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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

what will remain of the U.S. public sector is prison guards, ICE violence workers, soldiers and cops.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19h

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Blender @blender.org · 1d

Join the official Blender Survey 2025!

Let's get a picture of the community and help shape the future of Blender together. 🧡

www.blender.org/news/blender... #b3d #DevFund

www.blender.org

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them

Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

n.pr

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 1d

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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blackcat716.bsky.social @blackcat716.bsky.social · 1d

I just realized the "Falcor" I ordered from Temu is actually just a Chinese dragon.

Still referring to it as Falcor though.

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Rust Momster @cambrianera.radical.town · 1d

Proposing a new rule: "Purity test" is banned. If want to do something you need to have the balls to say it to my face. Tell me exactly who doesn't matter to you. Make that case. If you can only complain about purity tests and virtue signaling you're a coward who deserves no attention.

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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 1d

Sure Melissa.

Define "purity."

Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 1d

Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.

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Not seen. Not heard. @justagrrlluckyme.bsky.social · 2d

My sign for today

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

something very strange about how eagerly americans will consume content talking about how bad fascism is as it encroaches but any discussion on how to actually organize against it sends people into fits of rage.

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blackcat716.bsky.social @blackcat716.bsky.social · 1d

Some folks got "main character energy" really bad... And it shows.

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tomppa2006.bsky.social @tomppa2006.bsky.social · 2d

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 1d

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯

Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚

And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋

youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

YouTube KidZuko clips of the first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow. Both of the clips have over 400,000 views each

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 1d

Y'all, it is super weird that the white folk that don't like Trump, keep trying to tell me that white Trump voters don't really want the policies that will turn the US into a white ethnostate...

While the white Trump voters tell me, "Um, yes we do! But I don't see why that's bad?"

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 21d

There's nothing that has happened so far in this admin, that I didn't warn about in excruciating detail in the 1st admin.🤷🏿‍♂️

The last post is from when we narrowly avoided this in 2020... only for centrist dems to screw it up again via racism, and put us right back here for 2024.🤡

They don't learn.

Screenshot of FB Post:

"Peaceful Ethnic Cleansing" is a set of Nazi policies designed to turn the USA into a whites only territory. This set of policies was designed by Jeff Sessions. Most sane white people would never accept ethnic cleansing, because they know where it leads. Peaceful ethnic cleansing softens the message, and boils the frog slowly. But even the term peaceful ethnic cleansing was off-putting so they stopped saying it.

Until this administration, most people (including me) dismissed peaceful ethnic cleansing as a delusional racist's pipe dream. It would never happen, because the policies are so extreme. Most Republican Senators think this plan is crazy. But almost all of them are spineless, and so will confirm Jeff Sessions, the architect of these policies. Here are some of the policies:

* Consolidate power from the 3 branches of government under the Executive, to make the rest of the policies possible.

* End all non-white refugee and asylum programs

* Stop legal immigration from Muslim countries, especially Iran

* Stop legal immigration from Latinx countries, especially Mexico

* Stop legal immigration from Asian countries, especially China and India

* Make H1B visas harder to acquire from non-white countries

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* Make H1B visas harder to acquire from non-white countries

* Increase the reasons for revoking permanent residence (Green cards) for non-white people.

* Increase the reasons for deporting non-white undocumented people

* Dismantle the Voting Rights Act, and Federal election oversight

* Criminalize assisting black voters

* De-criminalize white on non-white hate crimes

* Increase the reasons for imprisoning non-white people (criminalize protest, make resisting arrest a hate crime)

* increase the detention capacity of ICE and the prison system to hold an additional 11 - 20 million people

At this point you will have a few million people in detention centers and prisons. Most of these people will be undeportable... Black, Latinx, Middle Eastern, Asian, but US citizens. What to do with these people? Everyone seems to forget that the Holocaust started out as "peaceful" ethnic cleansing as well. All ethnic cleansing campaigns turn violent at some point.

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The Executive and Legislative branches of the government now move as one unit. The last stumbling block on this plan is the Judicial branch. Gorsuch is a Trojan horse. He looks moderate enough to Democrats on women's rights issues, but he supports this plan. Most importantly, the last Attorney General resisted this plan and was fired. The incoming Attorney General designed it.

There isn't complete agreement among Nazis on this plan. Example open questions:

* Are Jews OK? [Yes | No | Only Jared ]

* Should we encourage European immigration? [Yes | No]

* Is Russia OK? [Yes, white! | No, commies, still!]

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Mekka

Dec 18, 2019

Yes, that's horrific. But our twisted democracy has allowed the people that wrote that to get their leader elected president. He's running their playbook. Phase 1 is complete.

Y'all need to catch up to black folk. This running 6 to 12 months behind is becoming a problem.

Mekka

x7 @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

@mekkaokerekebye

What're Black folk saying today?

* If you don't stop the GOP from deregistering /disenfranchising us, Dems will lose in 2020. And y'all will act surprised. Again.

* 2020 Trump is gloves off, Phase 2.

* Buttigieg is trash

* Biden is trash, but we know what's in the can

Dec 18, 2019

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 1d

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

www.huffpost.com

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

sums it up. headlines on crowd sizes and the feeling that maybe something happens (somewhere else) aren’t action, and getting a bunch of people to show up to a party for nothing isn’t organizing.

find your people and build something real.

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BeeGardenByTheSea @hazardbuck.bsky.social · 1d

One of the best costumes /signs at yesterdays ( Oct 18 ) No Kings protest in #Buffalo

#resist
#fdt
#indivisable
#NoKings
#vagina
#WNY
#protest
#protestsigns

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Timothy Priano @timothypriano.bsky.social · 2d

#nokings #buffalo

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Timothy Priano @timothypriano.bsky.social · 2d

#nokings #buffalo

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Jeffrey Hall @jhall2266.bsky.social · 3d

It was so obvious he was lying and yet you choose to follow. Shame on you.

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William @byrneout44.bsky.social · Sep 16

SEP 14
The 50501 Movement Lauren Narbe
tinyurl.com/ywwnbzut
Local protest today in #Buffalo, NY on Transit rd! A miles long protest that had 💯s of people.

#FreeDC #NoKings #TrumpMustGo #RATR
#Resist #FiftyFiftyOne #GoodTrouble
#4