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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 1h

This is not a photo of protestors in Portland “ICE fishing”, as clever as that sounds.

I can’t find the photographer so far, but it’s been online since at least 2013, and those are Toronto cycling cops, not American ICE agents.

Note the uniforms, shorts, bikes, and lack of masks.

Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 1d

Ice Fishing in Portland

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Dan J Kroll @danjkroll.bsky.social · 2d

The dahlias are still dahliaing.
#garden #gardens #bloomscrolling 🌱

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Waseem elmadhoun🇵🇸 @waseemmlol.bsky.social · 14h

Bluesky keeps deleting my account, but I won’t stop trying to make our voices heard.
I’m Waseem from Gaza — I lost my home and job in the war, and now my children and I have no shelter.
Please help us raise $600 to buy a tent to protect us from the cold 🙏
gofund.me/35fdca7d
@mommunism.bsky.social

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 10m

Hadiah needs help for her little girl

Hadiah @hadmam.bsky.social · 2d

Urgent assistance is needed for a six-month-old baby girl in Gaza. She needs baby formula and diapers. I can't provide for her basic needs due to the current crisis. Any donation, no matter how big or small, will help. Please support or share. Thank you gofund.me/c271e7f3e

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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soushiyo @soushiyo.com · 12m

It happened last week.

Links to read at
Familiarcomic.com

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 1h

We should all be happy for any progress toward a cessation of hostilities in Gaza and especially for the release of the surviving hostages. That said: editors and writers need to be clear a temporary ceasefire is not a "peace" deal. What we're talking about is phase one of a multiphase plan.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 11m

It's still Free Palestine, from the river to the sea.

And may the name of Benjamin Netanyahu be erased.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 11m

Shereen lose her account here but her grandfather is sick and she needs help gofund.me/2a8c0180

An elderly man sleeping on a cot in a
Makeshift hospital

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10m

Almost 9 months ago, our press colleague Anas Al-Sharif removed his press vest following the announcement of a ceasefire.

And then we saw what happened next. May we ensure the bombs actually end this time.

I wish he, and so many more, were here with us.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 15m

Mark Bray wrote a book on antifascism and was trying to leave the country with his family after being targeted by right-wing operatives and receiving death threats:

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18m

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 7d

“Daddy…we just want to live like before”
Small words from my kids, yet they fall on my heart like a mountain.

I'm trying to provide my family with the simplest of needs.. but sometimes I feel the weight is too heavy to carry alone.💔

Your support can ease this burden.🙏

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 30m

Every time.

(No reports of airstrikes or missiles yet though, so that’s something.)

Gaza Notifications @gazanotice
BREAKING: The Israeli army intensifies its attacks across various areas of Gaza City, blowing up residential homes and remotely detonating booby-trapped armored vehicles.
BREAKING
X gazanotice

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One Amahira, MA @oneamahira.bsky.social · 34m

They always do this, intensify before a supposed pause or ceasefire is about to start.

Disgusting.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 36m

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 36m

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 38m

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 45m

48-51 vote on Schiff-Kaine resolution to block further strikes in the Caribbean.

Resolution does not pass.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 37m

What the actual fuck??? This is a really scary situation. This family is already facing death threats which is why they are leaving.

Because Dr. Bray is a scholar of anti-fascism.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 41m

You don’t get to take credit for ending a war when you’ve been paying for the war the whole time and it would have always ended the minute you stopped paying.

This is like hiring a hitman to murder your neighbor, calling off the hit, and then taking credit for your neighbor being alive.

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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 40m

The Senate has defeated an effort to use the War Powers act to block President Trump's use of military force against drug boats in the Caribbean. Fetterman D-PA voted 'No.' R's Paul & Murkowski votes 'Yes'

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One Amahira, MA @oneamahira.bsky.social · 41m

God fucking damnit.

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 44m

#BREAKING | The Israeli army intensifies its attacks across various areas of Gaza City, blowing up residential homes and remotely detonating booby-trapped armored vehicles.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2h

🚨BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire Framework

“From our side, yes,” a senior Hamas official told Drop Site News’ @jeremyscahill.com

www.dropsitenews.com/p/breaking-h...

BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire Framework

“From our side, yes,” a senior Hamas official told Drop Site News.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 3h

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1h

Here’s an angle for a journalist looking for a fresh take on the White House “Antifa” roundtable — most of the people who participated are employed by or have a direct financial connection to Turning Point USA. I think that’s pretty telling, no?

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