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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 3d

This is why no government in history has literally ever done what the United States has done.

It is extremely not normal to let people do insurrections and not throw them in prison. Even Hitler went to prison for a bit and he was arrested two days after his insurrection attempt.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 12h

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 13h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Monster-Theory Medium Dave @azzageddi.myatproto.social · 59m

Mine’s ok, but the icon for going to my profile has disappeared, and a friend gets “that post was deleted” when she tries to reply to posts that I have not deleted. Something buggy is going on, for sure.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1h

Did Bluesky nuke its search engine? I'd look this up to see if others are having the same experience, but, well, there's no working search engine now.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks also to ‪@katjathieme.bsky.social for reading the brief and posting the most ridiculous elements of it here

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 15d

What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.

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the option of interpreting the Idaho and West Virginia
statutes as motivated by the justified aim of excluding
all males from female sports, it is quite invidious to
interpret them as instead motivated by the unjustified
aim of excluding males who identify as female in par-
ticular.
Consider a simple analogy. Imagine that we are
back in Medieval Europe. Gold is the currency of the
land. Consequently, many merchants prefer to accept
gold and only gold as payment. However, a new move-
ment is afoot, whose members are known as the alche-
mists. The alchemists purport to have found a way of
turning iron pyrite (fool’s gold) into gold. Some people
are convinced by the claims of the alchemists, though
many others are not. This difference in attitudes
starts to lead to time-wasting interactions in which an
alchemist or fellow traveler tries to purchase a good
using iron pyrite from a merchant who, unmoved by
well-publicized insistence on the part of the alche-
mists that only irrational prejudice could lie behind
lingering doubts about the possibility of converting
iron pyrite into gold, continues to insist on only ac-
cepting gold as payment. One such merchant, whose
unofficial working policy has hitherto been to accept
only gold as payment, decides to make his policy offi-
cial by putting up a sign on his store saying, “Only
gold accepted (no iron pyrite!).”

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

It's clear by now that the Democrats won't press this case as aggressively as it needs to be pressed, and the media won't do that unless they have Democrats' quotes to use as a springboard either.

They won't do this work, so it's even more important that we circulate these stories ourselves.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1h

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

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

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 1h

ICE agents with half a brain should be terrified.

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 10h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 9h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1h

Try to imagine if federal agents under a Democratic administration had fired pepper balls at conservative clergy protesting--- let's just say --- abortion.

They've litigated and won Supreme Court cases over much less.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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ButUCanCallMeAuntyPha @rthonministerosnrk.bsky.social · 1h

This is where we are. @mskellymhayes.bsky.social -brilliant article🆘

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3h

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1h

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

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

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC (Friday only!) @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 9h

Thinking about the early closeted days as a teenager and a memory I hadn't thought about for ages popped in my head.

As a teen I was DEEP in the Experimentation->Shame->Repression->Repeat cycle that lasted until I came out at 28 and one way I experimented was sneaking make up from my stepmother

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 13h

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."

www.pbs.org

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 2h

POLL for fellow audiobook fans: what is your favourite audiobook & why?

I cancelled my Audible subscription & have switched to employee-owned @libro.fm, which helps support independent bookstores. 📚🩷

My referral link, if you'd like to check it out:
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#IndieBookstore

Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores

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dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 1h

if you'd like someone to personally walk you through the steps, i've already migrated 43 other people this past week! DM here or on instagram/discord

otherwise:

text migration guide by @blackskyweb.xyz is here docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...

and i made a video guide, which i linked below

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 17h

Exciting news! My novel Plague Birds, which was a finalist for the Nebula & Philip K. Dick Awards, will be rereleased by Apex Books @apexmag.bsky.social in an new edition with extra content in June 2026. And a sequel will be published by Apex in Oct. 2026. 1/
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/pla...

Cover of Plague Birds by Jason Sanford, which was a finalist for the Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2h

She then took a round of applause for Brexit about 3 minutes later.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2h

No love for Labour, as you know, but Badenoch is blaming everything that has happened in the last 15-20 years on the one year Labour have been in power and her only plan is to undo everything Labour have done. Not the stuff that targets trans people, obviously.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 2h

Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions

A boon for organizing browser clutter.

buff.ly

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 2h

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

I’m never going to get over this being described as the “wrong fight” from people who absolutely should’ve known better.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5h

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

bit.ly

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Monster-Theory Medium Dave @azzageddi.myatproto.social · 3h

Argh, weird…

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Gramsci did nothing wrong @tontonpogo.bsky.social · 4h

"the imperial need for control is so desperate because it's so unnatural. It breaks, it leaks. Tyranny demands constant effort."

a man talking to another man with the words so much going wrong so much to say and all of it happening so quickly on the bottom

Alt: Nemik talking to Cassian in ANDOR : 'so much going wrong so much to say and all of it happening so quickly'

media.tenor.com

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 5h

And it's actually true.

Immigrants make all cities Great.

Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

In Discworld, cities thrive because they welcome dwarfs, trolls, vampires, and humans alike. Ankh-Morpork works because everyone belongs. Funny how fiction can seem more humane than policy sometimes.

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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 1d

Gifting this one: interesting, important read on how the USA shook off authoritarianism of 1920s. Yes cataclysm is part of it.
But bolstering the WEB Duboises & Sidney Hillmans of today?
Pushing Grand Experiments for democracy?
BRING IT ON.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

Opinion | How to Save the American Experiment

www.nytimes.com

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