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lizzzilu.bsky.social @lizzzilu.bsky.social · 13h

ICE is causing the problems.

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chadzia dax 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social · 21h

oh nooo. 💀 i was definitely still occasionally wearing pantyhose with my uniform skirt as late as 2007.

The Bride (aka Rain) I ❤️ the Monster @simplyrain.bsky.social · 1d

OMFG

Just saw a TikTok where a young person "discovered" pantyhose!

She says they are soft & make your legs look nice & keep your thighs from rubbing together & she can see why they were popular in the 1900s.

💀💀💀💀💀💀

Gonna go bury myself in the woods now.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21h

WAKE UP, AMERICA!

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 15h

Autistic liberation isn’t a metaphor.

It’s the daily work of building lives that don’t require collapse to survive.

It’s boundaries, pacing, truth.

It’s a revolution in slow motion.

It may not look like "typical activism".

And that's the point.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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@rashedmarshall.bsky.social @rashednewlife.bsky.social · 19h

Hamas is an excuse for the slaughtering of Palestinians in Gaza. Netanyahu is a CRUEL VICIOUS VEIL MANICIAL DEMON 😈 who's obsessed with killing. He's fed the Israeli army an old lie of retribution.
Fck Netanyahu
PERIOD 💯 💯
PERIOD 💯 💯

Simply The Truth In Gaza. Palestinians Suffering

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human bean @humanbean.net · 1d

its the exact same people who judge food stamp recipients for buying their kid a birthday cake

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FOLLOW MY NEW ACCT TOP LINK IN BIO @iamsaltytrash.bsky.social · 1d

I know it’s really hard for people to understand, but contrary to popular belief having only enough food so that you don’t die and a tent is not quite humanitarian living still.

To be alive, we sort of have to feel joy sometimes or accomplishment. Maybe feel loved or cared for. Money helps that.

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Rhydian @grhydian.bsky.social · 1d

All of this. You deserve to live, not merely subsist

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 1d

Please drop 50 im so close let my family survive

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · Sep 6

We are in urgent need of protection and a safe place to live. We’re raising support to help us escape danger and rebuild our lives in safety. Every contribution, no matter how small, brings us one step closer to security and hope. 💛
kindly give :
#BringRuaaHome #SafetyForRuaa #HumanitarianAid

Project Bring Ruaa and Her Family to Safety

I'm helping my friend, Ruaa Naji, raise funds to help her family survive.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 1d

honestly fu** you if you think gazans are only allowed to ask for help to cover their very basic necessities when they’re starving or being killed, calling a gazan a grifter for trying to secure her education proves that you don’t see gazans as humans who deserve to live equally.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 21h

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 9h

Messy.

I haven’t looked yet and I wonder if this is one of those single-point failures in our military-industrial complex.

Not that matters long term it seems: always money for bombs and domestic repression.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Powerful blast at Tennessee military explosives plant rattles homes for miles

Number of people hurt are unknown as first responders unable to enter property due to continued explosions

www.theguardian.com

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10h

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 10h

what if there were one car company that did every shitty thing imaginable

Ryan McManus @ryantomorrow.bsky.social · 10h

Tesla pulls an Apple U2. electrek.co/2025/10/10/t...

Tesla pushes Tron: Ares ad inside its cars, upsetting owners

Tesla has partnered with its recent foe, Disney, to promote its latest movie, Tron: Ares, with an in-car update that...

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 10h

Oh those NYC buses crammed to the gills with Rockefellers, their diamond stickpins poking one another, their monocles tangled

Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 10h

great post sir, keep saying shit like this

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Spooky Scott Kelley Ernest, BSPH 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #mtpol @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 19h

Librarian gets massive payday after firing for refusal to yank LGBTQ books off shelves

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Librarian gets massive payday after firing for refusal to yank LGBTQ books off shelves

A librarian fired by county officials in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves got the last laugh with a $700,000 settlement. According to The New York Times, "Terr...

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 16h

The Dred Scott decision was 1857.

John Blanchard painted stevedore and elected official Thomas Howell's portrait between 1850 and 1856, so he was already over it.

Exact reply to his passport request at link is infuriating.

