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Micah @rincewind.run · 4h

so many kids are just never going to get a chance because of these people

unconscionable

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4h

the official policy of this administration is "be born neurotypical and healthy, never have anything bad happen to you, you're completely on your own"

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 7h

⚠️ USAToday reporter confirms the office in charge of special education funding has been “decimated”:

Zach Schermele
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NEW: The Education Dept. layoffs continued overnight, w/ the main office in charge of special ed funding being
"decimated," as one person described.
"They cut just about everyone that works with IDEA funding," said another.
"I'm not sure how these programs exist moving forward."
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 1h

After ordering people out of the street, ISP cleared the entire “free speech” zone into the street before “curfew.”

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gryphoneer @gryphoneer.bsky.social · 27d

that's the kind of anarchist indoctrination i like

The Emotion Engine (The Emotion is Fear) @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 28d

My daughter (age 5.5) wanted to listen to Taylor Swift and I realized that she has no idea what Swift’s music sounds like so we’ve just been listening to the 1997 album Tubthumping by Chumbawumba instead

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 2h

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Velvet Dragon (COMMS OPEN) @velvetthedragon.bsky.social · 13d

Genuinely Mormonism needs to be destroyed it's more evil than scientology

Ciara RayneCloud @ciararaynecloud.bsky.social · 13d

Hey so... did you know that the Mormon Church filed an amicus curiae brief on the 19th of September? Me either...

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

In short, "Giving trans people rights hurts us because it ruins our religious freedom to be bigots!"

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2h

Wow.

Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 3h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 2h

There's probably some historical precedent somewhere for ICE's strategy of arresting people's children for the sole purpose of drawing their parents out of hiding to come rescue them but I sure as fuck can't remember ever seeing anyone else do it

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 7h

the idea that freedom is in our DNA is just a misinterpretation of the fact that we’re a nation of finicky whiners who don’t like to be personally inconvenienced

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 7h

At least we no longer have to hear about freedom being in Americans' DNA or whatever. Turns out we love to eat shit and bow to some bloated halfwit like any other people throughout history

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Jeremy Youde @jeremyyoude.bsky.social · 2h

I love my city.

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome.

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Craig Harrington @handle.invalid · 21h

If this reminds you of an extremely famous book you might have read in high school… yes.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2h

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 2h

It continues to be wild that Dems require you to do their messaging for them

They're fighting a political negotiation on the battleground of optics at the moment and I've not seen them do any signalling

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

🧵 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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John the Ghost 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @johnbrojomojo.bsky.social · 4h

They say the left is too easily offended while getting easily offended.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 6h

Fashy Cinemasins

That's what this is, the effect the proliferation of "anti-woke" youtube grifters have had on their audiences as a whole, stunting their ability to engage with media and training them to look for "DEI sins" to call out, atrophying their ability to enjoy the games they're playing.

No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 2d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 7h

“Captain, the leopard sensors are spiking. They are showing levels of faces being eaten we previously assumed impossible.”

“On screen, Mister Data…”

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 9h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11h

Racist, fascist billionaires control consumer-facing "A.i." Do not use this propaganda tech.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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John the Ghost 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @johnbrojomojo.bsky.social · 4h

No guitar pedal is worth forking 30000 dollars for. I won't even pay 1000. My pedals are like 80$ each.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 7h

Who keeps casting him? Apparently, he does.

Allegedly, he attaches himself to a project as executive producer and puts up some of the budget as long as he can star in it.

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 9h

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 5h

For a brief, glorious moment I forgot about Andy Ngo. I skipped past the post author. But as soon as I saw "almost killed with milkshakes" the memories came flooding back

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1d

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

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dead domain 🐐🏳️‍⚧️ @domaindead.bsky.social · 6h

Live now! Get in here!

dead domain 🐐🏳️‍⚧️ @domaindead.bsky.social · 12h

TRON Ares is one of the most unsurprising, blatant pieces of corporate propaganda I've ever seen, and what started as a review turned into something of an essay on why the franchise meant so much to me, and why I'm not surprised.

Premiere soon:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=slkq...