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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 14h

There is one central, core truth to hold on to:

Most Americans don't actually know most of what's happening. But they still don't approve of the slice they do know about.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 11h

Watching the way the Trump administration is using criminalization as a weapon ought to make clear how criminalization works even in normal times.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 11h

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 12h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 11h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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ikckckcabod FRE_E _ ŁIN*K 🎃 @katecrane.bsky.social · 15h

This comes three days after AJ Link got banned after pointing out the CEO had started following Jonathan Chait, in ongoing pushback at her refusal to ban a notorious transphobe.

I found this labeler so helpful. This is a blow.

screen shot of Follow Tracker / for.shame.wtf posts on 10/8/25.

This labeler will be shutting down. We will first be unlabeling everyone who is labeled and then will cease to operate. As the unlabeling operation will take an unknown amount of time, we are not setting a specific timeline other than as soon as possible.
October 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM

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Some of you are blaming
@jay.bsky.team
or
@bsky.app
in general, or claiming that this is being forced by
@moderation.bsky.app
. That could not be further from the truth. I'm shutting it down of my own volition because some of you can't be trusted to use this information reasonably and responsibly.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 18h

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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mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 13h

outside the oh hellos concert and there are earth tones like you would not believe

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 15h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 13h

oklahoma school for the deaf has free online classes, available for anyone! good place to start but i also recommend finding local deaf/hoh groups to practice and learn about the community. courses.osd.k12.ok.us

Oklahoma School for the Deaf

courses.osd.k12.ok.us

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 20h

The most important political thread of our time.

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Candace the Magnificent 🔜 PAXU @thecandacemarie.bsky.social · 18h

Hello BlueSky! I am looking for someone to produce a charity AP on 10/25 at 8p! If you or anyone you know would like to man the controls while myself and some wonderful friends play Monsterhearts I would appreciate it!

Please shoot me a DM or comment below 🥰❤️

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mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 21h

i just appreciate any map that acknowledges oklahoma’s whole deal

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 22h

They’re just gonna do a little lite slavery.

In addition, the new rule allows farm employers to charge H-2A workers for their housing, which was not allowed before. "It's a way for employers to continue to house workers and also charge them, and bring down effective wages," said Marcos Lopez of the Labor and Community Center at the University of California, Davis.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 22h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 23h

non-black users using the blacksky.app handle is a bannable offense

BUT non-black users are welcome to join the blacksky SERVERS (not the blacksky feed) under either "myatproto.social" or "cryptoanarchy.network" handles

source: docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

newrepublic.com

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mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 1d

haha and then what 👀

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Aram ➡️ PaxU @aramvartian.com · 1d

I had to immedtalty call my brother after producing this one shot of "The Time We Have" for @unpreparedcasters.bsky.social. youtu.be/dgambqWrTEk?...

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

The youth don’t know how good they have it. We were drink Burnett’s vodka out of plastic bottles. Uphill both ways in the booze, lord Jesus. It was terrible.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

How many videos have you seen of protesters being brutalized? Pretending this imagery still changes the math the way you wish it would is an insult to the people whose bodies you would treat as props. Ghandi's era was more complex than many of you make out. This is not the 60s either. Things change.

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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Danielle Lalonders @dlalonders.bsky.social · 1d

trump trying to send ice to portland is really crazy considering how portland is one of the whitest major cities in this country. i know everyone is making their polycule jokes but i dont see this as anything but an attack on trans people

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 1d

As basic question from an ex-police reporter: Can some of our journalists detail the training regimen all these new federal agents receive? The lethal incompetence involving use of force and perameters of the 4A suggests they are just handed guns, masks and badges and told to go fuck people up.

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is made up of men who have failed the human test and have nothing of value to offer this nation.

Adults with decency and options and possibilities don’t do this shit.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

I don’t really understand the people who think we shouldn’t situate the current moment in context of the last 25 years in American politics, including the actions of the three Democrats who were president during that time

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 3d

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

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