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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 19h

Men claim women talk too much, but boy if you get that man on a panel, he will over talk every woman present in the room.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 15h

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20h

The internet HATES happy women. Just despises them, lol.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 21h

Oh God, please don’t welcome Fox News to the resistance because of this one troll thing they did to the one Nazi, I beg you.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 21h

The funniest and most loser thing Stephen Miller could have done after watching that video is announce he was NOT 4 foot 10 on tv so of course that’s precisely what he did.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 22h

“How about you watch AOC call you 4 foot 10 on live TV, you tiny Nazi” was not the take I expected from Fox News, but somehow this happened.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 22h

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 22h

Fox News must hate Stephen Miller as much as the rest of us because why would they make him sit and watch AOC call him 4 foot 10 otherwise.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 1d

The American president ordering the invasion of American cities sounds like a civil war and treason to me, but what do I know.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

A tweet from Mayor Brandon Johnson says Trump has tried to unjustly arrest a Black man and he’s not going anywhere. A reply from Donald Trump says the Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect ICE officers.

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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 1d

the most powerful people in the world: "it is the least powerful people in the world who are the REAL problem"

everyone: "ah i see, that makes sense"

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Hamza Jahanzeb @hamzajahanzeb.co.uk · 1d

⭐️Celebrating S. Asian Talent⭐️

Join @wimbookfest.bsky.social for a line-up that celebrates the voices of S. Asian heritage including:

@monisharajesh.bsky.social , @nussaibah.bsky.social, @keshavaguha.bsky.social, @fizalovesbooks.bsky.social, @nikitagill.bsky.social and more!

#WimbledonBookFest

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 1d

Once again, when it boils down to it, Conservatism is deeply anti intellectual and destructive for the human psyche and imagination.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 2d

Look, I’m not American, but I know what it is and I’ve read enough about it. We have our own problems in the U.K. we need to sort out.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 2d

In the US, Trump installed himself as the head of the Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts. Conservatives would not do this if they didn’t think the Arts had value. They know the Arts have value. They just hate that they can’t access that value for themselves so they seek to destroy it.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 2d

I am saying once again that the Conservative attack on the Arts is because they are incredibly envious of artists who they perceive as a group that has “too much” cultural power, a type of influence Conservatives crave but will never have because they’re anti-intellectuals with no imagination.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2d

Not one government has told Israel to stop kidnapping their citizens in international waters and let them bring baby formula to starving babies. What a shameful time to be alive

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Israel intercepts another Gaza aid flotilla amid criticism over treatment of activists

Israeli foreign ministry confirms interception and says those on board will be deported A new Gaza-bound aid flotilla has been intercepted by the Israeli army, days after the detention of activists on board vessels bound for the war-torn territory caused international outrage and widespread protests. The Israeli military was jamming signals with at least two boats being boarded, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition said on Instagram. Continue reading...

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 2d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 2d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 2d

Oh this is the first thing I’ve read this morning on socials and it’s made my day! Thank you Ellie! 💜🥹

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Ellie Squirrel @sewimperfect.bsky.social · 2d

A huge thank you to @skulkr.bsky.social who introduced me to my new favorite author, @nikitagill.bsky.social 🥰

I went to read just a few pages when I went to bed at 1 am Saturday & read over 100 😂

I gasped out loud at the beauty of phrases. 10/10

A black book titled Hekate the witch by Nikita Gill on a lap covered by a white quilt. A beautiful illustration on the cover of a woman holding a torch

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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