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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 17h

We are changing our antifa secret handshake to slap-slap-fistbump-fistbump. Then you snap your fingers once, eat everyone's pets, and make everyone within 50' instantly become trans. Pass it along.

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Chris Stevenson 🏳️‍🌈🌉 @chris-stevenson.bsky.social · 12h

Oh god this is actually true

TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 1d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 19h

Right now, Donald Trump, Kash Patel, Kristi Noem, and other officials are participating in a panel about "Antifa," threatening to "destroy the entire organization [sic] from top to bottom."

This is a good time to revisit our guide to preparing for repression:

crimethinc.com/Safeguarding

President Trump Participates in a Roundtable on Antifa

President Trump holds a roundtable meeting on Antifa.

www.c-span.org

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Chris Stevenson 🏳️‍🌈🌉 @chris-stevenson.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a gorgeous full moon over San Francisco tonight

Like it says in the main text, a full moon is seen through a gap between a traditional San Francisco Victorian, and a tree. The sky is slightly foggy also in a traditional San Francisco way. In the foreground one can just read a street sign that says “Ashbury“

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Chris Stevenson 🏳️‍🌈🌉 @chris-stevenson.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s at the bottom of a box marked “Epstein Files”

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

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Theciscokidder @theciscokidder.bsky.social · 3d

We need a supremer court.

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Chris Stevenson 🏳️‍🌈🌉 @chris-stevenson.bsky.social · 3d

Good

Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 3d

A major new peer-reviewed Australian report warns that the UK’s Cass Review is fundamentally ill-suited to guide care for trans young people — and should not be adopted as a benchmark in Australia www.starobserver.com.au/news/new-rep...

New Report Says Cass Review Should Not Be Benchmark For Trans Healthcare in Australia - Star Observer

A major new peer-reviewed report warns that the Cass Review is fundamentally ill-suited to guide Australia's care for trans young people.

www.starobserver.com.au

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3d

We are heading rapidly towards "[Justice Roberts] has made his decision, now let him enforce it", which is Not Good but also at this point probably inevitable

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 3d

I have been talking about US autocracy but @dhnexon.bsky.social lays it out more clearly-- the American system has failed. The checks and balances didn't work, so we will need a new constitution and new institutions once the regime is eventually toppled www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 3d

Quality ALT text work. ;)

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 3d

Tag yourself in the Gaultier Spring 2026 Ready to Wear looks lol this is basically my gender

A white male model in, okay. Well, it's fashion! His face and exposed chest are very pale, and his long legs are very tan. You can see all of his legs, from above the hip bone, because he is wearing a black maybe leather longsleeved body suit. He is also wearing inexplicably clunky black open toed sandals. The texture of the leather bodysuit is thick and wrinkles. It's really hard to describe how this or any of these looks look, because they're very future space looking with extremely dystopian vibes.

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Chris Stevenson 🏳️‍🌈🌉 @chris-stevenson.bsky.social · 5d

The cybertruck of challenge coins

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Chris Stevenson 🏳️‍🌈🌉 @chris-stevenson.bsky.social · 6d

GOOD

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 6d

IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY.

CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.

New York Times: "Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference."

The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.

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Chris Stevenson 🏳️‍🌈🌉 @chris-stevenson.bsky.social · 8d

Good luck “straightening out” San Francisco 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9d

Trump: San Francisco and Chicago, New York, Los Angeles… We'll straighten them out one-by-one. It will be a major part for some of the people in this room. It’s a war too. It’s a war from within

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 9d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11d

One for the “who could have seen this coming “ crowd

Headline from October 2024: Kamala’s newest lie: Trump will send the army after you

Headline from September 2025: Trump says he’s sending troops to Portland

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Chris Stevenson 🏳️‍🌈🌉 @chris-stevenson.bsky.social · 11d

Stop playing at comity and praising the rule of law while the administration hurtles towards authoritarianism. If they cared about the law they would have stopped 200 days ago. Do something you useless [redacted]

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ptklein @ptklein.com · 13d

The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened on US screens 50 years ago today. Initially a major box office bomb, cult cinema outsiders and queer audiences quickly took up the film’s mantle and turned it into a unique and exciting way of engaging with the movies. Remember kids, don’t dream it—be it!!

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cluftnyc.bsky.social @cluftnyc.bsky.social · 13d

I’d say we’re already into the slouching.

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Michael Delaporta @mdelaporta.bsky.social · 13d

This gyre is widening, right?

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 13d

Never good news when this quote starts showing up in the feed!

Zack Calhoon @visiblesoul.bsky.social · 13d

“In the new century, I think we will all be insane.”
-Tony Kushner, ANGELS IN AMERICA: MILLENIUM APPROACHES

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Chris Stevenson 🏳️‍🌈🌉 @chris-stevenson.bsky.social · 13d

Never underestimate the depth and history of racism in this country

andscape.com/features/whi...

White immigrants weren’t always considered white — and acceptable

Who, exactly, is white? The answer sounds obvious — we know a white person when we see one, we think. But when Italians poured into America in the late 1800s an…

andscape.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16d

The same bs they're spewing about autism and tylenol is the same bs they're spewing about trans people's healthcare. It's the exact same playbook and the fact that the media can see through one and not the other is a damning indictment of how complicit they are in the attack on trans lives.

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 18d

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

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Chris Stevenson 🏳️‍🌈🌉 @chris-stevenson.bsky.social · 19d

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

NYTimes BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany.

Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence."

As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.

What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of National Socialist leaders—sometimes with bon mots that made the rounds of the country.

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