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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 5d

The American cities Trump has vowed to invade one by one produce 90% of this country's GDP. We must withhold these funds, and our infrastructure, from the United States Government, until these invasions stop

If you only read one thing I've ever written, please make it this

The Point Of No Return

We Are At War, Whether We Want To Be Or Not

www.bannedinyourstate.com

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.bsky.social · 2h

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Text: "The Pentagon Press Association has been cautious with our public statements since the Defense Department first announced it would force reporters to make a choice: sign onto rules creating unprecedented restrictions on our ability to report the news, or end our historically-held access to the Pentagon.
This caution was meant to support efforts to negotiate revisions to the document the Defense Department is requiring our members to sign to secure new credentials, in place of valid badges that are being taken away - the kind we've always worn.
Unfortunately, those negotiations have not been as successful as we had hoped."

Text: "We acknowledge and appreciate that the Pentagon is no longer requiring reporters to express agreement with the new policy as a condition for obtaining press credentials. But the Pentagon is still asking us to affirm in writing our "understanding" of policies that appear designed to stifle a free press and potentially expose us to prosecution for simply doing our jobs.
The new credentialing policy also leaves open the threat of the Department of Defense revoking credentials for reporters who exercise their First Amendment rights by
seeking information that hasn't been pre-approved for formal release, even when the information is entirely unclassified. The policy conveys an unprecedented message of intimidation to everyone within the DoD, warning against any unapproved interactions with the press and even suggesting it's criminal to speak without express permission
- which plainly, it is not."

Text: "We were also surprised and disturbed to learn through the new policy statement that the Pentagon plans to move all of our news organizations from our dedicated workspaces. While we don't know the location to which the Pentagon is preparing to move the press corps, we can surmise from restrictions imposed earlier this year that the changes will further isolate reporters, making it harder to interact even with the spokespeople inside the Pentagon who are entrusted to approve information for public release.
Let's be clear about the facts. Pentagon reporters have always worn badges, and continue to do so to this day. Pentagon reporters have always been restricted to unclassified spaces only- the idea that reporters have been prowling in offices where they are not allowed is simply preposterous.
And reporters have a constitutional right to ask questions."

Text: "Every political administration going back to the 1950s -- including the first Trump administration -- has allowed the same level
of access. This press access has never precipitated the kind of national security crisis feared by the current leadership of the department.
Limiting the media's ability to report on the
U.S. military fails to honor the American families who have entrusted their sons and daughters to serve in it, or the taxpayers responsible for giving the department hundreds of billions of dollars a year. The American people deserve to know how their military is being run. They deserve more information from this administration, not less.
We hope the Pentagon reconsiders."

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 20h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · 4d

Kat Abughazaleh: ICE lies. That's kind of their thing.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 1d

Coverage like this is how you Individualize the world into doing nothing about climate change.

The issue here is systemic, manufacturers need to change the inhalers. That will require laws.

The solution is SYSTEMIC.

It is NOT "shame people who use inhalers for their ACTUAL SURVIVAL"

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 1d

Are rising prices and inflation eating into your or a loved one’s Social Security payments? Want to talk about it with a reporter for a news article? DM or email sluterman at 19thnews dot org.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

Same thing happened in LA, same thing happened in DC: prosecutors charged people with assaulting a federal officer and then furiously backpedaled when the evidence didn’t support it

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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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. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like we really have a cultural obsession with finding the One Right Answer For Everyone instead of everyone finding *their* way to help push back.

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 2d

i am almost done with this grant proposal

i am so tired but hopeful

i hope we get it

Black with Long COVID Symposium and Forum Proposal
In 2019 the lives of every human were changed by the introduction of SARS-CoV-2, a novel Coronavirus that has since led to the death of over 7 million people across the world, and counting. The pandemic has had a long-lasting impact on the most marginalized communities, exacerbating systemic inequities that existed prior to the pandemic including that which has led to centuries of mass premature death, debility, and disability. Yet those most impacted, particularly Black Americans and the larger Black Diaspora across the globe, continue to be excluded from conversations about the virus and its sequela. This exclusion has contributed to the current state of COVID and Long COVID today -- we are five years in without any approved treatments.

Grounded in Sins Invalid’s Disability Justice framework, Social Determinants of Health frameworks, and Simone Browne’s Dark Sousveillance, is twofold: 1) To uplift transnational Black and Afro-descendant expert knowledge about Long COVID in efforts to support rapid progress towards treatment, and decrease systemic inequities and 2) To provide accessible patient-led spaces to foster community building and collective consciousness raising for Black people with Long COVID.
As Browne writes in Dark Matters, Dark Sousveillance is place in which to mobilize a critique of racializing surveillance, in the form of freedom practices. Collective consciousness raising

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 9d

Seren is a young person who lives in a really vulnerable household.

Everyone should listen to her story.

💙💜💗 #educationANDlives

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Apr 6

Sheryl's basic rules for protesting.

(This isn't legal advice. The whole point is to NOT need me. Also, if you're a person who won't suffer any harm from going to a protest no matter what you do, congratulations! Most people aren't so privileged, and stop thinking you're the default.)

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Goons shooting from rooftops into a peaceful protest.

This is no longer America, the land of the free. We are under siege. The Trump administration has declared war on Americans.

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.bsky.social · 2d

I always think of this quote (from They Knew by Sarah Kendzior) when people say this.

