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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 2h

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cedar subaru lesbian @pussy.meangirls.online · 2h

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 9h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 12h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Big Nasty 🤠☭ @bignasty.bsky.social · 3h

Reminder that you should NOT register to go to a protest. Go if you want to, but DO NOT WRITE YOUR NAME ON THIS WEBSITE.

Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 10h

This is a direct link to No Kings rallies next Saturday the 18th across America.

Use it to find the one you are going to.

We need everyone to show up AND RT the link and post it in non political digital spaces.

It’s now our never, folks!!!

nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

nokings.org

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 3h

Polycule? Yeah she’s poly cule as hell bro

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 1d

No thank you

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 1d

“Baby in her placenta” is pretty bad for a HHS secretary but it’s arguably worse for a guy with six kids. It’s impossible to not learn this stuff as a dad if you’re even remotely paying attention just once.

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 1d

I’ve been lurking on Threds for like a month now and it doesn’t suck as much as I expected, but I would also sum it up like this: it’s a place a certain kind of person goes to get ratioed on purpose.

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 1d

You deserve her

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 1d

Come on over bb

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 1d

If you find Johnny Cash deeply uncool that’s a skill issue on your part

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 1d

Nothing makes sense

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1d

No incarnation of any political party at any time in any country on earth has ever spent so much time thinking about children’s genitals.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

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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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 1d

this is also just terrible interviewing? Like why are you trying to answer a question on behalf of the person you’re interviewing? Fucking wild

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Streetcat @streetcat-stan.bsky.social · 1d

If someone has an issue with trans folks, they can fix their hearts or die. David Lynch taught me that.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 1d

“The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently."

— David Graeber

Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 1d

There is such a paucity of imagination in the chattering class—journalists, other politicians, etc. No curiosity, no willingness to consider the idea that the system we live in isn't the one we HAVE to live in. Indeed, seems like the opposite is true: an aversion to anything besides the status quo

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Keyah (banned era) @sapphic-film-nerd.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting how the Indigenous woman kidnapped from the Conscious flotilla isn't getting a fraction of the attention as white participants. Even articles aren't naming her! Her name is Mskwaasin Agnew.

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 2d

Subtweet without malice but in response to something that happens a lot:

When people point out that something is illegal or full on unconstitutional, it's not because this admin cares, it's because you should be aware.

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 2d

Would moss covered abomination girl like a drink

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 2d

We like the idea of Tron, apparently

Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 2d

I still haven’t forgiven the artists I liked who went all-in on NFTs.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 2d

As the Supreme Court term begins, keep this framework in mind: Autocratic Legalism.

Instead of “rule of law” (law constrains the power), we get “rule by law” (law as a weapon for power).

Authoritarians usually have to install allies. Trump started his second term with that step already complete.

The only effective opposition is through the language of morality and documented harm—not legal technicalities that can be swept away with a 6–3 vote.” The text is centered on a neutral background, with “morality” and “documented harm” slightly emphasized to underscore the moral and empirical contrast with “legal technicalities.”

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