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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 31m

He is adorable

Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 39m

Tbh I love that the carpool karaoke with bad bunny is in my algorithm

This is who the gop is melting down over

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Bad Bunny Carpool Karaoke

YouTube video by The Late Late Show with James Corden

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 8h

Christopher Columbus was a murderous rapist piece of shit who is only remembered as anything other than a genocidal monster because he was also incompetent as an "explorer" and got lost.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12h

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

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Yes, forcing users to upload documents for age verification is going to end very badly.

Collecting sensitive documents, like ID is an especially bad idea.

Do not collect shit that you do not need to collect, ever.

If it's not collected it can't be leaked.

That is all.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 9h

I love him

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 1h

What kind of life have you lived when the onion is your ideological nemesis 😂😂😂

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 18h

Alex Jones has asked the Supreme Court to immediately put his almost $1.5 billion defamation judgment on hold, citing the imminent threat of InfoWars being handed over to The Onion.

If there isn't a stay, "InfoWars will have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed," the filing says.

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Guillotine Hunger Force @themilfmag.net · 3h

nooo dont giv r base access 2 knowledge

Republicans Are Trying To Make Government Efforts To Help Poor People Afford Broadband Illegal

“Right wing activism organizations posing as consumer rights groups are trying to make it illegal for the federal government to try and help poor, rural Americans afford broadband,” is …

www.techdirt.com

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 2h

Mhm

Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 21h

So antifa is the new weapons of mass destruction?

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 8h

9th Circuit just made anti-SLAPP laws (like the good ones in California and Nevada) a lot less effective. This is going to lead to a ton of suppressed speech. Stupid and dangerous. Especially now.

We need a federal anti-SLAPP law now. And we won't get one.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 20h

Whilst we're on the subject of shocking living things, did you know police departments routinely shock human beings with tasers until they die and chalk up their deaths to a fake medical condition they call "excited delirium" that was invented by taser companies to absolve themselves of liability?

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 3h

I keep vibrating between "I'm too sad, I can't cope" (it's been 3 days and I'm a normal regular amount of sad) and "I'm not sad enough am I forgetting her already?" (it's been 3 days and life goes on and I'm not in tears all the time).

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 9h

Props to both of you

I love deserved nuance im my mentions

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 9h

Idk just read around the typos

Im so pissed rn

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

Support its work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 9h

Suspicious behavior under capitalism means providing resources that prevent recidivism 🙃🫠

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 9h

But the larger point is...

Anything sex work adjacent is being flagged and its crazy that wanting to give resources to people have experienced trafficking is suspicious behavior

And omg nvm

I remembered the timeline im in

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 10h

So.

Im mostly okay

I will be asking for somewhere between 200-300 in the next few days because I habe bills to pay

$phoenixcalida

And omg I buried the lede

Our org had all funding suspended so I can't access my money until we get a new bank
(We have a new. Just waiting on paperwork)

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 10h

I can't quite explain it, but he has Al capone Swag, and I am im.

lwtroy88.bsky.social @lwtroy88.bsky.social · 10h

Unite and RESIST join us October 18 NO KINGS www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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pebble @pebblesub.bsky.social · 10h

We dont rise to the level of our goals or even talent. We fall to the level of our systems.

Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 17h

My spicy take for this moment-

Too many of you do not understand the concept of infrastructure. How systems are built, how systems are maintained.

You want big bold action but haven't committed to the planning and the boring mundane tasks needed to make said action possible.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 11h

Aw ty

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Ben @ben9311.bsky.social · 12h

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 12h

Infrastructure is expensive up front, but worth it in the long run.

The further disrepair it is is in, the more expensive it is to fix.

If it breaks, it is exponentially more expensive on all fronts.

But folks tend not to think of infrastructure till it breaks....

Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 17h

My spicy take for this moment-

Too many of you do not understand the concept of infrastructure. How systems are built, how systems are maintained.

You want big bold action but haven't committed to the planning and the boring mundane tasks needed to make said action possible.

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pay your respects to the vultures @cathoderituals.bsky.social · 16h

Over the last several years, far more of the nazi punchers are also the ones juggling mutual aid, teaching first aid, self-defense, jail support, eye care, food drops, pet supplies, you name it, without a lot of support from outside their other comrades in arms. Burns a lot of 'em out.

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