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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1h

Quilt art inspired by vintage photographs of African American people, by contemporary US artist Bisa Butler #WomensArt
US #BlackHistoryMonth

Textile artwork featuring standing two figures facing forwards, a Black man and woman, the man wears a patterned suit in vivid colours and the woman wears a long coat in similar patterns and colours and she wears a large rounded hat, all against a patterned pink background

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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 16h

Oil and gas companies will often claim to be partners in the clean energy transition, when it is politically expedient to do so, but new research finds their actual contributions are marginal:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oil and gas industry’s marginal share of global renewable energy

Nature Sustainability - The decarbonization of oil and gas companies may not be as speedy or robust as advertised. This analysis finds that renewable energies make up just a minor fraction of the...

www.nature.com

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Maryam M.-C. @maryneedsnohail.bsky.social · 9h

Unfortunately, trying to ride it out just doesn't work with fascists. They'll have to be defeated actively.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 9h

Be nice if any single national Democrat promised to hold these fuckwads accountable for malicious prosecution should the wheel ever turn around.

But, whatever. Everybody who opposes Trump will just have to weather this bullshit.

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Maryam M.-C. @maryneedsnohail.bsky.social · 9h

Unfortunately, trying to ride it out just doesn't work with fascists. They'll have to be defeated actively.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 9h

Be nice if any single national Democrat promised to hold these fuckwads accountable for malicious prosecution should the wheel ever turn around.

But, whatever. Everybody who opposes Trump will just have to weather this bullshit.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 12h

So cool to see white supremacists who spend half their careers trying to eliminate trans people from the planet be normalized like this.

Great work CNN

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h

Following MTG's lengthy CNN sitdown interview, Wolf Blitzer tells her:

"You‘re a courageous politician, but more important, a loving mother. Thanks very much for coming in. We hope you‘ll come back here in the Situation Room."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12h

Remember all of the ghouls who denied this was happening and did everything they could to make the problem worse from JK Rowling to Wes Streeting. The NHS who did a stitch up report to hide the growing number of suicides from trans youth on the waitlists. They should never be forgiven.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13h

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues.

Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 18h

A fringe group wants the field of psychiatry to regress back to the days when stereotypes and prejudices resulted in mental illness diagnoses for marginalized populations.

In a new reported piece, @evanurquhart.bsky.social examines Genspect's call for the re-psychopathologization of trans identity.

Hate Group Calls for Re-Labeling Transness as Mental Illness — Assigned

A fringe group with no expertise pushes the field of psychiatry to regress to a pre-scientific, prejudice-soaked view of trans people. It coincides with the far-right political agenda.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 20h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 1d

The armed conflict in Sudan seems to be one of the world's most forgotten civil wars. The reigning silence surrounding this conflict plunges the population into daily turmoil.

Sudan is bleeding in silence: A humanitarian crisis the world cannot ignore

The armed conflict in Sudan seems to be one of the world's most forgotten civil wars. The reigning silence surrounding this conflict plunges the population into daily turmoil.

globalvoices.org

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 1d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 1d

Usually it's done with a wink and a nod, but after Elon threw up Roman salutes at the inauguration it's open Nazism in the White House on national TV.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 1d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 1d

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 1d

"Some have said about Assassin's Creed games that "DEI kills art" but this might be a case where "anti-DEI" helped kill art."

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 1d

this is indeed a direct response to that person who said we should abandon trans folk because “ppl won’t die on that hill, it’s not a winning political strategy”

Me. I will die on that hill. We leave nobody on the tracks.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 1d

the only solution here is to point out that no minority group is causing shit. What’s causing problems is an exploitative system geared at making some people richer than god at the expense of everyone else

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 1d

labour/democrats/whoever are not losing because they’re discussing supporting trans people. they’re losing because they agreed, by engaging in the argument at all, with the premise that some minority groups can be blamed for social problems.

it’s only ever going to be a question of who is blamed.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 1d

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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Maryam M.-C. @maryneedsnohail.bsky.social · 1d

So all this rage-bait just to lead us to the usual "chip in and vote" platitudes. It's getting old. Fascists with armed militants in the streets have no intention of allowing themselves to be voted out. If you're interested in stopping this, the nested thread below outlines how one goes about it:

Maryam M.-C. @maryneedsnohail.bsky.social · Jan 10

Surviving fascism depends on effective resistance. But can civilians defeat fascists armed with anything from drones to nukes? The answer is yes. This growing collection of threads explains what you can do, based on a decade of research. If you doubt that all this is necessary read the thread below:

Maryam M.-C. @maryneedsnohail.bsky.social · Nov 18

🧵A thread to help Americans understand what they are up against. I'm an American citizen who grew up in GA as a person with dark skin, and who has lived in Europe for some time. Anglo-Saxon white supremacy and European-style fascism share a common history. But I have also observed key differences:

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 1d

The Trump regime continues its quest to violate every conceivable right of trans people.

Aly Gibbs brings you this story of the DoJ's invasion of trans people's privacy.

Trump’s Justice Department Wants to Violate Your Family’s Right to Privacy — Assigned

Subpoenas filed by the Justice Department are demanding far more information from healthcare providers than they’re entitled to, but some are fighting back.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Maryam M.-C. @maryneedsnohail.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. The things fascists say are not genuine beliefs you can argue against. They have no such beliefs. Their sole motivation is the sadistic desire to harm their victims. And the sole purpose of their rhetoric is to serve as a weapon in that pursuit.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

And rhetoric matters.
Obviously not more than our material conditions; but online rhetoric has been shaped deliberately to frame the most vulnerable among us as acceptable ‘losses’ and to foster hate that technofascists can manipulate.

Maryam M.-C. @maryneedsnohail.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who finds this odd needs to remember that literally everything fascists say are disposable, arbitrarily made-up pretexts in the service of making the "unworthy" suffer and die. Rhetoric, which attempts to paint their victims and opponents as oppressors, is just one example of that.

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Maryam M.-C. @maryneedsnohail.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. The things fascists say are not genuine beliefs you can argue against. They have no such beliefs. Their sole motivation is the sadistic desire to harm their victims. And the sole purpose of their rhetoric is to serve as a weapon in that pursuit.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

And rhetoric matters.
Obviously not more than our material conditions; but online rhetoric has been shaped deliberately to frame the most vulnerable among us as acceptable ‘losses’ and to foster hate that technofascists can manipulate.

Maryam M.-C. @maryneedsnohail.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who finds this odd needs to remember that literally everything fascists say are disposable, arbitrarily made-up pretexts in the service of making the "unworthy" suffer and die. Rhetoric, which attempts to paint their victims and opponents as oppressors, is just one example of that.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

And rhetoric matters.
Obviously not more than our material conditions; but online rhetoric has been shaped deliberately to frame the most vulnerable among us as acceptable ‘losses’ and to foster hate that technofascists can manipulate.

Maryam M.-C. @maryneedsnohail.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who finds this odd needs to remember that literally everything fascists say are disposable, arbitrarily made-up pretexts in the service of making the "unworthy" suffer and die. Rhetoric, which attempts to paint their victims and opponents as oppressors, is just one example of that.

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 2d

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

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