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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 3h

This is me at all times

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Kivan @kivanbay.bsky.social · 20h

So between my charger almost catching on fire, my upcoming internet and phone bill, I need to raise a little more. I have a good chunk of what I need but if I can raise $80 that would be a load off my mind. Thank you, shares and donations are both huge help

Kivan @kivanbay.bsky.social · Jul 2

Hi, I have spent literally the very last of my money on rent. If you can help me survive to the end of the month with a share or donation, I would be very grateful. Thank you so much.

paypal.me/kivabay
cashapp $kivabay
ko-fi.com/kivabay

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

Really would like people to square this circle with their vocal support for increased policing in Black communities.

Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 21h

Chilling insight by @barbarafwalter.com: "Once citizens view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this… They’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

via www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Screenshot from a NYT article by Thomas Edsall, quoting Barbara Walter of UC-San Diego: "The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It’s inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied.

"Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns. In the end, violence serves their ultimate end: They want to create the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely."

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 4h

Also, the way to not "die on that hill" is to be united. These folks who want to jettison trans folks, immigrants, Black folks, etc. are so short sighted they think it'd be a victory to die a couple steps later, when choosing solidarity is actually choosing to not die at all

✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 5h

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 7h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 10h

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 10h

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

NC nonprofit still pushing for Durham County sheriff to release jail policies

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

bit.ly

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 23h

"certain types of bodies are indicative of moral repugnance" is a fascist logic. i know you fucking know better! shut the fuck up! your jokes arent even good!

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 23h

The absolutely tragic evidence that the blogging era of feminism was a catastrophic failure is that there is no specifically feminist movement pressure to be applied right now on literally ANY of the surveillance, kidnapping, incarceration, shooting, forced pregnancies of women/girls.

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ecta foole @ectafoole.bsky.social · 1d

let's all just take some time to search our favorite genre on bandcamp and see what's there.

Ethan ⛧ 𝖈𝖔𝖛𝖊𝖓 𝖉𝖊𝖛 @gatorshins.bsky.social · 1d

"but spotify makes it easy to find new music"

Ask your friends, co-workers, bluesky/discord mutuals for recs.

Yes, it's more effort than just whacking on a radio playlist on spotify but the experience is better.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

Winchell's
Donut Hors
Open
Winchell's
Donut House
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city. (Mark
Elias/AP)

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody but the two of us has ever found this funny, and I do not care

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 1d

Periodically @spacebrujita.bsky.social and I watch Duck Tales again and it becomes important for me to re-make this image

Manny the Headless Man Horse from Duck Tales bursting into a room with the text "my bodyguard look like a horse"

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 1d

Ok but these are delicious

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 1d

That sounds right. Stirring is tricky that way

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The 51st @51st.news · 2d

D.C. did away with the death penalty 44 years ago, but the president says he's bringing it back.

What does that actually mean for the people of D.C.? @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:

Capital punishment: What it means that Trump reinstated the death penalty in D.C.

D.C. did away with the death penalty 44 years ago, but the president is bringing it back.

51st.news

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 2d

I initially read what you wrote as ending in "legal ram" and it took me...a while to question that

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 2d

I personally wouldn’t follow up my weeklong meltdown about people being mean to the mods by banning one of the most prominent Black users on the site but also I don’t have an incurable case of start up brain

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Kivan @kivanbay.bsky.social · 2d

I'm $3 overdrafted and have to get out of the hole to avoid a fee. I also badly need laundry quarters. Please help if you can

Kivan @kivanbay.bsky.social · Jul 2

Hi, I have spent literally the very last of my money on rent. If you can help me survive to the end of the month with a share or donation, I would be very grateful. Thank you so much.

paypal.me/kivabay
cashapp $kivabay
ko-fi.com/kivabay

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 3d

Compassion fatigue is very much something, but this is...not even a little bit what it is

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

Reading about Democrats who agree with Trump's plan to forcibly commit homeless people

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 6d

cher horowitz saying ‘in conclusion may i please remind you that it does not say rsvp on the statue of liberty’

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 7d

I do not know what I have done but my shoulder hurts *so much*

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 7d

“Trad cath” is, weirdly, code for “unfamiliar with Catholicism”

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7d

Far-right Catholics freaking out about the Pope doing normal Pope things will always be entertaining.

The Pope blessed some water? Can you even imagine?

Matt Walsh: Horrific. The whole thing. Pope Leo blesses a block of ice and then stands there while these communist freaks do some kind of weird pagan Earth worshipping hippy ritual. The leader of the Catholic Church shouldn’t be anywhere near this nonsense. What the hell are we doing here

@CatholicSat: The Blessing of the Waters by Pope Leo XIV, at today’s ‘Raising Hope for Climate Justice’ International Conference at Castel Gandolfo.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7d

i know that when i’m having a medical emergency the first thing i do is scan the room racistly trying to find some immigrant to pin it on

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 7d

Val and I checked repeatedly because we simply couldn't believe no national or local news organizations covered this letter from 18 AGs in support of trans youth care and against FTC overreach.

If you find any stories, let us know, but it seems to be our exclusive.

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 7d

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.

And nobody covered it.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned

Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

www.assignedmedia.org

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 7d

If we're gonna be stuck with these Captain Planet ass villains, they could at least have the good sense to be weird chimeras

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