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Ben Wallace (he/him) @punmaster.bsky.social · 1h

This.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 4d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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

When Brazil adopted quotas for higher ed, the percentage of Afro Brazilians in higher ed shot up 400 percent and all of them did as well as non-affirmative action students.

The idea that affirmative action is stigmatizing and elevates unqualified people is a BS argument.

Screw SCOTUS. Higher Education Needs Racial Quotas. (Updated)

If the United States leaned into racial quotas instead of running screaming from them, we might have seen results like Brazil's.

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

250 years of slavery. 88 years of Jim Crow. But somehow we're all supposed to succeed by pretending we started on equal footing beginning in the mid 1960s. Come the fuck on.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Ben Wallace (he/him) @punmaster.bsky.social · 1h

This account by Greta Thunberg is tragic. We as taxpayers are complicit in this story. She has been freed and is back home safe. So many Palestinians have no home left to return to, just rubble. Don’t get it twisted, fear and despair are the goal.

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Ben Wallace (he/him) @punmaster.bsky.social · 2h

This is what America looks like when we let fascists into power. Every family member and friend who voted for Trump, voted for this. They empowered a fear based ideology of small hearted actions against innocent citizens whose only “crime” is being non-white. DISGUSTING.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20h

This is Chicago, armed fascist thugs pointing guns at unarmed US citizens.

Photo by Anthony Vazquez at the Chicago Sun-Times.

Armed officers in military-style gear confront a group of civilians during a tense outdoor standoff; one officer points a rifle at a young man who raises his hands defensively while others shout in the background, with trees and houses visible behind them.

Ben Wallace (he/him) @punmaster.bsky.social · 2h

Another great reason to spend any social media time on Bluesky… Facebook is fading to become more like twitter in my life… dead.

Sara Montour Lewis @saramontourlewis.com · 13h

Meta gonna Meta.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2d

"More Than 200 Bodies Dug Out of the Gaza Rubble Since Ceasefire Went Into Effect"

More Than 200 Bodies Dug Out of the Gaza Rubble Since Ceasefire Went Into Effect - News From Antiwar.com

Rescue workers in Gaza have recovered more than 200 bodies of Palestinians killed by the IDF from the rubble and from areas they were previously unable to access since the ceasefire went into effect o...

news.antiwar.com

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Ben Wallace (he/him) @punmaster.bsky.social · 4d

Love this, queer joy is classic 🔥🎹🎻

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Ben Wallace (he/him) @punmaster.bsky.social · 5d

Fax

Ben Wallace (he/him) @punmaster.bsky.social · 5d

If you aren’t following @portianoir.com I highly recommend it!!

And I gladly suggest you support their Patreon, the content they put out has been grounding for me in a sea of triggering news cycles.

This is a post in a series reviewing the 10 stages of Genocide.

www.patreon.com/posts/140930...

Stage Eight of Genocide - Persecution | Portia Burch

Get more from Portia Burch on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Ben Wallace (he/him) @punmaster.bsky.social · Aug 14

Wow! This sounds like an amazing development! 😊

For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible

For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible

www.nytimes.com

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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · Jul 8

Retired Navy Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher (Dem) running against Lauren Boebert in Colorado 4th Congressional District.
www.coloradopolitics.com/elections/20...

Boebert challenger Eileen Laubacher, a retired rear admiral, rakes in $1.9 million in her 1st quarter

Colorado Democrat Eileen Laubacher, the retired rear admiral and former top National Security Council staffer challenging Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, raised $1.9 million in her first quarter ...

www.coloradopolitics.com

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · Jun 12

@padilla.senate.gov represents the best of the Senate.

The disgraceful and disrespectful conduct of DHS agents, pushing and shoving him out of a briefing like that, demands our condemnation.

He will not be silenced or intimidated. His questions will be answered.

I’m with Alex.

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Ben Wallace (he/him) @punmaster.bsky.social · Jun 7

😂😂

Zuul @zuulthegatekeeper.bsky.social · Jun 7

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Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @sensorystories.bsky.social · Jun 7

If you have a hard time understanding your own thoughts and feelings and struggle to articulate them to others... you may want to look into Alexithymia. It's a brain wiring difference that makes it hard for people to understand and articulate what they're thinking and feeling. ❤️

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Ben Wallace (he/him) @punmaster.bsky.social · Jun 7

This. This right here… yup this is me. Let’s go…. soon. 😎

💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @mylesjaybee.bsky.social · Jun 6

Good morning rebels...

Meme:
Drawing of a baby rabbit wearing an armoured helmet and leaf armour shawl, carrying a book under one arm, holding a spear with a teapot, hooked onto the metal spearhead that is trident shaped.

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Ben Wallace (he/him) @punmaster.bsky.social · Jun 7

@velshi.com thank you for highlighting that public service is important and does not have to happen in the military in order for you to be a “warrior.”

May we all find ways, like Harvey Milk, to be warriors for justice and equity in the face of hate and greed in this moment.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · May 27

“It is up to all of us to fix this. It’s not going to be because somebody comes and saves you.”

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Ben Wallace (he/him) @punmaster.bsky.social · Apr 30

Happy Heavenly Birthday to my late Cousin James. He was a wonderful person whose life was ended by addiction too early. He would have been 35 years old today. Miss you Jamie Boy ❤️

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Ben Wallace (he/him) @punmaster.bsky.social · Apr 25

So I got tired of getting DNC text messages every day asking me for money so I sent them a message on their website asking to be removed, this was their response.

I sent the text and got a response that I had been unsubscribed from texts.

Time will tell if it works, but can’t hurt I guess.

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John Leguizamo @johnleguizamo.bsky.social · Apr 17

Liz Cheney a republican had to come up with our
Project 2029 but it’s so good I can get behind it! Cause fighting this fascist president has aged me considerably!

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John Leguizamo @johnleguizamo.bsky.social · Apr 17

Democrat’s project 2029 part 2

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John Leguizamo @johnleguizamo.bsky.social · Apr 17

Democrat’s project 2029 part 1

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