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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 16h

Fr. Larry Dowling was the pastor of St. Agatha, a Black parish in North Lawndale (a Black neighborhood MLK lived in to protest housing discrimination.) Fr. Dowling retired in June 2024. After a 6-month sabbatical, inc travel to West Africa, he has been active in prayerful protest for immigrants.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 18h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 9h

www.theverge.com/policy/79204...

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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 21h

I trained as a historian and now I work in trans rights. Let’s all primal scream

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 21h

A lot of what we’d think of as the journalists’ code—tell the truth, be accurate, credit your sources—is actually about establishing provenance and chain of custody for evidence. Fact-check codifies those tracks. This is all how you know you know. It’s what marks something as journalism.

☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 22h

look i dont want to get all historian/art history/journalism posty about AI videos but we *have* ways of autheticating recorded/archival material, its chains of custody and provenance research, and you shouldn't have been trusting random videos on the internet to begin with???

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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 22h

You’re not making a doll or getting a pet. They’re a whole person who is completely new to the world. Your job as a parent is to steward them through it initially, to hold their autonomy in trust for them and help them grow into it. A kid is a human who is the protagonist of their own life!

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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 22h

as someone with a 2m/o currently strapped to my chest, and who was incredibly expensive and challenging to bring into the world, these people have to understand that once a baby exists on earth, it’s a brand new game. It’s their LIFE.

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 23h

George: They Morbed Tron!
Jerry: They Morbed Tron?
George: They Morbed Tron.

(Kramer rides into the room on a lightcycle and explodes)

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 1d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 22h

thank you for highlighting this!! I was truly impressed, and it strikes me how this stuff is truly not that hard. Just read a little history, have actual values, and care about people. All people. Including trans and queer people.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 23h

I think the main refreshing thing about Mamdani, for me, is that he actually likes New York City and wants to see it thrive for everyone.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 23h

Since January 20, a concerted campaign of shame and propaganda has been waged against the idea of a multi-cultural and multi-racial America. Multi-cultural and multi-racial democracy is good. Bad Bunny at the Super-Bowl is great. A black neighbor protecting a Venezuelan child from ICE is good.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 23h

What drives me nuts about this dialogue: diversity and inclusion training was a corporate response to the statutory requirements civil rights laws. None of these laws have been repealed by Congress. Congress can pass the laws under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, which has also not been repealed.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 23h

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23h

This is it. Very glad to see this full-throated welcome to queer people — and recognition of trans people’s history — from Zohran Mamdani in the closing month of his campaign and on National Coming Out Day.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

next thing you’ll tell me is that the same society that sneers at public displays of charity towards the most weak and vulnerable will elect, in turn, a government that is entirely predicated on terrorizing its own domestic population of ethnic minorities, laborers, and the poor writ large

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1d

““‘We’ve been together for two years, and my partner is very passionate about the protesting,’ the groom told a reporter. ‘... People can be fun loving people and still protest. We wanted to show that this is about love and caring. We’re caring for other human beings.’”

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

www.oregonlive.com

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

More. Of. This. Any city that allows a corporation to build a data center will be unlivable within a year of construction.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3d

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

Relatedly, I recall a lot of "the joy of canceling plans" jokes and memes from the 2010s and now folks are talking about a loneliness epidemic, and, well...

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

have some goddamn courage

www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset

We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

One of the reasons progressive mayors and local officials scare the establishment so much is that without a complicit local politico, their goals become less and less achievable without the use of glaringly obvious physical force— thus requiring bigger and less plausible lies as justification.

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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 1d

This is so good. And shows he has people who are really doing their research.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 10d

Like, there's nowhere else for this shit to go.

Using the magic beans to fuel a plagiarism machine that gets shit wrong, tells people to kill themselves, and seduces kids, is their last best hope for the magic beans they've literally bet all the money on.

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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 1d

this is such a collection of words

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19d

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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