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David L 🏳️‍⚧️ @finitisminmath.bsky.social · 30m

The kind of shit you'll find in fifty years' time in a PRC GCSEs history textbook on the collapse of US constitutional order in the 2020s.

JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 33m

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🧊🖕✈️ YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK 😬

Map of ICE Air flights on Wednesday, 8 October 2025

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 43m

Speaking as a Birmingham native, Bessemer ain’t nothing but black folks — and I find it oh so interesting that black neighborhoods are where they keep shoving all these data centers

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22h

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 42m

This is like the third or fourth time I’ve been hearing about a data center being put in a heavily populated black area, and I can’t help but raise my eyebrows at it because it’s not coincidence

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 19h

Suspension of accts from Bluesky has called into question the mission and very existence of Blacksky. "If bsky can still suspend you, what's the point?"

For one usually Bluesky doesn't just suspend you. They delete all of your data AND suspend you. Moving to Blacksky prevents that. 4/11

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 47m

Still masking

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 8h

We’ve known for years that many viruses are oncogenic in nature… there’s ample evidence to suggest Covid is as well.

Yet another reason to wear a good quality mask like an N95, get boosted, clean the air and keep fighting for paid time off & better mitigations!

Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 8h

That’s…not good.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40813533/

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 57m

Drunk sounding dinosaur costumed lounge act singing Tears for Fears and he brought a Subway sandwich with him

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 1h

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David L 🏳️‍⚧️ @finitisminmath.bsky.social · 1h

My ex's father was ranting to me about this same conspiracy six years ago.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1h

DEI for me, not for thee.

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David L 🏳️‍⚧️ @finitisminmath.bsky.social · 1h

and the image is quite culturally and aesthetically vacant; a simulacrum of the actual historical moment they regale in. hence hazelwood, whose entire career is built on consistently rereleasing a single song.

David L 🏳️‍⚧️ @finitisminmath.bsky.social · 1h

imo neo-confederate leadership principle figures like johnson don't so much perceive similarities between themselves and the publics they represent as much as they desire to mold disparate publics in their own image as one homogenous public. think mr. smith in the matrix sequels.

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 8h

As well as designing the Cambridge Theatre's interiors, Chermayeff also designed the striking cover art and map included in the programme for the opening night of the theatre's first production - Charlot's Masquerade.

#20s30s #SevenDials

The striking modernist design for the cover of the programme of the first show staged at the new Cambridge Theatre in 1930.

A map of Seven Dials and the West End of London drawn for the programme of the first show staged at the new Cambridge Theatre in 1930.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 1h

There is some suggestion Dolly Parton is less well than she might have presented. I know you join us in thinking of her.

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David L 🏳️‍⚧️ @finitisminmath.bsky.social · 1h

Neunundneunzig Luftballons

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · Jul 28

What is your favorite protest song written after 1980

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC (Friday only!) @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 2h

Oh hey it is International Lesbian Day

I am an International Lesbian, please see attached photographic evidence

A selfie of me in my apartment in Jersey

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2h

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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 · 3h

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.

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David L 🏳️‍⚧️ @finitisminmath.bsky.social · 2h

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social is a North Carolina institution.

The Hometown Holler @thehometownholler.bsky.social · 3h

New Hometown Holler drop: We sit down with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social - scholar, writer, truth-teller. From North Carolina roots to national influence, Dr. Cottom talks about home, politics, and the power of paying attention. Don’t miss this one.

#home #community #politics #whiskey

Tressie McMillan Cottom on Nostalgia, Belonging, and Why Calling Trump an “Idiot” Misses the Point

YouTube video by The Hometown Holler

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David L 🏳️‍⚧️ @finitisminmath.bsky.social · 2h

Fuck, I had no idea it was that dogshit.

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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 5h

We already know for a fact that so-called non-lethal rounds ARE in fact lethal. That Nazi should be arrested for attempted murder, OF-A-PREIST!

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 5h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Pumpkinspiced 🎃 @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 2h

Talking to a bunch of ex-POWs about the boys we left behind but its actually about all the eggs we left uncracked

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 4h

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

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4h

I was making butter beans yesterday and at the final stage decided to throw in the little pat of leftover butter. It was the right choice. I had a similar realization:

Marielle Papin @mariellepm.bsky.social · 17h

I’ve been cooking like a grandma, adding more butter, cream and/or salt to everything and I must say, there’s a reason why grandmas’ cooking is so popular.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 4h

"Worse than how these legislative impasses have become commonplace in the rhythms and cadence of D.C., though, is how Democrats do not seem to know how to use them to build political capital, leverage, and public consensus."

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 5h

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

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