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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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geneva / LBX 534 @gdbee.bsky.social · 22d

Process pics :)

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Lois Beckett @loisbeckett.bsky.social · 1d

MONUMENTS, an exhibit featuring decommissioned Confederate monuments paired with work by contemporary Black artists, opens in Los Angeles next week.

This is Karon Davis' Descendants (2025), showing her son, Moses, holding a squirming replica Confederate general

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 1d

A thousand writers: “SEE IF I WRITE THIS YOU TELL ME IT’S TOO ON THE NOSE”

TheHerm @herminator12.bsky.social · 1d

A beautiful Bald Eagle circled overhead during our protest in Burnsville Minnesota and the crowd went wild
#NoKings #Minnesota

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P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 1d

For the out of towners, a Chicago city block is ⅛ mile, so that would be 2¾ miles.

whet moser @whetmoser.com · 1d

the times is reporting that the protest stretched 22 blocks in chicago

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yeahduff @yeahduff.bsky.social · 1d

I've heard multiple reports of people in Forest Park splitting their time between the No Kings protest on Roosevelt and the annual Casket Races.

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 1d

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 2d

Sneak peek of an updated version of ‘Urbs in Horto’ debuting at Open House Chicago this weekend. 6 colors with metal type, 1 linoleum cut. #letterpress

Close up of a print with a representation of Chicago in a circular shape. A ‘tree’ says ‘Urbs in Horto’ on it.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Dorothea Lange,
Girl with an umbrella,
Louisiana, 1937
#WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a young Black women in an outside space, upper half, holding an umbrella, wearing a checked shirt and apron as well as a small round hat, she looks down to her hands

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Jesse “Sppooky Diplay Naame” Raub @jesseraub.bsky.social · 1d

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 2d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 1d

The No Monsters rally in Young Frankenstein (1974). 👍

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 1d

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 1d

COMMISSION #2

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

#NoKings

Fun fact: Stephe Miller is only 4'11" tall

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 2d

If anyone ever asks, "why don't people immigrate to the US the right way?", it's worth noting I was just quoted $14,460 for an O-1 visa application with premium processing. My first O-1 application, without premium processing, was $6,160 in 2018.

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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 3d

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."

The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3d

the amount of time conservatives spend thinking about childrens genitals is legit crazy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

a real question for the roberts majority is what in their view distinguishes jim crow disenfranchisement from majority-minority districts? a related question is what in their view made the typical jim crow law — which was facially neutral — unconstitutional?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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yeahduff @yeahduff.bsky.social · 4d

"At least I know where they stand" was always such myopic response to open bigotry.

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yeahduff @yeahduff.bsky.social · 5d

The Lewis/Paltrow version, to clarify.

yeahduff @yeahduff.bsky.social · 5d

That version is so terrible.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 5d

D’Angelo, the neo-soul trailblazer and modern visionary whose three albums were all heralded as classic works of art, has died at age 51.

Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 5d

The Radiogirls in the revue "Alles per Radio" Vienna, 1924. Of note: future film star Lilian Harvey is second from right.

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 5d

this is the most like a mike tyson's punch out guy i have ever seen anyone look

Brewers outfielder Sal Frelick making an intense face as he prepares to throw the ball

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 5d

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

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