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Sonja
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Fashion by day, snacking by night. Into textiles, dogs, hiking, knitting, and watching chipmunks.
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jacobsberg.bsky.social
Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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pedsortho.bsky.social
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed. After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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ziibiing.com
lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day
AJ West • 1h Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government Reply 6
October 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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rebeccanagle.bsky.social
The leaked Trump plan for Gaza comes directly from the US playbook for Native Americans.
The plan calls for the US to take over the Gaza strip and to hold it in trust for development. Gaza’s residents would be encouraged to leave “voluntarily.”
September 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING: The Supreme Court — over the objection of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson — allows the Trump administration’s racial profiling of people working certain types of jobs in its immigration raids during litigation.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES - No. 25A169 - KRISTI NOEM, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. U. PEDRO VASQUEZ PERDOMO, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [September 8, 2025] The application for stay presented to JUSTICE KAGAN and by her referred to the Court is granted. The July 11, 2025 order entered by the United States District Court for the Central District of California, case No. 2:25-cv-5605, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court. JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting. In early June, the Government launched immigration enforcement raids across Los Angeles and its surrounding counties. During the raids, teams of armed and masked agents pulled up to car washes, tow yards, farms, and parks and began seizing individuals on sight, often before asking a single question. A Federal District Court found that these raids were part of a pattern of conduct by the Government that likely violated the Fourth Amendment. Based on the evidence before it, the court held that the Government was stopping individuals based solely on four factors: (1) their apparent race or ethnicity; (2) whether they spoke Spanish or English with an accent; (3) the type of location at which they were found (such as a car wash or bus stop); and (4) the type of job they appeared to work. Concluding that stops based on these four factors alone, even when taken together, could not satisfy the Fourth Amendment's requirement of reasonable suspicion, the District Court temporarily enjoined the Government from continuing its pattern of unlawful mass arrests while it considered whether longer-term relief was appropriate. Instead of allowing the District Court to consider these troubling allegations in the normal course, a majority of 2 NOEM v. VASQUEZ PERDOMO SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting this Court decides to take the once-extraordinary step of staying the District Court's order. That decision is yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent. * * The Fourth Amendment protects every individual's constitutional right to be "free from arbitrary interference by law officers." Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S., at 878. After to-day, that may no longer be true for those who happen to look a certain way, speak a certain way, and appear to work a certain type of legitimate job that pays very little. Because this is unconscionably irreconcilable with our Nation's constitutional guarantees, I dissent.
September 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Some people think that it gets easier to raise money when you show effectiveness but that's not true. If any of you have connections to ppl who want to fund a program that is making free & low cost counseling/therapy accessible to formerly incarcerated & criminalized people, please let me know.
Four people wearing Darkness Rising shirts smile at the camera. Text announces the REBUILD program’s four-year anniversary virtual event on September 25, 2025, featuring Mariame Kaba, with RSVP details at the bottom.
September 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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asherelbein.bsky.social
Gavin Newsom and Buttigege both seemingly want to be the American Keir Starmer, and Americans sympathetic to that pitch should glance over at how things are going across the pond
August 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
You are not going to out "tough on crime" fascist Republicans. Because they don't actually care about *crime* - they care about racism and power.
August 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
I reject fatalism [a form of moral disengagement]. What happens next is not predetermined and depends in part on us.
August 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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ufw.bsky.social
Take action today to protect US farm workers. Tell your Congressmembers to say NO to weakened H-2A wage provisions that would undercut American farm workers' wages and protections. ufw.org/aewr #WeFeedYou
A photo of Farm workers laboring in a field with the words: Protect U.S. farm workers. Say No to weakened H-2A provisions.
June 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
The GOP's tax cuts for billionaires and corporations ballooned the deficit. So now they're blaming the problem on vital social programs and demanding devastating cuts that will harm millions of people.

It's socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.
May 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social
“Two million Palestinians in Gaza, nearly half of them children, are now surviving on a single meal every two or three days.

…signs of prolonged starvation are becoming more frequent and alarming.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/o...
Opinion | This Is the Moment of Moral Reckoning in Gaza
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Always note who the empathy is for--and who it isn't.
lindseyboylan.bsky.social Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · Apr 10
What we are up against. Women who think this need serious help.
Text saying: People aren’t perfect. Cuomo needs help not vilification. The me too movement goes way too far. There’s a difference between a rapist like Weinstein and someone who is rough with women. Having empathy is a beautiful thing. None of us are perfect in any way.
April 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Tariffs on their own do not create more American jobs or lead to more US production. In fact, Trump's last trade war cost roughly 300,000 jobs. All these tariffs will do is give corporations cover to jack up prices and pad their profits at our expense.
April 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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ditzkoff.bsky.social
Not now, HBO
HBO promo advertising a new season of "The Gilded Age"
April 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.