"'nobody saw it coming' is an admission of whom the speaker considers to be nobody"

Text from "They Knew" by Sarah Kendzior:

As I wrote in Hiding in Plain Sight, the oft-recited claim that
"nobody saw it coming" is an admission of whom the speaker considers to be nobody. In the United States, "nobody" historically included women, immigrants, poor people, and anyone who is not white. People dismissed as nobody are those most likely to be affected by a terrible situation and therefore the most likely to warn about it in advance. "Somebody" is a similarly convoluted category. For centuries, to be somebody in the United States meant to be a wealthy white man or to be treated like one. This idea of "somebody" is baked into the founding of the country, in which only white male landowners were granted the right to vote. White, land-owning men who deviated from the establishment were often punished for their efforts: castigated as troublemakers or conspiracy theorists. The goal was to reduce them, at least in their ability to gain institutional support, to the status of "nobody."

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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 2d

Unfortunate update: Link reached out to BlueSky and got email back now on reason.

His appeal is denied. He will remain permanently banned on BlueSky’s side.

Here are the screenshots he just sent me as of 8:22 AM EST(my time)

A screenshot of an email from the Bluesky Moderation Team with the subject line “Bluesky Account Behavior” sent at 22:15. The email states that a Bluesky account controlled by the recipient, with the handle @spacelawshitpost.me, posted a reply with an image where the alt text reads: Charlie Kirk sitting in a white T-shirt that says “Freedom.” A negative consequence follows. The email indicates this post violates Community Guidelines regarding violent or threatening speech, specifically listing threats of violence or physical harm against individuals, groups, institutions, or the general public, and incitement of self-harm or suicide.

A screenshot of an email continuation from the Bluesky Moderation Team displaying a bulleted list of Community Guidelines violations. The first bullet point describes threats of violence or physical harm as including threats or encouragement of violence against individuals, groups, institutions, or the general public. The second bullet point defines incitement of self-harm or suicide as content that encourages self-harm or suicide. The third bullet point explains wishes of harm as expressions of a desire for harm directed at a specific person or group. Below the bullets, a paragraph states that users may not use Bluesky to break the law or cause harm to others and that all users must be treated with respect. The next paragraph informs the recipient that as a result of these violations, your account has been taken down. A closing paragraph thanks the user for doing their part to keep Bluesky a welcoming and empowering place for all users and instructs them to email moderation@blueskyweb.xyz if they have questions or wish to appeal the decision. The email ends with the signature Bluesky Moderation Team.

A screenshot of an email from the Bluesky Moderation Team sent at 08:11 with the subject line Re: Bluesky Account Behavior addressed To: Hide My Email. The email reads:

Hi there,

Thank you for reaching out to appeal the takedown of your account on Bluesky. We have carefully reviewed your case, including the information you provided and the activity that led to the suspension of your account.

After investigating, we have determined that your account activity was in violation of our community guidelines, specifically promoting hateful content or being disruptive to other users. We take these guidelines seriously to ensure a safe and respectful environment for all our users.

As a result, we regret to inform you that your appeal has been denied, and your account will remain suspended. This decision is final and cannot be reversed. We understand that this may be disappointing news, but we must prioritize the well-being of our community and maintain a consistent enforcement of our policies. We encourage you to review our community guidelines to better understand the expectations we have for user behavior on our platform. Please do not create new accounts, since those will be taken down for ban evasion.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

really should get around to writing my take that "AI uprising/robot uprising" fiction is just barely sublimated fear of domestic slave revolt

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 3d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 2d

Let the infighting begin.

A think a lot of this is down to ICE being hastily reinforced. They've never had good rapport with local cops, but the new recruits have none.

And cops are used to being untouchable. If JQ Citizen were to do this, they'd end up dead. From ICE they have to suck it up.

Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 3d

ICE is pepper spraying CPD (Chicago police)

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 3d

I think again about @jamellebouie.net’s piece referring to the Lincoln speech where he was basically like “the South is simply not going to give us any choice about this, there is nothing we can say that will talk them around other than total capitulation to everything they want”

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 3d

Political violence is a bad thing, it is not a thing I support in and of itself, but it’s simply a fact that one side of this conflict appears committed to not leaving any alternatives open

I mean they’re doing it right fucking now

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Ketamine Caligula @ketaminecaligula.bsky.social · 3d

For those who don't know:

3 Community journalists in Chicago have teamed up to provide LOCAL, DAILY COVERAGE.

Please follow and support, if you can.

They're going above and beyond to serve truth.

@unraveledpress.com ; @thetriibe.com ; @peoplesfabric.com

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

FYI: one of us is en route to Broadview. We can't provide updates on new details we learn about Brighton Park shooting from this account, because we have to use it at Broadview.

@peoplesfabric.com is dealing with decontaminating himself at the moment. Check his feed for further shooting updates.

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🌸Bibi🌸♿ (formerly bibicosplays) @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 3d

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.

I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks, walking sticks, elbow braces, bags, back braces & more!

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Spoons: Lavender background
Hunger Scale: Red background
Migraine Scale: Blue background
Speaking vs Non Speaking: Green background

The first one has SHE, THEY, HE on top. At the bottom there's HER, THEM, HIM. White background.

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Strawberry, Galaxy and Bats Thumb Splints

Elbow braces in the strawberry, Galaxy and Bats patterns

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