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Gwen Snyder is undead

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 2d

FREE LINK NOW

This is a Black person who has been on Bluesky forever and apparently just got banned for calling Jay transphobic.

We are at the "hurting the mods' feelings is a bannable offense" stage of Jay's meltdown, now

Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 2d

So @spacelawshitpost.me aka Link got banned. I just got text message.

So yeah. We stop saying things are accidents now?

Link of all people?

Apparently Jay said something to him before taking him down. He didn’t even get a chance to reply.

He sent this image.

This is sad.

“Screenshot of a social media post showing ‘Post not found’ error message at the top. Below is a post from user ‘KC Complains a Lot’ (@kcclyburn.bsky.social) that reads: ‘jay Responded to you and you haven’t copypasta’d her, Im disappointed in you link’ Posted on October 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM”

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 8h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 10h

Here’s video of the incident

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 9h

Oooooooooh

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 9h

Oh I wonder if my broth bones are good to add! Not quite pressure cooked, but I can't imagine them being rat attractants once they've been cooking for hours

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 9h

Too much of this site is turning on alt text image descriptions on the grounds that they could be used to train AI.

Pro tip: If your AI-less utopia requires intentionally leaving out disabled people to achieve, you're imagining a dystopia.

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 10h

I think more people should be aware of how much cool stuff Link does in real life. He’s not just a poster.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 10h

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 10h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11h

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

religionnews.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 11h

sort of striking how bad her performance was, given that she scripted it

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 12h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 10h

I don't doubt that Trumpism will soon crumble and things will return to a seeming normal. But what worries me is whether we will again make the mistake of offering impunity to these degenerates because if so, we're just waiting around for fascism that sticks.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11h

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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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 10h

Using AI to keep watching videos of a dead person is frankly sinister. Just reveals a culture obsessed iwth never moving forward or looking ahead, just wallowing in increasingly degraded and unnatural rehashes of its own memories

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 11h

Zelda Williams urges fans to stop sending AI videos of her father, Robin Williams:

“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on.”

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10h

In local communities, but just as importantly, in Mainline Christian clergy circles.

Those guys talk a lot and they could really manufacture quite a lot of spectacle and outrage nationally if they got mad enough.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10h

It is genuinely shocking behavior, even and especially the worst cops usually handle clerics with special care because the optics are SO bad.

Our press continues to fail spectacularly at documenting all this but when you're doing this in the streets, word gets around.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10h

The fact that the agents were laughing while they did it says to me that they have way way overreached with their mass recruitment and incitement of ICE agents here.

They have not remotely done the propagandic footwork needed to make shooting a collared Christian cleric palatable to the public.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10h

I'm not even trying to make light, this is horrific.

It's just... If you're shooting at Presbyterian USA ministers only 9 months into your modern presidency, something has gone sideways

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10h

ICE now very literally at war with Presbyterians

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

I know we're all used to the president talking like Livia Soprano all the time, but this is a goddamn outrage

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

“.. we’re going to take care of our people,” Trump added. “There are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of. And we’ll take care of them in a different way.”

@thehill.com
thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10h

OH YEAH once I found that my bin had been colonized by soldier flies and I bragged about that to anyone who would listen

(so like two people)

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priyAAAAAA chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 10h

I feel so powerful. Oh what did I do today? Just built a little ecosystem, no big

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10h

You know what feels amazing? Discovering a new category of thing you can compost.

In the spring I found out you can compost hair from your hairbrush.

I rode that high for a week

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10h

I love spinning the big tumbler, I feel like I'm playing wheel of fortune but with old eggshells

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10h

Composting is so addictive. I love how I can keep adding layers but magically the thing never fills up.

I feel like I'm winning at Tetris

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11h

All the Jays are spiralling this month

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 17h

Hey Siri show me the desktop of someone who despises himself

my desktop which has copies of the recent dogshit books of Stephen Breyer, Anthony Kennedy, and Amy coney Barrett

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11h

It wasn't just John Brown. The Underground Railroad involved a lot of serious crime.

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe I'm missing something, because I can't read the post you were originally quoting.

But "serious crimes" is a pretty broad category, especially under totalitarianism.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11h

AT THE SAME TIME, if someone walks into your Indivisible meeting yelling how you should bomb something?

DRIVE THEM OUT WITH STICKS. (figuratively.)

That person is AT BEST untethered to reality and has no place in direct action movement space

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