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Christopher Webb

@cwebbonline.com

Prime example of white privilege in plain sight.

Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.

October 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM

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Black Aziz Anansi

@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

A photo of Charlie Kirk with the caption "Trans rights are human rights" in loving memory Charlie Kiek 1993 - 2025

September 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM

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Matt Oswalt

@mattoswaltva.bsky.social

unlike Vietnam or Afghanistan at least the Marines coming to.L.A. know exactly what this fight is all about

June 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM

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United Farm Workers

@ufw.bsky.social

We feed you.
They hunt us.

June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM

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JJ

@jjfroggy.bsky.social

substack.com/@krassenstei.... Please repost. This is very disturbing 😔.

Krassenstein on Substack

Here’s the LAPD when they think no one’s looking:

substack.com

June 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM

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Aubrey Jones

@aubreyjones.bsky.social

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today.

I'm so angry.

Statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales
Husband of Jonathan Joss

My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done.

Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic.

When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw.

While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired.

Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life.

Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future.

He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other.

I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved.

To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family.

My focus now is on protecting Jonathan’s legacy and honoring the life we built together.

If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband.

Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will protect what he built.

Tristan Kern de Gonzales

June 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM

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Krassensteins

@krassenstein.bsky.social

CBS reporter Scott Pelley:

This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”.

If you haven’t already shared this, please do.

May 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM

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Area Person

@beartromboneparrot.bsky.social

All the Don Jr and Bruce Springsteen stuff is a designed distraction tactic, don't fall for it.

This weekend someone blew up a clinic. 25 people died in storms after Republicans shut down tornado warnings.

No one says a peep about these significant and horrible things because of the distractions.

May 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM

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Sarah J. Jackson

@sjjphd.bsky.social

I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.

March 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM

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Codify Baseball

@codifybaseball.bsky.social

THAT NEW CHESAPEAKE OYSTER CATCHERS LOGO MY GOODNESS

March 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM

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Kara Swisher

@karaswisher.bsky.social

I told you all @jeffbezos was feral. He’s now killed the Graham/Bradlee legacy of justice, the First Amendment and basic humanity in a vomitous spew of nonsense, testosterone fueled (and HGH) double talk that is more than a little pathetic and utterly shameless.