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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 1h

if there isn't a statue to the Fuck ICE Frog when this is over then we've failed as a society

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h

I am sooo energized and pumped after this event. Thanks to all of our speakers, to Katie and Aileen for organizing and to the whole FTP team.

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2h

We're on now... us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Banned Books Week: I Did It, You Can Too!. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

This Banned Books Week, join For The People: A Leftist Library Project to explore how YOU can take real, specific, and immediate actions in your own community to strengthen and expand public libraries...

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Monster-Theory Medium Dave @azzageddi.myatproto.social · 2h

Rest in peace, Fergus.

Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 6h

Someone just reminded me that Fergus was the subject of this tweet years ago that turned into a minorly viral meme. So if you do an image search for 'big strong man tiny potato boy' right now all the top results are Fergus. 🥹

Screenshot of a tweet by me dated 2022. There is a photo of my brown tuxedo. tabby Fergus and the text reads "Fraud alert: local woman makes conflicting statements about her cat, claiming he both a big strong man and a tiny potato boy"

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Monster-Theory Medium Dave @azzageddi.myatproto.social · 3h

Oh no…what a painful decision! And a heartbreaking loss.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 7h

So, this week has been hard. Very hard. On Monday we found out that my kind, gentle, perfect little man Fergus had diffuse, fast-moving cancer throughout his body. So we had to make the awful decision to say goodbye to him yesterday.

Closeup portrait of my handsome brown tuxedo tabby Fergus looking upward.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 15h

I teach in my undergrad class on the history of the US jury system that the institution's roots are in colonial juries serving as a counterweight to abuses of imperial power. The American jury has problems for sure but still can serve that roll. Don't blow off jury service.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 3h

Dire as the stakes are, leaning into absurdist and lighthearted forms of protest seems like a great way to puncture the fantasy Trump & co are spinning to attempt to rationalize a violent crackdown.

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3h

As the administration goes all in on an alternate reality about portland that bears no resemblance to fact and rule of law, continuing radical (and just plain funny, ridiculing) acts of the imagination along with other ways of getting out the reality on the ground may help curb their momentum.

fake film poster with a sunset and the portland frog protestor with words The Portland War, A Film by Ken Burns

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Ravishing Rick Ruud van Nistelroy @astroscounty.bsky.social · 3h

Drake:

Hi, grandma? can u come pick me up from my rap battle? it’s over. no, i lost. he saw u drop me off & did a pretty devastating rhyme about it

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Monster-Theory Medium Dave @azzageddi.myatproto.social · 3h

It’s pretty bad when you’re losing a rap battle so bad that you sue your opponent, making it into something the general public is aware of, and then months later you lose that lawsuit, reminding the general, non-rap-loving public that you’re a huge loser.

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 2d

Wolf's Path is 10% off.

Only for SG folk!

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404 Media @404media.co · 9h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 5h

There's nothing at all wrong with being Palestinian, and using "Palestinian" in this way is deeply racist against Palestinians, but it is also antisemitic, because it defines Jewishness as something that can be granted and removed for political reasons.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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Artemis @artemisprime.bsky.social · 10h

This this and this. They’ve lost all credibility to ever speak on free speech again. That’s bigger than whatever money they got. Next time they complain, we laugh.

Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 10h

I'm a "glass is half-full" kinda guy, so let's look at the upside of the Riyadh Comedy Festival: We never, ever have to even pretend to take any of these "anti-woke" "free speech warriors" seriously, ever again.

New from me at @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):

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Will Anti-Woke Comedy Recover From the Riyadh Festival?

Any event that includes comedy’s biggest names is going to attract attention — but the Riyadh Comedy Festival, which kicked off on Sept. 26 and continued through Thursday, is disproving the adage that...

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A Spookish Girl @abookishgirl.bsky.social · 3h

Fascinating dream the other night where I had a visitor, but suddenly it was my childhood home and all my dogs from my whole life were there. But it was definitely 2025, and I was amazed how old my dogs were, and wondering how I’d never realised that Shadow was 36 years old now. More in alt text!

All five of these dogs, sunning themselves in our very dry backyard many years ago, appeared in the dream, alive. And very very old. God I loved having so many dogs. Sinthia, Sally, Jemma, Shadow, and Alexandra - such good girls I loved with all my heart. I wish I had a photo of them all looking at the camera!

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 8h

Time to check in on the Martha Wells Book Club! This time @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social reads Artificial Condition, book 2 in The Murderbot Diaries, where we meet a certain bossy transport AI...

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Martha Wells Book Club: Artificial Condition - Reactor

When we last left our grumpy SecUnit, it had ditched the PresAux team and set out for the great beyond...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 3h

I mean, this was (and remains) the great promise of the web — that we could create, share and connect with each other exactly like this, peer-to-peer, without gatekeepers, rather than one-to-many broadcast. It’s just that now we’re trying to do it while pollution is being dumped into the ecosystem.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h

Autism antibodies are stored in the foreskin.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 8h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Maddy "Boo!" Hare @mbhare.bsky.social · 3h

jk rowling please get eaten by wild dogs 🙏

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6h

Remember all of the ghouls who denied this was happening and did everything they could to make the problem worse from JK Rowling to Wes Streeting. The NHS who did a stitch up report to hide the growing number of suicides from trans youth on the waitlists. They should never be forgiven.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3h

New statement from AG James:

"This is nothing more than a continuation of the president's desperate weaponization of our justice system.

"I am not fearful — I am fearless."

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 4h

I'm not going to argue about who is the best lyricist. I am going to say that Hayley Williams whose career trajectory is very similar to the person who kicked off this discussion released a song this summer with these lyrics

They put up chain-link fences underneath the biggest bridges
They pose in Christmas cards with guns as big as all the children
They say that Jesus is the way but then they gave him a white face
So that they don't have to pray to someone they deem lesser than them

The South will not rise again
'Til it's paid for every sin
Strange fruit, hard bargain
Till the roots, Southern Gotham

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BookSwell @bookswellclub.bsky.social · 4h

Save the date! Nov. 12 6:30 pm PT

WeHo Reads: Wild and Powerful Imaginations

Charlie Jane Anders
M. M. Olivas
Tuck Woodstock

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 27d

This is the Mouse version of NOPE.

(The movie NOPE)

A white cat loafing on a glass table as seen from below.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 7h

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

We never incited violence, we just called this guy a member of antifa who funded terrorism and told our followers to pay him a visit ha ha and then a totally unrelated group of people threatened to murder him in front of his students ha ha

"The petition to disband our Turning Point chapter is blatantly defamatory," Ava Kwan, outreach coordinator for the Turning Point USA chapter at Rutgers, told Fox News Digital in a statement.
"The accusations of 'inciting violence' and 'making threats' are complete lies," Kwan said. "The same people claiming we're suppressing their free speech are actively trying to silence us for speaking the truth. It's not just ironic, it's hypocritical and absurd."

tpusa_rutgers Do you want to become a socialist? If so, make sure to pay this professor a visit!!!! All jokes aside help us report this professor who has ties to Antifa which now is designated as a domestic terrorist organization. DO YOUR PART AND HELP MAKE RUTGERS A PLACE FOR ALL STUDENTS TO LEARN WITHOUT BECOMING A RADICAL SOCIALIST

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