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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 1h

Just golden retriever-level bewildered at how there's a good number of my fellow Americans who think Portland is an apocalyptic hellscape despite how the people who live there constantly assure them that nothing's on fire except the jugglers.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 1h

We are ecstatically sharing a story from @theodoragoss.bsky.social's new short fiction collection Letters from an Imaginary Country!! Let's sit down with Dóra Muszbek in 1968 Budapest...

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Read an Excerpt From Letters from an Imaginary Country by Theodora Goss - Reactor

This themed collection of imaginary places, with three new stories, recalls Susanna Clarke’s alternate Europe and the surreal metafictions of Borges.

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Andy @cotnam.bsky.social · 1h

FUCK!

'AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations'
-Cory Doctorow

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 1h

There are a significant number of organizations and people out there who definitely have no limits.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 10h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 4h

Trans rights protect EVERY GENDER. Just like the rights black people fought for protect EVERY RACE. Including white people! Y'all are enjoying the spoils of someone else's hard work every damn day.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 2h

In my “Fine, I’ll do it myself” - era.

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 4h

Dream up something good.
Share it with lots of people.
Build better futures.
#zentao

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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.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 23h

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 23h

And this is one of many reasons why no one should take this man seriously as a presidential candidate. He's doing ok at some useful fighting back, but that's mostly the performative stuff, which is all he's good at.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 1d

Following the rules
doesn’t work when they are changed
once you master them.
#zentao

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 1d

Always read @elienyc.bsky.social on the court.

Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 1d

Elie Mystal

The Nation’s justice correspondent previews the court’s coming term—and explains why it will never stand up to Trump.

The post The Supreme Court v. Democracy appeared first ...

The Supreme Court v. Democracy

The Nation’s justice correspondent previews the court’s coming term—and explains why it will never stand up to Trump.

www.thenation.com

Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 1d

Think I might adopt that one.

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 1d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 1d

I've just subscribed to Coyote for stories like this.

COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 1d

We're spotlighting Bay Area worker co-ops, starting with Rainbow Grocery Cooperative in SF, "a place where Karens drift through the aisles like hungry ghosts, aimless without a manager at whom to direct their ire. At Rainbow, the buck stops with the 200 or so worker-owners." ✍️: @soleilho.com

Bay Area Co-ops: ‘A Bunch of Weirdos’ Run a Grocery Store

Staff at San Francisco’s Rainbow Grocery reflect on collectivity, retail personhood, and an aesthetic disagreement that ended in a fistfight.

www.coyotemedia.org

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 2d

“Be realistic.
Demand the impossible.”
A Sixties saying.
#zentao

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 2d

*clears throat*: time to re-post the kavanaugh concurrence again!

Kavanaugh concurrence: The Government
sometimes makes brief investigative stops to check the
immigration status of those who gather in locations where
people are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work
in jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture, or car
washes that often do not require paperwork and are
therefore attractive to illegal immigrants; and who do not
speak much if any English. If the officers learn that the
individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise
lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the
individual go

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: "For all of the reasons" given in Saturday's TRO, Immergut grants plaintiffs' second motion for a TRO.

"Based on the conduct of the defendants, ... in direct contravention" of Saturday's TRO, the second TRO bars relocation or federalization of National Guard from "any state or D.C."

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 2d

You and my partner. He reads a lot of fiction, much of it by women, though right now he's reading Huckleberry Finn.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

Federal agents charged and knocked down two 84-year-olds (84!) as they peacefully protested on Saturday in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland, just blocks from their home. Psychopaths.

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

www.oregonlive.com

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 2d

Someone playing "My Way" on an accordion on BART headed to San Francisco. Haven't decided if it's more charming than annoying.

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 2d

Bananas freeze. I think you have to peel them first.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

I mean, I won't go on about this forever, but the idea that it's a *novel or counterintuitive* notion for the right to be the real threat to free speech ... just makes me fucking dizzy. It's always the right, always the traditionalists, always the fundamentalists, always the status quo powers.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 6d

After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects

Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

Welp. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Gov. Newsom says Trump administration has deployed California National Guard troops to Oregon

The move comes one day after a federal judge blocked the president's plan to deploy Oregon National Guard troops in Portland.

www.nbcnews.com

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