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Boytits Ascendant @boytits.bsky.social · 13h

Shoutout to all of us doing a challenge called October where we grit our teeth and try to make it through October in a country that feels like soda can someone kicked down the stairs

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 1d

The goal of these groups—and they’ve said this at press conferences I went to—is to incite state violence against people they consider their enemies.

Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 1d

On Friday, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio announced on his podcast that because "it seems like [the] Portland Police Bureau is not doing their job," "the Proud Boys will be coming back to Portland" in "one capacity or another."

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mother dysnomia 🌚 @mamatried.bsky.social · 1d

lol it’s this guy

Tweet from 11/2/24 showing Harry Sisson and his 4 friends in a car that reads “we’re Gen Z voters and we all PROUDLY voted for Kamala Harris! Real men support Harris”

Robert J O’Neill quotes it with

“You're not men. You're boys. If there was no social media, you would be my concubines.”

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 1d

This does not make them less dangerous, I want to be clear about that. It just changes the nature of the threat we’re dealing with. They’re not interested in particulars, accuracy; they’re interested in a spectacle of power and brutality.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 1d

Instead of taking care to alienate insurgents from the general population, attempting to establish state legitimacy, etc. they’re just declaring broad swaths of the population de-facto insurgent and applying brute force accordingly.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 1d

Under the second Trump administration it’s hard to call much of its movements counterinsurgent, when by the military’s own theory of counterinsurgency they’re repeatedly taking actions that exacerbate an insurgent political environment.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

i’ll never get over how some people pointed out trump was going to do project 2025 and then eventually the media asked trump if he was going to do project 2025 and he said “never heard of it” and the media decided he surely couldn’t be lying about that one

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Boytits Ascendant @boytits.bsky.social · 1d

Sure do love that we're essentially just playing one big game of chicken with the federal govt and you never know which threats are real and which ones are bluffs

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 2d

There's so much cum
And it's all coming out of your penis
Boy I can't believe it
TAYLOR SWIFT "WOOD"

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Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · 2d

look, i'm nobody's boss but i strongly recommend you don't give out anything that could be used to steal your identity unless you absolutely have to

vanishingly few of them can be trusted with your data, and virtually none are worth the risk

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 2d

Discord confirms that government IDs used for age-verification were compromised in a hack with a vendor.

Who could have predicted?

Oh, right.

Discord users suffer the first high-profile age-verification hack – and it's unlikely to be the last

Critics of age verification laws warned this was inevitable

www.tomsguide.com

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Boytits Ascendant @boytits.bsky.social · 1d

Realizing that this is the case for pretty much all adults younger than me is... ooof

Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 2d

i've also only been able to vote against trump for my entire adult life and uh

that fucking bites

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 2d

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 2d

union between the states downgraded to situationship, we're just going week by week and feeling the vibe

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 2d

If 2% of your country is prosecuting a war, you are in a war.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 2d

The federal government under Stephen Miller is explicitly trying to start a civil war.

That is my statement.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 3d

"Well if you just set up a relay to such-and-such and use the so-and-so plug-in..."

Shut up

I just want to type on my phone

If I wanted a degree in computer science I would have gotten one

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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 3d

I do not wish to learn about the "protocols" of the social media site I am on. I just want to make lil jokes with my friends and not see nazis. Why is this so hard for anyone who makes a social media site to understand

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Boytits Ascendant @boytits.bsky.social · 2d

So much of about living in the Current Moment feels like watching the future rip itself in half

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samus aran enjoyer @riotlinguist.bsky.social · 2d

similar to the point william gillis makes about why liberals are often eager to devote all their anti-carceral energy to the one guy who explicitly promises that he will definitely murder his rape/stalking victim rather than to 100 kids who got caught with weed or stole a backpack

Aysha @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 4d

Centrists will go to the mat for creeps and bigots because they believe that “civil discourse” is the highest moral good, and the more noxious someone’s views are, the harder it is to discourse civilly, meaning it makes you extra moral to platform them

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 2d

“We would like your feedback”

I seriously doubt it.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

Federal judge declines to block the invasion of Illinois by National Guard from Texas.

A screenshot of a New York Times news update. The headline reads: “Here’s the latest.” The article reports that a federal judge declined to block the deployment of National Guard troops to Illinois, despite Governor JB Pritzker calling it an “unconstitutional invasion.” The ruling allows deployment of 200 Texas Guard troops to Illinois. A similar effort to send troops to Portland, Oregon, was blocked. The piece describes legal battles in Illinois and Oregon to stop President Trump’s effort to send National Guard forces into cities, with accusations of chaos and insurrection. Governor Pritzker vowed to use all legal means to fight the administration, warning that the plan was meant to create chaos and consolidate Donald Trump’s power.

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