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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 5d

🚨Trump’s police shot a woman in Chicago this morning. They have an explanation… and zero accountability.

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Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities on Chicago's Southwest Side

Authorities were on patrol when they were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. The woman who was shot "was armed with a semi-automatic weapon," promp...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 6d

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We’re making it easier than ever to join The Baffler’s far-flung disaffiliates program, which currently has subscribers across the world. When you subscribe, you’ll receive five issues of commentary…

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 7d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 7d

Wrote something for @powertochange.org.uk about the fact that government policy must include a new category - digital social policy - to address the social impacts of technologies. Tech policy has to be more than cutting-edge innovation and growth www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...

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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 6d

📚BOOK EVENT📚

@thelrm.bsky.social, author of The Feminist Art of Walking visits @housmansbookshop.bsky.social for an author talk

🗓️ Wed, Oct 8
⏰ 7 pm
📍 @housmansbookshop.bsky.social
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BOOK LAUNCH: The Feminist Art of Walking by Rose Morag

We are delighted to welcome feminist writer and academic Morag Rose to the shop to discuss her brilliant and essential new book The Feminist Art of Walking; a vital intervention in the growing fiel…

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 7d

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 6d

If, like us, you're frustrated with billionaire-owned mainstream media -

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Support powerful citizen journalism - we need it now, more than ever

At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater nee...

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6d

Zack Polanski saying what every politician should be saying,

"It's problematic to weaponise the synagogue attack to silence protest in this country against the genocide in Gaza"

"These are separate things and we should condemn them both"

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 10d

I'd love it if we had some remixes of this banger:
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(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang (Remastered 2006)

Listen to (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang (Remastered 2006) by Heaven 17 #np on #SoundCloud

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helen varley jamieson @helenvarley.bsky.social · 7d

We call on the seafood industry to stop bottom trawling in sensitive areas, including Māui and Hector’s dolphin habitats and fragile deep-sea coral ecosystems.

Stop Bottom Trawling | Hector's Dolphin Habitat | Sign the Petition

Sign our petition to stop bottom trawling in Hector’s dolphin habitat. Together, we’re calling for a future where no dolphin dies in a fishing net.

www.endangeredspecies.org.nz

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helen varley jamieson @helenvarley.bsky.social · 7d

our cowardly government is too afraid to recognise palestinian statehood, ignoring the voice of the people. but israel must be sanctioned for its unlawful occupation of Palestine and its innumerable breaches of international law and human rights violations.

NZ Government Sanction Israel Now

Since October 2023 the world has witnessed the state of Israel perpetrate innumerable war crimes and human rights violations against the people of Gaza [1], while the violence, repression, and forced ...

our.actionstation.org.nz

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helen varley jamieson @helenvarley.bsky.social · 7d

“... there’s something that says: ‘There is still an awful lot left and that’s what we’ve got to fight to save.’ So then you get extra energy. I have days when I feel like not getting up, but it doesn’t last long. I guess because I’m obstinate. I’m not going to give in. I’ll die fighting ...”

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

www.theguardian.com

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Marc Garrett @mgarrett.bsky.social · Jul 7

Flyer for the first Human League gig, 1978. Made by Martyn Ware - bit.ly/2r0evbN

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Marc Garrett @mgarrett.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, it's that 'we're gonna have to conform to it anyway, mixed with colonial and accelerationist bullyishness. Smug gits.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 7d

The whole "I am part of making the terrible thing, you must listen to me about why the thing is terrible" industry is so weird and also ABSOLUTE CATNIP to newspaper editors.

Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 7d

This grifter works with OpenAI, yet this is mentioned as a tiny insignificant detail, not The Precise Reason Why He Is Saying Something Completely Unverifiable www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s time to prepare for AI personhood | Jacy Reese Anthis

Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us?

www.theguardian.com

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Marc Garrett @mgarrett.bsky.social · 9d

Looking forward to being interviewed on Felixstowe Radio by Laura Unlocked about my recently published book, Feral Class.

Tune in to 107.5 FM, felixstoweradio.org.uk, or the Radio UK app, or just ask Google or Alexa to play Felixstowe Radio. Between 4 and 6 pm.

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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 9d

Not sure I've seen Foucault lay out his entire research program and approach so clearly in anything else I've read www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...

Michel Foucault and Richard Sennett · Sexuality and Solitude

A few years ago, we discovered we were interested in the same problem, in very different periods of history. The problem...

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Marc Garrett @mgarrett.bsky.social · 9d

Looking forward to being interviewed on Felixstowe Radio by Laura Unlocked about my recently published book, Feral Class.

Tune in to 107.5 FM, felixstoweradio.org.uk, or the Radio UK app, or just ask Google or Alexa to play Felixstowe Radio. Between 4 and 6 pm.

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Marc Garrett @mgarrett.bsky.social · 10d

"It’s a blueprint for making art that terrifies the establishment. [...] My journey proves creativity doesn’t start in lecture halls; it resides in the dark corners they’ve tried to pave over." M. Garrett.

A Story from the Feral Class

Every now and then, this is where I’ll explore what Feral Class means to me, as both a working-class identity and a shared experience. Most posts will weave together personal reflections and respon…

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10d

“I asked Bannon if he thinks Miller’s tweet means federal law enforcement should and will now criminally investigate groups who describe ICE as “authoritarian.” — “Yes,” Bannon replied. “Stephen Miller is correct—more importantly he’s in charge.” 😕 🇺🇸
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