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Ruby S.

@rubyji.bsky.social

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❤️‍🩹Hope is a discipline. 💀Capitalism is a death cult. 🍉Solidarity is the antidote to fascism. Awakening 🙈🤩 Living 🐈🪴🌌 Loving ♾️🏳️‍🌈 Raising a teen 🎮🏹 Durham 🐂🚬 NC, USA https://lotusmedia.org

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Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · Jul 3

Here's mine. Thank you, @nativeland.bsky.social!

With gratitude, I reflect on my lifelong connection to this land—home to the Lumbee, Skaruhreh/Tuscarora, Cheraw, Mánu: Yį Įsuwą (Catawba), Saponi, Occaneechi, Eno, and Shakori peoples, whose care for these waters and forests sustains us still. As someone who walks the banks of the Eno, I commit to honoring their legacy by protecting this river, supporting my neighbors, and tending to the land as a humble participant in its story. Let my actions—from mutual aid to mindful stewardship—be a small continuation of the care that has shaped this place for millennia.

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 2h

This is a federal agent pointing a weapon at a person recording them.

ICE has become Trump’s personal military that he is using to terrorize communities and cities that don’t support him. And some say we shouldn’t call him a fascist? Open your eyes.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h

"I just think armed resistance to military occupation and apartheid is futile, no I don't support cutting off trade with Israel or imposing arm embargoes or doing any boycotts either" is the exact same thing as "I support Ukraine but wish Ukraine would give up all of its territory for peace".

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 1d

Still, the insistence that interrupting is always impolite doesn’t leave room for the nuances of banter, cadence, or the tendency of some people to monologue until they’re interrupted because they can’t break the chain of their own thought and need the conversation partner to do so.

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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 7h

Are people asking for more skillful kidnappings? Is there a more civil way to strip a child from their parents?

I know the answer to that question for some, it’s yes. People would rather it be less visible, less fuss, and less overtly violent.

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Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 7h

CEOs have been huffing their own farts for too long

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 7h

Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 11h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11h

Obviously a category that includes superstar athletes and janitors has some conceptual flaws but the traditional marxist definition of working class (relationship to the means of production) has value because the dynamic is between labor and management is the relevant one in the workplace context

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 10h

Energy requirements for AI mean that the only way for the bubble not to burst would require companies to multiply their carbon footprint to an unimaginable degree. Right now, while AI is barely functional and mostly a novelty for the lazy, it requires so much energy that data centers rival cities.

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n_th_n @n-th-n.bsky.social · 9h

The groups listed include ActBlue, Indivisible, etc.—

It's important to distinguish what they're actually doing from what they say they're doing.

The focus isn't mainly groups anyone associates with radical politics or direct action. The main focus is destroying any meaningful opposition party.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 10h

“Trump's twin directives on domestic political violence have caused confusion; lawyers for the Department of Homeland Security are scrambling to figure out how to implement them legally, according to two DHS officials not authorized to speak publicly.”

www.reuters.com

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 1d

I'm really glad more people are realizing how brutal ICE has been in Chicago but it's really weird to see people talking about Rev Black getting attacked like it happened yesterday and not 3 weeks ago. Like, I'm glad people are catching up! But it's very weird.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 21h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 2d

"We are only allowed to own seven pairs [of underwear] in total. In order to exchange your state-allotted pairs for new ones, you must submit to a bunk search and an officer must verify to the property officer that you do not own more than seven pairs."

What It's Like to Have Your Period in Prison

Even at a women’s prison, your menstruation care needs may not be met.

prisonjournalismproject.org

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Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 18h

I met my best friend @heyayse.bsky.social via blogging/meetups

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 18h

We will know how "real" the ceasefire is only after the prisoners are exchanged on Saturday-Sunday and whether or not the first phase is immediately violated by the Israelis like last time.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 1d

The very first riot after a George Floyd protest was started by a white supremacist nicknamed "Umbrella Man."

He spraypainted "free shit" on an AutoZone, broke the windows, and encouraged others to come in. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/man-h...

Man who helped ignite George Floyd riots identified as white supremacist: Police

A masked umbrella-wielding man helped incite riots and looting in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd's death, police said.

abcnews.go.com

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 21h

Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23h

She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Abood Radwan @aboodradwan1.bsky.social · 22h

If this ceasefire is real, let it finally stop the bloodshed, bring back the missing, and relieve our children from the sound of bombs. 💔🇵🇸

We've already lost so much—we just want to live, rebuild our lives, and breathe peace again. 🕊️

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Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 22h

I don't even know what you're referring to but yes

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, tell me more about Weimar Germany and what came after?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 1d

I have taken
the freedom of speech
that was in
the Constitution

and which
you were probably
using
for peaceful protest

Forgive me
the courts said they were
so agitating
and so irritating

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 1d

UNC's GOP political appointee trustees went around the athletic department and rest of the university system to hire Belichick. Now everyone else at UNC is paying the price to the tune of $50 million + weekly humiliation.

all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 1d

unc: objectively dumber than the falcons

Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 1d

The most stunning thing about Belichick's career collapsing and his reputation for anyone under 25 being recast as "horny old dude flaming out in six weeks at North Carolina" is that the football team that made the best decision to keep itself clean throughout this saga was the Atlanta Falcons

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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 23h

I wrote about the Bari Weiss take over of CBS News as part of a broader trend away from the pretense of liberal institutionalism into a genuinely post-reality tabloidism, marked by AI slop, unsophisticated Trumpian-Likudite propaganda and consolidation of traditional and social media.

The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 1d

The tabloid-ification of CBS News is a marked escalation in our trend towards AI-driven confectionary reality: by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

Bari Weiss and the post-liberal media order

The tabloid-ification of CBS News is a marked escalation in our trend towards AI-driven confectionary reality.

therealnews.com

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Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 1d

It's not a contest. Don't make an ally into your enemy.