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Blaire K 🎃🍂🍄🌌 @mushroomwitchbk.bsky.social · 2d

Go through your cupboards, closets, and hygiene shelves, but also purchase some basic necessities. Bring some treats, chapstick, lotion, mittens, hats, tampons, pads, deodorant, warm socks, canned food, tea, etc. We need to help one another out because our leaders are only helping themselves.

Rainy Studios (٭°̧̧̧ω°̧̧̧٭) – Art🎨, BL🌈 & 📝Queer Studies @samaburime.bsky.social · 3d

‼️Temps are dropping and federal funding is being cut! PLEASE begin donating to your local shelters! Homeless shelters, food shelves, they will need your help now more than ever! If you can't donate share their links, print & put up flyers, be that lifeline for someone struggling‼️

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17d

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you…

Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest.

The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

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🪱🃏 𝕱𝖆𝖌𝖌ø𝖙 𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖁𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖓🦷🪳 @babettecirque.bsky.social · 18d

Apparently a lot of ppl needs to hear this

#bskycensorship

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∞ ever @everafterengine.bsky.social · 2d

Farmer Mohamed’s account was deleted again, but I saved his words. He’s heartbroken about his family’s ancestral land being annexed.

Please help him rebuild. If we can return a piece of what was stolen from him, it will at least be something.

bit.ly/help-mohamed

@mommunism.bsky.social 💚

Hello my brothers. I have some words that I must say from the beginning when I was displaced from Rafah I had great hope to return to my land which is located near the Philadelphi axis where my house, sheep, and trees are. I was planning to rebuild everything from scratch with donations and I will not hide from you a secret that I was saving part of the money I received from donations to rebuild that. I was planning to connect water and build wooden or tin houses and connect water and start planting olive trees and buy 10 sheep and start establishing a herd and life goes on. But a few days ago I saw Trump’s plan to end the war. I was surprised that the plan includes a buffer zone in the Philadelphi axis and this news was like a thunderbolt for me. My land that I inherited from my grandfather, I will never return to it. Politicians are planning without considering the psychological and material damage that will befall me and my family as a result of this plan. I want to ask you, is this fair? Of course not. I will say something in the end. I swear that now I do not have an alternative plan for all this tragedy I have been exposed to.

I will honestly tell everyone that from now on I am not collecting money to buy food and tents. Rather, I am collecting money for something bigger than that. Now I must provide a better future for my children after their land was occupied. All I want from you is for you to understand what I am saying with your hearts and minds. What will I say to my seventy year old mother? Will I tell her you will not return to your trees? Or will I tell her that you will end up displaced from a tent that is not fit to live in? Or will I tell her that we must leave Gaza and go to another country? Believe me, I am writing words that come from my heart to your hearts. You are my community that has always stood by me for many long months. That is enough because I write and cry.

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Blue (he/him) @eternaltrophyboy.bsky.social · 3d

Piggybacking off your great post: those old blankets and towels with hair dye stains and little rips can have a new home with animal shelters this time of year too. They also need warmth, and they dont care about those little stains and small tears.

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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 3d

And for further reference, here is Consumer Reports list from last year on Do Not Buy recommendations. No other spice comes up as risky as often as cinnamon does and I would love to know why.

The 12 Cinnamon Powders You Should Never Use - Consumer Reports

Twelve of the 36 cinnamon powders and spice blends containing cinnamon had high levels of lead, according to Consumer Reports' testing.

www.consumerreports.org

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Ash G. (the G is for Ghost) @kilomonster.art · 3d

Fascists desperately want to be seen as tough and cool. Never ever ever allow this. Remind them constantly that they are little whiny baby losers forever.

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Trudi @trudiagogo.bsky.social · 3d

You know when the cost of living goes up and you don't get a raise so you have to start giving things up to survive?

That's what it means when politicians vote for 0% property tax increases. It means they will just do less. It means expect less. It means we don't deserve the same, let alone more.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Rainy Studios (٭°̧̧̧ω°̧̧̧٭) – Art🎨, BL🌈 & 📝Queer Studies @samaburime.bsky.social · 3d

‼️Temps are dropping and federal funding is being cut! PLEASE begin donating to your local shelters! Homeless shelters, food shelves, they will need your help now more than ever! If you can't donate share their links, print & put up flyers, be that lifeline for someone struggling‼️

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

it always blows my mind when these people act like “the left just calls everyone nazis” these days and it’s like no. we’re calling nazis nazis! there just happens to be a lot of them in and around the government these days!

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 3d

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Christine Galea @chrisgalea.bsky.social · 3d

The fact that Elon musk, Peter Thiel, and Steve Bannon all being in the Epstein files dropped out of the news way too fast www.bbc.com/news/article...

Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in new Epstein files

The documents by the estate of convicted paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein were released by Congressional Democrats.

www.bbc.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

Not for nothing but if you're high profile and need to flee the US, don't tell anyone in advance. It's also most certainly better to leave via a smaller land border crossing and catch your flight from Canada or Mexico. Much less ability for the feds to prevent you from leaving that way.

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 2d

“I’ll kill you in front of your students.”

This is just one of the death threats that has driven @mark-bray.bsky.social to try and flee the US.

But at the airport last night, after checking in and clearing security, his booking mysteriously disappeared

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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the meep @txjunbby.bsky.social · 2d

also them claiming they delete verification photos so obviously false but also frightening considering their totally lax security apparently

404 Media @404media.co · 2d

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...

www.404media.co

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

1. Anti-trans outrage is losing its bite.

Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform.

Major conservatives joined in.

Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up.

Subscribe to support my journalism.

Netflix Stock Up As Elon Musk's Anti-Trans Boycott Fails To Materialize

Last week, conservatives tried to cancel Netflix to force the carrier to remove transgender characters.

www.erininthemorning.com

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 2d

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.

This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.

Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.

Be warned.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 2d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 2d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 3d

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 3d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 2d

people don’t understand that data center resource consumption driven by AI is just like… giving a person climbing a mountain a set of encyclopedias to carry with them

adapting to climate change was already a struggle, and now we have carry all this extra shit that provides no added value

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

Hope battles with distrust as Palestinians in Gaza wait for Israel to implement the ceasefire. Here's what they said.

Palestinians in Gaza worry and wait for Israel to implement ceasefire

Hope battles with distrust as Palestinians in Gaza wait for Israel to implement the ceasefire. Here's what they said.

bit.ly

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Breezy 💖🏳️‍⚧️ @bluebirdbreeze.bsky.social · 2d

Do not watch the HBO series.
Do not buy wizard game (2).

I usually don't judge too much, I get that not everyone is fully in the loop for everything. If you support JKR now, we are done.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

The Advantage program was a lifeline for New Yorkers like Kasha, a working mom struggling to get out of a shelter and into stable housing.

But when then-Gov. Cuomo slashed funding, homelessness surged.

These are political choices. We can choose differently.

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wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 2d

“you’re too old for fandom” you’re just weak, this will be me in my 80s

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