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I don't description well. Not a bot, last I checked. Sometimes I crochet things. I like cats. I dislike billionaires and their apologists.

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pretty unremarkable @prettyunremarkable.blackskycomra.de · 2d

Much as I wish it were true, billionaires aren't stupid. They aren't as smart as the media lining up to fellate them report, either--but they aren't stupid.

They think WE are.

When Andreesen & Co. word-salad about AI making everything free, they do so because they know we'll buy that nonsense.

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pretty unremarkable @prettyunremarkable.blackskycomra.de · 13h

So exactly when were we going to run that whole "maybe stop sticking microphones in front of billionaires" experiment?

NYT isn't desperate enough for subscribers if they're still doing this shit.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 15h

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 21h

What middle and upper class cis het white people need to understand is that they only have as many rights as the most vulnerable do. You have only the rights trans people and immigrants do.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 18h

As always, if you want to help document and understand the ongoing attacks on the rights and infrastructures all Americans depend on, please join us: unbreaking.org/how-to-help/

How to help — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

unbreaking.org

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L.A. Tenants Union @latenantsunion.bsky.social · 18h

On Saturday October 11th at 2pm, tenant leaders from Hillside Villa, who won their FIVE YEAR LONG RENT STRIKE, will be speaking at Midnight Books. Join us!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 19h

The clear story in Immigration this week is the escalation of—and pushback against—the Trump administration’s militarized raids and warrantless stops in Democrat-run major cities. We’ve updated our timeline with a lot of events in this zone:

unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

Immigration — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

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pretty unremarkable @prettyunremarkable.blackskycomra.de · 19h

Reminds me that Graeber said, I think in Direct Action: An Ethnography, that nothing seemed to enrage the opposition as much as... puppets. Like they always moved to destroy those first.

True manliness! 🤣

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 2d

Simply marching in the streets once every few months will not stop fascism. We have to draw people into concrete organizing and activity. No one else is going to do this for us.

Whether there are two of you or two hundred of you, this guide goes over what you can do.

crimethinc.com/NoKings2025

An anarchist red and black flag with an image of a sword run through a crown and the words "No Kings"

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PopMob PDX @popmobpdx.bsky.social · 20h

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pretty unremarkable @prettyunremarkable.blackskycomra.de · 21h

Stop stanning politicians. Not always easy--I kinda half-assedly do it with Mamdani--but necessary. Do not stan them. Don't stan anyone, but especially not people you elected to serve YOU.

This post brought to you by seeing someone thank Newsom for signing a bill. 🙄 THAT IS HIS JOB, numbnuts.

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'Gory the A'ight @gregoryaight.bsky.social · 23h

Cis white man. Every time.

Every goddam time.

That is NOT why Obama got the prize.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 23h

One of the only things Trump has ever been right about: Obama had no business winning the Nobel Peace Prize for what amounted to the accomplishment of being a US president who was not George W Bush. (Remember, he had been in office for eight months at the time.)

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Yung Garlic Knot @35mmpapi.com · 23h

Omg make it fucking STOP.

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 23h

You can now connect your Spotify account in ChatGPT and it will perform tasks for you, such as creating personalized playlists.

You can now connect your Spotify account to ChatGPT. Here’s how to do it | TechCrunch

You can now connect your Spotify account in ChatGPT and it will perform tasks for you, such as creating personalized playlists.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1d

Guy who is zip-tying American children and shooting pastors on the head with pepper balls wants Peace Prize.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 22h

A federal judge has ordered the fence outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Broadview to be taken down immediately.
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Judge orders Friday removal of fence at Broadview ICE facility

U.S. District Court Judge LaShonda A. Hunt issued the temporary restraining order Thursday ordering the fence be taken down immediately.

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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · 1d

This story is about the report that hasn't been published - but it's also about IRIS, the part of EPA that wrote it and has been assessing the toxicity of chemicals for decades.

Of 55 scientists who worked on recent IRIS report, only 8 remain in their posts.

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 10 Oct 1922 Puerto Rican strike leader and women's rights advocate Luisa Capetillo died of TB aged 43. She had taken part in many strikes, including the highly successful sugarcane strike of 1916 which won 13% pay increases stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8244...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

NEW: Nevada could’ve fined Elon Musk’s Boring Co. more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

I would vote without question for anyone with the fucking stones to do this while refusing to 1) throw trans people under the bus and 2) fund Israel's genocide

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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pretty unremarkable @prettyunremarkable.blackskycomra.de · 1d

Exactly. I'd love to be proven wrong but unfortunately, I remember who is vice president.

And who funded him.

Not optimistic that a well-timed myocardial infarction will be enough to git 'er done when it comes to fixing what's broken.

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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 1d

The Mark Bray situation is so completely fucked right now and if you're a journalist you need to start saying how it's fucked because you're fucking next. They won't stop at academics.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

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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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