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Any and all pronouns are good Eclectic Communist: The revolution that feeds the children has my support. Neurodivergent and Chronically Ill in the imperial core

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altrocks 🫥 @altrocks.bsky.social · Jun 25

Probably should've put this up sooner, but I am not one of those "alt" gov accounts. Like I'm not the alt geological department or anything.

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altrocks 🫥 @altrocks.bsky.social · 3h

They always find a scapegoat. And they're usually not a rich white guy despite them being the number one culprit in damn near everything.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 6h

Somehow this small group of Gamergaters dictating popular culture somehow doesn’t chafe our writers as much as seeing a Black Disney character did.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 6h

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5h

donald trump is a fascistic leader who has surrounded himself with people who are explicitely pro-fascistic that want to end democracy as we know it and punish anyone who dissents. pretending otherwise leads me to believe you agree with them doing this

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 6h

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 5h

If someone is living in a place and you kick them out at gunpoint so you can live there instead, that's evil. I don't need a DNA test to know that.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 5h

My hot take is that if does not actually matter to Palestine, or to any Indigenous population, what DNA tests show. I'm obviously not an Indigenous person but if my DNA showed I was 96% donkey and 4% tardigrade, it still wouldn't be okay to kill me and take my house.

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 5h

Yup. The #ElectoralCollege is still one of the control valves for white supremacy.

dictatorship of the proletariat now @imperialismsucks.bsky.social · 6h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SHg...

The Electoral College Is Anti-Democracy

YouTube video by Second Thought

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9h

Really would like people to square this circle with their vocal support for increased policing in Black communities.

Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 1d

Chilling insight by @barbarafwalter.com: "Once citizens view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this… They’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

via www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Screenshot from a NYT article by Thomas Edsall, quoting Barbara Walter of UC-San Diego: "The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It’s inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied.

"Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns. In the end, violence serves their ultimate end: They want to create the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8h

This is a real tweet by the Florida AG.

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A social media post by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier states that, as of October 1st, all Florida airports are closed to any weather modification activities. The post urges people to report violations of the new law at reportfloridaskies.com. Below the message are two airport notices. The first shows Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB) closed to geoengineering and weather modification aircraft except with 48-hour prior permission. The second shows Palm Beach International Airport (PBI) closed to aircraft equipped with weather modification or geoengineering equipment except with 24-hour prior permission.

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😱🩸Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🎃🔪 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 8h

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😱🩸Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🎃🔪 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 8h

so bluesky finally got some thiel money huh

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Skeltons & Old Lace @corgiseveryhour.bsky.social · 8h

Guess we will just have to wait for the trash people to be transphobic to our friends rather than the nearly 100% accurate "Jonathan chait follower" or "Jesse singal follower" tag when curating our user experience.

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 10h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 9h

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 10h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 9h

one thing I learned during 2020 is that "less than lethal" munitions are explicitly designed to be shot into the ground so they lose velocity and bounce up into people and the reason I didn't know that before is literally NO ONE has ever deployed them that way.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 9h

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

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altrocks 🫥 @altrocks.bsky.social · 8h

Never said otherwise, and it's not a defense of him at all. The racist backlash from the right is a consequence of how racist the nation is as a whole. It would've happened with any non-white, but especially black, president. It's what always happens, historically. He can be terrible and face racism

altrocks 🫥 @altrocks.bsky.social · 8h

That's cowardice. People are being murdered on the streets by Nazi thugs and you're concern is whether he's going to follow legal norms that have been shit on and burned by the people doing the killing.

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California Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org · 9h

BREAKING: Burger King workers are on strike in Oakland due to pregnancy discrimination.

The store cut our coworker’s hours because she is pregnant and asked for accommodations to ensure a safe pregnancy. 🧵

#UnionsForAll

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altrocks 🫥 @altrocks.bsky.social · 8h

Your bluster is sputtering out. You have no control of your state police or COD who are assisting ICE in kidnapping people from your state. You have done nothing but talk while your constituents are being attacked day after day by Nazi thugs. Let us know when you actually do something. No more words

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

Feds were actively arresting people just a few miles away while he was giving this interview.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 9h

Just as much as Link was a part of this community- so has Sakher been. Bluesky mods are awful.

It's Reem 🇵🇸🍉 @reeeeeeem.bsky.social · 14h

Sakher’s account was shut down — the only place where he spoke to the world about his pain and his suffering.

That account was his only voice, his way to survive and keep going.

Today, Sakher lost his last connection to the world.💔

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 11h

imagine if we just ignored conservatives' complaints about the Super Bowl every year. they always do this!

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altrocks 🫥 @altrocks.bsky.social · 10h

Yet another reason to leave the Apple cult

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 10h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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altrocks 🫥 @altrocks.bsky.social · 10h

Indonesian investigation has found Cesium-137 contamination at more than 20 facilities and begun decontamination. The source is still unknown, but they've halted scrap metal imports and set up a quarantine location to hold any contaminated materials they find.