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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 44m

thank you for your birbice.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1h

Agreed.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1h

I read @erininthemorning.com's newsletter and promptly wrote emails to Kirsten and Chuck calling them on their anti-trans bullshit. I won't vote for politicians who throw trans Americans under the bus.

26 Senate Democrats Help Pass Military NDAA Containing Trans Sports, Surgery Ban, No Protection For US Troop Deployments

The bill passed by a wide margin in the Senate and will be the starting point for negotiations with the House, which contain more severe anti-trans riders.

open.substack.com

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1h

The Trump administration's ever-increasing hysterical reactions to protesters, judges, and schools refusing to sit back and take it, while unquestionably dangerous, means that it's working.

May the frogs dance on.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 5h

I feel your utter mystification. They had the world on a platter and fucked it up over being total shitheels to powerless women. What massive, sad pathology is that.

chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 5h

Fuck yes!

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Alex Segura @alexsegura.bsky.social · 6h

Just announced at NYCC: I’m writing a KNOW YOUR RIGHTS comic with artist @davidhahn.bsky.social in partnership with @nycschools.bsky.social #civicsforall comics program, covering and explaining student rights when it comes to immigration enforcement.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 5h

Seriously. Mind-boggling.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6h

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

by Raymond Carver

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 8h

same, actually

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 8h

I love my Swedish doctor, Karin, who calls me at home to interpret my test results every time she orders some.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 1d

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

www.mibfc.org

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 23h

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing. Well done!

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

At this moment in history, just imagine having a platform that reaches millions of people—with wide leeway to cover almost anything—and doing this with it.

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:

Douthat: So, just to take a related example, one of the controversies of many that you’ve been mixed up in has to do with slavery, and whether slavery is absolutely forbidden by the Bible, absolutely forbidden to Christians, or whether it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: And you think it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: On this, on a straightforward reading of the New Testament, I would agree with you. I would say, pretty clearly, there is a pretty clear path from the message of the Bible to the abolition of slavery. But there is no moment in the New Testament when Jesus insists on the manumission of slaves.

Wilson: Right.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

The worst part about the AI bubble popping is how many average people will be affected by the economic fallout. People will lose their job, kids will go hungry, and families will lose their homes. Yet these billionaire bastards won't feel a thing other than a decline in their net worth.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1d

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing! I'm so happy for you!!!

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Json Momoa @jotatx.bsky.social · 1d

@chrischirp.bsky.social is doing a fantastic work here
www.trumpactiontracker.info

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

👀

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · Apr 17

Here's Palantir's Louis Mosley, grandson of Britain's most famous fascist leader, talking about the importance of AI, if you aren't convinced yet that this is one big co-ordinated push towards the destruction of everything good in life.

www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not saying that I'm the girfriend of antifa, but I am saying that I canceled my Apple subscriptions and joined the @socialists.nyc.

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AMERICAN RAIN @americanrain.bsky.social · 9d

David Lynch andIsabella Rossellini 1988 🖤🎬
📷Helmut Newton .

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

very interesting what is not allowed these days. in this case, basic archiving of real videos

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

The absolute bullshit I smell is sniffable.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

The essence of Bari Weiss: not reporting, but crude partisan propaganda presented in the form of reporting—and usually pronounced from the mouths of anonymous sources which likely don't exist. Expect this sort of prolefeed at CBS News soon.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

"The absolute dread I feel is palpable" is not at all how cops talk and completely how Weiss writes.

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