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Erin Patterson @emcpatty.bsky.social · 1d

This is where people who start statements with, “they’re gonna be sorry when it comes to midterms” or “when the next president is elected” fall short. We should be making decisions and actions as if we won’t have those things. We have not been a democracy this whole year! FFS

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 2d

I stopped calling Octavia butlers work prophetic once I realized she herself literally said that her work was influenced by deeply studying history which gave have her insight into the future. I realized I was watering down how truly brilliant she was and what she was trying to get across

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seven possums in an AFI hoodie @volare.bsky.social · 2d

Mkay timeline cleanse.
Welcome to my bee motel.
Bed *is* breakfast. 🌱

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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 2d

A bully believes that kindness is weakness. A fool believes that bullying is strength. A true warrior knows that a bully is weak, and that compassion and kindness are strengths they could never comprehend.

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TwoBoobs Johnson @midwestdominicana.bsky.social · 18d

Take up space, loudly, quietly, and in every way possible. Fill up the space with joy, truth, art, music, rest. Do not contract. Expand. Expand. Expand.

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TwoBoobs Johnson @midwestdominicana.bsky.social · 10d

We have to expand and take up space…together. I mean that. The more we contract, the more they seep. They’re weak and small, but they seep. Their repulsiveness has worked to make us retreat. We gotta plug our noses and push back. Hard. Relentlessly. Together.
Pick one thing and let’s together.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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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TwoBoobs Johnson @midwestdominicana.bsky.social · 2d

“The uninformed and unthinking may take issue with the axiom that they who create the image control the idea, indeed possibly the mind.” - Roseann P. Bell

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans are redrawing congressional maps to lock in their power for years to come. Executive Director of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee Marina Jenkins explains how these redistricting moves threaten fair elections and what’s at stake for American democracy. youtu.be/5zBAgwoRiE8

Inside Trump's Unprecedented Power Grab | Marina Jenkins

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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TwoBoobs Johnson @midwestdominicana.bsky.social · 3d

Worst birthday ever.

TwoBoobs Johnson @midwestdominicana.bsky.social · 3d

RUDE!!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

The solution to homelessness is not forced institutionalizations.

It’s social supports. Healthcare. Housing. Education. Harm reduction. A universal basic income.

Anyone can become homeless at any time. It’s not a personal failing.

We must fix it together.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality.

Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.

Our duty is to stand up to brutality.

Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

Wishing everyone a good week ahead. Take care of yourselves and don't give in to the fascists.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 3d

You can read the full essay—that Baldwin wrote after Angela had been arrested and put on trail—here

An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis | James Baldwin

One might have hoped that, by this hour, the very sight of chains on black flesh, or the very sight of chains, would be so intolerable a sight for the American people, and so unbearable a memory, that...

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 3d

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 3d

As the pressure continues to build, some people who call themselves allies, will wilt. Try not to be sad. Tolerating people is not allyship. If you are only an ally when you are being praised, but go full bigot when questioned, we know what you are. It's what you believe when no one is around.

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jeremy bearimy✨ @simplysope.bsky.social · 3d

“This isn’t a group project” is the perfect encapsulation of the unbearable brain and soul rot some are afflicted with.

Idek what to say to someone whose vision and morals are so utterly corrupted.

*I have a host of insults but other than that, idk what to say.

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TwoBoobs Johnson @midwestdominicana.bsky.social · 4d

I’ll never understand why they hate us so much. Enough to want us dead en masse. They make up false narratives and untruths to justify this specific type of hatred. I cannot comprehend it. None of this makes sense. None of it.

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orynthia blue. @javeauriel.blacksky.app · 4d

Just wanna add that Google *also* removed the ICE-spotting apps out of their Play store and referred to ICE members as a vulnerable group.

Christina Warren @filmgirl.bsky.social · 5d

Kinda wild Apple will kick ICEBlock out of the App Store on safety grounds but the Saudi government app that lets men track women (their “property”) and control their travel is fully allowed even after the Human Rights Watch AND members of the Senate begged them to ban it.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

This is not a drill: Chicago

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Sharky 🦈 @sharky.bsky.social · 5d

Everyone have a good weekend. Look out for each other. Eat something with frosting on it. 💙🦈

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TwoBoobs Johnson @midwestdominicana.bsky.social · 6d

B4 Movement makes so much sense.

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TwoBoobs Johnson @midwestdominicana.bsky.social · 6d

Shameful.

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