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Dave 86-47 @bulldogdemocrat.bsky.social · 1d

ANTIFA Pumpkin Carving Contest Winner - 2025

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 8h

Pulitzer Prize winning historian Benjamin Nathans of the University of Pennsylvania provides a defining piece of iconic imagery in making the case for universities to stand together and repudiate the subservience the Regime is seeking to impose.

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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 23h

Howdy!

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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 23h

Reclaiming the frog for the good guys (of all genders)

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Chrissy Wiley @chrissyone.bsky.social · 1d

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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, thank the goddess. 2025 is awful enough. Wishing her the very best I can with her treatments.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 4d

Her trial can’t come soon enough.

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 4d

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you!

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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 4d

A work update... and a start to my weekly Substack posting.

As One Door Closes...

Three weeks ago, I was laid off from my job supporting global LGBTQI+ human rights.

ianlekus.substack.com

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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 8d

Having sat through the game, I can confirm your sneaking suspicion is 100%. I kinda feel bad for the Charlotte fans who drove all the way for the most enjoyable win ever. And pretty sure we’re switching our season tickets to the Spirit next year.

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Donald Wine II @blazindw.bsky.social · 8d

In what has been another poor showing from #DCU today in their final home match, the biggest positive has been a #FreeDC chant that emerged from the corner by where many of the Charlotte supporters are sitting. It didn't spread far, but the sentiment remains important.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8d

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news
*The corporate owner took down the story and edited it
*The journalists resigned

This feels like more and more of our media now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

www.nytimes.com

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 13d

I would genuinely like to know if it is possible to be less self-aware

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 13d

If resistance history were a franchise studio, this would be its Fantastic Four.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11d

Defunct, useless organization jewishinsider.com/2025/09/adl-...

ADL deletes Glossary of Extremism under pressure from conservatives

The organization stands by a separate resource that describes Kirk’s Turning Point USA’s ties to ‘extremists’

jewishinsider.com

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 9d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 9d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9d

Chris Rufo's disastrous takeover of New College in Florida shows what universities would become if they sign the Trump regime's extortionary "compact."

New College was supposed to model the anti-woke conservative higher-ed Americans crave. Instead, it showed the opposite, and serves as a warning.

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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 12d

Cheeto Mussolini’s speech is the definition of un-American.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12d

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 15d

How many do we think were disguised as empty seats?

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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 15d

I think the worst thing is how many incredibly happy Philly fans are making themselves heard.

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Dougal D'Arcy @mrdarcydog.bsky.social · 15d

War-ravaged Portland, 5 minutes ago

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 21d

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 23d

The American Gestapo in action.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23d

ICE continues to assault us.

We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23d

ICE continues to assault us.

We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 24d

Hulu/Disney+/ESPN+ package, adios. I don’t need to pay corporate quislings so I can watch The Handmaid’s Tale when I can watch it for free on the streets of DC.

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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · Jul 30

It’s amazing how, in the 4 years since I first drew this, it went from stupidly obvious satire to totally normal talking points.

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