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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 1d

IT DOES NOT MATTER IF YOUR MEDICAL EMERGENCY IS DUE TO DRUG ADDICTION. IT'S A MEDICAL EMERGENCY YOU FUCKING GHOULS.

This is part and parcel of what's keeping us from having universal health care: they really believe that some ppl deserve medical care and some don't.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 1d

For decades lawmakers have funded and outfitted cops with military gear who are trained to unload on anyone for any reason they see fit, and now getting indiscriminately beaten and arrested by them is apparently the only defense from the actual military doing worse.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Telling the federal court that IL police can handle Broadview was part of the state's legal strategy against national guard being deployed here.

But it's hard to square that as for the good of protestors or Illinoisans as a whole, when IL police are perfectly willing to drag and beat them anyway.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

state police continue to push protesters down 25th street. at one point, cops swarmed a group of people and pushed them to the ground.

multiple people arrested.

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 1d

This affects you even if you do have insurance.

Hospitals are already closing thanks to existing Medicaid cuts. It's only going to get worse.

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

🧵 regarding the shutdown:

The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.

If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

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Bob Ratz @ratman1967.bsky.social · 1d

This doesn't just affect rural areas. All those rural people who survive the 2+ hour transport are going to drown the capacity of remaining hospitals. There will be pain, injury, and death for everyone to share.

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

🧵 regarding the shutdown:

The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.

If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

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 · 1d

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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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

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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Gretchen Hovan @ghlearn.bsky.social · 2d

The longer shirt length is a game changer—just wish they had more colors

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Gretchen Hovan @ghlearn.bsky.social · 2d

I wish he hadn’t! I hate that reporters can’t call out the lies

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

“We took the freedom of speech away. That’s been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but-"

to be clear it’s not just the courts that say you have that freedom

it’s the Constitution

right there in the First Amendment

like, numba 1
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

“We Took the Freedom of Speech Away” Is Somehow a Direct Quote From Donald Trump

Trump's definition of "freedom of speech" does not appear to incorporate anything the Supreme Court has said on the subject.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Gretchen Hovan @ghlearn.bsky.social · 3d

It sounded like she was saying they would need to be sober for 72 hours before they could receive help for housing etc

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

the portland chicken explains

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Gretchen Hovan @ghlearn.bsky.social · 3d

I wonder if there is a way to find out which homes are rentals. I feel like Frey signs popped up last year in my neighborhood, in homes I knew were rentals. Wondering if this is the same

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy.

Some thoughts from my new piece:

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We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

steady.page

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 4d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 3d

people don’t understand that data center resource consumption driven by AI is just like… giving a person climbing a mountain a set of encyclopedias to carry with them

adapting to climate change was already a struggle, and now we have carry all this extra shit that provides no added value

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 4d

Cause the algorithms are increasingly shady and I don’t see much promotion, let me Gift Link this:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

www.nytimes.com

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Kay Carvajal Moran @kayforparks.bsky.social · 4d

It is with great joy to have the support of State Representative Samantha Sencer-Mura! I am excited to collaborate and to build together for our youth and families.

A graphic of Rep. Sencer-Mura endorsing Kay
"Kay will bring much needed energy and vision to the park board. I'm excited by her background in youth work and her passion for bringing youth voice to the table.
With her leadership, we can work together to make sure kids and families feel welcome and cared for by our parks system."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

I think about this a lot -- I read her memoir and it really hit home for me that she quietly was the person who wrote all of her hit songs and people simply assume it was some dude who is smarter than her when she's the brains behind the operation

Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 4d

People say they wanna talk singer songwriters and then don’t bring up Mariah Carey and i think that says something about our society

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Gretchen Hovan @ghlearn.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve been thinking about this for awhile—how we teach wars in history classes but not very often the peace negotiations/programs that support peace so hard for people to understand what it takes

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 5d

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

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

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 4d

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

rewirenewsgroup.com

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Aurin Chowdhury MPLS City Council Member W12 @aurinmpls.bsky.social · 5d

This is not okay. Everyone should be standing against the intense islamophobia and anti Somali hate we are seeing in our city. Please speak out and stand against the fomenting of hate. Thanks CP & Senator for taking action.

Elliott Payne @elliottpayne.org · 5d

Tonight a resident posted a picture of racist and Islamaphobic language written on Johnson street that called for @omarfatehmn.com to be deported and wished death upon the Somali community. @doronclark.bsky.social and I showed up right away to get this racist garbage off of our streets

Elliott and doron cleaning up the shared use path on johnson

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6d

Reminder that we still don’t know what happened to the 1,000 immigrants who went missing from Alligator Alcatraz.

Their families and attorneys can’t locate them.

They’ve been disappeared.

People are still being sent to that horrible place without any due process.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Sep 2

Also a pretty fair guess that someone who talks about "the West" and any threats to it is a big racist.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · Sep 2

Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

The table of contents for Read This When Things Fall Apart is a crisis directory—“read this if…” [insert heartbreak, setback, disaster, or breaking point]. I wish I could gift a copy to every activist in Chicago. You can donate a copy to an activist in need here: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

The cover for the book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. The cover art features a person wading into a body of water in the woods at night.

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