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elizabeth is spooky @thatelizabeth.bsky.social · 11h

I really hope they win this, slapps are one of the ways by which the rich get away with whatever they like

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 12h

We're trying to make legal history: we are asking the High Court to find for the first time ever that a defamation claim brought against @danneidle.bsky.social is a SLAPP under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023. goodlaw.social/raiz

We’re helping Dan Neidle face down a seven-figure SLAPP | Good Law Project

A barrister who was flogging tax avoidance schemes is now suing Dan Neidle for a defamation payout of over £8m. But we’re not backing down.

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likajam.bsky.social @likajam.bsky.social · 4h

An ecologist and a student minutes after leaving prison

They will spend an year in prison if they are arrested during protests again

Everyone usually goes back to the protest the same evenings

We are much crazier than russians think😁

#ProtestsinGeorgia

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 15h

Protesters swarmed an ICE facility in Durango, CO demanding two children detained with their father be released to their mother. Durango Police say they also offered to help reunite the kids with their mother. They were unsuccessful.

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Villanelle’s Pink Dress 💛🧡❤️🍁🎃👻 @tasslefizney1.bsky.social · 18h

This is how it’s done & thank you to Heretic Coffee for leading the way 🩷

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 18h

Heretic Coffee is a volunteer-run, nonprofit coffee shop that trains people to become baristas and coffee roasters.

The coffee shop has been soliciting donations for less than a week to pay for breakfast for people losing SNAP benefits from the federal government

www.oregonlive.com/food/2025/10...

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d

This was “…part of the ‘Make DC Safe Again’ initiative…”

Not kidding. Actual quotation from this article.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop

Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10d

Today’s No Kings protest could be the largest single-day protest in U.S. history.

People have power.

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Martha @marthalondon.bsky.social · 1d

that's the freezing point

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

October 27, 2025

There is a lot going on tonight, but the world is going to have to turn without me: it’s been a long run without a break and I need to sleep.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3d

Digging up more pictures of the WH garden (East Wing) that has been now completely destroyed

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Susan M. Furey, Ed.D. @sfurey.bsky.social · 3d

#greedkills

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Bishop Whitewind @bishopwhitewind.bsky.social · 3d

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US

Taki Allen, 16, said he was eating a bag of Doritos after football practice before being handcuffed by police.

www.bbc.com

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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 3d

Wonderfully pedantic letter in today’s @financialtimes.com

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Mako @mako69.bsky.social · 3d

Full repudiation of collaborationist legacy media is the only way forward from here. Whatever is rebuilt from the ashes of this dark time must not include the cowards and fascists like the NYT or WP, full stop.

AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 3d

Can't believe this is real

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@David @david5300.bsky.social · 3d

🚨BREAKING: the anonymous source of the $130M donation to Pentagon to pay troops is allegedly Timothy Mellon, the guy who wrote an book in 2015 with a chapter titled “Slavery Redux,” where he compared Black people on social safety net programs to slavery.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3d

Two big opposing rallies in Hungary today.

Orban’s pro-Russia one got fewer than 30k.

His rival Peter Magyar got more than 200K.

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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 3d

FACT~ Chromosomes do not create any inherent danger or risk to safety, & they don't define the sex, strength, speed or endurance levels of individuals.

Some boys are born XX & some girls are XY (not even trans) & some have one & some 3 chromosomes.

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Kirsti Miller on X: "We let 230lb women play RUGBY against 100lb women--a difference of 130lbs. But Terfs are worried about a trans woman who might be 10lbs heavier on average than the AVERAGE for cis women? See, you're worried about something that is a full order of magnitude smaller. https://t.co/CihDngkgoY" / X

We let 230lb women play RUGBY against 100lb women--a difference of 130lbs. But Terfs are worried about a trans woman who might be 10lbs heavier on average than the AVERAGE for cis women? See, you're worried about something that is a full order of magnitude smaller. https://t.co/CihDngkgoY

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Martha @marthalondon.bsky.social · 3d

*mystified*

Martha @marthalondon.bsky.social · 3d

CAPTAIN OBVIOUS HERE. I WOULD JUST LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT .. oh OK they already did.

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jane fae #facciamorete #antifa @janefae.bsky.social · 4d

Just putting this out there, because already we are seeing folks pretend Powell and phillipson had no significant differences, and once more erasing trans folk.

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jane fae #facciamorete #antifa @janefae.bsky.social · 4d

No real difference?

Nah. Because standing up for the humanity of despised minorities like trans people is so easily dismissed by "clever" bigots in the Labour Party...

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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ @christineburns.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Lucy Powell has been elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party on a 16% turnout of the membership. See? Even THEY don’t care. Unfortunately Bridget Philipson no longer needs to worry about the damage to her prospects when she tables the EHRC’s Trans Exclusion From Toilets and Societies […]

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jane fae #facciamorete #antifa @janefae.bsky.social · 4d

If only Labour had a Fat Controller!

(They're certainly in favour of the Sir Topham Hats of the world!)

An image taken from Thomas the Tanl Engine of the Fat Controller telling Thomas off, with the words: "You have caused confusion and delay"

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 12d

That’s because these attacks have little to do with drug policy and everything to do with normalizating the extrajudicial killings of anyone who displeases Dear Leader.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12d

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 12d

People like Trump, Hegseth, and Rubio expect to be served fish at a restaurant whenever they snap their fingers. They never think about the people who catch the fish, prepare their food, wash the dishes, or make their miserable lives possible.

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 12d

Not great that fishermen fear being randomly murdered by the U.S. government.

Or that the U.S. President jokes about it.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Venezuelan fishermen in fear after US strikes on boats in the Caribbean

At least 27 people have been killed in US strikes on alleged "narco-boats" in the Caribbean.

www.bbc.com

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 12d

🚨Adm. Alvin Holsey, is leaving his job as head of the US Southern Command even as the Pentagon has rapidly built up some 10,000 forces in the region. One anonymous official said that Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats.🚨

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 5d

This is the 10th boat they’ve hit. It wasn’t even moving and they presented zero evidence of guilt as usual. When the Coast Guard used to actually stop and search vessels, a quarter of the boats had no contraband. Hegseth is simply executing people without evidence or trial based on suspicion.

Another US strike in Caribbean targets alleged drug-running boat, killing 6, Hegseth says

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says another U.S. strike in the Caribbean targeted an alleged drug-running boat operated by the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, killing six people.

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