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Alexis @alexispace.bsky.social · Feb 26

alexander freed understands that the key to correct bail organa characterization is recognizing the truth that he is, fundamentally, completely fucking unhinged

Alexis @alexispace.bsky.social · Feb 25

Bail Organa is the only person in this book who knows that he lives in star wars with the full context of what living in star wars means

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Maya Chhabra @mayachhabra.bsky.social · 1d

I see you have met my ex-printer.

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Ti @tir2.bsky.social · 2d

we're about to see the first onion headline to ever age badly

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Third Amendment Rights Group Celebrates Another Successful Year https://theonion.com/third-amendment-rights-group-celebrates-another-success-1819569379/

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 9d

Took two days off after submitting the final draft of my Robert Gould Shaw bio, but now I am back to work on my new book project, which is a study of the Gettysburg Campaign from the perspective of the thousands of enslaved laborers forced to travel with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 3d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

www.freefunder.com

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Maya Chhabra @mayachhabra.bsky.social · 3d

I think it's comforting for some people to believe there haven't been pro-Palestine protests since Trump came to power. But it factually isn't true, although the greater repression probably keeps them smaller. I see the protests with my own eyes.

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Maya Chhabra @mayachhabra.bsky.social · 3d

There are pretty frequent pro-Palestine protests in my city, just saw one the other day when I was out at the farmer's market. The fact that in this very city a protest leader was arrested in front of his pregnant wife hasn't stopped them.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 5d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Maya Chhabra @mayachhabra.bsky.social · 4d

>>The man was ultimately charged in connection with the assault, and the case is ongoing.

This documented account runs completely counter to what law enforcement and Flock have said publicly about the case."

Maya Chhabra @mayachhabra.bsky.social · 4d

"Only after all that did they learn that she actually wanted to report a violent assault by her partner–the same individual who had called the police to report her abortion... >>
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4d

According to hacked emails obtained by @dropsitenews.com, 'journalist' Douglas Murray was allegedly writing secret draft speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN while also pretending to be an independent 'journalist'.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Tom Ochs @tomochs.bsky.social · 5d

This place MDC here in Sunset Park, Brooklyn is like something out of a Batman movie. But, it’s real. A real hellhole.

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Tom Ochs @tomochs.bsky.social · 5d

Some of the signs at the weekly vigil outside MDC here in Brooklyn. Lots of support from folks driving by! @bkindivisible.bsky.social @shahanafrombk.bsky.social @thenyic.bsky.social @maketheroadny.bsky.social

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Maya Chhabra @mayachhabra.bsky.social · 5d

The Gaza 5k to raise money for @unrwausa.bsky.social is this week. Any contributions from Bluesky friends would be very much welcome! Click on the page below.

Hope to see many NYC folks there.

getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...

2025 NYC Gaza 5K

getinvolved.unrwausa.org

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 6d

Judge Immergut isn’t playing around and I suspect will slam the Trump Administration for trying to end-run her order from yesterday blocking Trump’s call-up of Oregon’s National Guard in Portland.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 9d

Since this one took off, I will also quote the MMA fighter I knew who brushed off trolls by saying "you have to understand I cannot set the precedent that the way to get a shot at my title is to show up on my Facebook page acting like a dick".

Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 10d

tbt the time a drunk was trying to insult one of the bouncers on the high street and got the devastating response "oh look, someone who doesn't matter has said something that isn't true". I often think about this when not replying to tweets

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6d

Those who are so inclined to immediately dismiss all the seemingly grandiose reports of torture and abuse in the Israeli prison system should read this report from B'Tselem entitled: "Welcome to Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps"

In some cases, witnesses described other IPS personnel being present during attacks by the IRF. They stood idly by and did nothing to protect the victims, their presence essentially lending legitimacy to the actions. The presence of IPS officers and the participation of dozens of IPS guards in the assaults indicates that these were not isolated incidents or the work of a rogue guard.
On 9 November 2023, at around 2:00 P.M., a force of 20 masked officers from the IRF and DU arrived with a dog. They opened the cell door and attacked
Some of the
us with batons. Two of them grabbed me forces filmed
and hit me in the back with batons. One of us with cell
them grabbed my head while I was on the phones and
floor and hit me in the face with a baton.
cameras. I
My face and right eye started bleeding. I heard the
told them in Hebrew, "I'm going to die," and officer tell
one of them said that he wanted me to die.
the others in
Others told me to shut up.
Hebrew: "We're
After they beat us up for about 10 minutes, they tied our hands behind our backs with
loresee wins
zip ties. They fastened them so tight that I felt them cutting into my hands. The beating continued, and members of the forces stepped on my chest and head. There were also two officers in the cell, and one of them ordered them to beat us. The members of the forces laughed among themselves. They took some clothes away from inmates. They dragged some of us on the floor and forced others to kiss one of the officer's shoes.
I saw them grab some inmates by the testicles, and the inmates screamed and cried. The officers also pressed their batons against

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Welcome to Hell
the genitals of some inmates. The stream of insults didn't stop: "motherfuckers," "sons
None of us could move,
of bitches," "dogs," "ISIS." Some of the forces
not even to
filmed us with cell phones and cameras. I go to the
heard the officer tell the others in Hebrew:
bathroom.
"We're livestreaming for Ben Gvir."
We were all
The attack lasted a long time, more than half dizzy and lost
an hour of nonstop beating. It looked like they balance.
wanted to cause as much damage as possible.
My right eye
When it was over, I felt I was going to pass swelled up,
out. Afterwards, we lay on the floor for hours.
and I was
None of us could move, not even to go to the afraid I'd lose
bathroom. We were all dizzy and lost balance.
my sight. We
My right eye swelled up, and I was afraid I'd were in a very
lose my sight. We were in a very bad state. One bad state.
prisoner said in tears that they'd raped him
One prisoner
with a stick.
said in tears that they'd
After that incident, we lived in constant fear.
raped him
Also, we were shocked by the screams of with a stick.
inmates being beaten in other cells. We were
afraid all the time, day and night, that the forces would attack us again.
From the testimony of Firas Hassan
50, a father of four and resident of Hindaza in Bethlehem District, who was held in the Negev Prison (Ketziot) | Full testimony

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 7d

Reviving this thread from Hong Kong as federal agents throw tear gas at people on the street in Chicago.

It might not be a bad idea to have water/saline in squirt bottles on hand.

(We'd be great if not for Trump et al. It was a beautiful day today - I rode my bike along the lake for 2 hours.)

Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · Sep 9

Hey journos/other latecomers to HK. I'm a former volunteer ambulance officer and current journo (tear gassed twice this week), and today we're going make some Hotel Room isotonic saline.

But first, let's talk about tear gas.

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Maya Chhabra @mayachhabra.bsky.social · 7d

"He left Gaza with only his mobile phone and the clothes he was wearing. Nothing else was allowed.

He was told that the Israelis had strictly prohibited evacuees from taking any sand or earth from Gaza."

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 8d

“At one point, among doctors and nurses, the only topic of conversation in the hospital was food, and the desperate hunt for it. "Starving doctors were treating malnutrition," he said.
And the injured just kept coming.”

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

Gaza doctors are starving while fighting to save lives, evacuated medic tells BBC

Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, who worked in hospitals in Gaza for two years, says Israeli strikes have made conditions "indescribable" for colleagues still there.

www.bbc.com

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