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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 6h

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 8h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 10h

Racism + ableism= “compassion fatigue”. You hate to see suffering but instead of alleviating it, you see it as something to cage and hide because white supremacy has made broken your sense of responsibility and empathy.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

Reading about Democrats who agree with Trump's plan to forcibly commit homeless people

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕠𝕠𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕖𝕜𝕒𝕘𝕖 @notvince2.blacksky.app · 8h

If you see a “Sora” logo in a video it’s ai full stop. Sora is Open ai’s new text to video model that turns prompts into video and they look realistic as hell! Educate your gullible friends on how to identify ai from “real” content.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 8h

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I understand why people *want* the police to intervene--normies are like, 'I thought cops are supposed to arrest people doing crimes, ICE is right there doing crimes, go do your thing'

but police organizations take nearly every opportunity to be like, 'oh you misunderstood what our thing is'

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 8h

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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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 9h

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 9h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 9h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,

and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 15h

doomscroll break

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 10h

Racism + ableism= “compassion fatigue”. You hate to see suffering but instead of alleviating it, you see it as something to cage and hide because white supremacy has made broken your sense of responsibility and empathy.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

Reading about Democrats who agree with Trump's plan to forcibly commit homeless people

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 1d

Rudy talks about the work going on to remediate some of this foolishness; grateful for the work, and it sucks that the Blacksky team has to change it's timetables because of other folks' foolishness. Put some money on their books and help us get a little bit freer

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

Yes. EVERY single CA trans rights bill passed the legislature with a veto-proof majority, considering zero Dems voted no.

So if Newsom vetoes them, the fight isn't over--you can then pressure your CA reps to override them!

Hi I’m Elon Sucks 🏳️‍⚧️ @elonisugly.bsky.social · 1d

Is it possible for California legislator to override the veto’s. They have a super majority in the state.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

The way we are experiencing this is as a genuine "fuck you guys" moment, where the level of "fuck you" increases with your level of transness and POCness

And I'm sure there are folks on the team who don't feel this way about it but this is how the failed comms strategy is working, publicly

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 1d

Sis. You don’t have imposter syndrome. You have imposters trying to pretend they got the skills you do. But we know they ain’t got nothing on you! Glad you found your center & remembered who you are. 😘

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 1d

Yes.

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Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · 1d

Newsom says he’s on the verge of quitting the National Govs Association: “should not be difficult … regardless of partisan affiliation, to agree that politicizing our states’ Natl Guard and deploying… over the objections of the home-state Governor,harms the interests of states”

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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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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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 2d

For any Black woman struggling with imposter syndrome, see exhibit 111,033 for why you don’t ever need to feel less than around so many folks who have been handed their positions of power with whiteness being their only credential.

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is doing politics the right way.

--By Ezra Klein

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Trump pushes a new label for Democrats: ‘The Party Of Hate, Evil, And Satan’

Republicans apparently want Democrats to stop using the kind of incendiary political rhetoric that the president uses all the time.

www.msnbc.com

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 2d

Black people in Chicago had their apartment building raided in the middle of the night, were detained for hours, and had their Fourth Amendment rights violated during an ICE operation that had nothing to do with them. Nah, they are not thrilled.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Stephen Miller: "The Black people in Chicago are thrilled that we're getting the illegal aliens out of their communities who are stealing their housing, jobs, and resources."

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ACLU @aclu.org · 2d

Read more about your rights when interacting with military troops or federal agents at aclu.org/deployment_kyr

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2d

Your reminder that credit scores in the US date to 1989. For much of their existence, race and gender were factors.

They were invented bc it had been made illegal to discriminate by race and gender in the US, so financial institutions wanted a facially neutral way to accomplish the same thing.

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 2d

Project 2025 co-author Russ Vought is leading the charge to weaken Social Security benefits.

Oh, and they’re planning to use AI to determine eligibility.

Republicans want to leave Americans sicker, poorer and struggling to live with dignity.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d

Exclusive: The Trump administration is preparing a plan that will make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments, part of an overhaul that could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing benefits.

Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans

Trump administration officials are considering eliminating age as a factor in deciding whether someone is capable of working.

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