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Emails show Jeffrey Epstein ‘secretly bankrolled’ Sarah Ferguson for 15 years www.celebitchy.com/945902/
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Overstaying its welcome. Making New Yorkers’ days grimmer. Something we should relegate to the past.

No, we're not talking about Andrew Cuomo. We're talking about scaffolding.

Today we released our plan to take it down more quickly.
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Waterstones Islington are bravely battling a flood - go and say hi and get a book to cheer them up!
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Squirrels! 🎃🧡

Art by Elisabeth Alba
The original painting is 3x3 inches.

We haven't gotten pumpkins for the front porch yet, but as soon as we do, the squirrels will start feasting!

#squirrels #pumpkins #autumn #illustration #cute #jackolantern
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People who tell me “You’re an extreme case, we’re not talking about you” when it comes to disability benefits…

I don’t care.

When you come for one disabled person, you come for us all.

I’m not as selfish as you to do the “Oh I’m alright then”.
I actually care about others.
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Please consider adding alt text to posts with images as folx who rely on screen readers for vision loss deserve equitable access to information, & you can update your settings on BlueSky so that you cannot post images without alt text, so you are prompted to add it if you might otherwise forget! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Image of the iconic Portland Frog in the style of Shepard Fairey with the text "HOP" beneath.
And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.
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The frogs (and unicorns and dinosaurs) will be defining ideographs of this period of struggle.
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
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Rallies like this bring together multigenerational groups and the playfulness can help create enthusasim for big tent politics against the monoculture of fascism.
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The biggest renovation of the White House -- the so-called Truman Reconstruction of 1949-1952 -- came about only because the building was in such a state of disrepair that inspectors decided it was unsafe for occupancy.

Not because the president just decided he needed a big fancy ballroom.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 10h
BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.

Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
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Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing?

Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.
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Look at Kurt the Vampire Kitty! 😍🧛

Kurt needs a patient home willing to meet him where he's at... so he can live his best life in a home instead of a shelter. Where are the grey cat lovers in Missouri & Illinois? #StLouis
People expect cats to perform like they're on America’s Got Talent—but I’m just Kurt: a cute, curious cat with little fangs and a big heart. After 6 years in the shelter, I’ve learned to love people. I just need someone patient enough to love me back. 💛 #AdoptDontShop
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We can't talk or DO anything about the state of the internet until some people admit they believe that they are SUPPOSED to have better experiences than:

- old people
- Black people
- people with low follower accounts

and they are operating from contempt while doing sos
1 Samuel 8:10-18, it didn't end well for #TeamKing
17 He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. 18 And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”
16 He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men[a] and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants. 15 He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.
12 And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.
11 He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots.