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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 9h

Sorry but this is the funniest headline I will read all year

Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre
Andrew Harding
Paris correspondent, at the scene

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.

If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.

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Josh Hilden (Indie Author) @joshhilden.bsky.social · 7h

There are more of us than there are of them.

Something has to hive soon.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

Irving Berlin 1941. youtu.be/XDkhzVw0yBs?...

When that Man is Dead and Gone (1941) - Protest song against Hitler (Live Take)

YouTube video by Lizzy & the Triggermen

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇

Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.

Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book

Rolling Stone excerpt about Montana’s ballot initiative to combat Citizens United

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wyatt 🍉🎃 @velvetxero.bsky.social · Jul 15

"You need to cut toxic people out of your life, see through the bullshit, and start worrying about the things that really matter."

-Shigeru Miyamoto
On how to unlock Luigi in 'Super Mario Odyssey'

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Wes Chadwick @byomission.bsky.social · 18h

Outstanding! Literally

hpanzironi @hpanzironi.bsky.social · 1d

Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Sep 16

Geography. Don’t skip it in school.

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 15h

Netanyahu won't stop until he's murdered every Palestinian on Gaza. #FreePalestine

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel has violated ceasefire 47 times and killed 38 Palestinians, says Gaza media office

Authorities urge UN to intervene ‘to protect unarmed civilian populations’ after attack on bus that killed 11

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Willems @patrickhwillems.bsky.social · 15h

The music biopics episode is finally out on YouTube. If this doesn't convince you all to watch Better Man then nothing will

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Are Music Biopics Good Now?

YouTube video by Patrick (H) Willems

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 18h

It's incredibly telling that student newsrooms have shown more bravery in the past few years than many national outlets

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 1d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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blaaaaaaaaaines @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 13h

(Fred Schneider voice) pleased to meet you, hope you guess my NAME

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 3d

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 3d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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caylen @caylen.bsky.social · 13h

we're about to enter a greater depression than the 1930s & it's all because the biggest, most successful western companies on the planet felt it necessary to make the line go up

their ad based revenue was already dwindling. their ludicrous gamble on LLMs is going to obliterate the global economy

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, leaders worried that meeting OpenAI’s rapidly escalating compute demands could lead to overbuilding servers that might not generate a financial return, per the Information

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1d

Boston Hipster: “That’s when the normies joined in, we started in 1775”

Democrats @democrats.org · 1d

Opposing kings since 1776 🇺🇲

Person in a tricorn hat and glasses holding a sign that reads "Rejecting Kings Since 1776" at a No Kings rally.

Protester holding a sign that reads "Defend! LIBERTY" with an American flag, during a No Kings rally. Other no kings signs are visible in the background.

Person holding a sign that reads "Americans Will Not Be Ruled" at a No Kings rally.

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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michael swaim 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @michaelswaim.bsky.social · 11h

Then what goddamn good are you young tom hanks?!!?!?! hope you get stuck in a terminal

Tom Hanks in an old movie. Subtitle - "I don't have enough points to raise the dead."

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 2d

Look at the paws - this cat was 100% definitely making biscuits. Photo from my collection, back reads “Jean and Patty at home, July 1952”.

Black and white photo of a young light skinned woman wearing a long skirt, with white top and cardigan, sitting on a lawn. She is smiling down and a shorthaired tabby cat rolling blissfully in the grass beside her.

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Scalawag Jack, Pirate Ghost (or Ghost Pirate?) @scalawagjack.bsky.social · 1d

Happy International Archeology Day!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

ultimately, zohran mamdani is a reminder that politicians can be younger than 80 years old

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chrishboyd.bsky.social @chrishboyd.bsky.social · 2d

ICE took a mother from our school today. She went to support her son at hearing. ICE took her for good measure. The bus driver knew mom was kidnapped. She always picked up the kids. Mom used her one phone call to beg Principal to save her children from ICE. We are a country run by a cruelty cult.

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Josh Hilden (Indie Author) @joshhilden.bsky.social · 1d

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◥◤CDFI, Frankenstein @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

Across all the major outlets — NYT, WSJ, WaPo, LAT, CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox News, NBC, CNBC, NPR, Bloomberg — the only outlet without a No Kings story on its home page is CBS News.

For every other outlet, it's near the top. Even Fox News is running with "Nationwide unrest looms as thousands mobilize"

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 1d

From the Merrimack Valley Horror Festival today:

A picture of a pumpkin ghoul holding a sign that says NO KINGS BUT STEPHEN

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