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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 8h

Nobody believes me, but I swear to God that Punisher can be saved. But no one wants to save him but me.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6d

3c) Want to take the opportunity to share this great article from @truthout.org about racism/fascism and The Punisher character

Marvel’s “Punisher” Was a Hate Symbol Long Before Police Co-opted His Character

The Punisher has long been embraced as a classic superhero, but his comics spread reactionary ideology.

truthout.org

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Elsiemon @elsiemon.bsky.social · 8h

Has he read venom it's about a dude in a codependent relationship with a nonbinary space slime that makes all hard and veiny. It's the most gay thing I can think of and I'm very happy it exists

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 9h

The western media always refers to “the hostages” as those held by Hamas.

Apparently they are too lazy to access the readily available evidence,
or so imbued with an attitude of dehumanising and ignoring Palestinians (aka racism),
that they rarely mention the hundreds of hostages held by Israel.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 17h

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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Pikmin’s Model @zaaack.bsky.social · 10h

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Elsiemon @elsiemon.bsky.social · 10h

Hey when he's right he's right. The internet has turned us all into Yellow journalists

In the first six months of his papacy, Pope Leo has been a proactive supporter of journalism as "a public good that we all should protect".
"Communication must be freed from the misguided thinking that corrupts it, from unfair competition and the degrading practice of so-called clickbait," he said on Thursday.
Clickbait is a form of sensationalist, hyperbolic headline that entices online readers to click into a story by omitting key information.

Big Swinging Brains and fashy trolls: how the world fell into a clickbait death spiral

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Elsiemon @elsiemon.bsky.social · 11h

I've reached magical girl henshin status on duoliingo

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Elsiemon @elsiemon.bsky.social · 12h

Sigh. Why are people trying to make 'fetch' happen...? Its not gonna happen Ari

Elsiemon @elsiemon.bsky.social · 12h

Remember he's this guy

RFK jr after and before eating a carcass

Kennedy with the carcass of a black-bear cub, in 2014.
"Maybe that's where I got my brain worm," he said.

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scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 14h

baudrillard voice "i fuckin told u dog. i fuckin told u about the precession of simulacra"

scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 15h

how do u even compete with this level of propaganda. and why tf do these vril guys love tatu so much

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Elsiemon @elsiemon.bsky.social · 13h

Just leaving this here, even though it's impossible to shame these guys for hypocrisy bsky.app/profile/alyk...

Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social · 13h

Your timely reminder that Donald Trump tried to claim NYC residence to take a $49,000 tax break on his Manhattan condo while he and Melania lived in the White House, only to get it yanked after my colleague and I caught the misrepresentation.

EXCLUSIVE: City nixes property tax break for Trump’s NYC apartment

New York City has nixed a $48,000 tax break President Trump was set to receive on his Trump Tower condo following inquiries from the Daily News about whether he is still eligible for the savings. O…

www.nydailynews.com

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Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social · 13h

Your timely reminder that Donald Trump tried to claim NYC residence to take a $49,000 tax break on his Manhattan condo while he and Melania lived in the White House, only to get it yanked after my colleague and I caught the misrepresentation.

EXCLUSIVE: City nixes property tax break for Trump’s NYC apartment

New York City has nixed a $48,000 tax break President Trump was set to receive on his Trump Tower condo following inquiries from the Daily News about whether he is still eligible for the savings. O…

www.nydailynews.com

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Elsiemon @elsiemon.bsky.social · 1d

Tracey Chapman is an even better artist when you realize that she was always constantly having to stay one step ahead and outsmart her nemesis, Chasey Trap-Man, while songwriting and performing across the country. A true artist.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Elsiemon @elsiemon.bsky.social · 1d

She's not even from New Orleans. And I learned today that her mother isn't even Jewish which in the Jewish faith to a lot of people means you are not actually Jewish so there's that. She's descended from puritans so this is not her family's first colonialism either...

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

The New Orleans Film Festival is now blocking local filmmakers who called them out for honoring Amy Schumer

stellaforstarfordog
& SunTruth • Free Free Palestine
I've been blocked on all social media (as have some filmmakers with relationships to the festival) for calling out the New Orleans Film Festival for giving an award to Amy Schumer, who is an unabashed Jewish supremacist and virulent Islamophobe who was one of the most prominent US celebrities spreading racist genocidal propaganda at the beginning of the ongoing escalation of the genocide.
Please go to their social media pages and make it clear that they cannot sweep genocide denial and anti-Palestinian racism under the rug, and that Zionism is a form of fascism, and fascists are not welcome in our city.
If you have time, send some emails out:
info@neworleansfilmsociety.org
lisa@neworleansfilmsociety.org
clint@neworleansfilmsociety.org
juliana@neworleansfilmsociety.org

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

imagine never having to hear hakeem jeffries talk again. he could campaign on that alone.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Liam Jeffries @sorathecyclist.bsky.social · 1d

This is the absolute dream challenger to Jeffries. Please, please, please let this happen.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

it is wild how much people just lie lol

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Jonathan Ashworth: "I've wanted to see a ceasefire for 2 years"

The collective position of the Labour shadow cabinet (which you were part of) for months after October 7th was to reject a ceasefire & Labour instructed its MPs not to vote for a ceasefire in Nov 2023.

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Elsiemon @elsiemon.bsky.social · 1d

He keeps staying the quiet part out loud by accident

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

Hitler was what came after the Weimar Republic

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa