators *at the societal level*. These qualities were woven into the political economies of Europe before colonialism began.

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 3h

And the West African cultures the American enslaved came from were on par with Europe at that time in every way at the least, they were advanced medieval states, & Europe was recovering from having been conquered by Africans, & Africans had been known to Europe & respected as equals since antiquity.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 3h

White supremacy is really an invention & a lie & there are no uncivilized savage cultures in comparison to white European culture, & Europe did not dominate the globe because they were better & neither did America.

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Eephus Tosser @eephustosser.bsky.social · 13h

Matt Shaw paying homage to Charlie Kirk by stinking to high heaven.

Eephus Tosser @eephustosser.bsky.social · 5d

Blake Treinen paying homage to Charlie Kirk by stinking to high heaven.

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 16h

"pritzker is fighting for us"

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17h

A small number of demonstrators attempted to protest/march in the street.

Massive number of ISP troopers in riot gear responded by blocking 25th, threatening arrest, shouting into megaphone about an unlawful assembly.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

Extremely funny that people think this is now a Pritzker hate account when all we've been doing is documenting the same police violence we've been documenting well before this ICE surge

Sorry for disrupting your worldview. Welcome to what cops are!!!

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 15h

The release of the 48 prisoners and captives held by Hamas and other resistance factions in the Gaza Strip will begin Monday morning, a top Hamas official told AFP.

Learn more about several of the high-profile Palestinian prisoners that Israel and Western media have spent recent days..

🧵👇🏼

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 7h

Many Palestinians have returned to Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City in the aftermath of the Israeli withdrawal, only to find nothing but total destruction.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 22h

Reporters: stop using the deferential term "detaining" when talking about ICE goons' abduction of innocent people from US streets. You proper term would indeed by "abduction", but if you want to pretend neutrality you could use "capture", which at least says nothing about the captors' motives.

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 17h

Heartbroken because I'm certain he's neither the first, nor will he be the last.

Heartbroken because cops of all flavors have always been dangerous to Autistic people, and especially Autistic BIPOC.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 3h

The cultures of Indigenous people here were not less advanced than Europe & neither were the African cultures slaves were taken from even though someone's going on about that in my mentions. Indigenous Americans' intentional agricultural stewardship produced a paradise as Europeans admitted.

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Emma™ @cockremover.bsky.social · 18h

when a woman says "i hate men", i think "oh no, a man did something horrible to her"

when a man says "i hate women", i think "oh no, he's going to do something horrible to a woman"

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 15h

Reinstate Jessie. Also, I am coming to the UK this week to talk about my book, which shares the history of trans people and also the way they were targeted by Nazis (something #JK denies.) If Rowling wants to pick on someone, I’m here for it and I’ll be in London… I have the receipts and I am ready.

BRANDY SCHILLACE
THE INTERMEDIARIES
UK BOOK TOUR
All event are listed in local time.
OCT. 16 - 6:30pm
LONDON, ENGLAND WATERSTONES - GOWER ST in conversation with C.N. Lester
OCT. 21 - 5:00pm
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
OCT. 22 - 7:00pm
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND LIGHTHOUSE BOOKS
OC. 23 - 7:00pm
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND WATERSTONES - ARGYLE ST
OCT. 20 - 6:30pm
LONDON, ENGLAND KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
OCT. 21 - 7:00pm
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND QUEER LIT
OCT. 23 - 2:00pm
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 4h

The olive harvest is underway in the occupied West Bank. In the town of Turmus Ayya, northeast of Ramallah, these Israeli settlers are busy stealing crops before the Palestinian owners can reach their trees.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 8h

A colleague once showed me a copy of an information pamphlet issued to British soldiers in Palestine in the 1940s. The pamphlet referred to 'Jewish terrorists'. The vicissitudes of history often change the definition of who is a terrorist and who is not.

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 5h

The body of slain Palestinian youth Adham Abu Salah was recovered from beneath the rubble this morning in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis, following the withdrawal of Israeli troops.

A young man stands outdoors under a clear blue sky, wearing a light-brown and gray jacket with toggle buttons over a beige and gray top. He has short dark hair, trimmed facial hair, and a calm, steady expression. The sunlight highlights his face and jacket. The timestamp on the lower corner of the image reads “28/02/2025 08:44.”

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Dr. Twyla Baker @indigenia.bsky.social · 22h

Be real. These guys didn’t give a good gotdamn about Columbus ‘til they started to feel like something was being “taken away” from them, rather than seeing it as something being restored via Indigenous Peoples Day.

Folks simply enjoy being shitty to others, and that’s deeply, truly fucked up & sad.

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