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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 46m

land back!

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 3d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

ino.to

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 47m

HOW WAS I NOT ALREADY FOLLOWING YOU ?!?

🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 48m

…WHY WOULD SOMEONE MAKE SUCH A THING?!?

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1h

'By applying protections meant for vulnerable groups to shield government actors, Apple has created — within its own ecosystem — a new kind of protected class: state power itself."

migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 48m

Capital as collaborator & agent of fascist state power:

no surprise and still bad.

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1h

'By applying protections meant for vulnerable groups to shield government actors, Apple has created — within its own ecosystem — a new kind of protected class: state power itself."

migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 50m

He very much is.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 1h

He is a miserable piece of shit.

I would offer that being “bayou bred” is not per se a bad thing.

#FromLouisiana

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 1h

The current historical moment has given me obvious cause to go back and read what people wrote during their own interregna.

The through-line to each is that a bias to normalcy, a belief the old world lives as more than a half-dead husk, is the greatest danger of all.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2h

Free healthcare to all residents of the US regardless of immigration status would rule, actually. Universal benefits for universal problems (having a body that can get sick or hurt)

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 1h

New word I learned today! of the day:

“jollification”: festivity, merrymaking,

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/j...

I may have to have a context where every day I work to insert a word of the day into my #DissertationWriting…

Moreover we must destroy ICE & smash fascism.

Definition of JOLLIFICATION

festivity, merrymaking… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

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Althea May 🦇⚾️ @alymay.bsky.social · 10h

Ever since I was a little girl I knew I wanted to cut and paste and reformat documents

a young boy is sitting at a desk in front of a computer with the words `` ctrl + c '' written on the screen .

Alt: a young boy is sitting at a desk in front of a computer with the words `` ctrl + c '' written on the screen .

media.tenor.com

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 2h

MIX.

I FEEL THIS.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 2h

Chag Sukkot sameach & yom tov to those observing.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 2h

Well.

I see today is yet another day in our white supremacist fascist spiralling ever further into lawlessness & violent authoritarianism.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Guess I’ll work on my #DissertationWriting & grading!

[PAINED, DESPERATE SCREAMING RESUMES]

Together is the only way.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 2h

hahaha someone talked to legal counsel

Jennifer Shutt @jennifershutt.bsky.social · 3h

Speaker Johnson appears to say furloughed federal workers should get back pay under 2019 law

"It has always been the case. It is tradition and I think it is statutory law that federal employees be paid. And that’s my position."

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🚲5🇵🇸 @anyfishanytime.bsky.social · 14h

@atfteachersunion.bsky.social local #1420 took unequivocally correct stand to inform their teachers and their communities. Mr. McCall can go kick rocks

New Mexico Boycott McCalls Pumpkin Patch.

A screen shot from Instagram posted by thr ABQ teachers federation

AFT LOCAL 1420

@atfteachersunion

In Response to McCall's Pumpkin Patch

It has come to our attention that McCall's Pumpkin Patch is publicly attacking our union for informing our members that co-owner and Torrance County Commissioner Kevin McCall voted to extend the Torrance County Jail's ICE contract without debate. We are posting the message we sent to our members in full here to demonstrate that the message was based on credible news sources.

The Albuquerque Teachers Federation would like to point out that in a recent Facebook post, McCall's Pumpkin Patch mischaracterizes Kevin McCall's vote on the Torrance County Commission. McCall did not vote to "keep the community jail open," he specifically voted to extend the jail's contract with ICE. For more info please see: www.koat.com/article/immigration-ice-migrants-new-mexico/64301345

Our job as educators is to serve all students who attend our schools regardless of their immigration status. This mission is in keeping with the NM State Constitution. The fear of ICE detainment is causing great distress to many in our community and even leading to some families keeping their students home from school.

One of our jobs as an educators' union is to inform our members of news that affects their ability to do their jobs and serve our community. We will continue to do that.

ATF internal union stewards email, sent Friday 9/26/25:

McCall's Prison Patch?

Every Fall, some APS educators plan field trips to McCall's Pumpkin Patch in Moriarty. If you're not familiar with Kevin McCall, the owner of the farm, he is Vice Chair of the Torrance County Commission. As such, he has proven to be an unquestioning supporter (literally) of using the Torrance County Detention Center to house people detained by ICE. The jail has been the scene of various documented human rights violations against detainees, but Mr. McCall and the other commissioners excuse that in the name of economic gain for both the county and private interests. Here's what Source NM reported:

"Torrance County's elected officials unanimously voted to extend the contract that allows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to incarcerate asylum seekers at the Torrance County Detention Facility in Estancia.

Commissioners Ryan Schwebach, Kevin McCall and Samuel Schropp on Wednesday morning voted in favor of allowing County Manager Janice Barela to sign an amendment extending the contract by four months.

The commissioners held the vote in a matter of about 30 seconds, without any discussion: sourcenm.com/2024/04/25/torrance-county-commission-votes-to-extend-ice-contract/

Spooky stuff. Beware rotten pumpkins.

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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 14h

Whew. Breathe.

www.wsmv.com/2025/10/08/i...

‘I didn’t mean to scare anyone’: Dolly Parton’s sister says after asking for prayers

Dolly postponed her first Las Vegas residency in more than 30 years late last month, saying she was dealing with health challenges.

www.wsmv.com

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 13h

I love the photo framing & Blue Cheese’s wavy fur!

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 13h

And how!

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 14h

Ah. Well, that will fuck the ENTIRE network of flights. Not just in the US either.

CNN @cnn.com · 14h

There will not be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, the FAA is warning.

Now on the seventh day of the government shutdown, the same scenario is playing out at FAA offices across the country, with ripple effects hitting flights almost everywhere.

Delays spread to major airports across the country, as the seventh day of government shutdown impacts travelers | CNN

There are not going to be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administratoin is warning. In Nashville, so many are...

www.cnn.com

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 16h

So that means we pray for Dolly Parton.

I am going to go light some incense and briefly chant.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18h

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

variety.com

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 16h

A textbook image I did a few years ago showing a trap-jaw ant (Odontomachus rixosus) with her mandibles held open and trigger hairs forward, and then in the closed position.

The snapping shut of the trap is one of the fastest measured animal movements.

A split-screen image showing (top) a face view of an elongated ant standing on a reflective surfave, facing us with toothy brown jaws held 180 degrees open, and (bottom), the same ant with jaws closed, the bluntly toothed tips held together.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 16h

We all do what we can where we can and it ends up being connected in the end.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 16h

Goodness that story is quite the journey and modified bottle rockets to set them off.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 16h

*coughs*

Rephrase:

We deserve better and this is straight up lots of things including awful and terrifying.

Together is the only way we build liveable todays and tomorrows.

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