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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7d

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 7d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 11d

Article contains meal descriptions and ID numbers, for concerned folks.

Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 12d

WHAT THE FUCK

www.themirror.com/lifestyle/fo...

Frozen meals from Walmart and Trader Joe's leave 4 dead and 19 hospitalized

The CDC is warning consumers to check their fridges as two ready-to-eat pasta meals sold at Walmart, Kroger, and Trader Joe's locations nationwide have been recalled due to Listeria contamination.

www.themirror.com

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 11d

Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 11d

Ezra Klein: There's a Rick & Morty quote I really like.

Ezra Klein: It goes like this, "Why would a pop-tart want to live inside a toaster? That would be like the scariest place for them to live."

Ezra Klein: Because in the episode they go to a neighborhood where everyone is a pop-tart and they live in toaster-houses.

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 11d

every day I wake up and ask important questions like "how many floppies would it take for a watchable copy of a Star Trek episode?"

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Dusty Ray @sloppjockey.bsky.social · 14d

god. gouache on paper

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Mary Sue @marysuesays.bsky.social · 14d

Portlanders especially, but everyone also!

HAVE YOU TAKEN A STOP THE BLEED CLASS?!

Did you know you can click this link and take a Stop the Bleed class?

www.stopthebleed.org/get-trained/...

Online Course

Take an online course as an alternative to in-person Stop the Bleed Training.

www.stopthebleed.org

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 14d

Please, if you have the privilege of not being an obvious and immediate target for state violence...

Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.

Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.

We all need to be Spartacus on this one.

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 18d

🚨NEW REPORT: The U.S. incarcerates women at a higher rate than almost any other country in the world

So much for the “land of the free” 🧵

Graph showing that the U.S. incarcerates women at a rate more than 3x any other founding NATO country

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 14d

less than a week left on this, we’re nearing $800 raised for the Sameer Project & there are still many items with fewer than 5 tickets in their pool! you could win SO EASILY & there is no losing when it’s for such a good cause 💕🇵🇸

EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 23d

apparently Instagram is no longer friendly to viewing without an account, so i'll be mirroring the prize posts in a thread here for people outside IG who want to participate (you DO still need a Venmo account to pay for tickets, sorry - that's what's available to us). prizes to follow! 🖤🍉🖤

"Jewish Artists for Palestine RAFFLE to benefit The Sameer Project: Sept. 15th - Oct. 1st, hosted on Instagram by @sheydgarden & @furywren_shop - Support families in Gaza and gain chances to win beautiful diaspora-made Judaica and art by 19 creators including paintings, prints, jewelry, textiles, ceramics, zines & more! Unless otherwise noted, prizes ship within the US only! Please read the next slide for ticket pricing & info on how to buy. Visit our Instagrams to see the prizes!

"How to Enter: Tickets are $10 each or 3/$25! Venmo @ezra-rose ("4928" for confirmation) with the green heart emoji in the note, then comment with the # of your desired prize(s) and how many tickets per prize." As an example, a screenshot of a Venmo page shows a $70 donation broken down into 8 tickets for 3 different items indicated in a comment along with an Instagram account and a phone number. "Don't forget to leave your contact information in case you win! Winners will be drawn Oct. 2nd and contacted privately for their shipping address."

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 17d

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

I'm watching that documentary "Before Stonewall" about gay history
pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast
about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed
psychologists, a police officer, and one "known homosexual". The
"known homosexual" is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis
White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale
Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television
and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there's nothing
wrong with him mentally and he's never been arrested. When asked
whether he'd take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether
his family knows he's gay, he says that they didn't up until tonight, but
he guesses they're going to find out, and he'll probably be fired from
his job as well. So of course the host is like ... why are you doing this
interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says "I think
that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself."

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale's boss did indeed recognize him from
the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into
ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten
a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further.
It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity
agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that,
but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person
who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the
statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson's disclosure had
a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the
U.S.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 14d

if i had to see this today, so do you

clouds over the green mountains and nearby fields in vermont

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 14d

Since he’s crawled back into the limelight amid Trump’s crackdown on left-wing groups, here’s my 2019 profile of Andy Ngo.

He’s an anti-antifa propagandist who has a history of whitewashing violent fascist groups, particularly in Portland. jewishcurrents.org/the-making-o...

The Making of Andy Ngo

The right-wing provocateur’s grift exposing “the tyranny of the left” worked—until it didn’t.

jewishcurrents.org

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14d

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens.

Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 14d

You might have a gay pinky toe you never know

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 14d

if you're even a skosh gay, lean into it. Lol

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15d

Re: the male loneliness epidemic, there is *still* not enough emphasis on how many heterosexual girls and women are staying single out of self-preservation, because the sexual norms that many heterosexual boys and men have adopted are exceptionally dangerous.

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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · Nov 14

The Dilbert Project. kalebhorton.ghost.io/the-d-lbert-...

The D*lbert Project

I wish I could remember why I made this. All I know is it was 2013 and I was busted ass broke, sleeping on a mattress on the floor of my dad’s office. I had no prospects left. Everything I had fit com...

kalebhorton.ghost.io

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 14d

Can we get matches to the $10 I sent Ahmad yesterday?

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 16d

i remain pretty convinced that politically active evangelicals are completely incorrect in their assessments of the level of power they wield. their allies are overtly using them and they're not actually strong enough to do anything about it

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 16d

this happened basically the same day as a photo making the rounds of a megachurch guy carrying a big but too small to crucify anyone cross with a wheel on it for his comfort. no one said anything about it

Charli @kalkeen.yiff.zone · 16d

It's been a super busy news week but I think a lot of people missed that the guy who wrote "Jesus take the wheel" died while trying to land his plane.

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Charli @kalkeen.yiff.zone · 16d

It's been a super busy news week but I think a lot of people missed that the guy who wrote "Jesus take the wheel" died while trying to land his plane.

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cedar subaru lesbian @pussy.meangirls.online · 16d

PUT VITAMIN D ON YOUR GROCERY LIST RIGHT NOW

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 17d

Should be a bigger deal how many of these people are in a cult.

Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 18d

New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists.
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...

For about a year now, Thiel has been publicly laying out his understanding of biblical prophecies and the potential for the rapid advance of technology to bring about an apocalyptic future.

In a lecture Monday, he encouraged an audience to continue working toward scientific progress, whether in AI or other forms of technology. Fearing or regulating it, or opposing technological progress, would hasten the coming of the Antichrist, Thiel said, according to people who attended.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16d

unforgivable.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 16d

Jon Finer and Phil Gordon, both of whom served as senior members under the Biden administration's foreign policy team, now claim that they're in favor of conditioning and even suspending military assistance to Israel altogether.

Opinion | We Served in the Biden Admin. It's Time to Impose Conditions on Aid to Israel.

The United States should distance itself morally and materially from the slaughter in Gaza.

www.politico.com

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