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(He/Him 🇨🇦 Winnipeg/Treaty 1) 🌱 Everything 4:20! 🌿 • Cannabis student & educator • Still refuses to eat celery 🤢 • Got banned that one time • All thoughts expressed are my own 🔞 Nothing for sale. 🚭 / 🚫 Not on X! 🚫 Contact: idi_canna ● outlook dot com

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in da' indica! @indaindica.bsky.social · Jan 20

It's going to be a trying 4 (+?) years for a lot of people.

I just want to communicate clearly and in specific terms, that if you are gay, bisexual, trans, BIPOC, *any minority* - other than billionaire or _____ supremacist; that you are safe with me.

❤

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 6h

Emergency naked bike ride is just a really funny idea

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 6h

Israelis gather in Tel Aviv ahead of scheduled prisoner-hostage swap.

Dozens of Israelis gather in the middle of the night at the Tel Aviv plaza known as the Hostages' Square, ahead of the scheduled prisoners-hostages swap due in the morning

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Our Lady of Perpetual Disappointment @rkfatheree.bsky.social · 6h

This is worth watching. For sure.

Trump: What's the Deal? (Full 1991 BANNED Documentary)

The film was commissioned in 1988 by Leonard Stern. Donald threatened to sue any broadcaster or distributor that took on the film. It was screen only twice & subsequently suppressed.

theofficialurban.substack.com

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 5h

Trump: “We took the freedom of speech away”

That's it.

That's the quote.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 15h

this is the list of ideological identifiers laid out in the NSPM-7 that would predict violence, and are all of course, incredibly reasonable positions or just ridiculous framing, like “extremism on gender” which is just being pro-trans:

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 7h

Read my words. Ty.

Arrests and Protests at the Broadview ICE Facility

The Department of Homeland Security says that eleven people were arrested Saturday at a protest outside of the Broadview ICE facility.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt.

This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25

"Every day at 6 am, Bilma boards a bus that shuttles her to downtown Los Angeles’s Fashion District. When she reaches the garment factory an hour later, she starts working immediately, without punching in. Like thousands of other garment workers in the United States, Bilma’s wages aren’t tethered to the clock but rather to the quantity of operations she executes. Three cents for a zipper or sleeve, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt before she passes it onto the next sewing operator in line. Assembling an entire dress earns her a mere 15 cents. Bilma toils away on garments primarily for fast-fashion labels such as Fashion Nova, Lulus, and Lucy in the Sky, who prioritize quickly stocking on-trend items over the quality of materials. These companies peddle things like $80 maxi dresses, $25 poplin dress shirts, and $5 crop tops, all modeled by beautiful people and bedecked with the tantalizing promise of low-cost glamor."

"This worker payment system, known as “piecework” in the garment industry, is how US-based manufacturers can sidestep labor laws that require companies to pay at least the minimum wage. Rather than compensating Bilma for the exhausting 12-hour shifts—a regimen that, according to LA County’s minimum wage requirement, should yield $202.80—her pay is determined by the individual tasks she performs, which can fluctuate daily. Despite her adept handling of hundreds of garments a day, Bilma’s earnings typically linger around $50 per day. That’s $300 weekly for the standard six-day grind and $350 if she opts for Sunday labor. Doing what she can with this modest income, Bilma spends $400 a month to live in a two-bedroom apartment with six other people, some of whom are day laborers. In this crowded arrangement, two occupants squeeze into each bedroom, while two more lay claim to the living room. Bilma sleeps in the corner of the bustling kitchen."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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NPR @npr.org · 12h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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in da' indica! @indaindica.bsky.social · 7h

two people standing in front of a store with a sign that says no smoking on it

Alt: Some very 80s dancing

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in da' indica! @indaindica.bsky.social · 7h

0 likes, 11 hours in.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 17h

Moist owlettes. 🪶

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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · 5d

Told a young coworker not to mistake ChatGPT for experience or you'll end up like Icarus and caught him asking ChatGPT who is Icarus

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in da' indica! @indaindica.bsky.social · 7h

And his Twitter account was still posting about how Covid wasn't shit.

People were all replying, 'Bro, aren't you dead from Covid?'

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 8h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

How microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds.

“The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do.”

Microplastics like those from car tires. The bigger and heavier the vehicle, the more microplastics shed.

The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds

The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 21h

But there is nothing noble or respectable about what Vought is doing, about his vision for the country. He is a fully competent, utterly committed radical ideologue. He lusts for counter-revolution and radical measures. There is no line he doesn’t feel justified to cross.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 21h

It is October 2025, the assault on what is left of American democracy is escalating, and one of the New York Times’ most influential formats insists on presenting one of the Trumpist regime’s leaders as a devout “small government” conservative with a great work ethic.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10h

Portland continues to amaze me 👏

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in da' indica! @indaindica.bsky.social · 8h

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Talk With Saul @talkwithsaul.bsky.social · 10h

They took him

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9h

An Israeli journalist gloats over the murder of a Palestinian journalist.

I can’t find the words to characterize it—‘depraved’ is far too gentle.

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 9h

Roof cops were intentionally aiming for heads. There was a gaggle of photographers and at least three of them got pepper balled on their heads. No one else was around them. One of the feds on the roof was also waving to naked bikers and making hand gestures with two fingers to signal “small”

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h

Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport.

ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

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