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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 49m

Mmmm idk did Greek riot cops "scuffle" with doctors protesting poor public healthcare services or did Greek riot cops "fire volleys of pepper spray and used shields and batons to" brutalize doctors protesting poor public healthcare services?

Greek riot police scuffle with protesting doctors during hospital tour by PM Mitsotakis

Riot police have scuffled with medical staff at an Athens public hospital, after dozens of staff gathered to protest the state of public health services during a visit to the hospital by the country’s...

apnews.com

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 47m

“We are currently clean on OPSEC”

Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 18h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 45m

like, you have to understand here

brit’s handsome as hell void cat, van gogh. just lounging, showing some bean.

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Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 41m

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · May 15

Guinan to Picard: This century? It took off a hood and put on a suit.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Mar 31

They want to be serfs under their dictator daddy so badly.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 35m

A foundational truth of this republic is it has no king.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 46m

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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🏴 J.C. @dpointinmylife.bsky.social · 40m

ICE sports a fucking swastika tattoo while attempting an abduction. Of course normally federal agents are not allowed to have Nazi tattoos.

I can't believe I just made this post. Am I concussed and dreaming?

Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 8h

It looks like orange shades has a swastika on his chest.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1h

Today, the Supreme Court will hear a hugely consequential case that will determine the future of the Voting Rights Act

US supreme court to hear case that could upend Voting Rights Act

Dispute over Louisiana district returns to justices after long legal saga – and could have far-reaching implications

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1h

GOP’s labor market policy is market protectionism for white men.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 2h

"For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row...with women earning 80.9 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2024. That compares to women earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2022."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 37m

Flat, graphic illustrated poster entitled "Red-Eyed Birds of North America" featuring shadowy gray-blue silhouetted birds punctuated by bright red eyes. 23 birds are depicted in total, some highlights being the Snail Kite, Roseate Spoonbill, Common Loon, and Wood Duck.

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The bones of Natasha 🏴🌻 @alterici.bsky.social · 19h

Starting to think they are specifically going after porn/erotica/nudey doodles because that's competition. Like walmart driving little mom and pop shops out of business.

"Well, there's no porn in my neighborhood, so I guess I have to drive all the way over to chaptgpt just to get one off." 🙄

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 20h

ChatGPT will soon allow sexting with verified adults

• Erotica and 'mature conversations' will be permitted

• Change arrives in December alongside new age verification tools

(via Sama | TW)

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20m

Not only is it invented, it is ASININE.

We've had the Voting Rights Act for 60 years.

On top of 88 years of Jim Crow and 250 years of slavery.

If there is a time limit, it should 250 + 88.

I have such loathing for these justices.

Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 57m

Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 13h

“cigarettes and vapes don’t give me cancer because they know i approach them with pure intentions and a positive spirit” over a picture of a kewpie doll with s strawberry hat

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Scarby @thescarby.bsky.social · 13h

Who is cutting onions in my apartment?!??

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13h

Danielle Fishel honors 98-year-old William Daniels, aka Mr. Feeny, during her #DWTS routine

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13h

Danielle Fishel honors 98-year-old William Daniels, aka Mr. Feeny, during her #DWTS routine

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · Mar 24

forget weighted blankets. how about a person-sized tortilla press. who's working on this

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Scarby @thescarby.bsky.social · 13h

This is a BOLD move.

I like it.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 14h

more detailed story in the @oregonian.com

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 16h

an american citizen, mother of three, who was playing the clarinet in a peaceful protest outside the city has been nabbed by ICE, held in a jail across state lines, without bail nor any specific charges.

i mean, yikes?

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Scarby @thescarby.bsky.social · 13h

*chef’s kiss*

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