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Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 10h

Canadians! this is a big deal one to push, we can be a light for the world!

Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 14h

Sign the new House of Commons e-petition calling on the Government of Canada to strengthen protections for LGBTQ+ people worldwide and reaffirm Canada’s role as a safe haven.

Thank you to MP Rob Oliphant for sponsoring this important petition.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 10h

i’ve wondered whether the traditional tactic of peaceful resistance to shock the conscience of observers who see nonviolence met with force is still possible in a media environment where only novelty can get the attention of the people you need to be shocked, and portland seems to have an answer

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 11h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Sarah ⚧ ✡︎ @sarahkorse.bsky.social · 11h

A very small black cat poking her head out from under black and whit curtains. She has enormous yellow eyes, and a concerned look on her face.

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David @davidphx84.bsky.social · 14h

The Eugenics Times, everyone.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15h

The NYT's making sure everyone sees this piece pushing eugenicist views of autistic people.

Alt text: A smartphone notification from The New York Times at 7:20 PM. The headline reads “Diagnosing Autism.” The subtext says, “Families of people with severe autism say the expansion of the diagnosis has pushed them to the sidelines.” There are “Share” and notification options below.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 18h

This is more or less what we’ve come to expect from the chicago tribune editorial board

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18h

A fascist dictator is ordering armed troops from another state to invade the city of Chicago, and the Chicago Tribune editorial board reacts by warning Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson to avoid injudicious language. Really.

Editorial: We need our leaders to stay cool as ICE-related chaos gets hot

Provocateurs on the right and left were the story of a chaotic weekend in Chicago. Our political leaders need to reclaim the narrative and cool things down.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 11h

This is the way.

Winter @winterpolitics1.bsky.social · 18h

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek just took back control of the national guard.

She is sending the Oregon national Guard back home and is directing the California national guard to leave the State.

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Untitled Goose Name @goosname.bsky.social · 11h

i don’t even know how you fix a country that’s given every platform and megaphone to the very worst of us

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Untitled Goose Name @goosname.bsky.social · 11h

can’t wait for these bozos to have a “healthy debate” about whether to send us to reëducation camps

and then see it quoted in the majority opinion when the supreme court nullifies my rights

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Untitled Goose Name @goosname.bsky.social · 11h

“we’re gonna talk about how free markets are awesome and our country is great, and the future is gonna be awesome, but don’t call that an ideology. we don’t do those.”

“also, we’re gonna fiercely defend personal liberties, so long as they conform to the gender norms of the 1950s”

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 12h

What will the new Adam O'Neal–hosted WaPo opinions podcast sound like for the next few decades? Maybe a little something like this x.com/WashPostComm...

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Untitled Goose Name @goosname.bsky.social · 12h

She was a

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grumdholt.bsky.social @grumdholt.bsky.social · 15h

HP Lovecraft might have eaten Cheez-Its

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 13h

France conducted its last guillotining the year Star Wars came out

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 14h

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 19h

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

George Pearkes @peark.es · 19h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 14h

There are a lot of memorable photos of the current moment surfacing.

Here’s one from Portland now.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 18h

I've written my analysis of today's grim Supreme Court oral argument in the conversion therapy case:

As far as the Court's concerned, imaginary medical uncertainty gives states the authority to hurt queer kids, and takes away states' authority to protect them

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chile...

The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15h

The first Law Dork oral argument report of the new Supreme Court term is a doozy: Chiles v. Salazar, over Colorado’s conversion therapy ban.

Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado's conversion therapy ban

A lesson in how defining the case often resolves the case.

www.lawdork.com

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 22h

The FBI's Terrorist Screening Center is widening its focus to include unspecified “national security threats."

The new mission has resulted in a new name: the Threat Screening Center.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/secretive-...

Secretive Watchlisting Center Executing NSPM-7

“We’re expanding the watchlist,” FBI director says amid 300% increase in domestic terror cases.

www.kenklippenstein.com

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"Wuh-wuh-wuh-wafflehouse" Ella Tailor $345/$700 @garaktailor.com · 15h

see i like the theory that they are actively trying to drive us out to prove a point and that's a good way to get me posting hole on main out of spite.

Sedat Kapanoğlu @ssg.dev · 16h

bluesky decentralization in action:

- bluesky the corp bans a user
- user’s data is alive on their blacksky PDS, an indie server
- blacksky will deploy their own API server which will bring back the user to everyone else
- user keeps their data, identity, followers. nothing is lost

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 17h

TL; DR
In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it.
After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up.
After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools
fin/11

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 22h

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 19h

Ah, Portland 🥰

A photo of a trash can in Portland, Oregon, with graffiti that reads “t-girl mafia” over a pentagram

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15h

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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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 15h

Portland is so peaceful Republicans had to go all the way to South America to find photos from years ago for their bad memes.

Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 1d

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Untitled Goose Name @goosname.bsky.social · 15h

i wanna see baby piglets

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