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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 3h

YUP 🙃

Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 3h

The Nobel Peace Prize was already a joke, but the fact that it's been awarded to María Corina Machado--a neoliberal Trump-supporting nepo baby set on impoverishing Venezuela through privatization--says pretty much all there is to say on the matter.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 5h

She's a U.S. sponsored opposition candidate and the daughter of a steel oligarch. Machado champions the privatization of Venezuela's oil, power, and steel industries.

Connie Schultz @connieschultz.bsky.social · 5h

New York Times:

“Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela & for her struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 4h

Maysara's grandfather needs daily medical support and is in need of help today, please send the campaign link directly to potential supporters if you're not able to donate personally. It really helps out if you can do that. ❤️

Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 26d

I've set up a campaign for the Al-Ashal family that is specific to their travel expenses. With everyone's help, they've been able to relocate to southern Gaza, but they will need funds to evacuate. Please give if you can, anything helps!

chuffed.org/project/1493...

Help Maysara and his family evacuate Gaza

Hi everyone, my name is Finn and I'm fundraising from Canada to help my friend Maysara and his family leave Gaza. For nearly two years now they have been subjected to constant bombardment and impossib...

chuffed.org

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Zappit @zappit.bsky.social · 1d

Link requested this be boosted so we can help Dr. Divya raise money for Palestinian families in need.

It is also a good day to reinstate Link’s account.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 5h

I love that Portland’s solution to being invaded was simply “Be weirder.”

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 13h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 20h

I'm going to pick up a copy, thank you!

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 20h

Good point. Drives home the importance of putting good information out there.

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 20h

Oh yeah, this is definitely Canadian political tradition. The apathy of Canadian citizens is so soul-crushing, none of this should be shrugged off, and yet 🙃

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 21h

We all need to be flooding Carney's office with letters telling him that this is not normal and standard approaches only serve to normalize this fascist takeover. Why is he pretending that the regime can be reasoned with? It's horrifying.

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 21h

And before anyone starts with the danger of not placating them, that's the entire point. They secure further power by being treated as a legitimate government. They have already shown they will violate agreements and the law. You cannot reason with them, you only give them power when you try. STOP.

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 21h

For the love of god and all that is holy, STOP TRYING TO SECURE A DEAL WITH A FASCIST STATE. Every interaction that validates the Trump regime's legitimacy is enabling their continued takeover. Stop capitulating. Stop pretending this is normal.

Those elbows came down so goddamn fast.

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 22h

And I say this as someone who's chronically ill. My illnesses are absolutely related to the stress I live with as an oppressed person. It's honestly kind of sad how close he got to getting it. In a different timeline, he might have actually found peace, but he couldn't let go of hate and ego.

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 22h

Jordan Peterson is embedded in Euro-Western arrogance and illusions of control but unlike other grifters, he's a true believer. His mind is so polluted by man-made order and hierarchies, he cannot accept that nature is the only real power.

The spiritual attack is coming from inside the house, js.

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John Duncan @johntheduncan.bsky.social · 1d

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 1d

Sensei Sergio fuckin' ruled. The rest felt more like an awkward imagining of anarchism from the perspective of a wealthy White cis dude who is new to the process of self-locating. That's not a read, just acknowledging the reality.

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 1d

So here's my review of One Battle After Another, specifically how I imagine the creators behind it approaching the project itself.

30 Rock meme of Lenny, a visibly older man pretending to be a teenager, with the caption "How do you do, fellow leftists?"

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 1d

Hold on to hope. Lies are easy to tell and easy to spread, but hard to keep alive. The Trump regime, like all fascist regimes, is so aggressive about controlling the narrative with propaganda and denial because they know reality will crush them if they slip up, and they will. It's already started.

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 1d

"...there is a $349.2-billion “infrastructure gap” — resulting in unsuitable housing, schools, health care, roads and basic services such as water treatment — on more than 400 First Nations in this country."

www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2025/1...

Opinion: Taglines aside, First Nations investment could nearly double Canada’s economy

Canada’s Indigenous services minister had a startling response in explaining why First Nations infrastructure projects, such as nursing stations and broadband internet, don’t qualify as “projects of t...

www.winnipegfreepress.com

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 1d

Ayyyy same

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 1d

Millennials, did Disney’s Robin Hood turn you into a furry, a leftist, or both?

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Asyrie🦊🏳️‍⚧️ | Ⓜ️@[email protected] @asyrie.justafox.online · 1d

Wild that the bluesky moderation tools that label people for following fascists has ties to the bluesky staff and is getting shutdown once the staff all started to follow fascists!

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Sasha the Furious Ghost 👻 @sashafury.blackskycomra.de · 1d

This fucking guy.

atomicker.bsky.social @atomicker.bsky.social · 1d

Mark "Decarbonized Oil" Carney secretly moves to resurrect Stephen Harper's long-dead Keystone XL pipeline.

Mark Carney never fails to disappoint.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

#ClimateCrisis #CDNPoli #Canada #KeystoneXL #NoPipelines #ElbowsUp

Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News

Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.

www.cbc.ca

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 1d

FOR REAL.

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 1d

What in tarnation? 😭💀

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 3d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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