This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation
A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.
www.ctvnews.ca
March 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
gingermakesstuff.bsky.social
Hi #KnitSky! 🧶 I really like knitting colorwork, but this was my most challenging project! It's based on a sweater Paul McCartney was photographed in, but in my preferred color scheme. Yarn is Rauma Finullgarn. #ShowMeYourKnits #thistookforever
A white guy wears a hand-knitted Fair Isle sweater with shades of red, blue, and yellow on a cream background. A white guy wears a hand-knitted Fair Isle patterned sweater with a cream background and shades of red, blue, and yellow. He's at a roller rink taking a photo of the skaters. Paul McCartney photographed in the '70s wearing a Fair Isle sweater and holding a camera and a teacup.
March 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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lindaholmes.bsky.social
Again, if somebody said a stunt coordinator was a buzzkill and they wanted to just feel their way through jumping off a building because it felt more authentic that way, that would be a valid opinion for them to have but they would not get their way. An intimacy coordinator is for set safety.
vulture.com Vulture @vulture.com · Mar 20
Gwyneth Paltrow and other celebrities have expressed uncertainty about the rise of intimacy coordinators in Hollywood, claiming it disrupts the art or authenticity. But the profession was adopted to prevent the abuse exposed in the Me Too movement.
Who Needs Intimacy Coordinators?
Gwyneth Paltrow and other celebrities have expressed uncertainty about the rise of intimacy coordinators in Hollywood, claiming it disrupts the art or authenticity. But the profession was adopted to prevent the abuse exposed in the Me Too movement.
www.vulture.com
March 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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gregpak.net
New Yorkers, please call your state rep, state senator, and Kathy Hochul and tell them NO MASK BANS. This garbage proposal would kill people. We're on the verge of a measles epidemic and this terrible governor is pushing this? NO.

Find your reps here: reps.fyi

gothamist.com/news/gov-hoc...
Gov. Hochul is pushing a last-minute mask ban in state budget talks
The governor has expressed support for restrictions in protest settings, while many protesters say they need to conceal their identities to avoid retribution.
gothamist.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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indivisible.org
👏 THIS is the energy we want to see during next week's congressional recess! If your representative or senator is avoiding accountability by refusing to have a town hall, host one yourself and put them on blast. We've put together a detailed toolkit to help make it happen: indivisible.org/musk...
Leah Greenberg on Bluesky: "This is how it’s done folks. If your rep won’t hold a town hall because they know what they’re doing is unpopular, hold one for them and let everyone in your community know what they’re up to."
March 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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theebikinikill.bsky.social
Profit from sales today of all items on our Bandcamp will be donated to TYEP. If you'd like to donate directly you can do so here: southernequality.org/tyep/
Trans Youth Emergency Project: Supporting Families of Trans Youth
Supporting families of trans youth nationwide through the logistical and financial burdens of navigating bans on gender-affirming care.
southernequality.org
March 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
use of starvation of a civilian population as a weapon of war is a completely unambiguous war crime
March 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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lindseyboylan.bsky.social
Are you disgusted and want to help?

Read this.
Digest how evil it and Cuomo is.
Send it to every New Yorker and person with a platform that you know.
Add a note on top from you.

There are many monsters in the world right now. We can beat this monster now. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/n...
Andrew Cuomo for Mayor? His “First Accuser” Says New York City Deserves Better
Taxpayers have paid millions defending the former governor and top aides against accusers’ allegations.
www.vanityfair.com
March 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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threnody.bsky.social
a cloture vote for the way-harder-to-undo-than-an-executive-order federal anti-trans sports ban is now set for monday. that means there's more time to make calls.

no on cloture means it doesn't get a vote. the GOP needs 7 dems to advance it.

please call. there is *so* much evil downstream of this.
from the senate democrats website approximately 5:30pm, the Senate will vote on confirmation of the McMahon nomination. Following disposition of the nomination, the Senate will vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to Calendar #2 S.9, Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. Monday, March 3rd at approx. 5:30pm - 2 roll call votes expected: 1. Confirmation of Executive Calendar #24 Linda McMahon, of Connecticut, to be Secretary of Education 2. Motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to Calendar #2 S.9, Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.
February 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM