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umbellifer @apiaceae.bsky.social · 1d

great being pseudonymous on here bc noone can find this account who doesn't know it already nor really cares but officially taking some time away from here, fuck fascism & love to y'all as the cool weather rushes in let's see what fallow time reveals xox (mystery iconography from under JFX overpass)

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“For the average person that is interested in getting their Covid-19 vaccine, you will be able to do as you’ve always done. You should reach out to your provider, whether that’s a pharmacist or a physician…”

Covid Shots Are About to Be Widely Available Again

The CDC no longer broadly recommends the Covid-19 vaccine, but US residents will still be able to get one if they want.

www.wired.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Palestinians moving back towards Gaza City are being fired upon.

Israeli forces say the ceasefire does not exist until the government votes for it.

At least 8 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn.

(🎥 Al Jazeera)

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 3d

This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers

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umbellifer @apiaceae.bsky.social · 1d

truly out here just being a solid reader and making sure your sentences are readable and connective. I hear I'm better than AI

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING via AP

Hamas to release all 20 living hostages this weekend, AP sources say, as Israelis to withdraw from majority of Gaza.

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Al-Monitor @al-monitor.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: Trump announces Israel and Hamas reach deal on hostages, Palestinian prisoners www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

Trump announces Israel and Hamas reach deal on hostages, Palestinian prisoners

The announcement comes after key mediators, including from the Trump administration, joined the talks in Egypt.

www.al-monitor.com

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2d

something i learned this week! mailchi.mp/boltsmag/new...

Jane Goodall’s influence behind bars: The legendary primatologist Jane Goodall, who died last week at 91, helped inspire incarcerated people to learn more about wildlife and the environment by opening Roots & Shoots chapters inside jails in the U.S. and Italy, with some participants going on to launch careers in conservation post-incarceration. In 2015, Bolts' Alex Burness spent a day with her at the county jail in Boulder, Colorado, where she spoke to folks held there about all that people can learn from animals.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Carol Ott 🏚️ @carolsott.bsky.social · 2d

If you live in Maryland, and you're a furloughed Federal worker, you may be entitled to utility bill and tenant protections. Go here for more information: econaction.org/tenant-advoc...

Utility Bill Information for Furloughed Federal Employees | Economic Action MD Fund

Because the federal shutdown has lasted longer than 7 days, protections for certain residential utility customers are now in effect.

econaction.org

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

Guys like this is exactly why phrasing like “stay woke” came about

The Independent @the-independent.com · 3d

Anti-woke crusader Pete Hegseth praised DEI and working with Democrats while at Harvard, report says

Pete Hegseth praised DEI and working with Democrats while at Harvard, report says

www.independent.co.uk

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brownchubbybear @brownchubbybear.bsky.social · 3d

5-tour military vet calls #ICE agents traitors and tells them to prepare for a one-way mission if they come to his neighborhood #chicago #portland

Now THAT’S true patriotism 🇺🇸

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations

abcnews.go.com

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umbellifer @apiaceae.bsky.social · 3d

woof, contradictions of mediated sociability intensify

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umbellifer @apiaceae.bsky.social · 3d

RIP actual slop - baltimore city is also ending its relationship with a local farm who accepted all food scraps dropped off at the JFX + waverly farmers markets year round, feeding some to their hogs and processing the rest as compost, pigs+farmers actually laboring on all our behalves for no cost

ctw @skybluebye.bsky.social · 3d

Jack Daniel’s is ending a program that helped farmers feed cows with its scraps. What happens now?

'“That slop made it to where you could take a piece of land that wasn’t very valuable, and you could feed that slop, and you could make money doing it,” Anderson said.'

Jack Daniel’s is ending a program that helped farmers feed cows with its scraps. What happens now? • Tennessee Lookout

Jack Daniel’s is terminating a program that provided the company’s corn byproduct “slop” to local cattle farmers at low or no cost.

tennesseelookout.com

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 3d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 3d

"It feels as if everything has vanished. Not only the tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza erased without graves, without records, as if they had never existed – so many other things have been hollowed out: basic conceptions of morality, decency, compassion, humanity, hope, future."

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy

There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict, says Israeli journalist Orly Noy

www.theguardian.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3d

Israel has killed or injured more than 10 percent of Gaza's population over the past 24 months.

Two years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza: By the numbers

Israel has killed or injured more than 10 percent of Gaza's population over the past 24 months.

bit.ly

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

Nine members of the Canadian Supreme Court sitting for a photo. They are dressed in red robes trimmed in white.

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