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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 1h

Tapping the sign.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1h

Anybody whose worth their salt will not collect your data , they will have ways for you to contact them after

Don’t put any contact info on ANYTHING

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently, ICE has set up a website to trap individuals attempting to do the right thing. Please exercise caution.

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 2h

You don't go to school/college/university to be told stuff. You go to be taught the state of the field, how to tell good info from bad, how to evaluate input, etc etc etc. That is thinking. Without education there is just input with no thought. That is precisely how we got here. And here sucks.

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 2h

This is my thread of posts tracking the "Chicago Flips Red" group. This is a group of mostly Black Republicans, that numbers only *maybe* 10 people, who have been used to create a narrative that Chicagoans want ICE, the National Guard, and Trump.

Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · Aug 22

I think he might actually be talking about that garbage "Chicago Flips Red" organization, which is spearheaded by Black women. Have they actually been saying things like this lately, after LA & DC? I wouldn't put it past them.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 22

Trump: After we do this, we will go to another location and make it safe too. Chicago is a mess. That will probably be our next one after this. They are screaming for us to come. African American ladies, beautiful ladies are saying "Please President Trump, come to Chicago, please."

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Apr 6

Sheryl's basic rules for protesting.

(This isn't legal advice. The whole point is to NOT need me. Also, if you're a person who won't suffer any harm from going to a protest no matter what you do, congratulations! Most people aren't so privileged, and stop thinking you're the default.)

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 20h

The abjectly pathetic appeal to POW status is part of a truly frustrating aspect of MAGA. Trump and other minions have spit in the face of veterans. Shit on Gold Star families, insult real POWs, gut VA, etc. And not even that is a dealbreaker for these so-called patriots. Ethically hollow people.

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 22h

Dune 2 chicks at the same time

Wallace from the movie Office Space showing Wallace from the 2 chicks at the same time scene with his eyes colored purple

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 22h

Everyone who thinks Trump is an aberration instead of a culmination is rationalizing their own shitty politics.

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 22h

Congratulations to Barry Goldwater. It was the longest gestation in history but your baby has finally been born.

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 23h

Sure is Hitlery out there in the Grand Old Party

Politico @politico.com · 23h

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 1d

At the Third U.S. Congress against War and Fascism in 1936, Langston Hughes declared: “Fascism is a new name for that kind of terror the Negro has always faced in America. . . . This kind of terrorism is extending more and more to groups of peoples whose skins are not black.”

The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review

Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.

www.bostonreview.net

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 23h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 23h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 23h

Silver Super Saiyan

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 23h

Some days, seems like that's all I do. Where's my Nobel Peace Prize?

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 1d

the hell in which american jewry is now trapped — everything is antisemitism except actual antisemitism

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 1d

People capable of introspection don't work at the Free Press.

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 1d

Ditto Thomas Crooks. Inconveniently a registered Republican, vocal antisemite, and xenophobe.

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 1d

And he's stopped the ridiculous hair coloring. Someone's feeling mortal...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

This is an intentional framing choice that can easily be avoided if one wants to avoid it!

maureen @maureenf.bsky.social · 1d

really do genuinely feel that our local press needs to find a better word than clash for interactions between federal agents armed to the teeth with chemical munitions and actual guns and some neighbors who are yelling and maybe throwing found objects. not even delving into protests facing the same.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 2d

I know the temptation is to just scroll past this with a “not surprised” reaction, but you should read this if you have the emotional bandwidth to encounter horrifying slurs and violent sentiments, because there’s an important takeaway: extremism is often performed to reinforce an in-group’s bond.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 2d

And you will be photographed. Count on it.

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 20d

UPDATE: I saw it happen! At the Birds Canada research station at the tip of Long Point I watched an expert ever-so-gently and carefully put one of these tiny tags on a monarch. Let me walk you through the steps (1/4)

Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 25d

So cool to visit the Motus workshop at Birds Canada headquarters. The Motus community is studying the movement of birds, bats and insects. This tiny radio telemetry device will fit on a Monarch butterfly 😲 #invertebrates #birds 🌿 www.birdscanada.org/bird-science...

Brown wood-sided building with a wi Dow and a door. Sign above the door says, “Motus Workshop and Research Laboratory”.

Tiny antenna with a rectangular box on the end. The whole thing is on an open hand and is about 5cm long.

Orange and black butterfly on purple flowers.

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 8d

Don't even need a poker face if you don't care that everyone knows what's in your hand.

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