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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 20h

The guy we are saving with $20B bailout

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 20h

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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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 1d

100%. No more lifetime appointees and a structure of accountability when we reconstruct.

Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 1d

Go Toxi, go!

io9 @io9dotcom.bsky.social · 1d

'The Toxic Avenger' Has Helped Eliminate Over $15 Million in Medical Debt

The ooey-gooey, proudly raunchy horror comedy launched a fundraiser ahead of its theatrical release—and it's still going along with its arrival at home.

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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 1d

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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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 1d

Wells-Fargo is one of the worst and has been for a long time. You can help to take away their power by closing your account and putting your money in a credit union or community bank.

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re a Wells Fargo customer, maybe you shouldn’t be.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a great day to delete your Amazon account.

Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 1d

It's Prime Day so here's your regular reminder that:

- Amazon has been exposed for throwing away millions of unused products each year
- Amazon emits MORE CO2 than Hong Kong & Denmark
- Jeff Bezos earns more in 1 MINUTE than many of his workers do in a year

Overconsumption is KILLING our planet

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

Hundreds of olive trees were seen uprooted by Israeli forces in the villages of al-Mughayyir and abu Falah near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.

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Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 2d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

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House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 3d

*transitional housing.

Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 3d

Last week we did a thing, a pet food drive for a local traditional housing shelter. Folks were invited to donate in memorium of their animal companions who have passed on.

Two red cardboard hearts with “Waylon 4-ever” and “Bowser”written in black marker.

Red cardboard heart with “Arley” written in black marker.

Red cardboard heart with “Patchouli we love you!” written in black marker.

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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 3d

Violence is the only thing ICE is indiscriminate about.

Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 3d

ICE is pepper spraying CPD (Chicago police)

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

BREAKING: Gov. Newsom says Trump is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon after a judge blocked his Portland troop deployment plan.

California governor says Trump is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the Trump administration is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3d

It appears that the federal agents occupying Portland have people embedded with them charged with the task of producing stories presenting the government’s version of events. Ironically, this was the sort of work JD Vance did in Iraq before he decided he was against that war.

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Federal officers were flanked by videographers, toting professional equipment and wearing high-visibility vests.
They filmed from behind the lines of officers, capturing the show of force. At least two drones swept over the scenes.

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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 3d

Mni wiconi!

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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 3d

I started soaking, washing and reusing my core-unit air filters during the shutdown. I can’t speak to the efficacy of this method on removing tear gas particulates, but so far they seem to have maintained their integrity, saved money and reduced waste.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 3d

Discourse exists to enrich our overlords, that is why we invented the printing press

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed

According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland, Oregon.

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