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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 20h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Quiltrageous @quiltrageous.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite colors. ❤️

Geology @geologytime.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t get enough of the color and clarity of this gemmy blue polished Medina Aquamarine from Brazil!

What's your go-to gemstone or favorite crystal?

Video: Eddywrapsgems
Arek Varjabedian

#minerals #crystals

Quiltrageous @quiltrageous.bsky.social · 1d

What the ever-lovin' f? Bobby, you're smoking crack.

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Kathleen Cottontail 🏳️‍⚧️♿️🖖🏻🐰 @kathleengmaz.bsky.social · 1d

If Antifa were a band...

Will Ryker playing his trombone with the jiz band from Star Wars.

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Quiltrageous @quiltrageous.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my!

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Quiltrageous @quiltrageous.bsky.social · 1d

Great thread.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. Anti-trans outrage is losing its bite.

Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform.

Major conservatives joined in.

Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up.

Subscribe to support my journalism.

Netflix Stock Up As Elon Musk's Anti-Trans Boycott Fails To Materialize

Last week, conservatives tried to cancel Netflix to force the carrier to remove transgender characters.

www.erininthemorning.com

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 9d

🐥 ‼️ 🔴 T H I S 🔴 ‼️ 🐥

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Quiltrageous @quiltrageous.bsky.social · 8d

Worst timeline ever.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8d

A judge has recused from hearing the Portland troops case because his wife is a Democratic Congresswoman -- even though it is not "required under either federal law or the [judicial] Code of Conduct." The new judge was appointed by Trump.

We have a legal system with two different sets of rules.

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Quiltrageous @quiltrageous.bsky.social · 10d

Today I collected seeds from the Liatris aspera (Rough Blazing Star) in my front yard. I'll replant them in the prairie.
#NativePlants #SupportPollinators

Picture of my hand holding a small zipper baggie stuffed full of the parachuted seeds of Liatris. They look feathery and pale brown.

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Quiltrageous @quiltrageous.bsky.social · 11d

Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 12d

JK Rowling has called Emma Watson out of touch with how regular women live

Now the question is, did she write this in her literal castle or on her private yacht?

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Quiltrageous @quiltrageous.bsky.social · 11d

When we hold people accountable someday, they're going to deserve it.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11d

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED:

I just unlocked a new level of rage.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

'I want his name to be known': Wife of immigrant injured at ICE facility shooting speaks out

Stephany Gauffeny says she wants the world to know that her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, is more than "just an immigrant or a detainee, or a criminal."

www.npr.org

Quiltrageous @quiltrageous.bsky.social · 13d

We should be thinking like happy little termites, undermining oppression. Great thread.

Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 13d

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 18d

Today’s autism announcement was just as bad as we feared

Trump blamed Tylenol & vaccines for autism

They encouraged women to just “tough out” their pain

They praised people who don’t “need” meds or vaccines

These are eugenicist talking points & they’re devastating to the disability community:

Trump's Big Autism Announcement and What It Means for the Disability Community

The MAHA team came out swinging today against vaccines, Tylenol and more. Their big autism announcement was riddled with eugenicist language designed to blame and punish people for their disabilities.

www.disabledginger.com

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Quiltrageous @quiltrageous.bsky.social · 18d

Ladybug pupae on Carolina horsenettle, Solanum carolinense. I never got around to yanking these thorny native weeds. If ladybugs like them, they can stay for a while longer. #NativePlants

Four ladybug pupae on the edge of a gnawed leaf. The pupae are white, domed, and translucent, with a row of black dots arching along the sides of each.

The underside of another spiny horsenettle leaf showing six more ladybug pupae.

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Hellvetika @hellvetikaseraph.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ademólá.

@OgbeniDemola

White people in South Africa still cannot speak Zulu even after settling there for almost four hundred years.

Keir Starmer

@Keir Starmer 10h

If you want to live in the UK, you should speak English. That's common sense.

So we're raising English language requirements across every main immigration route

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20d

The naked emperor is babbling shit on tv again

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 20d

Cambodia and Armenia woke up not knowing they’ve been fighting each other

According to the president, Armenia has also been fighting Albania and Aberbaijan - not to confuse with Azerbaijan

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 20d

Trans people are not a threat to women’s safety.

Over 52,000 women have signed the open letter to say not in our name.

Will you join them?
notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Photo of 2 men with white bold letters that say “men who abuse their power are the real threat to women, not trans people”

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Quiltrageous @quiltrageous.bsky.social · 20d

This is fine. /s

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20d

Donald Trump is unfurling banners of his own face on government buildings across D.C.

He has spent at least $56,000 so far. trib.al/RkQfsfW

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20d

Go to protests

Sign up to be on mailing lists

Practice good operational security

Don’t volunteer information you don’t need to, like where you plan to be

Know your phone gives away information even when locked

Don’t use face unlock or print to unlock your phone

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Ben & Jerry’s @benandjerrys.bsky.social · 21d

For a HOST 😏 of reasons, learn more on how to stand up for your First Amendment rights. www.aclu.org/issues/free-...

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Quiltrageous @quiltrageous.bsky.social · 23d

Trump hates facts.

That is all.

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 25d

btw Costco seems to have the cheapest updated COVID vax. You can get it without a card at the pharmacy and they do take walk-ins. If you’re also uninsured due to the massive amounts of layoffs this year, they also take this goodrx coupon to lower the cost of www.goodrx.com/comirnaty?sr...

www.goodrx.com

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25d

The diminishment of prominent Black journalists is the latest indication that a period of progress in America has ended and a period of retrenchment is in full bloom.

trib.al/VSbmOMm

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Quiltrageous @quiltrageous.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you, Tilly. I needed to see a smiling face.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 25d

For the record.

My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.

I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

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