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Painter John Blanchard (American, act. early 19th century)
Subject: Thomas Howland , 1850–56
Oil on wood
Property of the Rhode Island Historical Society (Museum Collection), Providence
Thomas Howland, the subject of this unusually expressive portrait, was a dock worker in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1857 he became the city’s first Black elected official when he was named warden of its Third Ward. However, that same year he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife and daughter, perhaps in response to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case that denied African Americans the protections of U.S. citizenship. Because of this decision, Howland’s application for a passport was denied, despite his status as a free man with the right to vote in his home state (he did eventually make it to Liberia). Howland’s confident posture echoes that of the earlier Portrait of a Gentleman shown nearby, the fashionable attire of both sitters serving to reinforce their self-possession.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 1d

The Howland portrait above was in FREEDOM section of
" #Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" exhibit.

It came after DISGUISE and was introduced by a Nina Simone quote.

"I’ll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear . . . like a new way of seeing something."
—Nina Simone, 1970

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 12d

The exhibit " #Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" has 12 sections.

This is from the DISGUISE section. #BlackSky

Wiliam and Ellen Craft escaped enslavement in Georgia by dressing fair-skinned Ellen as a white, upper-class "gentleman,"" with her husband William posing as her Black male servant.

Short Description: Photos of the book written about William and Ellen Craft's escape from slavery by "cross-dressing" (word Museum uses)
Museum Text"

As recounted n their 1860 memoir shown here, Wiliam and Ellen Craft escaped enslavement in Georgia by dressing fair-skinned Ellen as a white, upper-class "gentleman,"" with her husband William posing as her Black male servant. "| went to diferent parts of the town, at odd times, and purchased things piece by piece,' Wlilliam writes, describing how his wife, a seamstress, also modified garments. Pioneering Black historian and abolitionist William Still included images of the Crafts in "gender appropriate" attire following their final escape to England in his seminal 1872 chronicle The Underground Rail Road, also on display.
In addition to gender, dandiacal dress could disguise class and social status, an especially dangerous prospect for enslaved Black men. William's decision to purchase a high- quality (if secondhand) dandyish white beaver top hat similar to the one here- almost ieopardtized the couple's light by upsetting white observers' sense of racial and sartorial propriety, with one exclaiming, "It always makes me itch all over, from head to toe, to get hold of every d-d nigger I see dressed like a white man."

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 1d

In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard

Portrait of a distringuished Black man from the 19th centrure wearing fine clothes, including high collar and tie of the day.
Museum Text:
Thomas Howland, the subject of this unusually expressive portrait, was a dock worker in Providence, Rhode lsland, In 1857 he became the city's first Black elected oficial when he was amed warden of its Third Ward. However, that same year he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wite and daughter, perhaps in response to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case that denied African Americans the protections of U.S. citizenship. Because of this decision, Howland's application for a passport was denied, despite his status as a free man with the right to vote in his home state (he did eventually make it to Liberia). Howland's confident posture echoes that of the earlier Portrait of a Gentleman shown nearby, the fashionable attire of both sitters serving to reinforce thelir self-possession.

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monique d'hooghe ♿ they/she @moniquedhooghe.bsky.social · 10h

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats

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True

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Black and white picture of a bloodied miles davis defiantly looking straight into the camerawith a look of are you getting this on his face, his hands are on his hips and his light coloured suit jacket and shirt have several bloodstains... on his left side stands a black man whose head is tilted in concern as he looks upon miles... to the right of miles davis is a white cop avoiding everybody's gaze, his right hand still on the Billy clubs

On August 25, 1959, the great Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis was beaten by New York City police officers, that’s why he’s covered in blood. Davis was finishing a two-week stint at the famous Birdland Jazz Club.

While taking a break, Davis escorted a young white woman outside where they could smoke. A white police officer ordered him to “move on.” Davis replied, “For what? I'm performing here.” The officer decided to arrest him, a physical struggle ensued and three detectives joined in and began beating Davis in the stomach and on the head with billy clubs. A crowd of 200 people quickly appeared. Davis was subsequently acquitted of the charges of disorderly conduct and assaulting an officer. The story, complete with pictures, received wide news media coverage and served to dramatize the simmering issue of racism in the New York City Police Department.

The case dramatized the pattern of police harassment of African-Americans for behavior that is not an offense (standing on the corner smoking a cigarette) and the escalation of such incidents into the use of force by the police.

In comparison to these modern times,
nothing has changed except the year.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 16h

Soo everytime America swears that something has never happened before

It has happened and usually to a Black person

History may not fully repeat but it rhymes with

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 1d

In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard

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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 16h

Congratulations to María Corina Machado on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025!

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