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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 30m

"[S]ystemic failure to stop sexual abuse in [Idaho's] prisons."

"Since 2020, there have been at least 59 documented allegations of staff sexually abusing imprisoned women."

"37 prison workers accused in the last decade." "Eight were fired."
#Idaho #USA #Incarceration

Staff sex abuse in Idaho women’s prisons largely unchecked

InvestigateWest reporting exposes sexual abuse by guards, retaliation against victims and a system that fails to track the scope of the problem

www.investigatewest.org

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 2h

I just watched an insta reel of someone asking kids on the corner “what’s your uva horror story” and one of them said “i got a burger that was undercooked” and girl i do feel for you but i do think i have a worse one

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 12h

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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♡ Kate's haunted emporium 👻 🎃 🇬🇹~ FREE 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @katespeace.bsky.social · 3h

Please PLEASE read this. Be there for Black trans youth, too. Don't forget about them.

Black Trans Lives Matter.

Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 3h

“In this environment that we’re in right now, it feels like an understatement to say that there’s misinformation being spread about this community. People really forget that we’re human beings.”

No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In.

A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

capitalbnews.org

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Johnny Townsend @qarchivist.bsky.social · 23h

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize www.commondreams.org/opinion/peac...

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize | Common Dreams

As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention...

www.commondreams.org

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Kda @kommtdraufan.bsky.social · 3h

Die Entscheidung, für welche Art von Tätigkeit man Geld bekommt (Lohnarbeit) und für welche nicht (Carearbeit, Ehrenamt etc.) ist übrigens auch eine gesellschaftliche.

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Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 6h

When I was homeless in 2019, the Salvation Army shelter refused to give me a bed (even though they were available), because I was on immunosuppressant meds and they didn’t want to be responsible or liable if I got more sick or died on premises. They’d rather I die on the street.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

ill keep saying it and theyll keep doing it: podcaster occupied government

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

Justice Department lawyers reposted President Trump’s statements and may have inadvertently endangered their prosecution of Luigi Mangione, violating the judge’s explicit orders that DOJ employees refrain from public comment about the case. trib.al/b9U7CY1

DOJ in Trouble After Lawyers Reposted Trump Rants on Luigi Mangione

The Justice Department’s case against Luigi Mangione just hit a major obstacle.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 8h

it’s great how any time you say “kamala” on this app random people pop up to do lib denialist bullshit like we didn’t all witness “i’m speaking now” or the parade of dnc-goers plugging their ears. or the thousands of anti-genocide activists @ the dnc. or the surge in support, killed on purpose, or—

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Shield God @tatenokami.bsky.social · 2d

just saw this on a video about Sovereign Citizens

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Scott Fright @scw.bsky.social · 20h

Franz Kafka writing Steam reviews

Steam review that reads “game is good but im some bugs”

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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 15h

90 years after the fact, the heroes we celebrate and remember are people like Freddie Oversteegen, a Dutch girl who seduced Nazi Gestapo and SS officers into the woods and shot them. In the face of fascism, history doesn't care what's legal or not: share.google/0DRYfByHLHuC...

Freddie Oversteegen - Wikipedia

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 16h

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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No Mods, No Masters @julieofthespirits.bsky.social · 18h

Every English-language article about the Nobel: "Well-deserved win by brave freedom fighter!"
Every Spanish-language article about the Nobel: "Lmao remember the time she asked Netanyahu to invade Venezuela"

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

And now Stonewall National Monument under Trump has erased the very thing she fought for.

Love the support, Zohran. Thanks, sincerely.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jul 10

6. In one glaring example, Sylvia Rivera’s section originally stated, “At a young age, Sylvia began fighting for gay and transgender rights.” The revised version read, “gay and rights,” with the word “transgender” removed entirely, rendering the sentence nonsensical:

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 1d

Future historians: As their computers ate and destroyed all their languages we can only assume that what happened was magic became real and that's how they defeated global genocidal fascism

On the left, the German Mud Wizard in their druid cloak pushes a German riot cops who is already stuck in the mud. On the left are 3 Portland Antifa frogs in green inflatable cartoonish costumes and one black frog with white frog bones on him like the antifa frog skeleton.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 22h

guards ignore—but are trained—that withdrawal is a life threatening condition, and ignoring someone in withdrawal is both deliberate and indifferent

the fact that they were *wrong* about this person’s emergency doesn’t make their conduct any less deliberate or indifferent

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 23h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Jubilee 🔞 @jethanded-wyvern.bsky.social · 22h

I saw this ad earlier and it made me wonder when the last time even I saw a full-throated defense of trans folk.

Mamdani is a fucking legend for underlining Riviera and her work. This man is exactly speaking about how power targets the powerless.

Fuck. I cried.

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aran 🏳️‍⚧️ @aranaya.bsky.social · 1d

Fact check: Democrats claim that Nibbles the Giant Skeleton is not real, but in fact many people have skeletons and are above average height.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 2d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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aran 🏳️‍⚧️ @aranaya.bsky.social · 1d

How is he desperately trying to hold in a fart in every single picture