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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

It is sick

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 5h

amazing opening
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

You sit, according to the polls, on the cusp of a historic political victory. You would be the youngest mayor in a century. You’d be New York City’s first Muslim mayor. You’d be its first democratic socialist mayor.

I wouldn’t actually be the first democratic socialist mayor.

Who would it be?

David Dinkins was a member of D.S.A., he identified also as a democratic socialist.

Thank you for the correction.

Very welcome.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

We believe that in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, working people deserve a dignified life.

And to the billionaires who think this movement is an existential threat to their corruption of our democracy: you're right.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5h

When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

huh, wonder what this was about

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 5h

Whether he jumped or was pushed, this seems like a big deal. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Derrick Crowe @derrickwrites.bsky.social · 5h

This is a broken person with zero credibility. She deserves pity and a swift exit from a publicly funded job.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Derrick Crowe @derrickwrites.bsky.social · 5h

We didn't have time for this fascist bullshit. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

www.theguardian.com

Derrick Crowe @derrickwrites.bsky.social · 1d

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.the-independent.com

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Derrick Crowe @derrickwrites.bsky.social · 1d

People are pushing back all over the country. We will not accept these assaults on our freedoms. We will keep standing up for ourselves and our neighbors. We will confront their violence with nonviolent discipline and joy. Be brave.

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Derrick Crowe @derrickwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Legend. May the Force be with him.

Austin News @austin.thesocial.news · 2d

Drew Struzan, who designed iconic 'Star Wars,' 'Indiana Jones' posters, dies at 78

Drew Struzan, who made the posters for 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones,' has died

Struzan's distinctive hand-drawn style became synonymous with the action and romance of movies in the 20th century.

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Derrick Crowe @derrickwrites.bsky.social · 2d

The most important things to preserve aren't institutions or programs, but our integrity, our fighting spirit for justice, & our care & solidarity for & with each other. The other attacks are about taking those from us. Each of us is in control of whether they win. Take responsibility for your mind.

Derrick Crowe @derrickwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Make a choice to act with courage as the regime continues its violence. They are escalating every day. If we are brave & defiant & stick to our principles & don't let them degrade us & wear us out, one day it will be one escalation too many & they will collapse. Then we'll build something new.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

Turning Point USA is trying to segregate the NFL halftime show.

Fking weirdos.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 3d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 4d

Straight up evil

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 4d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 4d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 5d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

Nice recap

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d

Up to this point, Governor Pritzker has said all the right things. If they're not backed up with action — specifically, control of your own law enforcement organization — then they were wasted breath.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 5d

Illinois State Police issue a final warning to disperse from in front of the Broadview ICE facility, a full 20 minutes before the protest curfew time.

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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 5d

www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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 ...

www.nokings.org

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Derrick Crowe @derrickwrites.bsky.social · 5d

After another brutal summer, climate solutions must come first marylandmatters.org/2025/10/03/a...

After another brutal summer, climate solutions must come first - Maryland Matters

marylandmatters.org

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5d

Ha ha ha they're like authoritarians www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Derrick Crowe @derrickwrites.bsky.social · 6d

Fascist scumbags

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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