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Brothers, Sisters, we don't need this fascist groove thang. Foppery and Whim Y'all. Loves Mecha anime, international football, and psychedelic music. Total #Gizz head. Anti-Netanyahu, Pro #NAFO. I stand with Canada! He/Him. Ann Arbor, Michigan USA. NO DMs.

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OtakuNoCreepo 🎃 @wessoman.bsky.social · Jul 30

1 like = 1 song with a Motorik beat

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TEN DEMANDS (The Abolitionists) @tendemands.bsky.social · 5h

“Simply marching in the streets once every few months will not stop fascism. We have to draw people into concrete organizing and activity. No one else is going to do this for us.” - @crimethinc.com

#NoKings

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4h

your tactic of protesting in an inflatable frog suit which gets normal people on your side is far inferior to my tactic of posting about laser blinding helicopter pilots which is both wildly illegal and, were it to succeed, would put basically *everyone* against me

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4h

as a person who lives directly under the flight path of these helicopters, i would prefer you did not try to bring them down

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 1h

Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia
Move by The Hague escalates frictions between western countries and Beijing over access to high-end technology

www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

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OtakuNoCreepo 🎃 @wessoman.bsky.social · 57m

a close up of a woman 's face with senorgif.com written on the bottom right

Alt: a close up of a woman 's face processing the emotions of a nintendo magazine writer.

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Yuna.EXE 🏳️‍⚧️ @yunanoire.bsky.social · Mar 10

Real opening paragraph in an Official Nintendo Magazine feature

"I once punched my younger brother so hard in the chest that he vomited up that morning's breakfast - cornflakes mainly. It wasn't technically the Heimlich manoevre, as he wasn't choking and I wasn't trying to save him-"

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

Chapelle Roan says "Fuck ICE, forever" very nervously yesterday during her concert (twice). The crowd goes absolutely nuts!

From a source who was there.

(please don't copyright claim me this is journalistic fair use 😭)

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Jonathan Lack @jonathanlack.bsky.social · 1h

John Oliver just did a Mortal Kombat fatality on Bari Weiss/CBS/Paramount on Last Week Tonight, and if Paramount does wind up buying WB, it's probably the end of the show. I imagine Oliver and his staff would all think it was worth it, and I agree. An *essential* episode.

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Rick Downer @rkdowner.bsky.social · 7h

Fast fashion is right up there with AI on the list of incredibly wasteful industries.

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Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 8h

Excellent piece, Derek. I would add that many, many Americans who desperately want them are priced out of quality clothing (made in America or not) because of corporate employer practices that artificially keep employee wages low. They're a captured market.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

But after not getting enough orders, the company closed. Managing partner Kenneth Ragland said: “Lots of people talk about Made in the USA as being so necessary, but when the rubber meets the road, most Americans want cheap goods, which do not make it easy for US firms to survive.”

Excerpt reads: Garland Apparel Group is working to find the next occupant for the town’s long-standing Garland Shirt Company after a lack of orders to meet basic costs necessitate furloughs — and ultimately the closure — of the factory.

“The factory was placed on furlough in November. It was our intention to return to work, however, orders needed to keep the factory open and functional, did not materialize,” Kenneth Ragland, managing partner for Garland Apparel Group, told The Independent. “The factory required a minimum number of orders to meet basic costs and wages. The aggregate total of orders we had were simply far too low to support day-to day operations.”

During the period of November through today, company leaders have been working with several parties “who have a desire to acquire the factory,” Ragland noted.

“One transaction is now close to completion. I cannot opine on the buyer nor their plans, but I know they are North Carolina based and they have need for factory capacity, which Garland can provide,” Ragland stated.

Excerpt reads: Despite bringing back a majority of the workforce, and enjoying success for a couple years, the factory was fighting an uphill battle in the long run.

“The factory suffered from Brooks Brothers owning it too long, from Brooks not investing in basic upkeep or in better systems, and ultimately, the lack of interest in Made in the USA,” Ragland stated bluntly. “Lots of people talk about Made in the USA as being so necessary, but when the rubber meets the road, most Americans want cheap goods which does not make it easy for U.S. firms to survive.”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 5h

Don Winslow

I think Democrats should implement this nationwide at all protests.

A competent attorney with a bullhorn directly communicating to law enforcement and the surrounding cameras.

This is a VERY smart idea.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 9h

Here for the "emergency" naked bike ride in Portland

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 4h

Really cool cosplay

My sailor moon quick change cosplay!! #cosplay #sailormoon #quickchange #costume ⁠

YouTube video by Forever Treble Cosplay

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 4h

I like the way she responded to transpobic comments

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Edit: there were roughly 20 comments saving I'm trans. or a cross dresser or iust savina I'm a man Most of the comments were just plain gross and hateful. Anything transphobic I deleted myself as soon as I saw it come up. 1 also noticed that several people deleted their own negative comments about cross dressing or "that's a man" comments after being called out. So yes you won't see these comments below. I originally added this psa below like a week ago in the hopes that people will stop making these comments. I want to emphasize again that I am upset to be called something I'm not but what upsets me most is that people are make vile comments about trans and cross dressina individuals. Using trans as an insult is never okay. 1 know it may seem like "she didn't even qaet that many negative

hateful. Anything transphobic I deleted myself as soon as I saw it come up. I also noticed that several people deleted their own neaative comments about cross dressing or "that's a man" comments after being called out. So yes you won't see these comments below. I originally added this psa below like a week ago in the hopes that people will stop making these comments. I want to emphasize again that 1 am upset to be called something I'm not but what upsets me most is that people are make vile comments about trans and cross dressing individuals. Using trans as an insult is never okav. I know it may seem like "she didn't even get that many negative comments and so many positive" and that true! But it doesn't make the negative ones less hurtful. I have no idea whv this has to be more complicated than it is. I just want to stop hate from spreading. I also respond to as many comments as I can herauise I'm a small creator

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 3h

The inflatable costume industry is the only one booming right now.

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Beaver Bones Darick @darickr.bsky.social · 3h

Not paying the soldiers is a quick way to lose loyalty

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10h

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Also lying:
- your own eyes
- every bit of video evidence
- the fabric of reality itself

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 14h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

While @GovBillLee @JasonMumpower and others boast about the Boring Company’s record, in reality Musk’s Nashville tunnel digging company is accused of a massive amount of violations in Vegas. www.propublica.org/article/elon...

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