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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23h

Hey, Sydette needs help. She is one of the people who makes the world brighter and better simply by existing. If you have the capacity, please consider dropping her what you can.

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah I really need help with this . I’m gonna go hyperventilate into a bag but this has gone bad quickly

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 23h

The priest on the right is holding a monstrance. It’s used to display a piece of communion bread — which Catholics believe becomes the literal body of Christ when it’s consecrated — for worship.

A monstrance is normally only used in *very* solemn ceremonies.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Jasmin🌸 @theboobtaster.bsky.social · 2d

if overthinking was an olympic sport i’d be banned because i’m transgender

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Stanislav Vysotsky @professorstas.bsky.social · 22h

Excellent thread on how the right projects political violence onto the left. They consistently reframe violence perpetrated by right-wing affiliated people as leftist. This isn’t new and is a common tactic of their projection and distraction.

David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 1d

This has always been part of the GOP playbook: Downplay incidents of right-wing violence, and then repurpose them as supposed acts of leftist terrorism for public consumption. They first did this in 2020.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 1d

This has always been part of the GOP playbook: Downplay incidents of right-wing violence, and then repurpose them as supposed acts of leftist terrorism for public consumption. They first did this in 2020.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · Jun 13

From All Saints Episcopal Church in San Francisco 🕯

A church sign that says:
Marines, ICE agents, Nat'l Guard, Riot Police
My brothers & sisters in Christ or in conscience-
Their orders are immoral.
It is not too late to save your souls.
- Take off your masks
- Lay down your weapons
- Remove your armor
- Repent & return home

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

This story is NUTS

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Look, I've never skeeted about this before but when I was at NYT I was involved in a sexual harassment thing. I was not the person lodging the complaint (nor was I the harasser). I was a corroborating witness let's say. Anyway, NYT did the right thing and fired the harasser.

BUT

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1d

with one of the most incredible kickers i've ever seen

NYT excerpt that reads:

On Thursday, Mr. Benioff said he had never been progressive even if many San Franciscans thought he was. He said he was a longtime Republican before switching to become an independent voter.

At the end of the interview, he turned to a public relations executive. He could be heard asking why her mouth was wide open and if he had said anything he shouldn’t have.

“What about the political questions?” he asked. “Too spicy?”

Then he hung up.

Heather Knight is a reporter in San Francisco, leading The Times’s coverage of the Bay Area and Northern California.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2d

Dig a landlord used ICE to clean out a Black building and nobody but one paper covered it and none of the “Allie’s” are making those folks lives hell

Yall play if you want to

But when I say we have no real open people first strategy?

THIS WHY I THINK THAT

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2d

RIGHT and like if we’re “fighting fascism”

By sacrificing the people the Nazis came for

Uh let me tell you something you ain’t doing what you think you is

Zazecki @zazecki.bsky.social · 2d

Dems, unironically: "Those guys everyone calls nazis and we freely call threats to our democracy might have a point about trans people"

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2d

We are 8 months into the term and almost 18 onto the ba and Dems are more willing to give millions and time to assholes whose main message is

“Screw trans people and erase Black folks”

Than

HOLY HELL WE WILL BE REBUILDING THIS ALL AND TAKW CARE OF YOU

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 6d

Richard Spencer is correct here

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d

Things I don't even have to unpack for you. Has there ever been renaming by threat before? Could the roads be renamed Partisan Threat Way? Font of Innumerable Death Threats Way? My Way or the Highway?

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 3d

Among the reasons I absolutely loathe genAI is the fact it devalues and undermines skills like learning how to research, fact check, and communicate. It’s like answering a question with a print out of search engine results, taking it as truth because the computer said so.

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Rev. Alcyone Daze @facilitatrix.bsky.social · 4d

For October 8th’s #DIYandDie, a bit of a change of pace—I posted the text of Contagion Press’s “Queer Goetia” for TDoR last year because it unintentionally answers a question that comes up a lot for me: what are my duties to the Beloved Dead, to myself, and to a given person’s survivors?

Rev. Alcyone Daze @facilitatrix.bsky.social · Nov 21

1. [QUEER: “strange, peculiar, eccentric.” From the German quer meaning “oblique, perverse, odd” which in turn comes from the Old High German word for “oblique.” twerh, which is derived from the root terkw, “to turn, twist, wind” as in “the labyrinth turns, twists, winds.”]

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 4d

this feels like the corollary to we need Mamdani in NYC and an oyster fisherman in Maine and a midwestern dad in Minnesota.

we're supposed to be the party that embraces the fact that we're a diverse and chaotic nation, stop test-polling yourself to generic national oatmeal!!!

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 4d

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 3d

It's not just that Trump took a request from the audience to label "Antifa" as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, and then agreed to do it... it's that Trump went to shadow president Stephen Miller for final authorization and approval right there on camera.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3d

the president, the sec of state, and a random reporter are casually discussing whether to designate antifa a foreign terrorist organization

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 4d

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes.

In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 3d

We have been warning y’all about cops for god knows how long.

Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 22d

When the nazis were coming into power, there was a lag before local law enforcement was fully on board. People were able to get police protection from nazi-aligned paramilitaries. Here, today, police look at rising fascism and say “Finally. We’ve been waiting for this.” www.notus.org/democrats/me...

Democrats' New Fear: They Can’t Rely on Local Law Enforcement for Protection

“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me,” said Rep. Steven Horsford.

www.notus.org

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Karl Keyton @karlkeyton.bsky.social · 3d

"Andy Ngo briefs the president on Antifa" is a short form horror story and it's not the worst part of that entire meeting

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 4d

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 3d

Ew ew ew just for an ad for one of those AI assistants in which a woman asks it to write a haiku about her cat.

You can’t write a 3 line, 17 syllable poem about your cat?????

What is being alive for if not writing tiny little poems about your cat??!!

Add this to my joker file. Good lord.

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 3d

Anti-fascist action, which began as a response to the National Fascist Party, began organizing in the 1920's and the "girlfriend of one of its founders" would be well over 100.

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 3d

lest anyone think the girlfriend line was a hilarious joke I concocted...

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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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