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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control.

I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:

Truth, morality and independence in journalism under the second Trump regime

My full remarks to students and faculty at Grennell College.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

And if youve been on the fence, now would be a great time to subscribe to CAW! Especially since im actually gonna have the time and space to put more and more up there!
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a worker-run anarchist platform of art, culture, and all the shiny things we can find!

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

Im confident im gonna land on my feet but its pretty stressful. If you were planning to buy or pre-order my book anyway, if you do it through my Bookshop affiliate link below I get a few bucks now. Everything helps!
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The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World

How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

I need some help. Got laid-off on Friday: unannounced budget change + my position was first cut, so it was a total surprise. Thanks to a tax status loophole my employer manipulated, I cant get unemployment. In short im SOL

Anything you can give would be huge
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A cardboard bankers box sitting on top of an office chair filled with assorted odds and ends as I cleaned out my desk

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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 1h

I appreciate every repost or share that can reach to more kind hearts.❤️
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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 17h

I carry the full responsibility for my family's needs.
No plans, no guarantees — only faith that there are kind hearts who won’t let us fall. 🕊️

Help us give our children a life without worry. 🧡

🙏Donate if you can / Share if you can't.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 49m

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

But the mere fact that a legal tool might be available does not mean it should be used. The
current rage over Grassley's revelation shows why. Smith showed little restraint in his pursuit of a former president. He charged Trump for official acts he took as president. He sought a gag order to limit Trump's ability to criticize the prosecution. He tried to accelerate the case to try a leading presidential candidate before the 2024 election.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 4h

Please give to my dear friend Tasneem so she can feed her children and raise funds to escape Gaza. And to others. ❤️

tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 15h

Doaa started this fundraiser mainly for her sister who is really struggling mentally after the death of her husband and son. Doaa and her husband have been trying to help her as much as they can but they are displaced now 💔

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 18h

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Doaa. Doaa is the mother of 3 children Omar, 10, Yasmine, 8 and Youseff, 4 but she primarily started this fundraiser to help her sister Amal who lost a husband and son and is trying to support her children Hiam, 13, Omar, 12 and Jawad, 7.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 18h

Obada’s wife Yara is very sick with a heart condition and he’s struggling to take care of her and their children www.gofundme.com/f/nrak2-help...

Donate to Help us escape gaza war, organized by obada salqawe

Hello, my name is Obada and I am from Gaza. I work as a lawyer and I collect donations to hel… obada salqawe needs your support for Help us escape gaza war

www.gofundme.com

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AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 4h

And it won't do them any good.

The Nazi will come for them, too.

And gleefully.

They're the ones getting people killed.

Projection much?

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AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 4h

They called [and still call] me an "accelerationist," an "arsonist," someone "who likes to harm people," "violent," lots of ableist labels, everything but a child of God and then some.

And these are the people who will sell you out in a heartbeat to save their own cowardly skins.

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AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 4h

And you know what kicked these racists off?

Some of us pointing out that you cannot "just vote" our way out of fascism, nor wait until it's a done deal, and that there comes a point when people being actively subjected to genocide, exterminated, have a right to fight back.

And here we are.

AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 5h

Just discovered that some Vichy types added me to lists accusing me of "violence" and "harassment," which of course is not a thing I've ever done.

White folks just don't like being told when they're racist.

The only ones burning shit down? Are them.

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 4h

OK, she really said that they arrested “the girlfriend of the founder of ANTIFA”

The girlfriend

of the FOUNDER

of - anti fascism?

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 6h

lest anyone think the girlfriend line was a hilarious joke I concocted...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 6h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Happy Halluino! 🎃 @aluino.blacksky.app · 5h

No one is going to fucking hand you solidarity and unity. You have to earn it. You have to be about it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 8h

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn’t divide easily into ‘true’ and ‘false’, but instead could be ‘things that people needed to know at the moment’ and ‘things that they didn’t need to know at the moment’.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 4h

One of the basic points in my new Dispatch piece on the right to record immigration raids and raiders is that ICE agents are already informally “enforcing” their disapproval of at-the-scene recording by roughing up journalists, freelance photographers, and others with cellphone cameras. /1

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 16h

New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 9h

The WIC government-assistance program will only accept applications from pregnant women, breastfeeding women and high-risk infants during the federal government shutdown, the Mississippi State Department of Health announced.
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WIC Stops Accepting Some Applicants Amid Government Shutdown

The WIC program will only accept applications from pregnant women, breastfeeding women and high-risk infants during the federal government shutdown.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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knifeBOOts aka Jen (they/them) 👻 @knifeboots.xyz · 4h

Met my husband on IRC 😊

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 6h

Ubisoft: "Okay, so in this game you fight the Klan"
Marketers: "You can't sell that in America"
Ubisoft: "Why?"
Marketers: "Umm [gestures broadly]. The Klan fucking won?"
Ubisoft: "Merde."
Marketers: "Yeah, we've asked for the Statue back but they're being dicks about that too."

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 7h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Joseph Knoop @josephknoop.bsky.social · 7h

Extra funny when you think about how Sinners, which features Michael B. Jordan gunning down Klansmen in broad daylight in slow-mo, is the 10th highest-grossing R-rated film of all time - higher than The Hangover, 300, Logan, John Wick 4, etc....

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 7h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 10h

According to federal contracting records, which were first reported by the technology magazine Wired, ICE plans to hire at least a dozen contracted workers for the effort at its National Criminal Analysis & Targeting Center in Williston, Vermont, in addition to contractors in Santa Ana, California.

ICE Plans to Boost Social Media Surveillance Using Contractors

ICE plans to use a hub in Vermont to bolster its digital surveillance capabilities as the agency ramps up operations across the country.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 5h

Listen. ONE of the reasons I rock with Dolly (Capricorn Gang) is because she’s always proven to me that integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer. Which is not to say that suffering won’t come, but it’ll never be because you abandoned yourself. That’ll keep you going.

PJR23 @stixx23.bsky.social · 5h

I hear she has supported school bands as well: www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/10/d...

Dolly Parton quietly funded Black school bands: 'The woman is a national treasure'

Dolly Parton paid for band uniforms and instruments for kids at majority Black high schools with zero publicity, a writer has revealed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 4h

Miss Major remains in need of financial support. Given her immense care for countless generations of trans folx, please contribute, if able to do so: fundly.com/missmajor

Please at least share this post to amplify this ask as Miss Major needs help! 🫂

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 5h

A great article from Rachel, who really understands the heart and soul of Dad’s work.

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