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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 26m

Cowards

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 7h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 50m

The federal government is basically being run now by the algorithmically amplified, right wing grifter industrial complex, as exemplified by this weirdo from Washington state who was flown in for Trump’s Antifa round table.

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I'm living proof that you can recover from TDS. I had strong Trump Derangement Syndrome for 8 years. It's much better to not have TDS...I was one of you. I was a mainstream reporter in Seattle for 10 yrs. When I saw after all those years that the media wouldn't be honest about what was happening, that Democrat politicians would not be honest about what was happening, I thought, 'If they're not being honest about that, maybe they're not being honest about President Trump either.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965

- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-c...

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 8h

Russian military court upholds a nuclear physicist's 18-year sentence for donating to two pro-Ukraine paramilitary groups and the draft-dodger assistance organization Get Lost. His family sought mercy by selling off their property & donating the proceeds to the military.

Физика-ядерщика осудили на 18 лет за госизмену и финансирование терроризма

Подробнее на сайте

www.kommersant.ru

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 10h

Oh hey look at that the piece of shit that everyone keeps saying is a piece of shit does a thing that only pieces of shit would do yet the ppl in charge who deeply wanna push that he isn’t a piece of shit keep insisting that somehow he isn’t a piece of shit even though he’s blatantly a piece of shit

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 11h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11h

37 states have passed legislation specifically granting sales tax exemptions for data centers.

Among the beneficiaries of these exemptions are Amazon, Meta and Google, all companies worth over $1 trillion.

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永原宣 Hiromu Nagahara @hiromunagahara.bsky.social · 13h

Happy are those
who do not follow the advice of the wicked
or take the path that sinners tread
or sit in the seat of scoffers...

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

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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Khang Vu @khangxvu.bsky.social · 12h

General Secretary To Lam's visit to North Korea shows Hanoi wants to bridge differences between the West and a China-Russia-North Korea bloc. Hanoi will explore the possibility of another Trump-Kim summit on this occasion. My latest @lowyinstitute.bsky.social
www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...

Vietnam is courting North Korea – and still winning Western friends

Hanoi’s multilateral approach lets it engage both Pyongyang and Washington, punching above its weight diplomatically.

www.lowyinstitute.org

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 15h

You don't know anything to tell anyone what will or will not work. Talk about arrogant. telling you to stfu, is the best advice anyone can give you. This regime is weak. Their initiatives are as widely reviled as they are incompetent. The FBI wants you to talk about violent insurrection online.

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Lily @lilydont.bsky.social · 15h

“Antisemitism” my ass. He signed a law that restricts speech critical of Israel. I can’t wait for this piece of shit to lose in 2028

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Gov. Gavin Newsom targets antisemitism in California schools with new law

In signing the law, Newsom rebuffed objections from the state's main teachers union and others.

www.politico.com

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 16h

I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID.

“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus

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.

apnews.com

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 15h

Legolidus

svl @droseph.bsky.social · 15h

Read a fucking book man. Learn something,, and actually engage in political and labor organizing. You're clearly the kind who has no clue what it is to even think about using politics, so you default to this braindead, ahistoric, illiterate opinion. You gonna grab a gun? stfu. go get organized.

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 18h

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 19h

Because racism and violence is as American as apple pie. But if you blame the Russians for it you can absolve yourself of any responsibility....

Motorhead @bradmunchen.bsky.social · 1d

"Putin couldn't do a better job" of attacking America.

How do we know this isn't Putin's doing?

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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 19h

Read @sarahschwartz.bsky.social personal letter in The Guardian today | When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz

Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

www.theguardian.com

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 20h

Right. Considering just how unpopular this term is going, it should be easily overcome: far more a problem, is just how visibly inadequate the Democratic Party and especially the leadership is for this moment, which for the most part has actively done nothing, while still punching left.

Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 23h

I think this is misreading the play, correct in spirit but not in letter. They will seek to gut liberal institutions, support system and basic GOTV thus making defeating Republicans that much more difficult but not impossible. So there’ll be voting but close races will artificially go GOP

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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 21h

Netanyahu didn’t do genocide in Gaza to stay out of prison, he did genocide because genocide is very popular in Israel. It’s political consensus.

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 21h

I'm not a Fight Club fan bc i'm not 12 anymore, but the best acting he ever did was getting his face pounded in that movie.

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 21h

This is Blue Sky, sir. This is what I mean: deploying shallow left-speak. Stop larping. Some leftist read too much; and wannabees like you don't read at all. Go read a book. Wrecker behavior is going into leftist circles and basically saying "hey fellow Reds, let's do violence" online. Cop shit.

svl @droseph.bsky.social · 21h

No. The inferiority you feel reflects your own sense of impotence. I know you use shallow left-speak, demonstrating you don't know what you're talking about, and have probably never taken theory seriously nor put yourself in the position of real activism. That's a flaw you can correct in yourself.

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 21h

Canada, you can't keep sending them here

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 22h

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 21h

'wrecker behavior' is encouraging adventurism. You don't have real interest in politics. You are a reactionary caught up in the moment, and you are blind as to the tools at your disposal. You feel helpless and enraged: at best. At worst, you're a fucking Fed, 0or the next Ryan Ruth.

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