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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 15h

Like how can we have endless pieces about fucking dissertation plagiarism and not one about "the spokesperson for DHS tells specific, easily-disproven lies constantly to provide cover for serious crimes against the public" how is that not a big deal? Do I have to write this shit myself?!?!?

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 4d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
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other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Sean Rollins 🌹 @seanrollins.bsky.social · 9d

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No Contract, No Coffee Pledge

 Baristas are the most important part of the Starbucks experience. Baristas open the stores every morning and close them every night. They greet customers, make the coffee, clean up the spills, a...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9d

Pope Leo XIV: “Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 14d

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23d

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25d

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.

You're welcome

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 25d

It’s official: the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concludes Israel is committing genocide.

The UN body calls on nations to stop sending weapons to Israel, ensure people within their jurisdiction aren’t aiding or inciting the genocide, and hold those who are accountable.

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LeAnn Crimes @audhdylan.bsky.social · 25d

Simply put.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25d

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*.

There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 25d

My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25d

In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25d

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

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Sean Rollins 🌹 @seanrollins.bsky.social · 25d

Genuinely terrifying

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 25d

Stephen Miler is open about what's coming: a federal law enforcement crackdown on its political opponents

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26d

Reporters on the ground in Chicago are screaming to be heard over the false narrative that Pritzker defeated Trump there. PLEASE listen to them.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 26d

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 27d

It’s time for the white community to stop playing the victim & have an uncomfortable conversation about violence, parental responsibility & the families raising the thugs causing all the white-on-white violence in Republican-controlled cities.

Maybe it’s their culture

Did I do it right?

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 28d

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

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Sean Rollins 🌹 @seanrollins.bsky.social · Sep 8

Take me with you!

Sean Rollins 🌹 @seanrollins.bsky.social · Sep 8

Where are you moving to?

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Sean Rollins 🌹 @seanrollins.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Complete Listing: Atrocities 1–1,056 www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: The Complete Listing: Atrocities 1–1,056

We have commenced work on a new list covering Trump’s second term. Go here to read it. - - -As we find ourselves in the early days of his belated s...

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Sean Rollins 🌹 @seanrollins.bsky.social · Sep 5

#ImmigrantsBelong #GetICEOut

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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · Sep 5

America was not founded on faith in God—it was founded on a godless Constitution that draws power from the people.

U.S. foreign policy should defend human rights, not elevate one religion above all others.

Propping up Christianity isn’t patriotism—it’s theocracy.

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Sean Rollins 🌹 @seanrollins.bsky.social · Sep 5

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CALL NOW: Tell your Republican Member of Congress to sign the Epstein discharge petition

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · Sep 5

Ticketmaster just quietly changed its fine print so that the next time you buy a ticket to a concert or a game, you'll be forced to sign away your legal rights.

Pass it on.

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Ticketmaster Just Locked You In A New Legal Prison

The entertainment giant’s new user terms block class action suits and steer complaints into corporate-friendly arbitration, potentially defying a judge’s orders.

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Sean Rollins 🌹 @seanrollins.bsky.social · Sep 4

@benburgis.bsky.social has a great book about this very thing called “Canceling Comedians While the World Burns”. I highly suggest we all read it.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · Aug 31

I've already said what I need to say about Newsom's stance on trans ppl & why it will fail in this short 🧵. but can I just add, as a long time Californian & Bay Area resident, I'm convinced that this online push for him 3 years out from Dem primaries is 100% astroterfed...
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · Aug 24

since Bluesky is chock full of Newsom-stan-bots insisting that "Dems should compromise on trans issues", I will re-up my November essay about why this is not only immoral & unempirical, but BAD POLITICS. Dems WILL LOSE if they do this, here's why (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/should-democ...

Should Democrats Throw Trans People Under the Bus?

Here’s Why It Would Be Bad Politics

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